Hey all,

A bit of a head scratcher. Everything was working fine 2 weeks ago.

I'm running bazzite, latest stable and steam.

I have two controller, a ps5, abd a 8bitdo with the dongle.

When I play a game (I tried many) the controller will stop working. Either of them.

If I show the overlay (shift + tab) the controller seem to work. So the drop is only in game.

I tried with steam input, without steam input. I removed the idle timout (to never)

Any clue what could be happening? I'm not sure how to debug that one.

Cheers.

I recently want to try cause i never played Enderal: Forgotten Stories (a skyrim overhaul mod pack), so i installed it from steam, and my skyrim (the legacy version) to play it, i check protondb and says that is necessary to use this launch options and i say fine with me so i use them PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%, and the proton experimental version.

The game has several problems 'cause it goes to 144fps, that is my monitor hz, i tried to change it in the ini files on the enderal folder, but no luck, and i try to install this mod from nexus mods, but no luck too, i go out of options.

Anyone knows what to do?

What is up with the lack of tutorials on this mod manager? It seems nice and stable, but there is hardly any public tuts on this thing aside from whats on the github and random forum posts from what i can find.

I don't know if there is something more in depth tucked away in a discord or something but I really don't feel like looking for it i'll be real. (Kinda ironic i know)

So I dual booted windows with Pop! OS, installed steam, tried to get it working. After a while, i realised the issue was that my steam library, specifically the compatdata folder (in windows) is in an NTFS drive, which linux cant handle. so I created a symlink connecting my windows steam library compadata to my native linux drive, and the games started to work.

Now I am wondering, if i switch back to windows and use steam on there, will it cause any issues because i created a symlink on linux? Initially I thought it would not since the compadata folder is used when running the game on linux, but im not so sure. Is it better to create a seperate steam library for linux symlink that so there's no conflict?

In January, i decided to use Linux (ZorinOS). At first, it was great: just what i needed and no extra bullshit... okay some extra programs which i uninstalled easely. Yet, the free alternatives were not as good as the programms i paid for (affinity photo2, designer2 and publisher2). I tried to understand how to instal/use Wine and Bottles. After hours of frustration, i gave up. Okay, for gaming, it was working exept some minor texture error (got golden magazines in helldivers 2) but i never had any crash.

In April, i decided to go back to Windows. I debloated it, add my favorite programms working... and it crashes so often at when it runs feels like a miracle:
-Opening a web browser other then Edge, crash.
-Running win11, crash.
-Playing a game, crash

I just feel so frustrated to have to choose between a weekend project from 10 pc nerds with coffee adiction and a corporate mainstream slop system... and don't get me started on the worst thing ever called Mac.

Hello,
I recently acquired a 4k 144hz TV and thought I would have trouble running it at high refresh rates from my linux station. I ordered an active Displayport to HDMI adapter which I didn't receive yet, and was looking into other distros because Wayland runs bad on Mint and I previously had trouble running multiple monitors with different refresh rates on X11.

But it just seems to work out of the box and I don't understand why, as 4k 120hz should not be supported on AMD cards. I suspect I am not actually running at 120hz, how can I verify it ?

Thank you.

I initially tried using the controller wirelessly - jstest-gtk would pick the controller up, as did Steam... However the inputs were weird:

right_trigger: moves right-stick up and down

left_trigger: moves right-stick left and right

right_stick: does nothing

left_stick: all normal

right_bumper: does nothing

left_bumper: x

a, b, y : all normal

x: does nothing

dpad: all normal

"L3" & "R3": all normal

select: left_bumper

start: right_bumper

So I ended up running through some chat-gpt recommendations, installing xpadneo / dkms, etc, and eventually doing what it said there rendered the controller not even showing up in Steam/jstest-gtk.

As a result of this (and being unable to boot into Linux briefly), I tried using it wired -- it works!..... About as well as it first did while wireless -- funky bindings.

Is there a good way to just re-map this, or is something else fundamentally weird/wrong?

• Rebased almost all patches from Proton Cachyos 9.0.

