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video games
on Linux
which ones have you been playing this week?
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>>634298435 (OP)
Warframe, prepping for duviri.
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dmc 5, cs go, monster hunter rise, tekken 7, cs go, sonic frontiers
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The usual.
>have 50 games installed on my PC
>haven't played many of them beyond confirming they work and setting up the controls how I like them
>stare at my desktop for a minute trying to decide what to play
>start up Blood or Doom for the 9000th time because it's mindless fun and I don't need to commit to learning a new game
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>>634298435 (OP)
Gave Quake 2 RTX a go out of curiosity. 1050p on maxed settings barely worked above 30 fps, but with adaptive resolution it keeps 60 no problems. So for more demanding games it would require 720p upscaled I suppose.
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>>634305692
>Quake 2 but everything looks kinda wet
What a weird tech demo.
But I guess it makes sense. Couldn't go straight to slapping RTX on something that already barely runs on high-end PCs.
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>new MangoHud has a hotkey to switch the HUD position at runtime so I don't have to change my config file depending on the game
Neat.
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>>634305692
I'm still not entirely sold on raytracing as a feature, and I have an RTX 3090. If GPU manufacturers told me "Hey we solved the Temporal AA blur most unreal engine games have with our new GPU" or "Hey we made a version of FSR that is as good as DLSS or FSR 2.1 but worked on every game like FSR 1.0 does" that'd be big. So far the only reason I'm even slightly interested in the 4000 series is AVX encoding and that has nothing to do with video games, really.
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>>634307953
Yeah, it's pretty much a first wave RTX tech demo. But you can also switch the game to openGL, and it basically becomes a free remaster with new coat of paint and no performance overhead.
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>>634310118
It also has the horizontal layout that Steam Deck has had for a while now.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/mangohud-performance-overlay-version-v069-is-out-now-as-a-nice-update/
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>>634311152
Reshade has sharpen filters that work relatively decently. As for FSR, it's either good quality, where it has to be baked into rendering pipeline by dev, or post-processing like FSR1 with worse quality.
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can i get some random interesting game recommendation? feels like i've played and replayed everything
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>>634311861
what genres do you like?
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>>634298435 (OP)
RDR2
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I'm actually in the process of backing up things from my Linux install and reinstalling Windows 10. 
My patience for Linux has run dry, once again.
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>>634311896
different genres, but i can't stand 99% of modern trash
favorite games would be: RE 2,3; Parasite Eve; Homeworld 1,2; all Deus Ex; Max Payne; SMT Nocture; certain visual novels
i'd prefer something not grim, not difficult and not frustrating, where you can enjoy the nature or scenery
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>>634312507
what happened? i don't envy you, because my patience with windows ran dry completely without recover
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>>634312620
>my patience with windows ran dry completely without recover
same
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>>634298435 (OP)
Dominions 5, Conquest of Elysium, and Freeciv are pretty much all I play on PC lately
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>>634312507
off-topic
go start a Windows gaming thread
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>>634312538
Some stuff I'd recommend then:
>Vintage Story
>Dinkum
>Supraland
>A Short Hike
>Stardew Valley
>Tower Unite

