all the fps results are 1% lows, meaning 1% of frames are slower than that and 99% are faster.

in part 1 i did some system vs flatpak comparisons, but felt like i should briefly test a few more cases that involve more cpu load. with faugus launcher i can do an apples-to-apples comparison.

passmark 8 is used for synthetic cpu and memory load, warhammer 40k rogue trader (unity, dx11) and age of wonders 4 (dx12) for game loads.

flatpak faugus, passmark cpu: 30578 system faugus, passmark cpu: 30614 flatpak faugus, passmark mem: 3176 system faugus, passmark mem: 3127 flatpak faugus, wh40k borderless: 24,2 first, 24,7 second (60 seconds) system faugus, wh40k borderless: 24,6 first, 24,7 second (60 seconds) flatpak faugus, aow4 borderless: 41,9, 41,5 (90 seconds) system faugus, aow4 borderless: 26,4 first try, 41,5 retested (30 seconds)

i initially ran the mangohud recordings for 30 seconds, but noticed that it is a bit too short of a time. 90 seconds gives more stable readings, so i will use that in the following tests. i will also count to 10 before starting to record, as aow4 likely has lag some time after loading a save, as the retest shows.

it does not look like flatpak causes much of a performance penalty, if any.

i prefer bottles as the wine frontend, and it has a good selection of different runners, so i will compare some of them to each other next. i will also include x11 xfce vs wayland kde combinations as part 1 indicated that they may have some differences. two of the tested games also have an ingame option for borderless fullscreen vs exclusive fullscreen, and i will test those.

additional games added here are disco elysium (unity, dx11), which has bad frametime pacing, and trails through daybreak (dx11), which represents a non-unity game. strange looking results were retested, and retest result is in parenthesis.

results GE-Proton10-17 soda-9.0-1 caffe-9.7 sys-wine-10.0 kron4ek-wine-10.15-staging-tkg wh40k, x11, borderless 24,8 24,9 25,0 25,0 24,9 wh40k, x11, fullscreen 25,1 25,1 25,3 25,3 25,0 wh40k, kde, borderless 24,2 24,1 24,5 24,6 24,4 wh40k, kde, fullscreen 24,7 24,6 24,7 24,9 24,6 disco, x11 28,7 28,7 28,6 28,0 28,6 disco, kde 28,8 28,8 28,6 28,3 28,7 daybreak, x11 27,3 27,3 27,3 27,2 27,3 daybreak, kde 19,4 (19,4) 27,3 19,6 27,2 27,3 aow4, x11, borderless broke 26,4 (41,6) 41,7 42,0 broke aow4, x11, fullscreen broke 41,7 41,8 41,6 broke aow4, kde, borderless broke 40,8 40,7 40,7 broke aow4, kde, fullscreen broke 40,4 40,9 40,4 broke

-mouse cursor lags in x11 xfce if game lags, cursor always smooth in wayland kde

-non-proton game configs and saves are not under "steamuser"

-caffe under x11 xfce or soda in general appear to be the best picks

-ingame fullscreen may benefit wh40k slightly, in aow4 not

next i picked a well performing combination of caffe-9.7, x11 xfce and the fullscreen option in wh40k and briefly tested gamescope, gamemode, esync and system sync options in bottles (fsync is default).

wh40k, gamescope 25,3 wh40k, gamemode 25,2 wh40k, esync 25,3 wh40k, system sync 25,4 disco, gamescope 28,6 disco, gamemode 28,7 disco, esync 28,6 disco, system sync 28,0

-these do not improve anything

in part 3 i will test some non wine system tweaks (kernel, scheduler, mitigations at least).

details are the same as in part 1, with the following additions:

faugus-launcher 1.9.5-1 config: GE-Proton10-17, dxvk-2.7.1-146, vkd3d-1.17-208 explorer: -press cog button -press winetricks button -select default wineprefix -run explorer --- bottles 51.24 (flatpak) config: dxvk-2.7.1, vkd3d-proton-2.13 explorer: pick bottle -> legacy wine tools -> explorer --- disco elysium a0a062f0 (wine/unity/dx11) config: environment fx low, anti-aliasing off, dynamic shadows on, shader quality modest -reused my old save at the downstairs of the starter building, near the exit repro: -load save and record --- wh40k rogue trader 1.4.1.231 (wine/unity/dx11) config: low graphics preset, then FSR performance -start game -generally pick the first choice until the first dialogue ends -save game repro: -load save and record --- trails through daybreak 1.3.5 (wine/dx11) config: vsync off, frame limit 360, performance preset -start game -save when you get control repro: -load save and record --- age of wonders 4 1.011.003.111420 (wine/dx12) config: low graphics preset, vsync off, render scale 50 -quick start -save game repro: -load save and record submitted by /u/Niwrats
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Hi all!

