>>536188523
I'm tired of losing threads just from couple of hours of noposting.
Also yesterday /v/ thread was good.

Its 2am, will play games in the morning/afternoon

Mangohud tells me that my GPU usage actually drops from its standard 80-90% when oblivion stutters
I would have assumed I would see cpu usage spiking when it stutters, but thats not the case.

>>536193336
CPU spike would happeno if you would have huge load. During stutters there's only single core load and no load on other cores. Also it hard for a Mangohud to show load spikes during stutters since render doesn't refreshing anymore so it doesn't register loads and averaged value barely changes.

>>536196329
>During stutters there's only single core load and no load on other cores.
I see. I wonder why that happens? I admit I don't know much about hardware.

>>536202074
It may happen from shader compilation, aggressive power management of GPU or CPU, low storage speed or just game being jank. Might be CPU scheduling issue as well.

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>>536203974
>low storage speed
Probably this
My 16 gigs of ram feels kinda little for modern games

>>536210013
Disregard this, its 4 am and for some reason I mistook storage for memory.
Maybe I should just go to bed

>>536189798
Code an open source gacha and cater to gooner. You'll never lose a thread again after that...

>>536212820
Tux Impact, I'll make the logo

>>536212820
Or OP could post lewd Konqi/Kiki art

Lol, before updating Mesa I was experience ring timeouts and soft resets emulating totk but they were so soft they didn't even trigger kwin or emulator crash lol, just freezes
>>536225143
I'm afraid there's not enough lewd konqi to compete

>>536231937
The soft reset triggers a graphics context (opengl/vulkan) reset, which the application needs to handle or it will crash/display black image. I guess kwin handles that properly and vulkan applications (emulators) possibly handle that better than regular opengl applications. Its something all android applications handle (since it can happen anytime when an application is minimized), but a lot of applications on PC cant handle that.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.3-More-GL-Mesh-Shaders
OpenGL now supports mesh shaders lol

>>536233890
Good to know

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My native Linux games library is growing. Yesterday I've installed Grim Fandango Remastered and Brütal Legend.

>>536238550
Neat.
>Grim Fandango Remastered
Probably not a Linux issue but I think there are parts where the frame rate needs to be capped to avoid bugs. I can't find documentation of it now, though.
>Brütal Legend
I had some kind of weird issue with this game's Linux port, where the camera jitters whenever the player character is running. Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3vH-IWA4lk
Not my video, but I found it linked from a forum post describing the same issue a while back (and I can't find that forum post anymore but I found the video link again from one of my own posts about this in the /v/ archive).
I don't remember if I ever tried it with Proton. But if you run the native version, and happen to see this bug, and then happen to find a fix for it... let me know. lol

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>>536188523
Didn't get a response in the /v/ thread yesterday. Can someone help me with this error I get when I try to run the Ship of Harkinian appimage?
zenity: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-4.so.1: undefined symbol: png_get_cICP, version PNG16_0
Pic related is yesterday's output but the other stuff disappeared after updating and rebooting.

>>536212820
People would just compile it for w*ndows.

>>536245847
Just add
>if isWindows() { crash(); }
They can't code

>>536245641
shitty appimage leaking system libraries
make a ticket

>>536188523
sexo with Konqi

>>536245641
I tried latest version of soh and once again shitty window positioning code breaking things on Wayland. Had to delete all configs

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>>536238550
where's the category for your porn games?

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>>536258967
Ctrl+H

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surprise butt sex

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Switched to linux about a month ago and almost all of my games have load vulkan shaders almost every time I want to play. Is this normal? Do linux users really put up with this or is there something wrong with my machine?

>>536189798
only Russians post here so when they sleep it dies.

>>536189798
we could actually move to an altchan.

Watching how GE responded to some bug reports and the quality of his commits the last few weeks has really shaken in trust I had in Proton GE.

He has closed at least some bug reports because he personally could not reproduce, which meant the issue did not exist.
He ignored multiple users that reported a bug, explained the cause and linked the offending commit, merged patches from one user without reading what they said, and only finally realised what they had done after. I think this took them at least a week to figure out when it was solved in the second or third comment on the bug report.

>>536270949
First run? Steam automatically downloads shader caches and compiles them so game goes brrrr. Every run? You disabled Steam shader caches.

>>536273629
Oh GE also left obvious AI hallucinated code in and committed it. This could have been avoided by simply reading one source file or reading build logs. I'm confused how he managed to get employed at Red Hat, but more power to him.

>>536189798
I don't really understand how this is happening. This is literally /vg/, Video Game Generals. A board of only general threads should be slower than other boards but here we are. Thread and comment limits could be bumped, gachas/mobile need their own board, MMO generals could be on the MMO board, etc.

Wayland has a problem with spawning in the center on GNOME but other than that Wayland and WOW64 should be the default already.

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>>536273629
It's turned on.

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>>536274007
I mean...

>>536278773
you actually have to disable it, idk what the other dude is talking about. it hasn't been needed for a while and is broken as you've noticed
assuming you're on amd that is, i don't know about nvidia

>>536278812
What race is he? He looks ugly as hell.

>>536278773
16GiB is not normal if you just switched to Linux. Some games are bugged like that and I think Warframe is one of them. In that case, you have to disable the shader cache and what you were experiencing was not the normal shader compilation.

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>>536273629
you can try proton-cachyos, it includes the usual media codecs needed for videos and they seem to add some neat features here and there
https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos

>>536282379
Looks like a typical amerimutt to me

>>536277223
Where does it spawn? Top left or on another monitor?

>>536289295
I had either it zoom in on top left or spawn at the bottom right off-screen, the lstter I managed to fix by moving to new virtual desktop or by setting borderless window in game in which case it just ends up going fullscreen by itself. I actually just found out about Proton-EM, will try that tomorrow.

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>>536056949
>Why play the pc version,
Because it's the one I have.
>its framerate is capped at 30 fps,
Uh... it seems to be running at 60 fps on my machine (although some animations maybe capped at 30 fps for all I know). This is the "current" (but now unavailable) Steam version, by the way, which is not the only PC port ever released, so maybe you're thinking of another.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Crazy_Taxi
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Crazy_Taxi_(2011)
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Crazy_Taxi_(Steam)
I don't see anything about the other two PC ports being capped at 30 fps either, though. The first one was capped at 50 fps, apparently.
My problem with the Steam version right now is that it seems to be stretching the 3D graphics vertically from 16:9 (which is funny because the UI is blatantly stretched horizontally from 4:3). So I think I'm going to letterbox the resolution to 1920x1080, even though the game is cartoonish enough that an 11% vertical stretch isn't that noticeable.
>just emulate the dreamcast version.
Nah, see, that's the thing. Clicking "play" is easier than setting up a Dreamcast emulator for the first time. I bet even unzipping SilentPatchCT and adding the DLL override to the launch options is easier.

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>>536189798
>wonders why /vg/ thread died
>was posting on /v/
lmao
But yeah I know, the real problem is that it's a niche topic on a not-slow-enough board. Linux threads on /v/ mostly hit the bump limit just because Linux haters seethe in them all day while failing to figure out how to post without bumping, and they don't come here because they'd probably have to wait 20 minutes to find out if they successfully annoyed someone.

