Other News about gaming on Linux
Controller replacing mouse
Hello, newbie here. Maybe a bit offtopic, but I've moved my lazy ass from the chair to the couch and while my Logitech K400 wireless keyboard does a good job, sometimes I need having my hands in a different angle while surfing Reddit. Found this solution and it works nicely in Lubuntu with a standard controller (in my case Speedlink): " sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-joystick " then reboot. Haven't found out yet how to reconfigure buttons, but l/r click work as well as scrolling and cursor. Found it on this page: https://askubuntu.com/questions/114895/how-can-a-gamepad-control-the-mouse . Original poster ran Debian Jessie.
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The Hunter: Call of the Wild freezes
I'm new to Linux, I have the latest version of the Mint Distro (Xia) and most of my games are working fine, some even work better than when I was using Windows.
Except for The Hunter: Call of the Wild. My problem is it will play fine for a while and then it will freeze. Not crash out or anything, it will literally just freeze the screen indefinitely. I can't tab out, can't Crtl Alt Del, nothing. I tried running the proton hotfix, experimental, 9.0-4, 8.0-5, even GE-Proton9-25. Nothing works. I'm at my wit's end, please help.
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SamRewritten is looking for support for a new return!
Hello,
SamRewritten recently announced that they're looking for funding for a rewrite from scratch enabling better support across distros and easier maintenance. Rust developers are needed too! More details on the project Readme.
Just to avoid confusion, I am the main developer behind SamRewritten.
Have a good day!
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What is your favorite linux compatible “while I talk on discord” game?
Just looking for a great “background game” something that keeps my hands busy while I chat with friends on discord
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Memory leak or normal?
i have the high texture pack installed and enabled and i noticed that my vram is through the ROOF! i have 24gbo vram and i shouldn't be buckling from one texture pack. i also notice that this vram meter doesn't match my system one. its about 16gb (2gb) from my system (still high IMO)
im using fedora 41 kde (rest of specs in photo)
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Any Keyboard Splitter Alternatives for Linux?
I am looking for a tool that creates a virtual joystick/controller device and maps a selected keyboard to that virtual joystick. There is a program named Keyboard Splitter on Windows that does this, but I could not find a matching application for Linux.
The closest thing I could find is this C script(?): https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=printthread&Board=8&main=9209&type=thread
If anyone knows such an utility program for Linux. Please let me know.
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Dualshock touchpad in games?
Any way to get the dualshock 4 touchpad to work in games? I've been playing Ghost of Tsushima lately, and that game often uses the touchpad. At first, it acted as a mouse, so I disabled it in system settings which allowed the touchpad click to work. But inputs that require swiping on the touchpad currently do nothing. Anyonw know how to get it working?
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Tekken 8 Disk Write Error when updates are pushed, no other game does this.
For some reason, and its been this way since the game came out, every other time an update happens, my computer will start downloading the update, and then get stuck between halfway and 90% done.
Verifying files, clearing download cache, trying to move the install folder, nothing has fixed it in the past. The only remedy I've found is uninstalling the game, and installing it again, and I'm quite tired of that method, so I was hoping you fine people might be able to help me.
The drive (an m.2) I'm installing it to is formatted to NTFS since it's a shared drive within my PC and I dual boot with windows (no, windows can't seem to update the game after Linux gives up, since the files are partially messed with at that point). Tekken 8 is the only game to do this: Street Fighter 6, Baulder's Gate 3, Elden Right, No Man's Sky, all of them update and behave perfectly fine, with no hints of anything breaking outside of SF6 within the first month or so of its release which has not happened since.
I am running EndeavorOS, I don't have any of my drives encrypted nor any particular software which messes with the file system running except SyncThing, which doesn't even look inside my steam directory. I'm at a genuine loss why this keeps happening, why Tekken 8 is the only game it happens to, and why the common solutions don't do anything to help.