I use this launcher to play Bedrock Minecraft (on Steamdeck) with my cross platform friends, and ever since Copper Age released, I can’t play / the launcher isn’t even usable. I’ve seen this happen in the past with major updates, but the devs usually get everything working again relatively quickly (a day or two).

I’m not sure if anyone else uses this launcher who could help me, but I really want to continue to waste hours of my life in this game 🥺

A couple quick notes: 1. I did purchase Minecraft via the Google Playstore and I am logged into the correct google account on the launcher 1a. And I did try logging out / logging back in (a lot) 2. I’ve ran all of the updates I could on not only the launcher, but the FlatPaks as well 3. If it doesn’t go without saying, I’ll say it here: Java version isn’t an option for me bc I play in Realms with my friends.

Any help would be greatly appreciated so I can go back to a life of blocks :(

TIA 🩵💚💛

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Just bought a legion go s steamos. Halo infinite is asking me to sign into my Microsoft account. However I'm just stuck on the sign in screen and nothing pops up or a security window to continue signing in. Idk what else to do or how to fix it...is it user error a common issue?

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Hi. Lately i wanna start hosting my minecraft server on spare laptop. When i run file start.sh in terminal, after some time of installing minecraft and other stuff, when script go to line "Starting background profiler..." laptop freeze nothing can be done after few hours. I tried running this on better laptop but is the same problem. - spare laptop - latest cachyos - 12gb ram - i3 4005U - geforce 820m 2gb - better laptop - latest nobaraos - 16gb ram - i5 6xxxHQ - geforce 940mx - Java 17 on all pc - modpack Prominence 2 hasturian era latest version Can someone help?

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I tend to use one main Wine prefix for most games I play and only make separate ones for games that require "special treatment" that breaks the others. And I indeed figured out one that actually works. Here's a setup:

• DXVK and VKD3D, mandatory
• DirectX 9 from the offline installer (after installing, swap the DLLs with the DXVK and VKD3D ones)
• Wine Mono
• Wine Gecko
• Visual C++ redistributables
• Core fonts
• The "directmusic" Winetrick, but removing the "dsound" override because it breaks audio in most games.
• The "xact" overrides. I only needed it for Saints Row 2, but didn't break anything else either.
• FAudio

With that setup, about 95% of my games work, only some needing extra. Just thought I'd share this. If you don't want an absolute spaghetti of prefixes for every single game, this might be useful.

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Hi, my PC is quite old and I need an upgrade. Honestly, I am also considering buying PS5 instead, but I have many games on Steam and GOG which I would need to buy again for PlayStation. However I also really want to buy Steam Deck to play indie games in bed and stream big titles from something bigger and in that case PC looks better than PS5, because I can share game library.

I use Bazzite in Deck mode, because my PC is only for gaming and is connected to TV. My current specs: - Ryzen 7 2700 - Radeon RX 580 8 GB - 16 GB of RAM

What graphics card do you guys recommend which works good on Linux with Ray Tracing and will be future proof for upcoming releases such us Forza Horizon 6, GTA VI and The Witcher 4. I have 1080p@60Hz TV, but I think Full HD these days is quite low resolution, so I think 1440p should be minimum. I know CPU is really old, but when I play Cyberpunk 2077 the GPU is the biggest problem.

My budget is limited, my requirement is to upgrade PC with price lower than new PS5 slim, because in other scenarios that does not make any sense for me. I can buy used parts, no problem.

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всем привет,поставил линукс основной системой,понял как сильно windows меня не устраивает и не хотел бы его использовать второй системой для gta,
можно ли сейчас как то запустить gta5rp или majestic на linux?

