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Has anyone had any success using two GPUs?
Now for some context; I have two Nvidia gpus. A 3060 and a 3090. I mostly use the 3090 for compute, but sometimes I just want to play some games on it. Issue is, I think EAC games (Elden Ring Nightreign for example) won't load properly and close immediately.
Weirdly enough; this is even the case when I don't use another gpu, but leave my 3090 in the non-primary pci slot. (I use an X570 Taichi pci8x8).
Moving the cards around isn't exactly an option either since the 3060 is smaller and blocks less airflow compared to the 3090.
I've tried using DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090" %command%, but that just gives a blackscreen (nvidia-smi does show it being used tho)
Also changing my x11 config to render on the 3090 while passing display onto the 3060 does work; but again I think it gets blocked by EAC (?).
It does work fine in games that don't use EAC like Baldurs Gate 3.
I was hoping anyone here has some more experience on this subject; although it might be very niche.
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World Ocean Day Sale 2025 is live on Steam to support charity
World Ocean Day Sale 2025 is live on Steam to support charity
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Net.Attack() is like Vampire Survivors but you program unique attacks
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Are we ever getting PUBG for linux?
I hate having to dual boot windows in order to play PUBG,honestly its the only game I can still play with my friends now that Im growing older,and its bugging me so much having to dual boot in order to play it. Is valve ever going to make the change and have it mandatory linux+windows on their games,or we are never getting it for linux. Also is there any way to bypass anticheat and play the game? Honestly Im desperate,any solution is good enough for me,I just want to completely wipe windows at this point.
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Retro gaming??
Near-Mage is a gorgeous looking new hand-painted witchy adventure
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Linux distro to replace old pc before Win 10 expiration. Play DotA2
I have an OLD Win10 laptop. Approx 10yrs. It works well enough for all my requirements. I will be upgrading in Q2 2026. Till then I want to continue to browse web, watch movies, write some code and play DotA2 on it. It barely manages to keep 60fps. I want to switch to linux before Win10 end of support, as it does have important documents (imp to me, anyways) and I don't think adding an antivirus would be good for my old friend. So I want to switch to linux now.
Concern is that I want to continue playing DotA2 and as my dear old pc is more a sailboat than a rocketship, I would not like to loose fps. It might also be good for me as I wish to learn about OS concepts and Linux System programming.
I have little experience having used ubuntu for less than a year and sometimes troubleshooting my gf's linux mint laptop.
Specifications: Lenovo Y50-70 i7 4710HQ 12GB DDR4 Ram 256GB sata ssd GTX 960M 4GB
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Dragon Lands is Forager meets a creature collector and it looks real sweet
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Open source NVK question
Hey so I've been looking into the Nvidia driver situation and how NVK is the new open source driver that's being developed and it'll be a significant improvement over the older noveau. My question is how will things such as DLSS and other proprietary things be able to run? Is there some kind of plan or strategy to deal with that? Or is it the ball is in Nvidias court with regards to that stuff?
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Borderlands 2 is free to claim and keep on Steam
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Capturing Wayland for remote streaming?
I'm struggling with setting up a headless gaming server for remote streaming and wondering if anyone has cracked this nut.
The goal: Stream games from a dedicated PC in my basement to various devices (laptop, different monitors, etc.) at different resolutions. Think GeForce Now but self-hosted.
The problem: Sunshine + Wayland is a nightmare. Pipewire window capture isn't supported, and the KMS capture method is getting deprecated. Even when I hack KMS into kind of working, I run into logind/seat management issues where the session can't access DRM devices properly.
What I've tried: - Using EDID emulators + xrandr to fake displays - works but super janky - Gamescope for isolated sessions - seat permission hell - Various systemd/udev workarounds - temporary fixes at best
The core issue is that I need to capture a window at arbitrary sizes - sometimes 2560x1664 for my laptop, sometimes 3440x1440 for an ultrawide, sometimes 1920x1080, etc. The client resolution should drive the stream resolution dynamically. Changing the actual display resolution isn't viable because: 1) I'd need to pre-program every possible resolution into the EDID emulator, 2) switching resolutions mid-stream breaks everything, and 3) it's just not how modern streaming should work.
