How To Setup Gaming on Linux Mint

How To Setup Gaming on Linux Mint
This goes over the beginner to advanced tweaks you can make when gaming on Linux Mint. Some of these tweaks aren't necessary, but can bring performance gains. Timestamps below:
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00:00 Introduction
01:37 Steam Installation
02:34 Steam Setting Tweaks
04:40 Enable ESYNC
07:46 DXVK Wine Dependencies
11:30 Graphics Drivers
14:00 Kernel Upgrade
16:45 Conclusion .

[JordanIbanez]

I remember using Linux Mint back in 2010 and how we could barely get steam running with Wine. Now we just install steam through the app center and use proton to play Windows games like it's nothing. Brought a tear to my eye to realize what I had thought was possible on the distro one day, is now possible. Amazing.

[Siskiyous]

My grandson is going to be very happy next weekend, thank you for the indepth tips.

[johnnytest]

was waiting for this video from start of series, thankyou for making this video 😍

[docrobotnik]

Nothing better when you finish a good troubleshooting sesh to a upgraded and more ready to run system, coherent and great to watch, have a well earned Sub and I'll have a swatch at your other videos

[Drazil]

Thank you! You don’t know how much I have needed this

[mr.mastermind]

Great video as always. Can't wait to try this out

[bluecloud]

Keep them linux gaming videos coming, please and thank you

[cgolson]

This video is great. Pop and Manjaro make all of this a lot easier, but it's nice to have a guide for Mint since a lot of users are using that.

[DavidJacksonphunman]

Appreciate you doing some gaming content with Linux mint probably my favorite distro

[gwgux]

This is one of the more advanced videos I've seen from you. Good job in covering everything!

[TJWolf]

WOW this video is Awesome! Great thoroughly gaming setup guide. I love this video so much thank you Chris Titus Tech

[MichaelJHathaway]

Wow, this video goes further into the details of gaming on Linux Mint than any other I have ever seen. Some of the terminal work was done a little fast, but users can always pause the video and watch at their own pace. I was curious why you didn't use the Flatpak Steam version? Please make all of the links available to all of the websites you pulled instructions from and if you could please add detail to time codes for areas of the install, would be a great help. The Liquorix kernel is a replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads. It is not just for gaming. I am curious to see the setting changes on Mint 20 which will be here in less than thirty days. Thanks again Chris for all your hard work in the making of these videos!

[Alomare]

Ty so much for this video. Without any prep on Mint I was getting 30-50 FPS on games such as Overwatch, and after following your guides I get locked 60!!

[JamesWilson-pqqp]

With a few days or maybe a week away from Mint 20, I hope you can do this all over again, as it will change everything. Frustrating thing about Linux, every time you get everything perfect something new comes along, and we just can't resist the newer and better. You made it look easy ... But there's so much research!

[sonopro]

One thing is for sure...this is the first time I've seen a series of consecutive videos dealing with different facets of Linux Mint. I don't know if you're aware of it but you're debunking the myth that Linux Mint is so a boring distribution.
In fact, the specific purpose of my intervention is to congratulate you because even though I am an DE jumper, my production computers are only running Linux Mint since version 3.0 (2007), after Mandrake, Mandriva, DesktopBSD, Mandriva Powerpack, PcLinuxOS and Ubuntu.
Right now, I'm trying seriously Debian Mate stable (modified avatar for fun) because of you. And BTW, to write this post, I paused Cities: Skylines on Steam on my main computer. Work, fun, work, fun and work....not only on Win workstations ! And yes I have a Win and a Mac computer (they are on 5 % of the time at home)

[rashkavar]

I just did a fresh install of Linux Mint 20.3 and the ulimit -Hn value is up to 1 048 576, or about double what's needed for esync. And as predicted, didn't need to mess with dependencies in installing wine, just followed the instructions through to the one with --install-recommended and it's all happy.

And it's worth noting that DXVK support has been around on AMD graphics cards for ages. Like the Radeon 7xxx HD series and up....my graphics card is about a decade old and it's still from later than the xxxx HD series of Radeon cards.

[Lanzetsu]

As much as I like Mint and use Linux for other stuff... this video shows exactly why I still use Windows... so many steps and fixes to do something I wouldn't need to do in Windows is still sad, I even bought consoles for playing so I don't need to fight against the PC to make them run as they should, even less fight to make them just run...
Many people will scream by horror after reading that but that is true, and as much as I tried and made some games work after spending HOURS trying to hotfix everything, I decided to keep dual Boot for Steam/Bnet/Anet games and play the others in console.
Also we still don't have hardware acceleration in browsers to decode video which is why at some point most people (like myself) simply go back to Windows, there was hope with a Chromium fork and that's all.

[spankey]

Hello, thank you for all your awesome videos! I have been following your Linux Mint series and downloaded LMDE 4 to follow along, this video was for Linux Mint and not LMDE 4 am I correct? If so, is there a way to accomplish the Nvidia driver update on LMDE 4?

[peterjansen]

FYI, Steam enables Esync by default for Proton. Another FYI: that number 524288 is 2^19. If you use AMD then make sure that you have the aco-compilers enabled! If you have a monitor which support FreeSync, enable it, it is off by default on Linux. Also you need at least kernel 5 to use it.

[tyrvidar]

Great stuff, the gaming community is full of folks that would switch to Linux as gaming becomes easier and on par with Windows.