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.
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.