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I recently switched to Arch from Windows, and since I mostly play paradox titles (Vic 3, CK 3 and EU4), I've noticed a considerable dropdown in performance in all games, especially the newer ones. For example, late game Vic 3 is almost unplayable, and CK3 with the AGOT mod, which ran without issue on Windows, doesn't even launch now, I have a hunch that upgrading my RAM from 16gb to 32gb will probably help with performance, because both my CPU and GPU are way beyond the minimum requirements, and they worked great on Windows, but since I am new on Linux I was looking for some advice on tweaks I can apply, at least to make the games playable, there must be something I can do since just by reading in forums I see a lot of people having similar or even better performance on Linux
 
Actually I'll move you to the Vic 3 forum for a more focussed discussion.
 
Well, firstly Arch is not a supported distro for any of our games, only Ubuntu is. That won't be causing your problem as such, but does mean it cannot be escalated to developers.

Second, older games only use openGL under Linux and MacOS, which is of course much slower and less polished than DirectX. However CK3 and Vic3 use Vulkan which ought to be acceptable.

Third, whatever your GPU is make sure you are using the proprietary drivers, and if Intel or AMD the latest Mesa version as well.

16gb ought to be at least adequate.


If none of that helps:
Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/pdx_settings.json .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log

Also in Steam please click on Steam-Help-System Info, and paste everything there into a text file and attach that here.
 
AndrewT said:
Well, firstly Arch is not a supported distro for any of our games, only Ubuntu is. That won't be causing your problem as such, but does mean it cannot be escalated to developers.
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Sorry to hijack, but I'd like to get some clarification on the handling of issues. Does this mean that any problem or bug report reported with "Linux (other)" will not get forwarded to developers?

Btw, I also use Argh.
 
Solenoidi said:
Sorry to hijack, but I'd like to get some clarification on the handling of issues. Does this mean that any problem or bug report reported with "Linux (other)" will not get forwarded to developers?

Btw, I also use Argh.
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QAs will read them during Post-Release Support periods and occasionally forward it to Code, but most reported issues on Linux are caused by imperfect setups (improperly configured swap, drivers, OS) and we cannot do in-depth troubleshooting of such issues on all possible Linux distributions.
Properly configured Arch running proprietary drivers and meeting the hardware + software requirements should run V3 fine (in fact, telemetry shows more active players running Arch and SteamOS than Ubuntu as of this month).
 
PDX_Sosanna said:
QAs will read them during Post-Release Support periods and occasionally forward it to Code, but most reported issues on Linux are caused by imperfect setups (improperly configured swap, drivers, OS) and we cannot do in-depth troubleshooting of such issues on all possible Linux distributions.
Properly configured Arch running proprietary drivers and meeting the hardware + software requirements should run V3 fine (in fact, telemetry shows more active players running Arch and SteamOS than Ubuntu as of this month).
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I understand the impossibility of troubleshooting the diverse configurations. Actually the experience of running Paradox titles on Linux has been really good (with the exception of the current harvest condition crash). Thank you for supporting Linux so well!

How about the bug reports that seem to be related for example to scripting, map or AI? Is it worth reporting those with "Linux (other)"?
 
Solenoidi said:
How about the bug reports that seem to be related for example to scripting, map or AI? Is it worth reporting those with "Linux (other)"?
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It's always worth reporting bugs.
 
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