okay so - yeah - hi n stuff

first time caller, long listener. I've been a staunch linux/foss advocate for many a year, and while i'm knowledgeable to layman about certain things, i remain whimsically ignorant about other

I'm not a gamer, havent gotten into em since liike - nintendo 64 or SimCity2000
but - since this NEW ME is all about growth and development -

i saw something on the apple appstore that looked cool*! TOTAL WAR: PHARAOH

*i have a very "tailored" understanding

question : so - i'm a millenial, so piracy is all i know. how can i best play this game and/or games like it ?

here just cuz this is my first time posting anything I'll include the specs on this machine, which is my only non, mac machine, but dont worry- they all have ten distros on em too!

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System:

Kernel: 6.8.7-zen1-2-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1 clocksource: tsc

avail: acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen

root=UUID=0d585085-04fe-4075-9644-285ba4fb354d rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet loglevel=3 ibt=off

Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.2.0 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1

dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux

Machine:

Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20V9 v: ThinkBook 13s G2 ITL serial: <superuser required>

Chassis: type: 10 v: ThinkBook 13s G2 ITL serial: <superuser required>

Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40697 WIN serial: <superuser required>

part-nu: LENOVO_MT_20V9_BU_idea_FM_ThinkBook 13s G2 ITL uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO

v: F9CN59WW date: 01/08/2024

Battery:

ID-1: BAT0 charge: 49.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 49.0/56.0 Wh (87.4%) power: 4.2 W volts: 17.6

min: 15.4 model: SMP L19M4PDD type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: charging cycles: 202

CPU:

Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-1165G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11

level: v4 note: check built: 2020 process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8C (140) stepping: 1

microcode: 0xB6

Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 320 KiB

desc: d-4x48 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 5 MiB desc: 4x1.2 MiB L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 761 high: 1319 min/max: 400/4700 scaling: driver: intel_pstate

governor: powersave cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 1317 4: 442 5: 400 6: 1319 7: 593 8: 1223

bogomips: 44851

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Vulnerabilities: <filter>

Graphics:

Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel

alternate: xe arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,

DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a49 class-ID: 0300

Device-2: Bison Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1

mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-5:3 chip-ID: 5986:212a class-ID: 0e02

Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0 compositor: kwin_wayland

driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0

Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1463x914 size: N/A modes: N/A

API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast

surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: gbm

API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.0.8-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4

direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) device-ID: 8086:9a49

memory: 14.82 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0

API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 3 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel Xe Graphics (TGL

GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 24.0.8-arch1.1 device-ID: 8086:9a49 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland

device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM 17.0.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe

v: 24.0.8-arch1.1 (LLVM 17.0.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland

Audio:

Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl

alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0401

API: ALSA v: k6.8.7-zen1-2-zen status: kernel-api tools: N/A

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active

2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin

tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl

Network:

Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0f0

class-ID: 0280

IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>

Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant

Bluetooth:

Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1

mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-10:5 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001

Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11 status:

discoverabl

e: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c

Drives:

Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 12.51 GiB (0.7%)

SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.

ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN770 2TB

size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD

serial: <filter> fw-rev: 731120WD temp: 29.9 C scheme: GPT

Partition:

ID-1: / raw-size: 226.38 GiB size: 226.38 GiB (100.00%) used: 12.51 GiB (5.5%) fs: btrfs

dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4

ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 6.3 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat

dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3

ID-3: /home raw-size: 226.38 GiB size: 226.38 GiB (100.00%) used: 12.51 GiB (5.5%) fs: btrfs

dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4

ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 226.38 GiB size: 226.38 GiB (100.00%) used: 12.51 GiB (5.5%) fs: btrfs

dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4

ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 226.38 GiB size: 226.38 GiB (100.00%) used: 12.51 GiB (5.5%) fs: btrfs

dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4

Swap:

Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no

ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.18 GiB used: 275.8 MiB (1.8%) priority: 100 comp: zstd

avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 8 dev: /dev/zram0

Sensors:

System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A

Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A

Info:

Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.18 GiB used: 4.88 GiB (32.1%)

