why does this need a general?
everything either just werks with proton or has some anticheat and will never werk
i ran a linux laptop for like 2 years and the only thing i ever missed was not being able to run a visual novel because of locale fuckery

Nothing really /needs/ a general. These posts have been reaching the bump limit for like 2 months straight. If there are more interesting topics, this general would be dying more often

>>553269182
the last thread died at 400 replies.
why lie when i can easily just click the previous link?

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God fucking damnit, we lost it just I was about to bump it

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https://www.moddb.com/mods/xwvm

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Yeah, now this is gaming

>>553270392
Until now you fucking retard

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I was expecting space combat, not being fucking army command

friday night and im alone, the usual

>>553285867
wtf is that allowed on blue board. what game is it

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>>553287001

>first thread of the Year of the Linux Desktop dies short of the bump limit
Fuck.
Oh well. I did zero gaming all week anyway. New thread on a Friday is fine.

>>553268569
There are aspects of Linux gaming to discuss outside of not being able to play Fortnite. And even when you're just playing games that work the same as on Windows, this thread is more comfy than /v/ where only shitposts get any replies, and if you just try to discuss what you're playing then it will be archived in 10 minutes because it didn't make anyone mad.

>>553285413
same bro, same...

>>553268569
i think you can play japanese visual novels on linux without issue

>>553268569
not using proton, using winetricks to make games work or play native games, that's how you can get your hands dirty

mangohud shows my gpu usage at 0%
anyone knows what could cause this?
its a laptop with an amd APU

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Back to StarCraft because I can't leave this mission unbeaten. Built up my base enough to withstand some carrier attacks while taking out nearby bases without wasting all my gas on dead units. Now I just need to decide what kind of army to build for the big attack.
>>553314164
I'm pretty sure I had that same issue with my old GPU (soon to go back into this old PC, once I put the better GPU into PC #2 whose final part should arrive soon). I looked it up and found that showing GPU usage just wasn't supported for that card.
Probably not the same issue I saw at the time, but relevant: https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud/issues/278
Not being able to get certain stats for my old GPU is one of the reasons I said "fuck it" and went with a minimal MangoHud configuration. But even though I don't have that issue with my new card, I still use this configuration for screenshots, because I don't actually want to advertise my GPU usage. It just invites stupid comments.

>>553315094
yeah thats gotta be it
its an old amd apu

>>553287001
Don't worry dude, jannies will come and delete my Freespace 2 webms

>>553287001
>what game is it
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, it's basically Sigma 2, don't bother, get the original instead which you can also mod it to be like the 360 version also the remaster has less content than the sigma 2 release.

Why using FSR4 is such a hassle on linux? I thought everything's open source and just werkz?
>get this particular build of proton from a literal who
>download a dll from some site (totally not shady, guyz)
>add three obscure env variables to a wine call
>fingers crossed just in case

>>553328619
Told ya
>>553327540

>>553333073
I dont bother with that shit, in my experience it doesn't look that good. I use lossless scaling (with lsfg-vk on linux) which gives a smoother experience and it works in every game. Technically FSR4 should work better because it uses game motion data, but it has never worked well for me.

>>553333073
>>get this particular build of proton from a literal who
>>download a dll from some site (totally not shady, guyz)
>>add three obscure env variables to a wine call
>>fingers crossed just in case
Shouldn't it be an automated proccess?

>>553333073
Just use Optiscaler.

>>553328619
>>553333196
why though

>>553335438
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

>>553320046
You should use amdgpu instead of radeonsi though

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>>553333703
It just werks.

>>553343517
i am using amdgpu
had to set up the kernel parameters for it
apparently on kenerl 6.19 amdgpu will be the default for old GCN 1 and 2 cards

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Well that's it for the Zerg campaign. Next is Protoss.
I've heard the Brood War expansion campaigns are hard, but I'll worry about that later.

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And yes, the screenshots are called Brood War even though I'm playing the original campaign — but that just comes from the window title, which my screenshot script gets using xdotool, for which Wayland evangelists tell me there is no use case. I so look forward to my script breaking when Linux Mint switches to Wayland.

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Like the Terran campaign, the later missions were pretty hard, right up until the point where you just become big enough to crush the enemy like they're nothing. I suppose that's just because the campaign missions generally pit the player against mostly pre-staged defenses, and the enemies make units for harassing attacks but don't do much else. So once your base is defended and you can destroy the enemy's turrets, they just roll over.
I think this particular mission is also bugged, though. I used the reveal-map cheat earlier and saw that there was a red player at the top of the map, but I never saw any of their units. Are they supposed to retaliate and/or supply reinforcements after the temple is destroyed? I failed a previous attempt at this mission just because I was broke after destroying the temple and the yellow player still had carriers, but this time I wiped out a lot of the yellow player's shit before destroying the temple, and then I was free to take the crystal to the ruins unopposed.
I probably would have won anyway, but how stupid.

