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Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by Nullabillity on Friday March 05, 2021 @09:12AM (#26357028)
My Valve Index works fine for me (both native and Proton), as long as I keep SteamVR on the linux_v1.14 branch. It does have some issues keeping up sometimes, but that's probably mostly my ancient GPU (AMD RX480).
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Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by away_throw on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:58AM (#26359052)
The RX 480 is far from ancient and is probably one of the best cards that I've used. When I RMA'd my RX 5700XT (which still crashes after RMA), this thing was a champ. This card is still king for 1080p gaming and can handle 1440p too.
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Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by zlynx on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:47PM (#26362555)
It is almost 5 years old and several generations back. Perhaps not "ancient" but it's aging.

From the 480 there was the 580, Vega 56/64/VII, RX 5700 and now the 6800.

From a few random benchmark site checks online the 6800 is over three times faster than a 480.

Admittedly, to actually buy a 6800 series it is probably at least three times the price of a new 480.

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