Hi guys, real fast question because I could not find any recent answer. I want to use a controller for playing some games (cult of the lamb for example) and I wanted to ask if I will find many problems by connecting with linux, or it just does not matter (have preference for the Xbox controller, but I don't care that much tbh). Just for reference, I'm on Linux mint and I have a Lenovo LOQ 15arp9.

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Blending inventory management with a zombies horde-based road trip bullet heaven, Deadly Days Roadtrip is a delight.

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Valve released another small Beta update for Desktop PCs, SteamOS and Steam Deck for the Steam Client to fix up some more annoying problems.

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could someone tell me any FIFA that works on linux. im on arch linux.

I've seen FIFA 17 on lutris, but i haven't bought it so, can i crack it?

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I decided to write this guide and refer to it because there are still many people who keep asking the same questions over and over, and the answer is always the same.

Guide is for and based on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and derivates.

If you have a different distribution, the process may be the same or a little different.

Install the Steam package directly from Valve (for me here is a DEB package).

The reason to use the Valve version directly is to avoid potential bugs that the Flatpak or Snap versions suffer from. And the DEB version from the repository is older (currently DEB from repo 1.0.0.79 vs Valve Steam 1.0.0.84).

https://store.steampowered.com/about/

You will have the latest version of Steam. It will automatically install the necessary dependencies. It will guide you through the entire installation process step by step. As a bonus, you might have higher FPS. Or it will just be smoother. Not everything is visible in the FPS counter.

Then download the ProtonUp-QT and use it to install ProtonGExx-xx to Steam. Available as Flatpak or Appimage (requires a launch flag for the file (chmod +x or in GUI set it up)).

https://github.com/DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt

And as a bonus, enable NTsync in the kernel(for 6.14+). After that, Steam will use it automatically.

echo "ntsync" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules-load.d/ntsync.conf

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

I'm not sure if it's necessary to restart the OS.

If you need to play in a non-native resolution and the game is blurry, tweaking the game parameters in Steam will help. FSR is made by AMD, but i have Nvidia. No problem. (FSR_STRENGTH from 1 max blurry to 5 max quality, for my low 1680*1050 resolution in game is good 3)

WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=3 %command%

More here or find it in somewhere:

https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Wine-FSR

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/r8nxsz/difference_between_wine_fullscreen_fsr_proton_ge/

Next performance/workaround tips:

Desktop environments ...are for desktop environments for compositors. Turn these compositors off for fullscreen gaming or maybe too for windowed gaming. For KDE is there settings: Screen tearing - allow in fullscreen, turn it on. Its automated if fullscreen app is running. For Cinnamon, it's simply somewhere in the settings to turn off composition. Same for XFCE, etc. In GNOME, you cannot turn off composition. But there is a special solution that should also work automatically. Maybe. If you have any issues with rendering in GNOME, you can try switching GNOME from the new NGL renderer to the older GL. (I have never tested this solution.)

Steam recording If you happen to experience what happened to me, where after some time of playing the game your performance drops significantly, like after 20 minutes of playing, it is possible that Steam is performing something with screen recording in the background, even though you have it turned off in its settings. It then helped me: For game set launch parametr ld preload:

example:

LD_PRELOAD="" WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=3 %command%

But be careful. Some Steam settings (this!) will disable its overlay.

Ad Steam and Mangohud. Be careful that some applications have bugs. Do not enable the FPS limitation in Mangohud. Do not use the FPS counter in Steam. It reduces performance.

For Nvidia users: Somewhere I read that Steam is built for drivers 575. Given that 575 was just a development version. Now at this time, it's the 580 series. As a bonus, one can finally play without input lag on Wayland. I tested it on the Pascal generation. I have no idea about the newer ones.

For better microphone input is good Easyeffects (use Flatpak, my distribution in native package has off few must have plugins for him).

Not tested tips or unfinished instructions:

sudo sysctl kernel.split_lock_mitigate=0

split_lock_detect

options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0

gamescope

gamemode

etc

Happy gaming. Good luck and aim!

