Hi, I wanted to play some Rayman Origins with my sister when my laptop suddenly decided to stop recognising USB controllers of various models/brands (Xbox 360, Xbox One S and BigBen/Nacon PS4 controller). They used to work perfectly through Steam Input, now Steam won't detect them.

I tried running lsusb in the terminal, and they do show up as connected, info and all, but it seems Linux Mint refuses to recognise them.

I did update a few things through the built-in GUI updater today, but didn't pay much attention as to what was being updated as I didn't expect it to break anything. And I have no previous system points prior to that.

Help me? Please know I'm bad with Linux stuff so walk me through every necessary step.

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(the top is lutris and bottom is heroic, both installed the gog version of Fallout 1) How do I add custom entries to these menus? I want to be able to add custom shortcuts for game specific mod managers and other such shortcuts, but I don't want to add them as entirely new games.

They seem to be added by default when I install these games normally, but I don't see an option to add custom editions to these menus.

For extra context, Playnite on windows calls these "actions" that you can configure in its menu.

I am running Nobara and have both lutris and heroic installed using the default repository. They are not flatpaks.

Please let me know if y'all need any extra info.

Thank you.

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Been trying to use gamescope because of I can’t figure out any other way to get stretching to work universally I have a 3440x1440 monitor and trying to run certain games in 1920x1080 stretched (no black borders) fullscreen (not borderless) but doing this with gamescope is messed up because when I close the game no matter what game scope just hangs and it uses up like 15% of my ram and makes it impossible to restart cs without killing it manually if there’s anyway to fix gamescope or better yet another way to achieve my goals please let me know.

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I have a hp server with the most hodgepodge setup. I found a gtx 1050 that I plugged and played as my main display output running ubuntu. Whenever I run CS I cannot get more than 5 fps which means I'm doing something horribly wrong. running a xeon e5-3630 x 12 cores, 32 gb ddr3 ram, and the aforementioned gtx 1050. Ubuntu 23.10.

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Heyo people of Reddit. I am making this post, because I want to share with you some of the options for linux game streaming (local network), and ask of you to help me consider which option to pick. I have an AMD GPU

• steam remote play
  • This one is the simplest to set up, but
  • I have had issues with latency, video quality and straight-up crashes, making it unusable in most cases
• sunshine + moonlight
  • Out of the headless* options, this one seems the most mature and feature-full
  • Impressive featureset (headless*, hardware support, hdr, full desktop streaming, low-latency)
  • Setup is relatively simple
  • uses Nvidia's GameStream protocol
• games-on-whales (wolf) + moonlight
  • "new kid on the block"
  • Also has some cool features (low-latency, actually headless, hardware support, virtual gamepads, gyro support, multi-user)
  • uses GStreamer for video streams

What are your experiences with these local network game streaming options? Does Steam remote play just work for you guys? Opinions on headless game streaming? Which one is the most promising?

Somewhat unrelated note: if I go for one of the headless options, I might build it out into a beefier home server, with services like immich, which is a great use of idle gpu time.

*EDIT: Only headless if you run a headless display server/compositor. There are some options that can be run headless: sway, wayfire and gamescope are some.

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After a system update a few days ago, i noticed that some game reacted strangely from the inputs of my 8bitdo ultimate 2 where they would work flawlessly before that. It was weird because some games like Stardew valley worked just fine and others like Celeste doesn't register some button or invert some other.

At first I suspected the 6.14.7 kernel to be responsible since it added support for this controller, but the only mention I found in the changelog/source code of the xpad module is a definition of this specific 8bitdo as a generic xbox 360 controller, so it was likely not that. After a bit of digging, I encountered this bug report, which speculate that the issue is from the specific games themself, since everything else seems to work as intended.

I'm still not clear on why it worked before the kernel update, but now I can't run some games without trouble, I try to look around for some tools to force them to see the 8bitdo as a generic xbox controller, but outside of steam input, things like MoltenGamepad or xboxdrv seems unmaintained or abandoned.

If you run into this kind of issue, how do you deal with it ? I know steam input work, but I'd rather run these games without a launcher, if anything else exist ?

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Pay attention to my mouse movement versus what's happening in-game

I have this weird bug on PlayOnLinux, where the mouse tracks just fine during gameplay but occasionally stops moving altogether even though there's still mouse input from my end. This doesn't happen in games running via Lutris, Steam or natively. Has anybody encountered a similar issue or is it just me.

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So I have a Dell G3 15 3500, which sports an Intel Core i7-10750H with the onboard Intel UHD Graphics, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which I am well aware that apparently Nvidia is not the greatest option when it comes to Linux support. I understand this, but I was gifted this laptop, and I'd like to make the most of it. I cannot tear it down and replace the parts, obviously.