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I am happy now! (Goodbyes! (Borderlands 2 working now))
I am very happy today!
I got Borderlands 2 working fine!... but thats not all im happy for...
I'm happy that I got Borderlands 2 working great bcuz I switched to Windows!
Only did this bcuz firstly I only got ubuntu jammy jellyfish to fix a broken hard drive, but I had trouble getting back to windows. So, for the past year, i've had a lot of fun playing on linux and learning new things about computers with the help of you master linuxers!
It's been very fun, but I remembered why I had linux when I installed borderlands 2...
(worst linux port ever created)
After that, I finally managed to switch back to windows after a year of fun on linux with my aquired knowledge on linux, which previously I did not understand.
I switched back not only bcuz of Borderlands 2, but also... I am still not a pc nerd (completely), which mean that i cannot do much without looking up on google or on reddit.
Anyways, I am very happy now! And thanks for the support everybody on linux has given me!
Goodbye! --Cooki LX--
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Winwing Ursa Minor has two axes bound to Z axis
Pretty much what the title says: I have a Winwing Ursa Minor Fighter joystick that, when trying to play DCS, has both the throttle slider and the twist axis bound to a singular axis, (the Z axis) which should be reserved for the twist alone. I've never messed around with joystick configuration, any hints as to where to start would be greatly appreciated.
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Linux native botanical time-lapse sim, developed through years on Slackware/NixOS
Help with XXMI Launcher
I've been trying to play ZZZ with mods using the XXMI launcher. It plays and works but if I tab out when I tab back in I loose all control. I can't use my keyboard or my game pad to control. I on the Hoyolauncher itself it's the same deal. Any tips?
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Any Limo users care to shed some light on proper use of "Root Level"
My modding level is somewhere between beginner to intermediate. I started modding skyrim with M02 on windows back in 2022 with a decent degree of success and had about 250 to 300 mods working almost flawlessly. I switched to mint around 2023 and tried modding with M02. Which I was able to get working temporarily but eventually it bugged out of my control and i decided to leave it alone for a while and wait for a better solution. Currently I'm running fedora and I'm determined Limo is that better solution.
So far all I have installed is the skse mod described in the github tutorial. I understand the function of root level as it's described in the install guide when installing SKSE. But I don't understand when it's necessary to use it with other mods. Setting a root level isn't necessary for all mods right? If not when do you know when and how many to set it for? If anyone could clarify I would appreciate it. Even if it's just some examples.
Also some explenation or examples of other common mods that get added to bin deployer (besides SKSE and ENB) would be cool. I'm having some trouble making sense of that as well. Thanks in advance for any contribution!
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two things
i want some type of pop up for my music , to show me whats playing when i switch songs with hotkeys etc.
just like modern flyouts on windows . im on pikaos 4, which is debian based.
second issue im having is i cant hotkey open terminal which is called console on pika. it just pops open a search bar for the desktop(gnome) supposed to be shift + ctrl + n but doesnt work
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laptop heating steam game question
I was playing Steam as I do once in a while on Arch, on Dell xps 15 laptop, and somewhere around 2 weeks ago, some other reasons, I decided maybe I was overdue for a fresh Arch install. Now before, I was seeing idle temps around 150 F +/- 10 say, and steam was starting to push it into 220 F area. This fresh install is currently running at 116 F.
This machine is not too bad I mean maybe not gamer level whatever, what should I know before I just go and reinstall steam and hit the same brick wall.?
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Bizarre performance drops an hour after rebooting
Okay this has been driving me nuts. Before I start, system specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
Motherboard: B550I AORUS PRO AX
And this is less relevant, since this also happened on Bazzite, but I'll still list it anyways:
OS: Ultramarine Linux 41 (Cyberia) x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64
So I've been trying out the Unleashed Recomp lately, which is great fun, especially on my Steam Deck. But bizarrely the game runs like complete garbage on my computer, and I have no clue why. I've been poking and prodding but not much has yielded anything.
