To be clear i have used windows during these past few years, but only in virtual machines. I've always been fine with the few limiting factors that linux still has when it comes to gaming, so that was enough for me. But a few things have changed since then.

For example, gta online, a game i used to play religiously, does not work underneath linux anymore because of them adding anticheat, as most of you probably know by now. I didn't care much about that initially because i had gotten bored of the game and hadn't played it in years, but the recent gta 6 hype made me wanna spin it up again... except i can't.

The second thing is that while a virtual machine with single gpu passthough worked fine for the most part, recently it has started to become more trouble than it's worth for me, since my gpu stopped wanting to unbind from my system (already tried pretty much everything, different kernels, checking logs, trying different things in my unbind script, etc.). And even when this still worked, it doesn't solve the anticheat problem.

So now i'm stuck between wanting to stick to my ideals, since i absolutely despise windows and having to use it, while on the other hand, i did pay for my hardware to use it with the games i like to play, and i don't feel like i should be limiting myself like that out of stubbornness. I still have a spare ssd in my pc so i can just install windows on there and start dualbooting if i want, and i guess i would atleast still be limiting the amount of data microsoft gets from me when i only use it for a few anticheat games.

Pretty much just a ranting post, not really looking for support or anything, but it does make me curious: do you dualboot? Do you have a virtual machine setup? Or have you been able to cut the cord completely when it comes to windows? I'd love to know.

This started to happen like 3 weeks ago.

Sometimes, my main monitor likes to completely freeze up and it won't come back unless I unplug and plug my main monitor back in. Been using Linux for almost a year now and this has never happened before. I switched to Nobara KDE like a month and a half ago. Been using EndeavourOS with KDE before this and it has never happened under that.

This is what dmesg prints out whenever it happens:

[ 1529.544788] [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 1

[ 1532.679803] [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 1

Anyone with any idea how to fix this? Or is this just unfix-able NVIDIA shenanigans.

Hi all,

I'm considering dual booting with CachyOS. In your experience with the current state Oblivion and Linux, would it better for me to keep it on Windows or?

Everytime I install a game it crashes because it uses too much ram. How can I fix that?

Repository: GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom · Tag: GE-Proton10-1 · Commit: 9d708fa · Released by: GloriousEggroll

Proton:

• GE-Proton rebased on top of Valve's Proton 10 Bleeding Edge
• Wine-Wayland has been enabled and patches from upstream wine backported for it. YMMV (Your mileage may vary). Thanks Etaash-mathamsetty for the backporting as well as the wine-wayland specific patch fixes for various games.
• Dualsense controller patches from ClearlyClaire https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/7238 rebased (thanks loathingKernel)
• FSR patches rebased (thanks loathingKernel)
• Nvidia Reflex low latency patches rebased

Protonfixes:

• Marvel Rivals EGS fix added (thanks termdisc)
• Fix added for The Testament of Sherlock Holmes (thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• Fix added for Borderlans: The Pre-Sequel (thanks loathingKernel)
• Fix added for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (thanks Reilley64)
• Fix added for Breath of Fire 4 (GOG) (Thanks ImLinguin)
• Fixes added for Star Citizen (Thanks mactan-sc)
• Fix added for Yosumin (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• Fix added for DOOM 2016 (GOG) (Thanks ImLinguin)
• Fix added for Lord of the Rings Online (thanks mdmatthias/MathiasDillain)
• Fix added for Once Human (Thanks jcdickinson)
• Fix added for Shadows of Adam (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• Save import fix added for Metaphor ReFantazio (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• Save import fix added for Persona 3 Reload (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• Fix added for Liminal Border Part III (thanks R1kaB3rN)
• Fix added for Mojika Truth Rears Its Head (thanks superboo7)

Info regarding Wine-Wayland:

YMMV (Your mileage may vary). Most games that utilizes DXVK or VKD3D should be fine. Games that have native Vulkan or OpenGL are a coin toss. Most launchers should also be fine (Again huge thanks to Etaash, he's been hammering out a lot off the Wine-Wayland bug fixes, including one that was critical for OpenGL and launcher rendering). If a game or launcher isn't working, please DON'T come bugging us to fix it. Officially we're with Valve on this -- it's not supported. It's there for people to use/try/test out because it's a wanted feature, that's the extent of it.

