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Whenever I try to connect to someone's lobby it fails to connect or times out.

This started some time in November betwen the 2nd and 4th, depending on one's time zone.

I run CachyOS, one child runs openSUSE and the other runs Bazzite. None of us can connect to multiplayer lobbies specifically in Helldivers 2.

All other MP games we've tried work fine, though I don't have any other Sony/PSN related games to test.

I've tried every flavour and version of Proton I can get my hands on.

We can connect instantly if we boot into Windows though so that's wierd and annoying... because Windows.

Finally, for shits and giggles, I VPN'd to the Netherlands in linux and it works?

So I guess my questions are...

1. WTF?
2. What could be different about connections under proton vs connections in Windows that would do that?
3. Is there anyone else in NZ who has something similar?

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Above is confirmation in Firefox that I did everything right and now have support for VP9 hardware decoding but when I check my gpu useage when streaming youtube videos, only the graphic part of the gpu is active, not the video part so 50% is offloaded to my cpu which I didn't want.

After doing more research I now understand that decoding video is a 2 part process, one which uses the graphic decoder and the second part using the video decoder in the gpu.

Any idea how to fully utilize my gpu for this in linux. Obviously I missed something somewhere.

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So i have the original trilogy of Combat Flight Simulator, Crimson Skies and Air Warrior III and i've tried to install them but i'm having mixed results from not running at all to only displaying a black screen.

Also it's a SATA drive and it doesn't fit in when i have the case closed because of space and cable limitations, so i would like to install them and remove the drive.

I thought that installing the game would be enough but seems like they still need the disk.

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Specs: CachyOS, i9-12900K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia 3080

I have been trying to get my Valve Index to function with SteamVR to absolutely NO avail for weeks now. I've had headaches with other games as well, but the complete inability of VR to function at all is the most glaring. My hunch is that the Nvidia GPU is the culprit, but for now it's what I'm stuck with. Should I just go back to Windows? Is Linux just not meant for owners of Nvidia GPUs?

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SO when i last tried ALVR on windows it was trash with my quest 2. Now that I'm running Linux, I didn't really have much of a choice.

I have to say though Its working so much better! Some people have seen online to use constant bit rate but that doesn't seem to work at all even if i set it to 100Mbps it still garbage, However with adaptive with 100 min and 500 max its been pretty good even though it still floating around actually using around 250mbps on average.

I have a dedicated wifi 6 router setup for the quest Its a travel router i got off amazon that the quest connects to at 1200mbps according to its settings anyway, and the router is then wired to my main router As a AP. The PC is Hard wired into the main router.

I'm decently happy with the performance but I don't quite get why it refuses to use more bandwidth and why consistent bit rate is such trash.

I'm guessing its something to do with the extra Hop from the router to my PC maybe there's a issue there. Or its possible its because of my smart home setup, Even though the quests wifi is its own separate one, the environment is probably quite noisy.

Specs

OS: Kubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.17.0-6-generic Shell: bash 5.2.37 Display (LG ULTRAGEAR): 1920x1080 @ 165 Hz in 27" [External] * DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.5 WM: KWin (Wayland) CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 4.85 GHz GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX [Discrete] Memory: 7.21 GiB / 31.26 GiB (23%) Swap: 111.88 MiB / 15.40 GiB (1%) submitted by /u/Lumpy_Stranger_1056
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Is it possible to update the game to version 1.21.123.2?

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I'm playing Borderlands 2 and when I hit play, it spends 10 minutes loading vulkan shaders. From what I see on proton.db, Borderlands 2 is native.

My understanding is vulkan shaders only need to be loaded if a game goes through the proton transition layer from Windows graphics to Linux graphics. So why is Borderlands 2 needing to load the vulkan shaders then? Since it's native, it shouldn't need to.

I am not forcing the game to run any specific compatibility tool in the properties of the game.

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Hello All!

I've been running the Pop_OS 24.04 beta for about a month, love it and not looking to go back to Windows ;)

The issue I'm running into is that I have two displays and it looks like I'm hitting some of the classic NVidia/Wayland edge cases. If my computer goes to sleep, neither display will be able to wake up. When launching a game, it often displays on my primary display but is limited to the resolution of my secondary display. When a game doesn't have a display picker, this makes it rough. When I run with a single display, I don't have these issues.

I'm thinking right now that I should switch back to a distro that still supports X11. Some questions for this wonderful community:
- I'm thinking about going to Linux Mint. From my research it should have good support for NVidia property drivers and since it doesn't live on the bleeding edge, it still rocks X11. Any other distros I should consider? I'd like to avoid a immutable OS at the moment.
- I wasn't able to find any fixes to my issues, but maybe y'all have some clever solutions. Anything I should try to work around my issues?