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lmao

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This is probably my favorite level. I think I remember it being the one used in a free demo.
It's a shame that it gives practically no ammo for anything other than the stake gun. (The tarot card objective is to use only stakes, so clearly the ammo mix isn't meant to be part of that challenge.) It's probably the coolest weapon, to be honest, but just shooting stakes for an entire level gets old.

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Nice flip.

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One of the few flying enemies. Pretty cool even if she does just go along a pre-determined path.

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>>536189798
I think I cursed us by starting this replies-per-thread plot for laughs in response to a comment about hitting the bump limit 5 threads ago. We haven't hit the bump limit since.

i updoot and coompile in the evening for reduced electricity prices

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_Entertainment
>Loki Software was founded on November 9, 1998, by Scott Draeker, a former lawyer who became interested in porting games to Linux after being introduced to the system through his work as a software licensing attorney
Imagine being a lawyer and then decide "holy shit I actually want to port games on Linux"

>>536323670
He sounds pretty based

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton10-13
>Upside down cinema video playback fixed in Sky: Children of the Light
I think local anon could rejoice

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The re4 remake does look pretty nice sometimes, especially with the dlss mod

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Some more Painkiller. I only posted this one on /v/ for some reason. There was a comfy Linux gaming thread last night -- the rare kind that just states the topic as Linux gaming and doesn't invite Linux haters to air their grievances -- but of course that means only limited shitposting, which means not enough bumps to keep it alive. Now, of course, there's an asking-Windows-users-if-they-switched-to-Linux-yet bait thread full of shameless trolling, and it will probably reach 500 replies. People still go to such threads to ask for help with Linux by the way; it's kind of funny to see.

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It took me a while to realize that some of the weapons can combine the primary and secondary firing modes into a third one. The painkiller can shoot spinning blades (which sucks because it does fucking nothing unless hitting the target dead-center despite the projectile being huge), the stake gun can launch its grenades farther by hitting them in mid-air with a stake (which is more of a combo than a third firing mode and actually requires some skill), and the shuriken/lightning gun can shoot this electrified mine thing (which actually makes the weapon viable).
According to the Painkiller wiki which I refuse to browse any further because Fandom is garbage, the chaingun/rocket launcher can detonate its rockets in mid-air with bullets, but I don't think I've ever tried this. It also claims the shotgun's """combo""" is freezing enemies with the secondary fire and then finishing them off with the primary fire, but I call bullshit because it's the natural way to use the secondary fire (unless your instinct is to walk away and let them unfreeze), so it hardly counts as a combo.

>>536334707
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/tree/master/patches/wine-hotfixes/wine-wayland
>commits nearly 400 patches
>many don't look related to wayland at all
i think he just merged all commits from one author
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/issues/221
probably going to see more of this

I hate working on the weekends, have a bump

>>536365519
>many don't look related to wayland at all
Some of them are related indirectly: Wayland required some infrastructural changes from Wine

>>536370987
Sorry to hear it, anon.
I could be getting a head start on next week's work right now, but I'm too lazy.

>>536354706
>>536363048
Why do you have a 4:3 monitor in 2025?
If it was a 16:10 one, I would understand, but a 4:3?

>>536374961
1920x1200 monitor, game rendering at 1600x1200.

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Cleared my first run in Hades on a Steam Deck

Anybody know how to fix the missing audio in Deadly Premonition?

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>>536374961
It actually is a 16:10 monitor, but I'm playing the game in 4:3 and cropping the pillarboxing out of my videos, like >>536377610 said. (He's not me, but I spam enough images/videos here that I guess everyone knows I'm a 16:10 chad, although it may sometimes look like I'm a 16:9 pleb because I'll usually crop the letterboxing out of games that run in 16:9.)
This game does run in widescreen (pictured), but this stretches the 2-D things (i.e. the HUD and the menu) as well as the cutscenes, which annoys me.
There is a widescreen HUD fix, but at some point I decided that I refuse to use it because it's not hosted in a sane manner. (PC Gaming Wiki links to a Steam guide containing a dead MediaFire link. It was re-uploaded to fucking Google Drive of all places, and this information is only in the comments at the bottom of the guide. Checking the page again right now, I see that Steam even removed the Google Drive links, which have now been re-posted in a mangled form to circumvent this. I can only assume it's for legal reasons, e.g. that it presumably contains resized versions of the game's textures or something, that it's not just hosted on literally any mod site or git repo. But I saw that shitshow and, as an impotent act of protest against this idiocy, just chose to run the game in the aspect ratio it fully supports.) Additionally, and more importantly now that I think about it, this widescreen HUD fix still wouldn't unstretch the menus or the cutscenes. So why bother?
If that's too much to read then here's the TLDR version:
>4:3
soul
>wide
soulless

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>>536378169
There are a few variations of the required tweaks for the Steam version on ProtonDB, and I never experimented enough to know which exact Proton version is best, but the attached video documents what I personally did to set up the game a while back, and cava shows the audio is working. (I assume "missing audio" means you're getting no sound at all, or no sound in cutscenes, rather than a few easily overlooked sound effects. In other words, all I can say is I don't notice any audio problems on my end.)
I've heard from at least one other anon that he couldn't get it working even with such tweaks, but I don't know why that would be the case, unless the game is really fussy about the exact order in which all the steps are done. This is the Steam version, by the way. I don't know whether the GOG version is any different (or, even if the GOG version is the same, whether using Protontricks with a non-Steam game is straightforward; I've never tried it).

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So this was interesting.
I don't think I've ever noticed infighting in this game before.

>spent $400 on a motherboard
>bluetooth chip doesn't have drivers on linux
Fuck my life

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Posting weird experience: I couldn't go above 400fps on cs2 even with fps_max 0 unless I used gamescope. Not sure what was going on there.

>>536378381
The HUD stretching doesn't seem that bad, I've seen worse.
But I don't remember the cinematics being stretched in my playthrough that I did a few years ago,
Also in the steam fix page, the mediafire link works on my end, just downloaded the fix.

>>536381163
Just buy a 10 bucks dongle, anon.

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>>536382319
>mediafire link works on my end,
Oh, that's weird. I don't know if I ever tried it myself (because frankly I was already saying "fuck this" as soon as I saw it was MediaFire, and the Google Drive thing was just the cherry on top). There's a comment on the Steam guide claiming the link was expired in February of this year, and the guide itself hasn't been updated since a decade ago, so I don't think there was a re-upload to MediaFire. Maybe it was un-expired or maybe the comment was wrong. It looks like the guy who posted Google Drive links isn't the same guy who originally posted the guide, in any case.
As for cutscene stretching, it's not as immediately obvious as on the HUD and menu which both have circles, but they're letterboxed in 4:3 and still letterboxed in 16:9, so I do believe they just get stretched.

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>>536383779
Ah, here we go. The video player will always use the original aspect ratio. Now I don't have to get that scene to play in-game again.
>.bik
Soul

>>536379895
What I mean is thst some ambient sounds don't play, gun sounds don't play and some other of those small issues, cutscenes work fine. Protondb has someone mentioning this issue as well.