The ideal solution would be capturing a virtual gamescope window at whatever resolution the client requests, but that seems impossible on current Wayland. Steam's own streaming uses pipewire for this, but Sunshine doesn't support it yet. Disappointingly, this is trivial on Windows.
Before I give up and fall back to Debian on X11, has anyone solved remote game streaming on Wayland? X11 would work but it's a pretty terrible workaround since it doesn't support HDR and who knows how much longer distros will even ship it. Are there alternatives to Sunshine that handle this better?
Currently running Bazzite (a Fedora-based distro), AMD GPU, willing to try other distros if needed.
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🎉Party Games to look out for, and there are a lot of them 🎉 💬A Nice Change of Genre💬 Also great for the Deck
Please look out if it supports multiplayer, or it supports only local Coop.
🎉 Party & Brawler Games🎉Party Animals – 🐾Brawler, with Among Us-style mode & Liar’s Bar modes.
Stick Fight: The Game – ⚔️ Chaotic combat; abandoned but still fun with custom maps.
🗺️My Custom maps on workshop:
I have some custom maps search in collection for deckmake22 to find the collection or ask me.
🎲Pummel Party – Mario Party-style chaos.🎲
🚀R.E.P.O – Popular recent title.🚀
🐔Ultimate Chicken Horse – Platformer with player-placed traps.🐔
🏗️Tricky Towers – Physics-based Tetris twist.🏗️
🔄Rounds – Made by the Stick Fight devs; often played with mods.🔄
🌳Wild Woods – Casual multiplayer fun.🌳
🍬A Gummy Life🍬
🎤Jackbox Party Games – Always great for groups.🎤
🤜Knock Em Out🤛 (Fun Wrestling Brawler)
🧙♂️Witch It – Hide-and-seek style gameplay.🧙♂️
💰Rubber Bandits💰(Brawler pretty cheap, you could get it for 1 Euro on sale)(Connection Problems)
🏃♂️SpeedRunners 🏃♂️
🪄Magequit🪄
🕷️⚔️Spiderheck🕷️⚔️(But laggy according to reviews online)
🚆 Management & Co-op Games🚆🚂Unrailed – Manage rails before the train reaches the end.🚂
🍳Overcooked – Frantic kitchen management game with friends.🍳
🏠 Local Co-op (Remote Play Possible)🏠🕵️♂️Hidden in Plain Sight – Stealth-based party action.🕵️♂️
👊Judofuri – One-button game for up to 9 players.👊
🥏Boomerang Fu🥏
🏇Lance A Lot Enhanced Edition🏇
🤖Robodunk 🤖
🍞Toasterball🍞
🏐Stikbold / Oddballers – Oddballers is the sequel, not sure which one is better.🏐
But Oddballers support MULTIPLAYER (Don´t know if Servers are still up)
🏹TowerFall Ascension🏹
Has Online Multiplayer from the Beginning, but there is a problem currently with it according to steam discussions and also dev.
🎂Cake Bash – Looks yummy, features minigames.🎂
📦Moving Out📦
💥Multiversus – Free Smash Bros alternative.💥(Server shutted down)
🛸 Upcoming Party Games🛸🎨Color Breakers 2 – Draw the floor with friends.🎨
🥩King of Meat – 3D platformer.🥩
👽Cuffbust – Goofy prison break with aliens.👽
🔮Ritual Party – Summon a beast, but be aware of the police!🔮
🚴Ultimate Sheep Raccoon – Like Ultimate Chicken Horse, but with bikes!🚴
🥾Big Walk – Goofy exploration game.🥾
💪Out of Shape💪
🪡Restitched – Cooperative 3D platformer.🪡
🤖Botsu🤖
📦Mail It to the King📦
If someone have also play other Games and describe them, I'm open to suggestions.