  • Enabled the Wayland driver for the Steam Linux Runtime builds too. Enable with PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1. Thanks to GloriousEggroll for making it happen.
  • Added a lot of Wayland related patches from upstream wine that happened after the release of wine-10.0
  • Fixed various issues with the Wayland driver and Vulkan games. Thanks to Etaash-mathamsetty for all the hard work.
  • Added a stub implementation for amdxc64.dll to enable FSR4. Use FSR4_UPGRADE=1 to upgrade FSR3.1 games to FSR4. Again thanks to Etaash-mathamsetty. Instructions: https://github.com/Etaash-mathamsetty/wine-builds/releases/tag/fsr4
  • Added DualSense related patches for more complete audio device detection functionality for wired sound-based haptics. Some games that relied on that specific behaviour should now have that functional. Thanks to ClearlyClaire for the original patches and Exotic0015 for looking into it since Proton Cachyos 9.0. Upstream: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/7238
  • Removed the Dragon Age Inquisition patch as it was not working. Please use Proton-Cachyos 9.0 for now with that game.
  • Updated the NTSync branch to Proton 10.0. Thanks to whrvt. No, NTSync is not merged into Proton-CachyOS yet, sorry.

• Thanks to everyone on the CachyOS Discord server who provided testing while working on this. And special thanks to the people mentioned above and NelloKudo for sharing the workload.

Copy of the changelog, but I was able to do some native HDR gaming with wayland with these commands ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 DXVK_HDR=1 %command% Although I did have to recreate my proton prefix just as a note some people don't? (Maybe just a me thing) You can get it easily from protonup-qt, I got mine from the aur.

If you want to read up on it Proton Cachy, just thought I'd share the info here as well if others wanted to try it.

I've tried many proton version, launch commands, nothing. All I get is a black screen or crash when I load up a save. The games are "gold" on prtonddb: plants vs zombies, dark souls remastered, monster hunter world, gta 4.

Or maybe it does this automatically? I can't find a way to be sure.

Apologies if a silly question, I googled a decent bit and couldn't find anything helpful

So everyone tosses around the names of all these Linux game launchers. I guess PlayOnLinux has fallen out of favour and is no longer being updated. Lutris seems to be on its way out as well. I've recently discovered Heroic Launcher and it seems pretty awesome. People are saying Bottles is even better. A while back someone suggested yet another launcher that I can't remember the name of.

What are the best launchers? Are there any other options I haven't mentioned? Pros and cons of one over others? I'm in the process of meticulously planning my complete wipe of my dual boot setup and going all Linux and I want to consider all options. Please discuss.

It's always about 7-8GB but there's been no update to RL that it needs to be downloading. So I assume this is just related to compatibility with LInux / GE-Proton 9-27. I'm using Mint 22.1 and the app store download of Steam (not flatpak).

Hi everyone.

I am brand new to Linux and was really looking forward to finally getting to do more than Creation mods on SkyrimSE, but I cannot for the life of me get it to work. I have included all the information I could think to in the screen grabs, but basically I have gotten everything set up and gotten MO2 up and running (though it makes me reinstall the whole system every boot, but that is another issue), but SKSE launcher simply will not see the game. I googled around and all the advice I could find was to make sure that the script extender is in the same folder as the .exe, which they are.

Anyone else have a similar issue/have ideas on a solution?

CONTEXT: I built a new computer for myself; B550 Taichi AMD motherboard, Ryzen 7 5700G with onboard graphics, a Radeon RX 6700 XT, 64GB RAM and tons of space. For all intents and purposes it should be able to handle decade+ old games. I have confirmed that under different Wine prefixes I can run the original Bioshock 2 (GOG), XCOM: Enemy Within (GOG), SimCity 2000: Special Edition (GOG), etc, etc.

For all of this, I have exclusively used GOG versions of games, and installed them via different WineGUI prefixes under Linux Mint: Debian Edition 6. That's just what I've been most comfortable with. I do not want to use Steam.

PROBLEM: Skyrim: Special Edition (GOG) will not fully launch under what seems like any circumstances. My consistent issue is that I launch "SkyrimSELauncher.exe", which gives me my display options. I choose my options (either high or low settings), and it automatically launches "SkyrimSE.exe". The Bethesda logo appears and the dramatic drumbeat plays, but as soon as that logo animation ends, the game crashes out. EVERY TIME.

When I search this issue, the top results are always to do with mod load order, but I haven't even gotten so far as to the mod the game, I just want to see the Main Menu screen, but it seems like something is failing to render it.

TROUBLESHOOTING STEPS: I have tried everything I can think of; I have reinstalled Skyrim, I have reinstalled the Wine prefix, I have tried different Wine prefixes, I have tried 32-bit and 64-bit (it's 64-bit only), I have tried every version of D3D, I have tried DXVK, I have tried various combinations of D3D and DXVK overrides, I have tried various DXVK settings (present modes, deferred surface creation, shader caching, swapchains), I have tried moving DXVK, I have tried manually installing DXVK, I have even upgraded DXVK, I have tried dictating the absolute paths of VK_ICD_FILENAMES and DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE to point directly at my GPU and driver. I have tried installing multiple other components and fonts, I have tried installing various Vulkan tools, and I have used every method of debugging I could find to try and isolate the issue, but the game ALWAYS crashes at the same exact spot and there's no single obvious cause I can find.

