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Wireless controllers with Blues on Arch

22 Jun 2025 - 3:33am

Hey folks,

I'm playing through Claire obscure: expedition 33 and while a fantastic game so far, the constant Bluetooth controller disconnects every 4-5 minutes for 3 seconds are driving me insane.

I use a fully updated (firmware) Xbox elite series 2 wireless controller.

I'm running the latest version of Arch Linux, using KDE plasma DE (6.4) and GE-proton 10-4 on steam.

I have tried every suggestion I can online as well as from various AIs. (Disabling low power, PCIe power control, nearby interference, it's a quality Bluetooth PCIe antenna and card from Asus) Etc.

I've disabled steam rumble.

I've tried using the games built in controller support and steam controller support.

The disconnects still happen.

My question is, if I buy one of the latest 2025 non Xbox Bluetooth wireless controllers (easySMX X20, 8bitdo ultimate 2, etc), should I expect similar issues or is this exclusively due to reverse engineering driver support on a microsoft controller?

Does anyone have a similar experience to what I'm enduring right now?

Thanks!

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Limo and Mod Manager Links

22 Jun 2025 - 2:25am

I'm trying to mod Fallout 4 using Limo. I have most of the basics setup, however I'm struggling to get mod manager download links to work. I personally can't find much documentation on this, I've tried using personnel api keys, multiple ones at that, and even MO2 api keys, password and no password, cant seem to get it to work. Am I missing something? I'm not above manual downloads, but if i could get some help here it would be greatly appreciated.

system info:

CPU: I5-12400f GPU: 6800XT OS: Nobara 42 w/GNOME 48

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Victory!

22 Jun 2025 - 2:13am

I’ve been using Ubuntu for a couple months and am enthralled with Linux. I dual-boot on my laptop, and now I seldomly use the Windows 11 partition for certain Microsoft-only things. I had been using Steam on Windows until I became fed up with my awful frame-rate drops. I decided to install Steam on my Linux partition and was absolutely blown away with the fact that my games run smoother, with higher texture settings, and higher frame rates! Installation was a breeze and the only hiccup I encountered was user error 😅 That was pretty much the nail in the coffin for me. I don’t see any need for my Windows partition anymore. Hurray for gaming on Linux!

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Please give me advice on my weird bluetooth problems

22 Jun 2025 - 2:07am

TLDR at the bottom

Please help I'm losing my mind. I'll just make a full timeline so you can see my problems easier:

Thursday: I was really looking forward to the release of REMATCH, so I basically bought a controller just to play it. I'm using a wireless mouse with a receiver, bluetooth headphones, wired keyboard and dualsense ps 5 controller. Everything works smoothly, no issues. I am also using windows 11 here.

Friday: I decide to clean up my setup. Pc goes from the floor to the desk, I do some cable management and I try to make my keyboard wireless. I'm using a lemokey p1 pro as my keyboard. It has 3 modes: wired, bluetooth, 2.4 GHz mode or whatever it's called. At the time I didn't realise I could just connect the receiver, so I download some drivers of the lemokey website. The bluetooth option for the keyboard still didn't work but I realised I can just use the receiver to connect my keyboard wirelessly. Keyboard works. On friday morning I played a bit of rematch before I did my setup cleaning and everything worked flawlessly. In the afternoon after I did my cleaning I got bluetooth issues. Audio from my headphones crackles and cuts out, sometimes works for a minute with no issues, sometimes doesn't work for 30 seconds. The same story applies largely to my controller. I try every possible solution to this under the sun but nothing works.

Saturday: Same problems today, but I decide to finally switch over to Linux (Nobara). Before that I wanted to do a clean install of windows 11 to see if the problem fixes itself. I do a clean install of windows 11... and the problem is not fixed. My headphones work perfectly fine on phone or laptop during all of this. After installing a fresh windows 11 I try to do some fixes to my audio, but nothing works. Now I switch to Nobara and the same problems continue.

So, my current setup is: PC with integrated wifi and bluetooth connected with ethernet, wireless mouse, wired keyboard, bluetooth headphones. This is the exact same configuration as on Thursday but I have major bluetooth issues.

TLDR: I have connectivity issues on bluetooth devices; sony headphones and dualsense controller, no issues on other wireless peripherals. My headphones have weird crackling and cutting out for 1-30 seconds, same story for the controller. Issues on both windows and Nobara even after a fresh install of windows and nobara after that.

Anybody have potential fixes?

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Text adventure games that don't require physical stuff to play?

22 Jun 2025 - 1:43am

I really enjoyed Zork, but I didn't have the physical stuff so I feel like I missed a bit of the story and vibe. I was wondering if there are any text adventure games that you can just play without any kind of physical booklets or anything and still get the full experience.

submitted by /u/Level-Evening150
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Getting low fps on cs2

22 Jun 2025 - 1:30am

Hello guys im running on fedora 42 i have a dell laptop it has a mx450 nvidea graphics card and a i7 11th gen cpu. I get around 30 to 50 fps on cs2 with low settings and i'm running 4:3 1400 x 1050 stretch res. I have set the sdl_video grapghics to wayland. When i play war thunder(witch i belive is a more difficalt game to run) i get around 100 fps. Im dont know what to do to fix this.