>>553355032
zerg campaign gets pretty hard by half mark, protoss and terran ones not so much, maybe the last mission of protoss campaign can be called hard if you clear the map instead of doing the objective

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>>553356224
I guess I shouldn't be so afraid of it then.
>>553356081
I loaded my last save, revealed the map to fuck around, and started annihilating the yellow player's buildings with my guardians with the game on max speed. The red one did eventually attack me, but I wasn't sure if it was just because I got too close while mopping up yellow.

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>>553358126
Much later, a less pathetic attack. All of the yellow player's carriers had just been wasted on my spore colonies, but this attack would probably do some damage to my army. But, satisfied that the red player isn't completely bugged, I just quit the game.
I never made or upgraded hydralisks, by the way. I went all zergling, mutalisk, and guardian... and made a few ultralisks but they didn't really get to do anything.
Based on what I've read, the red player doesn't activate until the temple is destroyed, and would probably be a threat if I had attacked the temple early with a small force and allowed yellow regroup defenses before bringing the drone... in other words, if I had actually put myself in a position to fight yellow twice.

bump

Work bump

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This part was annoying.

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Is there a way to figure out which fonts a game uses?

I've recently switched to Linux, and while the games I've tried so far are running fine, some are missing special characters in their fonts, like the glyphs used for emoji.

(picrel is from Star Resonance)

>>553371161
you need cjk fonts

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>>553370863
But not as annoying as this rising water escape that came afterward. I don't mind a platforming challenge and I'm already past it now, but it was a bit obnoxious. You can't really get a head start because going faster in the easy parts just makes the water go faster, so that the player is always seconds from death in each section. This particular screen was especially annoying because it required doing a "bash" off of that enemy's projectile and it didn't seem to want to come out if I got too close to the spikes instead of standing in approximately this spot.

>>553371161
I once figured out the font Lyle in Cube Sector needed for proper text display by reading the WINEDEBUG log. I got warnings/errors about several fonts, though, and initially grabbed more than I seemingly needed, which is fine I guess.
The font wasn't available in Winetricks, if I remember correctly, and I had to get the font file from some probably not entirely legal GitHub repo and stick it in Wine's font folder.

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Well, now that the game has non-poison water, at least swimming is fun.
I unlocked water breathing after only a few minutes of having to worry about the air timer. lol

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Also, check out the game glitching at the bottom edge, as if I'm not supposed to see this far down, DESPITE the game letterboxing to 16:9 instead of letting me use my full screen. Like really, if you're going to restrict what I can see and then STILL look like ass, fuck you.

>>553371161
try "strings game.exe | grep -i '.ttf'"

>>553371725
>annoying
Bruh it was the most hype and memorable moment in the game

>>553347791
niggas really go through all this shit instead of just turning down some settings

>>553376406
I'm using it for DLAA>Whatever the fuck it's called in FSR dough.

>>553376145
Does that mean I won't have to do a bunch more of those? Good.
It was fun once I stopped fucking up. But I was pretty close to getting mad and taking a break from the game. (Then again, I'd probably beat it first try after coming back to it. In the moment, I always forget this lesson, but just taking a break from a hard part of a game is magic sometimes. Probably just because I play badly when I'm pissed off.)

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After I learned about air brakes game became MUCH easier!

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Fast start also makes you don't suck at the beginning of a race. I wonder: you can only feel it with the vibration of the controller, how kbm users are supposed to find it?

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missed this one

How do i enable mouse acceleration in wine?

Otherwise can i make mouse more sensitive specifically when running a game in wine?

>>553382429
Why would you want mouse acceleration enabled, that shit is cancer, raw input rules them all.

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It's a shame that Valve released original CS for Linux only in 2013. At least it was running well on Wine so fellow tuxers could still enjoy the comfiest era of gaming.
>>553382429
Wine should follow your DE settings and most games should have sensitivity sliders for mouse.

>>553383913
A game doesn't have mouse sensitivity options and im use to acceleration on desktop.
>>553384316
It just feels slow in game.

>>553384316
Biohazard mod was so fun.

>>553374312
Why do they put human readable text in the .exe im wondering

are there any benefits to using cachy proton?

>>553391389
Depends on the game. I never used it but different proton versions work for different game/system combination. I always say if a game werks, just keep using whatever version you are using. If shit breaks or doesn't work, try changing versions

>>553385113
i think you can enable mouse acceleration with winecfg

>>553391389
i dont see any point in using the cachy proton
unless it has some magical patches that no other proton has
proton-ge has ntsync enabled by default and you can enable the wayland driver if you want
also if you use cachy proton you should use the slr variant that uses the steam linux runtime

I'm still amazed how easy it was for people to get the newest DLSS model on linux. They really made things just work with proton GE.