Provided is Unleashed Recomp's profiler showing what happens from a normal 60FPS scene to when I rotate the camera around (I'm in Empire City's village level to demonstrate this). Note how "Present" spikes up completely. Eventually "Present Wait" does settle back down, but it doesn't make performance any better when that happens.
And here's what LACT's historical chart shows:
Contradictorily, the parts of the graph that shows power usage is when my FPS drops. I don't know why my GPU is deciding to use LESS power when these intensive scenes are showing up. It's not like my CPU usage increases either.
Fixes I've tried: Putting `amdgpu.aspm=0` into GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, using CoreCtrl and LACT (the GPU's memory frequency does get changed, but the GPU itself completely ignores those changes), using gamemoderun (sometimes it makes the game run worse and I don't know why), running the game in X11 (I switched to Ultramarine Linux just to use cinnamon, game runs just about the same). And none of the in-game settings affect this, hell cranking all the settings down still yields bad performance in the same areas (even making the game run at 200P resolution internally!)
I'm seriously out of ideas as to what to do here, I've scoured Reddit for suggestions and came up dry at this point. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
I think something important to note is that this performance happens after an hour of my computer being on, give or take. If I run Unleashed Recomp immediately, the game runs just fine. But then I do other stuff and come back to it... and the performance tanks completely. Closing down all other applications doesn't help, restarting KDE Plasma doesn't either, by logging out then logging back in, even.
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Debian 12, steam crashing on launch
This just started today. I saw a couple issues pop up on the steam for linux github page, so seems like a widespread issue. Has anyone here run into this issue? https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and I'm all out of ideas
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Best gaming distro for intel macs (VM setup on Mac Pro 2013)
I'm trying to play some games on my Mac pro 2013 using a VM running a linux distro. Mainly playing Rocket League or other indie single player games. I'm trying to run Rocket League from the Epic Games Launcher though. If any distro works, would I use the heroic games launcher?
I've seen YT videos mentioning Asahi Linux but I'm using an intel mac, so I'm not sure if that works for me or not. Let me know which Linux distros are good for running rocket league on a VM. Also if you can estimate the performance on 1080p, hoping to game on 1080p-60fps.
My Mac pro 2013 has a 2.7ghz xeon cpu and dual d300 amd firepro graphics with 64gb ram.
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Is GPU Passthrough worth it?
I'm planning to buy a new PC for gaming, and I love Linux, the problem is that playing online games that uses Anticheat on Linux is impossible, I would love to play Wuthering Waves or League of Legends without being constantly obligated to dualboot with windows and Linux.. So I searched many options including GPU Passthrough on a gaming VM..
From what I know, I need a Good CPU (I picked R9 5900x), lot of RAM (32gb), two graphics cards (RX 6700 or 7600 combined with a RX580) and a good MoBo that supports very well the PCIe Passthrough (idk for this)
But from what I've heard, even with that there are a lot of flaws with gaming VMs, like Anticheats that prohibit the use of VMs, hard drives speeds problems, compatibility problems and the one that scares me the most, setup problems.
This is where I notice that even after my research, I feel like I know pretty much nothing about this.. I checked a little r/VFIO but most of the recent post are people asking for help so it didn't helped me a lot.. I'm a newbie on Linux and maybe this is way beyond my skills but I at least want to know if I have any chance of being able to stay on linux while playing competitive games.
Is it better for me to stay on Windows or to Setup a gaming VM?
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Performance tanked after today's Monster Hunter Wlds patch.
Everyone knows that this game optimization is a mess, it was basically running the same thing as windows for me after i migrated. Playable with tinkering but no the best. After today's patch the game is at a constant 10 to 20 fps, unplayable.
Anyone with the same problem? Is this a a conflict with the new version and proton?
I am fairly new to linux gaming so, maybe a game breaking after a update might be a common occurrence i have not seen yet.
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