Another festival of games is live on Steam now with Steam FPS Fest 2024 running until April 22nd at 10am PT / 5pm UTC, and there's also plenty of demos for games to try too.

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It makes Elden Ring crash...

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Its showing cant connect to drivers when using nvidia-smi

Can someone let me know the driver version and kernel version they are using on ubuntu

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Hi

This happened with my first Linux install, Manjaro, but also on my CachyOS install. It has never happened with the Windows 11 install on the same machine.

I can not see that it is related to metered connection or anything like that.

This is the motherboard, and it uses Intel 2.5gb LAN chip

ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI | Gaming motherboards｜ROG - Republic of Gamers｜ROG Global (asus.com)

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Hey, around 10 month laptot/dual-boot linux user here!

I really want to beleive in to linux gaming, i really do, but so far it has not been a pain free experience.

For example, launching counter strike 2 will indeed launch, but there's a slight problem. The screen is fully black. There is sound, the cursor works (i can hear the ui elements when hovering over them), but the image doesn't get draw in to the screen. I got cs2 working when i was using endeavouros back 8 months ago, but it was through a lot of tweaking and it didn't work out of the box back then either.

With valheim, the image gets drawn, but i see the valheim logo and the app crashes then right ahead. Tested with and without proton.

Now for some specs:

OS: Fedora 40

DE: Gnome 46

CPU: Ryzen 7 2700x

GPU: nvidia geforce RTX 2070

RAM: 16G DDR4

I don't know if it's the GPU or what is it, but surely it's not the out of the box experience many gamers switching from windows would like to have. Now for me, it's not a problem to tweak and configure my pc, but for sure it'd be a much better experience if i got to play the game right away without scratching my head for 3 hours.

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So, i just did a fresh install of arch linux, kde plasma 6 w/ wayland. I got steam, and downloaded TF2. Went into the game and something about the mouse cursor felt off, like there was an element of stutter or lag. I had done multiple installs of linux before this, and this was never an issue i had to deal with. I wanted to test with a different game, content warning (which has a platinum on protondb its not native) with proton experimental. Booted it up, loaded in, and it was a total mess. Whenever you moved the mouse, it was like it was stuttering back to the last frame for a second, for no reason. It was so bad you could even think it was running at a lower refresh rate, but even then it looked too off. Micro stutters anytime you moved the mouse and the game seems fine when youre not moving your mouse. But its a weird issue that I dont know how to solve. Everything else is perfect and its just infuriating because one of my worst issues was fixed/reduced when i redownloaded linux and it was awesome. But games just feel in best case off, and in other cases down right unplayable. Before this I was using wine with lutris to try and download titanfall 2 on ea and it went horribly wrong but i just deleted everything. And I dont think it would have anything to do with this. Tried to troubleshoot by downloading piper and seeing if maybe that would help (settings 1000hz and 800dpi) Im honestly not sure of what the issue is, but when I went into another tf2 match, certain portions of the map would feel right, but other times it would feel off, not as terrible as content warning, but it was still very noticeable in many instances. I dont think this is vulkan shaders, because I've run these games on linux before and had no issues like this ever.

EDIT: Just tested it, and this is very much a wayland/nvidia + wayland issue, x11 runs fine for content warning its buttery smooth. I tested both with 1 monitor and wayland with 2 monitors. (mixed refresh rates and I just dont feel like configuring that for x11 only to get screen tearing (75 + 144hz) so yeah) Wayland had the issue on both setups. But x11 was silky smooth on one monitor... Is this Nvidia being Nvidia again, orrrr...?

DISTRO: Arch

DE:KDE Plasma 6

DRIVER: Newest Nvidia 550.67 Driver

DUAL MONITOR: 75+144hz

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Someone is going to have to explain this to me, if you read the steam TOS they changed it about 5 years ago from an buy model to a leasing model. Back when they announced this about 10% were screaming to other steam users to not sign this. Yet when you speak to any steam user they still think they own their library. Can someone please explain this to me, because it makes absolutely no sense.

Every year i contact steam and ask them two questions. When i buy a game can I pass on my collection to my nephew when i die? Answer is always no. The lease is only meant for you and it cannot be transferred. Second question - can i run my steam games offline and without an internet connection. No you will occasionally have to get on the internet to make sure you're authorized to play that game. Wait like DRM? No not at all. Please explain. Dead silence.

