Hey guys, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this (feel free to point me to a better community) but I’m in a weird “predicament” this summer: My AMD build plans are in shambles after receiving a free ROG Astral 5080.
Now I want to make the switch now with my current (Intel i7-13700K) hardware + this new card. I was only considering AMD before but it’s really hard to say no to a video card worth more than my entire budget lol
The slightly worse performance compared to Windows is still an upgrade from my 3070 so that’s fine - It’s initial/recurring troubleshooting I don’t really want to deal with. Most of the info I’ve found is from earlier this year and no one speaks highly of the beta drivers
Sorry if this is a stupid question but am I setting myself up for disappointment with this new plan? I have a few more related questions I’ll toss in the comments but that’s my main concern.
It would work but you’ll be missing some features (e: even in distros meant for NV GPUs, like Garuda), especially the Nvidia Control Panel and Nvidia App.
That means no access to the 3D Settings page, so if you need to adjust a graphics setting that isn’t in-game, you can’t. (Like which performance mode the GPU runs in and other settings that can decrease display lag and increase FPS; if you play competitive games it can be a hindrance to not have access to these settings.)
That also means no RTX HDR, so you’ll be forced to to watch SDR YouTube videos and play SDR games in SDR (games and videos with native HDR support will still work, of course). There is no native conversion to HDR in Linux (you can still convert offline videos with MPV, though), which is a damn shame cause even SDR content looks great when converted. Especially games.
That said, if you don’t have an HDR display and don’t play competitive games, you might be able to get by just fine without the features offered by the Nvidia App and Control Panel. Yeah it sucks that you won’t get every feature the GPU supports, but then again you didn’t pay for it, so it’s not like you’re not getting your money’s worth.
The thing that really matters for me as far as gaming goes is frame rate. HDR would be nice but I’ve gone this long without it. I’ll have to look into what I might miss - I do love Shadowplay.
Any issues with ultrawides? I might use this freed up budget to get one
Oh yeah forgot about Shadowplay. You won’t have that either. You’ll have to find a recording app for Linux that uses NVENC (so your framerates won’t be affected).
As far as ultrawides, you may have issues with games that require you to set a custom resolution for them to display properly. I have a 16:9 display and as such, I haven’t dabbled in that field much, so I don’t know how well Linux is at creating custom resolutions from within the OS itself.
OBS can use NVENC, though IIRC it needs to be built with support enabled, which may not be the case for all distros’ package managers.
Does OBS have a feature where it automatically deletes what it records if you don’t press a hotkey to save the footage? I thought OBS was meant mainly for streamers.
There’s a plugin for it. I’ve not personally tested it though. https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-hadowplay.1728/
There’s gpu screen recorder, and gpu screen recorder UI which is basically a clone of the shadowplay ui. It’s worked pretty well for me on arch
https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder-ui/about/
Problem solved, thanks!
Ultrawides work fine, I use two of them at once 😂. I wish HDR was supported in every app but even on Windows it’s hit or miss. In some cases Linux has higher framerates than Windows, your performance is not gonna be bad.