Gaming on Linux

[DimasRMDO]

Hey guys, so this is my first time to use Linux to game. When I play games, the performance is shocking, it's not as fast as it's supposed to be. In Windows I could get like 60fps stable, maybe drops to 50fps but could get back to 60 pretty easily while in Linux it's like 60fps but then it drops to like 30fps even 20fps and has difficulty to even get back to 40fps, has anybody experienced this? I'm using Ubuntu 15.10

Is it the driver? Because I'm thinking of that right now.

[cesrai]

It's the norm, performance on Windows is the best for gaming.

[Hydrogen1803]

I didn't think that it would drop as low as it did, but I am going to go with cesrai and say that it's just the os. Windows is much better equipped for gaming than Linux, with Win 10 having numerous improvements for gaming performance.

[DimasRMDO]

13 minutes ago, cesrai said:

It's the norm, performance on Windows is the best for gaming.

Yeah, I agree with that. But is there a hope for it?

[Master Disaster]

19 minutes ago, cesrai said:

It's the norm, performance on Windows is the best for gaming.

Not even close. I played over 3 hours of Alien Isolation last night on Ubuntu ad didn't see any FPS dips at all, same with Cities Skyline too. In fact literally everything I've thrown at Linux so far has worked great aside from  a few known Linux port issues here and there.

 

@DimasRMDO

What are your system specs?

[Half-Shot]

Yeah, lots of people I know get 1:1 performance on both OS's. It entirely depends on your hardware. Give us the specs and we can help you make the most of what you have.

[DimasRMDO]

12 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Not even close. I played over 3 hours of Alien Isolation last night on Ubuntu ad didn't see any FPS dips at all, same with Cities Skyline too. In fact literally everything I've thrown at Linux so far has worked great aside from  a few known Linux port issues here and there.

 

@DimasRMDO

What are your system specs?

It's a laptop, with A10-7300 and R7 M265, 4GB RAM.

Edited February 22, 2016 by DimasRMDO

[Master Disaster]

17 minutes ago, DimasRMDO said:

It's a laptop, with A10-7300 and R7 M265, 4GB RAM.

AMD GPU...

 

Yeah, AMDs Linux drivers are horrible. Its very likely the cause of your issues.

[Half-Shot]

Just now, Master Disaster said:

AMD GPU...

 

Yeah, AMDs Linux drivers are horrible. Its very likely the cause of your issues.

Yup. Unless you have reeeeally up to date drivers (open source) and happen to be on one of the good cards (which excludes a lot of mobile GPUs) then it's gonna suck. Sorry

 

[DimasRMDO]

11 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

AMD GPU...

 

Yeah, AMDs Linux drivers are horrible. Its very likely the cause of your issues.

 

10 minutes ago, Half-Shot said:

Yup. Unless you have reeeeally up to date drivers (open source) and happen to be on one of the good cards (which excludes a lot of mobile GPUs) then it's gonna suck. Sorry

 

It's fine, I guess I have to stick with it or switch to Windows.

Should I choose the open-source driver or proprietary one?

[Half-Shot]

Just now, DimasRMDO said:

 

It's fine, I guess I have to stick with it or switch to Windows.

Should I choose the open-source driver or proprietary one?

Hmm. I've not tried the M265 but it's probably worth seeing what the open source driver can do for you. It almost certainly won't improve framerates, but it will make the desktop experience a whole lot nicer + you should be okay with most games.

[DimasRMDO]

4 minutes ago, Half-Shot said:

Hmm. I've not tried the M265 but it's probably worth seeing what the open source driver can do for you. It almost certainly won't improve framerates, but it will make the desktop experience a whole lot nicer + you should be okay with most games.

Alright, thank you!

[Half-Shot]

1 minute ago, DimasRMDO said:

Alright, thank you!

No problem. Message me or leave something here if you run into issues, I've been battling AMD for a long time

[DimasRMDO]

28 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

AMD GPU...

 

Yeah, AMDs Linux drivers are horrible. Its very likely the cause of your issues.

 

26 minutes ago, Half-Shot said:

Yup. Unless you have reeeeally up to date drivers (open source) and happen to be on one of the good cards (which excludes a lot of mobile GPUs) then it's gonna suck. Sorry

 

 

12 minutes ago, Half-Shot said:

Hmm. I've not tried the M265 but it's probably worth seeing what the open source driver can do for you. It almost certainly won't improve framerates, but it will make the desktop experience a whole lot nicer + you should be okay with most games.

 

[cesrai]

On 2/22/2016 at 4:48 PM, DimasRMDO said:

Yeah, I agree with that. But is there a hope for it?

Maybe with Vulcan, and I think AMD said they will make better drivers.

[DimasRMDO]

1 minute ago, cesrai said:

Maybe with Vulcan, and I think AMD said they will make better drivers.

Haven't heard Vulcan by the way.

[cesrai]

51 minutes ago, DimasRMDO said:

Haven't heard Vulcan by the way.

Vulkan sorry  .

[DimasRMDO]

18 hours ago, cesrai said:

Vulkan sorry  .

Found it, can't wait for Vulkan. I hope it could help me solve my problem