Discord Server for German Party Game Meetings:
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im gonna switch to linux again. What os should i use for gaming?
I give up on Linux for now
Hello everyone,
I decided 2 weeks ago to slowly migrate from Windows to Linux, mainly because my Windows installation started to rot, but also because gaming on Linux experience on my Steam Deck was pretty solid.
I've also been hearing a lot about Bazzite and Nobara recently, which seems to please a lot of people. Nvidia drivers had improved a lot recently, many said. That was a lot of indicators that it was finally time to switch from Windows to Linux. So I did it. I Installed CachyOS because it had a lot of good reviews, worked well with Nvidia cards out of the box, and was mainly directed on games and performance.
So what was my experience with it? Let's go for the good points:
- First, it's very user friendly, installing the game package gives you everything you need to start gaming (or not ? We'll see that later)
- User experience is really good overall. KDE Plasma which is the default DE is really beautiful, and gives you the most "Windows-y" experience of all the Linux DE, and it's really appreciable (I have nothing to say about Windows UI in general, I like it so that's good for me), and you can switch to Gnome if you want more of a MacOS UI, or even other DEs like hyprland (which seems very cool indeed) if you feel adventurous.
- Package managing is very cool too. I like that you never have to download shady packages on software's websites. Everything is in Octopi, either in pacman repositories, or in AUR via paru if you search more exotic packages. So everything is upgradable on the fly. That's really cool, way better than what I could try on Debian/Ubuntu for example.
- And then you have all the cool scripts you can do by yourself. For example, at home my PC is in my office, with 2 screens on my desk, and is also linked by a 10m HDMI cable to my TV which is in my living room. To switch between my office configuration and my TV, I must use a paid software, Display Fusion Pro, which mainly works but is a bit slow and janky when doing the switch. In Linux, I could write myself a script which uses kscreen-doctor to change screen config on the fly, which I bound to 2 keyboards shortcuts, one for my office, one for my living room. And that works perfectly, way faster than Display Fusion Pro.
Now let's talk about the bad points:
- Proton is great, and is really impressive, but you still must download several versions to expect running everything you want, and you must do trial and errors to find the most efficient version for you (fortunately, ProtonDB helps a lot)
- Nvidia drivers greatly improved recently, that's true, but you still have to download the latest beta drivers to run games through gamescope, and they are not on the official pacman repo, so they won't upgrade automatically.
- Now, let's talk about performance. Yeah, I have an Nvidia card. Yeah, I know it's bad for Linux. But that's what I got, and I bought it very recently, so I won't buy an AMD card for Linux now. When you talk with Linux users, they will always say that performance in games is way better than in Windows. Maybe that's true in some games, but I'm afraid that's only the case for AMD users. With an Nvidia card, the best you can get is the same performances as in Windows. And that is when you're lucky. Then, if you want shiny things like HDR, or DLSS frame generation, you MUST use gamescope, and it will have a cost in terms of performances. And you will need trials and errors to get everything you want.
- That said, don't expect other shiny things like RTX HDR in desktop, frame gen out of games that natively support it, DLDSR, and many other things like that, to work in Linux. In fact, everything that is available through the Nvidia App or the Nvidia Control Panel won't be available in Linux. You must be aware of that, because that's very cool features you'll likely never (or in a very distant future maybe) see on Linux. You won't be able to use Lossless Scaling neither, and there is no equivalent in Linux - even in gamescope, at least for now (but maybe that'll come, I don't despair of seeing this happen in the future).
- Hardware compatibility too, while very good, and even more so with Arch based distros of what I heard, is still a work in progress. For example, I didn't found out how to make Dual Sense haptics work in The Last of Us Part II Remastered. Everything works, even adaptative triggers, but haptics won't work. I know it has to do with the impossibility for the game to find the gamepad's sound device, and there is many workarounds. I tried ALL of it, but still, it doesn't work. That took me several hours to try it, and that's what finally made me give up on Linux for gaming for now.
