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GOG or STEAM? how do you choose?
(lemmy.ml)
A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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"Having to deal with pre-shader work" that you mentioned is a good thing. Without it, games will stutter more. And you always have the option to skip it or disable it entirely.
But otherwise, it's a classic delimma:
Yeah this is so hard
I wonder where zoom platform and itch.io fit into this
Gog games does not have it. But it works fine.
Yes, a lot of games work fine without precompiled shaders. Others, like Apex Legends or Rocket League, are a complete mess (at least for the first few minutes of gameplay - it used to be much worse but DXVK 2.0 helped a lot with this). You've probably just only tried the games that work fine.
Have you tried with the newer Mesas (like in SteamOS 3.5)? Apparently it shouldn't be a problem anymore with the new shader compiler.