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GOG have done it again, they've revived another classic. Teaming up with Capcom, they've brought back Breath of Fire IV along with various enhancements as it joins their GOG Preservation Program. Plus the GOG Preservation Program has expanded again.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Before I start: I hope you're all having a great Friday - or at least an acceptable one!

I am currently configuring a new rig that should hopefully last me a fair few years, but I am taking a big step in that it will be a pure Linux machine. After 30 years, I am done with Windows. I want an OS that doesn't try to be a sneaky little bugger all the time, and acts more like a shop than an OS. So, I resolved to hop on over into Tux country as a almost total newbie (my last contact with Linux was setting up a working Debian - I think? - in around 1998). I know near nothing, but I must learn! Sudo... appget... somethingsomething?

The build

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU: Powercolor Radeon RX 9070XT 16GB 'Hellhound OC'
MB: Gigabyte x870 Gaming WiFi6
RAM: Kingston FURY 2x32 DIMM Kit, DDR5-6000, Timings CL30 36-36-32 @ 6.000MHz
System-SSD: Samsung 990 Pro 4TB

I was mindful that AMD seems to have better driver support, and I kinda always have had a soft spot for them anyway (one of my first self-builts had a first-gen Thunderbird in it, and without access to any How-To, idiot that I was, I tried running it without heat paste at first. Ah, good times!), so both CPU and GPU are AMD. Wanted to run with with a comparable ASUS GPU, but I remember there being some drama around ASUS being spudweasels, so a Powercolor it is (though I might switch it to Sapphire or so, depends on price).

Anyhow, if you need more info (PSU, Case,etc), I can add that, but I tried to stick to pertinent info as I can think of it.

My requirements

As written above, I am a complete newbie to Linux. As such, a less-involved distro that handles some of the deeper stuff by itself(ish), as well as has somewhat steady updates, that would be cool.

This rig will mostly be used for gaming, writing and drawing. I got writing and drawing already covered through Libre Office, Krita and Gimp. Browsing will be done through LibreWolf and PaleMoon, with Firefox as fallback. I hope these should work under any distro. Point is: I do not need or want anything Chrome, or really Google, near my rig.

But the big question for me is gaming: Most of the games I want to run will be from GOG, and I understand that they are not as great as Valve about Linux support, so if there's a launcher/software wrapper thing that handles their games well, that would be cool. Wine? Lutris? Heroic? I know some names, but I do not know what they each excel at, which games they handle well or poorly.

If it helps, here is a selection of games I want to be able to run: Stalker 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Kingdom Come: Deliverance (I+II), Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, New Arc Line, everything from Owlcat - and also rather dated stuff like SiN, Nox, Rune and Diablo.

On the other hand, my library on Steam is rather tiny, and won't be growing much any more, I think. As such, I do not necessarily need for Steam to come preinstalled (I think Bazzite does that, for example?), and I doubt SteamOS is a must for me, either (I may be wrong about that? I know nothing!). Oh, and I do not use a Steamdeck either. To iterate: Steam integration is rather unimportant to me (unless I can use it to play my GOG games, then it's thumbs up!).

Lastly, I don't do multiplayer, and don't need 'launcher stuff'. Easy Anti-Cheat, Discord, achievement tracking or anything of the sort is of absolutely no importance for me. I just want my SP games themselves to work. I also only use KB+M as input, so controller support is likewise a non-factor.

[edit: No idea if important, but I am running a dual-monitor desktop at 1080p]

So, which distro?

I did a bit of reading around, but I'm already getting confused by the different versions. Nobara, for example, has a "clean version of KDE" and a "clean version of GNOME", and while I can kinda place KDE and GNOME as distros, I have no knowledge yet what's different about any of them. UX only? Desktop environment? Different software packages? I'm a newb, I do not know. Similarly for Bazzite: SteamOS or GNOME desktop environment? Don't really know the difference.
From some screenshots, it looks like GNOME is more fit to mobile use with big buttons and very little text, while KDE seems more traditionally 'Windowsy desktop', which I strongly prefer. Or am I mistaken here? What to pick?

