I have a GTX 4080 and im looking to OC using LACT. I used afterburner extensively for years and had a good stable OC for my 4080 and want to replicate that in linux using LACT but im not sure about the P state settings and the offsets.

First question is, should i only be using P State 0?

Second question, are the offsets the same as afterburner? So, if i had a +150 core and a +750 memory in Afterburner, would i use those same offsets in the GPU P0 and VRAM P0?

Thanks for any help!

Can someone find some way to make a Steam-like game shortcut but for Game Jolt, it would be extremely convenient.

has anyone tried niri (with or without noctalia) for gaming? how terrible is it?

First time running a linux system, using the latest mint version.

RTX5060, Ryzen 5 7600

A lot of the threads about ED say it runs mostly out of the box just with downgrading proton. I tried a bunch of different valve proton versions and recommended protonGE versions. None of them fix the instant crash. The furthest I've gotten was with proton GE 8-3 which actually processed the vulkan shaders before booting the launcher and crashing like usual. made sure my nvidia drivers were up to date as well. Verified the game files just in case but all was fine there.

Total linux noob here so I'm not sure what I could be doing. I've also seen some threads mentioning something called lutrix? Haven't tried that yet.

im never going back to windows by the way.

my laptop's specs: (which are old, chat gpt'ed it)

• Laptop: Acer Predator PH315-52

• CPU: Intel Core i7-9750H (6 cores / 12 threads, up to 4.5 GHz)

• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti (with Optimus, Intel UHD 630 iGPU)

• RAM: 16GB DDR4 (expandable, depends on your config)

• Storage: 256GB NVMe SSD (system drive, Linux Mint) 1TB HDD (NTFS, secondary storage)

• Display: 15.6" Full HD (1920x1080), 144Hz, IPS

• Keyboard: RGB backlit, Predator series

• OS: Linux Mint 21/22 (Ubuntu-based)

• Other: Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, Thunderbolt 3, HDMI 2.0, Killer LAN

i'm new to linux and don't know much about gaming in handheld and pc in general. context about me is i've heard & seen the games but never actually played it. my gaming experience up until now is more on mobile competitive games. i got this laptop just about prepandemic during college and rarely used it since then. was able to play gta5, forza 4 or 5, witcher 3, and overcooked 2 back when the os is win10. haven't officially tried gaming yet on linux. i came here to ask to know where i am based off of my laptop's specs and situation. i watched youtube relating to this and i've come to learn a little that there's something about nvidia to linux drivers wise. i can't really tell much other than that. also, the content that i watched has rtx something specs being used, 4060 something which i think is far superior to what my 1660ti can do. while the comparison between the mint to other gaming distros is somewhat close than being far fps wise. i still want to know from the community.

with that being said, now i wonder if distros matter to my setup. should i change or not? i dont wanna go in deep with linux mint and later regret that there's better option at my disposal.

now that i have the energy to get back to gaming again, like play older 3A's, maybe cyberpunk too, some modern ones if it can and a lot of indie games. basically wanna play it like how and what games that can be played in a handheld. will mainly play in steam too. ill stick to playing this laptop until i have the budget to get a decent/comfortable gaming experience performance/ux wise like those latest handhelds today.

Spent most of my evening trying to solve this last night. Square Enix is not known for their programming prowess, and in their effort to get the game to run on the SteamDeck, it forces things like a low resolution font and dropping the colors of materia in game.

I've attempted to pass launch options like "SteamDeck=0" and a bunch of Wine DLL overrides, but the game seems to have the behavior hard-coded, or Im missing the Konami Code for it.

Thanks for any advice.

Hey folks! 👋
I just pushed some new updates to chess-tui, a Rust-based terminal chess client.
This new version includes several improvements based on your feedback, with better Lichess gameplay and improved puzzle support !

Thanks a lot to everyone who shared ideas, reported bugs, or tested earlier versions and of course, more feedback is always welcome! 🙏

https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui

I've been trying to play battlefront 2, I bought a long time ago from the EA app directly.

What I've done is launching the EA app from lutris and installing the game, but it doesn't run smoothly and the mouse doesn't work properly making it unplayable.

I've tried to launch the app from steam hoping for it to make a difference but the same problems occurred.

These are the icc profile files (display/monitor colour calibration files) from system32/spool/drivers/color folder on my windows 11 laptop ( Mi notebook Ultra) If I switch to linux which of these files shall I use to get the accurate colour calibration on Linux ?? Plz guide me with this 🥺

Hi all, appreciate any feedback.

Two years ago I bought a beat up HP elitebook 840 g5, 16GB RAM and Intel® Core™ i5-7300U × 4, the battery didn't last 20 minutes on Windows but after installing ubuntu it now lasts a full day, so that's great and it does all of the daily things for me (internet, movies, docs).

I've been looking to play some games on it as I have an old Steam account with some platform games, Ori and such. There is a very visible lag as it unfortunately has a shitty built-in graphic card: Intel® HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2).

Is there anything I can do here to make it perform better without having to get a different laptop?

I want play to Batman Arkham Knight and Marvel's Spider-Man.
I am on Fedora and i have Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 equipped with a Core 7 240H.

1. Using a 7840hs + igpu
2. On fedora workstation 43
3. Mesa 25.2.7
4. Already tried:
5. Restarting
6. Reinstalling
7. Removing optiscaler
8. Maxing out the graphics (engine.ini too)
9. Proton GE 26, 27, 28 already tried
10. Deleting compiled shader folder
11. Tried Steam and Faugus launcher

This game is bugging me out, all textures got fked a few days after 3.0 when they were sending out mini updates. Does any1 know a fix?

Hello guys I am going to get a razer deathadder v4 pro in a few weeks from now, so I was wondering how wide is the functionality of open razer driver / it's applications that are based on it. What features from synapse are supported, and what are not? I have heard that razer had some features turned on by default that I would maybe like to turn off like asymmetric cuf-off and motion sync, so can you change those type of settings on linux? By the way I also have a macbook that I think can install synapse on so I could configure my mouse there. BUT the question is still relevant obviously.

When playing CS2 sometimes all audio cuts off (can be after 10min or after a couple hours). I haven't found any way of restoring the audio mid game without restarting the game.

I use arch linux with pipewire (my friend uses Mint and has the same issue).
I have a wired headset that is connected via y-split cable directly to the motherboard. I also have speakers but they are turned off while using the headset. My system also recognizes the speakers from my monitor, but are never used.
My default sinks and source devices are my headset.

Things I've tried:

• Setting launch option SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pipewire %command%. This has no effect. Seems like SDL uses pipewire by default.
• Setting launch option SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulse %command%. This fixes the sound problem but sometimes the game freezes and crashes instead (not 100% sure this is the cause, the game has never crashed this often before). Not as frequently as losing audio but still something to note.

Things I haven't tried:

• Launching the game via Proton. I've heard that launching CS2 via proton has many issues and downloading a new binary takes a very long time for me.

Is there a more elegant fix to this issue?
Is valve or the SDL team aware of this issue?