Help needed - Gaming on a A10 8770E mini PC
Hello everyone. I am aware this is an old CPU. It can play quite a few games on Windows 10 though, once the boot sequence finished and it finished loading all stuff it needed to load.
I have searched for information to see if I can use this system with Linux for some light gaming. I did manage to install Bazzite, and my initial experience with DOTA 2 was good (it runs better than on Windows).
It went downhill after that. Doom 3 is a no go (need to check the Lutris Linux port), Borderlands 1 GOTY Enhanced, abysmal performance. These two worked ok on Windows.
Are R7 graphics supported for Linux gaming? I read on some posts that it is, others that it isn't, others that say "it depends". Perhaps Bazzite is not the best distro for this machine? Does anyone have a system similar to mine who could perhaps recommend me a distro or some insight on configuration?
Specs:
HP 705 G3 Mini PC
A10 8770e AM4 CPU
16GB DDR4 ram
512gb NVME
1 TB HDD (can replace with an SSD if it will change anything)
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Posted Sep 3, 2025, 6:15 PM UTC