I know about sober historically being better in terms of performance, but they did make some changes that made the performance worse.
I am curious if sober's performance is better than roblox on windows right now on Nvidia cards specifically, because as far as I am aware, nvidia cards handle waydroid way worse than amd or intel do.

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Ubisoft are implementing various cost-cutting measures and have announced they've cancelled 6 games, while also closing studios in a big shift.

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I hadn't seen this fix posted anywhere so I thought I might share my 3 hours of pain getting the EA App working again after it decided to stop working today (Probably due to an update).

This may also be a potential fix for any game that requires the EA App. e.g. Mass Effect

Issue:

The EA App installs, says it’s launching, briefly appears in the system tray, then closes without opening the game.

This fix is for people who want to use the EA App (for achievements)

If you already tried installing the EA App and it failed:

(Skip this section if you are doing a fresh install)

1. Back up your save files:

• Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1172380/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Saved Games/Respawn/JediFallenOrder/

1. Delete the Proton prefix folder

• Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1172380/pfx/

Now with a clean slate.

Download the latest EA app installer from their website:

https://www.ea.com/ea-app#downloads

Now we locate the bundled EAappinstaller

• Right-click Jedi: Fallen Order in your Steam library
• Select Manage -> Browse local file

Navigate to:

Jedi Fallen Order/__Installer/Origin/redist/internal/

Replace the bundled installer with the new one you downloaded from the website by copy and pasting the new on into the internal folder and overwriting.

Now Launch the game and the EA app should properly install and launch

Now, if you don't care about achievements and just want to play without the EA app:

• Right-click Jedi: Fallen Order in your Steam library
• Select Manage -> Browse local file
• Rename installScript.vdf to installScript.vdf.bak

Now you'll want to paste this command into your launch options (Steam Library -> Right-click -> Properties)

Command:

cmd=( %command% ); cmd[-1]="$STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH/SwGame/Binaries/Win64/SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe"; "${cmd[@]}" submitted by /u/Gordoxgrey
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Ashes is an episodic post apocalyptic Doom mod with heavy Fallout inspiration. Survive through dozens of original maps fighting against mutants, raiders and scumbags! Loot the bodies and wield retro-fit weapons at your disposal... not to mention a motorcycle! Search for secrets and try to make it to the next map without gettin your guts blown out!
This game is hard, but fun! Be sure to save as much as possible!


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TLDR: has anyone got experience using zram while gaming, primairily on APU systems, but also okay if on a normal system?, and noticed any diference in performance be it better, worse, shorter loading times, more stable, less lagg spikes, etc.?
currently with companies asking way to much for ram it might especially be usefull.
Also, does something like it exist for and work with a gpu?

Zram is a part of the kernel since around kernel 2 if I remember correctly.
it creates a compressed virtual swap partition in ram, with a much higher priority than normal swap.
the benefit is that it allows you to compress your ram, or part of it.
which allows your ram to act like a much bigger amount of ram, and also can reach higher bandwidth than your actual ram bandwidth if your cpu is fast enough compared to the ram.
it goes with a tradeoff to latency.

while it can't run code from inside the compressed ram and has to move it to the normal ram, it can store a lot of code and assets and such into it very effectively and is much faster than normal swap, and generally you won't notice any slowdowns and actually more likely notice things going faster.

in the current day consumer companies overcharge whatever they can for ram and vram as well,(will rant about that bellow, TLDR, the actual DRAM price increases even for companies without a contract where tiny compared to how much they increased the prices abusing peoples panick, like a increase of $20(per 16gb of DDR5) in price would have fully covered the price increases for specially binned high performance overclockeable DDR5 for normal DDR5 a notably smaller amount would already cover it. instead they know people heard 3 times DRAM price increase and used that to ask 3 times as much for their ram sticks, even though the actual DRAM on those sticks was only a small part of the cost, and the actual main DRAM price increases reffered to HBM ram which is a special type of ram used in AI chips, which got much more expensive as the new budged version of HBM4 was postponed and AI companies pannicked).

