are there any alternatives to noisetorch (since it's basically abandonware) or easyeffects ( i had some issues with it)?

Hi all, just wondering which OS is better for emulation gaming, Bazzite or Batocera, and why?

I cant find a direct comparison of the two.

Thanks! =)

How do I format a drive to play steam games on this os I’m noticing it’s all a bit different in each os and this one I’m most definitely lost

ran into this issue a few times now (title screen for V rising, cutscenes in persona 5 strikers, in UI move example videos in stranger of paradise) and im curious both if there is a solution, and if there is a one stop fix for all games together

Hi All, I'm looking for some pointers on how to solve a vexxing controller mapping issue in elite dangerous.
OS is a clean install of latest bazzite-nvidia, launching epicgames version of elite dangerous in wine-ge latest.

My dualshock3 is connected via USB cable. It maps just fine in linux, all buttons+axis test as correct.
In elite dangerous, start button is weirdly mapped to spacebar.
Right d-pad works in menus, but when I try to map it to game controls, the "press a button for this input" submenu just closes when I press d-pad right, implying there's some other keycode being sent along with the right-dpad input, maybe "esc", hence the window closing.
All other inputs and axis work perfectly.

I've also tried an ipega bluetooth gamepad, which again mapped fine in linux, but in elite the left analogue stick was mapped to volume up+down, at which point I gave up on that controller altogether.

I've googled this problem A LOT, really a lot.
I've tried older versions of wine, setting mappings as an environment variable, and deleting sections of registry that relate to dinput, all with no change, good or bad.

Hello I have installed Overwatch 2 on an external drive, and I get a disk write error when trying to launch the game.

I tried going to the steamapps folder and give read/write permissions through the properties but it didn't work.

Do you know how to solve it?

Hey all! I've recently been having some issues playing Hero's of the Storm (my true main game :0) and I've come to a dead end in my attempts to fix it. I'm fairly new to linux, so I'll do my best to supply the info I know, and will be happy to dig for more info if people request/tell me how haha.

The short version is that I've been able to play HotS just find ever since installing Linux over a year ago, simply by running Battle.net though Proton on steam. But recently (last month or two?) battle.net itself has been funky, and HotS as well. I found a few threads related to WoW (also through battle.net) but unfortunately nothing from those threads has helped me as of yet.

There are 2 major issues I'm facing now, which I show in the attached video.

First, you can see that my mouse is only read in the game if the game window itself is on the Left half of my monitor. So if the game is entirely on the left half, mouse works find. Game in the middle, only the left half of the game window is clickable, and game on the right, nothing is clickable. It seems to basically draw a line down the center of my monitor, and wont allow the mouse past that (In the game specifically, I can move to the desktop or other programs and everything works just fine.)

The second issue is that when I attempt to full screen it (windowed FS or not) I get a flickering, where it seems like the window is constantly re-sizing/changing resolution, like 10 times a second. Entering windowed full screen used to be how I played, and it always got me around the mouse issue.

I've reinstalled the game, tried a bunch of different versions of Proton, a few launch parameters in bnet suggested by other posts (which seems to do nothing, but prob a HotS issue, since the other post was for wow), I've tried using Xorg instead of Wayland.

As far as I know my drivers and everything are up to date (I use an AMD, so drivers are updated with OS)

I'm running:

• KDE Plasma: 6.3.4
• KDE Frameworks: 6.13.0
• Qt: 6.8.3
• Kernal: 6.11.0-25-generic (64-bit)
• Graphics Platform: Wayland

If anyone has ideas or can help it would be oh so very much appreciated. HotS is like, my ONLY non negotiable game, and I'd really rather not break my year+ streak of not booting into my emergency windows drive haha

Thank you gamers!

Hi, I wanted to play some Rayman Origins with my sister when my laptop suddenly decided to stop recognising USB controllers of various models/brands (Xbox 360, Xbox One S and BigBen/Nacon PS4 controller). They used to work perfectly through Steam Input, now Steam won't detect them.

I tried running lsusb in the terminal, and they do show up as connected, info and all, but it seems Linux Mint refuses to recognise them.

I did update a few things through the built-in GUI updater today, but didn't pay much attention as to what was being updated as I didn't expect it to break anything. And I have no previous system points prior to that.

Help me? Please know I'm bad with Linux stuff so walk me through every necessary step.

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(the top is lutris and bottom is heroic, both installed the gog version of Fallout 1) How do I add custom entries to these menus? I want to be able to add custom shortcuts for game specific mod managers and other such shortcuts, but I don't want to add them as entirely new games.

They seem to be added by default when I install these games normally, but I don't see an option to add custom editions to these menus.

For extra context, Playnite on windows calls these "actions" that you can configure in its menu.

I am running Nobara and have both lutris and heroic installed using the default repository. They are not flatpaks.

Please let me know if y'all need any extra info.

Thank you.

Been trying to use gamescope because of I can’t figure out any other way to get stretching to work universally I have a 3440x1440 monitor and trying to run certain games in 1920x1080 stretched (no black borders) fullscreen (not borderless) but doing this with gamescope is messed up because when I close the game no matter what game scope just hangs and it uses up like 15% of my ram and makes it impossible to restart cs without killing it manually if there’s anyway to fix gamescope or better yet another way to achieve my goals please let me know.

