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Cyberpunk runs 30% faster on linux than on windows 11 (m.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The YouTube channel "Maximum Fury" conducted a technical test of the new Cyberpunk add-on called "Phantom Liberty" on an older AMD hardware system, testing it separately on Linux and Windows 11. The Linux system, specifically the Fedora distribution called Nobara, performed significantly better, delivering 31% more frames compared to Windows 11.

The hardware used for testing included an Asrock B550 motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU and an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU from the first RDNA generation, along with 16 GB of DDR4 RAM. The CPU, RAM, and GPU were overclocked, and the system utilized undervolting to save energy costs.

When testing the game at 1080p resolution with high textures, the Linux system achieved an average of 63.72 frames per second (fps), while Windows 11 managed only 48.55 fps. This suggests that the game should run noticeably smoother on the Linux system.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

It is just unfortunate that it does not run on Nvidia hardware. The benchmark runs if you disable all RTX features, but it crashes on a new game before you even have full control of the character.

Looking at protondb it looks like all people with Nvidia have issues since the 2.0 update. I hope there will be some fix soon. I don't want to replace the GPU yet it would be a waste (2080 Super).

For now I am playing it on my Steam Deck instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No issues here, more than 20 hours on Linux on a 3080 latest drivers, wayland, , dlss, ray tracing or not, works great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you do ray tracing on Linux? I played today a bit and the option was grayed out. I’m on X though, using official drivers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, you just gotta set the right environment variables. Can't remember them off the top of my head though, "NVAPI" is part of one of them I think. Don't have an nvidia gpu anymore, though, switched to AMD about two months back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just came back to say it freaken worked. Cyberpunk on linux looks and runs just as well as it does on windows. I don't think I need to dual boot anymore...

export PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0
export PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1
export VKD3D_CONFIG="dxr,dxr11"
export PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER=1

In case anyone else is wondering...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Haha glad it worked out :)

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