cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/47762187
When I first installed CachyOS, my mind was blown away by how quickly and conveniently I could start playing my Windows games with it. With its
proton-cachyos-slrwine executable, it was only a matter of setting the game executable and runtime locations in Lutris and I could start playing the game immediately.However, ever since I updated my system with
sudo pacman -Syuin the beginning of May, almost every game stopped opening like it used to. Of those games, almost half of them would simply not open at all with any tweaking. The rest of the games eventually started to run but some of them were hit by performance degradation severe enough to not be playable.I tried to search for the cause on the CachyOS forums and wiki. I managed to find some posts somewhat discussing this issue, citing issues with the new kernel or the
proton-cachyos-slrpackage. Unfortunately following their proposed solutions like downgradingproton-cachyos-slror tweaking runtime settings in Lutris didn’t fix the problem.Eventually I moved on to the CachyOS documentation, mentioning an option of using an alternative wine executable
wine-cachyos. It wasn’t available as a regular executable option and had to be called manually, but eventually it allowed me to play most of my games like before.I don’t feel comfortable with this setup since the entire implementation feels like a hack instead of being an in-built feature, requires additional configuration process for every new game added and still doesn’t allow me to run some of my games that I have spent most of my playing hours on. I have been experiencing this for almost 2 months and I have been contemplating my decision to update my system.
Is there a way to go back to how my system was before without resorting to snapshots or a fresh installation? I don’t expect solutions as you would do in support forums; I am just in need of advice on where to start looking to solve my concern. If you need debug info or context, I’ll happily provide them.
Nvidia wants you to buy a new card.
AMD has well-supported drivers going back decades, partly thanks to Valve
Every day I regret buying the NVIDIA gpu lol. Next time I’m getting AMD for sure
Keep an eye out for Intel, they have been making strides lately, and they generally have similar compatibility to amd on Linux
My Intel A310 has been extremely reliable in my media streaming rig. It’s not gaming, but it hasn’t given me a single issue from day one.
On the gaming side I switched from an RTX 3080 to a Radeon 9070XT near launch specifically to leave Nvidia and I’ve also been happy with it. It wasn’t a huge upgrade, but it was worth leaving team green. Plus having all AMD hardware in that rig has been nice. Currently running a Ryzen 9 5900X in that rig, and moving my drives and GPU over to a new board with a Ryzen 7 9850X3D later this week.
Nvidia clearly has been moving away from caring about consumer gaming for years now. And that just accelerated with the AI boom. Gaming is such a small part of their revenue now that it wouldn’t surprise me if they just started abandoning it. Not leaving the space, but just not actively developing anymore. It definitely feels like they’ve started that since the 3000 series, with such small gains generation over generation.