"For those unaware, if you have a video file in the right resolution and format, SteamOS allows you to use it as a boot screen—it can be anything you choose. And naturally, people have already got to work on boot screens tailored to the upcoming Steam Machine." - PC Gamer

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I don't want to deal with Xbox's lack of upstream kernel support and side-installing Xone driver, or other similar issues for different vendors. I just want to vote with my wallet for first-class Linux kernel support.

Are there any good wireless controllers, preferably non-bluetooth (2.4GHz dongle is just more reliable), which have support in upstream mainline kernel? I know the new Steam Controller is coming but I don't want to wait for it. And I want controller to work without Steam Input as I do have a bunch of games outside of steam (eg: GOG and EGS through Heroic Game Launcher).

Nicer features like gyro, hall effect thumb sticks, adaptive triggers would be nice. Specifically gyro -- I've never used gyro myself -- is gyro good for Linux gaming ?

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I can't play any of the online modes because AntiCheat doesn't want to work. I have read that people are playing the online modes just fine but I keep hitting this wall. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this.

I can play offline just and the game hasn't crashed on me yet. So it's not a problem with the game per se.

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System Information:

CachyOS x86_64

B550 Aorus Elite AX V2

Linux 6.17.7-5-cachyos

fish 4.2.1

KDE Plasma 6.5.2

KWin (Wayland)

AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT (16) @ 3.77 GHz (4.2GHz)

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT [Discrete]

Issue: Screen freezing followed by black screen, display port disconnects then reconnects, graphics reset notification (only appeared after the first few times I tried fixing this). Steam is either closed or open in the background using only 12-20% cpu usage (likely from the process or EAC not being closed fully).

[I have this posted somewhere else, but I reposted this in this subreddit and someone got snappy about the way I had formatted my post, so this will be the cleanest way I will be posting this, if you don't like that I put my specs or issue first before I get into my explanation then too bad for you I guess, you can disregard this if you don't care about any extra clues that might help with figuring this out.]

Explanation: To start off, my temps are normal, and my clock speeds don't go over a certain GHz/MHz, so it's not an issue where it spikes my clocks and causes the hang, but what I noticed when I was using mangohud is that specifically my cpu wattage instantly drops to 0.0. Other than that, there is no other displayed information when it comes to usage/temps, everything is normal there. I did however find out with looking into my journal deeper, that it might be related to my clocks (although this issue is not able to be replicated on Windows), so the only other issue is either proton or RADV, so the person that did recommend me to see if it was a ring error, I looked deeper and found that to be confirmed true. Although, I have updated my kernel, mesa graphics driver, and amdgpu firmware with cachyos and the Cachy-Update package. I can only think it could be tied to my clock speeds, as I mentioned my gpu has a factory overclock, and my cpu has its max cpu ghz possible, so it's always running a boosted clock at 4.2-4.3 GHz. If it has to do with overclocking, which I know is a known issue with Halo Infinite, generally doesn't like overclocking and will crash at any chance it gets, but with the ring issue also having an illegal opcode error AND "gfx_0.0.0 timeout" suggests my drivers as well as my hardware. On top of that, "vkd3d_queue" which can also be a possibility tied to proton, if anyone wants me to post the entire log I will post it in the comment requesting it. Currently I have tried everything else and to not mess with anything other than launch commands so far but to no avail, if anyone has any knowledge of an actual fix, and maybe just outright call me an idiot, because I generally feel too lazy to actually downgrade drivers for one game. This turned more into a rant than a general explanation but hopefully it helps!

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Let me start by saying I'm not new to Linux, I have used it way back with red hat, fedora, mandrake, Ubuntu and decided I liked Ubuntu the best. It's the gaming part I never thought would be possible.

First what distro would you recommend I should use that's more geared towards gaming? 2nd, I might get some hate but I'm a controller player, I either use an Xbox elite 2 or a PS5 dual sense controller. Would it be simple as plugging them in or do I need to install anything to get them to work? Lastly is there a PS5 remote play app for Linux? Thanks in advance

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I have used Linux (Mint back in 2019 on an old laptop) before and really enjoyed it. I have a gaming PC and it seems most of my games per the proton page are gold or better. I am leery about swapping my gaming laptop to a linux gaming distro and am wondering about everyone's experience with gaming on linux.

