Hey Community!

Im starting to lose the overview over the nvidia and wayland driver things. Can someone say what is the difference between Mesa, Nouveau, NVK, Nvidia-Open, ( and The proprietary driver) ?
Thank you!

There isn't a lot of actually good FPS multiplayer games that are available on the steam deck. ive been looking for a while.

This is just my opinion but would love to hear about some of yalls favorites.

S Tier:

• Titanfall 2 (Probably #1. out of entire list. Everyone should pick up Titan Fall 2 on sale )
• Overwatch 2 (I know its not as good as the first, but very fun still)
• Ready or Not (co-op PvE)

A Tier

• Halo MCC (can't find ranked games)
• Halo Infinite (this is fun but not S Tier due to it being boring progression wise)
• Apex Legends (played a bunch when it came out, im personally burned out)
• Helldivers 2 (would be S tier w/ better performance)
• Borderlands 2 (PvE co-op campaign)
• Risk of Rain 2 (not technically First person. would be S tier but hard to find online games)

B Tier

• Battlefield 1 (would be S-Tier if it didn't have launch issues)
• Borderlands 3 (story is very bad but its borderlands gameplay)
• CS2 (Not my thing, looking for games to play on the deck, not plug in MnK)
• The Finals (cool game and concept just not for me)

F Tier

• COD Black Ops 3 (I really want a call of duty multiplayer but can't find an online game ever)
• Combat Master (this game is trash imo, I love it for you if you love it)
• Shatterline (doesn't work anymore and when it did can't find full lobbies)

These are just games Ive tried, would love to open up the discussion!

I've tried a bunch of things to try and get FNV to run, I can install and launch the game on Steam (With Experimental Proton) pretty successfully, but it always crashes a few frames after the main menu opens. After hours of beating my head into a wall, I'm finally just asking for anyone who might be able to help.

I'm running a NVIDIA RTX 3050, with an 13th gen Intel. These are both decently powerful, so I doubt it's my graphics that are doing me in here, that being said, I'm not exactly willing to bet on that.

Here's a guide I followed, though with it being six years old now, I'm sure that not all of this information is up to date. https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/9b732g/how_to_run_fallout_new_vegas_on_arch_linux_with/

I'm really confused and frustrated, but I'm not willing to throw in the towel just yet. I really hope I can get some sorta closure here.

I'm running Pop, fairly recent software all around. I run plenty of games through steam and Proton, but one is giving me a struggle. "The Exit 8". Everyone else seems to report that it's fine, but I suffer. Laptop, Intel Iris Xe Graphics. I've tried several versions of proton.

The problem I am seeing is an error popup with no usable information when I run: "The UE-Exit8 Game has crashed and will close", "Fatal error!"

Now here's the embarrassing part. I am an embedded SW developer. I gdb and other debugging tools nearly every day. But I can't make sense out of this log! Maybe the signal to noise ratio is off for me. I could not find anything to help me in my quest.

I'm not sure how much of a log I can post so here's a truncated version. Basically everything up until unwind. Thanks for any help you can offer!

Proton: 1705700124 proton-8.0-5c
SteamGameId: 2653790
Command: ['/home/brian/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Exit8/Exit8.exe']
Options: {'wined3d', 'forcelgadd'}
depot: 0.20240415.84603
pressure-vessel: 0.20240415.0 scout
scripts: 0.20240415.0
sniper: 0.20240415.84603 sniper 0.20240415.84603
Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-76060800daily20240311-generic #202403110203~1713206908~22.04~3a62479 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon A x86_64
Language: LC_ALL None, LC_MESSAGES None, LC_CTYPE None

fsync: up and running.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
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114.059:0030:0034:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msvcrt.dll" at 0000000228280000: builtin
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114.062:0030:0034:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\win32u.dll" at 00000002C73A0000: builtin
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114.063:0030:0034:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\rpcrt4.dll" at 0000000368420000: builtin
114.063:0030:0034:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\combase.dll" at 000000031C5D0000: builtin
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114.066:0030:0034:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\windowscodecs.dll" at 0000000252450000: builtin
114.083:0038:003c:trace:seh:sigsys_handler SIGSYS, rax 0xffff, rip 0x600000000005.
114.083:0038:003c:trace:seh:install_bpf Seccomp filters already installed.
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114.112:0040:0044:trace:seh:install_bpf Seccomp filters already installed.
114.114:0040:0044:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\explorer.exe" at 0000000140000000: builtin
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Latest Proton 9.0-1 update fixed competitive FPS.

