I've recently installed Zorin OS on my Acer Aspire laptop from 2016. It has GeForce 940MX and i5-7200U. I've noticed a problem in certain games where the gameplay feels very choppy despite framerate being high. For example, I'm playing Counter-Strike Source and I have over 100 FPS but it feels like 15 FPS. There are two workarounds

1. Turning on V-Sync but it causes input lag and messes up with my aiming
2. Setting a scale to 125% or higher, but it makes my screen blurry

What can I do to fix it?

Edit: I tried installing a diffrent driver but now it only shows Intel HD Graphics and nvidia-smi says that it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Switching back to the old driver didn't help. Did I cook my NVIDIA?

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I installed the Big Linux gnome version on the PC and it is extremely spectacular. Morally, for me any Linux distro based on Arch Linux is very good.

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a new ransomware seems to now target linux desktop operating systems.

so caution.

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I'm in the process of fully moving all of my Windows stuff onto Linux. I've been dual booting Windows 10 and Arch for about a year now, it's been going great, haven't nuked everything yet. I've been doing 50% of my computer work on Linux and I'm at the point where I want to get everything else moved over too.

The big thing I need to install on Linux now is my library of games, which is around 500gb (my entire /home directory is currently less than 20gb at the moment for reference). This has gotten me thinking about the best way to actually structure my filesystem going forward, as so far I've not given much thought to it; I just did what the archinstall setup recommended, which has worked fine so far.

My current setup is fairly simple: My whole Linux installation is on a 2TB SSD (Btrfs), no separate /home partition or anything, and I have a few folders (Documents, Downloads, Photos, etc.) symlinked to a 1TB HDD, since I don't want to be writing tons of random crap onto my SSD for no reason.

I'm aware that at some point in the future I'll probably end up reinstalling Linux, either when distrohopping or (more likely) when I screw up and break everything, and in the event of me having to delete my root directory there are things I'd rather not have to reinstall. Namely, hundreds of gigabytes of game data that I'd need to redownload and set up from scratch. So before I go too far with installing things in a way that could potentially be a massive pain to redo if/when I need to, I'd like to get things set up in a 'safer' configuration.

How do you all have your Linux filesystems set up? Is this a case where a separate /home partition would be worth it, or even just a separate partition exclusively for games/large applications? Are there any general "best practices" for this sort of thing?

P.S. I'm vaguely aware that Btrfs has subvolumes, but truth be told I haven't looked into Btrfs' functionality nearly at all and I'm not confident setting that up at this point or if it even does what I want it to here.

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Has anyone successfuly been able to get this game running on linux?, its literally the only reason I havent made the full switch to linux, and the reason I havent even made my current old gaming laptop into a bazzite home console.

Please if you have any work around with a detailed guide please lemme know, much appreicated.

Edit: so just to clarify its the solo leveling arise game from netmarble, not the one coming to steam as thats a different game

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Hi everyone, I am happily using kubuntu, but when I try to open games on heroic games launcher they open fine. However, after a while the audio stop. I searched online and found about the pulseaudiolib which I checked I have installed and running, but the only turnaround I found is erratically turning on/off on pavucontrol pulseaudio when the problem starts and after a while in-game still audio keeps stopping. Please help, i don't know what to do anymore.

P.s. I tried switching to lutris but I find the problem also here

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Good evening, everyone. Recently, I created a .sh script that resolves the libgdk-2.0-0 dependency error within the official Minecraft.deb installer. My main release includes the .sh script and its reproducible .deb package. I hope it serves you well in the Debian branch of Linux gaming.

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I have a 9100f build with a gtx 1070 and 32gb of ddr4 3200. I'm running bazitte but the cpu performance is struggling on some games.

Was thinking hoping to amd 4 before parts go up them being older. Yeah I could upgrade cpu on the intel but m-atx mb is lacking a bit in features like no m.2. I got a 1tb pny cs2241 for $20 be nice to use.

My psu is 850 evga g2 but 10 years old. So would need that too. I don't necessarily need storage for now.

What cpu/mb should I look at? I dont care brand loyalty but seems b550 are built better vram. No I would not oc but I like reliable like my 10 year old psu lol.

I'm usually 1080p gaming but I do stream 720p just to try and be social and see how performs currently.

