This question may be rudimentary for a lot of people here, but since Microsoft has decided to stop supporting Windows 10 I have really thought about switching my PC that runs Final Fantasy 14 to a Linux box. So, the question is: Is anyone here playing this game on Linux, and how well does it run?

I have a relatively old PC, old enough so that I can’t upgrade it to Windows 11, but it plays Final Fantasy 14 just fine. So I assume on Linux the game will run OK. However, I worry that if there’s an extra layer with wine or some other emulation that it may run a little more sluggish.

Is Bazzite the way to go?

  • doqunbop@mastodon.gamedev.place
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    1 month ago

    @garretble Performance difference is imo negligible, Steam’s Proton does a great job keeping the performance roughly equal. Plus you don’t have rogue Windows processes stealing resources in the background.
    For FFXIV specifically I had some tiny mouse input issues under Wayland (or maybe specific to Pop!_OS’s Cosmic alpha version), whereas X11 seems more reliable - though I started running the game with mouse locked to window because it’d not register keys when mouse-rotating the camera.