i want to buy a new controller and i love the way xbox feel but i had bad experience in the past with the support on linux. Is a good solution availlable ? do i need to chosse a specific versions ? do i need to do anything for them to work ?

I’m using Fedora 41 and an 8bitdo ultimate 2c wired. Playing hollow knight from steam big picture and my trigger inputs don’t register half the time. It seems that the trigger doesn’t activate on a full press

Edit: rumble also doesn’t work

I've found out that people can install the arch based steam os on any handheld or pc now via steam's steamdeck recovery image. I wonder if games that work on steam deck (like infinity nikki, strinova) but not on any linux pc actually works on a pc with the steam deck steamos now.

I don't know if it was the update of Plasma to 6.3.4 or what but HDR is working without Gamescope or a Wayland session. Before, the colors would look washed after enabling the HDR toggle in game but now it seems to be mapping it correctly now.

The games I have tested so far have been The Last of Us Part 2, Proton Experimental, and Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, CachyOS-Proton. I will test some more when I get home today from work.

Launch options are

By the way, I am on CachyOS, RTX 4090, Asus PG32UCDM monitor using the displayport.

I noticed in the changelog for Plasma that there was some cursor related VRR fixes too. VRR has never really worked well on Plasma with my system. The refresh rate would erratically change and moving the cursor was the only thing that would stabilize it. Hopefully, that is fixed.

Okay, so like the title says, I am really interested in moving from windows to Linux. I mostly game, but I do use my pc for web browsing, school and those things as well. I know a little about Linux, but I am still unsure about making the switch.

Mainly, is it worth it? And what will I encounter?

I have an asus x870-i and amd system with a 9070. I like to run low settings and adjust my gpu for quiet and low heat operations (undervolt and low power settings).

Anyone have any advice? Guidance?

Appreciated!

I bought haste yesterday and today I booted up the game but when i pass the initial video the game crash to desktop without errors, and it's worse if I use a controller, if i push any buttons on the controller the game just crash, I have Proton Experimental activated in the global steam settings, i'm using openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma 6, AMD Ryzen 7800X3D as CPU and AMD Radeon RX 7800XT as GPU.

Hi,

I have been a Windows user and used ThrottleStop often, to undervolt and to limit the clock frequency of Intel CPU cores. On Linux, it was a bit difficult as I found it. It was not so difficult for AMD CPUs but a bit roundabout for Intel CUPs. After a bit of searching, I found out about undervolt, a tool to undervolt Intel CPU on Linux. I have been using it on i5-11400H for some time and really liked it. I was able to undervolt to a much lesser extent than what I had on Windows with ThrottleStop, but nonetheless I could now undervolt and reduce the CPU temps.

Installing 'undervolt' was a not a very easy experience for me. I had to install Python3 to get it working, which kind of seemed a bit unintuitive to me. As I had a bit of an understanding of Golang I thought that maybe porting it to Golang might not be a bad idea. So I started working on it. With the help of my knowledge and AI's reasoning capabilities (uhm...uhm..), I was able to port 'undervolt' to Golang.

As of now, undervolt-go has the following features:

• No dependencies are required. Just a 3-4 MB file.
• Ready made install and update scripts.
• Set voltage offset for Core, Cache, GPU, Analogio, Uncore
• Set power limits (P1 and P2) along with corresponding time window, and lock power limit
• Set temperature target for when on AC and on Battery
• Enable/Disable Intel Turbo
• Read existing values

I have tested voltage offset for Core and Cache, power limit. Its working good.

Let me know what you guys think. Also, if you love it, do star on GitHub.

I'm trying to help a buddy run the game, but I'm out of ideas. Maybe someone can give me some pointers?
We both run an up to date Manjaro with the 6.6 LTS kernel and KDE with xwayland. He has a 1080Ti with the proprietary nvidia drivers and a threadripper 1950x, I have a 7900 XT with a 7950X

In my case all I had to do was enable proton and the game just runs on the experimental/hotfix branch.

In his case the best we achieved was by adding the PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 launch option, easy anti cheat starts and the game crashes before the intro video.

• steam overlay is disabled
• installing the easy anti cheat proton runtime in steam didn't help
  • on a side note I dont have it and it works
• proton GE didn't help
• looking at protonDB what options others are running, adding these launch options didn't help
  • SteamDeck=1
  • PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 DXVK_ENABLE_NVAPI=1

Here are two proton logs from the crash, bit too big for pastebin... , but the only error I see is the "Epic Games\\EOS" related one which I'm guessing can be safely ignored.

• This one is with no launch options
• This one is with the WINED3D option that helped us so far

I wanted to play friends vs friends and it filled the 32 gb of RAM in 2 minutes. On protondb it is marked as gold and though people admit it is buggy nobody mentioned memory leaks. How and where do I report it? Also how to make this report the most helpful? It works fine on my friend's windows pc, so the problem is with proton or my hardware, maybe. I am on igpu atm. Although on protondb people say it is okay on steam deck.