Processes: 277 Power: uptime: 1h 35m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle avail: deep

wakeups: 1 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 6.06 GiB

services: org_kde_powerdevil, power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 255

default: graphical tool: systemctl

Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1378 libs: 396 tools: octopi,pamac,paru Compilers: gcc: 14.1.1

Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.26-release inxi: 3.3.34

Garuda (2.6.26-1):

System install date: 2024-05-29

Last full system update: 2024-05-29 ↻

Is partially upgraded: No

Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut

Windows dual boot: Probably (Run as root to verify)

Failed units:

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System: Pop_os, 3070ti, ryzen 5 5600X

I recently made a script to enable "undervolting" for my 3070ti that looks like this

#!/bin/bash nvidia-smi -pm 1 nvidia-smi -i 0 -lgc 210,1920 nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GPUGraphicsClockOffsetAllPerformanceLevels=200"

It works well when i launch it with sudo privileges. I made it executable.

I would like to auto launch it at every startup/user login. Simply adding the script to "startup applications" didn't work.

How can i auto launch it at startup?

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After having a bit of a delay, Polychroma Games have announced their their cinematic adventure game inspired by the Philippines, Until Then is now going to release on June 25th.

Another round of Steam Client Beta updates are here with Steam Deck and Desktop PC seeing lots of improvements and bug fixes, and it's especially nice for people using Bluetooth on Steam Deck.

I am using Fedora 40 with X11 session as default because Wayland has some issues with my Nvidia card. Installed Heroic Launcher through flatpak and download Rocket League but when I play the game either using the latest Proton-GE or latest Wine-GE the game stucks at loading screen, but if I switch to Wayland the game opens normally. Is it missing some package for Xorg or what? I used to play like that in X11 on Debian 12 and it didnt happend.

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Hi, I've recently made the switch from Windows to Mint and I'm having mixed successes with gaming on Linux. The main game I'm playing currently is Total War Warhammer 3, it feels far better on native Linux - with Lutris and Gamemode - than it did back on Windows, but I'm having stability issues as the game crashes frequently after battles. I then tried switching to Proton Experimental but the game feels far choppier on there, with noticeable audio popping. I'm currently running a Ryzen 7 3800x and a RTX 2080 SUPER. Are there any optimizations I can do to improve the stability and prevent crashes?

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I've found a website that has made some benchmarks comparing the performance of multiple games in Linux vs Windows for both NV and AMD. It is in Polish, but if you click on drop-down menu (- SPIS TREŚCI -) and select a title, you'll see the results for it that are 100% readable.

AMD

NVIDIA

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I've recently upgraded my hardware and thought i could finally play some games in the proper way on my machine. Everything is great(how about that raytracing?!) but i'm encountering issues with vsync turned on.

Most games can hit 600-6000 fps by default, which completely hammers my gpu. The obvious fix here is turning on vsync, however most games just can't keep up. As an example, i'm running Raft right now. With 60 fps. However when the camera moves around and it renders more complicated frames i'm seeing drops to 59-50. Turning off vsync however, it is pinned at a high framerate, however with tearing.

It is a very clear and distinct pattern on the GPU load graph , see picture.

https://preview.redd.it/237z19khwb3d1.png?width=327&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f21ddc91ada3dbe8bbd8bb8d77418b1c313aca7

Has anyone else encountered these issues?

Specs: Nvidia drivers 550(previous drivers also). Kernel 6.9.2-arch. Xorg not Wayland. No compositor

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Hey everyone, I did a little search and the last post about MMORPGs was a year ago. So I decided to make my own post.

My GF and I have been wanting to play an MMORPG together. The trick is I am on Linux hence this post. To make this extra quirky she really doesn't like any kind of combat and prefers to play support roles. She said she'd rather let me do the combat while she hangs back and helps me out in other ways like healing. Ideally the MMO lets her do all the things she wants to do such as dress up her character and collect cute stuff.

Also the controls should be relatively simple and intuitive to learn.

I should mention she has little experience in playing some Korean MMO whose name she can't remember. Meanwhile I've played a lot of WoW (but stopped due to lack of support for Linux and other issues when I did get it working such as getting into a cave and all NPCs including player model vanishing :D).

