So, I have this old PC running Mint I want to play some couchy games like football on. I have Fifa 21, doesn't work on that one because of specs. So I ended up buying a used CD of Fifa 13 which takes significantly lower specs and I read somewhere runs supposedly well on wine according to some old post from somewhere on the cheapsies. Turns out, there is a problem: it requires Origin.

I can install Origin either from the CD or also from Lutris, but all that does is want to update itself to EA App, the new thing replacing it. If I update Origin to EA App, shit stops working entirely. If I install EA App directly (which so far has only worked for me with Proton Experimental), my Fifa CD wants to install origin even if I have its successor actively running on the same wineprefix. There seems to be no winning on this one. I can't even try adding it to my account on my newer PC that has windows because it lacks a fucking CD drive - so for now, I basically seem to have scammed myself by buying that.

I also found some advice to run Origin in Windows Vista mode, no such luck because it's unsupported in the last version.

Has anyone got any advice how to actually install something like that?

Today I have tried to connect my Nintendo joy-cons to an Arch Linux running Hyprland (Wayland).

I have installed hid-nintendo-dkms and joycond-git then I have tried to connect it via bluetooth. When I pair it with my laptop I get the "Connected" notification, however sync animation on the joy-con doesn't disappear and it doesn't detect any input.

I have tried to install the libraries mentioned above through git and make them myself but it didn't solve the issue.

The problem is the same as this but I didn't find any answers provided.

P.S. Idk if its a good description, but I can provide any specific info if needed.

Help, please. I got about 300 hours on modded Fallout 4 play through and now Steam is forcing an update which will likely break the game.

How do I start mod organizer 2 outside of Steam?

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I tried wine from Lutris and Proton GE and experimental from Steam. None of them works.
Anybody here tried run it?
I don't get any error massage. App just didn't work.

Specifically I'm modding new vegas and the mod in question is this:

https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/67883

It requires this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

I downloaded vcredist_x86.exe but at this point I don't know how to install it in a way that would make the mods actually use it. My wild guess is to replace the exe steam points to towards vcredist and after it installed go back to what it was before but I wouldn't want to fuck something up.

I have been using Linux for a while now and want to create an app project to learn Linux app development. I also tend to play Skyrim quite a bit (probably too much), and I'm curious if it's feasible to create a native mod manager for it on Linux. If it is, where should I start? What skills will I need to learn? I have some knowledge of C++ and Python, although I haven't used them in a while.

What are your guys suggestion?

System: Linux Mint, i9 13900k, 7900xtx, 64gb DDR5 Fresh install boot game, join world. Presented with a slide show, max fps I can achieve is 13. Iv tried installing through Lutris an manually chose my GPU to run the game. Same results. Disabled vsync in the ini files. No change

Interesting quirk the game instantly crashes if I try starting it in fullscreen

I recently upgraded my old GTX970 & i7-4790k setup to AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D with Gigabyte 4080 SUPER.

I originally planned to install Win10. But after a painful, intrusive installation that forced me to sign in at installation, always-online for login (you seriously cant use PIN, if you do not have internet), plenty of intrusive "use microsoft apps", and too much advertisements in start menu and notification menu, I decided that its time to leave Windows for good.

I went with Ubuntu for now, because that's what I am comfortable with, and so far everything is working good.

There's one thing I am not happy with: The Motherboard. I use a Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX. Unfortunately, sensors are not supported and I was not able to get lm-sensors to read the I/O (?) chip that is supposed to deliver sensor data. My first attempt in following the guides to get support for the Gigybyte ended in a bricked system that would not recognise the graphics card anymore (do not ask me how I managed to do that).

Since I still have a week left to RMA, I am looking for a well supported board under Linux. I have my eyes on the ASUS TUF Gaming X670E-Plus:

• https://linux-hardware.org/?id=board:asustek-tuf-gaming-x670e-plus-rev-1-xx
• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-HWMON

Anyone has experience with this board under Linux? Does it work OOTB? Thank you for all advice!

So I've been having an issue where my system just locks up for 4 seconds, game reloads the textures and this loops until I move out of the area. VRAM filling up? but why would that cause entire system to lock up? RAM usage doesn't spike when this happens. I'm using steam to run wow

5600X
32gb ram
Intel Arc A750 (8gb)

My hardware.

5800x 32gb 5700 XT

3x 170hz 1440P HDR 1000 displays.

Now main question

1: any news regarding any real HDR support in Linux?

2: what distribution would best out of the box give me what I need? (Gaming / programming )

I am not a total noob but I also don’t want to be stuck In hell search

I am trying to use a DS4 controller on my Fedora40. I am using Lutris since the game is not installed using steam. I even tried adding it as a non steam game but it doesn’t load. In Lutris the game works but only using mouse and Keyboard, I tried googling but I cannot find a solution to make the controller work. Any help?

Hello. I am currently using Windows 8.1 since it is much more friendly to weak PCs unlike letter versions. But because Steam stopped supporting the win 8, I am now thinking about moving to other OS. The games I play are really old or require little recourses, like Morrowind, Fallout 2, Minecraft, Terraria, Ultrakill and roblox. They run good but unexpectedly and for no clear reason the Explorer.exe process begun causing regular freezes during gaming, which is really annoying. I tried to fix it but no use. I seek for stability and performance, so I am aiming at Debian. I believe kernel version doesn't affect performance on old machines, but correct me if I am wrong. So, how much performance would I lose if I played games with Linux on a low-end PC, especially though proton?

My specs are:

AMD Athlon(tm) II XL V66C Processor

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730

4 GIGs of DDR3 RAM

500G SSD

Hi, im trying to increase the maximum volume of my headphones.
Im using EasyEffects (Flathub version, in Manjaro KDE) im using the automatic gain to increase it, im doing this, becuase i want to increase the volume of Apex Legends, and, it works, but for moments, its like, it works for 15 seconds, i shoot, and the boost leaves, i dont know what im doing wrong, it appears and it disappears, do you have any solution? here a screenshot

https://preview.redd.it/yenc2vfp5mwc1.png?width=1295&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4c1983c0220ac4943b5c90d3afc31e1ba5df470

I ask this as an Nvidia user with a 40 series card

I've heard things about explicit sync and was wondering if I should just wait for all of that to be ironed out? If so anyone know a rough time when this will happen?

I'm happy to use beta drivers if that allows me to come over sooner as I'm thinking of running Arch (I've used Linux for a while on other non gaming PCs so I have a fairly good grasp on what I'm doing)

https://github.com/ripplingsnake/Manjaro-SteamOS