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

im using linux mint and amd driver dont work . i downloaded them from the website and followed the install guide.

Hello there, fellow linux gamers community!

I have some silly newbie questions regarding umu project and overall wine/proton, since I don't quite understand some details, hope you can help me clear these out...

First, how can I use this project to replicate the wine-ge behavior? If I'm not mistaken, the wine-ge project is a mix of wine-staging and proton with some additional patches (or just proton-ge?)? So, the alternative in umu terms would be using wine-staging + proton-ge as WINEPREFIX and PROTONPATH respectively?

Second, what is the point of umu-proton? Will it become a replacement for proton-ge in some point of time?

Also, I'm not sure I can use system-side installation of proton-ge? Again, I may be stupid because not knowing how it works under the hood, but the umu maintainer proposes that it'd be better to let umu handle proton downloading process by itself. What if I want to compile a proton-ge myself, using modified PKGBUILD, with, idk, -march=x86-64-v3 and -O3 optimizations? I'm pretty sure umu will let you download only generic x86-64 build, and while there's no benchmark comparison between different wine or proton builds there is a possibility that would perform better, right?

And finally, is wine-tkg the best (or, well, easiest) way to configure your own wine build? What I want is a mix of wine-staging as base, plus wine-ge/wine-tkg patches, optimizations for x86-64-v3 and -O3, enabled fsync and wayland (if possible, not just wayland features bu wayland-only build. I think wine-wayland does this, but I'm not sure if wine-tkg configuration value does the same thing or not... I actually doesn't even know how official wine's wayland support differs from this patchset).

AFAIK, there's no package that would combine ALL these feature at once, so I have to build it by my own? Here's as close as I could get to figure out these questions:

• most builds have fsync enabled by default so I guess that's not a problem;
• default wine-tkg build includes wine-ge patches so it can serve as replacement, but there's no wayland-specific patches and CPU optimizations in prebuilds, at least on Chaotic-AUR, I think;
• there are CachyOS and ALHP repos with x86-64-v3 prebuilds, but I doubt they package anythin except packages in official repositories;
• for wayland there's a mentioned wine-wayland repo with precompiled packages on releases page or Kron4ek wine builds, but from the quick look at these, they don't seem to provide wine-ge patches and compiled for generic x86-64

That's all for now, I guess. Sorry if this whole discussion is pointless and I'm just being an idiot. I found myself lost around all this complicated stuff and didn't find a better soultion than asking a community's opinion.

Hi all:

I am attempting to mod Fallout 3 GOTY on Linux, running on Proton Experimental. The vanilla game runs great, no issues there. All mods that don't require scripting (textures, models, animations) work great. Even ENBs are working as expected. I haven't experienced a single crash in over 10 hours of gameplay on this save.

For some reason it seems that any plugins are not being loaded by the game. They are all enabled in the "Plugins" section of Vortex. If Vortex install isn't working correctly, the program isn't telling me so, and since mods without plugins work perfectly I don't think it's Vortex. I've tried installing certain mods manually, and they apparently don't load that way either.

I haven't modded FO3 since 2017, so I've had to re-train myself on FOSE installation. I patched the game with AnniversaryPatcher and am launching via Fallout3.exe renamed to FalloutLauncherSteam.exe. FOSE appears to load correctly and be running in the background - GetFOSEVersion in-game returns a "1" and fose.log + DLLs like Stewie's Tweaks/NVAC/etc. are mentioned successfully loading in fose.log. FOSE.log's timestamp is being updated every time I launch the game.

Out of curiosity I ran a test on my copy of Windows 10 this afternoon and installed a fresh copy of the game/patched to old version/installed FOSE and a couple mods that have been problematic. They all worked immediately. That leads me to believe there's some issue with my Linux file system or Proton. But the whole stack here - Proton/FOSE/game/mods - is failing "silently" and I have no outright indication that anything is amiss - no errors in FOSE.log, no exclamation marks in-game, not a single crash. That's a big reason why it's taken me 10 hours to realize things are off!

Theoretically modding Fallout on Linux should be exactly the same processes as have existed on Windows for 16 years - it's just that the file paths are slightly different. I had to make a symlinked folder to get Vortex to read my Fallout 3 directory since Steam stores files by default under ".steam" which Vortex doesn't understand. To the best of my knowledge I am not missing any step in the traditional Windows process; in my test today I performed everything exactly as I have been on Linux trying to figure this out, and it worked first try, no problem.

The only other things I could think of today were that:

Maybe I'm missing vital Visual C++ redistributables - I installed 2013 and 2019 today to the Fallout directory, no change.

Maybe a permissions issue within Linux - did the unsafe "chmod a+rwx -R Fallout directory", no change.

I'm starting to be at a loss here, which is disappointing because mods without ESPs or ESMs work perfectly. I don't really want to play the game if I can't play with the best mods available like WMK/etc.

Anyone with more ideas to offer on this that I might have missed would be greatly appreciated!

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I’m sure some of you have/are using Steam Headless. For those that are, how do you get the games running? Newish to Linux and UnRAID, and not having too much

About a month ago I made a post on the opensuse subreddit about this exact thing... and still haven't had any luck getting working nvidia drivers installed.

I've tried about everything I can. I did the install command from the wiki and another time installed them from YAST. Nothing has worked. Nvidia-smi returns no driver running. The gpu im installing drivers for is a RTX 3060 laptop gpu. Any help would be MASSIVELY appreciated because Tumbleweed sounds like a dream distribution for me. Updates as soon as they come is very important when it comes to gaming on the penguin operating system.

I've been a bit frustrated at the lack of audio in Discord streams on Linux lately, and I tried some existing workarounds recently to no avail (a browser-based Firefox plugin that was supposed to work with the Discord web client, for one), so I'm wondering: does anyone know what the best way to get audio on a Discord screen share working at this point in time?

I'm using Kubuntu LTS if that is relevant.

Thanks!

Want to play some of my freebies on Kubuntu. Using the latest flatpak version of heroic, also tried lutris. Any idea? It keeps asking me to log in. Thank you

So i am very new to linux and i dont know nothing about it, i do know about some things not about the linux itself but like, wine, proton and lutris, but the OS is something really hard for someone like me who is just starting, i heard about Fedora/Nobara and it seems pretty good, is it really the best for me? i pretend to study some more about it but i already have school and job so free time is not something common

my pc is 100% AMD and its kinda old since i dont play very heavy games if that helps

I’m sure this sub has a major influx of people like me but on currently on windows 10 and thinking of going to zorion os to avoid win 11

I’m planning on keeping win 10 as duel boot

However i would like to use zorin most of the time

I have a few devices that I’m unsure about on Linux

1 my oculus quest2 My questions here is will it work on zorin and how hard will it be to get running I’m pretty sure the oculus app dosent work on Linux but I hear they are alternatives

2 my Hotas stuff Will my Logitech extreme 3D pro and my Logitech rudder pedals work on zorin

3 steam controller I believe that steam handles getting the steam controller working on every steam game But my question is epic games I’m aware epic launcher does not work on Linux but something called heroic does from heroic can I add games to steam so my controller works on them

4 future hard ware In the future I might wanna get some more hotass stuff or maybe a driving set up does the main brands like thrust master or Logitech work on Linux

And when it comes out I want to get the valve deckerd as well I know not much about it but if the best headsets from them work this one will to probably

5 steam link

Does remote play here I have a steam link (physical version) that I want to use here In addition will the iOS steam link quest 2 steam link and remote play together (host and client) work here as well

Thank you for any help

I’m sure you guys have been overwhelmed with windows 10 people asking about the obscure software and hard ware running