I always then say if one day you guys decide to close shop that means all of "my" games will not work. Dead silence.

I am not attacking steam users i just need to know what i am missing and how steam isn't as bad as ubisoft for example.

One last thing bothering me is that steam users think proton is the invention of steam. It's not at all, they are just using wine and adding in a few changes here and there but mostly they developed it to enforce their drm. I run every game using wine. Modern games, old games, ... it requires that you know more but proton is not needed to run any game if you are not in the drm steam ecosystem. Stop praising proton and give credit to the wine developers that have made it possible to game on linux. They have been doing it for over 10 years unpaid.

Here is the TOS - "Steam and your Subscription(s) require the download and installation of Content and Services onto your computer. Valve hereby grants, and you accept, a non-exclusive license and right, to use the Content and Services for your personal, non-commercial use (except where commercial use is expressly allowed herein or in the applicable Subscription Terms). This license ends upon termination of (a) this Agreement or (b) a Subscription that includes the license. The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services. To make use of the Content and Services,

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Greetings,

I have an XPS 8950 with an AMD graphics card (6000 series?) that I finally got Ubuntu (Gnome) installed with Steam working and playing Windows games. It took 4-5 tries but I got things working well and getting 60fps which is the card max.

I ran into issues with Windows games not running at all using X. I had to use Wayland. I'm confused about this, as there are a ton of folks running ok on X systems. I got the Steam off the Steam website.

I ran into issues with some combination of AMD proprietary drivers, Ubuntu updates and Gnome updates. I got the Oops something went wrong screen at boot at some point. Removing the AMD drivers fixed that. The odd part about that is that I booted OK after the driver installation itself.

If anyone has comments on the two major issues I had, please feel free to chime in.

Thanks.

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Hey guys so I made a post over on the steam deck reddit but have had no luck in getting help so far so I’ve decided to try my luck here. I’ve been trying to install mo2 on my steam deck for fallout new Vegas, I’ve been following a tutorial on how to do it and I’ve done everything right however when I get to the point where I launch install.sh and press ‘let’s continue’ I keep getting the error “prefix for selected game not found, make sure you have followed the instructions on cleaning your prefix”.

I’m installing on the internal drive, I’ve followed all the tutorial steps and the steps that pop up when you launch the installer telling you to force compatibility 8.0-8.5 and a that, protontricks has all permissions. Right now I’m at a complete loss no matter what I do, or how many times I restart the process, or whatever little fixes I do, or reinstall the game I keep getting the same error no matter what. Can anyone help me with this at all? Thanks guys!

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Hey all, I've been Linux gaming a few days now and I just wanted to share my positive experience.

I'm running an AMD 5800X3D CPU & 6950 XT GPU system. Previously I was on Windows 10 Pro, but when I changed to this CPU, apparently windows takes that as a hardware change and invalidated the licence key. Because I don't use a Microsoft account, only local, Microsoft support said there's nothing they can do.

In my disappointment, I researched a Linux distro for my use case and settled on PopOS. I got it installed, installed steam, installed some games and have been wow'd with it since. There's 3 games in particular that run far better now.

Warhammer 40k Darktide: on Windows this game was a stuttering mess. On PopOS, it's been smooth.

Elden Ring: on Win10 this game would crash after a few seconds the first time starting the game, then work after that. No crashes so far on Linux.

Hell Divers 2: this game would open to the player's ship and crash every time. Now it work great, no crashes.

I don't know why this hardware combo was so bad on windows for those games, but wow is it nice to play them without issues. The only thing I wish I still had from Windows was FanControl. I miss that software for keeping my computer fans in check. Otherwise, very happy to have made the switch.

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I'm curious to see if anyone is having issues with Steam being unresponsive and sluggish on their machines running GNOME. I've used this across multiple arch-based distros, as well as Bazzite-GNOME on my deck, and sometimes it takes several attempts of clicking the "properties" portion of the menu for it to even pull up.

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Been playing Helldivers 2 for weeks now (go Doom Squad) on my little RX 5500 XT. It was a good card for its time, but the graphical limitations I was running into with HD2 (even though I know it’s mostly from poor optimization) really made me want to upgrade my graphics card. I was thinking about shilling out the several hundred dollars to upgrade to the 6700 XT or the 7800 XT, but then I remembered Frame Generation, and specifically I remembered AMD’s FSR.

