Been playing Darksiders 3 on a Ryzen 5600G the past weekend using the integrated GPU. Game can maintain an almost solid 30fps at 1080p with some AMD FSR magic (upscaled to 1080p from 1706x960).

I started playing Mass Effect Andromeda recently. It's not as bad as most ppl say.

I started playing Mass Effect Andromeda recently. It's not as bad as most ppl say.

As I understand it, Andromeda is not a bad game by itself, but a bad Mass Effect game. Apparently the RPG aspect of the game is very shallow.

Been running further tests with AMD FSR and potato GPU's, this time Witcher 3 with an RX 560 (2GB Model). I think that thanks to FSR, Linux is a better choice for gaming on a budget PC.

Native 1440p (high settings):


Upscaled from a resolution of 1477x831 (same high settings / capped at 30fps):


PS: Don't bother with an RX560, the AMD 5600G integrated GPU performs better.

Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 19 December 2021 at 3:03 pm UTC

Sorry for slight off-topic, but how does FSR work with it? I.e. how do you enable it for the game, is it a Vulkan layer?

Last edited by Shmerl on 19 December 2021 at 9:27 pm UTC

Sorry for slight off-topic, but how does FSR work with it? I.e. how do you enable it for the game, is it a Vulkan layer?

Wine needs to be built with 2 specific patches. They can be found in this repo: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/tree/master/patches/proton

The 2 files required are:

41-valve_proton_fullscreen_hack-staging-tkg.patch
48-proton-fshack_amd_fsr.patch

To enable FSR for games you need these environment variables:

WINE_FULLSCREEN_INTEGER_SCALING=0 (if this is set to 1, FSR doesn't work)
WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1
WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=2 (this value can be 1-5)

Once this is done, in your game you'll see some odd resolutions such as the chart below:



Do note that it may not work with games that have an internal resolution scale (such as some Unity engine ones). Other than that it works for anything that uses Vulkan.

Also you need to run the games without Wine's Virtual Desktop mode.


Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 19 December 2021 at 9:59 pm UTC

I'm quite glad to see video support is getting better and better in Wine. Her Story is now fully playable.

Trying out Rise of the Tomb Raider which is DRM-Free on the Epic Games Store.

American McGee's Alice









Slight crackle when playing some of the dialogue which is unfortunate.

American McGee's Alice

It's sad that there's no ioquake3-based open source port of this game :(

Yesterday I've tried to run Battlefield 1 again because I needed a bit less role playing and sci-fi.

American McGee's Alice

It's sad that there's no ioquake3-based open source port of this game :(

Alice has Ritual's ÜberTools on top of the id Tech 3 engine which may complicate things a bit. Still trying to see if I can track down the Linux port of Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 to try.

Clive Barker's Undying





It was the sheep that did it I swear. You can trust me on this, I am after all a Shepard.

I've been playing Yume Nikki for the first time, lately. It's free on Steam, works perfectly with Proton, and has key-to-gamepad mapping already built in.


I got the 1-in-64 Crick in the Neck event really early on, during the second time that I played the game, too, which I didn't expect after having seen footage where players just couldn't get it to trigger no matter how many times they tried.

Been playing Ghost of a Tale lately. Cute little game and looks gorgeous too. Also I have finally taken the time to setup MangoHud on my system (it was about time).

Finally got a new GPU. Started to play Horizon: Zero Dawn, which on my 1080Ti ran like ~30 fps at 1440p.
with the RTX 3080 all cranked to max it's nicely mostly above 80, with rare dips to 75.

Last edited by crt0mega on 7 March 2022 at 3:17 pm UTC

Just completed the main story and heading for the "Nightmare Levels" tomorrow ^^

Not the best performance on my laptop, but still fun to go on a little road trip with the boys. 😄

Been playing some Terminator: Resistance
Voicacting and story is kinda bad, but not like bad bad, But somehow this game feels like care has put into it.
No stupid hollywood like cutscenes where time is running out and stuff flying on the screen. It feels more like half life 2 type experience, first person "cutscenes" and kinda basic gameplay with some modern features. Love it actually.

Rise of the Triad 2013:









Last edited by crt0mega on 27 March 2022 at 1:26 pm UTC