From official changelog:

"Started ignoring system mouse acceleration in games using raw input API."

So finally no more mouse accelleration and weird floaty mouse movement.

I tested this on The Finals.

Unfortunately it was unplayable because of this problem.

If i'm not mistaken GE-Proton was using the "raw input API" but it never worked, forcing me to use xorg with evdev to attenuate the horrendous acceleration of libinput.

My setup: Arch Linux + Hyprland/Wayland(force_no_accell=true) + RTX 3080.

Previously also with the force_no_accell=true the mouse input had accel.

Has anyone already tested it?

I don’t know ANYTHING about Linux and i’m just looking for a simple OS to run games in a console-like way using an Xbox controller, so far i have seen Chimera OS, HoloISO and Bazzite and i don’t know wich one should i choose…

that is all

I like that it comes with everything preinstalled for gaming, but also I have access to a full desktop when needed.

I don't see why this sort of desktop would be discouraged as a daily driver for any laptop or gaming PC?

what am i missing here?

I currently really want to play Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 with my friends but current have no clue on how to go about fixing the EA Launcher from bugging out on my pc. I have used Proton 7, 8, and soon gonna try 9. Does anyone have a way of fixing this issue?

Linux distros are needed more than ever for older computers.

I gave my previous PC in the early 2010s (i3 560, 4 GB RAM, hdd, gtx 660) to my dad. It has Windows 7 and it can run some old games, emulators and movies but for years it is not suitable for Internet navigation and security. Though a gtx 660 is still considered a good gpu for 720/1080 resolution games with a better cpu, more ram and low-mid settings. I wanted to install Linux there but was always putting it on hold.

My nephew was playing New Super Mario Bros on Cemu but after watching yt videos, he told me he wanted the Deluxe version.

Only problem : it is a Switch exclusive and all Switch emulators run on Windows 10. On a system with just 4 GB, Windows 10 is out of the question and if you add the non-ssd storage, even more so. I did not even think it could run Switch games.

So I decided to install Mint alongside the existing W7 partition, mainly so my dad could have a modern software PC.

It takes a while for the OS to boot on an old hdd and just 4 GB RAM, around the same time as Windows 7, but at least you can run Chrome, provided not many tabs are opened.

Games like Stumble Guys crawled on Windows 7 but here with the modern browser support, game is smooth and playable.

But the thing I did not expect was that Switch emulation works too! Super Mario Deluxe runs with just 4 GB at full 60 fps (52-55 at some castles with more gfx) and no crashes in over 1 hour of play. Provided you find and run Yuzu's last released Appimage version (4176). I tried running the game on Ryujinx and emulator would freeze and crash.

For a reason I can't install Proton 9 on my openSUSE Tumbleweed PC. It says it's only available for Linux/Steam OS, but I am on Linux:

Install button is great out

If I select Proton 9 for any game and launch it, it says Downloading (0%) but stays there, doesn't download anything and doesn't show in the download section on Steam.

All other Proton version work fine. No issues.

(I use the stable Steam client, openSUSE repo, not Flatpak)

Hey I'm looking for a distro/DE where games won't have issues with compositing. Previously on old pc I use Ubuntu XFCE and I had to have a script where if steam is running disable compositing so games would run properly. Is there a distro where compositing doesn't need to be disabled and fullscreen disable option actually works (xfce it doesn't). Preferably morel lightweight DE as system specs will be weak.

Hi everyone,

As a steam deck user, i'd love to use my T300 RS to play sirmacing games from my steam deck (I don't have a PC so my only option to play AMS2 or AC is my steam deck docked to my TV)

Does someone already succeed in making the wheel work ?

Thanks for your help !

Hello! When I try to run Predecessor on Steam with proton I get the following error:

https://preview.redd.it/gddmsa4dz7yc1.png?width=914&format=png&auto=webp&s=aab266491a9a99b2c9ff61a8e8cfc89bdcd06196

I tried with Proton experimental, 9 and 8, I'm getting this error with any of them (6 and bellow doesn't even launch the game). This error started happening today, does anybody know how to fix this?

Using the MESA drivers 24.0.6-2

specs:

https://preview.redd.it/zvew2caqz7yc1.png?width=503&format=png&auto=webp&s=def848f35948e972d1589d420ac691cc7a8021c8