Other News about gaming on Linux
Why is anti-cheat such a difficult issue to solve on Linux?
Forgive me if I'm a bit out of touch with the technical aspects of it, but I personally find the whole kernel level anti-cheat debacle to be a bit ridiculous. Even if EAC, BattleEye, etc are forced to run in user space, couldn't they require you to run some sort of MAC like SELinux or AppArmor (something most popular distributions ship with OOTB) and just refuse to run the process if it's not configured properly or missing? They both already have mitigations for things like process injection and full memory read/write access, if I'm not mistaken. Ignoring the obvious resource aspect of it, I don't see why anti-cheat devs couldn't get around the whole user space restriction. The devs behind Marvel Rivals seem to have it pretty well figured out and I haven't seen a single cheater on that game.
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Performance issues with new colour efficiency/accuracy mode and screen mirroring as well in KDE 6.3 | Performance impact up to 10%
Is it safe to use Xbox cloud gaming to run fortnite on my steam deck?
I know running fortnite on Linux will get you banned from fortnite because of their anticheat. But I wondered if xbox cloud gaming used on a browser on a Linux device would circumvent that. I'm not great at computers but wouldn't it technically be running on windows on a server that's being streamed to the Linux device so it would be fine? Please let me know. I put too much money into fortnite to get banned lol.
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Games sttuter after a while (Nvidia)
For a bit over 2 years now gaming in linux has been a non-issue... Until after a few updates I noticed that if i play a game for a little longer than 30 minutes, the game starts micro sttutering out of nowhere.
Was using Nobara until the sttutering started, then tried changing to Endeavour OS to see if the issues kept happening (and they do).
I have no idea how to troubleshoot this, and I would also like to know if someone else is experiencing the same. Any ideas would be highly appreciated.
I have an nvidia graphics card (1650).
Thank you all for your help.
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Avowed on linux through Steam. Works flawlessly, no tinkering or issues so far.
Fedora gets threatened with legal action over broken OBS package
Nvme failure, fresh install of arch what else am I missing for gaming?
Installed the following
Pipewire Gamescope Steam Proton-Ge Multilib
I had gamemode but had issues and didn't use it. I only ran steam games and eventually wanted to mess with lutris or another umu.
Thanks in advance for taking time to review.
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subpar performance with borealis
recently, I tried using chromeos on my PC via brunch to see how the platform is and so far so good. Today I wanted to try out some games so I enabled borealis but was disappointed to see that I got suboptimal performance (~1/3 of what I get in windows or linux). Is there something I could do to improve my performance? HW: Ryzen 5 5600x RX 7900XT (ik that this hw + os combo isn't very practical I'm just experimenting with chromeos gaming) games I tried are portal 2, ow2, the finals (crashed)
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gamescope crashes after 10mins
Arch Linux, Nvidia 3070. Launching game to get HDR support for oled 4k screen. Took a while to get settings working, but ended up with MANGOHUD=1 gamescope -W 3840 -H 2160 -r 120 -f --force-composition --force-grab-cursor --hdr-enabled -- env VKD3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_KHR_present_wait %command%.
However, 10mins into launch mass effect legendary edition, the game crashes. I can see looking at vram on GPU it slowly eats away at it, like its memory leaking. I have experienced similar behaviour on other games
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Return to linux.
Hi,
It's been over 20 years, maybe even 25 years since I've had linux (slackware) on my rig. Recently I've gotten fed up with windows and it's network issues in 24h2. Aside from using it for 3d printing, I do game.
I play neverwinter, and also play fortnite with my son. This is where the issue lies, as the constant network disconnects causes frustration.
Easy answer would be to reinstall windows 23h2, as there was no issue there, but don't particularly want to anymore.
Read somewhere that fortnite wouldn't run because of EAC, and not sure if neverwinter would.
Could someone enlighten me please. Thanks in advance.
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Quest 2 VR gaming over Steam Link
Hey everyone!
Right now I'm preparing to make the switch from Win10 to Linux, specifically Mint Cinnamon (as I've been using that for the past 3 years on my school laptop), however, I have a key concern that could prevent me from switching.
I am a large fan of VR games, specifically H3VR, and I have concerns running steam link on linux.
I have a GTX3060Ti and a Quest 2, and I have to play wirelessly over steam link. Does steam link/ALVR work properly now? Should I wait some more and hope it starts to work?
Thanks ahead of time for any answers!
Never fade away.
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9070 XT on Day 1 – What Should I Expect on Debian?
I'm curious about what to expect from a day-one purchase of the 9070 XT on GNU/Linux (Debian). Will there be enough generic support for the card until the drivers are updated, or should I expect a black screen/safe mode scenario for a while?
Would it be better to install Ubuntu now for a more seamless, out-of-the-box experience on day one?
I'm very comfortable with the command line but not particularly knowledgeable about brand-new GPUs. I usually upgrade every seven years by walking into a store and buying whatever the salesperson recommends at the time. That said, I've been excited about the 9070 XT and have my heart set on it—I'm upgrading from a 1660 Ti.
Thanks!
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Genshin Impact update (Proton)
So far I've had to download the launcher and do the entire installation process each time there's a mandatory update.
Any way to bypass this and/or somehow just update the game?
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Lag spikes on games
Hello, soo I've been distro hopping because I had lag spikes on my games with Mint, and the only system that managed to remove almost entierely my spikes was Arch... But I don't want to run Arch, it's way too much complicated to understand for me (I've been used to sudo apt get, and since this command doesn't exist for arch...) Anyway, any idea on how to remove those spikes on Mint? I'm running a laptop (Lenovo IdeaPad gaming 3 15ach6, R5 5500h, RTX 2050... I don't know what's my wifi card sadly)
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F.E.A.R. on linux instant crash
Hi, recently i bought on steam F.E.A.R. ultimate edition, and after installing i tried to run it with proton 9.
After the vulkan shader processing it show only a black screen for few seconds and then it will crash.
Then i tried to switch to experimental version of proton, and nothing has changed and it only show a black screen and crash. I tried to look to game directory and it looks that it doesn't have any linux executible.
Exactlly i don't know how proton works, but i think it works that it will convert the win files to linux "format".
I'm on Mint distribution and i'm a beginer. Thanks for your advices how to fix this issue.
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Lower than usual power usage on a GTX 1070 despite high power limit - Wayland
My GTX 1070 barely uses above 120 watts when it's at 100% (according to nvidia-smi), despite having its power limit set at 180 (the default one). The clock speed and memory speed are default.
I tried different games and softwares, the power usage always gets capped at roughly 120 watts. On windows, the card draws in average 160 watts and performs better.
I used to have a 3000 series RTX card that did not have this problem. Would anyone know what is causing this issue ?
I use Arch Linux, with KDE / wayland and the proprietary driver. All up to date...
I don't remember having this issue in the past, but I switched to this GPU very recently.
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