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Planning on migrating my gaming PC to Linux rather than languishing on Windows 10 until I can upgrade (motherboard doesn't have secure boot, even if it does, I don't want Losedows 11, so IDC), and IDK whether I should go with Debian or Arch. I've already installed Arch once (with archinstall), but that was on a laptop I barely use.

I mostly use my computer for gaming and web browsing, and unfortunately currently have an Nvidia GPU, and I just wanted to get some advice before I make the switch.

Also, I have 9 TB of storage on this thing and I need to know a good way of migrating it to Linux because I've heard bad things about the Linux NTFS drivers and I'm not exactly in a position where I can afford to drop the cash on potentially 8-10 TB of HDD to back things up to. (Most of the data is steam games I can refownload, but it's still a mountain of crap I have to dig through to figure out what I want to back up.)

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Link

Few days ago went on to making portable of Battle Brothers AppImage, game I've been playing a lot lately - ended up porting most of my library so no more Lutris for me ;)

Compatibility is pretty good, the Wine AppImage supplied runs in wow64 mode however, meaning some older 32 bit games might not run properly (since WINEARCH is always set to 64), also since Wine is under 200MB the resuling images are fairly compact.

More details and usage instructions are in the README.md file

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So I've seen a decent amount of people talking about using those Ryzen 9 NUC-likes as HTPCs and many of them outright running SteamOS rather than Bazzite which actually sounds nice (although I'll probably still go Bazzite. And that actually sounds perfect and is closer to how I game on my TV these days anyway. Something like Silksong or Stardew I can run natively and I can stream the heavier games from my desktop over Moonlight (or even just Steam Link if I am lazy). And now I don't have to deal with MS nonsense to navigate to the Moonlight app or bluetooth weirdness on my Shield.

But I guess I am kind of confused due to my limited knowledge. From what I understand, we basically have to use display port with AMD for VRR/HDR because of licensing and drivers with HDMI. But my TV (well, actually my receiver) is HDMI 2.1 and doesn't have display ports.

Am I SOL? Because I don't mind piping a 1080/1440 image to my 4k TV. HDR is not a MUST but it is nice to take advantage of. But VRR I am more or less not able to live without ESPECIALLY when I am pushing hardware harder than I should. And there is a big difference between turning down specs to run a handheld display at a steady frame rate and doing the same on a TV.

So... any insights? I am hoping I am just stupid and misunderstanding something?

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Okey so the question is pretty simple, i have used nvidia gpus most of my life. But i recently switched to Amd gpu because i like tinkering with my gpu (expose voltage controls nvidia) and nvidia drivers haven't been the best with DX12 games. I know the git version is for developers, but in general how stable it is? A little unstability i wouldn't mind especially since i like reporting bugs and tinkering with stuff. Just how good or bad is it in general?

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So I've been trying to set up the nolvus modpack for skyrim se on arch for a while now but the dashboard won't work for me (like it does not even open up) and setting it up manually using LIMO is a pain and i am not 100% certain that it'll work out in the end.
Is there any other way to set it up or has someone some good recommendations on how to get the dashboard working

There are some 2y old posts on here about that topic but the links are dead and there is really no explanation given

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The much loved Dwarf Fortress just got another small update to fix up some issues, and an exciting preview teaser of the upcoming Siege Update.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

WAAAGHtober! A Warhammer Humble Bundle has launched with a number of highly rated titles for some October action.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

First, i would like to say that i did some research already but could not get a conclusive answer.

My system has an amd igpu and a nvidia dgpu. Im using hyprland on arch btw. I've been trying to do the following:

• have my system normally use the nvidia gpu for everyday tasks and gaming on linux(successfully did that)

• have a windows vm that i pass through the nvidia gpu to use(where im stuck)

What i want to do is have the nvidia gpu detach from linux mid session and attach to the vm. Similarly have a way to detach it from the vm when im done with it and use it in linux like normal.

Is this even possible? If not what would be the closest compromise that would achieve something similar.

I already know that i can use only the igpu for linux and leave the nvidia one only for the vm but thats not what i want.

Any help or recommendations would be greatly appreciated 👍🏻

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i have tried selecting the add a non-steam game to llibrary but it wouldnt launch

any tips

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https://github.com/mason1600/Mines

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https://freelinuxpcgames.com. is this site legit?

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