>>536381163
>she fell for the "high end" motherboard meme

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>>536385505
Ah, interesting. I know at least the gunshot sounds are working for me. If there are some ambient sounds missing then I don't know if I'd be able to tell. I did play the game a bit on Windows, but not much, and I never played the console version.

>>536381163
aliexpress has sales at the start of every month, you can pick up good Intel cards for cheap, the exact same ones on Amazon that go for $30-50 since they're all Chinese brands anyway.

had friends that just use their expensive motherboard built-in wifi/bluetooth and wonder why their bluetooth is bad, or wifi connection is poor. it's because motherboard chips suck and you also need to update to the latest bluetooth/wifi every 3 years or so due to new standards, or at least to match what your new router supports.

>>536378169
It's just broken in Linux, you'll have to wait for it to get fixed

>>536334707
Nice, that local anon is me

>>536381163
If it's a ngff m2 connection you can replace it with an Intel ax200/210 or mediatek 7921/7922. I don't think any WiFi 7 hardware has mainline Linux support yet.

>>536395468
>"just broken"
>shown working by videos in this thread
>"wait for it to get fixed"
>an old-as-fuck game no one cares about
What even is this post?
Sure, it would be nice if some future version of Wine/Proton makes it "just work", but as of now, it's one of those games where everyone who does get it to work is using some ancient Proton release, so there's no reason to think that compatibility is improving.

>>536397131
>silent videos show the ambient audio working

>>536381163
Did you really pay extra for a motherboard with built-in bluetooth when you can buy a bluetooth adapter for $10? lol

>>536398731
No, it's just annoying that a mobo released last year, and the vendor still hasn't published a Bluetooth driver and probably won't ever

>>536398418
>moving the goalposts from "just broken" to "umm well actually it just has that one issue that hasn't been ruled out (and can't be properly ruled out with uploads to this thread because /vg/ doesn't allow videos with sound)"
Okay.
The post which complained of missing ambient sounds also complains of missing gun sounds, and we can see that gun sounds are working in >>536388209 because even cava is sufficient to show that (unless you think it's a different sound effect coincidentally happening when the gun is fired and reloaded)
Describe which ambient sounds are missing, and if I can get to a place where such sounds should be played without doing a bunch of bullshit in a game I'm not actively playing right now, then maybe I'll see if it works. If by some chance it does, then maybe I can upload a video with sound to /wsg/'s "for other boards" thread to demonstrate. Until then, there's nothing else to discuss, except to say that someone who didn't hear the gun sounds I can hear on my machine also didn't hear some other unspecified noise.

>>536399523
Are you actually retarded? No goalposts were moved. The post I responded to was talking about certain audio not working, and I replied in turn that it's indeed broken. Read the context of the posts you're replying to next time mate.

>>536399461
It might land in the kernel eventually.

>>536400125
Fine; I shouldn't have interpreted "just broken" as "completely broken".
But I still wish one of you would tell me what ambient sounds are broken for you, so that I can see if they're broken for me. The only specific example given so far is gun sounds, which work on my machine. I mean, from my perspective, every "missing sound" that I've actually been given enough information to test is in fact not missing for me.

I don't actually want to wait around for an answer, so just in case it's relevant or interesting, here are bird sounds in the area where my current save happens to be. They're quiet, but they're there.
>>>/wsg/5956207

>>536378169
https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos/releases
https://github.com/MuPendulum/proton-mu/releases
Try either of these Proton forks which have more codecs enabled. One is based on Valve Proton and the other is based on Proton GE.

You can also try to disable Proton's media converter and see if that does anything:
PROTON_VIDEO_CONVERT=0
PROTON_AUDIO_CONVERT=0
PROTON_AUDIO_CONVERT_BIN=0
PROTON_DEMUX=0

I would make sure the PC port isn't broken by checking gameplay on YouTube. If it works on Windows and none of the above fixed it then rip.

>>536403584
I would guess it's not a codec issue because he says in another post that cutscenes are fine. But maybe proprietary codecs can fuck up miscellaneous sound effects too?

I loaded an earlier chapter in which I knew I could get to a spooky part without much walking/driving, so here are the ambient sounds in the hospital.
>>>/wsg/5956242
I would assume these are noises that the enemies make or something, but it didn't show any of them spawn yet. I assume they aren't already loaded in another room or whatever, but I guess I could be wrong. Music would normally be playing over this, if I'm not mistaken, but I had already turned BGM volume all the way down in the settings.
Not that I was paying much attention to the sound design when I went through the hospital the first time, but I never heard this. So that's neat.

>>536365519
already at 4 new issues about wayland being broken on 10-13 lol

>>536245641
>>536249116
>>536251504
I ended up getting it working by doing a fresh install of the game. I was trying to update an old version I downloaded a while ago but I guess something broke.

>>536408357
Sounds lewd.
>sneaking sex noises into a horror game
Based...?

>>536402156
I'm not sure which sounds are missing exactly, it's noticeable if you have it, first time you boot up the main menu is silent, there is no ambient music and when you first encounter the zombiewoman that sound completely cut out until I went outside.
So I don't think you have the issue.

Also I'm using DPfix and haven't tried playing without it, I doubt that the issue though.

>>536403584
Tried all these and didn't work. Chachy proton could even start the intro video.

>>536416336
also tried without DPfix, no luck.

this is the similar issue on protonDB I mentioned:
https://www.protondb.com/app/247660/#GfFhQ99oPU

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>>536416336
For me, DPFix just affected performance and loading times more than I'd like. (We can also blame my PC just for being outdated crap, but I can run better-looking games without issues.) The only reason I wanted the patch was to increase the resolution, and the game still didn't look that great, so I ended up removing it.
Anyway, I guess I'm playing this again. I don't remember what the hell was going on last time I played it, so I rolled back to the end-of-first-episode save that I still have because I was making frequent save backups.
Oh right, that was the major issue I had with this game (but not just a Linux issue from what I've heard): My save file bricked itself once -- consistently crashed on load -- and there's one fucking save slot. So I had to start from the beginning, at which point I made a backup of my save file at the start of each chapter. I've only ever had an issue with a mid-chapter save, so I try to get through a chapter in one sitting if possible, which might be enough -- but I still make the backups in case I need to go back.
>shaving actually affects how his face looks
Neat. Does he get more of a beard if he doesn't shave for the whole game? Or is that it?

>>536419723
I'm surprised to see that guy using Proton Experimental, considering all of the reports of success are with old Proton -- in fact, most of them say Proton 3.16, which is even older than what I use.

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>>536420805
>Does he get more of a beard if he doesn't shave for the whole game?
Not gonna link the video because the uploader didn't give me money (and also it's probably spoilers), but here's a YouTube thumbnail that implies yes.

