Hey everyone,

I'm trying to commit to Linux Mint as my daily driver. I love the idea of Linux and ever since Windows 11 was forced upon me I feel even more committed this time. The one thing I am having issues with is gaming, specifically the full-screen aspect of it.

Specifically with TF2, launching the game (which is native to Linux) the normal way freezes up my graphics. During the boot loading screen, my monitors will go black, come back on, and then everything is frozen visually. I can still hear audio playing in the background, my friends on Discord, etc.

So the solution I found on GitHub was to run with the launch options "-windowed -noborder". Now the game launches, but my panel (taskbar, whatever) is still visible at the bottom due to it not being true fullscreen. I tried hiding the panel, but as I move my mouse in game downwards it comes back up (I guess TF2 doesn't truly lock your cursor?)

I have tried switching to fullscreen when in-game, it freezes up my PC.

I think it is also worth noting that in Slay the Spire, going fullscreen works perfectly fine-- that is, until I alt-tab, in which case my cursor completely disappears. But that's besides this point and question.

Has anyone ever experienced this?

Iv been fighting HDR for months trying to dial it in on my LG 27GS95QE, which shows up as 603 nits default max brightness in HDR calibration. This panel is able to do over 1000 but the calibration screens show a bigger white window (windows 11 as well) so this is what you get as the value. On windows I discovered that if I set the first screen max brightness value to 1000 and then the second white screen which is max full screen whiteness to 603 it ended up really nice, allowing my panel to tonemapp up to the 1000 nits. So coming back to KDE I thought maybe I should set that max brightness to 1000 instead of 603 where the image clips. Suddenly I actually have full highlights in my games. Stalker 2 was a game plaguing me. Highlights would look blue and dull. Now the sun at sunset is bright AF and looks good. Cyberpunk I never really had any issues with. It looks really good, so I'm wondering why that is and how these games differ in HDR implementation to cause this behavior? How are you guys calibrating on KDE and how are you setting these values? I found that the second screen likes to be around 200 which according to a few places (Xavier's blog being one) Iv seen is the same as Windows 11 and refers to a reference HDR white luminance? I'm really trying to figure this out because it's not the most straightforward. I think that because my monitor is WOLED and used mla lenses to reach 1000 it acts differently with the way the system reads? Idk. Advice very welcome. Id love to compare similar panels and see how your enjoying HDR. It's such an important feature to me that Iv even reinstalled W11 to check my sanity but I just can't keep it installed. My games run so much better under KDE. Im on Cachy os with a 9070xt. Everything up to date. LG 27GS95QE as stated connected via DP 1.4 DSC. Using the calibrated gamer 1 mode for HDR true black and I use max peak brightness on the monitor with AMD free sync premium pro.

I have a newly installed Arch Linux running Gnome on Wayland.

My graphics card is GTX 1660Ti with an Intel i9 CPU.

I have achieve quite good frame rate, but somehow I got crazy flickering issues in game.

It seems to be GPU load dependent. When in the game main menu, it is less flickering. It is flickering like crazy when I enter a game.

Is this something solvable?

I’m running with the latest Nvidia driver 580+ I believe installed by

pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings

https://preview.redd.it/0uiuk1pel6xf1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=565132a97e6e0184a30dc0dce7b7391089a4d81f

They got rid of the white border :3

Genuinely curious, does anyone know the technical reasoning for the fix of a "borderless window" game having a white border and then suddenly not having it on linux?

I'll try to be brief... I'm a former Windows user taking the steps to migrate to Linux permanently. I'm okay with learning new image and video editing software, despite the fact that I've proudly been using PaintShop Pro 5 since 1999! (to give you an idea in how set in my ways I am)

But the thing I do with my PC more than all other things combined is play Civilization 5 with the Enhanced User Interface mod. I've always been fundamentally opposed to being forced to use 3rd party software, and it makes even less sense to me on a system that's only going to be playing the one game.

Since I know it's possible to play Windows Steam games on Windows without Steam, and I've bought Civ 5 and all updates, I just want to know: Is there a way to play Civ 5 on Linux with the EUI mod without having to install Steam?

I'm going to keep doing my research and will be able to tinker on my next day off (3 days from now, 12 hr shifts). But thought I'd put this out there in case somebody knows something and can shorten the process for me :)

I installed steam for first time and I tried to play but the controller just not work properly on games.

Any ideas how to fix it?

I'm pretty sure the solution is something I'm doing wrong on steam and not on Fedora...but any ideas?

to give some context, i'm looking at putting together a linux console for the living room and i'd like to get some controllers for it. ideally i'd like controllers that have usb dongles cause controllers that just have bluetooth don't typically connect automatically, so i'd assume that controllers looking for their specific dongles would connect automatically.

will the controller linked below work? i'll be using bazzite. if not, do y'all know any controllers that would work for what i want? any advice appreciated.

thanks!

https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Controller-Joysticks-Remappable-Gaming-Console/dp/B0D739FJLG?crid=3G3Z30LWM0SUK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4PLfSSsyfpfFt4QCmhcUVq-bX_LPOU0zeODoZiuRu25ibdM_XD2C7ZCWAsUcrTdGjDP6unXiqlqYs1pzgTiFI-g5pRT3D1wNzrpnfQK-gh_CIaF3DWfzCERy2-EbYf2H7mj2C-dT4Xvn_O_HP5aAkfI5ZHOq9mwpdNNb3D2Tl65_wTmtWOMlynIwm4zuEV5X1mfhGpZMDKo1FUjeYKeHPLfvUePejg1yVWT9EOO-Pzo.GQiDsPfpOXbe5oSfqf-pjFhwHiZjnS-CDxiTDM9tUik&dib_tag=se&keywords=bluetooth%2Bcontroller%2Bwith%2Bdongle&qid=1761355213&sprefix=bluetooth%2Bcontroller%2Bwith%2Bdongl%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-3&xpid=TQH88s5dziTff&th=1