It took nearly 4 years to get here, but Sony Santa Monica’s masterpiece God of War finally landed on PC in 2022. Not only is it a strong port, b

WILL IT LINUX? ‘God of War’ Performance and AMD FSR

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2022-01-25 07:00:08

It took nearly 4 years to get here, but Sony Santa Monica’s masterpiece God of War finally landed on PC in 2022. Not only is it a strong port, but it also boasts official support for AMD’s FSR upscaling technology (check out this guide if you want to use AMD FSR on games that aren’t officially supported). But will it run on Linux?

A quick peek at ProtonDB suggests that yes, God of War will definitely run on Linux, (it’s currently rated Gold) but sometimes there are minor caveats. Less often, there are game-breaking caveats. So, I wanted to try it personally and let you know what my experience was like.

And since we’ve got AMD FSR baked in, we’ll also do some quick screenshot comparisons and evaluate the type of performance boost you’ll enjoy when switching it on!

Here’s the obligatory neofetch screenshot detailing my hardware and software. I’m running a liquid-cooled Ryzen 3900X CPU, and the original reference model of AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card. My distro of choice is Kubuntu 21.10 with that sweet, sweet Candy theme and kernel 5.13.