Hi, everyone. So I followed the instructions in this topic to make my 8BitDo Controller recognized as an Xbox controller by my Linux Mint PC to use with emulators: https://gist.github.com/ammuench/0dcf14faf4e3b000020992612a2711e2

This had been working perfectly. Dolphin, mGBA and Rosalie's Mupen Gui had used my 8BitDo Controller just fine weeks ago. Now today, none of these emulators will even recognize the controller when it is bluetooth-connected to the PC. I cannot even map its buttons. According to the emulators, there is no controller.

Would someone please help me to reverse the changes that the Github page created in my system? I think I should work from scratch and reverse the changes to then try to get my controller working. T

And if you can provide any guidance on getting my 8BitDo Controller working again, I would be extremely appreciative. Weirdly enough, my Xbox Controller does not work with the emulators either. They refuse to recognize it to map buttons as well. Thank you in advance.

So I updated Linux Mint to 22, booted up Dishonored and started getting this weird behavior that it's like my right stick is being pulled up time to time. I thought it might be the touchpad, I turned it off, the problem persisted, so I launched the second game, same story. I connected the gamepad to playstation, it's working fine, so clearly it's not the stick drift

Steam downloads updates in the range of 1.2 to 1.8 GB for Satisfactory, Deadlock, and FFXIV every time I start my machine. I'm guessing this is some kind of shader thing, but I'm not sure. They aren't required updates, as I'm able to pause or cancel them and still play each of those games.

I'm running EndeavourOS. I'm hoping this is a known issue with a straightforward fix, but if not I'm happy to provide detailed system info.

As the title states...
I have a 7900XTX running on Bazzite.
I have absolutely zero issues with it, but I'm wondering if there is a way to see the GPU core temp.

I'm already using CoolerControl, and I have LACT. Everything is working, but there is only Edge, Junction, & Memory temps, unlike say HWInfo or Adrenalin which shows all of that plus core temp. Sensor-Detect doesn't show anything extra.

I don't exactly need it, but I'd like access to all my metrics if possible.
Is this just something missing from the driver?

So I recently learned about Heroic Launcher on this very sub and when I tried it on an old test rig made of 2017 era hardware, it worked great. However, on my actual gaming rig, I seem to be having a strange problem.

My operating system (Mint 21.3) is on a separate drive from my games. The game drive is about half of a 4TB NVMe drive that is shared with Windows. I have it mounted on boot to ~/Games. It works fine in Steam. I added it as a Library and set it to default and games install there under the path ~/Games.

Not so Heroic Launcher. When I try to set the default install location and browse to ~/Games and select it, the path that actually appears is /run/user/1000/doc/ce1b91e7/Games and when I attempt to install a game to this location, it says the drive may not be writable.

Manually typing /home/<user>/Games/Heroic into the settings results in the game going....nowhere? And being unplayable and uninstallable. I had to uninstall Heroic and manually delete the ~/.var/ files associated to make the game finally appear not installed.

The games drive in my older test rig is a 2TB HDD dedicated entirely to the Linux install for games. It is not shared as the test rig is not dual booted as my main rig is and is also configured similarly to that in my main rig to mount on boot to ~/Games. I had considered the issue might have something to do with Heroic being a flatpak, but that's not the problem because flatpak is the only option available to install without downloading a .deb and it's a flatpak on the test rig as well and it works fine.

Does anyone know why I might be having a problem setting this drive as an install location in Heroic Launcher?

EDIT: So I have another, smaller SSD that I also have a few games on. It is also dedicated to the Linux install for games but it is only a 250GB SATA SSD, also mounted on boot to ~/GamesToo. This also works perfectly in Heroic Launcher, though I must add that browsing to it in the settings yields a similar path to the larger drive, so I guess that's not an issue. It is weird though that it defaults to the normal path ~/GamesToo and not the /run/user... path. Is the problem somehow that the drive is partitioned? That would be a strange problem indeed, as it has no adverse effect on anything else in the system. Does Heroic Launcher need to be given permission somehow to write to this NVMe drive?

EDIT #2: Lutris does not seem to have this problem with this drive. It seems to be specific to Heroic Launcher. I don't understand why this is happening and honestly, Heroic Launcher is easier to use and would rather be using that for my GoG games. Does anyone have any ideas?

As the title implies I switched back to Windows from Arch because I personally feel like I can't leave Apex (yet) or I'm not ready to...with more and more games dropping online multiplayer support I've increasingly felt the pressure... I used to play Fortnite too but I was willing to trade that for Apex at the very least..

In fact I would have never tried to daily Linux if it weren't for my access to Apex.

Using Linux (Debian and Arch) for the past two years, creating github repos and bash scripting so I can have a system up within half an hour completely ready to go with zero issues or bugs has made me fall in love with Linux.. I also grew extreamly accustomed to window managers.. I got to a spot I was so proud of as well.... I could continue to complain "there's no Linux support and the devs suck for it" but that's just leaving me bitter to be frank..

I really hope Linux continues to grow and I'll still be sticking around with my laptop and possibly duel booting arch to test things out.. But I'll just have to use this monopoly OS as my main gaming OS for the foreseeable.