>>553409014
>On Ubuntu and Mint, it was recommended to get the deb file directly from Steam's download page and install it from there. But now I'm reading that it's recommended to install from my distro's repo.
I suspect that it rarely makes a difference. Steam will download all of its own runtime shit into a user-owned directory anyway, which is how it auto-updates without root permission. So it's not as if you're not going to get an out-of-date version of the Steam client or something. In the worst case, if Valve updates the .deb installer and some Debian-based distribution is slow to catch on, some dependencies might not get installed, I guess. I doubt this happens often though. My shell history shows I installed Steam from Mint's repo, which would have been when I installed Mint 22 in 2024, and it still works.
>But Fedora's software center only has a flatpak version from Flathub.
To the best of my knowledge, Flatpak isn't officially supported — and actually, using it would creep me out a bit more than most other not-officially-supported things, because if Valve isn't maintaining that package then I don't know who the hell is. Assuming it's safe, the only reason I'd warn against the Flatpak version of Steam is that I've heard of it causing problems (even if they all boil down to "Flatpak's sandboxing got in the way" and might be fixed by adding permissions).
>Can I go ahead and install it the usual way through Steam's website? I tried the download button on Steam's site, and it's asking to download a deb file, but I thought deb files were for Debian-based systems.
I don't know if there's a way to use .deb on non-Debian/Ubuntu systems, but yeah, Steam's web site only provides a .deb file as far as I know. To this day, the Steam for Linux README on GitHub says the latest Ubuntu and Ubuntu LTS are the only supported distributions, despite SteamOS very obviously being officially supported, not to mention Steam working on basically every other distribution anyway.

>>553409014
>deleted
Huh?
But yes, you can get Steam running on just about any distro that has both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries for stuff like OpenGL, Vulkan, glibc, etc. I can't remember the full list of prerequisite packages, and the Valve Developer Wiki doesn't have any information on it that I can find.
http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.tar.gz is the latest build of Steam. You can run "sudo make install" or just run the steam executable.

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What a tiny map.
This mission taught me that I don't know how the fuck to use reavers against the computer player because he doesn't make them super effective by bunching up all his units to get killed in one shot like I did when reavers were used against me :)

on fedora just install steam from the repos
i think fedora already has steam from rpmfusion enabled by default
you should always add rpm fusion to fedora and follow the instructions to get the non useless ffmpeg and mesa-freeworld or whatever its called

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>first floor of rachel sanctuary is a lot better for actually grinding
>yuuuge mobs
>but you have to actually interact with hodremlins
scary but fun

>>553389237
Executable files, be it .exe or ELF, are containers storing various data that's required for program execution. String literals used in C code are baked into .exe. If programmer wrote a code like library.loadMeFont("comicsans.ttf"), the library.loadMeFont part will be converted into instructions by compiler, and "comicsans.ttf" will be stored in readonly data section of binary as is, to be used to find the font file by name.

>>553398091
why the fuck is cachy/bazzit getting shilled so hard

>291 updates available
what the fuck, I just updated like 2 days ago...

>>553437147
arch migrated to python 3.14

>>553432562
because they are the "gaming" meme distros

>>553438156
Yeah this somehow broke lutris for me. Probably skill issue on my part, but I reverted with timeshift, upgraded again, and now it works

>>553440050
so i should stick with fedora?

>>553440494
just use whatever you want

>>553440375
>reverted with timeshift
That was too much, should've just rate mirrors and upgrade one more time

>>553438156
>have to rebuild my aur packages
it would be fine because compiling is fast on my 5900X, but the issue is the fucking download speed, it's a fraction of my full speed and shit takes forever to download because of that

>>553445859
You don't really "compile" python packages though

>>553440050
Cachy is not advertised as a gaming distro. It's just one of the best at it. :^)

>>553445859
What type of drive is your paru cache on? You might be limited by I/O.

I like Linux and it's currently my daily driver, but I wouldn't use it for gaming until all the shitty anti-cheat systems work on Linux. Yeah I'd rather not have anti-cheat running at all, but quite a few online multiplayer games require it.

>>553446789
I'm in Endeavour OS and on it yay is default, I'm only getting low speed when getting shit from github, otherwise full speed on everything else.

>>553446885
>but I wouldn't use it for gaming until all the shitty anti-cheat systems work on Linux.
Dude, you know what it means? If that will happen it means they'll force you to install proprietary kernel modules that will spy on you. Would you really do this?

>>553447093
I assume the anti-cheat systems just collect whatever data they need to run the game. I doubt they're going to read every file on your boot drive and send all of that data to the game devs.

>>553447342
>I doubt they're going to read every file on your boot drive and send all of that data to the game devs.
You doubt that they're collecting all the data they can for selling to advertisers and AI trainers because this is what makes money today?

>>553447441
You could allege that every piece of software you install is doing that. Who knows if they are though. If a popular video game was doing that then surely there would be news articles about it.

>>553445859
took me about half an hour, only missing one to rebuild is protonqt-up but looks like it's an issue on their end

>>553447567
>You could allege that every piece of software you install is doing that.
Well, most software I use is open-source though.
>Who knows if they are though.
For shady things I am using sandboxing solutions
>If a popular video game was doing that then surely there would be news articles about it.
Why would there be articles about things that are explicitly mentioned in EULA?

