this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
17 points (100.0% liked)
Hacker News
3290 readers
703 users here now
Posts from the RSS Feed of HackerNews.
The feed sometimes contains ads and posts that have been removed by the mod team at HN.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I’ve been running into a slew of performance issues on Linux with my 4070 across a range of games that all ran fine under Windows. I’ve been tempted to trade for the AMD equivalent just so I don’t have to deal with more nVidia driver nonsense. My roommate has an AMD card that I’ll be doing a trial run on later this week. Depending on how that goes, I might finally make the switch to Red Team.
If you're having issues with the proprietary drivers, you should try the open drivers for nvidia. Depending on your distro and install, you might also be having problems because of using wayland instead of X.
You might also get better mileage out of a different distribution altogether as some are intended to be a better experience for gaming and will have some important things pre-installed. This all depends on your skill level and the amount of time/effort you have to dedicate ofcourse.
What doesn’t mane any sense is that I’m running Bazzite which should be super optimized. I made a whole long post about it here: https://lemmy.world/post/40074859
I've not used bazzite before. But I was just thinking you might be having weird issues if steam is installed as a flatpak or some other sandboxed environment.
Here's what I'd try (in order of ease to try):
Test in-between each step and switch back or tweak as desired. You really shouldn't have to spend more money for new hardware unless your GPU is faulty.
I also had some headaches with Nvidia drivers with my 4070 on opensuse tumbleweed. But then I hopped to endeavouros and it has been a flawless experience. But I also feel the call of AMD lol I certainly will never buy another Nvidia GPU.