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So whenever I launch Rocket League, I can get to the title screen and SFX plays, but whenever I press a button, the screen fades to black and then the game stops responding.

I've tried it with Proton GE and Proton-Hotfix from Steam but nothing. Anybody know why?

I'm running this on an RX580 btw.

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I asked for a recommendation on a gpu a couple weeks ago and the answer was overwhelmingly the 9060xt, however it doesn’t work natively with Mint. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with Kubuntu.

I like the idea of having a reliable distribution with lots of tutorials considering I’m relatively new. I’ve been running Bazzite OS but it’s hard to find tutorials for running services as this is also a homelab (why I like the idea of having a reliable distribution).

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Skip to the results if you want a tldr.

Intro

Hello all, I’ve semi-recently switched to Linux full time and have been happy with it however I’ve noticed what I perceived to be a small increase in input latency despite performance being the same as far as I could tell. So I decided to do some testing. But not the camera pointed at a monitor method. You’ve perhaps seen Nvidia’s LDAT that takes a mouse button click and a sensor physically on the monitor to compare the latency between the click and the light coming from an action, usually a muzzle flash. However, that's expensive to buy so I built my own with an arduino. I would post the code but because I was distro hopping I forgot to backup the sketch and it’s gone. But it’s still on the arduino so I can still use it.

How It Works

I have an arduino starter kit that comes with a button and a phototransistor. I also have a Logitech G903 that I took apart and connected the left mouse button to a button attached to the arduino. The mouse button outputs 3.3v and shorts when the button is clicked causing the mouse to register a click. So the arduino loops checking for when the mouse button output goes LOW. It then goes into a while(true) loop that checks the phototransistor and breaks the loop when the value from the transistor is high enough. It stores the time when the button is pressed and when the transistor reaches a high enough value then outputs the result in the serial monitor. You may be asking if the arduino is fast enough to do this without adding latency of its own that matters. I think it is plenty fast from my own testing. I found a script that tested how many times the main loop executed per second and it was in the 10s of thousands or over 10,000Hz even with all my code added. That would be nanosecond response times. If I hold a flashlight on the transistor and press the button it outputs 0ms consistently. I think the arduino is plenty fast to check the latency. I then hold the phototransistor up to the screen in front of the barrel of a gun. I chose overwatch 2 because of it’s kind of dark practice room and mcree’s gun having a large muzzle flash. I also managed to test Hell Let Loose which was harder. Each test was done 10 times had 10 shots with outliers resulting in a reset.

My Setup

I have a 5800x3d and a Radeon 7700xt, I used to have a 3080 but it died on me so this is AMD only testing. I’m using an Alienware 1440p 360hz OLED monitor as my main monitor. I tested this on CachyOS, KDE(Wayland) and Hyprland vs Win11. No VSync. KDE and Hyprland are separate installs on different drives both NVME. At some point I will test X11, probably xfce4 and maybe i3.

The Results

Tldr Windows wins, especially with AntiLag but Linux isn’t far behind and could probably beat it with some effort.

Overwatch 2 - 240 FPS In Game Limit(FPS chosen because this is what I can consistently hit in a real game)

Win 11

Avg 19 ms

Max 26 ms

Min 12 ms

Win 11 - Radeon Anti Lag

Avg 15 ms

Max 20 ms

Min 11 ms

Win 11 - Radeon Anti Lag Uncapped FPS / 512 FPS (was facing a wall, not much to render.)

Avg 20ms

Max 28ms

Min 14ms

Linux - CachyOS - KDE

Avg 24 ms

Max 29 ms

Min 20 ms

Linux - CachyOS - KDE - VRR (Wanted to see if VRR made a difference on my setup, it didn't probably because of the monitor running at 360hz.)

Avg 23ms

Max 30ms

Min 19ms

Linux - CachyOS - Hyprland

Avg 24ms

Max 30ms

Min 17ms

Linux - CachyOS - Hyprland - Direct_Scanout=1

Avg 21ms

Max 29ms

Min 16ms

Linux - CachyOS - Hyprland - Direct_Scanout=1 - 360 FPS Limit(Can't consistantly hit this on my setup, results will not apply in a real game)

Avg 19ms

Max 25ms

Min 15ms

Hell Let Loose - Uncapped FPS

Win 11

Avg 30ms

Max 38ms

Min 21ms

Win 11 - Radeon Anti Lag

Avg 26ms

Max 39ms

Min 15ms

Linux - CachyOS - KDE

Avg 36ms

Max 43ms

Min 27ms

As you can see Windows has a slight edge over Linux, on Wayland at least. Direct scanout seems to make hyprland beat KDE a little. If I had to guess the compositor is adding a little latency but Radeon AntiLag also has an impact, there's no reason that can't work on Linux. Nvidia Reflex does I think. I wish I had a comparable Nvidia GPU to test but unfortunately I don't. The performance hit on VK3d for Nvidia might give AMD the edge but I wonder if Reflex working on Linux would allow it to beat Windows in terms of latency.