I have a hp server with the most hodgepodge setup. I found a gtx 1050 that I plugged and played as my main display output running ubuntu. Whenever I run CS I cannot get more than 5 fps which means I'm doing something horribly wrong. running a xeon e5-3630 x 12 cores, 32 gb ddr3 ram, and the aforementioned gtx 1050. Ubuntu 23.10.

Heyo people of Reddit. I am making this post, because I want to share with you some of the options for linux game streaming (local network), and ask of you to help me consider which option to pick. I have an AMD GPU

• steam remote play
  • This one is the simplest to set up, but
  • I have had issues with latency, video quality and straight-up crashes, making it unusable in most cases
• sunshine + moonlight
  • Out of the headless* options, this one seems the most mature and feature-full
  • Impressive featureset (headless*, hardware support, hdr, full desktop streaming, low-latency)
  • Setup is relatively simple
  • uses Nvidia's GameStream protocol
• games-on-whales (wolf) + moonlight
  • "new kid on the block"
  • Also has some cool features (low-latency, actually headless, hardware support, virtual gamepads, gyro support, multi-user)
  • uses GStreamer for video streams

What are your experiences with these local network game streaming options? Does Steam remote play just work for you guys? Opinions on headless game streaming? Which one is the most promising?

Somewhat unrelated note: if I go for one of the headless options, I might build it out into a beefier home server, with services like immich, which is a great use of idle gpu time.

*EDIT: Only headless if you run a headless display server/compositor. There are some options that can be run headless: sway, wayfire and gamescope are some.

After a system update a few days ago, i noticed that some game reacted strangely from the inputs of my 8bitdo ultimate 2 where they would work flawlessly before that. It was weird because some games like Stardew valley worked just fine and others like Celeste doesn't register some button or invert some other.

At first I suspected the 6.14.7 kernel to be responsible since it added support for this controller, but the only mention I found in the changelog/source code of the xpad module is a definition of this specific 8bitdo as a generic xbox 360 controller, so it was likely not that. After a bit of digging, I encountered this bug report, which speculate that the issue is from the specific games themself, since everything else seems to work as intended.

I'm still not clear on why it worked before the kernel update, but now I can't run some games without trouble, I try to look around for some tools to force them to see the 8bitdo as a generic xbox controller, but outside of steam input, things like MoltenGamepad or xboxdrv seems unmaintained or abandoned.

If you run into this kind of issue, how do you deal with it ? I know steam input work, but I'd rather run these games without a launcher, if anything else exist ?

Pay attention to my mouse movement versus what's happening in-game

I have this weird bug on PlayOnLinux, where the mouse tracks just fine during gameplay but occasionally stops moving altogether even though there's still mouse input from my end. This doesn't happen in games running via Lutris, Steam or natively. Has anybody encountered a similar issue or is it just me.

So I have a Dell G3 15 3500, which sports an Intel Core i7-10750H with the onboard Intel UHD Graphics, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which I am well aware that apparently Nvidia is not the greatest option when it comes to Linux support. I understand this, but I was gifted this laptop, and I'd like to make the most of it. I cannot tear it down and replace the parts, obviously.

While it works very well with Linux for the most part, it seems to rev up the cooling fans to 100% constantly. I don't have this issue with Windows 11, as the fans eventually calm down if I'm not doing anything over-the-top/graphically-intensive. I am not too well-versed with Linux, but if you don't ask for help you're not gonna get help, so here I am. The fans rev up to 100% constantly, and the laptop still feels hot to the touch underneath. I expect the level of heat regardless because it is a gaming laptop and they don't exactly run cool, but I don't really know why the fans are running that heavily.

I installed the latest Nvidia "open" 570 driver via the Driver Manager supplied by Linux Mint, as Mint is my go-to distribution. I do not seem to have any issues using said driver, and from what I remember the fans stayed on pretty much consistently regardless of installed driver. I am wondering if I am missing any crucial information regarding this? It was of my understanding that the GPU should be able to handle itself with the latest driver, but I am guessing that maybe having two GPUs is what's causing the problem here?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

EDIT: I wanted to quickly also tack on that my main setup consists of the built-in 144Hz laptop display that's HiDPI 1920x1080 (which requires scaling to be 125%) with a secondary monitor connected via HDMI that's a basic 1920x1080 display at 60Hz. Any advice on the best way to handle multiple monitors are different settings would also be very appreciated.

I reinstalled arch recently because my last install just stopped booting. Steam was working fine before, but on my new install, games will not launch. I have every version of proton offered by valve installed, and I'm specifically trying to play BO3 via proton 9.0.4. Im using an NTFS drive, but it was formatted to NTFS on linux because I was expereiencing this very issue, and formatting to NTFS through linux is what fixed it. I've tried everything under the sun, but nothing fixes it. I ran steam through cmd to get a realtime log of what happens when it crashes, I used BO3 and State of Decay 2 as examples. Both these games worked flawlessly on my previous install

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Splitgate 2's open beta launched a few days ago and it would only run on a Steam Deck running SteamOS and no other hardware/software combo, the developers said they would wait until the game left beta to support other devices but seems like they changed their minds because they've announced desktop Linux is now supported (source https://xcancel.com/Splitgate/status/1927053831889641772, timestamp 1:50).

I had to enable gamescope or it would crash when loading into a match but it seems to work pretty well after doing that.