Kernel-level anti-cheat feels like it's everywhere now, and will remain a thorn in Valve's side for the new Steam Machine powered by SteamOS Linux.

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Well, the conversation topic right now is the new Steam Machine. Gotta admit, I find it rather cute (and cube XD) and, after a long time playing mostly in handheld devices, I'm considering getting a Steam Machine (I mean, if it isn't excessively expensive, that will be a determining point). So please, bear with me for a while to check if this thing is good for me or not.

Back in the day in highschool, I played on my PS2 and in PC (both PC games and emulation). Slowly, I got more used to handhelds like DS and 3DS. I bought a Wii U and enjoyed it, but I mostly played it on the Gamepad only.

On 2017, I got a gaming laptop, Asus ROG... whatever XD. I got fun with it, played games for quite a while, but I also played a lot on Switch. At one point, my focus was mostly my Switch. 95 % of played time in handheld mode. Just saying. My laptop turned outdated, never found a reason for years to play a PC game on it unless it was something really simple (like this Pokémon Card fangame which name can't remember right now, Crystal League?).

Then Steam Deck came. I loved it, I alternated a lot between Deck and Switch. That helped me get more in touch with Linux, resulting in making me install Fedora in my recent Framework 12. I needed a new, lighter laptop after so many years with that heavy ROG beast and I enjoy Linux a lot. However, recently I barely touched my Steam Deck. Too heavy to carry around, being focusing more on my Switch 2.

For me, handheld gaming is all about adaptability. I can take the console with me and play anywhere. And with that I don't mean the bus or so. I mean when I go back to my parents' home on the weekend, I can take a console and play there as well. I can play in any room, stop and go back any time. Truth is, I barely play in front of a TV.

And still, this new Steam Machine sounds appealing. Maybe because of my experience with SteamOS and Linux, not sure. I wouldn't think about buying a PS5 or Xbox, but I'm considering the Steam Machine as a potential purchase. Just don't know if I will actually enjoy it given my gaming habits are more inclined on portable devices, even when I'm at home.

So I would like some outside feedback from people here, given you may have more experience with PC gaming. Do you think Steam Machine would be a good purchase for me? In what ways would I benefit from it? Sorry for the long post, wanted to give as much information as possible. Thanks!

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I recently downloaded E33 and everything runs very well. However at first SOME cut scenes were black. I found a post talking about missing codecs and downloaded those. It seemed at first to fix it because scenes don't go black. However now SOME flash white. As soon as i skip the cut scene everything is back to normal. I'm using Optiscaler for FSR4 but i tried without and had the same issues. I'm on Cachy os and was recommended to:

sudo pacman -S gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly gst-libav

This is what was recommended and fixed from being black but now it flashes.

Operating System: CachyOS Linux

KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0

Qt Version: 6.10.0

Kernel Version: 6.17.7-4-cachyos (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.9 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.

Product Name: MS-7D78

System Version: 1.0

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Hello. I have a 9070 GPU running on CachyOS on my desktop. From the last couple of weeks, I have observed that watching a Youtube video on Firefox and running any game at the same time in Steam, is causing framedrops in both.

This did not happen earlier. Not sure if this is due to a Mesa or Kernel update. I know Firefox uses GPU Decoding on Youtube, but using GPU Decode on FF and playing a game never had this issue a few weeks ago. Anyone else facing the same issue?

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Valve only just released the latest stable SteamVR update in version 2.13, but SteamVR 2.14.1 Beta is now here as well with more tweaks and fixes.

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With the first major update for ARC Raiders now available, we have an in-game event for players to work towards unlocking the next map.

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The Khronos Group, the stewards of various open protocols like OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR and more just revealed a new tool for XR (VR / AR) developers.

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hello fine people or r/linux_gaming

today i am reaching out to hopefully solve a problem i am having, so i recently move from windows to linux(pop! os) and have brought over a bunch of my pirated games from it. i also downloaded this "heroic game launcher(which has wine/proton built in)" and gave it all of the .exe files for the games.

now when i click to play the games, if from unity. i will get a quick unity crash handler/reporter thingy screen and the game will shut, i think this is because i have yet to re-format the drive these games are on from ntfs/nfts or whatever to whatever linux uses. now i can't really do that because all the data on it will get deleted i cant find my external hard drive, dont have space on my other drive so im asking just to be sure before thinking of a way to do this, is this certainly the problem? or could it be something/ and something else?

