Minecraft flickers a lot when using Wayland on NVIDIA, making the game unplayable. I found some mods that force Wayland and remove the flicker, WayGL and VulkanMod, but they only worked for newer versions of Minecraft. As a result, I couldn't load some modpacks like RLCraft because of endless flickering while stuck on version 1.12.2. However, I have found a solution that seems to work on any version so far. By using the Mesa Zink Gallium driver I can now play the game, you can set the following environment variables to launch the game: __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa GALLIUM_DRIVER=zink MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink. If you are using PrismLauncher, select the instance, then click on Edit, Settings, Environment Variables, and add them there. You can check if its working by using F3 menu and looking at top right corner, it should say zink Vulkan.

Environment Variables

Zink Vulkan on top right corner

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Automation on Steam running with Proton

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Hey there yall, recently i cannot play any wine game on steam whatsoever, no matter how hard i try...

Yesterday all i did was install Risk of Rain 2, not really any other changes besides that, played it for a couple hours, went to sleep, and now today i can no longer play any other game in my steam library that isnt native.

how? why? i dont know, thats what im trying to find out.

trying to open RoR2 gives me this error:

Screen: DX11 could not switch resolution (1920x1080 fs=1 hz=0)

after some online searching i was suggested using this (PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%)
using that argument the game now opens, however cannot run whatsoever, it is either frozen or running at less than 1 fps.
(this applies to all games that require proton)

trying to use Lutris to play a game gives me this:

Missing Vulkan Libraries Lutris was unable to detect Vulkan support for the i386 architecture. This will prevent many games and programs from working. To install it, please use the following guide:(https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/InstallingDrivers.md)

alright then, off i go trying to install vulkan, first thing i see on the linked page?
NOTE: Mint is not supported and these instructions WILL NOT work in Mint without manual intervention that is outside the scope of this guide. Following them WILL leave your packages in a broken state!!

oh lovely

what am i supposed to do????????

System Info:

Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon version 5.6.8 Kernel 5.15.0-107-generic CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor × 6 GPU Radeon RX 6700 XT submitted by /u/Ncarauj012
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We all know why explicit sync is important for nVidia users, but will it make any difference for AMD?

The article I linked above says:

Do keep in mind though that these performance improvements are minor. While there may be some special cases where implicit sync between app and compositor was the bottleneck before, you’re unlikely to notice the individual difference between implicit and explicit sync at all.

While it is very well written and very clarifying, it doesn't comment much about such improvements. Are they so minor that is unlikely we could notice?

I know this sound stupid to ask while having the above text answering it, but I wanted to hear about the effects on AMD side, since I hear very little about it.

I tried to find benchmarks or even users that already have tested it, but couldn't find, which is why I decided to ask here (for the first time btw!).

Thank you very much!

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It looks simple like windows.

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Just kidding. I'm on Linux. Fu*k Bill Gates

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Recently I had my perfect setup with Arch and Hyprland (hyprdots) for dev and everything else except gaming. But then I got really tired of dual booting and gave qemu a try but with only one GPU it was similar to dual booting, so left that. Later thought let's give wine a try, it had been a long time for me. I had so many issue with flickering and tearing with Nvidia and Wayland but I did not want to give up hyprland (it's beautiful and functional). I tried to setup gamescope but it also broke a lot. Then I decided to give KDE a try. It felt much smoother and a lot of games directly ran without tweaking but the performance was just not great and later a lot of the games failed even with gamescope like overwatch 2.

So, I have finally settled with my old i3 dots and using that, everything just works now. But I really want to use Wayland, should I buy an AMD GPU or just wait for Wayland to mature?

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So what do we have here then? Tony Hawk's Survivors? Motorbike Survivors? This horde-shooter bullet heaven genre mixture is never-ending (and I love it). Motordoom looks like pure insanity.

Solo developer Orangepixel is celebrating 20 years as a full-time game dev, with an announcement that Heroes Of Loot: Gauntlet Of Power is set to launch in June mixing together dungeon-crawling and horde-shooters together.

So I'm running Fedora 40 KDE. I'm using an RTX 4090. I have Nvidia driver 550.78 and running Wayland. I enabled HDR in the display settings on KDE. Gamescope is installed. I'm trying to get Cyberpunk 2077 running with HDR. I added the following launch options:

gamescope -W 3440 -H 1440 -r 165 --hdr-enabled -f -e -- %command% --launcher-skip --intro-skip -skipStartScreen

The game will start and get to the main menu and then locks up every time. Just wondering if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing?

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Is it possible to install multiple Steam Games in one Prefix on Linux(Compatdata)?

Some games give you some extras or bonus when they detect already installed games. I tried the STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH= variable but this seems not to work. The games will still create a seperate prefix.

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Is it possible in Steamdeck's gaming mode (gamescope session with high-end PC) not to load the Steamdeck settings, for example, Atomic Heart loads optimized Steamdeck settings, but I'm playing on a high-end PC and want to set the settings to maximum, but Atomic Heart recognizes my PC as Steamdeck and forces the optimized Steamdeck settings. I play in this mode to enjoy HDR, VRR, and low latency. It would be cool if I could avoid this by using a simple launch command.

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We get a fair bit of news here and there about games getting delisted, publishers moving on from games and shutting them and more but what about game preservation? A nice bunch of classics with The Warlords series and the five original Close Combat games are now on Steam.

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This is a recurring doubt that i have, and i think some who are starting their gamer life on linux might have it too. Please, help me clarify this doubt.

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Here's a good way for you to jump into the Monster Hunter world with Humble Bundle, plus some of the bigger DLC to go with it too.

I am using fedora 40 KDE trying to launch red dead 2 through lutris and I am getting an error to update drivers however it was my understanding that the required drivers are already included

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I'm playing LoL, and after playing perfectly fine for several minutes I get kicked from the game for not having Vanguard running. Except, get this, Vanguard IS running. The program that Riot gives root access to your PC is so advanced that it isn't even sure if it's actually running or not. The only fix I have found for this is restarting my PC before booting the game back up. And even though I just turned my computer on to play the game and didn't have an update 10 minutes prior. Windows decided that right this very second I had to update my system, it NEEDED to be right now. No warnings, no lube, nothing. In the span of 2 minutes I went from getting fucked by Riot to getting a good ol fashioned Windows spit-roast.

In my 5 or so years of using Linux I can't think of 1 single experience that comes even close to as frustrating as this. Sure maybe I can't play the occasional game that I want to. But I also don't ever have to restart my PC so my natively supported kernel level anti cheat can recognize that it actually IS running. Only to then have my PC restart itself several times to do a system update that improves literally nothing and only serves to somehow make things worse.

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