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I do it already with .mp4 files through Hidamari, just linking it to the workshop folder, but the vast majority isn't .mp4 but .pkg. Is there any way to convert it, or any alternative to Hidamari that can play it?
I'm on Fedora with Wayland Gnome.

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Hi all. I recently upgraded my main desktop from a Ryzen 5 2600X to a Ryzen 9 9950X as a late birthday present to myself, but it seems I didn't do enough research/preperation as unfortunately I'm experiencing some pretty severe performance drops when running GPU intensive apps (mostly games, sometimes even KiCAD).

Whenever I'm running a game that heavily utilizes the GPU, if I try to interact with any other program that uses the GPU (particularly web browsers with GPU acceleration, like Chrome, Firefox, or Brave) while the game is running, none of the windows/graphics in the other application will update. The window is still interactable (hovering over tabs works, closing tabs, etc) but nothing visually will update, like the program isn't able to get any time on the GPU to redraw the window.

Here are my machine specs:

• Motherboard: MSI PRO X870E-P WIFI
• CPU: Ryzen 9 9950X
• GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 Super
• RAM: 32GB DDR5 @ 6000 MT/s
• OS: Fedora 42, using kernel 6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64

None of these changes have made any impact, but so far I've tried:

• Updating BIOS to 2.A30 from MSI
• Added amd_pstate=guided to GRUB command line args
• Updated Nvidia Driver, currently using 580.82.09 from the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repository

From reading online, I believe this issue stems from the 9950X core parking as well as not using any type of custom affinity mask settings. If I understand the affinity masking correctly, would this be something I'd have to apply for every application I'd want to run to only use certain cores?

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Bro how I can install open bullet 2 I can't understand that

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Hi everyone, i got into linux some time ago after strong love hate relationship and now when i started to tinker with DCS the hate part came back.

I have an issue with my Winwing Orion2 setup for DCS, but also possibly for elite dangerous and ect.

The issue i have is quite weird i think, generally after setting up newest linux-winwing module and universal-pidff for 80 buttons limit, the throttle is now working great, but the joystick has a lot of unresponsive buttons. I checked those with evsieve and I get a lot of weird button names like BTN_TRIGGER_HAPPYxx
or just codes like %300. Is there something i can do? I'd prefer to avoid running windows just because of this.

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Hello everyone, I own a Framework laptop 16.

I have been expereiencing an issue where after a few minutes(1-5) the fps is getting cut in half.

About my system

The root is on btrfs(cache,tmp,root,log,snapshots)

The home is ext4

GRUB + kernel zen

CPU: Ryzen7 7840hs

GPU: Radeon 780m

RAM: 128GB(2x64GB) 5600MHz Crucial

DE: Hyprland

Shell: Bash

About the issue:
Almost every game I try starts with a pretty high fps 60+, and after a few minutes it drops down to mid 30s, and there it stutters. I mean it climbs up to 45 and then suddenly drops back to 30. The frame time looks like a squarewave.
Thermals aren't even that high(highest is 79 on the cpu and 69 at the gpu).
The GPU clocks stay the same for all the time(2700MHz)
The GPU power also stays quite the same fluctating between 30 and 40W but most of the time it is in the upper 30s(36-38).

Deathloop performance

I experienced this issue with a number of games including CS2, Deathloop, Beamng,Snowrunner.
Beamng data

Thank you in advance for your answers.

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i want to switch to linux but im sitting here wondering about a lot of stuff. tell me if these apps are compatible (wine is allowed)

- steam

- epic games

- brave browser

- microsoft 365

- lunar client

- flarial client

also, whats the cleanest build of linux?

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I am trying to rdr on my fairly old laptop with a GT550m, the last Nvidia driver that it supports is 390xx and I am using Manjaro Linux with the proprietary drivers.

When I try to run the game just by wine RDR.exe it gives the error "A hardware graphics adaptor with support for D3d_level_011 is required". I am pretty sure my card supports dx11 (techpowerup says it can) I have also been able to successfully run the latest version of BeamngDrive through wine, which i am pretty sure is >=dx11 only.