New option for using Wine-Wayland:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

New option for using HDR with Wine-Wayland:

PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1

It goes without saying, but just in case people don't know -- You need Wine-Wayland to use HDR, therefore you need both options for HDR:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

If you want to use Wine-Wayland without HDR, you do NOT need this option:

PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1

Known issues with Wine-Wayland:

DOOM 2016: Opens in small window and crashes on resolution change without mesa patch. Fixed with patch
DOOM Eternal: Crashes without mesa patch. Broken mouse cursor in menus, Broken mouse pointing in-game
DOOM The Dark Ages: Broken mouse pointing in-game
Wolfenstein The Old Blood: OpenGL error crash
Wolfenstein The New Order: OpenGL error crash
Wolfenstein Youn Blood: mangohud broken
Path of Exile/Path of Exile 2: Vulkan renderer broken without mesa patch. Fixed with patch.

AMD-Specific:

mesa patches needed for DOOM 2016 and DOOM Eternal: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34918
mesa patches needed for DOOM Dark Ages: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34944
mesa patches needed for Path of Exile/Path of Exile 2 (currently not submitted yet): https://github.com/Nobara-Project/rpm-sources/blob/42/baseos/mesa/min_image_count.patch

Hopefully we can figure out a fix for the cursor issue in the DOOM games. Fingers crossedGE-Proton10-1 ReleasedRepository: GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom · Tag: GE-Proton10-1 · Commit: 9d708fa · Released by: GloriousEggroll

Proton:
GE-Proton rebased on top of Valve's Proton 10 Bleeding Edge
Wine-Wayland has been enabled and patches from upstream wine backported for it. YMMV (Your mileage may vary). Thanks Etaash-mathamsetty for the backporting as well as the wine-wayland specific patch fixes for various games.
Dualsense controller patches from ClearlyClaire https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/7238 rebased (thanks loathingKernel)
FSR patches rebased (thanks loathingKernel)
Nvidia Reflex low latency patches rebased
Protonfixes:
Marvel Rivals EGS fix added (thanks termdisc)
Fix added for The Testament of Sherlock Holmes (thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
Fix added for Borderlans: The Pre-Sequel (thanks loathingKernel)
Fix added for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (thanks Reilley64)
Fix added for Breath of Fire 4 (GOG) (Thanks ImLinguin)
Fixes added for Star Citizen (Thanks mactan-sc)
Fix added for Yosumin (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
Fix added for DOOM 2016 (GOG) (Thanks ImLinguin)
Fix added for Lord of the Rings Online (thanks mdmatthias/MathiasDillain)
Fix added for Once Human (Thanks jcdickinson)
Fix added for Shadows of Adam (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
Save import fix added for Metaphor ReFantazio (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
Save import fix added for Persona 3 Reload (Thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
Fix added for Liminal Border Part III (thanks R1kaB3rN)
Fix added for Mojika Truth Rears Its Head (thanks superboo7)
Info regarding Wine-Wayland:
YMMV (Your mileage may vary). Most games that utilizes DXVK or VKD3D
should be fine. Games that have native Vulkan or OpenGL are a coin
toss. Most launchers should also be fine (Again huge thanks to Etaash,
he's been hammering out a lot off the Wine-Wayland bug fixes, including
one that was critical for OpenGL and launcher rendering). If a game or
launcher isn't working, please DON'T come bugging us to fix it.
Officially we're with Valve on this -- it's not supported. It's there
for people to use/try/test out because it's a wanted feature, that's the
extent of it.
New option for using Wine-Wayland:
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
New option for using HDR with Wine-Wayland:
PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1
It goes without saying, but just in case people don't know -- You
need Wine-Wayland to use HDR, therefore you need both options for HDR:
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%
If you want to use Wine-Wayland without HDR, you do NOT need this option:
PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1
Known issues with Wine-Wayland:
DOOM 2016: Opens in small window and crashes on resolution change without mesa patch. Fixed with patch

