Other News about gaming on Linux
Getting my friend onto Linux.
Had one of the most insane experiences getting my friend on Linux. He's the kind of guy who just wants his things to work, and all he does on his computer is play games, and nothing else.
So naturally, I wanted to get him on something easy and beginner-friendly, so his transition felt seamless. Oh, how painful that was. We had probably the worst luck when it came to one thing: his headphones.
Yeah, so we tried a few distros to get his feet wet using Ventoy (you know, Mint, Fedora, Bazzite), the usual popular recs. I figure, well, everyone says to just pick what's popular for a new person, so I just followed that advice. But consistently, he would have the same issues. While running Discord, his game audio would progressively get muted if no one was talking. We thought maybe it was some kind of strange Discord bug, but these distros we tried him on, I wasn't too familiar with, tinkering-wise, so I had cachyos loaded for the time being, since it's my comfort zone at the moment. Luckily, he hates windows enough to go through this mess with me.
And still, this weird bug was present, so I had the thought, "What if this isn't Discord, but rather the headphones themselves?" So, I asked him what kind of headphones they were. They were the Razer Nari Ultimate, a discontinued Razer headset from 2019. Naturally, I assumed that since it was a Razer product, we needed the OpenRazer driver, so I installed it. Nothing.
As it turns out, this headset has separate audio profiles built in, and Linux was only picking up the CHAT profile, not the GAME profile. So, I had to find a script to set up a pipewire profile in order to finally fix his audio. It's on GitHub and available in the AUR, so this whole time it was a super easy fix, and I had blamed Discord for no reason.
Will he swap back to any of the distros we tried? Probably not, he seems comfortable on cachy for now, and I'm there for any questions, so the rest of this has been pretty smooth sailing. Other than Dragon's Dogma II modding, but we managed to get the mod loader to work with protontricks, so not nearly as nightmarish as this stupid Razer headset.
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Silent Hill 2 remake crashing at Konami logo
I recently got Silent hill 2 and I've been playing a bit of it then at a random point after closing it and reopening it it would just crash at the Konami logo and it has done this each time even after uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Does anyone know any fixes to this?
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Made a Linux app to control TRYX Panorama SE 360 cooler display - shows CPU/GPU temps in real time
If you have a TRYX Panorama SE 360 and game on Linux, you know the pain - the official KANALI app doesn't support Linux. Built a Qt6 GUI that gives full control over the AMOLED display.
Shows real-time CPU/GPU temperatures, usage, and frequency right on the cooler screen while you game. Also supports custom videos, brightness control, and system tray.
Works with AMD and NVIDIA setups. Tested on Fedora 43 with RX 7900 XTX + RTX 5060 Ti dual GPU.
GitHub: https://github.com/DXVSI/tryx-panorama-se-360-linux-gui
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Dishonored saying it can't find the executable
So I tried playing dishonored today, and when I launch the game from steam it pops up an error saying that it can't find the executable file. I've already checked and it's there, and it launches when I run it straight through wine, but gets stuck on the loading screen. I've already tried verifying the integrity of the files, reinstalling the game, and using several different startup commands to try and fix this problem, but I can't find anything relating to this anywhere else online. I'm on Fedora 43. Could somebody help me?
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WoW stuttering (30 fps in Ashran in WoW Midnight)
Hello, I have a laptop with the following configuration :
Often in high-traffic bgs like Ashran or high population areas, I see the FPS tank from like 60+ to lower than 40 fps (like 30 fps in Ashran) with a lot of stuttering and jitter.
I play the game at 2560 x 1412
I have a strong Linux background, but I’m relatively new to Linux gaming. I’m still trying to fully understand how Proton’s translation layer via Steam affects WoW performance. I’d appreciate any insights on potential performance optimizations. Additionally, which logs or tools would be most useful to analyze in this scenario?
Since WoW is generally CPU-bound, I’m also wondering if thread scheduling could be a factor...specifically, whether workloads might be getting assigned to efficiency cores instead of performance cores.
Thanks in advance for your guidance.
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[Guides] Bazzite gamemode streaming with apollo/artemis like experience
CachyOS vs Windows 11 Nvidia
ran some benchmarks on a 4090, all the latest drivers on Linux. figured I'd post it here. cheers!
https://youtu.be/Ol2pf60dTOk?si=Q-xZp5IrZ7e8RNI2
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Is there no official discussion page/forum on Steam to swap games? All I can find is the forum for trading cards.