I am a little concerned about privacy.. Used https://privacy.sexy to limit the amount of telemetry Microsoft may be harvesting from me.. I'm also using chocolatey for the majority of my installed software which is nice as a Linux user.. Using alacritty as usual..

Going to eventually figure out and customize GlazeWM and Zebar so I can have a somewhat i3 alike experience but I know it doesn't hold a candle to Sway, i3 or Hyperland..

Anyway I know this will be downvoted but I just wanted to share my addiction.. Thanks for reading this far if you did!

I have an Odyssey G8 (G80SD) monitor. It is 4k, HDR, and supports 240 Hz. I am using Display Port. And in Windows 11 (same cable, graphics card, etc.) I'm able to select my monitor in the Windows display options and set it to 3840x2160 and set the refresh rate to 240 hz.

In Linux (I've seen it happen in Linux Mint Cinammon and now Fedora KDE Plasma) I can select 3840x2160 but the only refresh rate options I have are 30Hz, 60Hz, and 120Hz. The edid data (via monitor-edid) would seem to indicate that a 240Hz should be supported (VertRefresh 48-240, pasted below) Do I have to do something special to make 240Hz and option in the "DisplayConfiguration" in KDE? I am using an AMD 7800XT card. And I'll just reiterate that when I boot this exact same system to Windows I do not have an issue with 240Hz.

Name: Odyssey G80SD
EISA ID: SAMe035
EDID version: 1.4
EDID extension blocks: 2
Screen size: 69.7 cm x 39.2 cm (31.48 inches, aspect ratio 16/9 = 1.78)
Gamma: 2.2
Digital signal
Max video bandwidth: 2340 MHz

HorizSync 255-255
VertRefresh 48-240

# Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 133.3 kHz hsync, ratio 16/9, 139 dpi)
ModeLine "3840x2160" 533.25 3840 3888 3920 4000 2160 2163 2168 2222 -hsync +vsync

# Monitor supported CEA modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 67.5 kHz hsync, ratio 16/9, 69 dpi)
ModeLine "1920x1080" 148.5 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync

# Monitor supported CEA modeline (120.0 Hz vsync, 135.0 kHz hsync, ratio 16/9, 69 dpi)
ModeLine "1920x1080" 297 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync

# Monitor supported CEA modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 45.0 kHz hsync, ratio 16/9, 46 dpi)
ModeLine "1280x720" 74.25 1280 1390 1430 1650 720 725 730 750 +hsync +vsync

# Monitor supported CEA modeline (59.9 Hz vsync, 31.5 kHz hsync, ratio 3/2, 26x31 dpi) (bad ratio)
ModeLine "720x480" 27 720 736 798 858 480 489 495 525 -hsync -vsync

# Monitor supported modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 88.8 kHz hsync, ratio 16/9, 93 dpi)
ModeLine "2560x1440" 241.5 2560 2608 2640 2720 1440 1443 1448 1481 -hsync +vsync

# Monitor supported modeline (120.0 Hz vsync, 183.0 kHz hsync, ratio 16/9, 93 dpi)
ModeLine "2560x1440" 497.75 2560 2608 2640 2720 1440 1443 1448 1525 -hsync +vsync

# Monitor supported modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 67.5 kHz hsync, ratio 16/9, 69 dpi)
ModeLine "1920x1080" 148.5 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync

I felt burned by Veilguard, and wanted to go back to a classic.

I cannot for the life of me get Dragon Age: Origins to run. The game opens the launcher, but then which I click "play", it just silently closes after idling for a minute or so

I'm on Fedora 41.

Here are my specs:

https://pastebin.com/6anRQnYE

And here is the proton log:

https://pastebin.com/xDdE5ENJ

I have tried the following:

1. Installed PhysX with protontricks
2. Attempted to use the latest Proton GE, Proton Experimental, Proton 5.0-10 (suggested by protondb), Proton 4.9 (suggested my protondb), Proton 8.0-5 (suggested by protondb)
3. Attempted to create my own wine prefix and install physx on that, with the latest wine-staging

4. Tried the following launch command:

   PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 mesa_glthread=true WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3dcompiler_47=n,b; d3d9=n,b" %command%

5. Tried the following launch command:

   PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 RADV_TEX_ANISO=16 %command%PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 RADV_TEX_ANISO=16 %command%

None of the above appears to work. The crash logs are kind of vague -- I'm seeing a divide by zero and few other exceptions. I'm not seeing any missing DLLs or anything, though.

https://preview.redd.it/7l5i7b1kpryd1.png?width=1914&format=png&auto=webp&s=ef87210ccb5cc45506458a8b1be6746171d202c7

I downloaded Heroic Games, but the folder seems to have a limited amount of space. I have more than 500GB for total disk space, but Heroic won't use it for some reason. How can I fix this?

Hello everyone,

I am trying to decide what distro to use on a Notebook that will pretty much only be used to game (will also have Windows on another partition for my gfs studywork, but games will be played on the linux distro) and I kinda feel like it is kinda tough to decide on a linux gaming distro currently. I feel like all specific gaming distros have their downsides and I wonder what you feel like the current state of linux gaming distros is. Is it worth it over running something like Fedora or Arch?