I had more recommendations but you said "Not difficult and not frustrating"
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>>634313049
appreciated, i only know Stardew Valley from your list
will look into
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>>634312620
I'm just tired of Linux in general.
In the past month alone:
- it took me an hour to install Dolphin because I had to compile it from source which took ages to finish.
-I had to subscribe to a specific beta to even launch Garry's Mod, which ran horribly on my ancient, pre-DXVK hardware.
-I spent some time developing in LateralGM, a FOSS implementation of GM8 which is impressive, but also lacks basic functionality such as autocompletion.
- I had to install flatpak just to install PPSSPP.
- The KDE filepicker failed to show any files in a directory because there were too many (about 600 files).
While I like the look of Linux I cannot seriously convince myself that it is a better operating system than Windows. On a purely pragmatic level Windows performs and is less of a hassle to use, if only on my hardware.
I do not have a modern state of the art computer to run Linux and make the hassle lesser. So compiling Dolphin does take an hour, and Source games, even the old ones, do run like dogshit. This is non-fixable. My hardware does not support DXVK. Linux is good for old hardware, it seems -- as long as it's not too old.
I have never had this issue on Windows. A laptop, a desktop, no matter how ancient, is able to run games that period appropriate to it. My Linux laptop from 2012 cannot run games from 2004 comfortably with Direct 3D. Hence why I am going back. Linux simply does not satisfy me.
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>>634298435 (OP)
final fantasy x
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>>634313464
understandable, i won't pretend there are no issues. but i wonder, what was your distro?
not a big deal really, it's just an OS, not a religious cult (at least for the sane people)
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>>634313464
Honestly, in your position, I totally get not wanting to use linux. The reason I like linux is because I have the newer hardware necessary to run it, thus I prefer it over windows.
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I've been visiting grandma, only linux systems I've dealt with are a DVR and the router.
>>634313464
> I had to compile dolphin
What the fuck are you doing? That said, without vulkan capable hardware you won't have a good time gaming on linux, so no point in using it in your case.
>>634311861
I wonder if you'd be interested in the terribly named "videogame fables" which I doubt anyone here heard of. It's a turn based rpg (most of the time at least), thin story, some humor and nice music. No grinding necessary if you have a brain but you could always grind anyway.

I don't the know if the author fixed it, but when I played it, using the keyboard had a bit of input lag so a gamepad was preferred. I say this because, without intention of spoiling game mechanics, sometimes the game is not a turn based game, or at least not "just" a turn based game. The game took me 9 hours to beat, so you might want to wait for a sale.
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>two entirely different source ports for the two versions of Doom 3
Did they remake the game from the ground up? I never played BFG Edition back when it came out, and thought it was just the original with remastered graphics or whatever. But the fact that the two versions have separate source ports suggests that they're more different than I thought. Or maybe it would have been possible to update dhewm3 to run BFG Edition but they didn't bother because someone was already working on rbdoom3bfg. I don't know. Frankly, I never had any plans to play BFG Edition, but then I saw it was added to my Steam account at some point.
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>>634315775
On windows, there's a straight up VR port for Doom 3: BFG Edition. It was the literal only reason I own BFG edition at all, because I generally consider BFG edition to lack a lot of the soul of the original Doom 3.

I think the reason they're separate is that they run on different versions of idtech, it's probably also why mods made for Doom 3 may not work on the BFG Edition of the game.
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>>634316145
>I think the reason they're separate is that they run on different versions of idtech
I guess that makes sense.

Wow, the red cross removal is real. I never actually saw it before on my own PC.
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>>634313464
>it took me an hour to install Dolphin because I had to compile it from source which took ages to finish.
In lutris it's a one-button-click install. And generally, when you compile with gcc, pass it -j N argument to utilize multiple cores, compilation phase is perfectly parallelizable, so -j 6 will be 6 times faster than default (given you have 6 cores ofc).
>pre-DXVK hardware
no helping that, not that modern windows is much friendlier to toasters
>I had to install flatpak just to install PPSSPP
same 1 button click in lutris
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>>634313464
>- it took me an hour to install Dolphin because I had to compile it from source which took ages to finish.
https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/dolphin-emu/
>- I had to install flatpak just to install PPSSPP.
https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ppsspp/
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Still playing old WotLK on a private server. Runs flawlessly through Proton.
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celeste and modded meincraf
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i was wondering why my pirated vidya was running like absolute SHIT on lutris compared to running them as a non steam game using proton until i checked the system options and realized the vulkan loader defaulted to my cpu mesa drivers instead of my amd gpu lmao. now we r rockin
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>>634313464
>pre-vulkan crap hardware
why persist with this, even on windows
just get a desktop and get an old amd vulkan-ready gpu and it'll perform better on linux than on windows

