So recently I learned that I don't need to "install wine" since I started running things in Bottles Flatpak, but there are still some old games that refuse to launch. If they don't work in WinXP compatibility mode set in Bottles, should I give up or is there something I'm missing?

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Like the image shows, this is all it'll show during the startup of the game. It also happens with MSFS 2020, but not always. With MSFS 2024, it's always. The game itself runs fone though, but I'm just wondering why this part missing.

Thoughts?

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I been trying to increase my fan speed for awhile now. Everytime I do a sensors check it wont pick up my fan at all. To my knowlege it is hooked up right and it is running so I do not understand why it is not reading. Kinda just frustrated at the whole thing since I have been trying for days.

For clarity, I am running Garuda Linux. Basic gaming laptop. Ran lm-sensors countless times and same story. Won't let me configure any settings for the fan through pwmconfig. Kinda just shows this.

in ~ as 🧙 took 5s
[🔴] × sudo pwmconfig
# pwmconfig version 3.6.2
This program will search your sensors for pulse width modulation (pwm)
controls, and test each one to see if it controls a fan on
your motherboard. Note that many motherboards do not have pwm
circuitry installed, even if your sensor chip supports pwm.

We will attempt to briefly stop each fan using the pwm controls.
The program will attempt to restore each fan to full speed
after testing. However, it is ** very important ** that you
physically verify that the fans have been to full speed
after the program has completed.

/usr/bin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed

Not sure if I am just stupid and didnt properly set my fans right when I was cleaning them one day or what. But I am kinda just over smacking my head against the wall.

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Not new to linux, but by no means a power user. I've dabbled in Ubuntu over the years but typically just run it as a server for docker, pfsense, pihole, etc. I don't play competitive games that need anti-cheat, and don't use my gaming rig for much else anymore. I figure this is the perfect time to try out some gaming-friendly distros and hopefully bid a hearty "get wrecked" to Win11.

I don't use this for console gaming, so leaning towards CachyOS at this point. Bazzite and the Immutable OS seems cool (children's book?), but I actually would like to make changes to the kernel if necessary. Not sure why I'd need to, so might not be a deal breaker. Here's my hardware and what games I mostly play:

CPU/Mem/Mobo: Intel 10850K, 32GB DDR4, Gigabyte Aorus Z490 Elite

VGA: Asus RTX 4070 OC 12GB

Games: Civ6, Civ7, Anno 1800, Anno Pax Romana, Bannerlord 2, Borderlands (all), Helldivers 2

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It should be USB 3, but I want to make sure it is working correctly. Do I need benchmarking software or is there another way?

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I connect external 144Hz monitor to my laptop. Initially when I used USB-C connector, it only recognized up to 120Hz. Then I bought HDMI connector and it was working fine on 144Hz. A few months go by and today I connected my external monitor again, and to my surprise HDMI doesn't recognize 144Hz at all and only shows bullshit options like 59Hz, 50Hz etc. Surprisingly USB-C connection is showing me 144Hz now lol.

Affected hardware: AOC C24G1 + Zeskit Certified 2.1 8K HDMI Cable combo. Linux 6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64

Rubbing salt in the wound, my bluetooth driver has been broken since kernel 6.12.. It's slowly draining my patience....

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Currently on Win11 and have ASUS H610M motherboard with i5-11400 and 32 GB RAM. No dedicated GPU just onboard.

Getting fed up with Windows and looking to go Linux (Mint, maybe Ubuntu)

Used to game a bit on an older pc until a few years ago but now feel a call back to a couple of games (Asseto Corsa maybe GTA V) but will need a GPU otherwise the games are very jerky.

Quite like the look of the Intel range and have previously had Nvidia.

Looking at spending up to £150 and have a few models in mind.

Just looking for recommendations on the compatibility of Intel and Nvidia GPUs under Linux.

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I recently switched to Linux Mint from windows 10 which ran the game fine. I also checked proton db and the game should be playable, but when I launch it everything works untill I hit continue on the menu and the loading screen will eventually freeze. I have tried fixes like changing the proton version and disabling steam overlay but nothing seems to work.

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Installed Fedora 43, now trying to setup Lutris AND FSR4 for use with some older games, for now i'm trying with Control.

Optiscaler works and enables FSR, but only FSR3, fsr4 isn't available (it worked on windows10), how do I fix this?

I'm using the same optiscaler I that I used on Windows yet it doesn't show fsr4, I'm running a 9070 xt

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Back in the day you could spend hours in a 32bit chroot tinkering to get a wine build working, or you could download it from POL.