...Anyhow, this already is a long post, so I will cut myself short here. If you could give me any pointers which Distro I should take a closer look at (or which ones are not suited for my purpose), I would appreciate it very much. Nobara? Bazzite? Mint? Something else?

Thank you very much for your time, expertise, attention and patience!

The Corvair

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I needed to update the Nvidia drivers on my PC(I got pop_os because apparently it's better for Nvidia cards) I did it the easiest way possible, using ubuntu-drivers. It's supposed to take like 3 minutes but for me the screen is still black after 12 minutes so idk if I did something wrong?? My gpu is an rtx 3050 CPU Ryzen 5 4500 16gb ram 1tb SSD If you could help, then I would greatly appreciate it thanks 🙏🙏

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Hello... this might be a noobie question...

So, i´ve upgraded to the RX 9070XT, and with that bought an new Monitor. QHD, VRR and HDR.

Also, switched from Windows to Linux (Manjaro KDE). So far everything is fine and working. Now, the thing... If i start my DE with X11 i obviously have no way to enable HDR or VRR... i expected that.

Starting the DE with Wayland, i can activate the options in the Desktop settings, seems to be working in the DE.

So when i launch a steam game, the gamesymbol in the Taskbar is displayed as the X11 icon. (Haven´t really tried much games, so it might be different with different games)

So i´m guessing that game runs X11 natively and gets somehow translated to wayland. Is VRR working in this mode? According to my Monitor it runs the game fullscreen with a lower refresh rate as the monitors native refresh rate, so i´m guessing it´s fine?

Also, i´ve seen some Benchmarks of gaming on Linux and they were running X11. Is this recommended for max performance? Wouldn´t i give up VRR at that point?

HDR on Linux is apparently a whole different beast but it seems to get in the right direction.

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Hey there,

Since my laptop is way too weak and old for the Remastered version, I've installed OG Oblivion in Bottles and Morrowind in OpenMW.

Both games run quite ok but suffer from extremely high mouse speed in menus that make them unusable.

I tried changing mouse accel settings in GNOME, disabling them, changing MouseWarp settings in Bottles, changed Mouse Sensitivity in Oblivion.ini - all to no avail, mouse speed never changes at all in the game menus.

I've googled for a while and I couldn't find a solution. Maybe someone here had the same problem and knows what I could do? I'm not really looking for workarounds (like just use Steam, use Lutris, use another DE, don't use a fucking Apple laptop etc :D I know I could just use other hardware and software but I'd really like to get this running on this laptop with Bottles/wine)

Since both Morrowind and Oblivion have the same issue, with only Oblivion running through wine and other unrelated games not having this problem on this laptop, I kinda suspect the games themselves to be the issue here, but I'm not sure

Laptop: MacBook Pro 13 inch 2015, Intel Core i5-5257U, openSUSE TW, GNOME (Wayland). Resolution: 1680 x 1050 (no scaling)

Bottles config: Win11 64-bit "gaming" bottle, soda runner, dxvk (Bottles installed via flatpak). 32bit bottle or other windows versions don't change anything

Game: Oblivion/Morrowind (GOG versions), vanilla, no mods

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Specs

5800xt 7800xt 24gbs of ram Cachyos

So when playing on the steam version of overwatch my game would sometimes randomly shutdown. I tried different proton versions and in game settings but to no avail

Fix is to download it through lutris and install it through battle.net.

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O meu jogo foi baixado na steam verde e o celular do JG parece n funcionar, ele n aparece as mensagens e já pesquisei e n achei como resolver , alguém sabe?

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Context:

I installed the modpack by running its setup file in bottles and installing it to the root of the retail CD version of the game (with the no CD ROM Patch). It installed successfully. Then I manually added the game to Lutris and used wine-ge, and set the wine prefix in a folder I had created for storing my wine prefix and the game files at it's root and set the executable to the GTALauncher.exe inside the game folder. Then I saw that some of the files of the retail version were read only for my user, so I made them read/write. I start the launcher and open the "Settings" window in it to configure some of the modpack's custom settings. Then I start the game and when it launches, I can change the game's preferences just fine. However, the game crashes a bit into the opening cutscene, when I start a new game.