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The "Survivor Trilogy" of Tomb Raider has been released in GOG, so i wanted to play those versions from GOG using Heroic Games Launcher.
Now, when playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider installed through Heroic Games Launcher, the DualShock 4 controller behaves inconsistently. Without any modifications, the game detects the controller and shows PlayStation button icons, but the analog sticks are misaligned (moving right acts like up, left acts like down, etc.).

Importing a Wine registry file to enable SDL fixes the stick behavior, but the game then detects two controllers simultaneously: one Xbox and one PlayStation. This causes the on-screen buttons to flicker between Xbox and PlayStation icons, and stick input occasionally freezes.

Does anyone know how could i fix this?

https://reddit.com/link/1nsde1a/video/m8m8fxtektrf1/player

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Title. I've been trying to manually set the location of my steam executable in R2modman for a while now, but it refuses to give any of the ways I can open steam the time of day.

Desktop? Doesn't recognize it. usr/games/steam folder? Doesn't recognize it. I can't seem to find the executable it'll let me select for it to actually run mods in my games (specifically Peak, in this case), and it's really frustrating since every time I google something about it, it seems nobody's had the same issue. It won't let me select just a folder, either, it has to be the steam executable.

This might be a stupid question, I'm still really new to linux, but I don't know what to do at this point. I'm using the latest version of Linux Mint, and I've tried the appimage download and the deb download, and both have given me the same issue, plus every installation guide I've looked at just doesn't say anything about this problem. I've tried restarting my pc, reinstalling R2, adding R2 to my Steam games list even, just kinda hoping for a miracle.

Steam opens fine, R2 opens fine, and Peak opens fine. I also don't have a lot of faith that the Peak executable would be recognized, either, but I haven't tried yet.

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Since the CEO is open sources (some stuff). what are the chances of get the port for linux? i know Xbox is not going to be open source but they did make changes to win32 app-like so what is the chances

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Is Sway just plain unusable with NVIDIA? Would LabWC work fine or should I just go right on back to x11/xlibre?

I'd prefer to not have to change all of my software back but I'd like to have my GPU I just dropped a G on work flawlessly.

Anyone get it to play nicely?

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PoP OS 22.04, Steam. Happened in more than one game. Portal 2 and Overwatch, one is linux native, the other is not.

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I've a whole lot of old games, but they are procured from questionable sources, (old websites, old torrents etc.) and with no modern windows defender to rely on, that for all its flaws would safely filter most of the 20+ year old unwanted surprises, I need a way to safely use the files and play the games.

I've not used virtual machines before, but from what I understand they might not be necessary, instead something like steam does on Linux, where it sections the installations off in their own directories that don't interact with anything else, might be enough for most cases? Or am I wrong about this?

What is the most secure and easiest to setup way to go about such a problem?

PS: I've also seen advice on the net mentioning avoiding storing anything unverified in the home folder in general, but then where do I install things like games I intend to use with WIne or Lutris, for example?

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Hey all!

Running God of War through Lutris, Heroic, and Bottles.

1. Game goes to black screen on Lutris before crashing to desktop. Doesnt run at all.
2. Heroic runs it perfectly with what appears to be full performance.
3. Bottles runs it at reduced performance, no idea why.
4. Also, the game uses the desktop resolution as teh base resolution and applies upscaling etc to that, and on my 4k tv, it takes the base resolution as 6044 x 3072 or something, not the 4k it should be. Any help would be highly appreciated.

EDIT: I changed resolution scaling from 125% to 100% and it allowed me to scale from 4k. However, is there any way I can keep my scaling at 125 for the desktop and the game still using 4k as the base resolution?

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On my quest to get DSR-Gadget.exe to pair with Dark Souls Remastered so that I can make pvp builds, I Tried a TON of different things with SteamTinkerLaunch coming the closest to working. In case it's important, Gadget is basically cheat engine, it lets you respec your character, teleport to bonefires, and spawn in gear... if I could get it to work. Can anyone with experience with this give me insight on what I need to do to get Gadget to pair with Dark Souls Remastered?

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Greetings, fellow Linux gamers. Recently, I patched a buxfix into the official Minecraft.deb package from minecraft.net. With the official package, Debian users often encounter an error about lib-gdk2.0-0. This is due to a missing hyphen between “lib-gdk” and “2.0-0.” After repackaging the .deb installer with that extra hyphen, no errors were encountered and Minecraft installed flawlessly. So, in the spirit of giving, I have added this bugfixed Minecraft.deb to my Git repository for anyone to use on Debian, so you can avoid the hassle of repackaging the installer yourselves.

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