DOOM Eternal: Crashes without mesa patch. Broken mouse cursor in menus, Broken mouse pointing in-game

DOOM The Dark Ages: Broken mouse pointing in-game

Wolfenstein The Old Blood: OpenGL error crash

Wolfenstein The New Order: OpenGL error crash

Wolfenstein Youn Blood: mangohud broken

Path of Exile/Path of Exile 2: Vulkan renderer broken without mesa patch. Fixed with patch.
AMD-Specific:
mesa patches needed for DOOM 2016 and DOOM Eternal: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34918

mesa patches needed for DOOM Dark Ages: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34944

mesa patches needed for Path of Exile/Path of Exile 2 (currently not submitted yet): https://github.com/Nobara-Project/rpm-sources/blob/42/baseos/mesa/min_image_count.patch
Hopefully we can figure out a fix for the cursor issue in the DOOM games. Fingers crossed

Can somebody explain me what is going on right here?
I've tested Borderlands 2 on Linux and Windows.
Linux has x2 more fps, how is this possible?

Yes Windows is faster at launching the game, because there is no wine layer and its running natively, but Linux has 200 fps, while Windows only 100...

Arch Linux

Windows

I was using nobara kde for quite a few months on my lenovo t14 ThinkPad with Ryzen 5 4560u, but I was having quite many problems with it in games, like I downloaded dark soul remastered to play and the game textures were glitching, which made my character upper body invisible in game, I thought it was some error with launch options or game files, I tried everything but it didn't fix, just for the test, I tried running the game with same game files on my windows machine and it ran with no texture glitches, then I guess it was glitching because DXVK idk, next problem I faced was that I crack a lot of games to play and usually I use fitgirl repacks for that, but it's installer dosent work in Linux the download just stays on 0%, was running it with wine, haven't tried lutris yet.

Other problems like sometimes application doesn't open and crashes, and I have to restart my laptop then

I was thinking of switching from KDE to GNOME or some other distro, if you have some options please tell.

Hey all,

A bit of a head scratcher. Everything was working fine 2 weeks ago.

I'm running bazzite, latest stable and steam.

I have two controller, a ps5, abd a 8bitdo with the dongle.

When I play a game (I tried many) the controller will stop working. Either of them.

If I show the overlay (shift + tab) the controller seem to work. So the drop is only in game.

I tried with steam input, without steam input. I removed the idle timout (to never)

Any clue what could be happening? I'm not sure how to debug that one.

Cheers.

I recently want to try cause i never played Enderal: Forgotten Stories (a skyrim overhaul mod pack), so i installed it from steam, and my skyrim (the legacy version) to play it, i check protondb and says that is necessary to use this launch options and i say fine with me so i use them PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%, and the proton experimental version.

The game has several problems 'cause it goes to 144fps, that is my monitor hz, i tried to change it in the ini files on the enderal folder, but no luck, and i try to install this mod from nexus mods, but no luck too, i go out of options.

Anyone knows what to do?

What is up with the lack of tutorials on this mod manager? It seems nice and stable, but there is hardly any public tuts on this thing aside from whats on the github and random forum posts from what i can find.

I don't know if there is something more in depth tucked away in a discord or something but I really don't feel like looking for it i'll be real. (Kinda ironic i know)

So I dual booted windows with Pop! OS, installed steam, tried to get it working. After a while, i realised the issue was that my steam library, specifically the compatdata folder (in windows) is in an NTFS drive, which linux cant handle. so I created a symlink connecting my windows steam library compadata to my native linux drive, and the games started to work.

Now I am wondering, if i switch back to windows and use steam on there, will it cause any issues because i created a symlink on linux? Initially I thought it would not since the compadata folder is used when running the game on linux, but im not so sure. Is it better to create a seperate steam library for linux symlink that so there's no conflict?

