im never going back to windows by the way.

my laptop's specs: (which are old, chat gpt'ed it)

• Laptop: Acer Predator PH315-52

• CPU: Intel Core i7-9750H (6 cores / 12 threads, up to 4.5 GHz)

• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti (with Optimus, Intel UHD 630 iGPU)

• RAM: 16GB DDR4 (expandable, depends on your config)

• Storage: 256GB NVMe SSD (system drive, Linux Mint) 1TB HDD (NTFS, secondary storage)

• Display: 15.6" Full HD (1920x1080), 144Hz, IPS

• Keyboard: RGB backlit, Predator series

• OS: Linux Mint 21/22 (Ubuntu-based)

• Other: Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, Thunderbolt 3, HDMI 2.0, Killer LAN

i'm new to linux and don't know much about gaming in handheld and pc in general. context about me is i've heard & seen the games but never actually played it. my gaming experience up until now is more on mobile competitive games. i got this laptop just about prepandemic during college and rarely used it since then. was able to play gta5, forza 4 or 5, witcher 3, and overcooked 2 back when the os is win10. haven't officially tried gaming yet on linux. i came here to ask to know where i am based off of my laptop's specs and situation. i watched youtube relating to this and i've come to learn a little that there's something about nvidia to linux drivers wise. i can't really tell much other than that. also, the content that i watched has rtx something specs being used, 4060 something which i think is far superior to what my 1660ti can do. while the comparison between the mint to other gaming distros is somewhat close than being far fps wise. i still want to know from the community.

with that being said, now i wonder if distros matter to my setup. should i change or not? i dont wanna go in deep with linux mint and later regret that there's better option at my disposal.

now that i have the energy to get back to gaming again, like play older 3A's, maybe cyberpunk too, some modern ones if it can and a lot of indie games. basically wanna play it like how and what games that can be played in a handheld. will mainly play in steam too. ill stick to playing this laptop until i have the budget to get a decent/comfortable gaming experience performance/ux wise like those latest handhelds today.

Spent most of my evening trying to solve this last night. Square Enix is not known for their programming prowess, and in their effort to get the game to run on the SteamDeck, it forces things like a low resolution font and dropping the colors of materia in game.

I've attempted to pass launch options like "SteamDeck=0" and a bunch of Wine DLL overrides, but the game seems to have the behavior hard-coded, or Im missing the Konami Code for it.

Thanks for any advice.

Hey folks! 👋
I just pushed some new updates to chess-tui, a Rust-based terminal chess client.
This new version includes several improvements based on your feedback, with better Lichess gameplay and improved puzzle support !

Thanks a lot to everyone who shared ideas, reported bugs, or tested earlier versions and of course, more feedback is always welcome! 🙏

https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui

I've been trying to play battlefront 2, I bought a long time ago from the EA app directly.

What I've done is launching the EA app from lutris and installing the game, but it doesn't run smoothly and the mouse doesn't work properly making it unplayable.

I've tried to launch the app from steam hoping for it to make a difference but the same problems occurred.

These are the icc profile files (display/monitor colour calibration files) from system32/spool/drivers/color folder on my windows 11 laptop ( Mi notebook Ultra) If I switch to linux which of these files shall I use to get the accurate colour calibration on Linux ?? Plz guide me with this 🥺

Hi all, appreciate any feedback.

Two years ago I bought a beat up HP elitebook 840 g5, 16GB RAM and Intel® Core™ i5-7300U × 4, the battery didn't last 20 minutes on Windows but after installing ubuntu it now lasts a full day, so that's great and it does all of the daily things for me (internet, movies, docs).

I've been looking to play some games on it as I have an old Steam account with some platform games, Ori and such. There is a very visible lag as it unfortunately has a shitty built-in graphic card: Intel® HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2).

Is there anything I can do here to make it perform better without having to get a different laptop?

I want play to Batman Arkham Knight and Marvel's Spider-Man.
I am on Fedora and i have Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 equipped with a Core 7 240H.

1. Using a 7840hs + igpu
2. On fedora workstation 43
3. Mesa 25.2.7
4. Already tried:
5. Restarting
6. Reinstalling
7. Removing optiscaler
8. Maxing out the graphics (engine.ini too)
9. Proton GE 26, 27, 28 already tried
10. Deleting compiled shader folder
11. Tried Steam and Faugus launcher

This game is bugging me out, all textures got fked a few days after 3.0 when they were sending out mini updates. Does any1 know a fix?