anyway with current insane prices, memory compression makes much more sense.
perhaps for people on older ram types yet with a fast cpu,or people with high core count cpu's this could even make the ram better for use for their GPU than normal ram, this ofcource is primairily if using a APU or if using a gpu which ofloads resources into normal ram.
still I am not certain if the APU will actually decide to use the compressed ram or now.
but for cpu ram it should be able to help with games allowing to load many more resources and such into ram greatly reducing loading times and such.

however I wondered if anyone here has experience using Zram when gaming, primairily on APU systems. and if it affects the performance in any way(better or worse) other than having more ram like storage available before it starts to rely on swapping to a hdd or ssd or such.
ofcource this assumes setting swappiness to a high value.

also does anyone know if someone similar exists for GPU's, or if a APU will also use the compressed ram, or if there is a way to force it to do so.

I currently use a BC-250 for gaming but that board only has 16GB of GDDR6 on it which isn't enough for some modern AAA games despite it not being super powerfull compute wise.
I might actually try it out on that board at some point, but will be more usefull to know info if someone already found something, as restarting that board takes very long(boots from a old usb sata ssd).

RANT(aka extra details surrounding the things I reffered to regarding the DRAM price increases, the numbers in here are based on the current industry subcontracted Dram exchange rates, I also confirmed similar numbers at some companies more directly, the consumer prices are based on the prices in the big computer stores in netherlands, looking at the cheapest option available, and then converting € to $, and removing most of the tax from the price(which normally is 21% here, but in countries like USA they apaerently have even higher taxes now but they call them tarifs and they seem to change basically every day, most other countries also have some form of tax, so I only removed the tax roughly, leaving a smal bit in the price refferences, also as that give more rounded numbers, I call this section a rant because it isn't directly related to my question, still I hope that if consumers learn about the actual prices people will start to take action and force companies to be honnest, I guess you could say I want to stimulate the free market here as most modern companies are just a unspoken cartel where they already know that if they increase prices to unreasonable levels others will do the exact same and consumers will beleive it.)
I get it that dram chips have gotten much more expensive, like 16gb of DDR5 just went up $1.20 this week, now costing $19.20 average this week.
but that is still less than $20 for 16gb of DDR5. and consumer ram sticks, for a 16gb kit around here, those start at around $300 when converted to USD.
so that is more than 15 times as much as what those companies actually pay for those dram chips, the pcb and power controller don't cost much, low capacity DDR5 sticks can be made on a one sided pcb making them also very cheap and easy to assemble.
16gb of DDR5 used to cost around $6 before the HBM shortages, so yes prices of DDR5 went times 3, but they where only a fraction of the cost of what consumer DDR5 sticks used to cost, like those multiplied by around 3+ times which makes no sense given that even now while DDR5 is at it's highest price the industry price for companies without a contract still is bellow $20 for 16gb DDR5.
(note this is for eTT DDR5, the type of DDR5 chips used in prebuilds and such, they are not meant for heavy over clocking, but that $300 was the cheapest consumer ddr5 ram stick/set of 16gb. high performance overclockeable ram goes for $36.67 per 16gb average this week, meaning it went up quite a lot this week.
8gb GDDR6 costs a average of $7.15 this week, which is a insane price increase compared to before as last week it was $5.45 average.

