About a month ago I saw that Discord was working on implementing hardware-accelerated livestreaming, but it was only available for AMD GPUs. Recently, I checked the debugging of a stream I was doing and noticed it was using an NVIDIA encoder—not NVENC, obviously, but libvpx. So I logged into another account on my phone to watch the stream, and it's actually very good. The framerate is still a bit low, but at least the stream doesn't look like a slideshow presentation when there's too much happening on screen.

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When using the official Minecraft launcher, Prism, curseforge, etc. I get the same issues. Anyone else? How can I fix this? I haven’t found any useful information while searching the web.

After dozens of Linux players helped me test the game, Pitchforks and Daggers is finally out on Steam with a native Linux build.

Pitchforks and Daggers is a court politics drama, that branches based on your decisions.

You will navigate treacherous lords, scheming family members, and angry peasants- all while trying to secure your kingdom’s future.

If this seems interesting to you feel free to check out my game on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2762740/Pitchforks_and_Daggers/

Thank you!

This is the first time trying Linux gaming and I’ve been trying to play rv there yet. I’ve downloaded it through steam and using the proton experimental version (also tried Hotfix and 9.0-4). The issue is that the game boots up but then hangs in the main menu

Running on intel i5 with Nvidia geforce rtx 3050 on a gaming laptop

Just switched to Linux (on Ubuntu) and I’m finding out a bunch of the online games I used to play like Valorant Fortnite Warzone Apex all that don’t work because of anti-cheat. what are you all playing instead that actually works without a headache?

Just switched to Bazzite from Windows, and I’ve been having issues downloading games. Whenever I install a game on Steam, I randomly lose Wi-Fi. I have no clue why it’s happening could someone help?

Quando eu utilizava o Windows, ele reconhecia normalmente. Mas, desde que instalei o Linux Mint no meu notebook, o aplicativo apresenta esta imagem. Eu baixei o aplicativo usando o Wine e não sei o que fazer para que ele o reconheça, pois não tenho muita experiência com Linux.

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Hi everyone, I'm looking for a simple solution:

I installed Bazzite on an AMD 5825U that I had left over. I installed it in the room, connected to 2 8bitdo ultimate.

The system isn't bad, but since I don't have a keyboard/mouse, sometimes I can't start some games.

1) could it be that I haven't calibrated something on bazzite? Some games that I ran well on Mint are annoying here.

2) are there better alternatives? I know about Cachy OS, I still have to test it, but I'm interested that when it turns on, Steam starts to control it with the gamepad.

3) do you have different alternatives? I've never bought games on itch.io and other platforms, to tell the truth I haven't played well since 2014, before I had PS4 headphones etc.. now that the daughters are 9 and 11 years old, we're rediscovering some games to play together. So if you have any advice, shoot away!

Thank you

I've made the jump to PopOS! from Windows !! as I'm just tired of MS bullshit (as a sysadmin I deal with their shit everyday).

Absolutely no regret, my PC boots instantly and all games runs as good as on Windows. (7800X3d, 9700XT)

The only issue I have is to make my HTC VIVE works. Just haven't figured it out yet after trying pretty much everything online.

Does anyone have a comprehensive and tested guide to make it run?

thanks

Currently I'm running a 5070ti, and a friend of mine recently rebuilt his PC and gave me his "old" 7800xt. I know in raw power, the 5070ti is better. But for penguin gaming, would the compatibility/drivers be worth swapping cards for? And would it be close enough to make up for the ~20% dip on Dx12 games that NVIDIA drivers currently suffer from on Linux?

Hey everyone,

I'm a newbie to Linux (only a month in now), and I've had a smooth experience overall with the exception of one game. I'm playing Expedition 33 (GOG version) through the Heroic Launcher, and I'm having issues where the audio will crackle and pop badly at many points.

I attempted the fix from this thread, but when I copied the command into my terminal, nothing happened. It's very possible that I'm doing it wrong, but I'm not sure how.

My specs:

OS: Linux Mint v. 22.2

CPU: Ryzen 7 7700

GPU: RTX 4060 TI 8GB

Further info:

Heroic Launcher is running v. 2.18.1

The game is up-to-date.

I know there was a suggestion in a different thread about changing the power profile from 'Balanced' to 'Performance.' I attempted this, but the issues persisted.

Can I please have some help? This is my first time posting my own topic, so if any information is missing here, please let me know.

Hello guys, Recently I moved to Mint, my first ever Linux distro, and gaming seems a bit tricky. I got Bottles, Wine and went forwards to try Deltarune (from fitgirl), and it went pretty well. So the next one I tried was The Outer Worlds (from fitgirl too), and it just doesnt download, no matter what. I did the exact same thing I did with Deltarune - Downloading the Installer with Qbittorrent -> Creating a Bottle > Setting sys Wine to run the Setup -> Extracting it to C:(name of the game), but it didnt work. I tried like 3 times, 2 of them the download just freezed, and the other one it gave me a IsDone.dll error and I gave up. I know repacked games are not that stable and all, but am I missing something? Like I have to install additional files? Or switch sys wine other runner? I dont know the best one. Any help is appreciated!

Some months ago I read something about gaming specific linux kernel that I can install on existing os like linux mint or ubuntu and then that gaming kernel would give me optimized gaming experience on my linux machine. So is that actually a thing or was I hallucinating. And another thing about gaming in linux is that, my 1000 hz polling rate mouse just doens't work on linux. it' just gives me really less polling rate like office mouse, and another problem i face on linux is, I mostly only get 60 hz support only with my display. so how is that everything changed on linux??

I wanna play

CPU: 5600x

GPU: RX 6600 8GB

RAM 16 GB (8x2) DDR4 3200 Mhz

OS: CachyOS 6.17.8-2 + KDE PLASMA 6.5.3 with Wayland

Hey guys, I'm getting really high CPU % in Cyberpunk 2077 and RDR2 (80 - 90%), and in the first game it is not even using all my GPU. I'm playing both on medium-high settings without any mod. I'm kind of new to Linux but when I played these games on Windows my CPU usage didn't go higher than 50%. I've already tried changing compatibility on Steam and updating drivers/kernel.

Idk if it could be a Mangohud bug because even with those metrics I thiiink my game performance is what it should be with my specs, but it is still weird.

Any help is very welcome, tysm.

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