You need to have very good working drivers, Linux has been plagued with major issues with drivers for a long time, and not just GPU drivers.

Until their flawless, we won't see a major shift. I know thats asking allot, but Windows has pretty damn good working drivers for both cards for all the games I have played with only occasional bugs with certain games now and again. Linux on the other hand is a literal landmine!



PS. I'm pro Linux, but I can't just drink the coolaid fantasy and ignore the major issues as to WHY Linux struggles as a gaming/desktop platform! %1-2 on Steam stats is just sad, we need %10

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Probably need at least another year or two of driver evolution for Linux to stop becoming a major issue for these ports. I know allot of people will argue otherwise but I have tested BOTH sides of the fence now and yeah, too many issues still coupled with MAJOR performance regressions/problems. Even the NVIDIA proprietary drivers have some annoying issues still!

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Too many BIG TICKET items are windows only, for example GTA5, FO4, Witcher3, DA3, all the COD/BF games, the list just keeps going on with these sort of platform selling games. Probably take a miracle for those sort of games to see Linux any time soon!

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Only issue I have with Wine is whether or not Steam factor in it for Linux platform or not.

When I do the survey that sometimes pops up when in Steam under Wine it does say the system platform is WINE but I don't know how that data is factored in the statistics at the end of the month, it should be counted as Linux sale/use but we know Valve isn't too kind to Linux when it comes to stats, unfortunately.

Still waiting for DX11 under Wine, and Vulkan support. That would be amazing, we've been stuck at DX9 forever....

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There is a environment prefix you can run before (and inline) the game command to disable vblank, I think its like GL_VBLANK=0 or some crap, you will need to search up about it as I only used it a few times a fair while ago.

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I don't think they are crying about not selling to the few Linux users who might buy this. I have however bought it, but not paying for DLC. Looks like we will need to wait for WINE to have DX11 support, which will be around the same time when CyberPunk 2077-II comes out :(

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IMO not having the DLC on GOG is just going to promote piracy, which is what they are trying to prevent in the first place "by having DRM in their DLC".

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The dreaded black-screen issue, yes that's a classic one that everyone has encountered before. Mostly its related to buggy display drivers or drivers failing to install correctly. It should detect black-screen and boot you back into software render mode or open-drivers 'with warning' but that rarely happens.

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I recently moved from a 390x to a 980Ti, not regretting it. To be honest the AMD card was fine under Windows minus some weird Vulkan driver BSOD issues, but under Linux most my games didn't launch or had major performance/graphics issues.

I'm sure within a couple years AMD will figure this whole Linux driver thing out, I just didn't want to wait around for that to happen, if you are comfortable with waiting then that's fine.

PS. I also game at 4k, so, yeah.

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Chris Roberts really wants star citizen to come to Linux also, so this is likely where Crytek is getting pressure from to get a Vulkan component working (from Kingdom come also)

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