all those prices are for the Dram chips themselves, they actually where lower than these prices now when all those consumer companies started to use the idea of a shortage as infinite money exploit glitch.
also in case people are wondering, the current Dram shortage actually primairily only really affected HBM which is a type of ram used on AI chips. a budged version of HBM 4 would have been launched late 2025 but was postponed without clear new launch date, AI companies pannicked and started buying up all HBM they could get their hards on, and a bit of DDR5 though there still was enough DDR5 suply. this is also despite those same AI companies already not having enough power budged to power all of their current chips.
so you will be glad to hear that you are paying prices mostly based on pannick, as the other DRAM price increases largely came from the pannic wave of people just thinking about whatever ram they wanted being impacted, while the actual ram affected was speciffically HBM ram, the reason that got a shortage was because AI companies pannicked after a new version of HBM didn't launch yet and so they wanted something new to brag about to tech ceo's and shareholders and such, even if that meant that all those chips they are buying up now are primairily not being used at all, and just put in a remote section of some datacenter which isn't used since they already can't get enough power delivered to even power all the hardware they already had before that pannick wave.
but atleast now they can use that to drive up the prices of all forms of DRAM which they can then use to show to their investors that their ram has gotten way more expensive.
so perhaps you feel more comfortable about the DRAM shortages knowing that it is just some companies using DRAM more like shares or crypto, like a stock market rather than actually using it, even if that means you can't get it properly anymore.
and if that doesn't make you see it as justified enough to relax about it then just know that the companies selling ram sticks to you decided to abuse the pannic custommers have as well as customers not knowing what they actually pay for it. resulting in them having a opportunity to severaly rip their custommers off, which they took without any hesitation and pushed very hard.
like for high performance ram adding $20 to the price would have covered the price hikes, and they would have kept the same buffers and margins and such. going with eTT ram which is also perfectly fine as long as you don't want to do serious overclocking they would have needed to add even less to the price.
there are only a few companies which didn't decide to fully rip their custommers of, selling full mini pc's with a lot of DDR5 in it for less than half the money than other companies charge for a single ddr5 ram stick looking at similar capacity(and this is even for their new stock which is still being produced and sold for that price to consumers less than half than the average consumer companies charge only for a ram stick without having a full good performance mini pc with it.).
still I might shout some of them out when the prices become normal again, as they make products for enthausiats and I wouldn't want their stuf to be bought up only for the ram by some shady scalpers which certainly will be ripping data from this site as well.

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Valve have given their accessibility categories on Steam for discovering games a small overhaul, along with a big new Steam client update for everyone.

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what are the best games can I download on linux

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Hello everyone, I bought Clair Obscur Expedition 33 on PS5 and wanted to play it on my SD card without using Chiaki, so I downloaded the ISO and installed it via Lutris. The problem is that the game runs at 15 fps even at low resolution, and I'd like to access XeSS mode, but this mode only unlocks if you enter the command SteamDeck=0 %command%. However, the problem is that in the Steam game mode command line, there's already run... etc., which launches Clair Obscur. I've tried adding it before or after the existing command, but nothing works. I even wrote the command in Lutris with the key and value, but XeSS mode is still not unlocked in-game. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.340-Descriptor-Heap

Could this be the beginning of the end for Nvidia Linux performance issues?! I sure hope so.

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Hi Guys, i want to use that thing, for streaming to my living room.
it says: "no funtioning hardware accelerated video decoder was detected".

Is this a hardware issue?

how can i solve it?

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Waiting for waydroid container service...

Exception during init

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/waydroid/tools/actions/initializer.py", line 253, in remote_init_proc_entry init(args) ~~~~^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/waydroid/tools/actions/initializer.py", line 127, in init if not setup_config(args): ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/waydroid/tools/actions/initializer.py", line 44, in setup_config helpers.drivers.setupBinderNodes(args) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/waydroid/tools/helpers/drivers.py", line 141, in setupBinderNodes raise OSError('Binder node "vndbinder" for waydroid not found') OSError: Binder node "vndbinder" for waydroid not found Interrupted

Likewise, sorry for the inconvenience

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Hi i have a problem with RDR2.

It's a ASUS TUF A16 Advantage Edition laptop with Ryzen 7 7435HS, 16GB DDR5-4800MHz RAM and Radeon RX 7600S GPU. It's a full AMD gaming laptop.

Game is running on Vulkan and Proton-GE.

OS is Bazzite with GNOME.

It is stuttering constantly. It is nearly unplayable.

Settings are bit lower than i used on Windows.

It was running very smoothly on Windows 11.

How can i fix it? I don't want to go back to Windows.

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Having this weird artifacting in Cyberpunk when RT or PT is turned on, no other settings seem to affect it, turning FSR off etc. I don't have any OC running in LACT, does anyone know a fix?

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Not new to linux, I have Arch installed on my notebook. Just wondering if Fedora KDE good for gaming and 3D Modelling? i have NVIDIA RTX 4060 laptop, Intel i7, 16gb ram, 1tb. Going from windows 11 to linux

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its a windows exe file i installed from dodi repacks

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