82
PSA: Have you tried NTSYNC? You should (programming.dev)
submitted 3 days ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

so I tried for the longest time to game on my 12-16 year old system with varying results. the constant issue was with Far Cry 5 - whatever I tried, it was always laggy, choppy, sometimes it's 30 fps, sometimes it's 50, altering resolutions, details, nothing worked or at least, no consistent results. my specs are above the recommended ones (i5-4670K, 16 GB, RX 580 8 GB, Fedora 44, Lutris, Wine 11.x) yet it always ran like ass.

so I read somewhere that the new NTSYNC is da bomb for CPU heavy games, which this one is, and in lieu of any succinct tutorial, I stumbled around and did the following:

  1. sudo dnf install ntsync-autoload
  2. sudo modprobe ntsync
  3. turned off Esync and Fsync in Lutris

ran it with MANGOHUD_CONFIG=full to verify, and verily, there it is, says NTSYNC.

the game - forgetaboutit, butter smooth, constant 60 fps, no issues, no stutters, no frame gen spikes, this is like a new machine!

so it's possible this isn't the proper way to do it, but if you got issues, doesn't hurt to try.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [S] 1 point 18 hours ago

nope, never had problems, every game I tried worked or could be persuaded to work - switch wine version, disable/enable the runtime, etc. the setup does taking used to, but once you figure out how to keep separate pfx for every game (yay for btrfs and deduping!), how to run the setup within it and then switch to the installed .exe, it all goes swimmingly. the only thing I don't understand is why they went with proton-ge as default, as nothing ever ran with it; the predecessor, wine-ge, worked plenty fine.

over the years tried all alternatives - heroic, bottles, fagus, steam even - but none took (or even worked, for that matter), this does everything and conveniently so. it's possible my misgivings are due to exclusively running cracked games, but at this point I'm just happy everything works.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent