Long story short, I'm new to Linux. I downloaded Lutris and Cyberpunk. Sadly, it downloaded in English, while I wanted Polish version. Lutris has its hud in Polish and I used it since I bought CP on GoG, not Steam. Within game I cannot change voiceover language. What should I do?

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I'm successfully playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 from Steam with my Honeycomb Aero Alpha and Bravo with some community addon problems.
Two main problems:
vPilot addon does not recognize button presses on the Alpha to bind the push-to-talk button
The Bravo comes with an addon called AFC_Bridge that reads the simulation state through the SimConnect API and writes feature requests to the USB HID to set lights on the Bravo and is not setting the Bravo lights at all.

Environment:
Kernel: Linux 6.10.13-3-MANJARO
Proton: 1727104926 proton-9.0-3c
Options: {'noopwr', 'forcelgadd'}

Troubleshooting steps taken:
Confirm the devices actually work.
Confirm permissions issues aren't to blame.
Confirm AFC_Bridge is running
Confirm Wine allows direct communication with the HIDs

To confirm that the devices work, I plugged them into a windows device and they worked flawlessly. I also coded up a simple program in rust to manipulate the lights on linux which proves that I can write to the lights directly with native linux applications.

lsusb output to get vendor and product ids
Bus 001 Device 060: ID 294b:1900 Honeycomb Aeronautical Alpha Flight Controls
Bus 001 Device 061: ID 294b:1901 Honeycomb Aeronautical Bravo Throttle Quadrant

sudo dmesg -w to get the hidraw paths
[495539.711257] input: Honeycomb Aeronautical Alpha Flight Controls as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3.2/1-3.2.4/1-3.2.4.1/1-3.2.4.1:1.0/0003:294B:1900.0041/input/input97
[495539.711432] hid-generic 0003:294B:1900.0041: input,hidraw8: USB HID v1.11 Joystick [Honeycomb Aeronautical Alpha Flight Controls] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3.2.4.1/input0
...
[495539.916217] input: Honeycomb Aeronautical Bravo Throttle Quadrant as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3.2/1-3.2.3/1-3.2.3:1.0/0003:294B:1901.0042/input/input98
[495539.916303] hid-generic 0003:294B:1901.0042: input,hidraw9: USB HID v1.11 Joystick [Honeycomb Aeronautical Bravo Throttle Quadrant] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3.2.3/input0

ls /dev/hidraw* -al
...
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 244, 8 Oct 25 14:53 /dev/hidraw8
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 244, 9 Oct 25 15:21 /dev/hidraw9

Permissions look good to the hidraws

evtest
Available devices:
...
/dev/input/event256: Honeycomb Aeronautical Bravo Throttle Quadrant
...
/dev/input/event31: Honeycomb Aeronautical Alpha Flight Controls

ls /dev/input/event* -al
...
crw-rw----+ 1 root input 13, 256 Oct 25 15:21 /dev/input/event256
...
crw-rw----+ 1 root input 13, 95 Oct 25 14:53 /dev/input/event31

So permissions look good. Maybe AFC_Bridge isn't running?
no, "ps aux | grep AFC_Bridge.exe "shows that it's running under my username, and the SimConnect inspector within Microsoft Flight Sim's Dev Mode shows that it is sending L:Var data to the bridge. The data just isn't making it from the bridge to the Bravo.
So if permissions looks good, and AFC_Bridge is pulling data from Microsoft Flight Sim, then the issue must be with Wine?
Checking the registry, and changing Enable SDL to 0 and EnableHidraw to my selected devices did not change the outcome.
[System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\winebus] 1729764308
#time=1db25fc34df8724
"Description"="Wine HID bus driver"
"DisplayName"="Wine HID bus"
"Enable SDL"=dword:00000000
"EnableHidraw"="294b:1900,294b:1901"
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"Group"="WinePlugPlay"
"ImagePath"="C:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\winebus.sys"
"Map Controllers"=dword:00000001
"ObjectName"="LocalSystem"
"PreshutdownTimeout"=dword:0002bf20
"Start"=dword:00000003
"Type"=dword:00000001
These registry entries should be allowing hidraws to be directly passed through to wine, right?
Are these programs simply not able to identify these hidraw devices as available HIDs?

I am looking for any advice for where to go from here. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Are there controllers that have 2.4 dongles that work on linux with full features (xbox mode, rumble, dongle + rumble; i'm here for the rumble + dongle feature really) outside the xbox + PS controllers?

I've recently bought a Gamesir Nova Lite for its dongle connectivity (so I just plug and play) but was disappointed by it. Dongle works fine but It had no rumble and it defaults to Android mode when connecting via the dongle on Nobara OS.

I was able to workaround it and have rumble working but via Bluetooth (through NS mode + Xone / XpadNeo), but that's bluetooth again :(

Going back to the title of this post, are there controllers with dongles that have working rumble via its dongle mode on linux (adding xone / xpadneo and related drivers are not a problem)?

Hey should I run a 5600xt or a gtx 1080 With a ryzen 2600

I can get the 1080 for $50 Or I can get the 5600xt for $75

Going to mainly be used for movies 1080p & 4k, and emulating ps3 games. Minecraft, some modern couch games (mafia 3, the outer worlds, far cry series, racing games, war zone, etc)

This is NOT a tech support thread. Right now I'm just wondering whether I'm the only one who has experienced this in GNOME. I find that in many games I need to switch focus away from them twice if I want to switch to another window. The first one seems to switch focus as far as the DE is concerned, but the game remains on top regardless. It's only after the second time that I select the window I want (whether it's through alt-tabbing or through the overview) that the window I want shows up on top.

If other people have experienced this, then maybe we can share notes on when this happens and see if there are any common elements.

I've heard we might be entering a "golden era" of gaming on Linux, especially with Microsoft's potential shifts toward integrating anticheats to their own kernel (into Windows). How viable is it to start moving toward Linux as a primary gaming OS? I’ve always used Windows but I do work with Linux, so I have some familiarity with it (not an expert though). I'd love to hear how compatible it is these days with mainstream games (e.g., Valorant – I know it’s a no-go for now –, COD: BO6, Apex, Space Marines, Elden Ring, that kind of stuff). I know the Steam Deck has pushed the market to adapt more to Linux, but I'm unsure how complex the setup and maintenance still are for gaming.

For games that can’t run on Linux, I’m also thinking of dual-booting with two partitions on my NVMe drive, one for Linux and one for Windows, and using Linux for daily stuff. Could anyone share experiences or advice on this? Also, how tough is it to get drives to work across both OSes? I have two HDDs and another SSD, all in Windows format – would I need to reformat them?

Thanks a lot for reading and for any insights you can share!

Hi I’m having trouble clicking play on the game and heard that you have to run it as administrator. Every tutorial on YouTube is for Windows so how do I do this on Linux?

Is there any software for AMD to manage the gamma correction and the brightness like Nvidia?

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Im on Ubuntu and i was playing some dayz using proton. i have bad ping so i decided to search how to play dayz offline. i found some mod but it has a batch extension. any ideas on how to play dayz offline or how to run that file? the link to what i downloaded is here

So multiple installs later I've noticed a reaccuring issue.. Running The Finals with steam (runtime) with either proton bleeding edge or the latest GloriousEggrole 9-16 causes the game to crash.. It seems to randomly just work occasionally but I know it can't be random..

When I run the game with the flatpak version of steam with GE 9-16 or bleeding edge proton it works 100% of the time.. What's up with this behaviour? Shouldn't it be the same?

My system specs:

Ryzen 7 7700 and RX 6800 XT

I was on BTRFS but I had issues with that file system so I'm back on EXT4.. Seemingly the same issues.

Running Arch Linux with latest kernal. Same issue with the latest Linux-tkg kernal.

If I need to continue to keep flatpak steam installed to play The Finals then so be it... But I'd really like to get to the bottom of this issue.

I tried reinstalling protontricks and winetricks to no avail. I read via google that it can be dismissed without concern. But I might want to fix it or at least understand what's going wrong. Any help? (Oh I also get the warnings for using the 64 bit version and the corresponding disclaimers)

Also I had like game icons in the game selection, but that is missing for a couple of releases.

openSUSE tumbleweed

protontricks and winetricks installed via yast/opensuse repo.

frametime spikes I encounter, when moving my mouse

system utilization during the problem

Hello everyone,

since a while now I am experiencing some kind of weird stutter/lag when I play any* Steam (Proton?) game for a longer period of time (~30-40 minutes). The lag only occurs when I move my mouse.

* Supermarket Together, Baldur's Gate 3 (in vulkan), Nodebuster

Some Information about my System:

• Fedora 40 with the CachyOS Kernel (6.11.5-cb1.0.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit))
• 32GB Ram
• AMD Ryzen 7 2700x
• Radeon RX 6800 (16GB VRAM)
• Polling rate of the Mouse: 1 kHz
• KDE Plasma on Wayland
• feel free to ask for more information if I forgot something

Things I tried so far:

• change proton version between Proton Experimental, Proton-GE, Proton 9
  • For any reason non steam games, that run on Wine do not have this issue
• disable shader cache
• disable steam overlay
• disable mangohud
• change cpu-scheduler (bore, rusty)
• change frequency governor performance <-> ondemand

I've been trying to get RE3 working on Linux with the HD/Seamless HD Project (SHDP) mod for over a month now, but no matter what I try, I always end up with the same result, which is the actual backgrounds/textures looking really small on the upper-left corner of the screen, as seen in these images:

Imgur.com

To get the game running on Linux, I use the following DLL overrides:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3d9,d3dcompiler_47,ddraw,dinput8,dsound,libwebp,xaudio2_9"=n,b

(Those same overrides are the ones I use for RE2 and it works perfectly with Classic Rebirth and the HD mod. RE1 CR+SHDP does work too, although that one required some dgVoodoo2 intervention.)While RE3 does work with Classic Rebirth on its own, the HD mod causes that graphical issue on any Linux machine I tried, Steam Deck as well.

Has someone on the Linux Gaming sphere encountered something like this before?
Could I be missing some DLL as override or something else?

I tried screwing around with the DLLs, and found that dinpu8 is the one that seems to load the HD textures. According to some other modders, the issue could reside within the .ASI file itself.

I'm willing to test any plausible solutions to get this to work, since right now only RE3 is the only one that doesn't work with HD mods on Linux. RE1 & RE2 already work with Classic Rebirth and HD textures.

let me start by saying that I am a computer noob. I am trying this program but it requires me to install directx8 or higher but I can't install it. I am using winelator (on android) but I have the same problem with another computer with linux fedora .. sorry for the image with the text in ltalian. thanks

Does anyone know how to fix the err_gfx_state error. I tried deleting the sga files and putting -ignorepipelinecache in launch arguments in rockstar games launcher, like suggested when dealing with this issue, but it did not fix it.

I am playing using lutris and i own the rockstar games launcher version.

Like all Linux gamers I've benefitted massively from Valve's development into the Linux ecosystem these past few years and Linux gaming is now almost at parity with Windows gaming. It's really quite astonishing the speed at which it's happened.

However recently I begun questioning my love of Valve. It feels a bit irrational that I've swapped almost all my proprietary software to FOSS but refuse to uninstall Steam. Surely at least GOG should be my go-to for buying games, since I at least can keep an offline installer of my games rather being a perpetual "Steam subscriber" who doesn't truly own anything. I shouldn't be this much of a fanboy about any company.

Coming across this video from The Hated One recently however I've learned part of why the PC gaming landscape is the way it is - Valve is engaging in anti-competitive activity to keep it this way. The content and pricing of games on other stores could be better, but Valve won't allow publishers to offer better pricing or content on other stores. And thus by blocking competition they retain a monopoly and keep their prices high, and this results in a worse situation for all consumers.

The video goes into the lawsuits and the multiple emails from Valve employees which are used as evidence and it looks pretty damning. It's a real shame Valve is being greedy rather than fairly competing on a level playing field.