God bless Lutris and ProtonGE. With these powers combined I now run Helldivers 2 on ultra settings and I get a solid 45-70 FPS.

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when using auto the default power profile my usage is all over the place. If I set high for old games the gpu usage is cut in half from 30% to 16%. I don't really want to set high for the profile every boot does anyone know whats up?

EDIT: I think I found the solution under "Screen artifacts and frequency problem" on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Installation

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So. Basically I've been trying to use NMS with gamescope to try HDR, but the issue occurs even without any HDR arguments (just plain gamescope -e -f -r 120 -W 3440 -H 1440. None of the below happens without gamescope, I've been playing the game for years.

The moment I load the game the cursor acts like the sensitivity is like 1.000%. Barely moving my mouse results in the character spinning like 3-4 and driving me crazy. And that is after setting the in-game sliders to 1% sensitivity, it was somewhat worse before.

Even weirder, the mouse movement seems to "lag behind" my physical movements. The camera is not moving if I'm not moving the mouse myself. BUT, while I do move the mouse, the game is acting like it receiving the movement with a time offset, essentially moving in the direction I was moving it a while ago.

Movement direction over time t0 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 mouse ➡️ ➡️ <pause>> ⬇️ ⬅️ ⬅️ <doesn't matter> in-game camera <t x-1> ➡️ <no movement>> ➡️ ⬇️ ⬅️ ⬅️

System:

• Plasma 6 on EndeavourOS/Arch
  
  • Solaar installed but I don't think I've done anything weird there
  • Pointer acceleration set to None in DE settings does nothing, neither does changing the pointer speed to 0.00.
• AMD 6800XT on RADV/mesa
• 5800x3D cpu
• dongle wireless mx master 3 mouse which has no issue in any other game

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Hey, im trying to use joy cons on my laptop running linux mint. everything i try does not work. they connect, but i cant get past that. can someone help me.

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Heya r/linux_gaming!

Apologies in advance, this is gonna be a fairly long read.

To preface this post, I am not here just to say "Windows bad, linux FTW", or the other way around, it's simply my experience going from Windows to Manjaro, what I expected to be easy/difficult, and how everything is going now. Also, I'm no Linux guru: some issues I had might be an easy to fix for you, so please keep that in mind while reading. I did my best to search up solutions to them, I was able to fix some of them, others not quite, although I would be really thankful if anyone could provide some help to solve the remaining nitpicks I have with Linux!

With that out of the way, I've thought about switching to a Linux distro as my main operating system for a while now. I've tried it several times over the years but there used to be lots of shortcomings that were sufficient enough of a dealbreaker to me that I ended up going back to Windows every time, be it not being able to open certain file types, having to use the terminal pretty much any time I wanted to do anything, difficulty downloading and installing some software, somehow breaking my install accidentally, or there being straight up no alternatives that matched my demands and wouldn't be a large compromise over using their non-free Windows counterparts.

Now I don't define myself as a power user, the typical usage for my desktop tends to be 60-65% browsing, watching videos, reading documentation and programming, with the remaining time spent playing games. For the former, almost all of my needs could easily be met by Linux previously, and in some cases it was a better experience. However, the latter was, for the most part, impossible, aside from native implementations of games. I also do like messing with my hardware a bit to get the most performance as I can out of it. More on this later in the post.

Fast forward a couple years, I hear gaming on Linux is much better thanks to Proton, and it seems a lot more of the applications I use daily either are available on a web browser, or in a lot of cases, natively available on Linux! All this while Windows seems to be getting more bloated with each update and me fighting against all the new garbage I do not care to use or want running on my computer, I decided heck, why not give Linux another try.

So I started looking into available distros, and came up with the following list of candidates:

- Ubuntu : honestly on the list solely because of how widely used it is, I figured it would be easiest to troubleshoot any issue I'd had. I don't like the Ubuntu UI, and my experience with the software manager has been.. not so great in the past. I don't doubt that it's an amazing distro, otherwise it likely wouldn't be so popular, but the only "selling point" for me in this case would be the large user base.

- Fedora : ran this one as my daily driver on my laptop for a while at uni since I needed easy access to GCC, and the distro REALLY grew on me. I still use Fedora on my laptop. I had a flawless experience with this distro from start to finish, minus some tinkering to install some apps. Great looking UI, stable, easy install, and everything just.. worked. None of the problems I had with Linux previously were here. Sure, I had to go through the terminal every once in a while, but no copy-pasting commands I didn't understand at all from random forums praying they fixed this random issue I was having, I was flabbergasted to say the least.