As a final word, I would say that for now, at least with an Nvidia card, all you'll get compared to Windows will be a degraded experience, so it's not worth it, at least for now.
TLDR: Linux isn't ready for a seamless experience with an Nvidia card yet. But I'm not without hope for the future.
PS: Sorry for my english.
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Where are my players and worlds?
I`m using Arch Linux and i want to play Terraria. When i first opened it - i found the players folder and worlds but fps was low. I changed compatibility option to Proton Experimental. But there comes an issue - where are my saves? I can`t find no one of them. I tried to search in ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata but there`s no folder named 105600. Where else my saves can be?
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Need help running Deltarune
I'm a Linux user (Ubuntu 20.4) using Proton, and can't seem to finish Deltarune due to crashes. I completed Chapter 3, but upon attempting to enter Chapter 4 the game crashed almost immediately. I tried using all the versions of Proton available on Steam below 7.6 (versions above that didn't even start, instead returning the error message "Win32 function failed: HRESULT: 0x887a0002 Call: at line 229 in file \Graphics_DisplayM.cpp), as well as reinstalling the game, disabling Steam input, and adding -dx11 and -dx12 to the launch options (not at the same time.)
Any advice?
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Building s Linux game streaming server
I recently started using Sunshine and Moonlight more extensively and if it works, it works great. I had a lot of issues with it over the last few years, so never really got the hang of it. Now that it (mostly) works for me, I'd like to go all in and turn my main desktop PC into basically a game streaming server (plus AI, but I never had any issues accessing OpenWebUI remotely so I'll just assume that it'll work fine). I have a 4k HDMI dummy plug (although in 120 hz it only works in 2k but that's fine for me). My network is 10 Gbit, but I do need to use 1 Gbit so wake on LAN works on the PC (via the motherboard, the 10 Gbit NIC doesn't support it). The quality is fine though.
Now my questions to the people who already done this (I've seen quite a few posts about rack mounted gaming PCs in the past) are: - Which distro are you guys using? I'm used to Arch, but if I won't access the PC daily I also don't want to update and tinker as much. Ideally it'd be a Debian Server, but then again I also want up to date drivers. I'm not sure if one of the gaming focused distros (Nobara, Bazzite etc.) is applicable as I don't need a DE. - I want to start and power off the PC remotely via wake on LAN. It works fine on the CLI, so I figured I'd just build an Olivetin dashboard with basically a turn on and turn off button. Are there any better solutions? - Since it's a gaming PC, there's a bunch of RGB that I no longer need. I was able to disable everything in the BIOS but the RAM. Normally I'm using OpenRGB, but this doesn't seem to work/crashes when launched on the CLI. My plan was to just run "openrgb --mode static --color 000000" on every startup to turn off the RAM RGB. - Sunshine and moonlight mostly work fine, but sometimes the picture freezes while sound and controls still work. I need to stop and resume the stream for it to work again. Annoying, but I'm hoping this will resolve itself on the fresh system. - Finally without a DE installed, is Sunshine still able to start Steam in big picture mode or is there anything I need to keep in mind?
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Trying to install linux-firmware for navi4 card on linux mint
Hey all, I am a linux noob but since steam deck gave us the possibility to play our games on linux i switched over. The problem is that I ordered a 9060 xt card, and I want to get my system ready for it. So far I have managed to install latest mesa and kernel thanks to chatgpt, but the linux-firmware is driving me absolutely mad.
There are no files at all for any cards past rx 5000, and I cant find any newer packages anywhere. I am looking at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/ , and I know for a fact that people have been playing with navi4 cards like the 9070 xt on linux mint.
So, how the HELL are you supposed to find the navi4 .bin file? Where is it? I have been wasting hours trying to look. About to table flip soon. So now I turned to this group for help. Appreciate if someone could solve this head ache :)
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