Linux Gaming

Any wireless headphones people would recommend?

I currently have a pair of Arctis 7Xs that I use the Xbox adapter with while dual booting windows - I'd like to find something that isn't so finicky and works with both OSes (mostly so I can boot into Windows less...) while also working over 2.4Ghz for low latency.

Bonus points if you can also connect a phone other Bluetooth

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

[my old post about 'will hdr work']

You guys motivated me enough to finally give it a go. I was sooooooo deep into windows, a third of the daily tools used were my own, i got every certificate possible from M$, i always defended them blahblahblah. So I expected a hard and long transition to Linux on my main-rig. Installed it (CachyOS) on another HDD to leave win for dual-boot, even made a VM out of it in case I were too lazy to boot win.... And 3 months later, i have not booted it once and never needed the VM either.

99% of everything i needed works, my own tools were kinda already there or could be substituted. Every game works, HDR works, only one tool (MediaMonkey) gives me headaches but that's it. Why have i waited that long.

My point? None. Just thanks for good advice :)

This is the stand alone version of the game from the Elder Scrolls Online website, not steam. Using Kubuntu 24.04

So this issue came up earlier and I decided to hide my head in the sand and just not update Lutris(flatpak) from 5.18, something (gf didn't see exactly what) inside lutris updated on tuesday (one of the bottom left options between flatpak and windows) and 5.18 stopped working and started acting like paragraph below, there is no more sand since the forced update.

As of Lutris 5.2 my gf cannot enter login info on the screen, moving the mouse over any other buttons on the screen work (they light up and do what they should when clicked like quit), I can find no work around online. I reinstalled ESO last night and the new install went smoothly but does the same thing.

So, I tried to install it in bottles but got a "host_ieversion error" which turns out to mean the version of IE is incompatible. How would I go about installing a version of IE8 (the one they supposedly want) or above in bottles to get the install working there? Is IE8 enough or should a version of edge be installed instead? Would I just use the "run application" (top option in bottles config) and run the ie/edge installer before running the eso installer? Would Heroic launcher be a better choice for this game (only looked at Lutris and Bottles so far)? Would the .deb versions of these launchers be better than flatpak?

Also tried to install in steam as a non-steam game but it wouldn't even launch the installer, but thinking about it now (it was late) I think I forgot to turn compatibility (in steam) on so that is a fail on my side, gf doesn't use steam (just made an account last night) and never has so getting it working this way is the final option.

Proton:

• wine bleeding-edge updated

• dxvk updated

• vkd3d-proton updated

• vkd3d updated

• dxvk-nvapi updated

• fex updated

• pulled in upstream misc proton script fixes

• pulled in upstream steam_helper fixes

Patches:

• NEW: Added new wineopenvr patches to allow VR to work outside of steam for non-steam games (examples such as GOG version of ProjectWingman, Overload, Star Citizen). Compatibility tested using Meta Quest 3 with WiVRn. To use, setup WiVRn, then launch games with the additional environment variables WiVRn instructs. Tested flatpak system and user modes as well as standalone package install.

• NEW: Rebased em10/wine-wayland patches, should have some new dead-key fixes.

• Patch added to fix Star Citizen EAC warning popup

• More winepulse patches from Vyrolian

• NEW: Added new umu.exe that works the same way steam.exe does -- this is used now instead of the standard wine start.exe, it should help some 3rd party launchers work better by making them run the same way steam runs them.

Protonfixes:

• add vcrun2022 to fix star citizen 3221225477 code error

• upscalers: add version 4.0.3 of amdxcffx64.dll

• upscalers: add v4.1.0 amdxcffx64.dll

• fix: Assetto Corsa CM missing dotnet 4.8 prompts

• utilities: keep DXVK_FRAME_RATE and VKD3D_FRAME_RATE in the proton environment

• upscalers: add url check and automatic fallback for amdxcffx64.dll

• Do not show the zenity dialog when running the winetricks gui

• Add demo save import for Planet Crafter

• fix: add early stage fixes to run when the module is imported

• utils: do not try to access g_session when in {del,set}_environment if it's not instantiated

• gamefix: set gamedrive early for Duet Night Abyss

• gamefixes: set game drive for Zenless Zone Zero early

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55388559

I made the mistake of believing some dumb guide online that recommended the Razer BlackShark v2 Pro for Linux. Literally the volume control is broken out of the box lol.

I just want a wireless headset. For listening to audio. And a mic. Don't care for fancy features. Apparently too much to ask for a linux user.

What are y'all using and how is it working for you?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38617525

This DKMS module allows you to overclock some USB devices by overriding their endpoints' bInterval values in the device descriptors – if the device physically allows you to poll it at higher frequency and will give you more data.

Back on Windows this (with the same method) was rather trivial using the "hidusbf" program. And ever since moving to Linux I was pretty annoyed I didn't have a similarly simple enough way of doing the same thing. So basically I guess I had no choice but to make one.

And the module allows doing that for theoretically any USB device without patching and re-compiling the kernel. Installation instructions are in the README (there's .deb, .rpm and AUR packages):

https://github.com/p0358/usb_oc-dkms

So let me know what you think, and if you managed to overclock any gamepads or other devices, or want to try.

geteilt von: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/54623764

Hey, on Windows I was a cFos Speed user for ages. cfosspeed is a 3rd party QoS software, which helped a lot for having a low latency even when bandwith is used up. I could easily play latency-sensitive games while having downloads running.

Now with Bazzite, I recognized how much good work cfos did. I had Heroic Games Launcher download a game, and play Rocket League via Steam at the same time - and ping was bad.

