Hi everyone! I recently have been heavily considering switching to Linux for my pc I primarily use for gaming but also chatting with friends, watching videos, and occasional schoolwork. I was wondering what benefits Linux provided to me as a gamer specifically, because as far as I can tell all I see people saying is that it makes gaming more difficult. What exactly does “more control” constitute in the field of benefits concerning gaming?

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One of the most requested features is coming in 0.11.0!

So I'm going to run the mod manager in a VM to make sure it works properly, I only have a question regarding file system, does the mass effect install need to be on an ntfs drive for the me3tweaks mod manager to function properly? Anyone with experience doing this method, I would appreciate your input. Thanks.

I'm trying to 100% deadspace, but any time I want to play the game, I have to open, close, and reopen the game a bunch of times, or it either wont work at all or will have extreme lag spikes to where the game freezes and doesn't work at all. if there is a solution, please let me know, thank you

Im trying to boot up deadlock Im on arch with a 2008 macbook pro its got 8 gigs of ram 2 tb of storage and some cpu that i believe meets minimum specs (what ever apple was using in 2008 prob intel but idk) when I was on pop os on my main computer (better specs) this was still a problem

I've played a lot of the game up until the current part where I come back home for the first time.

But really close to the destination, the terrain started to glitch out badly, didn't happen before nor in any other games so I'm discarding GPU issues.

https://reddit.com/link/1s989t7/video/geawaaixrhsg1/player

Running on Proton-GE 34, tested VKD3D_CONFIG=nodxrand PROTON_NO_NTSYNC=1 to no avail, changing from PICO do DLSS doesn't fix it either but makes the glitches "smoother", so should I assume this is a game issue?

I paired this ran a successful test for all inputs using jstest /dev/input/js0^C.

I've unpaired it from my windows dual boot and any xbox consoles.

doesn't detect input in steam or non steam games.

A wired USB connection works flawlessly.

Had one of the most insane experiences getting my friend on Linux. He's the kind of guy who just wants his things to work, and all he does on his computer is play games, and nothing else.

So naturally, I wanted to get him on something easy and beginner-friendly, so his transition felt seamless. Oh, how painful that was. We had probably the worst luck when it came to one thing: his headphones.

Yeah, so we tried a few distros to get his feet wet using Ventoy (you know, Mint, Fedora, Bazzite), the usual popular recs. I figure, well, everyone says to just pick what's popular for a new person, so I just followed that advice. But consistently, he would have the same issues. While running Discord, his game audio would progressively get muted if no one was talking. We thought maybe it was some kind of strange Discord bug, but these distros we tried him on, I wasn't too familiar with, tinkering-wise, so I had cachyos loaded for the time being, since it's my comfort zone at the moment. Luckily, he hates windows enough to go through this mess with me.

And still, this weird bug was present, so I had the thought, "What if this isn't Discord, but rather the headphones themselves?" So, I asked him what kind of headphones they were. They were the Razer Nari Ultimate, a discontinued Razer headset from 2019. Naturally, I assumed that since it was a Razer product, we needed the OpenRazer driver, so I installed it. Nothing.

As it turns out, this headset has separate audio profiles built in, and Linux was only picking up the CHAT profile, not the GAME profile. So, I had to find a script to set up a pipewire profile in order to finally fix his audio. It's on GitHub and available in the AUR, so this whole time it was a super easy fix, and I had blamed Discord for no reason.

Will he swap back to any of the distros we tried? Probably not, he seems comfortable on cachy for now, and I'm there for any questions, so the rest of this has been pretty smooth sailing. Other than Dragon's Dogma II modding, but we managed to get the mod loader to work with protontricks, so not nearly as nightmarish as this stupid Razer headset.

I recently got Silent hill 2 and I've been playing a bit of it then at a random point after closing it and reopening it it would just crash at the Konami logo and it has done this each time even after uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Does anyone know any fixes to this?

If you have a TRYX Panorama SE 360 and game on Linux, you know the pain - the official KANALI app doesn't support Linux. Built a Qt6 GUI that gives full control over the AMOLED display.

Shows real-time CPU/GPU temperatures, usage, and frequency right on the cooler screen while you game. Also supports custom videos, brightness control, and system tray.

Works with AMD and NVIDIA setups. Tested on Fedora 43 with RX 7900 XTX + RTX 5060 Ti dual GPU.

GitHub: https://github.com/DXVSI/tryx-panorama-se-360-linux-gui

So I tried playing dishonored today, and when I launch the game from steam it pops up an error saying that it can't find the executable file. I've already checked and it's there, and it launches when I run it straight through wine, but gets stuck on the loading screen. I've already tried verifying the integrity of the files, reinstalling the game, and using several different startup commands to try and fix this problem, but I can't find anything relating to this anywhere else online. I'm on Fedora 43. Could somebody help me?