Valve launched the latest upgrade to Proton Experimental, their staging ground for all the latest fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS.

What is Proton Experimental? It's like a staging ground for faster updates to their Windows -> Linux compatibility layer for gaming. There's a bit less testing, and sometimes there's breakages. But eventually after a while all the updates get rolled out to a numbered Proton version like the latest stable version being Proton 10.0-4. See more about all the Proton versions in the GamingOnLinux guide.

For the April 10th Proton Experimental update they noted newly playable titles include:

Resident Evil (1996).
Resident Evil 2 (1998).
Dino Crisis.
Dino Crisis 2.
Universe Generator: The Golden Sword.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45177190

If we remove them from the survey, this leaves us with 75% of 5.33%, which is something around 3.96%.

I think the 5.33% is a bug, 3.96% sounds more realistic and in line with the growth linux was having before.

I think this is an error on the survey. Was anybody able to talk to Valve about this? I forgot which email to send this question to.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Something is brewing on the RetroDECK Blog!

One of the most requested features is coming in 0.11.0!

This problem started to happen recently (maybe 2 ~ 3 months ago).

When I'm playing any game slightly demanding (such as counter strike 2), my laptop will randomly start spinning its fans really fast and loudly and my fps drops from 100 to 70 ~ 60.

This only stops when I restart my laptop.

Does anybody know what might be causing it? This is my pacman -Qe | grep nvidia output:

lib32-nvidia-utils 595.58.03-1
nvidia-hook 1.5-2
nvidia-inst 24-1
nvidia-open 595.58.03-2
nvidia-settings 595.58.03-1

And here's my fastfetch output

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: Nitro AN517-54 (V1.20)
Kernel: Linux 6.19.10-arch1-1
Uptime: 7 mins
Packages: 1401 (pacman), 23 (flatpak)
Shell: zsh 5.9
Display (AUOB39E): 1920x1080 @ 1.25x in 17", 144 Hz [Built-in]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.3
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: konsole 25.12.3
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400H (12) @ 4.50 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile [Discrete]
GPU 2: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.45 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 4.92 GiB / 15.39 GiB (32%)
Swap: 0 B / 16.94 GiB (0%)

Added support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension.

Now we just wait for it to get implemented in Proton to finally have decent DX12 performance on Nvidia on Linux.

I have a wired Xbox 360 controller ^[1.1]^ that has some drift in both analog sticks ^[1]^. I would like to calibrate the deadzones ^[2]^ to fix this issue. How do you recommend doing this? I didn't see any controller calibration option in the KDE Plasma controller settings ^[1]^.

Proton:

• update latest wine bleeding-edge
• update latest dxvk
• update latest dxvk-nvapi
• update latest vkd3d-proton
• update latest vkd3d
• update latest FEX
• import proton script game fixes from upstream
• import aarch64 build changes from upstream

Protonfixes:

• added protonfix for god of war ragnarok playstation sdk error
• added protonfix to disable hidraw and enable sdl for gta v
• added protonfix for GOG version of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
• added protonfix for cpu topology for Assassin's Creed 1

Patches:

patches: Enable .exe dynamic relocation. For XIV specifically, this fixes issues with low address space being filled up by everyone and everything and, as a result, some plugins failing to apply their hooks and leaving the game in an unstable state.

New Features:

• add new PROTON_WAYLAND_MONITOR to allow easier setting of WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR

• attempt to detect and set primary monitor if wayland is enabled and no primary is set

How these work:

You can now specify something like PROTON_WAYLAND_MONITOR=HDMI-A-1 to specify which monitor the wine-wayland driver uses when enabling wayland. Previously you could already do this using WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR, but it wasn't documented. PROTON_WAYLAND_MONITOR is now an easier to remember envvar for setting that value. Additionally by default if no WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR is set when enabling wine-wayland, GE-Proton will now attempt to use xrandr to detect the default primary monitor set by the desktop environment, and if found, display on that monitor, just like xwayland does.

Hi Friends,

I've been replaying Homefront lately. Its a great game, but has a very short storyline.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/55100/Homefront/

What I like most:

• intense firefights, giant explosions
• good storyline
• genuinely horrifying atmosphere with mass graves, rubble everywhere, a horrifying police state with North Koreans occupying the US. It's not hard to feel like a resistance fighter protecting your homeland
• linear gameplay with a balance of brute force and tactics, skewed towards making things go boom
• not set too far in the future, no giant humanoid mech robots
• abundant ammo
• runs on Linux with no stupid sign-ins or subscriptions beyond Steam

I've done some poking around online and it sounds like Ghost Recon: Wildlands hits a few of those points and might suit me.

I can search for alternatives myself, but I'm really looking for some recommendations from real people

Hardware requirements shouldn't be an issue, and I don't object to slightly older games either, especially if they're just old enough that I can scoop up the game and DLC in one bundle.

Other games I liked:

• Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
• Blood and Bacon
• Crysis

I appreciate any recommendations you give me.

Bug bounties are cash rewards for finding bugs. Has anyone done a crowdsourced bounty for adding a feature to linux? E.g., driver support for a certain peripheral. If enough people want it, and drop $10 each, seems like it would quickly become worth it for someone to code a fix.

Been trying to setup Nord VPN on my steam deck

Unsupported config so they wouldnt give me a flatpak script

open to suggestions, even from non hosers

If you're trying to play Death Stranding 2 and are getting this error. This is due to something with the DX12 -> Vulkan DirectX Raytracing translation (DXR) layer.

In order to have the game launch, disable it by adding to your launch options:

VKD3D_CONFIG=nodxr

This will disable raytracing and revert to rasterization. Wayland/HDR work fine.

Hi I'm trying to install #Batocera to the Laptop SSD (Dell Latitude 5491). I disabled secure boot and set it to ACHI (or something like that). I can live boot from the USB drive but the installer only works with Ethernet (5GHz internet connection) and gets stuck at 0%. Since when does a linux distro need a network connection to install itself on the system?