>>553447509
No I don't really know. Anyway whatever. Like I said I use Linux as my daily driver, but if I were to get a gaming PC, I'd use Windows so I could play more games. Hopefully Linux will be able to run all the anti-cheat systems in the future though.

>>553447702
>explicitly mentioned in EULA?
I would be surprised by that. But of course I'm not going to read any game's EULA because I'm too lazy.

>>553447567
if you are genuinely saying that and not just baiting, you are very naive. Probably under 25.

>>553448045
>Hopefully Linux will be able to run all the anti-cheat systems in the future though.
It already is. Most kernel-level anti-cheats have a setting for it to work under GNU/Linux systems. The Finals and Arc Raiders are a couple of games that have kernel level anti-cheat with GNU/Linux compatibility turned on.

so i have been trying gaming on linux and so far i had mixed resultas with games
but emulators seem to run better

>>553448154
Even open source software can be compromised - look at the xz backdoor in 2024.

>>553448404
Interesting. I think some games will still ban you though if you try to join multiplayer games while running the game on Linux.

>>553440375
if you are using lutris from the aur you have to rebuild it

is it possible to run elden ring at 60fps with 3600x and 9060xt 16gb on linux? both cpu and gpu are underutilized and I get 45-50fps.

>>553457774
Your CPU might be hitting single-threaded performance cap. Videogames can't perfectly utilize the whole CPU.

>>553457926
htop shows the load is evenly spread across all threads though, the frequency is maxed out too
ram is at 3600mhz
tried disabling rebar
idk what is even wrong

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>>553458096
Why use htop when mangohud exists?
>the load is evenly spread across all threads
That shouldn't be the case, like on the screenshot the core #11 is utilized by the main game thread, while the rest has smaller load. Maybe htop doesn't pick up the scheduler shuffling load between physical cores fast enough.

>>553457774
I got 60 fps with, 3600 and 2060 super

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>>553460360
with mangohud
>>553461329
any special things you had to do?

>>553461532
Could be steam overlay acting up
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/8591
IIRC the workaround was to add LD_PRELOAD="" %command% to game launch options.

>>553446885
>>553448045
You won't use Linux until the anti-cheat shitware supports Linux, and the anti-cheat shitware won't support Linux until there are too many Linux users for developers to ignore, so unfortunately you'll just have to hope so many other people forsake these multiplayer games in favor of Linux that the developers want to get them back.
But whether you can even do good anti-cheat protection on an operating system with a customizable open-source kernel is questionable, and regardless, Linux providing the tools for video games to spy on the system at the kernel level would still have to be followed by anti-cheat developers actually deciding to take the risk of not blocking Linux anymore. Ultimately it's their choice, not a matter of Linux just becoming more gooder.

do you use retroarch?
what consoles its better to use the standalone emulator over the libretro core?
gamecube and newer?

>>553463952
>do you use retroarch
I tried, too complicated for my smoothbrain

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silly and satisfying at the same time

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Well, that was unexpected
Also, Valve is releasing their new VR headset this year running on Linux and there's still no native Linux version of Half-Life Alyx! I hope they'll be kind enough to release native ARM Linux executable close to the Frame's release. They wouldn't expect us to emulate such heavy game and run it through Proton as well on a mobile ARM chip?
>>553470098
That's looks cool, what game? Is it Linux native?

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Or it's not? Steam page doesn't mention Linux support but SteamDB has information about Linux build.

>>553471202
>what game
Pathfinder Kingmaker

>>553471202
Kingmaker. It has native build, unlike WotR, both are unity slop so work about the same under Wine.

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Well that's it for Blue Planet mod. It was great: good written, great gameplay. Shame they didn't release act 4 and 5 so this mod end in kinda cliffhanger.
Took me 27 hours, definitely 10/10.
Going to play something else and then return to other mods, probably will play Freespace Port.
>>553472083
>Kingmaker. It has native build
Nice, downloading it right now.

>>553432562
>bazzite
normie easy to use distro thats just like muh steam deck
>cachy
more advanced fag power user distro

id imagine when steamos for desktop drops that will probably take bazzites place

>>553474490
>steamos for desktop
I don't think that is happening any time in the next 5 years

>mid-page 10 in an hour
h-hayai

>>553482869
You see, all those new captchas are working just fine

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>Mint tells me it's ready to upgrade to 22.3 before the web site says it's released
Uh, cool...?
I had to find the beta release announcement in the blog for the link to the "what's new" page.

I'm trying to run native Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution but this trash is dynamically linked to some no-name old ass libraries that aren't shipped with game.

>>553488297
Are you using Steam? It might work in Steam Linux Runtime.

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>>553488178
Oh, I'm dumb. There's a link to the release notes once I start the upgrader. Still funny that the web site isn't updated though.

>>553488574
No, I was trying to go raw, I refuse to use obsolete Steam runtime.
Devs can go fuck themselves, why the hell would their game be linked to liblber which is part of openldap. Why would a fucking game be linked against openldap? Fuck. And then they complain "uuh it's difficult to develop for Linux, there are so many distros and not every distro can satisfy dependencies". Maybe you should make a proper fucking port where game isn't linked against systemd, openldap and others libraries that have nothing to do with gaming.