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I'm still going to play some DP tonight, but that's way too many posts about one game, so just to fix that, I installed another.
Last time I played this, I had nearly 100%'d the game, and the only thing I hadn't done was beating Heroic mode. But I stopped, because I figured Heroic just going to be fucking impossible, or at least, I didn't want to attempt it. Insane difficulty was hard enough and, if I remember correctly, Heroic is supposed to be even harder while also disabling mid-level saves/checkpoints.
I wanted to try Heroic someday, but that won't be today because Heroic mode is locked. (The game doesn't use Steam Cloud, so my saves are gone... and yet it still remembers my profile details like total deaths, total kills, etc., so it's using some kind of Steam integration outside of Steam Cloud.) Well, I suppose I might as well torture myself by jumping straight into Insane difficulty despite not remember how to play the game, and if I can beat it then maybe I'll try Heroic after that. (Almost no chance though.)

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Still a pretty nice-looking game. Or I'm just impressed by lightning.

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Cutscenes work. Although, having re-watched the opening cutscene for the first time in years, I wish I skipped it. It's pure cringe.
This is the Extended Edition version, by the way, which I think is just the original plus the DLC levels. Redux is the remaster, which I've never played. Notably, it was NOT one of those remasters given out for free to people who already had the original game. To their credit, they did for some time have a pretty hefty loyalty discount of 85% for people who bought the original, but it wasn't enough to make me buy the same game again.

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>finish first level
>didn't get 100% of "N.A.N.O. collected"
>restart level and finish it again
I don't remember what N.A.N.O. is, and didn't pay attention to the tutorial pop-ups, but I think it's used to buy upgrades so it was probably worth it.

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Unfortunately, I think the second level might be where it gets hard. In fact, this might be as far as I got when I tried Heroic mode once. I forgot about that until now. I didn't try very hard though, because the thought of not having checkpoints was demoralizing. I probably won't even finish this run through Insane mode before I get pissed off enough to uninstall.
What I remember most about this game is that it looks cool but it's just frustrating to play because you move like a tank but don't take hits like one. The "sprint forward for 1 second" button feels like an insult.

>joshua ashton trooned out
for fucks sake
i hope he's the only one

>>536439757
The name sounds familiar but I don't know who that is.

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Time to delete hundreds of old screenshots because my screenshot folder takes too long to load. I've randomly picked this one to be posted one last time before I trash it. This is one of those times when my MangoHud spacing was weird, apparently. The FPS is a little too far from the right side. Not that I ever had as much control over the MangoHud layout as I'd like. It's finnicky as hell.

>>536439757
I feel like that happened over a year ago, about when he stopped working on d9vk.
>>536441932
d9vk author

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...uh, what

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This week I finally had a bit of free time to play games.
First I finished TotK that I had been putting off for half a year. It's a nice game just to mindlessly explore, and that's about it. TotK feels like wasted potential, it barely improves on the flaws of BotW, and in some regards it's actually worse. Awful story, characters, bosses and "dungeons" (maybe with the exception of the desert temple). The final battle is pretty cool from a spectacle point of view, but pretty boring gameplay wise.

Then I felt like replaying MGS2. The last time I played it was in 2015 on the HD Collection for the PS3. This time around, I decided to emulate the PS2 version with PCSX2. In software mode, the game ran perfectly from start to finish. I still have my dualshock 3, so I was able to make use of its pressure sensitive buttons the game is famous for. I finished it in two days.
Classic game, I had lots of fun with it and enjoyed the story. Still, the biggest issue with the game is its awful pacing. Walk 20 feet, codec call. Walk 10 feet, another codec. Walk 40 feet, a half hour cutscene. People joke about MGS4 having long cutscenes, but being interrupted this frequently is way more annoying. The actual core plot of the game is very interesting, but there's so much inane trash dialogue that could've been trimmed to make the pacing flow better. Kojima really did sniff some of his own farts in some of these codec calls. I had forgotten how annoying Rose's codec calls were, and I wasn't skipping any of her calls because I didn't remember if there was any plot relevant information in them (there really wasn't).

Silksong seems to be Steam Deck ready, so I think I will be playing it on launch next.
MGS Delta seems to be just another UE5 unoptimized slop. I will wait a while before trying that one.

>>536238550
>perfect dark
Based. One of my fav games. I tried the PC port of the decomp on Windows a year ago, it was pretty good. I haven't tried it on Linux yet.

>can't remove xorg-server without removing sddm
shit

>>536463614
Install fedora

>>536439757
90% of low level programmers below a certain age troon out, sadly. Im assuming doitsujin is older.

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>>536454247
The game has a ~50% dislike rating on steam because of crashes/bugs. Do you experience those issues on ganoo loonix?

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I really wish Valve would switch Steam Deck desktop session to Wayland so I can use build-in rpd server (it's installed btw), but since it's using X11 session I have to use RustDesk and for some reason it's shitting itself with local discovery so I had to install their relay on my home server...

>>536472508
There is a command to switch to the wayland session permanently. There is also a file that specifies if desktop should use x11 or wayland.

>>536472723
Holy fuck indeed there was steamos-session-select plasma-wayland-persistent command, I never heard about it before, thanks!

>>536473217
Wait a second, it changes default session, it doesn't change desktop mode session.

>>536473381
Lemme check again

Apparently switching from gaming mode to x11 session is hardcoded. Fuck

>>536474797
Yeah seems that way :(. I wonder where it's hardcoded? I looked in some of the gamemode steamos scripts and I couldn't find it.

>>536474965
>I wonder where it's hardcoded?
Most likely in the steam client itself

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TIP: if you're using steam-native you can remove steam runtime check for TF2 (picrel). Despite its claims it can run just fine without it.
Doesn't work with CS2 though

how come /g/ is anti oy-wayland while /lgg/ is waylanded?

>>536482926
Not as many grey beards here.

>>536476264
cachyos handheld edition and bazzite get wayland for their desktop mode, there should be a way to enable it for steamos

>>536486434
Just install cachyos then. How's battery life with cachyos by the wsy?

>>536470889
Normally I'd say Steam zoomers can just be drama queens about bugs and compatibility sometimes, but for this game, yeah. I had a couple of crashes but the major problem I've seen so far was the corrupted save I mentioned >>536420805 which forced me to start over from the beginning. I think it was when I made a save at a phone right before the town meeting, so at least it wasn't near the end of the game. End-chapter saves have been fine so far, so I make sure to each the end of a chapter before I stop playing now, and I put a "%command% ; cp ... ..." in the launch options to create a renamed save backup whenever the game closes. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
But really the worst thing about the game is the controls. Aiming feels like dogshit.

>>536486434
They have this in cachyos-handheld, but I can't make it work in SteamOS
https://github.com/CachyOS/CachyOS-Handheld/blob/main/usr/bin/startplasma-steamos-oneshot
Trying to replace it give somewhat broken session

>>536490265
>to reach the end
Fixed

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>>536486434
Yep, I figured it out. Just had to rape /usr/bin/steamos-session-select with replacing all sessions to wayland. It's not persistent between steamos updates but that's something

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>>536273629
>>536279665
>>536282996
>turn it off
>no turn it on
>NO TURN IT OFF!
what am i supposed to do

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Huge CachyOS update today

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>>536496942
???

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>>536497149
https://cachyos.org/blog/2508-august-release/

what's so cachy about it anyway?

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At this point I lost track of a plot and just walking around beating everything that has health bar

>>536482926
/g/ are GNOMEfaggots

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lol

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>>536510017
I'm a footfag and I love Wayland.

>>536503786
Game?

