i have a problem with the controller ultimate 2c in hollow knight, im using linux mint 22.1 cinnamon, the problem is in hollow knight, the trigers doesn´t work well, they work but not all the time but only in hollow knight, in other games the trigers works just fine, the controller is mark in steam like unknown controller suport, it doesn´t work with steam input. help

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Google AI recommendations are actually decent when I am searching for Linux resources. They have never been that way before. Is this a common thing?

This is really long, TLDR at the bottom.

Yesterday I told my computer (Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, 9950X3D, 7900XTX, MSI X870E Carbon) to reboot, then walked away and got distracted.

About 10 hours later I came back to no display, but USB devices powered and system fans running.

After hitting the space bar a couple of times and not getting a display out, I figured the system had hung on shutdown, which I have seen it do once or twice before.

I then held the system power button down until the system shutdown, and went to bed.

This morning I turned on my computer, it ran through memory testing (very long POST time), then booted no problem.

I launched Steam, saw the userprofile/launch window, then nothing. The system tray showed Steam running, and hitting Super showed a 'window' of sorts, but it was just the Steam icon hovering in empty space.

I'd dealt with this problem previously, as Steam apparently does not like having both an Igpu and a Dgpu installed at the same time. I checked through Resources (https://flathub.org/apps/net.nokyan.Resources) but it only showed my Dgpu. (Later on I did check in BIOS and it was still set to disable integrated graphics)

I decided to go back to my old workaround, which was to select Steam and choose Run in Big Picture.

When Big Picture launched, I noticed right away that the responsiveness seemed worse, but I launched a game anyway.

After launching I saw that I was getting 1 frame about every 2-3 seconds. I looked to Resources again, and saw that my cpu usage was at ~80% and GPU total usage was at 0-5% usage, but Video Encode/Decode was at 90% usage. Power draw was sitting at 80W, which is normal at the desktop, but I usually see 250+ in game. (See pictures below for more detail)

Tried verifying game files, it re-downloaded one file, but didn't fix the problem.

At this point I started looking for solutions online. An (incomplete) list of the things I've tried to no effect:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/4406292251594228515/ using the launch options of:

1: DRI_PRIME=1! %command%

2: DRI_PRIME=1 %command%

3: DRI_PRIME=0! %command%

4: DRI_PRIME=0 %command%

sudo ubuntu-drivers install, returned "0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded."

sudo apt install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms, returned "0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded."

sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers, returned "0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded."

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu-hwe-18.04, returned "0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded."

https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/dri_prime1-detection/blob/main/README.md#steam-game-setup-instructions-for-ubuntu-22043-lts-long-term-support---one-nvme-drive, reports nothing using Dgpu. (TBH, not sure this would even work, but I tried it, so its in this list)

sudo lshw -c video, returned "*-display

description: VGA compatible controller

product: Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX/7900M]

vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0

logical name: /dev/fb0

version: c8

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb

configuration: depth=32 driver=amdgpu latency=0 mode=1920x1080 resolution=3440,1440 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080

resources: iomemory:f00-eff iomemory:f80-f7f irq:198 memory:f000000000-f7ffffffff memory:f800000000-f80fffffff ioport:f000(size=256) memory:dd800000-dd8fffff memory:dd900000-dd91ffff"

The clock speed of 33MHz seems off to me, but I don't know enough to know for sure.

Reboot > Advanced Options > Ubuntu(recovery mode) > dpkg. Succeeded, but didn’t seem to make any changes.

Also tried fsck, which asked me to reboot, which I did, and then upon trying again, it gave the error “e1fsck cannot continue, aborting.”

Also tried grub with the same procedure as above, it succeeded, but didn’t seem to do anything either.

Also, on the third reboot both times I went through this, the messages:

[OK] Started bluetooth.service – Bluetooth service.

[OK] Reached target bluetooth.target – Bluetooth Support.

Starting systemd-hostnamed.service – Hostname Service…

[OK] Started polkit.service – Authorization Manager.

[OK] Started bolt.service – Thunderbolt system service.

[OK] Started system-hostnamed.service – Hostname Service.

Remained on the screen, even after the advanced options appeared.

I also saw one bit of red text during shutdown once, after the logs paused after something related to networking, but the logs scrolled too fast to see it.

From journalctl -b-2 | grep systemd, potentially:

Sep 02 19:09:08 USER dbus-daemon[1161]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service' requested by ':1.17' (uid=0 pid=1832 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon")

Sep 02 19:09:08 d USER systemd[1]: Requested transaction contradicts existing jobs: Transaction for NetworkManager-dispatcher.service/start is destructive (systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-5ABC\x2dE5D8.service has 'stop' job queued, but 'start' is included in transaction).

Sep 02 19:09:08 d USER dbus-daemon[1161]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service': Transaction for NetworkManager-dispatcher.service/start is destructive (systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-5ABC\x2dE5D8.service has 'stop' job queued, but 'start' is included in transaction).

In the process of writing this up, I found out that any non-native game simply fails to launch, no matter the compatibility options I give it. I switched to the Heroic Games Launcher and tried several Epic games, which would launch, then immediately crash to desktop. This excludes Barony, which runs to my absolute confusion. Its running "Proton - GE - Proton-latest", like the rest of my Epic games. I think that Barony might be so lightweight that my CPU can handle it at a decent frame rate, as I was still seeing 80% cpu usage and no GPU usage.

Anyone know of anything else I should try before I bite the bullet and switch distros?