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>>553489156
Never mind that. The main release notes are the same as those for 22.2; only the "what's new" page is worth reading.

>>553489178
>No, I was trying to go raw, I refuse to use obsolete Steam runtime.
Oh well. If providing the packages required to run old games makes it "obsolete" then I'm afraid you're out of luck when it comes to running closed-source native games.

>>553490079
>then I'm afraid you're out of luck when it comes to running closed-source native games.
Most games are running fine though, it's mostly especially shitty Linux ports when devs have absolutely no idea what they're doing.

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>>553489504
Apparently the menu changed. I hope I don't end up missing the old one.

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Damn, the goat of denuvo-cracking mentioning and committing to GNU/Linux releases. This is very nice to see. Death to DRM and proprietary malware!

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It's pretty obnoxious that Synaptic has gotten uninstalled every time I've done an in-place Linux Mint 22.x upgrade.
I only ever use it to view information about packages, and maybe I should just learn how to do that on the command line, but holy shit. I'm reinstalling it again out of spite.

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As for the new menu... it's fine, I guess, except for some aesthetic nitpicking that isn't even worth a complaint to the developers. Showing the desktop entry's Comment field under every shortcut? Cool, but so many of them will be truncated with "..." which is a pet peeve of mine. On that note, it won't let me resize the menu wide enough to display this game's entire title. Archived proof that I could do it before:
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/539926502/#540308451
Do I honestly care about the menu not being wide enough to display some game's obnoxious meme title? Not really.
But I am currently trying to decide whether to edit the Firefox desktop entry or remove it from that favorites list on the left, because there's no way to resize that section such that it doesn't display as "Firefox Web Bro...". I guess I'll just change the desktop entry's Name field, because it's not as if really need the word "Web Browser" there. Very dumb that I can't change that column's width though.

Done with NG3 Razor's Edge and I'm definitely sure I won't ever replay this one, because holy shit some of the shit is cancer, like double/triple bosses, the camera is somehow worse than the previous games and a lot annoying mechanics shit, e.g hyper armour or instant grabs(despite them being telegraphed) and many more.

>>553500697
Mint is so fucking kino. Too bad cinnamon still doesn't support Wayland. I would use the shit out of it otherwise

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>>553501315
There is a Cinnamon on Wayland option at the log-in screen, but it's experimental and has some issues. For example, the context menu appears way up near the top-left of the screen when I right-click tray icons in the bottom-right.
Plus all of my automation that uses xdotool won't work, hence a Psensor window still being open in this screenshot even though my startup program list runs
>psensor
one second before
>xdotool search --onlyvisible --sync --name 'Psensor - Temperature Monitor' windowunmap
in order to banish it to the system tray for lack of Psensor having any kind of built-in minimize-on-start option that I could find.
Now that I've looked up how to detect the display server, I suppose I might as well use it in all of my scripts to skip xdotool things (namely a few instances of window control as described above as well as my screenshot script getting accurate window titles for filenames). Mint isn't defaulting to Wayland yet but it will probably happen eventually, maybe even as soon as Mint 23 for all I know.

>>553502984
Yeah I tried the experimental Wayland session, but it wasn't good for my use case. It will get there eventually. In the meantime KDE werks for me, even if it looks ugly as fuck even after some customization on my end. I was never good at making stuff look good anyway

Do I need to do something to play BG3 online in lutris? Running the windows version (through GOG which is technically the thing running through lutris) and trying to let my buddy connect via the game's Direct Connect option. This is the first game I've actually used lutris for and I'm not sure if I need to do some port shit.

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A wild tux

>>553500697
>https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/539926502/#540308451
>"Are there any DEs that don't allow this? Just want to know so that I can avoid ever using them."
>[Cinnamon doesn't allow it anymore]
What a cruel twist of fate. Good thing that old post wasn't serious.

>>553506715
I can't answer your question, but isn't there a native version for BG3?

>>553506715
For some reason restarting fixed it lol

>>553510407
There is, but I heard it's much worse than just running the windows version through proton... which is unfortunate but hey, it works

>>>/v/730621561
>>install steamtinkerlaunch
>>it cant interact with snap
>>nothing i can do
I can think of something he can do...

>>553515442
Snaps? In the year of our Lord 2026?

>>553511740
>There is, but I heard it's much worse than just running the windows version through proton... which is unfortunate but hey, it works
Unless there is something online specific native version runs better and whoever told you that it's much worse lied to you.

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Too many cannons? Nah.

Sometime after my last post, StarCraft crashed for the first time since I installed it. I had saved right beforehand, and after loading my save, it didn't crash again, so I don't really care. Very weird though.

>>553515442
> snap
Really nigga?

>>553530652
Time to rewrite it in Rust

>>553501016
It has some greally great combat and enemy encounters, you just can't spam UTs like in 1 and 2. Bosses do suck.