The only errors I consistently receive are these:

According to `vulcaninfo`: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

MESA: error: Use of VkSurfacePresentModeCompatibilityEXT without a VkSurfacePresentModeEXT set. This is an application bug.

According to `wine.log`/DXVK_LOG (occasionally): - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

info: DXVK: Graphics pipeline libraries not supported

info: DXGI: VK_FORMAT_D24_UNORM_S8_UINT -> VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT

info: DXGI: VK_FORMAT_A8_UNORM_KHR -> VK_FORMAT_R8_UNORM

warn: D3D11DXGIDevice::QueryInterface: Unknown interface query

warn: 53cb4ff0-c25a-4164-a891-0e83db0a7aac

warn: D3D11DXGIDevice::QueryInterface: Unknown interface query

warn: 0ec870a6-5d7e-4c22-8cfc-5baae07616ed

0114:err:dxgi:dxgi_factory_CreateSwapChainForHwnd This is not the device we're looking for.

err: D3D11CreateDevice: Failed to create swap chain

Alternatively, according to `winegui.log`: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

info: DXVK: Graphics pipeline libraries supported

info: DXGI: VK_FORMAT_D24_UNORM_S8_UINT -> VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT

warn: D3D11DXGIDevice::QueryInterface: Unknown interface query

warn: 0ec870a6-5d7e-4c22-8cfc-5baae07616ed

warn: DXGI: MakeWindowAssociation: Ignoring flags

info: DXVK: Using 16 compiler threads

info: Presenter: Actual swapchain properties:

info: Format: VK_FORMAT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM

info: Color space: VK_COLOR_SPACE_SRGB_NONLINEAR_KHR

info: Present mode: VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_KHR (dynamic: yes)

info: Buffer size: 1280x720

info: Image count: 4

When I don't get the swapchain error, this always where the application crashes.

I also usually get this error, although I'm lead to believe it's a benign need for online functionality: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

0144:err:winediag:ntlm_check_version ntlm_auth was not found. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.

0144:err:ntlm:ntlm_LsaApInitializePackage no NTLM support, expect problems

I would really appreciate some help.

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.3.239

DXVK: v2.6.1

Spoofing my GPU as a 50xx series card unlocks 4x frame gen for this game. Has anyone else tried it? I would like to know if it works on older cards.

Operating System: CachyOS Linux

KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0

Qt Version: 6.9.0

Kernel Version: 6.14.6-2-cachyos (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor

Memory: 94.2 GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Manufacturer: ASUS

Proton-CachyOS:

Game graphics are at max settings.

Launch commands

LD_PRELOAD="" mangohud DXVK_NVAPI_GPU_ARCH=GB200 PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 %command% +com_skipIntroVideo

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I'm new to Linux and my favorite distro so far is Solus. Mainly because it feels the fastest on my PC compared to the others, and also because it is "rolling release" while still being user friendly. It feels perfect for my gaming PC and has everything I need as a linux newb simpleton.

The thing is, I'm not sure which version of Solus is the best to use (Budgie, Gnome, Plasma, XFCE.) I have tried them all on USB but I'm torn. From what I read Budgie was once the flagship desktop, but in my opinion it does not look very elegant or modern, the themes are aesthetically mismatched and there are multiple file managers etc. I am familiar with Gnome from trying Fedora for a few days and I enjoy it. But I've heard some suggest against Gnome on Solus because its team doesn't like Gnome or something like that. Would hate to start using it for them to stop supporting it one day. I personally don't like Plasma aesthetically it feels too much like Windows, but I'd be willing to use it if it's the best supported. No interest in XFCE I couldn't get it to feel modern no matter how hard I tried.

Another thing is, Wayland. One thing I like about Fedora is just how smooth it felt on the desktop while others had some tearing and stutters, and I quickly narrowed that down to Wayland VS xorg. Is Wayland a thing on Solus yet?

Hi, I recently install Q4OS in my older HP DC5750 FF. I want to use my PC for retro PC gaming, so I decided to return to Windows XP, so I need help with this process, what I need for this?

hi guyws" i'm new here and new to linux.

sorry if obnoxious but i'm just switching from windows 11 to linux ubuntu as my single boot.

i've searched on the matter and have seen posts here discussing about using proton or heroic to launch genshin on linux, but i haven't seen a mention about the game working on ubuntu. where can i get find the information or tutorial on how to make it work on this distro? is it even possible?

thanks in advance.