So I just reinstalled arch and when I went to launch steam it would do nothing so I tried to launch it through the command line and it said the error was that it couldn't locate the nouveau drivers i have the proprietary nvidia drivers 570 installed and have a 3060 if that helps at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ffYldeJaE

I'm fairly new to linux, I've stumbled upon this video which essentially says to add a file called "steam_dev.cfg" in the "/local/share/Steam" folder that allows to select more cores to dedicate to shader precaching and processing so it can be sped up. Question is, is it still useful? Or should I not do it?

Hey. It's been 2-3 years suffering on mac before I got a desktop and went back to linux.
Ran a fresh install, did some tweaks.. and at one point i've ran into a strange situation.

Namely I can't run games.. without gamescope..
Now gamescope is nice when i need hdr etc.. but given i have to setup res for it every time it's quite annoying to use.

Whenever i launch a game with gamescope it works, but when i just want to launch it outside it crashes immedietely.

It must be a recent change as game I've ran before normally goes into even a weirder situation. It launches, and stays launched, but it doesn't show up on my desktop and can't do anything with it.

yesterday I've been setting up steam to launch as from sddm in big picture and gamescope, so i'm suspecting it might have something to do but gonna ask if anyone ran into similar situation ?

I'm running arch, rx 7900 xtx, kde wayland.

I am new to linux i recently tried Nobara but find very difficult to install new programs and chose or find where they are located or change their location in the memories. I have 2 SSD one primary NVME with the OS installed in a partition and i want to use it for games and one secondary completely empty i want to use for files to download (i created a single btfrs partition in it). I also have one old WD Black from the old windows and a removable WD Element. (Their system is nfts i guess) I do not know how to partition them correctly (If needed) or how to renane them with Letters to recognize them easily? Also when i tried to install something with Wine i had "access denied" message and i used sudo to bypass it but it also download and installed something i do not know what(?). Than after that i had to chose trough Wine were to locate the game to install, and there were multiple Letters but nome of them corresponded to the Secondary SSD i wanted to use for file. Also, i had to open those letters to see internal folds to recognize them because i have no other way to identify them.

Hopefully someone in this sub has encountered this same issue. I'm running OpenSuse Leap 15.6 on all my machines. Have managed to get steam remote play to work and stream just fine. However I can only get my game remote to work in the steam menu. Once I open a game it doesn't pass through.

Oddly I can hold the back button, and change the mode to controller/mouse (I guess thats what its called). And then acts like a mouse which obviously can't play a game with but that does pass through. So super confused what the issue is here.

From the steam menu all the buttons map correctly. Not sure if this is a udev rule issue or if each game needs something specifically set?

Also tried sunshine/moonlight but Sunshine is super flaky, kind works but is a hassle to get running everytime. Same issues with pass through there, but absolutely nothing passes through moonlight: mouse, or controller.

Machine specs:

Both machines running OpenSuse Leap 15.6

Host machine Nvidia 4080

Alright so I think this is the right forum to ask. Basically, I'm playing Satisfactory with an AMD CPU and an NVIDIA GPU.

On Windows, I'd consistently get around 60-120 FPS using DX12.

On Linux, it's about the same, but more consistent in the 60-90 range, with some latency issues.

I was kind of like, okay, no big deal, it's still playable and I have a Linux setup I enjoy, so it's all a wash.

Then, I noticed that before runtime, the game pre compiles Vulkan shaders. So I tried forcing the game to use Vulkan, and it was an immediate improvement over even what I was getting in windows.

What gives? Does this entirely come from the pre compiling? Or is this just sort of a lucky tweak that happened to work out?

Is it Proton that determines what and whether to pre-compile? Can it be tweaked further to maybe pre compile shaders for DX12?

Just recently updated Wilds to the TU1 update and now the game won't even start anymore or will hard crash my system upon startup. Tried Proton GE 9-26 and Experimental but to no avail. Is anybody else having this issue?

I have a AMD PC, 6600 XT and Ryzen 7. I am using Arch Linux and have installed steam from pacman and use Radeon.

If I boot my PC and immediately start playing any games it works fine. Take CS2 temperature doesn't hit 70 even after hours of playing it. I get good FPS above 200 for CS2.

If I boot my PC and do anything other than game for some time and then start to play any game even Linux native I get 20-25 FPS. and if I restart my PC then problem is resolved until I stop playing and do other stuff.

For me it happens 100% of time.

Says i cant continue without logging into a profile. Ive tried proton cachyos, experimental, and 9. No luck. I swear the last time i installed cachy this was plug and play..