>>553545340
>enemy encounters
90% of them are soldiers

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Always loved the way Galaxy handled movement. This covers it pretty decently: https://youtu.be/qq8oLKqySrw

>want to move to linux
>got a 5070ti
How fucked am I?

>>553547694
I have a 4070 ti and everything just werks, except dldsr

>>553548335
What about just dlss?

>>553548606
Dlss werks on every game I've tried. I remember oblivion remastered having weird framegen issues, but that was the only one I encountered

>>553547694
About 10 to 20 percent in dx12 games.

https://felix86.com/
risc-v bros we're eating good

>>553548758
That's good.
>oblivion remastered
Heard that just has issues no matter what you have.

>>553548998
I don't even know what games run dx12 these days. I don't play too many new AAA games.

>>553548998
My cope is that a fix for this is dropping soon. In any case 15%-20% drop on a handful of games is neither bad enough to buy a new gpu, nor a good excuse to keep using winslop malware

>>553553020
I guess the current jannies really hate ESLs trying their hardest.

>>553553704
real grammar nazi, huh?

What am I doing wrong that lsfg-vk isn't working on Steam? The lsfg-vk conf file works just fine for games launched directly through wine, but it isn't doing a thing for Jet Set Radio, launched through Steam. I tried setting this launch command for JSR on Steam but it's still not working:
>LSFG_LEGACY=1 LSFG_MULTIPLIER=4 LSFG_FLOW_SCALE=1 mangohud %command%

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Maybe I can

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Oh, I see combat in this game would be super "fun"

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I see they invented Witcher Sense before Poles did.
>>553560432
Imagine being Sith warrior and lost to a Togruta girl who didn't even enroll in the academy yet.

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>>553560432
If anyone gets offended sorry, I've messed up, I meant to write it this webm, Sith lightsaber combat is fine

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>you should learn how to use force, padawan
nah, I'll stick to guns, thanks

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On the other hand, lightsaber might not be a bad option

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huh
I only found out later that this is sniper rifle and has scope on RMB lol

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This visual effect is too advanced for modern games

>>553555906
Are you using steam via flatpak?

>>553571343
RPMFusion.

>>553571482
No idea, never used fedora

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>>553571482
That's strange, it should work then

Anyone know how do i get AI Shoujo BetterRepack translation working in wine?

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>>553571984
That's so little information to work with. Could you specify at least how is it supposed to be installed? Do you unpack some file in the game's directory? Which files?

>>553573093
The pack is preinstalled with the translation plugins, i just created a wine prefix with lutris and dropped the files from the pack in there

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>>553573520
I don't know how this will help

>>553573924
>WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp=n,b"
That didn't work

>>553575038
H-games wiki says that it should work too but maybe i broke the install while tinkering. I'm going to do a reinstall and try again. Thanks

How's the flatpak version of steam these days?

>>553576845
Never used flatpak, never will. Simple as

>>553578605
>sandboxing solution for Steam
Use case for sandboxing Steam?

>>553579549
I don't play sketchy games, and the last thing I need while gaming is Flatpak runtimes eating up all my memory.

>>553576769
That enemy falling forward like that when you hit its leg is cool. Sadly we dont get this in games in the same genre anymore.

ppsspp performs better on linux on my shit laptop even when using opengl
emulators seem to perform better in general

>>553579549
Is using Flatpak actually effective as a security measure?
I'd assume you'd want to go with something explicitly intended for security, like Firejail. But I haven't tried using that for Steam. So on that note: does anyone know if Firejail's profile for Steam is any good?

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No vore on today's taglist
>>553590964
>Is using Flatpak actually effective as a security measure?
Yes if manifest configured without bullshit
>I'd assume you'd want to go with something explicitly intended for security, like Firejail.
Firejail profiles are retarded and it's obsolete now: I think they still didn't fix broken gtk apps when glycin moved to use namespaces. Flatpak provides all sandboxing you need including syscall and dbus filtering. Firejail still doesn't support xdg-desktop-portal.

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>Corran, you're going to Wayland
X11 sisters?! Our response?

>>553591862
Well that sucks I guess.
The problem with the Flatpak release of Steam is that it's just as untrusted as any game for which I'd hope sandboxing would protect me. Who even maintains the Steam flatpak? Not Valve, from what I've heard.

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I wondered why she wasn't cold? Then I remembered she's a furry.
>>553593826
Steam Flatpak just describes sandboxed environment used by steam and required runtimes, then it just runs Valve's executable that downloads, configures and installs Steam, just like any other repository packaged Steam installer. There's nothing to maintain really.

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Bigfoot is real
>>553590620
Most emulators are CPU bound so they do benefit from good scheduling and memory management that Linux kernel provides (and you can also compile emulators with march=native fully utilizing your CPU potential since emulator devs usually don't ship such build due to compatibility reasons)
Proper OpenGL and Vulkan drivers benefit as well. I remember playing Minecraft with my friend and he had bad performance on his 6800XT lol. Turns out AMD Windows OpenGL drivers were complete dogshit at that time.

