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THE FINALS
Tinker Steps:Switch to experimental, Set launch options
gamemoderun PROTON_PREFER_SDL=1 %command% -USEALLAVAILABLECORES
► Multiplayer
Overall (online):Excellent
Performance akin to Windows, if not better. I have played The Finals since season 1, and have approx. 300 hours at the time of writing. Switched to Fedora Linux around 150 hours of playtime. No noticeable differences.
I use CachyOS kernel with Fedora to squeeze a little more performance out of my machine. Not strictly necessary though. I have issues with my PS5 controller (bluetooth) when using Proton-CachyOS-9.0, so stick with Proton Experimenal.
Recently (mid-season 5), the game broke on Linux. The developers quickly fixed the issue though, to be fair. Switching to Proton Hotfix worked in the meantime. No issues playing season 6 on day 1. Highly recommend!
Proton Experimental
Distro:Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime)
Kernel:6.13.7-cachyos1.fc41.x86_64
RAM:16 GB
GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 24.3.4 (git-769e51468b)
GPU:AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT (radeonsi, navi32, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.61, 6.13.7-cachyos1.fc41.x86_64)
CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core
Proton Experimental
Distro:Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime)
Kernel:6.13.7-cachyos1.fc41.x86_64
RAM:16 GB
GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 24.3.4 (git-769e51468b)
GPU:AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT (radeonsi, navi32, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.61, 6.13.7-cachyos1.fc41.x86_64)
CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core