Any suggestions? Also we'll take other similar games too so long as they have a form of co-op for us to enjoy. So not strictly MMORPGs.

Thanks in advance.

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I've been putting many hours into XDefiant through Bottles over the last couple days and it has been running excellent. Only issue I'm having is my settings (graphics/sound/etc) do not persist after I close the game. Every time I launch the game I have to turn down the volume and turn the graphics settings up again.

Furthermore, I cannot locate any config file for the game. I wanted to try changing the settings through the config files manually and also make sure the permissions on the files were correct, but they don't seem to exist at all. The Windows file path for the user data according to PCGamingWiki is%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\XDefiant\ but "My Games" does not exist in my bottles "Documents" directory at all .../drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/. I tried searching for the various config files by name from the root of the bottle, but none of them seem to exist anywhere.

Anyone know why this might be the case?

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I love Linux I love everything about it. I just wish that it supported Roblox-

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Does anybody have any recomendations for a good linux-compatible controller? I don't really have a preference for xbox-style or ps-style, though I would like to play both modern and retro games. It also needs to work with android (13) and linux (fedora atm but that'll provs change), and be proper wireless (like not a bluetooth dongle one)

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I have been going around and around for weeks trying to just get this one goddamn game working. I see many people saying that proton "just works" with many older games. I have that installed. I also have Lutris and Heroic but everytime I hit the 'install' button in either application either the thing installs incorrectly or throws up a boat load of errors.

Right now I'm experimenting with Garuda but my main machine (a laptop) is Arch. I've been using linux since 2000 so I would have thought getting these old RPGs to work (IWD EE, Neverwinter Nights and another I'm forgetting) would be a cakewalk to get working. So far, on 4 different distros, I have failed everytime. I recognise the distros are not at fault but it's something to do with Lutris or Heroic or the installer scripts. What I don't know is how to fix it.

I have done my research to the best of my ability but the only guide I found was from a fellow who shows one how to make the original game with the Windows EXE functional through Lutris. That really doesn't help me much. Link to the video I found on Reddit to install the original IWD.

I bought my games through GOG a while ago and had them working on Windows just fine ... until Windows one day decided to commit suicide and be completely unrecoverable. With the coming of Win 11 I decided to throw in the towel on Windows thinking that getting this to work shouldn't be too hard. Ugh.

As an aside, when people say they use proton do most just mean having that set of applications (proton or protonge or proton-up) installed so other apps can use it in the background? I'm an old girl who really never got into gaming on Linux so this part is all new to me.

Any help or feedback is very welcome.

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TF2c worked fine for me before the devs decided to have it rely on Steam's Proton. I'm on Ubuntu and everytime I try to play it says "Could not load library client. Try restarting. If that doesn't work, verify the cache." Steam recognizes them both since they show up in the library. I have tried literally every Proton for the source SDK 2013 multiplayer tool, and nothing works. Proton 8.0/9.0 doesn't even let TF2c run at all. I have been at this for weeks. If anyone's had a similar experience, help would be appreciated.

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Okay, so I'm bad at computer stuff so I apologize in advance if I'm slow to understand, but my Steam client has been doing the thing where I open it and it's just a black screen. I read that updating steam or turning on Steam Beta participation fixes this, but I can't do those things if I can't see any of what is on the screen. Is there a way I can do either of this from the browser version or what? I just want to play metal gear

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I want to use stretched resolution on apex legends how do I do it. (steam)
2060 OC
i3-12100f
32gb hypyrx ram
1tb crucial ssd
corsair cv650 psu

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I finally got Lutris on my Chromebook Plus and running Fallout 3. It was running flawlessly when I accidentally hit a command that crashed it. I restarted the chromebook, went to run the game and I had to download it again. Now when I open it, it's running terribly. I can't seem to figure out what I did but should I just delete all data associated with the game and start over? And how do I do that?

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I have an old game download file that works on Windows. I can get the game to run in Lutris, but my download has a file for a custom resolution that won't work in Lutris. Does anyone know how I can get my game to run in 1920x1080? Any help is greatly appreciated.

These are the files for a custom resolution that works in Windows

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