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That was unexpected

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lol

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Angry colored big titty women fight each other, I like that.
Also
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8293
>Xaver Hugl changed milestone to %6.7 3 hours ago
;(

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If every game looked like that world would be a better place to live in.

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Nice choreography.
Sometimes I think this is how game supposed to look like.

Okay, some update broke my hori ps pad, now the buttons are all garbled, xinput mode works but not in ps4/5 mode and I need that because I use the touchpad as a right stick in some 2d games.
I didn't do anything in the udev rules, still the same as when I bought the pad.

>>553610958
I'm afraid you're hit with some of latest systemd updates that changed how uaccess tag works, so it requires changes in steam package now that for some reason aren't merged by arch jannies
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/steam/-/merge_requests/12

>>553611307
Actually no, it's similar fix was merged so idk

>>553610958
what distro? can you rollback to a previous snapshot like with timeshift or btrfs? When I fuck something up I rollback and check what changed. It usually works

>>553611558
>what distro?
Endeavour OS but I'm never gonna use btrfs again due to bad experiences with it and timeshift is no go, I tried to roll back sdl3 version to previous one but the issue still persisted.

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dang it, foiled by my own isilla card

>>553612584
what game?

>>553612687
Ragnarok Online.

Tried my Dualshock 3 and that one works...

>>553610958
nvm, fixed it
this was the issue
>>553611307
had to add ACTION!="remove" and TAG+="uaccess" to my pad's udev rules

>>553595627
whats funny is the APU this laptop has support up to vulkan 1.2 on windows while on linux it supports 1.3
even when using vulkan on windows or direct3d11 they perform worse than on linux

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>take a sick day from work
>planning to play some StarCraft because why not
>kid wants to play other games every minute I'm anywhere near the computer
oh well

i've been on fedora for the past few years and haven't had really any complaints but i'm kind of getting an urge to try something else but i know it's not really necessary

Gnump

kde 6.6 or windows 11, what handles hdr better?

>>553650440
oh kde is on 6.5 whoops, any non-debian distro would have it right? do you need to do any terminal stuff for hdr to 'just work' after installing kde?

>gamescope or wine Wayland with corresponding HDR command line arguments/envars
for gamescope i just put that in the steam launch options right? what are the other commands? i use debian stable on my laptop but windows 11 is pissing me off on my desktop.

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Linux chads, we're eating good!
https://youtu.be/wDDdbb7wuCA

>>553654435
imagine if valve used their cs2 money to improve the linux version

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>proper gore is enabled with console commands
nice, they should've enable it by default though, fuck weak pussies
>>553656692
The did improve it though, it now runs much better than it was on release. I think I saw benchmark where Linux version outperforms windows one with some modern AMD card so it might just be GCN cards issue.

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kino
you absolutely CAN'T have that in modern games

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Fuck, what were they thinking? How am I supposed to fight like this?

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Switched to Ubuntu on my Surface Pro. I actually like Fedora's initial performance and look a little better but it had trouble recognizing my Xbox One controller (Even tried installing that Xone kernel plugin). And then after an update I guess it overwrote my touchscreen features and then even the desktop experience started lagging. But even if I did get these things working again, gaming performance was unplayable. I tested Halo 3 on Halo: The Masterchief Collection and Xonotic. Xonotic played fine, but Halo 3 chugged.

After switching to Ubuntu, I have pretty much the same desktop performance and features (the eraser function is wonky on Krita and GIMP, which was working really good in Fedora, but otherwise the same touchscreen/pinch features), and it recognized my Xbone pad immediately. Gaming performance is buttery smooth. Xonotic performed basically the same but just slightly worse on Fedora. Halo 3 on Fedora was ass, like between 5-20 fps unstable, while Ubuntu runs between 30-60. I have no clue why, both of these installs are basically fresh and I followed the instructions on the surface linux github page (In fact I installed Fedora twice from scratch just to make sure because I really wanted to use it).

I'm shocked Ubuntu is running so well. I used to have problems with this distro, even updating the software center was a hassle, went to Mint and didn't look back until now. But this time it went so great. Honestly pleasantly surprised. Now I want to try this with Mint, whenever Wayland gets fully implemented. That's gonna be so kino.

>>553658998
what game is that? Looks like star wars with a furry main character?

>>553662571
Jedi Academy

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bumping with gameplay

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I finally got around to beating Resident Evil 8. Good game. Might have to record some webms of me trying to go through Village of Shadows difficulty, if not of another game.
In the meantime, have a Sims 3 screenshot. Spaghetti here is on his way to work at Crime Job, LLC.

My Steam game achievements pop up only when I exit the game, anyone else having the same issue?

>>553680504
Found the issue, for some reason mangohud disables steam overlay...

>>553650440
>>553651134
>>553676220
>>553679573
>>553679663
Jannies aren't against my webms with tits, they just don't like what I'm about to say

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Here
Have a good flight

>>553660970
Were you playing at native resolution with anti aliasing enabled? I remember getting some frame drops in H3 campaign on legendary when a lot of crap was happening. For a laptop definitely turn off AA and lower resolution even though its a game from 2007. It's probably using the XE driver for the Intel iGPU right? And for xone use this fork if you aren't already
>https://github.com/dlundqvist/xone

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Changed my ligthsaber color to blue to match her fur color

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Well...