My issues with the current gaming distros are:

• Pop!_OS: Mainly focused on cosmic desktop. Not much development on anything else it feels like. I really like the cosmic, but I feel like it will take month to leave alpha and how good and stable it will be remains to be seen. It is very promising, but lots of uncertainty.
• Bazzite: Seems very new and small community. Also as a immutable distro it works a bit different than other distros, you will always have to find solutions for fedora atomic. It seems to be on the rise and is very promising. I read a lot of good stuff about it, but I am uncertain because immutable linux works a bit different and the small community .
• Nobara: I really like Nobara and I am a huge fan of GloriousEggroll. I am so worried about it being pretty much maintained by one person tho. I mean that can be a good thing, because some guys are maniacs and can just develope incredible stuff pretty much alone (like FastAPI), but it still is a risk. Also my Nobara installation broke like last week, after I pretty much updated it weekly(when in use) and I am kinda turned of by Nobara currently.

I feel like my preferred options would be a Pop!_OS with a stable cosmic desktop that has proven itself in the wild for a few weeks/month or a Nobara with a bigger development community. Or I could even live with Bazzite, if immutable distros were more mainstream and the community was bigger. But I feel like right now there is no optimal choice in the linux gaming distros. So I am contemplating just running Fedora or EndeavourOS?

What do you think? Am I overseeing stuff? What is your opinion on the current state of linux gaming distros?

Hi!

On OpenSuse TW (KDE6 + Wayland) I am running Majesty Gold with Steam. It's a very old game that runs fine in fullscreen mode though it's way lower resolution...

But I cannot solve a few problems:

1 - The gamescope window doesn't respect window rules like forcing "do not window decorations"... though I can manually disable them via context menu

2 - If I use the gamescope parameter "-f" I can force the game to start in fullsceen mode and force it with KDE window rules to span only half of my wide monitor. So forcing the size works but the settings for the position on my screen is completely ignored... ??? (yes, I applied "ignore geometry"...)

3 - Global hotkeys to move windows get ignored by gamescope windows...

4 - Is there a parameter for gamescope to position the gamescope window on screen when I start the game? At the moment I either get a window that is correctly positioned by window rules but has window decorations that connot be removed by the rules or I get a gamescope fullscreen ( -f ) reduced to the desired size but cannot be positioned... I am lost!

Thanks for reading - anyone having the same experience or even a solution?

p.s.: Here's my steam parameter line...

PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 gamescope -w 1280 -h 800 -W 1536 -H 960 -f -F fsr -- %command%

Hey everyone,

I am quite new to linux gaming, I am using EndeavourOS with KDE on Wayland.

While playing RDR2 (steam) I've noticed strange issue:

After an hour or one and a half, I get sudden fps drop spikes. What is even stranger outside of game window, my entire PC gets frozen for a half a second or so. At first I thought about overheating but my temps quite normal.

Next thing I've noticed is that this problem immediately went away once I turned on FSR2 and disabled it again.

May this problem be somehow related to shader cache getting filled up?

If anyone has an idea how to fix that I would be very grateful :)

Thank you in advance!

Hey, Sort of new to linux, so sorry if this is a stupid or already well discussed question, but, security concerns aside, would it be possible to implement support into the linux kernel?

additionally, if it WAS possible/feasible to implement, what effects could it have on the linux gaming space in general? would we see more developers openly accept linux as a platform, or would they still be too stuck in their ways to change?

if not possible, what's so different about the Linux kernel?

thanks to everyone who answers, and again sorry if this is a stupid question.

So building a new PC for gaming.

I have two nvme coming soon.

A pcie gen 4 500g and a pcie gen 3 1T.

How should I setup the drives? Should I install in raid 0? Should I put the OS on gen 4 or 3? How about / vs /home? Should I pool the drives but that or raid 0 would lower the speed to gen 3 I think. What is the optimal way to set things? Where would my Minecraft install go ( for my son )? Where should steam point to?

File system will have to be ext4 because the distro will be Endless OS ( it’s a gaming system for the kids )

Thanks!!

Me and my friend finally decided we had enough of windows 11 and it’s bullshit and plan to switch to Linux when windows 10 loses support. I’m doing the research for both of our builds (I’ll update the post with specs later)

For distros I’m considering between Mint, Pop!_os, and Endevour

I know most of my library is Linux friendly, Here are the things I want to make compatible with my build at least:

Bluetooth (I know they probably all do but with the problems of had with win 11 I want to be sure)

VR compatibility

Quest 2+air link compatibility

Modding compatibility specifically for Fallout, Cyberpunk, Doom 2, and red dead. Preferably be able to use vortex

Some YouTube downloader

The apps for tuning and customizing my keyboard and mouse like razer synapse, Logitech, and Corsair

I’m not entirely sure where to start looking for that or other necessary stuff for a Linux build

I'm running Spiritfarer using Wine. The DS4 controller is connected, but only the touchpad works (for moving the cursor)

After upgrading from 550 to the 560 drivers, the laptop fans runs more often and harder during idle. Any explanation for this and any way to adjust it?