• boreengreen@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    If yoy have a fairly recent gpu, windows games run fine on linux. The exception is games with agressive anti-cheat.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      If yoy have a fairly recent gpu, windows games run fine on linux.

      I’ve been using my nearly 8-year-old GPU (an AMD Vega 56) in Linux just fine for nearly 8 years (i.e., since the day I bought it). Even in the first few years, before Proton existed, I had been playing Windows games on it using plain old WINE via PlayOnLinux.

      The even older GPU I used to use before that (an AMD Radeon R7 260X) is still installed in my Linux home server, and I would expect to be able to play Windows games on it just fine too (at least in terms of compatibility, if not raw performance of decade-plus-old hardware).

      All that is to say, I’m confused about what you mean by “fairly recent.”

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      9 hours ago

      Isn’t that counter to telling people to switch because their computer is too old for win 11?

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        8 hours ago

        Yes but it more “the manufacturer decided not to pay us to test it” rather than “it actually won’t work”

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        8 hours ago

        Everyone should try it out by all means. I’d like everyone to use linux. All I’m conveying is my own experience. If you have an ancient GPU, and things are seemingly running fine on windows, you might yet find that it does not run fine on linux. I guess I should have emphasised that I am refering to hardware from a decade ago.