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I love elevators

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Wait a sec, we had physx effects in 2003? What was NVIDIA selling then?

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Hot

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Wasn't expecting to ride at-st in this game

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rest in piss

I wish there was a built in way to enable x3D cache

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Love doing that
>>553703378
What? Wtf are you talking about?

>>553703378
The zoomer fears the taskset.

>>553703501
You need to use a command to activate x3d when gaming, you didn't know?
The default is frequency not cache.
>>553704261
This should have been solved, I should't have to make one.

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What a tough bitch
ate all my bitrate, webm turned out blocky
Also Plasma 6.5.5 release aaand... it's fucking nothing. I've expected screen inhibition on subsurfaces would be fixed so mpv could properly prevent sleep
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.5/

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>>553703378
Yet another Cachy W.

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Oops
>>553704472
That's only for 7950X3D/9950X3D since they have cores without cache. On 5/7/9800X3D all cores have 3d cache so you don't need to set anything.
And even if you have CPU that requires this envar can't you just set it globally for Steam and your game launcher, or at the very least in /etc/environment? It's not like you would need ever switching back to frequency mode.

>>553704631
ive just used taskset for years

>>553704852
I thought you only need to do echo cache | sudo tee /sys/bus/platform/drivers/amd_x3d_vcache/AMDI0101:00/amd_x3d_mode for the x950 cpu

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>>553705137
Huh, for some reason I believed there was an environment variable to control this, turns out there's only sysfs option. Anyway, patches mentioned there >>553704631 were already merged in Linux 6.13. Just set udev rule and you're good to go

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This cunt had dual sabers!
Didn't help her though.

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I love angles in this game

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So here our main antagonist
Not bad if you ask me

>four linux threads at once on /v/ if you count baits
/ouryear/

>>553715865
Yeah, having Linux thread constantly on catalog is good. Windows shill don't realize that any Linux representation doesn't do them any good.

>https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/11717
lol

>>553717193
Wtf is even going on there? People are asking for a Mesa driver for a specific phone? I don't get it

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Since Quake 2 RTX is no longer maintained I've compiled executable from source that dynamically links to SDL and OpenAL unlike Steam's version which is statically linked to SDL. I also used CachyOS makepkg's flags so it's now compiled with AVX512.
(thanks jannies for deleting my post)

>>553725147
Oh damn that sucks. Hopefully Mesa extends to support it

>>553725721
Sucks what exactly: lack of support for some budget Adreno in Mesa or Indians en masse terrorize open-source developers?

I'm using popOS and faugus launcher for the first time to run windows games, and all seems to be fine, except that I can't get my xbox controller to be detected by the wine prefixes

It works on the distro (I checked to see if inputs are detected via a mirroring tool), but even adding the dinput and xinput libraries to the prefix doesn't seem to make it detect it

Sorry if this is a silly issue, this is my first time using a linux distro (I got sick of windows on my laptop)

>>553728832
What Wine and popos version do you use?

>>553728832
does it work on steam games? depending on the proton version (ge or other forks) you can set PROTON_PREFER_SDL=1 and that makes my xbone and ps4 controller get detected by some games.

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>>553729247
24.04 LTS
I'm not sure how to check the wine version, Faugus seems to handle it, how do I go about checking it? So far I've been able to figure out how to run the control.exe to open the controllers settings within a prefix but nothing is detected there

>>553729605
I'm unsure, I haven't installed steam on here yet. I told Faugus to use the latest Proton GE, and the wine control seems to show that SDL is ticked by default

>>553730869
settings (gear icon) default proton, faugus is a proton launcher. you said it's using ge so there's that. in the global environment variables add PROTON_PREFER_SDL=1
and PROTON_ENABLE_HIDRAW=1

>>553731136
Will I have to delete and re-add the game in the launcher? (I assume it makes a new wine prefix for every game added and doesn't retroactively apply default settings?) Or will it add those variables when launching the game?

>>553731383
>>553731136
Oh shit that worked, hell yeah cheers anon
I'm still incredibly new to all of this and decided to try it out on my laptop before deciding whether I make the switch on my desktop eventually

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playing the windows version, not going to bother with the linux version that performs a lot worse. this was also one of the few big AAA games that got a linux port

>>553732301
Game?

>>553731383
>Will I have to delete and re-add the game in the launcher?
No
>Or will it add those variables when launching the game?
Yes

>>553734341
Looks like a deus ex

>>553734341
A game pretending to be Deus Ex.
Mankind Divided

What are people using for general upscaling, sharpening and shaders in things that don't support it built in like Visual Novels or games without it

bump

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.0
>The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 11.0 is now available.
>The main highlights are the NTSYNC support and the completion of the new WoW64 architecture.
And now the wait for proton 11 begins