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Uh... would?

>>536482926
If all you do is consume content (like games) then wayland is ok

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still would
>>536515048
tainted grail fall of avalon

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>>536514369

>>536515312
>tainted grail
Oh yeah that's been on my wishlist for a while. Looks fun. Definitely gonna pick it up next time I'm in the mood for a long RPG.

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big titty mommy turned into an ugly (and weak) worm
>>536516114
don't
game is a low quality polish jank

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>>536497386
Had a good run on last month's ISO.

>>536516217
what gayim is this again?

>>536519357
cummed jar: fart of goatse

>playing vidya as usual
>suddenly system reboots itself into bios and no signs of my boot drive
>turning off and on fixed it
Should I be concerned despite smart showing no errors on my nvme drive?

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>>536395874
It werks

>>536521646
Yes, that's how controller on a SSD starting to dying. I had same problem with my plextor 256gb ssd where it suddenly stopped from showing in BIOS half of the times. Managed to clone it on the second drive with dd and then throw it away (after shredding it to pieces).

https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos/releases/tag/cachyos-10.0-20250819-slr
>The _ntsync branch has been merged for this release as part of the main branch. Disabled by default.
Note: To use NTSync you have to set PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1
Nice

>>536521990
>he didn't encrypt

https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases/tag/v5.0
86box 5.0 released
UPDOOT UPDOOT UPDOOT

>>536521990
>controller
I hope that's not the case and I hope it's an isolated incident and I hope it's temperature related, because of this high heat in this time of the year.
If it happens again during the colder times, then I'll need to replace it.
Looks like cloning is a neat feature and I don't have to reinstall everything again.

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Here we go

>>536526227
vgh... sovl...

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This game sure does stutter a lot. What a shame. It's another case of not knowing if I should just blame my outdated PC, but for what it's worth, I do get over 120 fps on these settings in this same area if I disable the frame rate cap. Also, it's interesting that MangoHud continues reporting a solid 60 fps while this is happening. Of course I forgot to enable to frame timing graph for this recording, but I did try running the game with the graph enabled while not recording, and the stutters didn't seem to register there either. The graph looked even smoother than in some games where I can't perceive any such issues. So I don't know what the fuck. I'm certainly not prepared to blame Linux or Proton, because I remember the game being somewhat like this when I played it on Windows (although, to be fair, I think that was on an even older PC than this one).
If it is just a case of my PC still being shit, then I can probably blame either the CPU (which is now the bottleneck since I upgraded only the GPU because of the old one not being well supported anymore), or the fact that the game is running off HDD storage (and maybe this stuttering happens when things are loading). But it could be a problem in the game itself. I've seen this happen in other games over the years, but rarely to the extent that it annoys me as much as in this one.

>>536515097
What makes X better for you?

>>536527374
nta but I already wrote scripts that use xdotool, and maybe the same things can be done on Wayland but more likely someone decided there's no use case for half of it.

>>536521775
Nice

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Had to increase brightness in both game and voodoo driver since I couldn't see shit. Also they changed something with Soundblaster 16pnp so I had to reinstall the driver for it

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It's a simple life

>>536526607
What game? Sovlful HUD.

>>536531914
Oops. Sorry, I forgot my video filenames don't grab the window title.
It's Hard Reset (original non-Redux version). >>536429315
The UI is pretty cool.
In terms of gameplay, the main gimmick is that there are only two weapons (both given at the start), basically a machine gun and a plasma gun (a.k.a. machine gun but blue), which can both be upgraded to do various things (so functionally you have, I think, 6 weapons -- except it's more cumbersome because you sometimes have to switch to the other weapon and then switch the mode of that weapon). I guess the secondary gimmick is that the game very heavily encourages the use of environmental hazards (explosive red barrels, of course, and other things) to kill enemies, to the point where the game is basically impossible on harder difficulty settings if you don't fully take advantage of this.

>>536522330
NTSync is a meme, this is why they always show graphics with it compared to no sync at all, it's the same as fsync.

>>536536205
it's a meme until you stumble upon a game that deadlocks with e/fsync

>>536536205
It depends. Most games are more or less the same perf. Some don't work at all. Then there's the unicorns that get a large uplift. Like MWO, where I get 20% higher average and 1%.

>winewayland is broken in GE-13
>fsr4 is broken in GE-13
>winewayland patches are breaking things outside of winewayland
GE need to disable the patches already. if EM cannot properly separate their changes into feature branches with well maintained commits, his patches are not worth using. GE 10 has been a complete shitshow so far because of EM's patches.

>>536540232
20% higher compared to fsync*

>my 9070 still can't play back files using HW accel over a certain bitrate without dropping tons of frames that my 6700XT can handle no problem
Fine wine any day now right..?

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>linux version of shaderglass is planned
Swee-
>no time estimate

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First of all, lol.
Second of all, I can't believe that York is so gay and/or professional that he and Emily have time to kill after bonding, drinks are mentioned (but maybe she didn't mean alcohol), and then it ends with them just parting ways instead of getting plastered and having passionate drunk and unprotected sex in the back of the police car. What I would do should be canon.
Lastly, fuck, there are a lot of comments on Steam forums etc. about the game crashing in this chapter. (NOT a Linux issue though, unless comments going all the way back to the year of the game's release, nearly half a decade before Proton, just conveniently forgot to mention they were running Steam through Wine 1.6 or whatever GNU/Linux gamers did back then.) I got one crash upon exiting the diner with Emily, but then I played to that point again while skipping all cutscenes, and got out. Apparently there's another chance to crash when we meet in the back yard at 21:00. In fact, supposedly the game is just prone to crashing upon entering or exiting shops, which lines up with previous crashes I had (not counting the borked save file). But hey, nice to know that Proton is "emulating" Windows so accurately that we get the same crashes as Windows users.

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Well, hold on. Has this glitch ever happened on Windows?
Never mind. I don't care. It's hilarious.

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Well, I didn't want to do a bunch of side quests in a chapter that's prone to crashing, so I decided to smoke for 8 fucking hours.

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Are zoomers who play this game filtered by the smoking mechanic because they don't know how to read an analog clock? Smoking in this game isn't like sleeping; you don't choose how long to do it. You have to stop manually and that clock is the only indication of what time it is.

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Damn, I almost starved to death.
Anyway I did finish the chapter without a crash. It's all good as long as end-of-chapter save loads.

>>536491305
>rape

>>536549815
don't know the context but i don't smoke, why would i smoke for 8 hours? iirc people take smoke brakes for 30 min or under.

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>>536556134
I don't smoke either, but as far as that post is concerned, the context is simply that [Cigarette (Heavy)] is an item that causes in-game time to pass quickly when used. The gameplay reason for this is that sometimes an objective needs to be done at a certain time of day. The lore reason... perhaps it's not tobacco. I don't think real-life FBI agents are allowed to get high though.

>>536547438
Fucking cunts will never remaster it. Wish I was a billionaire so I could fund game projects like that.

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Deadly Premonition is basically
>pointless (usually food-related) shit happens
>"wow, that was kino"
: The Game.

