Hello, I downloaded the latest linux driver for my rtx 3090 from the nvidia website. Now what? Also I found the website https://www.protondb.com/app/1716740?device=pc to help me figure out proton stuff with steam, but dont know what else I may need to do If installing this driver doesnt work. Will downloading this driver mess with the latest driver i downloaded on it for windows?

Hello. Recently, I commissioned a modchip install for my Nintendo Switch. I would like to stream my Windows 11 gaming VM to it via Sunshine/Moonlight.

My host OS is manjaro. I have a gpu passed through to the windows VM configured from libvirt qemu kvm.

Currently the VM accesses the internet through the default virtual NAT. I would prefer to more or less keep it this way.

I'm aware the common solution to create a bridge between the host and the guest, and have the guest show on the physical? real?? ..non virtualized network as just another device.

However, I wish to only forward the specific ports (47989, 47990, etc.) that sunshine/moonlight uses, so that my Switch can connect.

My struggle is with the how.

Unfortunately, I'm not getting much direction with the Arch Wiki or the Libvirt Wiki

I've come across suggestions to use tailscale or zerotier, but I'd prefer not to install/use any additional/unnecessary programs/services if I can help it.

This discussion on Stack Overflow seems be the closest to what I'm trying to achieve, I'm just not sure what to do with it.

Am I correct in assuming that after enabling forwarding in the sysctl.conf, I would add the above, with my relevant parameters, to the iptables.rules file? ...and that's it?

Admittedly, I am fairly new to linux, and pc builds in general, so I apologize if this is a dumb question. I'm just not finding many resources with this specific topic to see a solid pattern.

Could not parse file "/home/user/.local/share/applications/com.obsproject.Studio.desktop": No such file or directory

^ This is the error I keep receiving. As the error says, that file/directory does not exist. I have no idea why lutris is trying to look there. I don't have any settings related to obs configured via lutris or wine as far as I know. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post. I am using Arch, and I've been using it comfortably for a year or two now. Unfortunately I have no clue how to fix this, hopefully someone more experienced has an idea. I'd hate to have to reinstall an OS now after configuring my PC to my liking and getting so used to everything. I've had this game working before and installed it via Lutris many times. However it stopped working, so I wanted to try to re-install it, but can't.

Thanks in advance!

I was playing Roblox on sober when I got error 280. I got the Roblox APK re installed but it still doesn't work. can anyone help my please.

So, I wanted to use BepinEx 5.4.23.2 with the Linux version of Baldi's Basics Plus to install mods.

It doesn't extract correctly when I launch BB+, I also tried the Windows version.

I'm not into the competitive fps games like I used to be, looking for something more casual that I can sit back play with a controller.

What would you recommend?

Is there a way to get EAX working for Fear? I have tried dsoal and cant get it to go. For Thief I just installed openal.

Any recommendations for Linux gaming rig with a 1200 budget? Pc and screen. I don’t mind building it or buying already assembled.

I used arch linux on my main pc (RTX 3050 8GB + i5 9600k) and performance was not that great i was getting around 120fps. But i deleted linux after using it for 2 monthes bcz i wanted some space for editing but now i am thinking of installing it again because i had great experience with arch but only the cs2 ran poorly so is it still same or is it better because i am seeing a lot of videos saying its now better. (I want more fps bcz i am on 165hz screen now)

I'm using mint xfce and wondering what setting I can adjust to make the default sensitivity as close as possible to windows.

Hi, I am a Linux user for quite some time and I have no problem playing any game. I usually play with controllers and have a good collection of them. I recently purchased the Bigbig Won Blitz 2 but it does not work. I have seen that lsusb detects it as an Xbox 360 controller but the only button that works is the home button and it takes a screenshot. It seems that the controller is detected as if it were a mouse.

Has anyone else had something similar happen with a controller and do you know how to force it to detect it as controller?

Thanks

Hello, I'm new to Linux and to start using it I chose the Zorin OS distribution.

I'm having a problem, when I try to start CS it completely crashes my laptop, I can't do anything anymore, not even ALT + F4 works, does anyone know what it could be and how to solve it? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling both Steam and CS, but it didn't help at all.

