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Basically the above.

I also have a bunch of hard drives will they be accessible?

Bonus: any recommendations distro recommendations for lifelong windows user but slight rPi user?

I currently have a dual-boot system and switch to Windows for a few games. I am getting less and less happy with how Windows is working as my non-gaming OS though, and am wanting to have to reboot less often. I am considering getting a 2nd GPU and setting up PCI passthrough to do my Windows Gaming inside of a VM, but I understand that a few games still won't run this way. I don't want to find out after I spend hundreds of dollars that I still have to reboot.

The games I currently am most likely to reboot for are:

1. Fortnite
   
2. Rust
   
3. Destiny 2

However, I have a huge library of free epic games that I periodically will install and play as a one-off. Having a few not work I would understand, but if, for example, the epic launcher itself doesn't work with passthrough I'd want to know.

Also, if there are other games that don't work, I'd like to know. I might not play them now, but they may be on my radar.

Here is a link to the discord

https://discord.gg/zdm59aX5up

just to play on the server

client.connect edp445.monster

This is the error: Assertion failed! Program: Wine C++ Runtime Library X Z:\home\snipex.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\MicrosoftFlightSimulator\FlightSimulator.exe File: ../src-wine/dlls/winevulkan/loader_thunks.c X Line: 39 Expression: "Istatus && "vkAcquireNextImageKHR Press OK to exit the program, or Cancel to start the Wine debugger. OK Cancel

The error appears when it tries to load the settings when the game opens after i downloaded the whole game.

I tried using proton tricks to install vcrun2019, still it didn't work.

any ideas how to fix the game?

Arm support is pretty common and even mid phones are pretty powerfull. Any tutorials, thoughts?

Hey, I wanted to try gyro aim on apex legends, and I was following a guide, but when I went to calibrate the gyro, in the calibration section there was no gyro. I was following the guide because the gyro didn't work in any other games I have tried, and I hoped I had missed something. I tried with a ds4 and ds5 which both produced the same issue (via Bluetooth and USB for the ds5) I see no gyro settings tab or led tab. Is this a change in steam UI since the guide was made or is this a known issue with gyro for ps4 and ps5 controllers. any help would be super appreciated and have a great time!

Hi all!

I’m a new user here—I’ve only been reading posts but this is my first time posting.

I wanted to ask if anyone here has been having the same issue as me in XDefiant, and if you fixed it, how so.

Using Lutris, I installed Ubisoft Connect, and from there I installed XDefiant. I also added the necessary pdh.dll to join matches.

I’m having the weirdest issue where when I join a match in progress, the game runs just fine. When I join a new match that’s just started, however, I get kicked in about two minutes. I’ve tried using wine, proton-ge, and proton experimental all with the same results. I’m on the latest version of Linux Mint.

Thanks everyone!

I made a script (.sh file) that works perfectly when opening it via file manager, but when opening it via steam it crashes like this:

https://preview.redd.it/mzprp94tr87d1.png?width=1273&format=png&auto=webp&s=c833a93aa32094140069149de3d0ede4aeaa7105

i already deactivated steam input and overlay, and didnt work, some idea what it could be?

I'd like to use my laptop (XPS 15 7590 | GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) connected to my LG GP950 to display 4K 120+HZ. My laptop only has HDMI and no DP. Could I use an HDMI -> DP cable to do this? Just wanted to check if anyone's tried before purchasing myself.

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System deets: Old 1440p 60hz fixed-rate monitor, Fedora 40 KDE, RX580 GPU, gamemode enabled, Kernel 6.8.10 (also tested 6.8.6), Steam native binary for all affected games (tested many different Proton versions to no avail).

I've posted a few times before trying to figure out the infamous Fallen Order pause menu fps drop, as well as a fps drop in Star Wars Squadrons. Running radeontop while the drops happen I clearly see that the memory clock frequency of my GPU is also dropping while this happens (sometimes the shader clock frequency drops as well). The memory clock will drop anywhere from 80% to 50% of max. Obviously the lower the memory clock frequency drops the worse the fps.

Much googling led me to this post about the power profile switching, which I implemented and confirmed does activate the different power profiles as expected, but it doesn't make any difference in game whatsoever.

Whenever the game changes "scenes," such as entering the pause menu in Fallen Order or dying/entering the hangar and selecting a new ship in Squadrons, it's a roulette of how many fps you'll have when returning to the game.

The only remedy is to force a "scene" reloading by pausing and unpausing a bunch (Fallen Order) or minimizing/maximizing a bunch (Squadrons).

Using the AMDVLK driver does seem to solve this particular problem, but runs like such garbage it ain't worth it.

I really thought the power profiles thing would fix it but that did nothing, so maybe something else is afoot?

Any ways for a sorta-noob to diagnose this further? I really don't want to go back to Windows but I might not have a choice if I can't solve this.

Hello,

It looks like Gamescope has been removed from the Testing branch: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gamescope - it was removed back in January 2024, and I doubt it's any sort of priority for the Debian devs.

Besides building it myself, is there an alternative way to install it? My searches so far have yielded nothing, probably because it's normally in the repo. It seems like there should be a way to grab the version from Stable, but not sure how I would go about doing that...I'm loosely familiar with Backports but I don't think that's what I need.

Thanks for reading!

I downloaded Proton GE from Glorious Egrolls github page, and extracted it, but I cannot seem to find where the compatibility proton folder is.

The steam version is from openSuse tumbleweeds repos.

Thank you in advance.

one of my friends is trying to find out how to get them working on linux i has also got some planes to use linux to so maybe this may help both of us looking into this i can find a lot of old info from 2019 and 2021 at best i have some sorts of stuff that may work but not shore

this https://github.com/SpookySkeletons/proton-ge-rtsp/releases

So a big reason as to why I'm still struggling fully switching to linux is overlays.
Mainly things like Corsshair X and Overwolf apps like Firestone.

Therefore the question is it possible to get them running on linux or at least similar things?

I've tried crossover but that would never actually overlay over proton games and I've tried Hearthstone Deck Tracker but on one hand it's just worse than Firestone imho but it would also crash after like 5 minutes.