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And now for some random shit from a bundle.
I've seen games in which you can press a button to pet a cat, but I've never seen multiple-choice cat petting.
(The game's basically a walking simulator... or, well, half of it is driving. I assume character-driven story things will happen. I don't know if there will be any meaningful choices. Certainly not here. I can choose some bitchy dialogue options, but whether it will even affect later interactions with characters, I don't know.)

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Multiple rounds of multiple-choice cat petting, by the way.
Now if only I could make her pet a different kind of kitty.

bump

>>536555605
Well I'm pretty sure Valve didn't give consent

>bumpu

>weekend is ending
RIP in peace, /ggg/ - GNU Gaming General.

>>536581559
Lol, does it take only an hour for a thread to reach page 10? I'm afraid we're going to lose this one as well.

>>536585238
The bump limit is an artificial construct.
I hereby define success as 200 replies.

I wonder if Hollow Knight Silksong native build will work great. In original Hollow Knight controller vibration didn't work. Honestly, I don't know how can you fuck this up when you make game on Unity: isn't making native Linux build is just 2 click in Unity editor? So, if you made proper game using only Unity abstractions it should work properly on all platforms?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c?h=v6.17-rc3
>calling you driver Nintendo
they're not afraid I see

>>536544308
It's not really possible to make it work on wayland except if you modify a wayland compositor (possibly gamescope). On x11 you can make it work exactly like it works on windows, as a standalone application that works everywhere.
Which is yet another reason for >>536527374

>>536595458
On Wayland you can just make a nested compositor which will wrap target window. Gamescopes Waylandbackednd is 2700 loc
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/blob/master/src/Backends/WaylandBackend.cpp
Also gamescope already supports shaders. Only it supports ReshadeFX shaders while shaderglass using recompiled slang shaders

>The conversion process relies on:

> glslang for converting Slang/GLSL shaders to SPIR-V
> SPIR-V cross-compiler for converting those to HLSL (DX11 format)
> Direct3D Shader Compiler (fxc.exe) for pre-compiling into bytecode
lmao

>>536604398
That part of the code doesn't handle the rendering needed and many other things and it depends on other parts of gamescope. Also that just proves the point, you have to modify a wayland compositor or make your own, which you just proved. In x11 it's around 10 lines of code to do the same thing, with no hidden dependencies that does the things (nor does the X server).

>>536604398
>Only it supports ReshadeFX shaders
A lot of ReshadeFX shaders dont work, as another anon stated

I boughted a CRT monitor. Once I get a DP>VGA adapter will it work ootb on linux?

>>536614137
Should work exactly the same as on Windows. I remember reading that some passive adapters suck and you might want a powered one.

>>536614980
>Should work exactly the same as on Windows
Never used a CRT on Windows. I assume this means it'll work fine even with low resolutions?
>you might want a powered one
Haven't pulled the trigger on one yet so I'll do some research first.

>>536495818
Honestly leave it off unless your system is toaster tier.

>>536615819
>low resolutions
pretty sure on windows for 240p/15khz signals you needed crt-emudriver or whatever it was called. don't remember if that's the current thing to do today but i remember some people talking about the rpi being able to do composite/vga out for 240p or something for retro setups with minimal fuckery.

bump

Which game do you wish to have native Linux port (no matter foss or proprietary)? My list is:
New Vegas
Skyrim AE
Arma 3
Deus Ex
Diablo 2
Baldur's Gate III (Game has Vulkan renderer, c'mon)
Everspace 2 (devs had plans on native Linux build but ue4 vulkan renderer turned out complete shit)
Warcraft III before reforger (game had opengl renderer as well)

my plebbit guide on enabling wayland on a steam deck only got 10 upvootes and no comments, despite subreddit having almost 1mil users. I guess deckers doesn't really care about wayland after all

>>536635306
Because you have to modify the read-only filesystem and it has almost no benefit? They just play games on gaming mode, you know, for gaming on the game console.

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>>536635306
Use-case for wayland in desktop mode on steam deck?

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Beat my second run in Hades on Steam Deck. I might beat this game after all

alive

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Why are chuds so hostile towards Wayland?

>>536652490
because it gives us zero control over where the window is positioned

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>>536652490
>ugh it completely ignore where the window is positioned
Well why it positions itself on the leftmost screen in my multi-monitor setup? If that would be the case compositor would've position it based on its logic.

>>536652490
If X11 was so great why wasn't there an X12 huh?

>>536656838
wayland is secretly x12-rc1

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get out of the way
I'm going to beat this game

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sneak sniping
my favorite

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they wanted me to help some stupid tribes so they could assist me in this location
well, I can't bother myself with this shit, I'll just force my way through

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lmao this is total jank...

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finally
fuck off, loser

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get fucked

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I can't believe I've finallyh beat this boring shit. It's one of games where I'm glad I beat it so I won't have to play it again (I just don't like dropping games). Everything in this game screams "low quality": graphics, performance, story, rpg elemets, combat. Small indie teams shouldn't larp as AAA studios and make something that isn't as big but worth playing. 4/10

>>536588957
From what I've seen, yes. It's somewhat easy to port Unity games to Linux.
Recently I played Look Outside, a very basic indie game and the controls were a mess on Linux. Though, it was running via Proton, so I give them a pass there.

I've made a few small projects on Godot, and the difference between deploying a game to Linux and Windows was just a couple of extra clicks. Speaking of which, I was impressed with how well the whole Godot engine works on Linux.

>>536662847
On arch, should i download the godot binary from github or use the one provided by pacman? I don't want a system update updating godot then causing a regression in a project.

>>536671463
I just downloaded the Linux binary from the official site, double clicked it, and that was about it, the engine was ready to go.

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unga bunga the anon I was playing with was using a deck so this is full linux gaming

>>536652490
>doesn't post the follow up where GNOME was the reason for Wayland issues

I like KDE because I can customize it to be a mix of w10 and w7 without too much trouble. But I'm also interested in XFCE, I wish I was better with it.

>>536655873
Based

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>custom screen layout bottom screen transparency only works with opengl
>mangohud is still stupid with opengl and obs-gamecapture
>remember zink
I LOVE ZINK

>>536635306
Post it on Lemmy, more wayland trannies there.

If X11 is so great why are nearly all DE shipping with Wayland or have Wayland in their roadmap relegating X11as a "if you want that shit" optional packages

>>536686760
I don't have a strong opinion on X11 vs Wayland in general, but I'm afraid some distributions are going to switch to Wayland too soon. If something that currently works on X11 breaks and the only excuse/explanation is "we don't see a valid use case" then it was too soon. All software being recompiled to play nice with Wayland isn't an answer, for the same reason that 32-bit is still supported. Not everything is FOSS, and not all FOSS is maintained. Some things are either literally or practically stuck the way they are, and yes there are use cases for them. Upgrading to the next version of my distro shouldn't drop me into Wayland unless and until I can't tell that it happened (or if I can tell something changed, I should only be wondering why things are suddenly faster, better, or more stable).