The laptop I use is a Dell G15 5530 I don't know if this can help in any way

I want to read your thoughts on that graphic card

I know that the rules say I shouldnt ask this, but it's a bit more delicate decision... Right now I'm running Windows 11(bad decision but no more updates for 10..) Which I installed a bit more than half a year ago, at first it felt smooth, better than 10, but as i started using my computer more and more, it started running worse, I had to OC my CPU to at least start beamng.drive while on W10 I didn't have any problems. My computer is pretty outdated, here are the specs: i5 2500k @4.5ghz, GTX 970 4GB Zotac, 16GB DDR3 1600 MHz, 512gb Intel m.2 SSD, 2TB HDD. I have heard and watched videos on Linux running on pretty much anything, and it also having way less needs on resources. I don't have any experience with coding but I do play around with hardware, root phones and repair if need be in my spare time. So should I switch or just reinstall windows and try to keep it lite with my apps? I want to use Linux Mint if I do switch.

I haven't seen much feedback on Steam Recording anywhere from Linux users and I'm curious about people's experiences with it. For me it records just fine but exporting clips doesn't work at all.

Yesterday i tried out Linux again and went with Fedora, because i'm used to it and already use it on a regular basis on my school laptop.

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I've been trying to install games on my PC, but i've been having a couple of issues:

1. The Steam download freezes after a couple seconds, then it continous again, freezes and continous. I'm installing on an External SSD (connected through a UGreen M.2 Enclosure)
2. Speeds are slow, this is partially because of the first issue, but when installing games even when its not freezing, it gets up to 700 Mbit/s, my internet is 2Gbit/s.On Windows i do get the full bandwith downloading games, about 1.7Gbit/s. (700Mbit is not slow, but its not what im suppost to get).It does go up when i enable HTTPS2, but not by much.

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I hope someone is able to help with this, Fedora has been good in the past with the same PC, but ever since about 6 months ago when i tried it, Steam has had issues.

so basically when sober starts its setup instead of showing a window it takes a screen shot of the top left of my screen any ideas on how to fix this

BTW i am using Linux mint 22

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I develop on Linux myself, and I know the game runs well on my system (Ubuntu 24.04) as well as Steam Deck and Ubuntu 18.10 (that I run on a VM to test old-ish distros).

I recently revamped the engine, moving from OpenSceneGraph to SDL. The game runs slightly faster now, and the codebase is much simpler (and I don't have dependencies on deprecated libraries anymore). I use the Steam Linux Runtime, which should help with cross-distro (and old distro) support, but one can never be 100% sure, and I'd rather iron out issues while in the demo stage, rather than after release. So if you use something else than Ubuntu and enjoy adventure games, give the demo a try and let me know whether it starts and runs smoothly on your system.

Here is the Steam link to get the demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2506100/Shadows_of_the_Afterland/

Your feedback is appreciated, even if it's just "I ran it on gentoo and it works".

Geeky details

I shared a while back the stack I used to build my games, and as you can imagine, it has changed a bit with this recent update, so in case there are other developers here who are curious, here is the latest:

I now do all the video rendering directly with SDL (the 2D API, although I plan to move to SDL3 and use the GPU API instead, to support shaders). I use SDL_image to load all the sprites (in png format) and SDL_ttf for font rendering. Audio also goes through SDL, although I built a small mixer on top.

I also use libwebp for the thumbnails when saving games. It offers great quality/size ratio (much better than png) and it supports lossy compression, which is alright for just a savegame thumbnail. I want the savegames to be as tiny as possible so I can auto-save frequently without hammering the disk (or the SD-cards on portable devices).

I use V8 as a super fast interpreter of Javascript (that's the scripting language supported by my engine). It's blazingly fast, and I almost never drop a single frame because of the garbage collector. That said, I want to try QuickJS as an alternative JS engine. I know it isn't as fast as V8, but it should offer more predictable performance (and compiles way faster, and produces way smaller executables).

And since I support Javascript for the scripting of games, I went with React for the game UI. I don't use react-dom, since there is no DOM (or browser), but my game still defines the UI using JSX, which I personally find very convenient.

Only on dev builds, I also link against ffmpeg (libavcodec) to be able to capture pixel perfect videos of the game, with no frame loss, tearing, etc. And also on dev builds, I compile the engine as a native node module, so I can run it through node.js and debug the scripts with Chrome dev tools. That saves me from building my own debugger.

If you want to know more about the internals, leave some questions and I'll reply as soon as I can.