What I've Tried:

I've installed Silent Patch and Silent Patch DDraw after googling the error, because it was one of the fixes I got when googling for my issue, but the fix was for the unmodded retail version of the game, but I reckoned that I'd might work and tried it, but it didn't fix the issue.

My System Information:

Distro: Ultramarine/ Fedora 42 Kernel: Linux 6.14.2-300.fc42.x86_64 GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) GPU Driver: mesa-dri-drivers. mesa-va-drivers, mesa-vulkan-drivers Display Server: Wayland Gamescope: No VRR: No DE: GNOME 48.1 Lutris Package: Distro Repositories

Logs:

https://pastebin.com/Pzx4Hq4Q

Screenshot of game just before it crashes:

at crash

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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I downloaded Sober through flatpak and I want to uninstall it now. Whenever I run the command to uninstall it I get the same message: "Failed to uninstall org.vinegarhq.Sober: Flatpak system operation Uninstall not allowed for user" I am using the Linux feature through ChromeOS and I don't know what to do.

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Any solution for this problem? , i tried use gamescope but nothing

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Hey everyone!

I’m a Computer Science student and I'm transitioning to Linux Mint as my main operating system. I want to embrace the CLI and use Linux for development purposes, but I still enjoy gaming on Windows (especially some games that are harder to run on Linux / take a performance hit). So, I’ve decided to dual-boot Windows and Linux.

I’m trying to figure out the best way to split my drives and partitions to optimize both Linux and Windows while keeping everything organized. Here’s what I have:

• 1 TB NVMe SSD (Gen 4): I plan to use this primarily for Linux Mint, but I’m unsure how much to allocate for the OS and development tools, as well as if I should leave any space for Windows games.
• 500 GB SATA SSD: I plan to use this for Windows 10 OS and games.
• 500 GB HDD: This will be for shared storage (NTFS or exFAT), where I can access data and potentially install older games from both Linux and Windows.

A few specific questions:

1. Should I embrace the Linux gaming experience and leave all 1 TB for Linux (Proton and Wine: never tried them btw, had only a working Linux laptop not for gaming)?
2. How should I partition the 1 TB NVMe SSD? Is it better to allocate most of it to Linux Mint and use a smaller part (~300 GB) for Windows, or should I leave it all for Linux and leave games on the SATA SSD?
3. Should I leave the HDD as a shared data partition for both Windows and Linux? Or should I dedicate it to one OS for storage and backup purposes? And also, what should I format it as: NTFS or exFAT?
4. Any issues with drivers (looking at you NVIDIA) with partitions and dual boot?

I’m trying to make the best use of my hardware and avoid unnecessary waste of space or performance bottlenecks. Would love to hear some insights or suggestions from others with similar setups!

Thanks in advance!

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So, I got an XFX 9070 XT for close to MSRP by a miracle. Ive been running ubuntu for years now, I was on nvidia though. So I knew I'd get issues just swapping out the cards and booting back up, but I tried anyway. At first I was pleasantly surprised, both monitors were usable, but there were problems that slowly added up. I did the purge nvidia command to clean it up, and rebooted. That didnt solve anything, here were the strange behaviours I had: - cursor on second screen was invisible (it would work, I could figure out its location and click/drag, it was just invisible)

• main monitor was capped at 4k 60hz, prior to this I had no issues running 4k 120hz. Option simply wasn't there

• opening and closing programs would cause a solid freeze to happen for a few seconds, every single time. Clicking on windows to tab between them would also cause it to freeze up, but using alt + tab was fine

I figured it wasn't too bad for having installed nothing, so I started doing the recommendations I'd already seen. Updating the kernel, and installing the latest mesa driver. I was on 6.11 at the time, but I tried upgrading anyway. That seemed to work perfectly, so I moved onto the mesa driver... And it three a couple errors about kernel version, but still finished. I rebooted and... Completely broken. I was down to one monitor only instead of two,a very low resolution and 60hz. Clearly a very basic video driver. But it meant my steps to polish the driver had made everything worse than when I took it out of the box and did nothing.