If I try to run the game through steam proton, it will give an access violation C00005 error before even opening a game window.

The result of vulkaninfo is as follows: (I'm not sure my card supports Vulkan at all):

ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : setup_loader_term_phys_devs: Failed to detect any valid GPUs in the current config ERROR at /usr/src/debug/vulkan-tools/Vulkan-Tools/vulkaninfo/./vulkaninfo.h:247:vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices failed with ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

the most recent thing I attempted was following some Windows guides to forcing the game to run in dx10 mode through addon scripts, but none of them have made any difference.

Getting things to run on this system has always been dodgy, some games only run thru wine directly whereas others do work thru steam, sometimes a newly installed game will seem like it doesn't work until restarting.... for some reason. All this to say, I am just looking for some workaround to one of the two errors I would get above, expecting to actually fully solve this is a pipe-dream:)

Any advice on steps I could take to troubleshoot and workaround these problems to eventually get the game running would be appreciated.

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System information

• CPU: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1155G7 @ 2.50GHz
• GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics (TigerLake-LP GT2 [8086:9a49])
• Distro: Pop!_OS (latest updates installed)
• Kernel versions installed:
  • 6.12.10-76061203 (works fine)
  • 6.16.3-76061603 (causes issues)
  • 6.9.3-76060903 (removed, older version)

Issue description
After updating to kernel 6.16.3, I started experiencing severe performance regressions on my laptop. With kernel 6.12.10, everything still works fine.

Here are the problems with 6.16.3:

• In the game Bloodstrike, the system becomes very laggy when using "High Performance" mode.
• Strangely, switching to "Power Saver" mode makes the game run smoothly at around 60fps.
• When the AC adapter is plugged in, performance drops heavily again, regardless of power mode.
• Even playing a 1080p YouTube video causes stuttering and noticeable system lag.

This behavior did not exist on kernel 6.12.10, where both games and video playback were smooth.

Steps to reproduce

1. Boot into kernel 6.16.3.
2. Launch Bloodstrike or play a 1080p YouTube video.
3. Switch between "High Performance" and "Power Saver" modes.
4. Plug in the AC adapter and observe the performance difference.

Expected behavior

• High Performance mode should increase performance, not reduce it.
• Watching 1080p video or running games should not cause lag.

Question

1. Is this a kernel regression related to power management or Intel GPU handling?
2. What’s the recommended way to report and debug this further?

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Hello. I recently got a new lenovo laptop, it's an ideapad 5 with a ryzen 7 8845hs and igpu. I'm using ubuntu 25. I could play cs2 for about a month on it, and one day after updating cs2 i got an error that read:
"createSwapChain: the selected graphics queue does not support presenting a swapchain image"
I'm not sure which update specifically caused it since I had not played nor updated the game for a couple months.

Any ideas? I saw some people had the same problem a couple years ago on dota 2, but did not find anything related to cs2.

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i've been trying for hours to remap the controller for sober cuz when i click A its B, when i click B its A, when i click Y its X and when i click X its Y

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So I'm currently in the process of backing everything up on my pc and making the switch to linux since security updates are stopping for win10 next month and I don't want to switch to win11 as my main OS.

On my windows pc I use GOG Galaxy to be able to see all games I own, so I use integrations to log-in into steam, epic, ubisoft, origin, xbox*, mainly to have a graphical overview where I can see everything I own, that also automatically updates when I get a new game. now to the question. Do Integrations work on Linux too? if not is there a software for linux where I can log in to all the above accounts and have a combined automatically updating game library.
*Yes I know I can't play my xbox library on linux, I just want to be able to see all games I have, it's not necessarily to actually be able to play them all on linux, I will have to have a small win11 partition as a backup for that.

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Have ipad and android phone I could use, but haven't been able to locate anything compatible.

Haven't been able to locate any of the linux compatible stream deck managers citing mobile compatibility.

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