I’m currently planning on setting up a mini PC with Bazzite as an HTPC, mostly for cloud gaming via Moonlight.

My original goal was 4K120 with HDR, VRR, and if possible HDMI CEC, which is 100% attainable over HDMI 2.1. Problem is, it’s not supported in AMD drivers and I really don’t want to spend double the money just to get an intel mini PC with Iris XE.

I found a mini PC that supports USB4 for 8k video, and there appears to be HDMI 2.1 to USB4 cables out there in the wild, I’m wanting to know if this is a viable option, or if there’s any other solutions I should seek.

The mini PC also does have an HDMI 2.1 port if there is some weird way to get it functional on Linux

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so i've installed steam, logged in, downloaded muck and tf2
and this is how they look after launching the native versions

muck

tf2

my specs:
gtx 1050 ti mobile
intel i7-7700hq
16gb ram
arch linux
dwm

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Hi everyone, I'm trying to keep me update with the latest softwares for linux gaming. Last time I had to use gamescope for HDR, mangohud to set an fps limit to my games (essential for a fluid VRR experience) and gamemode for cpu priority/power management.

The resulting launch options for my average steam game are:

gamemoderun mangohud gamescope -f --hdr-enabled %command%

(this sucks btw)

Anything else I should add or remove that is highly recommended or essential? I'm playing on Arch

I sadly can't get my Xbox Controller dongle adapter to work, tried with both xone (with its 6.12 fix branches too) and xpadneo, the light on the adapter never turns on, I can use my controller via bluetooth just fine though.

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I recently switched from win11 to Ubuntu but most of my games are on Xbox gamepass or epic games... While I can play a good portion of my games on steam I still need a solution for those windows only games, so should I just install windows on a vm or should I use an app like bottles?

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Hello, I have been solely on Linux for about a year now. I tried gaming on Linux about a decade ago and it was pretty rough. I was impressed by how easy and user friendly it had become when I came back. I am using Ubuntu with Steam for all of my games and it has been mostly seamless.

While modding games with the Steam Workshop has been OK, I really want to mod Fallout New Vegas, but all of the guides I see to get it working on Linux seem extremely complicated. Back on Windows, I used Vortex and it was a few simple clicks. What is the most straightforward way to mod Fallout New Vegas on Linux?

I tried watching Michael Horn's tutorial but it was above my head. I had never even heard of bottles or Flatpak before this video.

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Hey guys, I'm a noob who uses Arch Linux as a daily driver.
I wanted to know how to make WItcher 1 steam work, it's installed but it doesn't launch on any proton version. There are so many posts on the topic that I got lost, so if any kind soul who deliver a solution that works immediately, I'd gladly cast the benediction of the forefathers and mother creatrix on them. Thank you

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Help! I've been trying to fix this issue for what it feels like years now, and there's still no solid solution that I found.

Neofetch/Specs

This is what it echoes when I enter neofetch.

What happens

When I click the play button on heroic, in a few moments the launcher pops up. (Not EAC)

After that, a dark screen pops up and just disappears.

Tried solutions

Tried Proton-GE versions:

• 7-20
• 7-37
• 5.6-GE-2
• 6.5-GE-2
• 8-25

None worked.

Using different wine versions produced similar results but still doesn't work.

• wine-9.0
• GE-8-26

I didn't try more wine versions because proton-GE worked better for most people.

Tried Environment Variables:

• WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR = 1
• hidewineexports = enable
• vblank_mode = 0

Still, nothing worked.

I messed around with the wine and other settings for the game, still doesn't work.

Current settings:

wine settings (i also used winecfg)

Other settings

I downloaded dependancies, via winetricks and protontricks, still didn't work. I also downloaded them manually by running the EXE/MSI file

Nothing seemed to be working. Here are the logs with the current settings:

Launching "Dragon Ball FighterZ" (sideload)

Native? No

Installed in: /media/fireman/5ED8438ED84362FF/Users/Fireman/Desktop/Games/Dragon Ball FighterZ-SteamGG.NET/RED/Binaries/Win64

Logs:

System Info:

CPU: 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz

Memory: 8.09 GB (used: 1.66 GB)

GPUs:

GPU 0:

Name: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 920MX]

IDs: D=134f V=10de SD=39c7 SV=17aa

Driver: nvidia

GPU 1:

Name: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620

IDs: D=5916 V=8086 SD=39c7 SV=17aa

Driver: i915

OS: Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia) (linux)

The current system is not a Steam Deck

We are not running inside a Flatpak container

Software Versions:

Heroic: 2.15.2 Emeth

Legendary: 0.20.36 Urban Flight (Heroic)

gogdl: 1.1.2

comet: comet 0.1.2

Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli

Game Settings: {

"autoInstallDxvk": true, "autoInstallDxvkNvapi": false, "autoInstallVkd3d": true, "preferSystemLibs": false, "enableEsync": true, "enableMsync": false, "enableFSR": false, "enableFsync": true, "maxSharpness": 3, "launcherArgs": "", "nvidiaPrime": true, "enviromentOptions": \[ { "key": "WINE\_FULLSCREEN\_FSR", "value": "1" }, { "key": "hidewineexports", "value": "enable" }, { "key": "vblank\_mode", "value": "0" } \], "wrapperOptions": \[\], "showFps": false, "useGameMode": false, "useSteamRuntime": true, "battlEyeRuntime": true, "eacRuntime": true, "language": "", "beforeLaunchScriptPath": "", "afterLaunchScriptPath": "", "wineVersion": { "bin": "/home/fireman/.config/heroic/tools/proton/Proton-GE-Proton8-25/proton", "name": "Proton - Proton-GE-Proton8-25", "type": "proton" }, "winePrefix": "/home/fireman/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Dragon Ball FighterZ", "wineCrossoverBottle": ""

}

Game launched at: Fri Jan 03 2025 16:56:46 GMT+0300 (Arabian Standard Time)

Winetricks packages:

[34mProtonFixes[17779] INFO: Running protonfixes[0m

[34mProtonFixes[17779] INFO: Running checks[0m

[34mProtonFixes[17779] INFO: All checks successful[0m

[34mProtonFixes[17779] INFO: Using global defaults for UNKNOWN (0)[0m

[34mProtonFixes[17779] INFO: No protonfix found for UNKNOWN (0)[0m

esync: up and running.

wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely

[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; connect to global user failed.X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

Major opcode of failed request: 156 (NV-GLX)

Minor opcode of failed request: 43 ()

Serial number of failed request: 600

Current serial number in output stream: 601

============= End of log =============

Even before it said Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes), it was doing the exact same thing. Launcher > Dark screen > Crash.

So, do you know any solution? Please comment a solution that is not listed here!

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https://preview.redd.it/9qvit2rrnsae1.png?width=962&format=png&auto=webp&s=1db870373ab414aa2badcbcc88c80372baef0aaa

https://store.kde.org/p/2237630

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I'm not really tech savvy, I know that maybe it's a matter of different "libraries" (?) but I'm not even sure on that front. Googling this question didn't really help me understand the issue at hand.

Maybe you lot can satisfy my curiosity.

Thanks.

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I think my situation is a little bit more complex than others', but I will explain it as detailed as possible. Anyways, I'm very sorry for my bad English.

I'm using Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 6 and X11 as my daily driver. Everything works flawlessly except for the fact that Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail just freeze randomly while I'm playing, with little to no indications before they do.

The game audio is still playing, but the game screen isn't and I can't click anything. I can't even close the game by using Alt+F4, and I have to force close it by using killall command.

In Genshin Impact it's the same. I don't know if only HoYogames are like this or it occurs in all Unity/other games on Linux.

I don't know all of the ways to log the issues, but here's some logs file the computer generated using some ways that I knew:

• WINE output logs with WINEDEBUG=warn+all. Due to the file being enormously huge (5.0 MB with 31952 lines), I only show some last lines around the time of freezing.
• Logs from journalctl -f from the time of starting the game to the moment when it froze. Some lines from irrelevant apps are removed.
• Logs from /var/log/Xorg.0.log

If you need any other logs just tell me, I'll do and upload them here!

The issue only happens when I use X11, on Wayland it doesn't happen. However I can't switch to Wayland due to a little complex situation: I also often let my friends connect to my computer through Steam Remote Play to play those two games, and in Wayland it requires me to allow the remote control requests EVERYTIME they connect to my computer. There's no Allow restoring on future sessions option or how to disable it. Also the KWin sometimes just likes to slow down my computer if it runs on Wayland.

So I want to try these two approaches:

• Fix the freezing issues currently happening when running on X11,
• or switch to Wayland, try to disable the "Remote control requested" popups and always allow my friends to control my computer.

I only play those two games, whether other games are playable or not isn't important for me. Besides this issue I'm totally satisfied with my Linux setup; I don't want to switch to Windows (because I don't like Windows and it had some serious errors on my end), and I only consider reinstalling/switching to another distro as the last resorts. I installed too many softwares so it will take so much time to reinstall everything, and I want to try everything else first.