Thats where I am now, any attempts to reinstall the driver made no impact and I just gave up quickly. I'm running a windows partition while I wait for it to get polished, but in the meantime are there any obvious steps that should be done besides the kernel and mesa driver? I've never used an AMD card before, let alone on Linux. So it was the first time I'd even heard of a mesa driver.

Has anyone got it working flawlessly, or very few flaws on ubuntu?Specificallyy with kubuntu installed if that makes any difference

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I'm on Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop and had installed steam from the konsole using (sudo dnf install steam)
I'm just trying to run Celeste, the native Linux version without Proton, from my drive (which I got working form a last post; thank you all) but it just won't boot.
I made sure Steam has access to the drive (done from the last post) so I know it can read and write.
I tested a game on my local drive, and those won't load either.
My GPU has support for Vulkan too if that matters.

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This might be a very dumb question, so here you go.

First of all I know that there are different anti-cheats, so I suppose different behaviors

In the case of the kernel-based anti-cheats (rootkits cough cough), I suppose in bugdows the anti-cheat gets literally installed to the kernel? or only has access to it? and in the case of linux, how does that work if first, the game is developed for the spywaredows kernel, but I suppose stuff like wine/proton is also translating stuff made from trashdows kernel to linux kernel? but if that is the case, then, my second point, is not like steam has root privileges to do whatever kernel-related things.

And for the rest of anticheats, I suppose they are user-space, they are "contained" in the wine/proton prefix, right?

Edit: grammar.

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Quick context, I am an arch linux user with Plasma, I downloaded marvel rivals for a while to play with some friends, my laptop meets the hardware requirements, an intel core i7-11800H and an rtx 3060, now, 2 weeks ago I was playing this title normally (running it from steam and with the command SteamDeck = 1 % command%), due to school reasons I have not played much and today when I want to play a little marvel rivals and I try to run it, it simply stops when steam is trying to open it, without throwing me any kind of error or anything, it just stops, any solution?

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Since there isn't playnite (and I doubt we will have a Linux version soon because the developers hate linux) what are your favorite front end for game libraries on Linux that are compatible with gamepad?

I just got a backbone and I'm thinking on stream my games via moonlight to my phone, I know there is the steam big piture but on river (a wm) is so buggy. I know I can create a session mimicking a steam deck, I have made that in the past on arch but now I use void and the package is not available here

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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I can't find a clear answer anywhere.

I recently bought Beat Hazard 2 heavily discounted and it works great with Proton. The one minor issue that I'm having is that it reads location from Windows settings and displays flags on user profiles accordingly. I'm getting a US flag and would quite like to exchange it for the correct one for my country.

Per title, can I do anything with the Proton prefix to alter this setting?

Thanks!

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Like many of you I've been enjoying Oblivion Remastered, but I was surprised by how resource intensive the game is (for Reference I currently have a RTX 3080).

I noticed someone in another thread mentioned they performed the DLSS 4 swap for Cyberpunk, so I decided to figure out how to do this for Oblivion Remastered. This should hopefully help performance by providing a more recent version of DLSS that provides better performing / quality up-scaling.

Note: I believe this same approach can be used for other games that ship with DLSS.

Prerequisites:

• Nvidia Linux Driver 570+ (I'm currently running nvidia-open 570.144-1 on arch
• Proton Experimental ("Bleeding Edge" Beta)

Note: you have to opt into the "Bleeding Edge" beta for Proton Experimental so you get a version of Proton that ships with the latest version of DXVK-NVAPI (only more recent versions support passing in driver parameters and downloading the DLSS DLLs to your proton prefx)

Process:

There are a few ways you can accomplish this:

1. [Easiest] Setting environment variables for the launch options of your steam game
2. Setting environment variables in user_settings.py for you Proton installation
3. I believe CatchyOS actually provides a wrapper dlss-swapper which sets the environment variables, making this process a bit easier. It's covered in the CatchyOS release notes.