Using the search function on the Steam community page is basically useless - it's either 3 million plus results for the word 'trade', or the only forum that comes up on the other page is for trading cards.
Reddit has r/SteamGameSwap, but has some seemingly arbitrary requirement to bind your Steam account to your Reddit account (with a dead link no less)... which maybe makes sense if people are 'trading' for money, but I am actually just searching for a way to facilitate a direct trade, game4game.
Am I missing something somewhere? Or does Steam just not have a place for advertising direct game trades.
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Death Stranding 2 CPU Usage Fix
The high CPU usage in Death Stranding 2 has been fixed for me with the latest Cachy OS Proton (Running Bazzite with Gamescope). The performance is now on par with Windows 11. If you are facing any issue related to the CPU usage and the GPU not getting utilised fully, try the latest Cachy OS Proton.
PC Specs:
R7 5700X
9060XT 16 GB
16GB 3200 Mhz
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Mesa3D is in good shape for running older native games!
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-No-Build-LTO
Recently Mesa3D disabled LTO, the side effects of this able to run some of the old Linux games now! Many old games now starting and running flawlessly on my Ubuntu 25.10 with Mesa3D 26.0.3. My recent tested games include:
Cold War
Robin Hood The Legend of Sherwood
Zero Ballistics
Yorg car racing
Tuxracer
Ballistics
Soldier of Fortune
Coincidentally, latest PulseAudio OSS daemon allowing sounds to play flawlessly in these older games with older openal libraries.
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Third Party Wiimote on Bluez or alternative bluetooth stack
I have purchased 3 third party wiimotes for use with dolphin flatpak on Ubuntu 26.04 Linux, but i cannot connect them to dolphin with the "Emulate the wii's bluetooth adapter" option, which would let me remap certain things (for example, have fake wii motion plus from wiimote accelerometer instead of wii motion plus dongle or internal wii motion plus integrated wiimote)
I can connect it just fine through the "Passthrough a bluetooth adapter" option, but I cannot get that input outside the dolphin sandbox
I can connect a real first-party wiimote with either option, and also directly through BlueZ with the hid-wiimote kernel module
I have investigated and apparently my third party wiimotes dont have exposed HID, and so I cannot connect them to linux directly. I can only connect them to a real wii or to the Dolphin passthrough stack (which doesn't let me re-map or tween inputs)
Does anyone know if theres a clone/fork/implementation of the real wii bluetooth driver implementation used by Passthrough for linux?
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Xbox 360 wireless control for xbox cloud gaming
So I have an xbox 360 wireless controller/dongle setup that I use whenever playing steam games on my Arch Linux setup that works perfectly fine, but for some reason xbox cloud gaming is unable to detect my controller whatsoever.
I have tried adding my browser as a steam app to no avail, and I have tried the following browsers:
Waterfox (flatpak)
ungoogled-Chromium
Chrome (flatpak)
Edge (flatpak)
Specs:
Kernel is Cachyos-bore 6.19.9-1
CPU is an intel i7-10750H
GPU Nvidia RTX 2070
16 GB ram
Anyone have any idea what the issue could be?
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EA App on Steam Deck?
Hi! Sorry for another one of these posts, but I'm struggling to find the most up-to-date information and figured I'd come here and ask for the latest advice?
So, I want to play Dragon Age Inquisition on my Steam Deck. This hadn't been a problem before, though a few months ago I did have to mess around in protontricks to get the EA app to work.
But now, it isn't working again (after deleting and redownloading the EA app countless times). I'm just getting error code inst-14-1627.
So basically, what's the latest with EA games & the EA app on the deck? Are there any ways I can bypass this and play my game?
Also, I'm not super familiar with certain terminology so please explain this to me in the most simple/user friendly way you possibly can.
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Recommended distro for gaming and no ID?
So it will be my third time trying Linux, I used two variations of mint previously and stopped because I couldn't properly install Creaminstaller for DLCs, thing is, windows and Google are so overtly invasive and the new ID verification laws of Brazil piss me off so I'm switching back to Linux out of spite, I was recommended Nobara and CachyOS but wanted to hear your opinions
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