Hello guys I am going to get a razer deathadder v4 pro in a few weeks from now, so I was wondering how wide is the functionality of open razer driver / it's applications that are based on it. What features from synapse are supported, and what are not? I have heard that razer had some features turned on by default that I would maybe like to turn off like asymmetric cuf-off and motion sync, so can you change those type of settings on linux? By the way I also have a macbook that I think can install synapse on so I could configure my mouse there. BUT the question is still relevant obviously.

When playing CS2 sometimes all audio cuts off (can be after 10min or after a couple hours). I haven't found any way of restoring the audio mid game without restarting the game.

I use arch linux with pipewire (my friend uses Mint and has the same issue).
I have a wired headset that is connected via y-split cable directly to the motherboard. I also have speakers but they are turned off while using the headset. My system also recognizes the speakers from my monitor, but are never used.
My default sinks and source devices are my headset.

Things I've tried:

• Setting launch option SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pipewire %command%. This has no effect. Seems like SDL uses pipewire by default.
• Setting launch option SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulse %command%. This fixes the sound problem but sometimes the game freezes and crashes instead (not 100% sure this is the cause, the game has never crashed this often before). Not as frequently as losing audio but still something to note.

Things I haven't tried:

• Launching the game via Proton. I've heard that launching CS2 via proton has many issues and downloading a new binary takes a very long time for me.

Is there a more elegant fix to this issue?
Is valve or the SDL team aware of this issue?

Hello, im new to linux I was just wondering if it would be possible to play online? I really want to switch due to windows 11 eating up my ram :)

Hello,

I've got a minor problem.

I'm running steam on Fedora 43 KDE, and when I click on links (like the one in this screenshot), it doesn't open the browser.

Steam is the RPM version, and I tried launching it through terminal to see if there were any logs when clicking on the link, but nothing.

As far as browsers go, I have firefox and chromium installed, with firefox set to default to open links

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Hello, I tested both graphics cards under Bazzite and Mint. The problem is that they don't run at full wattage in any Steam game. Frumark works fine at 220 watts. On Steam, the wattage fluctuates between 90 and 140 watts in-game. The power settings in Bazzite are set to Performance. V-Sync is off, tearing is disabled, and PFS is not limited; everything is configured correctly in the BIOS. With Lact, I set the TDP to 220W. Full power is displayed in the game menu, but as soon as the game finishes loading, the wattage fluctuates again. This results in micro-stuttering. My current workaround is to set the details to low and the resolution below HD. I have the same problem with both graphics cards.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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System:
AMD 550
Ryzen 4500
2x8GB ddr4

I recently ran into a very weird issue with my setup, where all my racing games started to lag, even though my FPS would remain constantly high, and my steering wheel input would constantly cut out. I tried various different things, thinking that it was a performance issue, but it turns out that this issue only occurs when:
1) I use my PXN V99 steering wheel and,
2) I turn the wheel and press any pedal at the same time.

I tried to run the same games with only a keyboard attached to the computer and the lag was gone. I also tested the wheel with another PC running Windows and it was working perfectly fine there, so there must be a conflict with Bazzite and my wheel.

I found this launch command that seems to have fixed the lag/stuttering issue, but I also lost FFB:

PROTON_ENABLE_HIDRAW=1 SDL_GAMECONTROLLER_IGNORE_DEVICES=11ff/3245 %command%

So, has anybody also encountered a similar issue? What should I try next?

I don't want to fire up Windows and install Steam and hunt down the table for CheatEngine just to beat The Last Judge in Silksong.

Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D

GPU: Radeon RX 7900 XT

Motherboard: X570 AORUS Master

I recently installed Bazzite on my PC and for some reason CS2 and only CS2 is using ~30% of the GPU, I'm getting 40-60 fps in game and have tried using LACT to set performance to highest clocks. Anyone know a fix?

I don't know where to go about this. I recently installed Sims 4 from Steam since I got a new Linux laptop.

I only have a couple packs that I just bought on the EA but my game can't even run and won't stop crashing now, I thought it was my mods so I removed all of them and deleted and reinstalled my game, but it still can barely run and won't stop crashing.

I need to remove some of my dlc but I can't because every time I try the small EA app that comes with the steam game just immediately adds them again. I can't change it in the settings because it's not the full EA app so you can't. But I also can't install the full EA app to Linux since Lutris won't work no matter how many tutorials I watch or how many times I reinstall it. Is there anything I can do?