>>536686760
And yes, when I wrote >>536688297, I hadn't looked up how many distributions already use Wayland by default. (In particular, I didn't know that Ubuntu had gone to Wayland, then back, and then to Wayland again.) If those that already switched are working just fine, then fine. A lot of what I hear about Wayland causing issues might be outdated or wrong; like I said, I don't have strong feelings except that I don't need my shit randomly breaking now that I'm sure I don't want to go back to Windows.
Wouldn't it be funny if my own distribution is already using Wayland, and I didn't notice, thus proving how good Wayland is by my own standards? But I don't think that's the case, because I'm on Linux Mint 22.1.

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Starting a new BoFV run that I'm not sure I'll finish. This is a shit game that I just can't stop myself from coming back to over and over again. Most BoF fans hate this game because it’s a departure from the previous entries in the series in terms of setting, but to me the issues lie elsewhere.

On one hand, the game has a really fun turn based combat system, a great soundtrack, an interesting setting and amazing atmosphere.
On the other hand, battles can start to drag on for too long, and while the music is great, it has very little variation, so you'll be listening to the same few tracks over and over again. The environments themselves can also feel too simplistic and repetitive.
But the worst part of the game by far is the difficulty, combined with limited saves and a bunch of roguelike convoluted systems that force you to restart your playthroughs and farm XP until you're strong enough to progress. You literally slowly die with each step taken, there's a counter in the top right of HUD always reminding you of your impeding death. The director of the game said they did this because the previous game was too easy (and to be fair BoFIV was indeed a bit easy), but I have the impression that wasn't the only reason. To me it seems more like a budget issue and they did this to inflate playtime. For a 2002 PS2 game, BoFV feels cheap in several aspects, from the lack of voice acting to the simple and repetitive environments.

Using save states makes the difficulty more bearable, but I don't like using those. I don't know, it's just a personal pet peeve of mine.

Consume the kernel, stop asking questions, get excited for a new product

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>>536614137
just werks for me, I've tried dvi-vga hdmi-vga dp-vga hdmi-rca, generic, vention, tendak, ugreen and they were all pretty much plug and play, only thing I had to mess with was custom resolutions on nvidia
>>536615819
they should work fine on any resolution the monitor supports, for low res you can just do 3840x480 with interlacing.cg (picrel) on newer gpus

>>536678648
was the deck able to run the game at 60 or 30 fps? never used citra or whatever the new fork is.

>>536705581
Dunno, his deck photo didn't have mangohud up. I can't imagine the deck would struggle to run GU at 60 though.
Switch version on Ryujinx btw.

>>536708615
Oh yeah, my stats are with the game running with the render res at 4k, so they would be much lower at the default 1080p.

Late night bump

>>536695895
>Most BoF fans hate this game
I don't hate it, but never touched/played it because
if I want a BoF game to play, I'll replay 3 or 4 again, though IV is my favourite in the series.
I don't know what Capcom was thinking about that one, giving it a BoF name despite not having anything in common to the previous titles.
If it was its own IP, maybe it would be more successful.

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>>536716739
In the west, the game lost the V roman numeral, maybe that was an attempt to make it look like a spinoff. I guess that didn't work.
BoFIV is also my favorite, though I like III too.
Speaking of IV, a few months ago GOG finally released it on the platform with an "updated" executable for modern systems. I tested it, and there were controller issues on both Windows and Linux. And through Lutris with Proton, the game had several graphical issues. It was playable, but I'd rather just emulate the PSX version of the game.

BoFV is very different from its predecessors in many aspects, and I'm ok with most of the changes. The main thing that ruins the game for me is the 'SOL: Restart' system, it's just pure unfun ass.
Right now in the game, I'm at a point where all enemies are way above my level and fights take forever. The game is basically telling me to do a SOL Restart and reset my playthrough. But having to replay the early game all over again is so tedious, especially when all your characters go back to level 1. Keeping your equipped weapons and money makes replaying it a bit easier, still, it's not fun. Also, some parts of the plot only become available after you have played through the main quest a few times, it kinda reminds me of Nier Automata and Replicant in that regard.
Aside from the fun combat that I mentioned earlier, I guess what draws me to this game is the setting. I'm just a sucker for post-apocalyptic games, especially those that take place in underground complexes like in this game. It's just a shame that Dragon Quarter has so many obnoxious systems to inflate playtime: Forced restarted, needing save tokens to save your game (very scarce) and having a counter that increases with each step and when certain skills are used (when this counter reaches 100%, your character dies and you're force to either reload the previous save or do a full restart).

>>536725637
Yeah I'm also not a fan of restarting the game to be able to progress easier, I realised that when I was playing Dead Rising, it just isn't fun playing the same early game over and over again.

As for BoF 4, the gog version is still censored, the ps1 version has a restoration patch which makes it the definitive version for now.

https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos/releases/tag/cachyos-10.0-20250820-slr
hotfix release
I kinda wish all the env variables you can set were documented better

Late night bump

FYI: SteamOS efi system partition is located on fat16 filesystem

>>536743332
Why not fat32?

>>536744295
because fat16 is thinner

>>536740062
Just read the proton python file

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>>536695895
>those little titties

>>536632302
Deus Ex running natively on Linux would be great. Is this really not a thing yet?

>>536764162
There is some UE1 reverse engineering but it's far from running desu sex

Wine Wayland can run game proprely on as scaled displays
Windows can't

>>536704654
>custom resolutions
>interlacing.cg
Any guide for doing this with AMD on wayland? I have a 7900xtx.

>EA Launcher just keep exitting with return code 0
I wish I had BF4 on Steam

>>536188523
CachyOS Masterrace reporting in.

>>536773075
I had to download their launcher again and perform "repair", after that it let me in. I've disabled updates in it because fuck this stupid EA shit

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>>536686760
Because red hat (IBM) decided so. They control the linux desktop. On wayland if you want to record the screen you generally have to use the desktop portal which red hat implemented for compatibility with flatpak( which they created), which uses dbus (which they created) and it has a hardcoded dependency on pipewire (which they created).

>>536776932
I forgot to mention that red hat earns money from support. My conspiracy theory is that they intentionally create new, and convoluted technology so that they can get more support requests. If things just werk (tm) and is widely understood and has a lot of surrounding software then people dont need to pay red hat.

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sorry buddy

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Crash dump for ants

>>536686760
because it's better

>>536769792
>custom resolutions
>interlacing
>wayland
lmao

>>536769792
>custom resolutions
>wayland
It's a mess, if setting up the modeline through grub or wlr-randr doesn't work you have to fuck with custom edids and at that point it would be easier to just switch to x11 and use xrandr

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Interesting difficulty selection screen. If you want to play at regular difficulty you have to do the platforming to get to it.

Oh and interlacing.cg is just a retroarch shader (I think it's under misc now)

>>536779632
>>536779726
Fuck, why does wayland have to be so retarded? I hate having to switch back and forth. Used to have to do that for my drawing tablet but at least that finally works ootb now.

>>536779918
>retroarch
I keep putting off learning how to use it because it looks so complicated. Unfortunately it seems to be the best way to do shaders/filters on linux (at least until shaderglass gets ported I guess).

sus e

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Now that's battlefield I like

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wow

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>>536729089
Oh yeah, I had completely forgotten about Dead Rising. I only played the second game, and I haven't played it since launch, so I don't remember it super well.
I vaguely remember having to periodically find some medication to give to your daughter or she would die and you'd have to start over.
The game also ran on a constant timer I believe, so there were certain events that could only be completed during very specific windows, and if you missed that window, you'd have to start from day one to have a chance at it again.