i feel your pain with compiling shit, though it's even worse on windows, but only devs usually have to deal with it there
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>>634313464
>>634321721
I managed to play Fallout 3 and New Vegas on my old computer from 2012
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>>634298435 (OP)
Witcher 3 running on Yuzu on a Steam Deck just for fun.
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>>634322539
I once played the Xbox version of Half Life 2 just for fun like that once, even finished the game on it
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>>634298435 (OP)
Wrestling Empire on my main Mint laptop.
On my older, spare laptop, I was dualbooting Fedora KDE and Windows 10, but Windows 10 was moving too slowly and it turns out that the laptop is too old for a program that I was keeping Windows 10 around for, so I deleted the Windows 10 partitions and will probably replace it with Gentoo. I can just enter the root from my Fedora installation and just install all the Gentoo stuff right?
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>>634318891
1. I don't run Arch, and 2. I do not install random packages from whoever the fuck.
>>634321721
I don't need more, and I am not going to buy a computer for the sole purpose of running Linux. Even if games ran flawlessly on it -- which they don't, ProtonDB shows it clearly -- I still have to put up with poopy software like LateralGM.
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>>634313464
>Linux is good for old hardware, it seems -- as long as it's not too old.
If Linux being good means being able to run games with Vulkan, then yeah I guess so. My GPU from about 10 years ago is apparently just recent enough that I can get decent Vulkan support. I have to force Linux to use the amdgpu module instead of the radeon one. I can see some games logging warnings about RADV and TAHITI and stuff, so they're probably freaking out about the amdgpu support for my card being experimental or whatever, but things pretty much work.
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>>634322157
i don't know when they started making vulkan ready gpus but i do know my old r9 290 (released in 2013) was vulkan-ready
so it's entirely possible to have a decent linux experience on old hardware