Thanks!

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Hi so i got linux today and wanted to play some aba but i remembered im not on windows anymore so i need to install roblox somehow so i looked for tutorials and asked my friend so i installed sober but im getting an error and im not sure how to fix it, from what my friend told me it says that i have outdated graphic drivers but i used the driver manager downloaded the latest one it showed "nvidia-driver-580-open" but it still doesn't launch

https://preview.redd.it/a85mg8vw0h1g1.png?width=427&format=png&auto=webp&s=95100570c2621bb314cb9b58f2eafaa9be3d5aa1

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Alright. So I’ve been thinking of putting two ssd in my pc. One holding windows 11 and the other using bazzite. However it’s mainly so windows can do online gaming and bazzite for YouTube and solo gaming I was wondering if that is a good idea and or I should use a different distro for Linux. Thoughts? I’m rocking a pure amd build for my pc

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I recently nabbed me an AW Area 51 18 and I've been itching to ditch Win11 and hop on the Bazzite bandwagon so I can finally be free of Windows' ever-increasing heaps of bullshit. However, I've heard that Bazzite (and gaming on Linux in general??) doesn't rly vibe with Nvidia GPUs. Recent research seems to pull up varying results and a LOT of case-by-case nuance. So what's the general take on it right now, is it doable or should I keep waiting for Linux and Nvidia to cozy up?

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I recently installed Fedora KDE on my computer, and installed the rpm version of steam. I downloaded some games and they work fine, but my steam cloud saves on all games are unable to sync. I've tried restarting my computer, reinstalling steam multiple times, and even tried the flatpak version, all to no avail. Cloud saves work perfectly fine on my Windows 11 partition, but refuse to work on linux.

Anyone else having this problem and/or know how to fix it?

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I'm a intermediate-level Linux user and would prefer to use it over Windows whenever possible. Currently my gaming PC is running Windows 11 and connected to a 4K TV that for the most part I can completely control with a controller. Overall, it works but there's a lot of jank. For example, I like the Xbox Gaming overlay, but it can be very glitchy. On some games it just doesn't work, other games it works but doesn't disable the game input, etc. Also why can't I connect to Bluetooth (headphones) using it? Besides that, I have pretty frequent glitches, like Windows UI elements stuck on the screen or my controller randomly disconnecting.

It seems pretty obvious that Windows was never intended to be used like this, so there's issues. On the other hand, Bazzite mentions that it can be used on TV-based setups like what I have. If I can operate everything with a controller through a front-end, that would be perfect. What I have now isn't terrible but if it's better on Linux I'm willing to switch.

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So I just got my new RTX 5060ti but Ubuntu doesnt seem to load past the Grub boot screen. Im sure it's got something to do with the right drivers but I can't seem to install them since I can't get into the OS. I looked up a few posts and all of them say get into recovery mode to install the new drivers after purging the old ones. But I tried booting in recovery mode and still nothing happens, the screen just goes blank.

I also tried using my old GPU to get into Ubuntu and purge the old drivers to see if that works, but nothing :(

I'm out of options right now so any help would be highly appreciated.

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I recently installed mint on a new PC build (9700x, 9060xt). I've been playing Silksong and have been enjoying a smooth 144Hz frame rate. I was playing yesterday at this framerate with no issues.

I boot my PC this morning and I'm barely getting 60. Lows down to 50. MangoHud says my GPU and CPU are at 4% utiliation each. My PC display settings are still at 144 Hz, and Silksong does not have framerate cap enabled. I'm not running any other programs. I get 144 while in menu but as soon as the game starts the FPS tanks down to sub-60.

When I reduce SS graphics settings to minimum I get between 100-122 frames. But again, was rock solid at 144 with no problems 8 hours ago.

Windows partition has no issues, but I'm trying to use the Mint side as much as possible to determine whether I can switch 100%.

What gives? How can I debug this issue? I don't see anything in top besides steam, silksong, cinnamon, and Xorg.

$ uname -a Linux illusion 6.14.0-35-generic #35~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Oct 14 13:55:17 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/issue Linux Mint 22.2 Zara \n \l submitted by /u/RPBiohazard
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I have tested various Proton versions. I have tried installing the flatpak verison of steam, I have tried reinstalling BTD6 on my ext4 drive instead of my ntfs drive. Nothing seems to work right now, I have tried some troubleshooting with ChatGPT and got the game to actually start but only a black screen shows up for a split second. Now it's just bringing me down a rabbit hole, making me test lots of different settings, installing vulkan and so on. I thought that Linux Mint 22.2 gaming would just work out of the box with my AMD only setup.

I have a 9800X3D, 9070 XT, 64 GB RAM, and 2TB ssd and so on.

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