Caves of Qud from developer Freehold Games and publisher Kitfox Games is approaching the 1.0 finishing line, and so their roadmap towards the release has been put up and it sounds really exciting.

Many people talk about games which cant run in linux. I wanna now the opposite, just by curiosity. Might and magic vii for blood and honor was my first rpg. I can run the gog version in m$ spyware no problem but my cds wouldn't run. Jade empire is another example. The steam version runs flawsly in linux and cant run in windows. Diablo 1 and 2 too.

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In general this only happens with very old games.

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RetroDECK is one of the simplest options for getting various emulators set up on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, and the latest release has lots of fun improvements to check out.

Canonical is gearing up for the release of the next LTS (long term support) version of Ubuntu, with a first Beta now available for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat).

Another classic has been given the open source treatment, with Descent 3 from Outrage Entertainment now available under the MIT license.

Is this the perfect storm for Valve to release SteamOS for general use?

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I was trying to run some games on my laptop and for some reason this particular runtime refuses to load and throws this error. It is installed on the same game drive as the rest of my games (files are there, I checked). Verifying its files does nothing because it doesn't recognise that they exist, and I also can't uninstall it and reinstall for the same reason.

Sometimes when clicking the retry button on Steam downloads tab it says "Missing download files".

Any input on this matter is appreciated.

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When you install your GPU drivers/software on Microsoft Windows (i.e. AMD Radeon), you get the Adrenaline software which lets you tweak all sorts of features of the GPU. For example, you can:

1. set the gaming experience (HYPR-RX, Quality, HYPR-RX Eco, AAA Smart Technology, etc.).
2. control features like Radeon Anti-Lag, Image Sharpening, and Virtual Super Resolution.
3. apply tuning presets (i.e. Quiet, Balanced, Rage, etc.) which controls power/performance characteristics.

These settings can make a significant difference in gaming FPS in addition to the in-game graphics settings.

Since we don't have the Adrenaline software on Linux, I'm wondering:

1. am I getting the full performance of my GPU with the default mesa/kernel settings on Linux?
2. is there any other GPU related software I should be installing to get maximum gaming performance?
3. if I tune everything in Windows, do those settings persist when I boot into Linux?

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Crowbar Collective have released the Necro Patch for the Half-Life remake Black Mesa, which brings with it some essential bug fixes and some nice optimizations.

Another festival of games is live on Steam now with Steam FPS Fest 2024 running until April 22nd at 10am PT / 5pm UTC, and there's also plenty of demos for games to try too.

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It makes Elden Ring crash...

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Its showing cant connect to drivers when using nvidia-smi

Can someone let me know the driver version and kernel version they are using on ubuntu

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Hi

This happened with my first Linux install, Manjaro, but also on my CachyOS install. It has never happened with the Windows 11 install on the same machine.

I can not see that it is related to metered connection or anything like that.

This is the motherboard, and it uses Intel 2.5gb LAN chip

ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI | Gaming motherboards｜ROG - Republic of Gamers｜ROG Global (asus.com)

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Hey, around 10 month laptot/dual-boot linux user here!

I really want to beleive in to linux gaming, i really do, but so far it has not been a pain free experience.

For example, launching counter strike 2 will indeed launch, but there's a slight problem. The screen is fully black. There is sound, the cursor works (i can hear the ui elements when hovering over them), but the image doesn't get draw in to the screen. I got cs2 working when i was using endeavouros back 8 months ago, but it was through a lot of tweaking and it didn't work out of the box back then either.

With valheim, the image gets drawn, but i see the valheim logo and the app crashes then right ahead. Tested with and without proton.

Now for some specs:

OS: Fedora 40

DE: Gnome 46

CPU: Ryzen 7 2700x

GPU: nvidia geforce RTX 2070

RAM: 16G DDR4

I don't know if it's the GPU or what is it, but surely it's not the out of the box experience many gamers switching from windows would like to have. Now for me, it's not a problem to tweak and configure my pc, but for sure it'd be a much better experience if i got to play the game right away without scratching my head for 3 hours.

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So, i just did a fresh install of arch linux, kde plasma 6 w/ wayland. I got steam, and downloaded TF2. Went into the game and something about the mouse cursor felt off, like there was an element of stutter or lag. I had done multiple installs of linux before this, and this was never an issue i had to deal with. I wanted to test with a different game, content warning (which has a platinum on protondb its not native) with proton experimental. Booted it up, loaded in, and it was a total mess. Whenever you moved the mouse, it was like it was stuttering back to the last frame for a second, for no reason. It was so bad you could even think it was running at a lower refresh rate, but even then it looked too off. Micro stutters anytime you moved the mouse and the game seems fine when youre not moving your mouse. But its a weird issue that I dont know how to solve. Everything else is perfect and its just infuriating because one of my worst issues was fixed/reduced when i redownloaded linux and it was awesome. But games just feel in best case off, and in other cases down right unplayable. Before this I was using wine with lutris to try and download titanfall 2 on ea and it went horribly wrong but i just deleted everything. And I dont think it would have anything to do with this. Tried to troubleshoot by downloading piper and seeing if maybe that would help (settings 1000hz and 800dpi) Im honestly not sure of what the issue is, but when I went into another tf2 match, certain portions of the map would feel right, but other times it would feel off, not as terrible as content warning, but it was still very noticeable in many instances. I dont think this is vulkan shaders, because I've run these games on linux before and had no issues like this ever.

EDIT: Just tested it, and this is very much a wayland/nvidia + wayland issue, x11 runs fine for content warning its buttery smooth. I tested both with 1 monitor and wayland with 2 monitors. (mixed refresh rates and I just dont feel like configuring that for x11 only to get screen tearing (75 + 144hz) so yeah) Wayland had the issue on both setups. But x11 was silky smooth on one monitor... Is this Nvidia being Nvidia again, orrrr...?

DISTRO: Arch

DE:KDE Plasma 6

DRIVER: Newest Nvidia 550.67 Driver

DUAL MONITOR: 75+144hz

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