If anyone has tips for lowering latency on Linux other then trying X11 with no compositor (which I'm going to do at some point) I would love to hear it. Or any critiques of my testing. I know it wasn't totally scientific but I would bet these results are pretty true to life.

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Hey guys,

I have friends that play on playstation so when I was on windows, I would use bluestacks to emulate an android phone and use the playstation app on there to have party chat with them. Things to note: I know ps has discord access but it is just more convenient for them to do ps parties and I don't have a ps so I can't use remote play.

I've tried a couple emulators like waydroid and genymotion but the playstation app just doesn't show up on the playstore or it says that it isn't compatible with my device. I've tried to use an apk from APKMirror but waydroid just doesn't seem to want to install it.

Does anyone know an emulator that would work for me? Do I just need to go down the list of phones is genymotion one by one and hope one works?

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I have already switched to xe driver btw.

I have already set platform profile to performance.

I am aware I can set in game settings lower.

I am also aware that I could simply buy faster ram.

Plz do not reccomend game specific tweaks (or proton tweaks) as I am looking for universal tweaks.
Like chaning kernel params and mesa settings (if they are even a thing).

I use gentoo btw so my proton prob out performs proton GE binary.

Please give me linux specific tweaks as I find it very annoying to get tips so that are so ovious that I knew back when I used windows.

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I installed linux mint and thats when everything went so wrong. i installed steam and all my favourite games but heres the kicker....NONE OF THEM LAUNCHED. i tried using different proton versions and even updating my drivers but nothing worked it would say "launching" and then immediately cancel. since that was a failure i decided to play some good old minecraft but again everything went wrong. it was spitting out lines apon lines of random tech gibberish about opengl and i still dont know how to fix it, so i just played eaglercraft buuuuut it was running at a smooth 10fps. so i decided to switch back to windows but the installer refuses to install saying "Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation." which nothing ive tried fixed it. so now ive brought out an old laptop and im now copying windows to a usb with wintousb and im gonna clone it to my C drive. thanks for reading even though im probably going to be downvoted into a obvlivion (why is there so much spelling mistakes? because i cant be arsed correcting them)

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Hi there!

I have an RX 9070xt Gigabyte OC within and ITX case with quiet fans, running everything at 40% peak. I have been doing this normally with an ambient temp of 28°. The sort of thermal gel on the VRAM was snot effecting reaching out 98° temps for VRAM. As for several reasons my GPU does not have warranty (had to import it, third world is that hard) I dare to replace that with thermal paste.

I put a combination between 1.5mm, 1.0mm, and 1.25mm

In almost all cases, the VRAM was not that hot on idle (between 55° to 60°) but after 20 minutes the best I got was 94°.

After that, I decided to try the last bullet: Chokes, MOSFET and VRAM with 1.25mm. With this one, now the GPU VRAM stays at 90° (8° less compared to stock) but I have the feeling that idle remains higher now (between 65° and 70°).

I was wondering, is it normal? I know I could just push fans further and so, but I like the way fans are rn and also the GPU and CPU temps, including hotspots, are awesome. The only thing I have been struggling with is the VRAM.

I used Thermal Grizzly Minus Pad 8 whenever 1.0mm and 1.5mm, as they do not offer 1.25mm, and then Upsiren 24w 1.25mm for all components in the last one.

Do you think idle being higher now is worse than VRAM being 98° maxed out?

Is that temperature for idle normal or acceptable in the conditions I have my PC?

What are your suggestions within ITX scope?

Best regards!

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Really sorry for my lack of knowledge, but I'm new to both modding and Linux. I got a Steam Deck the other day and am wanting to mod Skyrim.

So I followed a guide, and it had me download MO2. I download it, and when I click it to bring up the Zip file, I get a small bouncing yellow square and then nothing. I've restarted the Deck, I've re-downloaded Protontricks. I have no idea what is happening or really even how to trouble shoot it.