Random pictures of things I didn’t want to type:

System Details

Software Updater

War Thunder running 1920x1080, ULQ, after ~5mins of waiting:

GPU Usage

All Core CPU usage

6 average FPS

TLDR; Native linux games get 0-6 FPS, non-native games crash to desktop immediately, except Barony, which works fine, somehow. (Barony might be so lightweight that my CPU can run it just fine?)

Converting a PC to linux because i wanted to use my 3090 for AI but also figured I could still play helldivers 2 when ollama AI isn't being used.

Tried popOS first and only was getting 22-24 fps (according to helldivers builtin performance tool) at 1080p or even 1440p. Tried different/forcing proton settings in steam and forcing directx 11, yield simlar or worst performance. Tried protonDB and the comments section but no dice.

So thought maybe popOS is older and/or nvidia drivers are older, so wiped and erased again and installed ubuntu 25.04.02, and changed to latest and tested propiertary drivers from nvidia (570?), reinstalled game and same thing.

Any thoughts? Any settings someone could advise? Anyone with simlar specs with simlar issue?

10900 Intel (NON-K)
64 GB of RAM
3090 RTX PNY
Gigabyte matx mobo

I've read that they patched a Linux problem and made it work. I just started playing and the game is fun but will they eventually just nerf the ability to run it?

I've heard that Gnome gives you more of the former and KDE gives you more of the latter. I'm getting old so I don't want too many options (information overload/analysis paralysis) but I do like having control (personality type).

Want to play old games, where a disc image needs to be mounted in a virtual drive to go around copy-protection. Solutions? I'm using Linux Mint, with either Steam or Bottles (which are not as intuitive or reliable, but sometimes turn out to be necessary).

I have 6 Corsair fans in my system with a noctua nhd15 and manage them through Icue on Windows. I'm trying to move forward onto Linux but I don't know how I'm going to manage the fan profiles, what do you use and is it easy?

I have tried to do some googling, but it seems like generally people are asking how to get the specific games to actually launch of linux (bazzite in this case) rather than getting them to play online. Specifically rn i am looking at elden ring. it launches and plays fine, but it does launch in offline mode, and i'd just like a yes or no answer to whether or not that is a fixable issue, or something that is configured within EAC to not support linux.

The last time I looked at the issue there were still quite a few games that would not run using WINE, Proton, or whatever, so I shelved the issue. But now with the whole end of support for WIn10 issue looming, and the miserable situation regarding Win10 LTSC, I am at my wits end trying to find a way to not switch to Win11 and so Linux is back on the table. I haven't used Linux in many years and gaming on Linux was pretty spotty when I was last using it as a daily driver, plus my familiarity with it has obviously slipped away.

There are some games I played on Windows some and I try to run their exe with wine and steam proton (force compatibility run through steam) and the games just load to a blank white/black screen.

Is there any other tools that I could potentially use to run them?

I've recently switched to Fedora 42 from Windows, and I general I really enjoy gaming on it. Only gripe at the moment is the fact that dualsenses haptic feedback/ adaptive triggers does not work with God of Wat game I;m currently playing.

Funny thing is - those features work on other games I've tried while troubleshooting the issue (Cyberpunk and Spider-Man Miles Morales), so I presume not everyting is my fault here.

Some people have confirmed that haptic feedback works on their end, so I dont know what might the issue here.

What I've tried so far

• I've used latest Proton-GE and Experimental (Proton GE works with cyberpunk and spiderman, users on protonDB suggested Experimental)

• I've downloaded steam-devices from repos

• I've installed game-devices-udev rules, bacause i saw that tip in one of the reddit threads

• Of course, I disable Steam Imput while trying to use thosew features

For some reason only GoW:Ragnarok seem to have problems with it. Do you know how to resolve this issue?

Specs:

Fedora 42

CPU: 5700x3D

GPU: 9070XT

RAM 32GB

Mesa version 25.2.1 - latest stable from trixieua repo

Hi guys!

I just joined linux gang and installed Nobara on my personal computer, but I am having terrible performances on games - simple lags on things like Factorio and Oxygen not included, or really crappy experience on Age of Empire 4.

To really have numbers on what's going on I ran the superposition benchmark on both Nobara and Proton.

The results are the following: 100FPS on Nobara/OpenGL, 90 on Proton/OpenGL, 34 on Proton/DirectX. On top of that the shadows were really blocky on DirectX.

My issue is the drop between OpenGL and DirectX.

I really have no clue on how to troubleshoot this, does anyone have pointers?

Thanks Guys!

Linux Mint

Proton hotfix

Battlebit launches and plays really well except that multiple times throughout a match the character won't stop moving. For example the 'A' key gets stuck on and my character keeps moving left. Or perhaps the 'W' key locks on. Sometimes I can go prone or something and this unlocks it and it will stay good for 5 minutes or so and then happens again randomly.

I have dual boot so when I boot into windows 11 and play this game on the same machine I have no issues. There doesn't seem to be any other keyboard problems in Linux or Windows so I really don't believe this is a hardware issue.

Any suggestions?

My problem is I'm using tp-link Wifi adapter, I don't have any cable for ethernet and installed chachyos, Wifi not appearing in the Beginning I need a solution because I can't launch the installer.

Hello everyone,

I started to use Steam on my Ubuntu 24.04.3, it works fine but it has some little nuisances.

1. the window appearence (of wine I guess) looks every old, how could i fix that?
   
2. sometimes, when I close the game, the application gets closed but its still running in steam.
   
3. the icon in my taskbar is the typical "gear"-Icon can I easily change it in the .desktop file?

Steam Version: 1751405894
Proton Experimental, Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 (Sniper) -> auto downloaded from Steam

Picture for reference:

Wine Window

Thx