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Steam showing internal SSDs as removable drives

22 Jun 2025 - 1:08am

As per title, the dropdown list in the ¨Storage" section of the settings shows 2 of my internal drives with the SD icon.

https://preview.redd.it/wr14fakv1d8f1.png?width=644&format=png&auto=webp&s=a477ff9a573563d86870b7678651a280313e25d4

Now, this doesn't impact the functionality as far as i know, but to me is really annoying.

I'm running bazzite and the drives are formatted as btrfs. They're mounted in their respective folders in /var/mnt/

https://preview.redd.it/l1wdyrtm2d8f1.png?width=318&format=png&auto=webp&s=97705d701ec42a49da1e863117c2d665724e0eb6

I tried changing the fstab file, so that these drives would also use the UUID for mounting, to see if it would do anything but, after a reboot and removing and re-adding the disks in steam, nothing changed.

Is there something I can do to change this behaviour or do I have to live with it?

Thanks in advance.

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Simple little tutorial. Hitman 3 mods, Heroic games launcher. .EXE file

22 Jun 2025 - 12:22am

I dont know if this will help anyone but atleast its out there now, the linux community needs all the help it can get. This was on UBUNTU.

Note that this will work for other games aswell as ones gathered via nonofficial matters, but i do not recommend this and do not support it.

So i was trying to install a simple mod onto Hitman 3, i came across a simple roadblock and pushed through. I was trying to install a mod that unlocked offline scenarios because im of grid sometimes. Here is how:

The mod i installed was basicly a rpkg patch with a exe to patch the system using the rpkg patch. i tried wine, and after that didnt work i tried winetricks and decided to install something, it seemed a little to clunky. Finaly i used The heroic games launchers feature called run exe on prefix, which you can access by going into one of your games and scrolling down on the wine tab. Then after my mod files were in the correct locations according to the tutorial, i ran the exe file with that feature (Make sure the exe also is in the same folder). The exe ran without problem and did the changes without error and here i am with a "Better" game.

This is simple but i wanted to make it eitherway. Hope it helps in some sort of way. This might also work on other games.

MOD: https://www.nexusmods.com/hitman3/mods/289?tab=description

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Does Feral GameMode still do anything on a overclocked CPU?

21 Jun 2025 - 11:48pm

Should I still bother using it on steam launch options? For context my Ryzen 5 3600 is on a all-core overclock at 4.4ghz on the bios.

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#gaming

21 Jun 2025 - 11:45pm

I Miss the ninja game , like shinobido and thenchu. this era ninja game just hack and slash mode.

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easysmx x10 problem linux

21 Jun 2025 - 11:34pm

Hello,

I recently bought an easysmx x10 controller, and it's nearly perfect on linux. The only issue is that the "switch" mode does not seem to work on linux when I wire it to my PC. It defaults back to the "wired" mode which causes it to behave like an xbox controller, causing me to lose gyro functionality.

Has anybody experienced this issue and know a fix?

I am on endavourOS.

submitted by /u/Appropriate_Fix_5500
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Anyone able to get Battlefront 2 (2017) to launch on Steam?

21 Jun 2025 - 11:10pm

Just bought battlefront 2 on steam, it launched and worked well the very first time, but after closing it and trying to play it again it does not launch. Ea app shows app, says its preparing to play but the game never starts.

I'm on arch, 6.15, nvidia 575, gnome. Using proton ge, but i tried deleting the compatdata and installing EA app with proton 9.0.4 and 7.0.6, refuses to work.

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Sober, an app for running roblox on linux, crashes GPU after a few minutes of gameplay. how to fix?

21 Jun 2025 - 10:57pm

im on CachyOS with KDE Plasma though the same issue happened with Debian on GNOME as well. the way it happens is im playing the game like normal and it works perfectly fine, but after a while my monitor just loses signal. like it says no signal and thats it. the music that i open on firefox still plays perfectly fine, but the roblox audio is lost. i have to restart my system to get my display back. why does this happen? is anyone else having the same issue? i would've submitted the issue on github but i dont really want to do it until i can find a way to record it and get logs on it or something. idk how i can get the logs for this. thats all i have to say idk

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Audio crackling during gaming or dragging Steam client or other laggy browsers(Pop!_OS 22.04, Ryzen 5800X, RTX 4080, PipeWire)

21 Jun 2025 - 10:49pm

Hey everyone, I'm having issues with audio crackling under load, especially when running some games through Proton (like Helldivers 2) or when dragging a laggy window like the Steam client.