I'm going to focus on #1, as this is IMO the easiest. All you need to do is set some launch options for your steam game.

The Launch Options you want to set are:

Note: I provide some reference links at the end of this post that provide more details, but we are essentially passing in driver settings via DXVK-NVAPI.

PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER=1 DXVK_NVAPI_DRS_SETTINGS=NGX_DLSS_RR_OVERRIDE=on,NGX_DLSS_SR_OVERRIDE=on,NGX_DLSS_FG_OVERRIDE=on,NGX_DLSS_RR_OVERRIDE_RENDER_PRESET_SELECTION=render_preset_latest,NGX_DLSS_SR_OVERRIDE_RENDER_PRESET_SELECTION=render_preset_latest DXVK_NVAPI_SET_NGX_DEBUG_OPTIONS=DLSSIndicator=1024,DLSSGIndicator=2 %command%

Note: the DXVK_NVAPI_SET_NGX_DEBUG_OPTIONS=DLSSIndicator=1024,DLSSGIndicator=2 only needs to be set to validate that the DLSS swap worked. After this, you can set them to 0, and then finally remove them.

Here is a screenshot of my launch options for Oblivion Remastered (you can't see everything):

Setting the Launch Options for Oblivion Remastered

Once you start the game, you should notice a small overlay in the lower right hand corner.

Note: this wasn't present on the main menu, but once I loaded a save and jumped into the game I was able to see this overlay.

• The version of DLSS that Oblivion Remastered ships with is 3.7.20.
• The latest DLSS version is 310.2.1 (DLSS 4)

If you see 310.2.1 then you've successfully swapped the DLSS DLL that shipped with the game with the latest version of the DLSS DLL. Theoretically by setting these env variables, future new releases of the DLSS DLLs should downloaded automatically. Here's what I see after setting the Launch Options:

Confirmation of the DLSS Swap. 310.2.1 is the Latest Version (DLSS 4)

Incidentally it's cool to see that the game is rendering @ 1920x1280, but up-scaling to 3840x2560, insane!

Removing the Overlay

Now that you've confirmed that you've successfully performed the swap, you can remove the overlay. All you have to do is update the Launch Options to:

PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER=1 DXVK_NVAPI_DRS_SETTINGS=NGX_DLSS_RR_OVERRIDE=on,NGX_DLSS_SR_OVERRIDE=on,NGX_DLSS_FG_OVERRIDE=on,NGX_DLSS_RR_OVERRIDE_RENDER_PRESET_SELECTION=render_preset_latest,NGX_DLSS_SR_OVERRIDE_RENDER_PRESET_SELECTION=render_preset_latest DXVK_NVAPI_SET_NGX_DEBUG_OPTIONS=DLSSIndicator=0,DLSSGIndicator=0 %command%

Specifically this portion has changed:

DXVK_NVAPI_SET_NGX_DEBUG_OPTIONS=DLSSIndicator=0,DLSSGIndicator=0

Launch the game again, and the overlay should be gone.

Note: if you want, you can remove DXVK_NVAPI_SET_NGX_DEBUG_OPTIONS=DLSSIndicator=0,DLSSGIndicator=0 altogether, you just need to launch the game at least once with the env vars =0 so that the registry settings in your Wine prefix are updated. After that you can completely remove this portion of the Launch Options.

Results:

The main thing I noticed is I can choose a more aggressive DLSS mode (Performance vs. Balanced) and the image quality looks the same. This let me eek out some better performance.

References:

• This YouTube video by A1RM4X was super helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_YUfWxJz6E
• This portion of the DXVK-NVAPI Wiki was also super helpful: https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi/wiki/Passing-driver-settings

Updates to Proton Prefix:

For those of you that are interested, the DLSS binaries are actually downloaded to your Proton Prefix for the game. Here you can see my Proton Prefix for Oblivion Remastered:

Path = $HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2623190/pfx/drive_c/ProgramData/NVIDIA/NGX/models/dlss/versions/...

The Location in Proton Prefix Where DLSS Binaries are Downloaded

I hope this helps others! Happy Gaming!

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