Any help is appreciated!

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I've been messing around trying to get Elite Dangerous working with the lossless scaling plugin for Steam.

Has anyone made it work? If so, how?

If I try to launch the game in steam, it fails to even get as far as the launcher.

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Hey everyone, not sure if this is new or old topic but I wanted to know if it’s possible to make games works that require HVCI and OBS features

Like the new beta for BF6

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Are we cooked?

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Just wanted to share with you my new setup I have spent 4 days customizing it, I went with Arch linux because I heard that it is the hardest system to install (donot ask me why I donot have a life) I added hyprpanel-hyprland Added some scripts that allows me to pick a color from the screen and apply to my Asus laptop keyboard Changed the Fan curves because it was not as good keeping the laptop cool

The performance in games is really good.. I am getting 144 Hz in Cs go and world of tanks

What I hate is the hyprpanel dashboard I didnot know how to customize more... and I couldnot make my laptop go to suspention after a timeout, didnot add supportto change the keyboard language... (work in progress)

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So, there are a few posts about an error people have running Stellaris as a native linux app via the heroic launcher flatpak. The error is this:

Could not locate a valid installation of the Paradox Launcher:

open /home/shmegegge/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/data/Paradox Interactive/launcherpath: no such file or directory

Detailed logs can be found at:

/home/shmegegge/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/data/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/logs/launcher-dowser.log

Now, here is the solution I found elsewhere for this problem:

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/Paradox-Launcher-for-native-Linux-games-from-GOG

Specifically, it recommends creating a symbolic link to the launcher script in the folder heroic expects it to be in. (I think. I didn't fully understand this post. I am still new to linux.)

I was able to follow the instructions, and the link was created. It still didn't work.

I tried something, I found the script in the install folder for the game. When I double click the script and select "run" from the dialog, the paradox launcher opens! The game runs! Hurrah! But Heroic still doesn't launch it correctly.

Well, I figured I'd just create a link to the start script somewhere convenient, much like a shortcut in Windows, right on the desktop. But that link simply does nothing. What would be a useful way to get this game running without opening the existing folder and running the script manually?

Here are all my logs and assorted info:

Linux MInt Cinnamon:

System: Host: LinuxPC Kernel: 6.8.0-71-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble CPU: Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 3327 high: 4603 min/max: 800/4700 cores: 1: 4603 2: 4600 3: 4603 4: 4600 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 4576 9: 4593 10: 4595 11: 4562 12: 800 bogomips: 88796 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU104 [GeForce RTX 2080 Rev. A] driver: nvidia v: 550.163.01 arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: DP-3,HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,Unknown-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1e87 Device-2: HTC (High Tech ) Vive driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-7.1.2:21 chip-ID: 0bb4:2c87 Device-3: Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-5.1.2:4 chip-ID: 046d:085e Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa failed: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 108 Monitor-1: DP-4 res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109 diag: 686mm (27.01") API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland,device-1 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.163.01 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080/PCIe/SSE2 Audio: Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 Device-2: NVIDIA TU104 HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f8 Device-3: Focusrite-Novation Scarlett 2i4 driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5.1.1:8 chip-ID: 1235:800a Device-4: C-Media USB Audio Device driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-7.1.4:22 chip-ID: 0d8c:0012 Device-5: Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2-5.1.2:4 chip-ID: 046d:085e API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-71-generic status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

Here is the log from trying to run the desktop link to the start script in terminal:

./start.sh: line 8: support/gog_com.shlib: No such file or directory ./start.sh: line 11: get_gameinfo: command not found ./start.sh: line 12: get_gameinfo: command not found ./start.sh: line 13: get_gameinfo: command not found ./start.sh: line 28: define_option: command not found ./start.sh: line 31: standard_options: command not found

I also have the log from the heroic launcher, but reddit is giving me weird issues, so I'll add it in a code block in the first comment.

Anyway, what do you think? How can I get this game to run without having to go through the trouble of manually opening the folder and clicking the script? Ideally, I'd just like to pin it to my panel or taskbar or even just a desktop shortcut.

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I presume it is possible on Windows via the GUI, but for linux I am unable to get the option.

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Hey guys,

I'm looking for a new headset. Is there a nice one which works well for Linux? I'm using a MMX 150 right now but it's time is come.

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