Here's my setup:

OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS (64-bit)

Kernel: 6.12.10 (System76)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4080 (proprietary driver)

Audio Interface: PreSonus Studio 1810c (USB)

Desktop: GNOME 42.9

RAM: 32GB DDR4

Audio Stack: PipeWire (via default Pop!_OS setup)

In some Proton games (e.g. Helldivers 2), audio crackling starts when CPU load increases, specifically during the sequence when the hellpods deploy to the planet (I'm assuming due to loading everything in)

It also happens when dragging heavy UI elements like the Steam client

Audio interface connected via USB-C to regular USB directly to motherboard.

I was wondering how to go about solving these issues. Thank you for any help! I'm still relatively new to all of this so I'm just trying to figure out the best path moving forward.

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i tried to re-play black ops for Cordis Die day and failed miserably and now I'm sad 😭

21 Jun 2025 - 10:47pm

why wont this bitch ass game run? I tried most suggestions on protondb and nothing worked, it either fails to launch or I get a black screen before the first mission

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Hdr using appcenter steam on 25.04?

21 Jun 2025 - 9:37pm

I am on Ubuntu 25.04 using steam from the App store (so steam updates on a rolling cycle) and I am wondering if their is a way to add HDR to some games since GNOME 48 now has it? If not how can I put in a feature request to Canonical (they developed steam on the app store) to add it?

Or is their some other way that updates on a rolling cycle (rather than using apt)?

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Why can I not see my mangohud settings?

21 Jun 2025 - 9:16pm

https://preview.redd.it/4s445epeyb8f1.png?width=2244&format=png&auto=webp&s=20c0d82d0560441f5b70e7d92c919a3416824e79

Correction, Why can't I see the text in Goverlay settings? But nonetheless, has anyone had this issue?

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Delta Force 1998

21 Jun 2025 - 9:00pm

Hi! I´m trying to play this game on my Linux notebook, Fujitsu Lifebook A554 with Linux Lite.
I cant run game, not even install it, i have version from GoG. Does anyone know what to do?

My Specs are Linux Lite 7.2
RAM 4 GB
SSD 128 GB
intel core i5

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Darktide crashes

21 Jun 2025 - 8:58pm

OS: Linux Mint 22.1 x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.14.11-x64v3-xanmod1
DE: Mate 1.26.2
WM: Marco (X11)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 4.63 GHz
GPU: 9070 XT
GPU Driver Mesa 25.1.4

Before the entire system hanged and had to reset, turned out that I had to do a BIOS update because "intermittent USB connectivity issue observed on 570/550 series motherboards".
https://support.fatshark.se/hc/en-us/articles/360038965013--PC-How-to-Resolve-PC-Crashes-Loss-of-Responsiveness-or-Blue-Screens-BSOD

Symptoms:
Other games are fine. Darktide still crashes. Sometimes it runs ok, but most of the time the screen freezes, the displays show black screen for a few seconds, then the game crashes.

Steam terminal output at the time of the crash:

src/steamnetworkingsockets/clientlib/steamnetworkingsockets_lowlevel.cpp (4108) : Trying to close low level socket support, but we still have sockets open! 06/21 13:37:04 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 06/21 13:37:04 Failed writing minidump, nothing to upload. src/clientdll/steamengine.cpp (2868) : Assertion Failed: CSteamEngine::BMainLoop appears to have stalled > 15 seconds without event signalled src/clientdll/steamengine.cpp (2868) : Assertion Failed: CSteamEngine::BMainLoop appears to have stalled > 15 seconds without event signalled assert_20250621133706_38.dmp[42656]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/assert_20250621133706_38.dmp assert_20250621133706_38.dmp[42656]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes assert_20250621133706_38.dmp[42656]: response: CrashID=bp-5c28ad95-4e73-4a69-a338-ec6a22250621 assert_20250621133706_38.dmp[42656]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20250621133706_38.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-5c28ad95-4e73-4a69-a338-ec6a22250621'' pid 9134 != 9133, skipping destruction (fork without exec?) Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1361210] Removing process 9729 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9512 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9460 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9457 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9310 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9267 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9216 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9191 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9164 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9156 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9151 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9141 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9138 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9136 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9133 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9132 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9131 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 9130 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 8987 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 8986 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 8974 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 8972 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 8971 for gameID 1361210 (process:9733): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 13:37:28.820: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed reaping pid: 9733 -- gameoverlayui

Another crash steam output:

radv/amdgpu: The CS has been cancelled because the context is lost. This context is innocent. src/steamnetworkingsockets/clientlib/steamnetworkingsockets_lowlevel.cpp (4108) : Trying to close low level socket support, but we still have sockets open! 06/21 20:27:43 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 06/21 20:27:43 Failed writing minidump, nothing to upload. pid 6450 != 6449, skipping destruction (fork without exec?) Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1361210] Removing process 7104 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6901 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6841 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6838 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6623 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6581 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6527 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6508 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6480 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6472 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6467 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6457 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6454 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6452 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6449 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6448 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6447 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6446 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6305 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6304 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6292 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6290 for gameID 1361210 Removing process 6289 for gameID 1361210 (process:7107): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 20:27:44.484: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed reaping pid: 7107 -- gameoverlayui submitted by /u/Sziho
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