>>634323875
protonDB is too simple to provide an accurate picture of the linux ecosystem
if it excluded NVIDIA gpu users, and all long term support distros like debian, and actually provided an overview of who had what problems, it would be useful, but it doesn't so it's not
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>>634324084
>NVIDIA GPU users should be excluded
>Debian users should be excluded
why? because they don't make linux gaming look artificially good? lol
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>>634324084
i just with protondb would let me hide steam deck reviews
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>>634324313
because including them is nonsense and useless to anyone who actually knows anything about what's supported on linux
NVIDIA hates linux, although apparently their newer proprietary drivers are better, so really only old NVIDIA cards need to be excluded
and debian based and other long term support distros are woefully outdated in a space that improves on a week-to-week basis
you have to be using the latest graphics drivers with the latest versions of wine/proton with the latest versions of dxvk and vkd3d-proton
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>>634313464
>Linux is good for old hardware, it seems -- as long as it's not too old
Well I have a Toshiba Satellite from 2009 and it can run Linux a hell of a lot better than Windows 10.
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>troonix
>games
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>>634324598
>you have to be using the latest graphics drivers with the latest versions of wine/proton with the latest versions of dxvk and vkd3d-proton
For what?
I use Linux Mint and Proton has a good track record of running games on my PC. You don't need very latest driver updates except maybe to get one more frame per second or occasionally to fix a specific thing in a game that you might not even play.
The real problem with stable distros, and especially their derivatives, is that the package manager will install old versions of programs -- e.g., last time I checked, Mint's version of Protontricks is broken because of a Steam client update months ago and you need to install Protontricks with pipx instead of apt -- but this problem doesn't apply to the Steam client which handles its own updates or Proton which is updated through Steam. Steam (including Proton) works just fine on Mint, and even if it didn't, you could probably resort to using the (otherwise useless) Flatpak version or whatever.
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>>634326147
khronos is specifically targeting dxvk with a lot of the new vulkan extensions
every vulkan revision, every mesa update, every dxvk update improves performance and compatibility
like graphics pipeline libraries are about to hit stable (which are huge for eliminating shader compilation stutter, a big problem with games targeting old graphics APIs and with poorly designed renderers targeting the new ones) and working on some vulkan extension that enables ordering fragment operations which apparently is good for directx emulation
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>>634313464
I like that pretty much all of those issues can be fixed by simply running an arch-based distro on hardware that is less than 10 years old
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>>634327897
>problems already acknowledged as being caused by old hardware can be fixed with new hardware
No way!
>>634326593
Even so, excluding stable distro users from ProtonDB is ridiculous. The whole point is to capture compatibility across different hardware and OS configurations. Furthermore, a lot of people do use stable distros, no matter how hard you seethe about it, and those people who don't feel like dealing with unstable crap may want to play video games anyway; thus the data about Proton performance on stable distros is valuable. If you're going to have a tantrum about people not gaming in the most optimal way, then you might as well be telling them to use Windows.
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>>634329631
i suppose so
but excluding idiots trying to run games on shit like nvidia cards old enough that their proprietary drivers are bad or any nvidia cards using the shitty open source ones is still paramount
>If you're going to have a tantrum about people not gaming in the most optimal way, then you might as well be telling them to use Windows.
window's isn't actually optimal for gaming on AMD cards though, RADV drivers usually outperform the windows ones
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>>634313464
>it took me an hour to install Dolphin because I had to compile it from source which took ages to finish.
What? Why did you had to compile it from source? I never did that.......
>I had to subscribe to a specific beta to even launch Garry's Mod, which ran horribly on my ancient, pre-DXVK hardware.
Unfortunately, that's the curse of ancient hardware with modern software.
>I had to install flatpak just to install PPSSPP.
Why not using Lutris or Retroarch for that? They do that work for you.
>The KDE filepicker failed to show any files in a directory because there were too many (about 600 files).
I'd chalk it up to a KDE bug, but I'd never had that problem.
I think I can sum up your problems with your own words:
>My hardware does not support DXVK. Linux is good for old hardware, it seems -- as long as it's not too old.
Linux is good if you want to use some really old hardware instead of e-waste it, but you can't expect good compatibility with modern standards and requirements, that's not really how things works.
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>>634326593
You can install all of that manually on Mint, stop pretending that people don't target Ubuntu 22.04 specifically.
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>>634330096
I just want to be able to comment on reports or, forgive me, upvote and downvote them. Because regardless of hardware or distro, there are some shitty-ass reports. I play a game, see a bug, change the configuration (older Proton or launch option), see the bug is fixed, and write a tinker report sharing how to make the game work properly. Then other people come along and write new reports, sometimes even tinker reports because they blindly use Proton-GE for everything, in which they acknowledge the bug they haven't fixed but say "oh well" and give a thumbs-up anyway. They're essentially recommending the wrong configuration, and ProtonDB just sorts chronologically so the right answer is buried. If I can't add comments like "that bug you mentioned is fixable and here's how", then I should at least be able to help get the helpful reports (not just my own lol) floated to the top. Yes it is a big deal because the Linux community, having refused to embrace and contribute to PC Gaming Wiki for some fucking reason, instead tells newbies use ProtonDB to find out how to get games working on Linux. At best, they have to scroll past garbage to find what they need. At worst, they stop scrolling at the first thumbs-up report which is often garbage.
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>>634325658
Cope
t. straight white cis male Linux gamer
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>a gentoo is a kind of penguin
Fuck, it took me way too long to realize this.
I just assumed Gentoo was a made-up word like Debian or a foreign word like Ubuntu, and never looked it up.
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>>634324084
I don't thing exclusion is needed, but having the option to filter by distro and GPU would be nice
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>>634298435 (OP)
Dark and darker playtest
who bard here?
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>>634335214
All I know about the game is that there's a lawsuit so I guess it's just free publicity for them unless they lose. However I don't even know the genre. Is it something like a Dark Souls clone? If so, can I jump right into it without being an obsessive fan of the genre?
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>>634298435 (OP)
none cause video games do not run on linux
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>>634336979
It's an extraction shooter without guns, instead you get DnD classes. There is always people with you, one of the maps you can form a party but the other one everyone enters alone
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Be sure to support your favorite FOSS projects!
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>>634337547
Ah okay, not what I thought. So I guess it's primarily (or exclusively) multiplayer.
My brother expressed some interest in it so maybe I'll install it if he does. I'm not sure if my shitty old computer can run it, though, regardless of Wine/Proton compatibility.
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>>634333245
Dilate
t. FreeBSD chad
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>>634339261
Yeah, it's so multiplayer, though note that the maps also have a bunch of mobs
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>>634298435 (OP)
Anyone played FreeDOOM? How is it in comparison to regular DOOM?
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>>634337174
If you really want me to post screenshots of games running on GNU/Linux, you could just ask...
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>>634341197
It plays almost identically to doom gameplay wise from my recollection, it just has that off-brand cereal aspect to it.
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>>634341546
That's kind of what I figured, I'm not a huge Doom player or anything but I look at the sprites and just think:
>something's wrong about this
but if it plays the same and has appropriate animations & music it's OK in my book.
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Stop gaming on Linux, you're giving the computer viruses Anon.
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>linux
>gaming
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>>634341197
>>634341546
The mechanics are identical to Doom by necessity, because the whole point is that it's Doom-compatible, i.e. you can play Doom maps with it. Basically it's a set of replacements for Doom's proprietary/copyrighted assets (sprites, sounds, and maps) to be used with Doom's engine (which is already free).
I don't actually like the visual design very much, but I still appreciate it for what it is.
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>>634341827
Again, if you want screenshots of games running on GNU/Linux, just ask for them.
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i dont understand the point of these threads to be honest
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>>634298435 (OP)
Persona 5
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What is the best way to use Proton without Steam?
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>>634341197
yeah it's just an iwad replacement.