- Manjaro : no surprise due to the title, this is the distro I've picked. The main reasons are because of the Arch wiki, the AUR, an active forum, and Manjaro's reputation for being a fairly stable distro. I used to run GNOME on both Fedora and Ubuntu, however after looking at all the customization options available in KDE, I decided I could get a feel similar enough to GNOME all the while having access to VRR, which as far as I know is not a feature on GNOME. Given I use my desktop far more for gaming, this really was what made me pick Manjaro over Fedora.

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Manjaro it is then! I definitely didn't go into this expecting the grass to be greener on the other side, but I did know more or less what I was getting myself into, what I would gain and lose by swapping to Linux.

Here are all the things I anticipated would go well, and what I thought I'd have trouble getting to work:

+ Straightforward installation

+ Ease of installing apps. This was the biggest selling point of Linux to me, while installing apps on Windows isn't necessarily hard, why do I have to go to a billion different websites and run a billion different installers? The Microsoft Store should be the solution to this, except it's probably the worst official app store I've ever seen. Package managers in Linux seem like a far better solution.

+ Customizability of KDE. I love tinkering with the appearance of any UI when given the option to, and after searching some examples of what can be done, I was genuinely excited to get the desktop environment to really feel like it's built the way I want it to look.

+ Ease of installing software updates and not having to reinstall my OS every 6 months to a year to avoid my C drive randomly going from around 800GB free to somehow 700GB free. I don't know how or why it happens, since I install everything on my secondary 2TB drive, and yet my C drive eventually gets bloated by.. something.

+ Undervolting my RX 6800 GPU, I heard AMD drivers were pretty good on Linux!

- Undervolting my CPU. This is mostly because I am using a 13600KF on a B760 board, and I relied on an older microcode + Throttlestop on the Windows side to get my undervolt working, so no doing it through the BIOS like on a Z690/Z790 chipset.

- Some games simply not working. For example, League of Legends and Dragon Ball FighterZ I fully expected to not be able to play before even getting into Linux. Not without more tinkering and compromises than I can be bothered to do for those titles.

- Despite the far better software support, I knew some apps don't have a native alternative on Linux. An example for this is Notion, although it does have a web app.

- Having to get accustomed to the terminal.

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I'm sure I could come up with at least a dozen other pros and cons, but then this post wouldn't be about my experience anymore.

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With that in mind, I decided to get going and install Manjaro. Everything was a breeze! It really didn't take much thinking on my end and within a couple minutes, I was set up and ready to start using my computer. I started installing everything I normally use on my desktop: Brave, Discord, Steam, Spotify, IntelliJ, VSCode and my password manager. All through the package manager GUI, it was really easy and reminded me a lot of the way Ninite works, really painless, nothing to do on my end, and all was set up and working immediately, except this is the case for 95% of what I need to install on Manjaro.

With all the basic stuff out of the way, I started customizing KDE's look, and ended up with this UI. Loads more can be done with the customization options in KDE, but ultimately I really enjoyed Fedora's aesthetic with a dock and a top bar with no desktop icons, so it's what I tried to copy here. Getting dark mode and nice icons was also stupid easy, there are loads of easily accessible presets that can be downloaded within the appearance settings for the desktop evironment. Absolutely amazing. I really encourage anyone to look up what others have done with their Plasma install, between the downloadable widgets, icons, cursors, themes, and all the baked-in customization options, you can really make everything feel like it's yours.

Games! So many of them just work! Like, so many! Although I ran into a few issues with Steam, mostly caused by myself, for a lot of them it really is just a matter of clicking "Play" and, well, playing. If there's any performance loss, it must be so marginal that I can't notice it. In all of my use cases, performance was essentially as good as on Windows. For games that aren't on Steam, it's very likely that you can get them working through Lutris, in my case, Diablo IV on Battle.net. It's amazing how far gaming on Linux has come recently, and it's, barring some specific titles, genuinely a really good experience.

As far as the terminal is concerned, I did have to use it, but FAR less than I anticipated. This was mostly for some CLI tools, and it overall didn't bother me at all, whereas previously I felt like if I wanted to get anything basic done, it pretty much required me to go through the terminal. This is a massive ease-of-use improvement in my eyes, at the end of the day I don't want to spend most of my time using the terminal, and the more I can limit its usage, the better.