please dont flame me if its a obvious problem, i dont know how linux works

follow up(even tho i havent posted this yet) : i tried moving said game files from the ntfs drive to the drive i installed linux on, did absolutely nothing.

this is really the only log i could find to share :
(20:45:00) [INFO]: Launching "Core Keeper" (sideload) (20:45:00) [INFO]: Native? false (20:45:00) [INFO]: Installed in: /run/user/1000/doc/25f5bee5 (20:45:00) [INFO]: System Info: CPU: 8x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-10100F CPU @ 3.60GHz Memory: 16.65 GB (used: 5.78 GB) GPUs: GPU 0: Name: NVIDIA Corporation TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] IDs: D=21c4 V=10de SD=5527 SV=19da Driver: nvidia OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS (linux) The current system is not a Steam Deck We are running inside a Flatpak container Software Versions: Heroic: 2.18.1 "Waterfall Beard" Jorul Legendary: 0.20.37 Exit 17 (Heroic) gogdl: 1.1.2 comet: comet 0.2.0 Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli (20:45:00) [INFO]: Game Settings: { "autoInstallDxvkNvapi": true, "preferSystemLibs": false, "enableEsync": true, "enableFsync": true, "enableWineWayland": false, "enableHDR": false, "enableWoW64": false, "nvidiaPrime": false, "enviromentOptions": [], "wrapperOptions": [], "showFps": false, "useGameMode": true, "battlEyeRuntime": true, "eacRuntime": true, "language": "", "beforeLaunchScriptPath": "", "afterLaunchScriptPath": "", "verboseLogs": true, "wineVersion": { "bin": "/home/user/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/proton/GE-Proton-latest/proton", "name": "Proton - GE-Proton-latest", "type": "proton" }, "winePrefix": "/home/user/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Core Keeper" } (20:45:00) [INFO]: Winetricks packages: vcrun2022 Wine Command: /app/bin/gamemoderun /home/user/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/runtimes/umu/umu_run.py /run/user/1000/doc/25f5bee5/CoreKeeper.exe Game Log: gamemodeauto: gamemodeauto: gamemodeauto: INFO: umu-launcher version 1.2.9 (3.13.9 (main, Nov 10 2011, 15:00:00) [GCC 15.2.0]) INFO: steamrt3 is up to date ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/user/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/runtimes/umu/umu_run.py/__main__.py", line 95, in <module> sys.exit(main()) ~~~~^^ File "/home/user/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/runtimes/umu/umu_run.py/__main__.py", line 90, in main return umu_run(args) File "/home/user/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/runtimes/umu/umu_run.py/umu/umu_run.py", line 890, in umu_run return run_command(command) File "/home/user/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/runtimes/umu/umu_run.py/umu/umu_run.py", line 652, in run_command cwd = Path.cwd() File "/usr/lib/python3.13/pathlib/_abc.py", line 746, in cwd return cls('').absolute() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.13/pathlib/_local.py", line 649, in absolute cwd = os.getcwd() FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory gamemodeauto: ============= End of log =============

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Link: https://store.ubisoft.com/us/immortals-fenyx-rising/5cec227839798c0870c07685.html?lang=en_US.

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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is set for some major improvements, although we don't know exactly when but it will make surviving in it a whole lot nicer.

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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is set for some major improvements, although we don't know exactly when but it will make surviving in it a whole lot nicer.

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Cassette Beasts has been a great hit for developer Bytten Studio, as they just revealed it's crossed over the 1.1 million mark for sales.

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https://x.com/AMDGaming/status/1989007091890004337

Tomorrow we will se first implementation of AMD Redstone i Cod for RDNA 4
Interesting if modders can do this in linux next..

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CloverPit is a rather excellent game that's hit the jackpot for the developer, as they're cashing in on over 1 million sales and celebrating with a big update.

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Need a free game ready for the weekend? How about Immortals Fenyx Rising from Ubisoft? Well you can claim it free to keeps right now.

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You've seen the brand new Steam Machine from Valve right? But what about a Steam Machine Companion Cube? Yes that's also now going to be a thing.

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Interesting tidbit I released an early access game on Steam exclusively on Linux at first.... was the first person crazy enough to do that... not sure if anyone else has since

Working on a new game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2171910/Forehead_Chip/ Be sure to wishlist it, please! Really helps it from being drowned out.

I use all opensource tools within Linux to make it. No AI. Ask anything if you're curious!

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The latest set of open source graphics drivers for Linux have released, with the bug fix Mesa 25.2.7 now available.

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