it's useful if you're making a total conversion.
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>>634342089
Scroll up. See the discussion that already happened before you started shitposting? That was the point.
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>>634341382
>>634342085
sorry sweaty, not FotM zoomer trash so it doesn't count. Better luck next time!
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>>634342185
lutris with the wine-ge builds, easy to keep up to date with protonup-qt
if I understand correctly, proton is not really well usable outside of steam, but I don't know any details, probably missing wine components provided by steam in some way
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>>634335214
got the torrent link? was deleted from their twatter. please no dolphin porn thanks.
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>>634342545
nvm found it
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>>634313464
At first I thought you meant the file manager Dolphin lmao
Not sure about your exact GPU, but pre-Vulcan probably means you're also shit out of luck with any later DX versions
plus the rest of your hardware is probably going to suffer with Windows
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Why haven't you updated to OpenMW 0.49? 
Don't know how to compile it? Should have installed Gentoo.
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Halo Reach from MCC works now, it crashes if you alt tab sometimes but eh, thats to be expected if you are using Nvidia
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>>634343307
funnily enough the last time I tried the openmw ebuild it errored
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>>634343307
will they ever port this to vulkan?
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>>634307953
>>634305692
I played it for about an hour or so.
As expected, it did not impress me that much. "Cute" is the most accurate word I can come up with it.
People buying GPUs for RT gaming performance are utterly mentally handicapped.

>>634311152
That'd be great, but not technically possible.

>>634312538
>>634311861
Not sure if it's on Linux, but give Outer Wilds and Disco Elysium a try.
Both can be interpreted as grim, but not necessarily, I'd say.
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>>634342370
https://github.com/gloriouseggroll/proton-ge-custom
>Proton runs in a container, which uses a runtime environment and libraries specifically built for use within that container. Not running it as intended results in the container and therefore its runtime not being used, and severely breaks library compatibility.

>It causes wine to search for libraries on your system instead of those it was built with/intended for within proton.

>It may work, if enough libraries match, but it is not correct and not supportable due to library differences across distros.
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>>634343707
huh maybe I should have simply read this before but thanks anon for posting it
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>>634343592
No.
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How are the Nvidia drivers on Linux?
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>>634323875
>>634313464
What do you do with your PC that hardware from 2012 is sufficient for you?
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>>634344034
good enough, not as good as they could be if they were open source
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>>634341784
My parents are on linux anyway
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>>634344034
Getting better, but I wouldn't trust them if you're an one of their older GPUs. They've fucked them over in the past and will most likely do so again in the future.
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Desperately trying to find a distro better for me than Fedora and I cannot find it. I'm going to have to use an OS named Fedora fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
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>>634345740
what does Fedora do better for you?
never used it, so curious
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>>634345817
Linux is actually much simpler than Windows. 

