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Yeah, well, AMD has great support and it doesn’t even have the control panel for Linux and I can’t use Radeon Chill or AFMF at all. It’s just not even there. A 900€ graphic card I can’t really utilize fully. I know Creative is being Creative, but this is a very high end soundcard that I wouldn’t replace for anything.

The Linux install was as clean as one could get as I just installed it. As expected, I just don’t have the time or nerves to deal with any of this BS. I just want to play games when I come from work and that’s that. I still love Linux on all my multimedia devices all over my house that work perfectly and I wouldn’t ever use Windows on those again. But for this one, I’m just gonna stick with Windows as much as I hate Microsoft’s BS.

Some day in the future I might own a SteamDeck or even re-try Linux as my main OS, but that time just isn’t now yet.

Oh fuck, looks like I won’t be going Linux for gaming anytime soon. Sound Blaster AE-9, almost 400€ soundcard with all the upgrades on OPAMPS that I absolutely love. Doesn’t work AT ALL so I had to pair BT earbuds so I even have sound. Radeon Software. Doesn’t even exist in Linux. Like, it’s just not even there. Which means features like AFMF, Radeon Chill, frame limiting, all that I use in Windows for my RX 9070 XT, just doesn’t exist. AT ALL. Marvel Rivals, doesn’t just work “out of the box”. So far this has absolutely not been a fun experience and given that soundcard situation and graphic card control panel or shall I say its lack of that’s inherently “that’s just how it is on Linux”, yeah well, it seems this will never change. And I can blame Creative for being ass with drivers which is their unique shtick, but to not have features for my Radeon that make Radeon unique and why I love it, that’s just unacceptable and makes it entirely useless.

I’ll stick with Windows on this one and Linux on all my other systems where I love Linux since I don’t need anything advance, it just works fine out of the box there. But for this PC, just entirely useless.

EDIT: What in the fuck is this? Steam needs fucking 5 minutes to run and it’s literally stalling my entire system to a halt so that I can’t do ANYTHING with it during that time. Oh, you clicked Library, lets stall for another 15 seconds for no fucking reason and I still can’t see the fucking library, it’s just black rectangle. I’m running a god damn 5800X3D with 64GB RAM and Kubuntu is installed on a dedicated fast SSD. This is just unacceptable.

Okay, fair enough. I actually have a sacrificial SSD in my system that I can entirely dedicate to Linux install without dealing with dual boot and I’m just gonna slap Kubuntu on there since I already use it on other systems and see how it works for games I’m currently playing (OW2, Marvel Rivals, Doom The Dark Ages and Oblivion Remaster).

EDIT: What about GOG and potentially Epic games? I mostly have games on Steam, but I have A LOT of nostalgic games on GOG and I’m pathological hoarder on Epic that I might play one day.

Yeah, I’ve seen how you have to manually install EasyAntiCheat garbage on Linux. It looked like absolute horseshit stupidity. Wouldn’t want to deal with that.

I don’t think Overwatch 2 and Marvel Rivals work. Mostly coz they are online multiplayers. I also play games ranging from really old from circa late 90’s to brand new games like Doom The Dark Ages. I’m sure there will be a lot of problematic ones in between as some are already problematic with Windows, let alone anything else.

I want to go Linux on my main gaming system coz I like KDE and GNOME more than ugly ass Windows 11, but I just don’t want to deal with compatibility crap.

That’s not how it works. With low quality upscaling you’d just amplify the noise because it’s internally processed at lower resolution.

That’s not down to graphic card. It’s the game. I had horrible boiling in Marvel Rivals on RTX 3080 to a point I preferred screenspace reflections over ray traced Lumen reflections. Still do on Radeon. Surprisingly, Oblivion Remaster running Unreal Engine 5 doesn’t have this issue even on RX 9070 XT.

That’s not the experience in actual games.

I do care about upscaling and ray tracing, which is why I didn’t go with AMD for last few generations. RX 9070 XT felt like the right time as they made huge improvements. Especially FSR4 is easily comparable to DLSS and I use it as antialiasing replacement while boosting performance. FSR2, while it works it turns into pixelated mess during fast movements and has a lot of ghosting. FSR4 is near perfect.

What I also love is how AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames just work in all games with minimal artifacting and Radeon Chill is what I especially love with summer coming in. It decreases power consumption dramatically and thus heat output to levels RTX 5070Ti couldn’t ever achieve despite being more efficient in raw tests for power consumption. All while not affecting experience. It’s so good I’m using it in Overwatch 2 and Marvel Rivals and I can’t really tell a diffeeence, it controls framerate that seamlessly.

Radeon RX 9000 series are amazing. Apparently sales are doing great, but obviously NVIDIA is holding monopoly and people are brainwashed to just buy NVIDIA no matter what.

Bullshit, because using stupid chainsaw was games main loop mechanic to even get ammo…

For me the forced mechanics of glory kills, chainsaw and flamethrower put me off in Eternal. Instead of managing ammo by collecting it and smart use you were forced to do above mechanics and they felt, well, super forced and stupid.

Doom 2016 gave you option, collect normal way or use chainsaw. I never used chainsaw through entire game for it and always had enough ammo. I played it on Nightmare iirc.

From what I was told by Digital Foundry when they previewed game’s engine, they mentioned The Dark Ages doesn’t have any of these forced mechanics which is cool.

Best Doom game of them all. Doom Eternal is nowhere near as good, not even close. I wonder how new Doom The Dark Ages will go, but it already looks better than Eternal because it has no stupid forced mechanics…

Some RX 9070 series also use high power connector and so far there haven’t been any issues. Though they haven’t been around for as long as RTX 5000 series…

Thats so unlikely to happen the cable and connector would have to be really fucked up.

RTX 5070 is not pulling enough power to matter. Issue is with RTX 5090 that is so close to the power rating of the cable that every defenct in it can actually show up as failure.