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As the title implies and the video shows which i videoed instead of screen recorded because the video captured would be very weirdly normal, no lag or anything. the video on the right monitor was to show the whole pc freezing instead of just the game lagging.

This happens for all my games, minecraft as an example to show not steam specific.

However, for some reason the pc does not have the same issues when being played on the second monitor (Old Vizio E320i-B2 2014 TV). Which begs the question. Why does it freeze my whole pc if its my monitor.

Anyone have ideas on how to fix this?

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My specs:

Kubuntu 24.04 (Ubuntu with KDE Plasma)

NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super
AMD Ryzen 7
16 GB RAM

Hey y'all

I am having an issue with No Man's Sky and No Man's Sky ONLY where the game would freeze up, I would get stuttering audio and this would essentially lock my computer for 10 minutes or so until the game finally crashes and I regain control over my system. During that time period, nothing works, neither Alt+ F4, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Esc nor can I open the terminal.
The timing of these freezes seems completely random - I have played for four continuous hours before just fine some times but some times the game froze on the initial loading screen from the main menu.

This does not happen with any other game. I have asked people in No Man's Sky specific communities and no one could replicate that issue. Nor does any comment on ProtonDB mention crashes like these.

So far I have tried:

• Checking ProtonDB for recommended Steam launch options and Proton versions
• Using GE Proton
• Using any of the built-in Protons including Experimental
• Using Feral Game Mode (and enabling it in Steam launch settings)
• Tinkering with my video game settings
  • One user suggested the issue might lie with NVIDIA's DLAA anti-aliasing and they got better results with DLSS. My game lasted longer on DLSS but it still crashes
  • Another suggested a difference between Borderless Fullscreen and just Fullscreen but it still crashes with both
• Changing the memory allocated to the game through Steam's launch options - both a limit to 8 GB and a dynamic memory allocation yielded no long term fix
• Using xWayland rather than x11. It seems better for a bit but after a while the crashes return. Curiously, I had the same experience once I returned to using x11 from Wayland
  • Ubuntu 24.04 and Wayland seemingly don't get along and there is no fixing that
• Checked that everything was up to date. All apps, NVIDIA drivers, GE Proton, No Man's Sky, Steam

This leads me to believe it might be some kind of memory leak - especially since crashes occur quickly when entering areas with a lot of complex geometry (i.e. the Space Anomaly, a multiplayer hub). But I am not confident in that diagnosis at all.

Any ideas?

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Every now and then when I'm playing a game on Steam, anything really, it will crash my system and require a hard restart. It will freeze, blink off the monitor, and come back on and remain frozen. Input and output audio will still work. Every time it happens, I get a similar error to what is below. What can I do to fix this?

The package providing /home/torchead/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Counter-Strike could not be found.

The package providing /home/torchead/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam could not be found.

If you want to generate a stack trace for this crash report, please reinstall it.

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Hey everyone. I know I already posted. But I wanted to know. Both work great out of the box. But I just wanna game and scroll the web on Linux plus using blender. Which would be best?

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Couple of my buddies switched on over to CachyOS and Mint. I’m tempted to follow them after being burnt out with Windows but worried I’ll miss out on things I use like VR, Wallpaper Engine, HDR, support for external controllers for things like flight simulators, and NVIDA compatibility.

How’s everyone experience with Linux and has it been a pretty seamless transition? I don’t want to switch entirely in case something I use just doesn’t work out of the box but at the same time I want something different and more technical to learn for greater freedom.

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Can anyone maybe hint to me how to do VR on Linux? I feel like i have tried so many solutions that work sometimes and then don’t

For clarity i run arch and my headset is a quest 3

SteamVR (the wireless streaming app) sometimes works great often it crashes

WiVrn works but something is up with the audio being.. crunchy.. also a lot of games don’t launch into view?

ALVR seems to work the most often but it has no async space time so.. it’s not ideal

What am I missing?

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I just installed Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon and I'm unable to use my corded headphones through my controller anymore. Is there an application or fix to facilitate this?

