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lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoHmmm.
Under LMDE7, the HP Spectre does great with the games I’ve thrown at it so far (BeamNG.Drive, Hollow Knight, Factorio, Universe Simulator, Minecraft, etc), but despite exceeding the minimum specs, it really struggled with running PS3 games through RPCS3; I ended up writing off RPCS3 as “too heavy for a laptop” and went with my desktop gaming PC for all PS3 emulation (running LMDE6 hilariously).
Maybe I’ll give Bazzite a shot again. I use my laptop for a lot of things, including diagnostics software for my cars, but I have a perfectly capable Thinkpad T14 G1 hanging around that needs a purpose, too.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yeah, that post was getting way too long, so I made some cuts here and there. The issue was in the way SE2 detects hardware… or more like doesn’t detect my GPU at all, throws an error about it and refuses to start. Under Bazzite it starts the game first 🎉, then complains that my hardware might not be good enough to run this game 🤯, but the beautiful graphics say otherwise. It’s still in early access, so I guess this kind of strange behavior will be ironed out sooner or later.
I got tired of researching this issue in Debian, so once I got it up and running in Bazzite, I stopped reading about it. Honestly, I have no idea what’s the key difference here. Is it the driver version, Proton-GE or something else? Who knows.
Anyway, I would recommend trying Bazzite. It has some pre-configured tricks that seem to handle weird cases like this.