
I tried rebooting, reinstalling the game, updating my Arch installation and rebooting (it wasn't fully up to date when I first tried today, but I tried updating as a response to the issue,) updating Proton GE specifically, launching in and out of Big Picture mode, launching repeatedly, launching on 'steam-runtime' and 'steam,' and deleting the wine prefix, rebooting between each step and many more times than that. As far as I'm aware, the only changes I made since the last time the game worked were installing and configuring i3. I've been using Steam with this setup successfully for months. I'm running Arch Linux on the latest updates, and this particular game is installed on my secondary NTFS drive. This post was originally just about Melty Blood: Type Lumina, but this is happening with every game I try now.
Open Steam and launch Subnautica: Below Zero. Open Lutris and launch the Epic Games Launcher. The steps I take to reproduce this effect: Here is some of my system info if it's important: I was just wondering if anyone had any idea what the reason behind this is. How can a game, which is running through Proton launched by Steam, have its performance be so dramatically improved by some other application that happens to be running through wine in the background? I haven't tried it with any other games on steam yet and I haven't tested how Subnautica performs with some other application running through wine in the background either. I've tried it multiple times with and without Epic running in the background and the difference in performance is night and day, but I can't figure out how or why this works. I then closed out of Subnautica, shut down the Epic Games Launcher on Lutris, and restarted Subnautica, and it was back to stuttering constantly like how it was before. The frame rate was smooth and it felt like I was playing it natively. I launched Subnautica through steam, and for some reason the experience playing it was perfect, literally had no issues at all. However this time I coincidentally also had the Epic Games Launcher running through Lutris in the background. In previous attempts with running this game through Proton, it ran super poorly and the frame rate fluctuated a lot, to the point where it almost felt unplayable. Recently I tried playing Subnautica: Below Zero on steam. I'm also curious about whether intel or AMD? I currently have a ryzen 3600 and have had intel 4th gen before that, stick with AMD cpu or try out intel for linux? I'll be generally using the computer for multimedia purposes, so I'll be web browsing, watching movies, playing games (both old, sometimes very old, and sometimes new, though generally not very new, sometimes), recording videos, may or may not do streaming, and may or may not do machine learning stuff (have done it before). I'll be installing a low latency kernel, most probably liquorix, so in this case I'll probably be at the latest kernel version, even if I'll be on debian. It uses just a window manager (openbox) with a few tweaks. I'll be going for crunchbang++, a close debian fork with just some changes to the front-end. Here is the linux distro I'm planning on going for, and what I'll be doing with it, hopefully it will give more information on what is right for me: So I've been doing some thinking and research and wanted to move over to linux when I build a new computer from scratch, however I am having trouble on deciding if I should go for an Nvidia GPU or AMD GPU.