The controller: PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller for Xbox Series X|S

PC: Ryzen 9 3950x, RTX 2080super, 64 gig Gskill ram, Asus ROG mother board.

Headphones: Turtle Beach Recon50P corded 3.5mm jack

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I just picked up a legion go S today and wanted to control the rgb with openrgb, I ran the flatpack and immediately my screen turned extra bright gray and in both gaming and desktop mode I have this sorta burn in effect going on. I Uninstalled the flaptak, rebooted, changed from steam os beta back to stable to see if that would fix it, and it's still an issue. I've only been using this thing for 5 hours since unboxing so it can't be real burn in, plus it's lcd. What do I do to fix it. You can see at the top left of my screen Spiderman remastered is showing through firefoz

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About to make the switch from Windows to Linux for my home PC, which is primarily a gaming rig. My current PC is currently rocking Corsair keyboard and mouse all configured with iCue software and prior to that I was using Razer..

I'd like to get away from peripherals that require OS level software, as a lot of brands seem to not officially support Linux installations.

I came across Ducky keyboards which look great, just wondering what other people are using here for gaming?

I prefer full size 100% Keyboards, and mice with extra buttons.

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One feature I’m looking for in my newly installed Nobara is the ability to tweak specific settings for games; framerate, vsync, etc.

In Windows you can set specific settings through Nvidia Control Panel, is there anything like this for Linux? Using a 4070.

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I am fairly new to Linux, only having recently switched from Windows. I was tinkering a little with Wine, when I looked in the ~/.wine folder and realized it wasn't mounting all of my laptop's drives. Not realizing Wine had a GUI configuration screen, I manually adjusted the dos_devices folder to reflect how I wanted my drives mounted, and following a restart it appears to have broken all versions of Wine installed on my computer. This includes Proton, so trying to run the applications I want under Steam is out of the question. Specifically, Wine will run very slowly and hang in it's initialization stage (I think?), although Proton more often just gives up before the application can launch.

Graphics info:

- Integrated Graphics Card/Processor: Intel Core i5 10th generation

- Deferred Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX 1650 Ti (the drivers were set up following https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA)

I have tried the following to fix Wine:

- Reinstalling Wine

- Reinstalling Proton

- Trying different official Proton versions

- Trying Proton-GE

- Reinstalling Steam

- Clearing the Steam Cache(s)

- Clearing ~/.cache

- Clearing ~/.wine

- Launching games with PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 and/or PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1

None of them have worked.

I have tried the following Games/Applications through both standard Wine and Proton:

- Deltarune

- Escape the Backrooms

- Hammer

- Hammer++

- VTFEdit

All of these Games/Applications were working before, and are now either now launching at all or take forever to launch.

Possible clues:

- I have confirmed that Vulkan at least semi-works from running vkcube, but running vulkaninfo | grep DRIVER_ID_MESA_RADV returns something rather interesting:

WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Received return code -3 from call to vkCreateInstance in ICD /usr/lib64/libvulkan_dzn.so. Skipping this driver.

- Trying to run Deltarune under bog standard Wine, after about 3-4 minutes, actually launched. There was no sound, and the game window was entirely black, but it was infact running semi-properly (pressing enter actually launched Chapter 1).

Resources:

- Steam log from trying to run Deltarune (Was not terminated by me): https://pastebin.com/tgG1z4aR

- Wine console output from trying to run Deltarune (Manually terminated by me): https://pastebin.com/VzxyU1au

If anyone could help out with this, in any capacity, it would be greatly appreciated!

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Hi. I wonder if you could help out here? I'm running MXLinux on a Dell XPS 8930 with an nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 and 64 gigs of RAM. This problem has occurred with a few Steam games. I tried the default Proton Experimental compatibility layer and also Proton 9.0-4. The game loads to 100% and then suddenly blips off and disappears. It's definitely not running in the background because each time I restart the game, it does the same thing: loads to 100% and then blips off. I really want to play this game because of its Myst vibe. Any clues as to how I can get this to run? I am not an experienced gamer so I'm at a loss for troubleshooting.

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