From the ashes of my RTS game Virtueror, I restarted the development after 18 months and created a new game that continues where the old one had left: VIRTUALORD.

If you want to check it out, alpha testing is starting next week and every Linux user is welcome to join and to contribute to the development with feedback and comments.

I identified the problem as the generic HID driver taking the device over the Logitech HID++ driver as shown in dmesg:

[ 43.725454] input: Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-4/3-4.4/3-4.4:1.0/0003:046D:C08B.0006/input/input25
[ 43.725517] hid-generic 0003:046D:C08B.0006: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse] on usb-0000:00:14.0-4.4/input0
[ 43.726377] input: Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-4/3-4.4/3-4.4:1.1/0003:046D:C08B.0007/input/input26
[ 43.777398] hid-generic 0003:046D:C08B.0007: input,hiddev97,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse] on usb-0000:00:14.0-4.4/input1

The kernel wouldn't let me unbind the generic driver and bind the logitech driver, so I grepped my mouse's VID:PID in the list of usb ids in the hid-logitech-hidpp driver with modinfo, but it outputted nothing, meaning the driver doesn't even know my mouse.

What can I do? Arch on kernel 6.17.5-arch1-1

i installed it via lutris, its started, did past "loading game info" but then at "loading live games..." just makes transparent and does nothing. console show nothing. tried restarting and etc. help pls idk what to do. version of byond is 516

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Hey guys

As the title may suggest im experienceing some issues with Linux overall and i am a bit unsure as to why. I got these specs more specifically:

GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700KF 10th Gen Core

RAMs: 2 x 8GB Corsair DDR4 [16GB total]

Storage: NVMe Disk 1TB SSD [Where Zorin is installed]

I have the issue that a lot of games i download lags a good amount more than it would on windows 10/11, and i am not really sure as to why, because apart from the games being installed on linux, through other meassures such as alternative launchers i feel like the experience should be somewhat the same if not even better, considering that Linux takes up less space.

I have looked at which drivers that is installed "Additional drivers" and the version which are being used is the latest one by Nvidia themselves and not the open source one.

[NVIDIA Driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-580 (proprietary)]

So to sum up, im really unsure as to why all of these games that runs "very well" on Win10/11 runs between Low/medium on Linux. Any suggestions and or help would be appriciated.

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So this game has a native Linux version. It will not run. I'm running EndeavourOS, trying to play this on my HTPC with my XBOX 360 controller. When I click the Play button in Steam it briefly turns into a Stop button and flashes what I think is the vukcan shaders compiling window before the Stop button once again because a Play button and nothing else happens.

I've tried the default version of Proton, Proton Experimental and GE-Proton 20 and the result for all three is that the Play button will become a Stop button, the game will ask me whether to run config or play the game. I can run config but when I try to play the game, nothing happens. The Stop button remains a Stop button but the game never actually launches.

This native Linux game does not run in Linux and I can't make the Windows version work with Proton.

Does anyone have any ideas? Any other version of Proton I should try? At this point I'm shooting in the dark and if someone can suggest a specific version so I don't have to just blindly try every version, that would be great. Or maybe there's some launch parameter that would work?

I showed my launch options and fastfetch

this problem started after I set cs2 to use wayland so I could play streched

Is there is a way to upgrade FSR3 to FSR4 in native title like we can do with proton ? My search on the subject didn't find anyone talking about that.

I quite like the idea behind immutable distros and already am using Silverblue on my laptop. So far the only downside I found is that installing certain things is obviously a bit more troublesome but nothing I couldnt deal with so far. Also without being able to use dnf I couldnt install additional codecs which made the preinstalled Firefox quite annoying to work with at times, but it didnt annoy me enough to look for a workaround, so probably that isnt as much of a problem too. Worst case I could just replace it by a Flaptak install of FF (which should come with the codecs missing in RPM Firefox).

Anyway, so far most problems I had where minor at worst. But how about gaming? Will there be any big issues with Kinoite (as I prefer Plasma DE for gaming)? I know Bazzite is based on Kinoite too, but I prefer pure Kinoite to keep bloatware at a minimum. All I need is Steam and ProtonGE anyway. Just wanted to hear some opinions or first hand experiences. Thanks in advance!