While it works very well with Linux for the most part, it seems to rev up the cooling fans to 100% constantly. I don't have this issue with Windows 11, as the fans eventually calm down if I'm not doing anything over-the-top/graphically-intensive. I am not too well-versed with Linux, but if you don't ask for help you're not gonna get help, so here I am. The fans rev up to 100% constantly, and the laptop still feels hot to the touch underneath. I expect the level of heat regardless because it is a gaming laptop and they don't exactly run cool, but I don't really know why the fans are running that heavily.

I installed the latest Nvidia "open" 570 driver via the Driver Manager supplied by Linux Mint, as Mint is my go-to distribution. I do not seem to have any issues using said driver, and from what I remember the fans stayed on pretty much consistently regardless of installed driver. I am wondering if I am missing any crucial information regarding this? It was of my understanding that the GPU should be able to handle itself with the latest driver, but I am guessing that maybe having two GPUs is what's causing the problem here?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

EDIT: I wanted to quickly also tack on that my main setup consists of the built-in 144Hz laptop display that's HiDPI 1920x1080 (which requires scaling to be 125%) with a secondary monitor connected via HDMI that's a basic 1920x1080 display at 60Hz. Any advice on the best way to handle multiple monitors are different settings would also be very appreciated.

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I reinstalled arch recently because my last install just stopped booting. Steam was working fine before, but on my new install, games will not launch. I have every version of proton offered by valve installed, and I'm specifically trying to play BO3 via proton 9.0.4. Im using an NTFS drive, but it was formatted to NTFS on linux because I was expereiencing this very issue, and formatting to NTFS through linux is what fixed it. I've tried everything under the sun, but nothing fixes it. I ran steam through cmd to get a realtime log of what happens when it crashes, I used BO3 and State of Decay 2 as examples. Both these games worked flawlessly on my previous install

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Splitgate 2's open beta launched a few days ago and it would only run on a Steam Deck running SteamOS and no other hardware/software combo, the developers said they would wait until the game left beta to support other devices but seems like they changed their minds because they've announced desktop Linux is now supported (source https://xcancel.com/Splitgate/status/1927053831889641772, timestamp 1:50).

I had to enable gamescope or it would crash when loading into a match but it seems to work pretty well after doing that.

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For years we've been saying that these days on Linux you don't need the terminal much or even at all on beginner distros. Well, now just to install Windows with slightly less evil, you need the terminal AND a hardware hack lol.

I can't believe LTT can put out a video like this without relentlessly mocking how disgusting Windows is these days.

https://youtu.be/MBCiMK4AmEI?t=586

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Hallo, eins vorweg: ich bin kompletter Linux-Noob.

Ich habe Ubuntu 24.04 neu installiert und dabei eine Systempartition und eine Homepartition eingerichtet. Außerdem habe ich einen Administrator und einen "Alltagsnutzer" angelegt. Nach der Installation von Steam und Heroic Games Launcher habe ich versucht, mit meinem Alltagsnutzer (KEIN SUDOER) Spiele auf der Homepartition zu installieren und zu starten. Unter Steam war das möglich und ich konnte auch die Spiele starten. Der Heroic Games Launcher, den ich für GOG nutze, hat die Spiele ebenfalls anstandslos auf der Homepartition installiert. Wenn ich das Spiel aber starten möchte, tut sich...nichts. Ich habe die Spiele dann deinstalliert und als Administrator auf der Homepartition neu installiert. Das gleiche Spiel wie beim Alltagsnutzer. Sie starten einfach nicht. Leider finde ich im Netz keine Hilfe dazu. Muss ich Heroic irgendwelche Rechte geben? Wenn ja, wie? :)

System: Ryzen 2700X, AMD Radeon VEGA 64, 16 GB RAM

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Hey Guys and Girls! I want to ask you if you see any interest in my game, because I thought about porting it also to Linux, but I dont want to spend the time if is not worth it.. my wishlists are 99.5% Windows.. so, if are curious to try the demo in one week, let me know, I'll do my best to have it Linux Ready by them!
Game is called Walk and can be found on Steam, a wishlist would help me a lot in taking a decision! Have a great day!

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I just installed cachy OS because a lot of people said it's wonderful. I'm running it on a Samsung 4k tv that supports 120hz fresync with VRR. When I turn the refresh to anything above 60hz the screen flickers.

I'm using an AMD RX 6600 with cinnamon DE. I installed the game package software via the hello menu. I believe I have all driver updates installed, I pressed the update tool and it says there's nothing to update.

120hz works perfectly on Manjaro and windows 11. I'm sort of a Linux noob so pardon my ignorance.

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I recently added language support to Faugus Launcher and now I need help with translations.
If you like the app and would like to contribute to the translation and/or revision for your language, please follow these steps.

For now, the languages that have already been translated are:

• English
• German
• Hungarian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)

Thank you very much!

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