Hi, with the upcoming CP2077 DLC increasing the system requirements I'm thinking of upgrading my system.
I was hoping you guys could give me some feedback on my plan, since my experience with building PCs is fairly limited.
My current setup:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (12) @ 3.967GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
RAM: 16GB
OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS (Kernel 6.2)
From what I've been seeing when monitoring load levels my biggest bottleneck right now is the GPU. I'm not too sure about the CPU either, but it seemed fine for now.
My plan is to buy an Intel ARC GPU. I'm thinking of getting a 770 (8GB) since those are around 280€.
I was planning on waiting for the second generation Arc cards but those are still a year away.
The 16GB version of the 770 is around 100€ more and I couldn't find a reputable vendor (if anyone knows a good german vendor that carries it let me know) so I'll probably not get that one.
I also checked and the Ryzen 5 3600 should have support for resizable BAR, which is required for good performance with Arc cards.
Do you guys think this is a reasonable upgrade or will my CPU just create a huge bottleneck?
I've played Deus Ex (and the revision mod) and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on Linux without issue. If you're playing steam games it's basically just install and play. Especially for old games.
There's a website called protondb.com you can check for compatibility. Gaming on Linux is so good now though, I don't even check anymore before buying games.
Word of warning though. While modding games running through wine/proton is possible, mod managers don't usually work or are tedious to set up. I don't mod too much so I usually just manually install or stick with steam workshop mods.