Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview, which they noted has the beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds! So we're closing in on the previously announced Beta for more handhelds. Although this release is still just for Steam Deck.
  • Orangedrops@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 个月前

    Thanks for this!

    Out of interest, how is the driver support for Nvidia cards? This is the thing that has always put me off bailing on Windows for games.

    • Viri4thus@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      9 个月前

      Bazzite works wonderfully even for non techy types. On mobile at least, NV drivers are working well but there is a performance penalty. Surprisingly, when the windows drivers are CPU limited, the linux one is actually performs better but, generally, there is a performance penalty on linux. AMD GPUs have parity except for Raytracing, at least from what I’ve seen, RADV performs below the proprietary driver on Windows.

      • Orangedrops@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        9 个月前

        Thanks for the reply and good to know !

        The types of games I tend to play, I don’t think a slight performance hit will really matter. Definitely going to have a look into Bazzite this weekend ;)

    • bread@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      9 个月前

      I’m not personally running Bazzite, but before I switched to an AMD card, Nvidia worked just fine for me. Bazzite being more streamlined and gaming-specific, I can only imagine it would do perfectly well running Nvidia.

    • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 个月前

      Practically speaking, we are at a turning point regarding Nvidia on Linux. Things were bad before but they have improved significantly. Newer drivers from Nvidia are partially open-source and they seem good so far.

      As long as your GPU isn’t too old, it should be fine. Bur you should verify before commiting.

      • Orangedrops@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        9 个月前

        Thanks ! Had a check (I have a 4070ti desktop card and 3070ti mobile card) looks like I’m good and all supported. Going to finally make the switch tomorrow, wish me luck :)

          • Orangedrops@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            9 个月前

            The 2080ti is great card!

            I’ll be honest, I stay up to date on gens because I can through work. Reality is, games seem to have plateaud a good few years ago and we’re upgrading due to shonky development / crap and lazy optimisation most of the time.

            I play primarily metroidvania’s and older games 95% of the time and if it wasn’t for work I would probably still be rocking my 1080ti :)

            Anyhow, rant over and thanks for the feedback !