for linux mint, i do the suggested driver (probably not the latest)

for others like endeavouros it was always the latest nvidia driver

i dont think i ever needed the extra ram anyway since i put it in, will remove them real quick

thank you for your own detailed response

when i say didnt work, it usually means two things, it either:

1. didnt launch at all, no window, no nothing no error message

2. window does open and it shows a error message/only shows an error message

yee, 16gb is plenty enough as it is anyway

having differently sized ram sounded like something so trivial and inconsequential of a thing it didnt exactly cross my mind that it would problems to begin with

and some games do work so it isnt consistent enough of a thing to be noticed to me

im also not a computer wiz grandmaster

i tried nobara, i dont remember why but for one reason or another the install was kinda borked

i tried it once actually, i dont know what it was but it never really stuck with me, probably cause of gnome

i do love my “old school” menu bar

if a bit more ram (and no other hardware changes) actually causes so much issues with gaming, is it really a me problem?

that just sound like a rather trivial change

if you say that its truly that funky, i can remove the extra ram and make it a simple and ncie 16gb

protondb is showing if it works at all yes, btu it also has a bunch of epople and possible tweaks showing it

neither protondb own ratings nor these tweaks did much to make any of the games i tried work (i dont recall any of them being native to linux)

my rig is a pretty common stock build (minus the increased ram)

so if it isnt a hardware issue, and i dont tinker with system files, or any funky stuff like that

why would it be a “me” issues?

i never tried dualbooting ebfore

two reasons mainly:

1. i simply find it too bothersome

2. im 100% certain ill screw something up

i can see why, i always make sure its activated before i force a specific proton version to try, just to be sure

is the old shutup method still good to go for win 10?

while i am always paranoid i am considering the switch fairly often recently

I havent played much of any multiplayers games in years actually (does honkai star rial count?

for old games, most vividly i can remember having some trouble with dawn of war so i used soulstorm and a mod to play the og campaign in it

i tend to stay away from triple a games, one of which is because they dont play nice with linux, space marine 2 is a different case for me cause, well, i really like the universe (boltgun worked for the msot part so that was nice)

game categories: well, i dont have too many category i stay away from, but

favourite older games: advance wars series, age of mythology (retold i tried but doesnt work for me either), castlevania aria of sorrow/SOTN, elite beat agents, pepsiman, orcs and elves, punch out wii, katamari series, ace attorney trilogy, dawn of war

favourite never/ish games: hyrule warriors, lego lord of the rings, boltgun, kingdom hearts BBS, patapon

do you think that may somehow be the cause of so many problems? or part of it?

i tried to install fedora a few times, but it was borked at a system level the 3 times i did

im not the smartest woman around the blog, but when i tried to see what the terminal says sometimes with borked games, i dont think it ever helped me get a game to run, i chalk it up to simply not being knowledgeable enough

before i went to linux that was one of the several tools i used

but im such a paranoid woman now that i just cant really bring myself to go back to windows

linux also just feels nicer to use to me you know?

i actually did try using protondb in several gaming cases, i recall tweaks there working maybe once? if at all?

and i tried quite a few games, some where i went to protondb of course to check, but for me, it sadly never helped

i actually posted in there once, with anno 1404 even https://sh.itjust.works/post/9489662

im aware i wasnt the nicest person in it tho, i posted at the height of the annoyance meter at the time

whats the difference between gaming on linux and running windows games on linux? isnt both of them gaming on linux

protondb as good as a resource it may be, i tried it often, with anno 1404 too, but i honestly dont recall tweaks there ever working for me (for games rated to be running of course, i dont try games that are rated in the red naturally)

I see that linux is pretty good in benchmarks and i believe it so too, however, that is not the case for me and im at a point where im torn between “something is wrong with me and my setup” and “what voodoo is everyone else using that they arent telling me?”

i think i used protonup twice perhaps? i dont think it really did anything for me

anno 1404 and space marine 2 are just two examples, the case of all games i tried not working, if i had to put it into % id give it a 6ß to 70% easily