I do remember finishing and having fun with DR2, but I also remember it being kinda stressful having to search for meds and keep track of schedules. I have no idea what Capcom had smoked back then.

>>536780698
>get a bios pack (I think there's one on archive.org) and extract it in ~/.config/retroarch/system
>install the cores (libretro- packages or if you're using flatpak through "online updater")
>open retroarch and press f5, create a playlist per console and dump every romset with its corresponding core
That's it, I don't really like any of the UI options it has but if I had to choose rgui is the least bad one, you could also just launch them through the "desktop mode" (f5) or directly from the console with retroarch -L /path/to/core /path/to/rom

>>536780698
RetroArch is very easy to use compared to a decade ago, although it still is meant for power users so you might be overwhelmed by the options until you RTFM.

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good ol' smokes

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Guys I paid $250 for Voodoo3. What does this game looks and runs like shit?

>>536792091
At least you don't have to disable sound to get stable framerate, like with Diablo 2.

>>536792303
Turns out it wasn't voodoo problem. My CPU was too slow, so I oveclocked it from 233 MHz to 400 MHz (with 9800x3d I can afford that)

>>536778292
lel

live

>>536784078
>install the cores
arch's repos are missing quite a bit of them, not sure about other distros but the arch wiki tells you how to use the online updater
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/RetroArch#Configuration

>>536776932
X11 is still crap. Fund arcan-fe or stop whining.

>>536632302
Deadly premonition
The rest work fine with dxvk
New vegas probably will get openmw support in few years.

>>536678957
Gnomes's panel extension is very customizable as well.

I use CoreCtrl and I'm thinking of switching to LACT. Does anyone here use it? How does it work? Specifically, I'm wondering if I need to start an application in order to make it do anything, or if it will (when properly configured) just apply my settings all the time.
My problem with CoreCtrl is that, unless I'm stupid and/or using it wrong, it doesn't actually control my hardware (namely GPU fan) until I run the application, which requires root privileges and opens the GUI from which settings are changed. This is mostly fine; I've set up the polkit rules so that I don't have to enter my password and thus I can add it to my start-up applications so it runs on log-in without bothering me. The problem is that I want my preferred settings (e.g. fan curve) to be applied even when my kid is playing games on his non-admin account, and I absolutely can just add his user account to the group that allows running CoreCtrl and then add CoreCtrl to that account's start-up apps, but having CoreCtrl running inherently gives access to the GUI which would allow a dumb kid clicking on random shit to change settings by accident and melt the GPU. If LACT would allow me to have custom hardware settings applied for non-admin users without letting them change those settings, I think I want to switch to it.
I don't know if LACT allows changing CPU settings like CoreCtrl does, but the CPU options in CoreCtrl seem pretty limited anyway, and I'm mostly interested in my RX 6600 fan not being stupid as fuck. By default, it stays at 0 RPM until the card is pretty hot (high 50s at least), and then turns on just long enough to get the temperature out of that zone. So when I played a semi-demanding game, the fan would just turn on for a few seconds at a time and keep the temperature pretty high. I'd rather just keep the fan on, starting at the lowest speed of course, at least while running games. (Someone had recommended underclocking or undervolting but I haven't experimented much with that.)

>>536671463
You could use Ignorepkg in pacman as well or flatpak mask.

>>536819663
A reverse-engineered port of Deadly Premonition would be a huge deal even for Windows users, considering how fucking bugged the game is. It's too bad that such projects are almost never done because they still require fifty billion man-hours because people trained AI to draw anime porn instead of training it to decompile and port old computer games.

>>536821657
I mean reverse engineering of any game is a big deal, I would like all games to be that way, i responded based on the assumption that they would get port but it would be the same quality as windows version.

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playing (pirated) MGS3 Delta on Arch Linux with a 4070. i feel like im getting 45-50 fps on medium (mangohud is installed but isnt showing up for games launched thru faugus for some reason) i only made it to sokolov, but i havent had any stutter yet, everything seems pretty fine. only thing is game crashed after shadercomp, but i just put PROTON_USE_ASYNC=1 into the launch arguments, works fine right after. actually pretty suprised, i thought the game would fare WAY worse with the way previews made it seem. especially since SH2 was a mess at launch on my system, but thats more open ended ig

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>>536820930
LACT is good. You just have to do sudo systemctl enable --now lactd after installing it and any settings you make will be persistent.
Special note for anyone on an RDNA3/4 card: you will probably have to uncheck "Enable power state configuration" or else it cucks the card out of higher states. The author is aware of this but as far as I can tell it's still unresolved.

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>>536828548
nvm forgot i was using a flatpak version of faugus, got mangohud working and it looks like it runs MOSTLY close to 60, kinda floats around 55, sometimes dipping to late 40s, everythign on high and dlss set to quality. a shame about the 60 fps cap and id even take framegen to make it look a little smoother but whatever

>>536828548
>>536836601
forgot to mention im playing at 1440

>>536820930
I think in your case LACT is a really good choice since it running as system service which can load system wide config. Last time I've checked it had all necessary options for GPU control. If that's not enough you should consider making fan curve script with AI help that well be run with udev.

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>arch separates vlc packages so people can install specific plugins they just need
>today they force you to install all those plugins again
why?

>>536856437
I think it's because you've installed some meta-package that depends on every vlc package. I think separations like these are retarded and complexity.

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>>536871514
Is it time again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KjmQSe_yp8

>>536819374
Nobody is whining dumbass nigga. Also arcan actually got a sponsor some time ago, because it has better networking support than x11 and wayland.

>>536892834
also im working on my own x server bismillah

>>536856437
They force to install vlc if you are on kde too

is it hard for developers to make mods work for all platforms? I can't think of any games where most mods are compatible with Linux native version.

>>536896321
Unity mods/bepinex usually are cross platform iirc, or maybe I was just using proton and I forgot

>https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/0aa5bed029e1880acbe92f6d6212573a95a3313e
SOFTWARE RENDERING CHADS WE'RE EATING GOOD

>>536899316
Yeah, can't wait to use software rendering, raytracing and 8x msaa at the same time

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average arch experience

>>536896321
It depends on what technology the game uses, but if it's a regular native game then the mods rely on static information in the binary, such as an offset in it with data. Such information is different for every binary, so they would have to make everything specifically work with non-windows platforms.

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>>536896321
https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/denikson/BepInExPack_Valheim/
BepInEx has native linux support
Joystick configuration for WAC in Garry's mod had Linux libraries (although they were named in dll so I had to rename them in so)
ENB had special linux only version for a while (now mainstream runs just fine I think, don't like ENB though)

>>536896321
too broad of a question

>>536896321
https://github.com/Monitor221hz/Pandora-Behaviour-Engine-Plus
Pandora engine for Skyrim has native Linux build but there's a catch: in order to patch animations it should be run under virtual filesystem created by Vortex/MO2 which are only work under wine. So, unless you're installing mods directly into game's folder (which no sane person should ever do) it's worthless.