What I tried to fix the issue:

• Switch to another WINE version, from wine-ge to ge-proton and even the system WINE
• Reinstall all packages using Pacman
• Switch to various Linux kernels, even the original 6.12.7-arch1-1 and the zen ones.
• Install various NVIDIA drivers
• Disable KWin compositing when running the game
• Reset all Xorg configurations (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and in my user folder)
• Change some configs related to NVIDIA graphics card (which none of them worked and I rolled back my changes)

None of those worked. I tried searching Google and even used ChatGPT but to no avail.

Computer specifications:

• Laptop: Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-57-5669)
• CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400H @ 2.70 GHz
• RAM: 16.0 GB
• GPU: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] (with mesa 24.3.2-1) / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (with nvidia 565.77)
• Kernel: 6.12.7-arch1-1
• DE: Plasma 6.2.5
• WM: KWin with X11
• OpenGL (GLX) info
• Vulkan info
• KWin info
• Xserver info

This post is quite long but I'll be very glad if anyone can give me a solution. Thank all of you so much, I appreciate all of your help!

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https://reddit.com/link/1hsmd5i/video/qp86e4a95sae1/player

Games like ARK and NFS have ~100 FPS, but every second there is a huge FPS drop. How do i fix it, becouse im new to linux and still getting used to it.

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Hello, I built a new Arch Wayland system recently running KDE Plasma and have encountered a problem. When you start a game there will be this massive lag after a minute or two where it lags really badly on the monitor and you really feel it when moving the mouse. When you move the mouse, it can feel like it's at 40 fps and is unsmooth. I usually use AMD so this is new to me. After some troubleshooting, I have not yet been able to fix it and it happens in multiple games. I have ran Arch on this before months before, when there was no driver with Explicit Sync and can't remember an instance of this happening?

So far, I've tried:

• Using linux kernel instead of linux-zen
• Disabling Vsync in-game and in KDE Plasma
• Trying different versions of Proton and ProtonGE (currently on ProtonGE 9-22)
• Trying nvidia-dkms and nvidia-open-dkms drivers
• Disabling Split lock (there was no logs for it but I tried it anyway, did nothing)
• Disabling Triple Buffering
• Forcing SDDM to Wayland, and checking if the session is running Wayland.
• Using LD_PRELOAD

One thing I haven't tried so far is reverting to an earlier driver. I have no idea which one I should choose however.

In this link I've provided a few .txt documents that provide the system report, journald, dmesg and a short video of the problem, however sadly it's not as noticeable when recording. I'm really puzzled. Please help me with this issue.

System Info

Steam Report

journald

dmesg

YT link

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Recently it came to my attention that Marvel Rivals did a ban-wave for a whole bunch of players on macOS and some on Steam Deck (Linux) too. Now, their team have issued a statement on the situation.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Im using my PC mainly for Gaming and Multimedia. And one game i play every day and also highly competitive is TEKKEN 8. Since this is a fighting game, it requires the best performance, lowest input latency and perfect Frame Times. Ive already tried playing it on Linux through Proton (CachyOS, Wayland, Nvidia RTX 3060, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU) but i dont know man, it doesnt feel as smooth as when im playing Tekken 8 on Windows. I guess this is because of XWayland and also no optimal vkd3d Performance under Wayland?
I´ve read that in Wine 9.22, they have enabled the Wayland Driver by default, which basically means that Games dont need to rely on XWayland anymore right? Will the performance be better overall, as soon as this Change from Wine 9.22 carries over to the next Proton Version? Or is it even possible to run the Windows Version of Steam only through Wine 9.22 except for Proton, and then Launch Tekken 8 this way? Would there be any performance, latency and frametime improvements at all?
I really am disliking Windows more every day and i really want to get rid of it. If there wasnt this Performance and Frame Pacing Problem with Tekken 8.......
Other Games work perfectly tho... Games like Dishonored 2, Helldivers 2, etc.

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Hey, i want to play android games on my laptop i tried waydroid it doesn't complete the download it freezes at the last 1mb i checked everything depending packages , wifi, config files, different distro, different device

Nothing works so i read something about android on pc like and iso for pc

So i want to know how can i install android on bare metal or good andoid emulator

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I'm genuinely looking forward to replaying through Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the expansions thanks to the open source OpenMoHAA project that just put out a new Beta release.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Can someone help me about Dk63 software? i can not download it from official website it seem like there are some error in the official website. so can anyone drop file link that i can downloads it directly.

https://preview.redd.it/rws8qbefrrae1.png?width=797&format=png&auto=webp&s=e23819708cb7071cc69b3d600544dfd50f0c0a7b

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The End of the Sun is an upcoming Slavic fantasy story-driven mystery adventure that sounds interesting and it's ready for release on January 29.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.