And to top it all off, undervolting my CPU was quite easy: there's a page on the Arch wiki explaining how to use intel-undervolt, and I had everything functioning the same as in Windows within 10 minutes, or at least what felt like 10 minutes. This is really important to me given that 13th gen CPUs are TOASTY without an undervolt. This brings down my temperatures under load from 95C+ to high 50s/low 60s, while reducing power draw by about 65W for identical performance.

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Now, I wanna get into the parts that took a bit more tinkering to figure out, or that I haven't yet been able to solve, although those are minor issues.

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On Windows, I had custom fan profiles for my AIO, intake fans and exhaust fans using FanCotrol on the Windows side. Easy enough I figured, there's an app called CoolerControl that does essentially the same thing on Linux! Well, it seems Gigabyte motherboards require installing the it87-dkms-git module from AUR, enabling a parameter in the grub configuration file, and telling modprobe to load the it87 module. Without this, sensors-detect couldn't find any of my fan headers. Granted, now that I know how to solve this problem, it really only would take me a couple of minutes to fix and to have CoolerControl detect all my fan headers. But, figuring out that the issue was specific to Gigabyte motherboards took a lot of searching before landing upon a topic with someone that had this same exact issue with a similar motherboard.

Next, I expected undervolting my GPU to be about as easy as undervolting through AMD's Adrenaline software, lowering some sliders, applying and calling it a day. Though as it turns out, there's no GUI that easily allows for this. There is Corectrl, but applying any form of undervolt immediately caused my system to hang, and all of the CLI tools I could find had way more granularity than I was comfortable working with. I know I was able to undervolt from the stock 1025mV to 930mV without any crashes under load through AMD's GUI, but I gave up on Linux. Diving through Corectrl's GitLab issues did give me some pointers as to what was causing the hang, but ultimately I decided it was too much work to put in. This is an issue I might come back to later, but as of right now I'm honestly a bit overwhelmed by it. For now, I just applied a slightly more aggressive fan curve at high loads using CoolerControl.

As far as issues with games are concerned, I have a lot on my secondary drive that I don't feel like reinstalling in order to format that drive to an EXT4 partition. So of course, with me being stubborn, this took some time to set up properly, although Valve does have a GitHub page dedicated to using an NTFS drive as your Steam library on Linux. After following that guide, I simply couldn't start any of my games, they'd say they're launching and immediately close. Turns out that was an issue with Steam's compatdata folder, which was solved after deleting it. Then, after a while, Proton would simply not work until I validated its integrity, which would download some supposedly missing files. That was fixed by reinstalling Steam. I don't know why this happened to be completely honest, though it's likely an issue caused by my secondary drive's NTFS partition, and it's very much due to my stubborness rather than an issue with Linux or Steam. Although, some games don't work well, or at all, usually ones that require an anti-cheat of some sort. If you play those, unfortunately there's really no solution for those AFAIK on Linux. Some may work, others may not. This is the case for me with Dragon Ball FighterZ.

Finally, this is an issue I have yet to find any solution to. I know some peripherals don't play well with Linux, but one that really bothers me is my Corsair HS80 volume not matching the one shown on my volume slider. Every time I start up my computer, if my volume was set to 75% on my last session, it would display the volume at 75%, except it's in reality around 25% is my guess. I have to use my volume rocker to lower the volume to 0%, which plays an audio cue early on, around 50%, to indicate sound is off long before the user interface displays it at 0%. Then, increasing or decreasing volume is accurate for the rest of the session. No clue what causes this, or how to fix it.

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So if I had to sum my experience up in one word, it'd be great. There's issues, of course, just as Windows has its very large share of issues. As I said, I didn't come in expecting the grass to be greener on the other side, but Manjaro fulfills my needs much better than Windows does, and is a really enjoyable experience through and through. If you want to make the swap to Linux yourself, I can only encourage you to do it, so long as you know what you're sacrificing and what you're gaining. In my case, it was ease of installation and of use, better UI, easier installation process for software, and a highly customizable desktop environment, while really only sacrificing my GPU's undervolt, and having a minor issue with the volume slider. I will continue to use Manjaro as my daily driver both for gaming and regular usage for the forseeable future!

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I am a big fan of the Fallout series. Does anyone know if Fallout 76 (or Fallout 4) will work on Linux Mint on Steam? Thanks in advance.

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