In January, i decided to use Linux (ZorinOS). At first, it was great: just what i needed and no extra bullshit... okay some extra programs which i uninstalled easely. Yet, the free alternatives were not as good as the programms i paid for (affinity photo2, designer2 and publisher2). I tried to understand how to instal/use Wine and Bottles. After hours of frustration, i gave up. Okay, for gaming, it was working exept some minor texture error (got golden magazines in helldivers 2) but i never had any crash.

In April, i decided to go back to Windows. I debloated it, add my favorite programms working... and it crashes so often at when it runs feels like a miracle:
-Opening a web browser other then Edge, crash.
-Running win11, crash.
-Playing a game, crash

I just feel so frustrated to have to choose between a weekend project from 10 pc nerds with coffee adiction and a corporate mainstream slop system... and don't get me started on the worst thing ever called Mac.

Hello,
I recently acquired a 4k 144hz TV and thought I would have trouble running it at high refresh rates from my linux station. I ordered an active Displayport to HDMI adapter which I didn't receive yet, and was looking into other distros because Wayland runs bad on Mint and I previously had trouble running multiple monitors with different refresh rates on X11.

But it just seems to work out of the box and I don't understand why, as 4k 120hz should not be supported on AMD cards. I suspect I am not actually running at 120hz, how can I verify it ?

Thank you.

I initially tried using the controller wirelessly - jstest-gtk would pick the controller up, as did Steam... However the inputs were weird:

right_trigger: moves right-stick up and down

left_trigger: moves right-stick left and right

right_stick: does nothing

left_stick: all normal

right_bumper: does nothing

left_bumper: x

a, b, y : all normal

x: does nothing

dpad: all normal

"L3" & "R3": all normal

select: left_bumper

start: right_bumper

So I ended up running through some chat-gpt recommendations, installing xpadneo / dkms, etc, and eventually doing what it said there rendered the controller not even showing up in Steam/jstest-gtk.

As a result of this (and being unable to boot into Linux briefly), I tried using it wired -- it works!..... About as well as it first did while wireless -- funky bindings.

Is there a good way to just re-map this, or is something else fundamentally weird/wrong?

• Rebased almost all patches from Proton Cachyos 9.0.

  • Enabled the Wayland driver for the Steam Linux Runtime builds too. Enable with PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1. Thanks to GloriousEggroll for making it happen.
  • Added a lot of Wayland related patches from upstream wine that happened after the release of wine-10.0
  • Fixed various issues with the Wayland driver and Vulkan games. Thanks to Etaash-mathamsetty for all the hard work.
  • Added a stub implementation for amdxc64.dll to enable FSR4. Use FSR4_UPGRADE=1 to upgrade FSR3.1 games to FSR4. Again thanks to Etaash-mathamsetty. Instructions: https://github.com/Etaash-mathamsetty/wine-builds/releases/tag/fsr4
  • Added DualSense related patches for more complete audio device detection functionality for wired sound-based haptics. Some games that relied on that specific behaviour should now have that functional. Thanks to ClearlyClaire for the original patches and Exotic0015 for looking into it since Proton Cachyos 9.0. Upstream: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/7238
  • Removed the Dragon Age Inquisition patch as it was not working. Please use Proton-Cachyos 9.0 for now with that game.
  • Updated the NTSync branch to Proton 10.0. Thanks to whrvt. No, NTSync is not merged into Proton-CachyOS yet, sorry.

• Thanks to everyone on the CachyOS Discord server who provided testing while working on this. And special thanks to the people mentioned above and NelloKudo for sharing the workload.

Copy of the changelog, but I was able to do some native HDR gaming with wayland with these commands ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 DXVK_HDR=1 %command% Although I did have to recreate my proton prefix just as a note some people don't? (Maybe just a me thing) You can get it easily from protonup-qt, I got mine from the aur.

If you want to read up on it Proton Cachy, just thought I'd share the info here as well if others wanted to try it.

I've tried many proton version, launch commands, nothing. All I get is a black screen or crash when I load up a save. The games are "gold" on prtonddb: plants vs zombies, dark souls remastered, monster hunter world, gta 4.

Or maybe it does this automatically? I can't find a way to be sure.

Apologies if a silly question, I googled a decent bit and couldn't find anything helpful