Linux is like driving manual rather than automatic. The mechanics are much more simple but you need to understand what you're doing.
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>>634342323
>sweaty
But I'm not. My house has air conditioning.
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>>634345817
>calling Linux needlessly complex anno 2023
Smug retards owning themselves is always a lark. Thanks anon
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>>634343451
Does the actual matchmaking multiplayer (not campaign) work now or still cockblocked by EAC?
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>>634345809
Just works
Not a rolling release but has a release every 6 months so you're mostly getting the latest software without having to constantly update and risking breakages
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>>634346345
I played some infection games just fine
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>>634346885
i've only ever used rolling release distros personally, point release (LTS) for some work-related servers
if that's all then I guess I don't see why any other point release wouldn't satisfy your needs
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>they fell for the linux meme
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>>634298435 (OP)
Team Fortress 2
Ace Combat 4
Binding of Isaac
DMC3SE Switch
Vampire Survivors
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>>634347118
thanks for the bump, gamer
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PoE of Exile. It's amazing how good Proton is, the game just works. I do wonder though if a native Linux version would run better in the most intensive parts. They oddly have a Mac version.
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>>634347118
>he fell for the "linux meme" meme
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>>634298435 (OP)
Linux is just a windows that runs less games but let you use the machine as you see fit.
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Is there any way to get freesync working on xorg with multiple monitors, without totally disabling all but one?
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>>634348203
i just enable tearfree for both of mine
as far as I know its all fine
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>>634348161
>filters not only people who are bad at computers but also people who have bad taste in games
good
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>>634345817
I'm a retard that's how I know linux is easy.
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>>634342323
>zoomer
I'm zooming FOTM over here.
>inb4 flatpak
the shit I want from AUR is fucked atm
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>>634352003
>Chicago95
based
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>>634298435 (OP)
>video games
>linux
>sudo pacman -Syu
>libinput package upgrade
>package is bugged as hell
>sensitivity now through the roof
>now aim is way off in first person shooters
...
>linux
>video games
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>>634352003
>the shit I want from AUR is fucked atm
what exactly is fucked? had to use steam via flatpak for a while cause eac bullshit happened
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>>634298435 (OP)
Replayed hotline miami 
Been playing P3 FES for a while now.
Dropped Ghostrunner since its first boss was utter frustrating garbage.
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>>634352596
pebkac
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>>634352596
>sudo pacman -S downgrade
Here you go bro, now give me a (you)
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>>634298435 (OP)
Binding of Isaac which i guess im stuck playing for the rest of my fucking life, on Arch.
I also got ALVR on my quest 2 to play blade and sorcery which im not exaggerating has been a flawless experience save for having to launch the game from steam and not within the headset
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>>634345817
Linux has so many guides it's not even difficult. I think I would rather install gentoo than troubleshoot Windows.
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>>634353637
>windows wont let you log in because it has to bing search, download, and apply the "PICTURE OF THE DAY" 
VERY COOL, BILL!
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Still haven't managed to get bf2hub to work. Anyone by chance had more success with that?
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>>634298435 (OP)
So Linuxbros this is just something I was wondering about, what is the current roadmap for Linux gaming? I know about anti-cheat but I don't care for online games, what is left for Linux-Windows gaming parity?
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>>634352596
>>libinput package upgrade
>>package is bugged as hell
If you don't want untested updates then use a more stable distro.
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>>634354482
its mostly anticheat and devs not using windows proprietary video codecs, thats about it
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>>634352642
Green with envy was the most notable one.
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>>634341382
>Norman
Brother
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No gonna lie steam deck show me how one should set up arch no only for gaming but also production, only use the main package for core PC functions, the for heavy programs with GUI use flatpack, and nix package for terminal base programs, fuck the AUR
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>>634354482
Pretty much 3 things, at least for me personally
>Better anticheat support
>SteamVR on Linux needs a lot of love from valve till it reaches feature parity with the windows version and has Motion Smoothing, it's ridiculous that you have to launch it through proton to even access the SteamVR Home SDK
>Nvidia works well with Wayland