Then you could download it from lutris. Then GE and tkg. Tkg does bleeding edge builds through CI now but is there really no-one building versioned good old-fashioned "Just set your path to the bin folder and run it" wine?

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well, i was trying to run nk archive (a collection of 60-ish flash games ported) and it keeped saying the game has launched, but nothing happens, it just stays in steam without the game opening

please dont be rude, im just a stupid guy that doesnt know how steam works on linux

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It’s time to finally build the ticket to my well-deserved freedom from Windows! Join me as I desperately try to make this new Linux PC work, and who knows, it might even end up amazing!

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I recently bought the Machenike G5 Pro and everything works except for vibration. I've tried running the controller from both wired and wireless but the effect has been the same. Vibration is recognised by the driver but when I try to test it, the controller does NOT vibrate.

I've tried everything mentioned in this thread about the same issue but none of it has worked. The only difference between that thread is my usb vendor and product ids are different. I've also checked the arch wiki.

Here are my udev files

/etc/udev/rules.d/99-machenike-bind-xpad.rules

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2345", ATTRS{idProduct}=="e02e", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe xpad", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 2345 e02e > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/xpad/new_id'", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo $kernel > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/xpad/bind'"

/etc/udev/rules.d/10-disallow-generic-driver-for-switch.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="hid", DRIVER=="hid-generic", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2345", ATTRS{idProduct}=="e02e", RUN="/bin/sh -c 'echo $id:1.0 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/unbind'"

I've used https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad and fftest to test and both show the vibrate option, but after selecting it, the controller does not vibrate. The only time it ever vibrates is when starting up and connecting to the dongle. Am I missing something?

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I have a several downgrade from playing in w10 > Linux Mint (60fps stable to varely 20 in warframe). I already instaled Mesa and im using the proton compatibility to run the game, dont know what else should i do please help :'( Edit: I just used proton 9.0 from the steam settings and it worked tyall <3

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I am trying to get rdr2 to run on linux mint. Before i had the same issue, i only had an igpu at that time though, and assumed it was bc of that. I now have a rx460 which should be enough to play the game at low settings.

It launches and i can get past the rockstar launcher. I can get into the game but i only get one freeze frame for about 10 minutes, then it crashes completely. Going into the settings and changing things is also extremely laggy. I have tried to put this as launch options, since others said it helped them:

RADV_DEBUG=nobinning %command% -vulkan -fullscreen

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="amd_ags_x64=b" %command%

(this is not my text, a friend of mine needs help and doesnt have reddit. I have tried helping them but am at a loss of what to do)

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If you've recently played Halo MCC on Linux, you might have noticed that the game consistently crashes when loading into your first match. Then upon re-opening the game, you'll be unable to rejoin that match and will instead be met with a short 3 minute long matchmaking ban. Even more bizarre, the game works perfectly fine after you finish waiting out that ban.

So, what's actually happening here?

1. This has nothing to do with any recent Proton updates. This happens in all Proton releases.

2. It (very likely) has nothing to do with your PC or game installation. You do not need to get a better PC to play a bunch of ~20 year old games.

3. This will happen consistently if you rush into a game.

4. This is not inherently fixable by triggering the crash once and then restarting game. It will work as long as you get that temp ban, but it's not the actual solution.

5. As suggested by others, starting up a private match does not inherently fix this issue. It can work, but it isn't actually what fixes the issue.

The solution is actually much simpler than anything you can think of:

You must wait in the lobby for 3 minutes.

Pretty anti-climatic huh? It turns out that the three minute long temp ban was saving you all along! It works with 100% consistency in my experience, but the necessary wait time could change from computer to computer.

I can't take credit for this discovery, as it was originally posted by a user on proton's github page, but I believe that this information needs to be more widely accessible. Hopefully it gets fixed soon!

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i use sober to play roblox and installed it with flatpak

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I'm looking for a Linux Distro to jump to after getting sick of Windows 11, I have tried Bazzite in the past but it was getting on my nerves due to it's containerised nature what recommendations can be made, ideally a distro that has HDR Support

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I tried to use bottles (Linux mint) to install vortex so I can mod my games, Stardew, Subnautica to name a few. But I can’t get it to work right. I think one of my biggest issues (I could be wrong, still very new to a lot of Linux stuff) is I use 2 different hard drives. It looks like bottles only lets me install on my main drive but all my games are on the second. Can anyone help my poor melted brain?

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