Is there any best practice for QoS on Bazzite? cFos basically did two things:

• Prioritize acks over new packets
• Prioritize packets known for gaming (e.g. due to used ports)

Love Flatout 2, but it is getting old. Wreckfest is a really good alternative, but sadly the devs won`t add nitro. Nitro makes for spectacular crashes, opportunity to catch up if you are lagging behind, and generally just makes car games more fun and less predictable!

Does anyone know if there exists any nitro mod for Wreckfest?

Anyone know how to get Flatout 2 Lan gaming to work? It used to work earlier (1;5years ago), but now I don't find any of my Windows-friends when searching for LAN games.

(Disabled firewall, tried different wine versions. Tried Steam version, tried Gog version. Game works fine, but can't find anyone else on LAN and nobody finds my if I try to host).

An exciting new announcement is the formation of the Open Gaming Collective, a collaborative organisation between many names in the Linux sphere.

no idea if this is a recent development, but stumbled upon the info. you can run wine games on wayland directly, as opposed to the default, running it through Xwayland translation.

what you need to do is clear the DISPLAY variable. I use lutris, so I add it like so:

mangohud reports "wayland", without the line it's "xwayland", so it works. the results for the few games I play are awesome - no resolution issues, no alt-tab glitchings, no launch multiple times before it starts... didn't run any benchmarks as it's already maxed out at 60 fps on Ultra. but so far, very cool!

Hello fellow Linux gamers! I have the mentioned problem while using a Lutris fullscreen game (Sims 2). This problem is when i use Lutris' WineGE 8.26 but not when i use the systems Wine 9.0. Sadly my game runs like shit with 9.0. I can't find anything on the internet regarding this problem, except a 3 year old Reddit post that has no comments. Does anybody know how I can possibly fix this?

Proton:

• wine updated to latest bleeding edge

• dxvk updated to latest git

• dxvk-nvapi updated to latest git

• vkd3d updated to latest git

• vkd3d-proton updated to latest git

• FEX updated to upstream version

• vrclient upstream changes imported

• wineopenxr upstream changes imported

• make + Makefile upstream changes imported

• zst build result removed as it is no longer used/needed (originally built for umu)

Protonfixes:

• build fixed to allow aarch64 compilation

• controller fix for ds4 in bioshock 2 remastered/classic

• controller fix for ds4 in dragons dogma: dark arisen

• gamedrive option enabled and libglesv2 disabled under wayland for duet night abyss

• upscalers: add support for upgrading libxess_dx11.dll

• fix added for Dark Earth save game error

• remove incorrect GTA IV fix for Independence FM. Game works fine without it when using supported audio formats. https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/commit/2a348a2ed328221a22a143b72e9d4da0267356c8

Patches:

• em-10/wine-wayland patches updated

Hi, I've got a weird issue and figured I'd see if anybody knows how to fix it. I've noticed that most of my steam games that have linux native support just crash immediately when I try to run them. Running with Proton works just fine, but I was wondering if my system might be missing something obvious I need to run linux native games?

The latest one I was trying to play was Pyre. I tried looking through the logs, but couldn't find anything obvious to me.

Edit: Whatever it is, it looks like its not something simple, but that is okay because everything seems to work fine with proton anyway. Thanks for the help anyway! :)

I'm currently on PopOS 22 and I'm in the mood to try something different. I mostly game but I do need my system to have support for the everyday tasks I sometimes need to do, so I fell bazzite is a no go.

I see a lot of people recommending Cachy, will it be a smooth experience for someone used to linux? Is Endeavour a better choice? Will I have issued with my PS3 eye camera and x52 stick?

I am basically looking for a bulk download utility to back up my GOG library and keep it in sync. Something like Rsync for GOG. Any suggestions?

I'm so done with win11, and currently 12 of my 15 machines are linux anyway, but AFAIK HDR (on nvidia gpu) is still impossible? Are you guys all on AMD or just not using hdr for gaming/media? So instead of relying on outdated info, just asking the pros :)

I have a fedora server running sway and sunshine. I'm having a problem where this rule (https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/blob/8765bbf050a18dcaf441851e5e52505a6c709c48/src_assets/linux/misc/60-sunshine.rules) isn't firing, so the controller stays with root permissions instead of belonging to the input group and it messes things up. I'm not sure why it wont fire that rule.

Running Kubuntu atm but looking to see if I can get more out of my hardware. I booted up Cachy last night from ISO and it took barely any of my ram, 3gb I think, for the test I was going to install Steam and link to my existing game library mounting my kubuntu drive. My VR experience is quite acceptable at the moment, but it could be better. I get occasional stutters and sometimes I am put into the steamVR environment for a second if I turn too fast, I am hoping a more up to date kernel could help. Using the steam system monitor shows that when this happens my CPU/GPU/RAM are never close to being at 100% often at or less than 75% usage each, though the FPS is often around 40 - 60 (og vive headset, on windows rarely went above 50fps often down to 30). Hardware is Ryzen9 9950X and Radeon RX 9070XT OC. So the questions are:

1. Will everything just "work" as stated? Install steam, link to steam library for games (I expect these to just work, downloading for a one off test will take a long time on a problem game of 15+gb) and steamvr (this is my kinda concern, though it should be small enough to install in ram if necessary)?
2. I have 64gb ram, will this run similarly to being properly installed on an m.2 drive?
3. Is there anything I should look out for when doing this?

Any tips, suggestions, or links would be appreciated. I am not at my pc but should be able to answer most questions.

Asking here as this IS gaming related, but if another place would be better I will move the post there.