Outside of those 3 things, for me, Linux gaming is so there that for non VR games I have not run into a game yet that I play which does not work on linux. The worst that I have run into is having no sound on Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, which was then promptly fixed by using Proton GE. The other problem I ran into is that modding is slightly more complicated on Linux due to the way prefixes work, but SteamTinkerLaunch streamlines the process enough for me that it's not a deal breaker, even though I really wish setting up something like, say, BetterSADX for Sonic Adventure DX was simpler. 

Something I've noticed about gaming on linux as a relatively new user is that outside of anticheat there's never been outright roadblocks, just inconveniences here and there as I learn the new way of doing things. I think the general overall experience of using KDE Plasma and the Terminal though far out-value the inconveniences though to the point that I would happily put up with them, though I see why linux wouldn't be for everyone and how those inconveniences might be a bridge too far, so if someone says they don't want to deal with it, I respect that, as long as they respect that I prefer linux over windows.
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>>634355375
>proton prefixes
im sure some nerd will love to tell me how im retarded and that having an individual prefix for EVERY SINGLE GAME is ideal, but id really prefer if the prefixes were based around the proton version or some shit. Having to look up a games appid and then navigate a fake C:/ just seems so stupid when you have more than 10 games installed
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>>634355734
Well, I'll be that nerd and say that I like prefixes because they ensure that nothing is fucking around with each other inside of that prefix, and that you can set up an environment tailor made to run a game best without cluttering the rest of your system's file structure like how on windows a lot of shit you do clutters up %appdata% and Documents which pisses me off.
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>>634355938
I just wish there was another way....so many fuckin folders!
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>>634356065
I'd rather have those folders neatly arranged as individual prefixes so I could go LASER FOCUS into the game and it's mods instead of having it all clutter up in one "prefix" that is my windows system personally.

Also, I forgot to mention
>If I'm playing weebshit that requires a japanese locale, I don't have to fucking set my ENTIRE SYSTEM to a japanese locale which turns \ into ¥ in the command line and changes the font, I can just use LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 %command% in an individual prefix without it fucking with the rest of my system
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>>634298435 (OP)
Going through a playthrough of Div 2 with a buddy.
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Hey how I can connect a huion drawing tablet for making games on linux.
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>>634356971
I wish someone would make a KDE Breeze-esque theme for steam the way Adwaita steam exists.
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>buy monhun rise on the latest sale
>picrel
>mfw I have no face
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>>634357083
Well, it does have a Breeze colortheme, but yeah you're stuck with Adwaita-isms.
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>>634348203
2.1.1 https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate
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>>634357210
works on my masheen
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Can anyone help me with setting up a dualsense controller in Bottles? I can get it to work just fine Lutris (if I disable Lutris Runtime). I've tried installing xinput, the xboxdrv config from arch wiki and just running it normally. The problem is that the right joystick gets stuck in the top left part. I'm using endeveourOS with kde and wayland.
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>>634345817
fixed it for you, linux user
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>>634361204
if this is the cost of keeping microsoft out of my house then so be it
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>>634345817
>>634361204
>Stackoverflow answers be like
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>>634361204
>using tldr instead of man.png
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>>634354557
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I've played at least a handful of games where videos are straight up skipped, which is a shame.

>>634355375
Nice to see someone seeing Linux gaming as it really is. I myself don't play VR games nor online, in fact I mostly play old obscure games and I've had maybe a little less than a dozen that simply didn't work on Linux unfortunately, but Wine developers are very eager to fix whatever you report and answer questions (the community is also really good at this, but I've had a few "lol just code the feature yourself" fags which I despise).