The Bazzite Fall Update has officially landed, bringing the Fedora-based gaming image up to Fedora 43. The release introduces expanded handheld device support, renewed Nvidia compatibility, and updated desktop environments, making this one of the most comprehensive refreshes for Linux gamers this year.

I'm running an older version of Windows 10 - a heavily modified version at that that I have configured for myself over the past eight years. I was so fed up with the unnecessarily aggressive Windows updates that I couldn't disable, I literally deleted the update driver and am stuck on version 1607.

It is wonderful. So good.

But, and this is where time is catching up to my rig, some more modern applications (particularly software released post-2023) have decided that my OS is too "outdated" and doesn't want it to run on my system :( Now as I stated before, this is a heavily modified Windows 10 - it's one-of-a-kind unique - and it still runs flawlessly and I have become attached to it. I really don't want to change systems (and I REFUSE to reinstall the update driver and update the damn thing to Windows 11 >:( inb4 that's what you tell me to do).

I've decided for my next PC, when the time comes to upgrade - and that won't be for quite some time as my gpu is still relevant and everything that is compatible with this system runs perfectly - that I will end up installing Devuan with either IceWM + PCManFM (it's what I'm used to for Linux at this point) or XFCE/KDE... the point is I'm going Devuan with some kind of already established GUI, and will likely just use WINE when I need it.

But for now, I just want to emulate an OS that *can* run the software I want to that the devs have barred me from doing so - mostly Unity 2023/Unity 6 games at this point. I've gone mostly open source anyway, and the majority of my software are windows ports of linux apps. but I digress...

I managed to get Ubuntu 20.04 to run perfectly on Oracle's Virtualbox 6.1.5 (VBox 7.0 is ironically one of the apps that refuses to cooperate with my OS) with IceWM and PCManFM as the GUI, since it's by far the most resource-friendly combo I could get (yes there are lighter Linux kernals than Ubuntu [the GUIs I'm using reduces a ton of RAM usage] but since VMs are a royal pain to use, I wanted the most common one, since I'll be using a lot of Youtube tutorials to get it working right.

Another digression - why wouldn't I just run Windows 11 on the VM? Well I tried. Now Windows 11 on top of Windows 10 used so much RAM, it was so slow I couldn't stand it, no games would work properly on it.

Anyway, while I got this Spartan Ubuntu to run applications perfectly on the VM, there's one major problem I didn't consider and that is I doesn't detect my NVIDIA gpu, meaning the games are getting less than 1 fps. I have no idea how go about solving this.

So TL;DR, my situation is the OPPOSITE of what most have going on; that is I'm trying to game on my Windows running a VM of Linux, rather than vice versa. How do I get my gpu to passthrough the vm and run games on it?

What other options do I have? I'm not ready to buy a new system, yet and I REFUSE to update my Windows 10. If I have to partition the hard drive, I will do that, but I would much, much rather just use a virtual machine.

Thank you in advanced. No it's not ragebait, it's very much a real situation lol

This started happening today and I wanted to see if it was just me or not. The option in the settings to disable hardware encoding has also disappeared. Opensuse Tumbleweed KDE Wayland w/ AMD GPU.

It appears that AMD is ending game specific driver updates for its Windows drivers for RDNA 1 & 2. How does this affect us if at all considering we have open source drivers ?

So I've used CachyOS (love it), Bazzite (both my ally x & desktop) far to locked down for my liking, Nobara (it's good) but the performance in most games sees bumps of small amounts but some games play like windows. Soooo I decided I'm going to see if I can run SteamOS on my desktop i5 11400F, 32gb 3200mhz, XFX 6700 10gb, 1tb ssd and I will say it installed and ran without a hitch, with some of the games the performance was slight less or about the same as other distros, now here is the kicker hogwarts & oblivion remastered both say not just a little jump in performance over windows and the other distros but massive jumps in performance.

So I guess I'm sticking with SteamOS for a long while now lol.

Hello all, I switched to Mint from windows a month or so ago and I’ve been loving it so far. However I’d previously only been playing some Minecraft and Europa Universalis because I was busy. Now that I’m trying to play more games like Crusader Kings and Kingdom Come Deliverance, the performance is basically unplayable.

I’m using a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 with a 580 driver, and I made sure that the games are using that and not my integrated graphics. Is this just a problem with NVIDIA on Linux or am I doing something wrong? I’m super inexperienced with Linux but willing to learn.