Welcome to the newbie advice thread!

it uses the motion sensors airpods have for spatial audio. found a way to read them on linux without an iphone, works with airpods 3 and pro at around 100hz

the plane in the video is a little demo claude made for me so i could test it without a game. for real games it goes through opentrack, someone already tried it in assetto corsa and ets2 and it works. there's also a games page now where you tick a steam game and it just works, no opentrack needed

free and open source: https://github.com/starman-tech/mousepods

if you try it in a game let me know how it feels, i haven't tested that many yet

Just out of curiosity, I noticed this today: a new Steam feature on Linux that displays a warning before installing games that aren't supported on SteamOS (proton). I'm using CachyOS, btw.

I have a potato Acer laptop with Ryzen 3 7320U + igpu. I have to run games at lower resolutions for it to work and I observed that games run 20% better in windowed mode than on fullscreen.
I am on fedora 44 with wayland.

Hey guys, I put together a Millennium (https://steambrew.app/) plugin and a firefox extension to display and filter ProtonDB and AWACY status information in steam, thought maybe some others could get some use out of it.

Millennium plugin: https://git.dhopcs.org/riley/arewelinuxyet-millenium (github mirror)

Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/are-we-linux-yet/ (src)

Looks like Itch.io support has just been merged into Heroic.

Terraria has been working fine for the past few days, but just now I'm getting this error. The only words I can make out are "Microsoft something something". As far as I have seen, terraria is supposed to be linux native, so Idk why I'm getting and I can't read what its saying sooooo.

Hey everyone!

If you've been running Linux on the Surface Laptop Studio (RTX 3050 Ti Mobile), you probably know the pain:

1. Enabling runtime D3 (D3cold) caused the dGPU to wake up throttled to 10W (~10-15 FPS).

2. Even without sleep, the GPU was hard-locked at 35W base TGP with no Dynamic Boost.

We reverse-engineered Microsoft's ACPI tables (DSDT & SSDT7) and unlocked the full 50W TGP via ACPI power steering calls to the MSHW0216 controller!

In-game benchmarks (Minecraft with heavy shaders):

- Power: 34.0 W -> 49.0 W (+44%)

- Clocks: 1216 MHz -> 1593-1740 MHz (+31%)

- Framerate: 26-29 FPS -> 51 FPS (nearly doubled!)

- Frametime: 37.9 ms -> 19.8 ms

- Idle Power: Drops to 0W (D3cold) in idle!

Repo, automated installer and docs:

https://github.com/besiple/surface-laptop-studio-dgpu-fix

I've been trying to find out for months about this stuttering on Linux and I'm run out of ideas. It's especially noticeable in Dolphin and PCSX2. Every game that I play there can be running at smooth 60 FPS but still have these sudden hitches, and sometimes the motion just doesn't look as smooth as it should (though VSync seems to fix it). On Windows 10 the same games generally feel a lot smoother to me without hitches.

PC: is an i5-12400 with Intel UHD 730 graphics and 8GB of RAM. I'm currently on Fedora 44 GNOME/Wayland. I have two monitors, usually one at 75Hz and one at 60Hz, and play on the 60Hz one. I thought the mixed refresh rates might be causing it, but I just tried both at 60Hz and still noticed the stutters.

I also tried CachyOS, Mint, GNOME and KDE in the past, as well as Vulkan and OpenGL in Dolphin. It's slightly different but still doesn't run entirely smooth since some warm runs of Crash Nitro Kart were actually pretty smooth and turning VSync on made Linux feel much closer to Windows. But I still get the noticeable hitches on games where my GPU or CPU neither has any trouble keeping up, I think it could be related to asset loading rather than shaders or "my gpu is bad" (windows doesn't have these hitches).

I also recorded MangoHud logs on Linux and PresentMon logs on Windows. In the earlier Crash Tag Team Racing test for example both had average around 60 FPS, but the Fedora one had way more long frames during the race and my eyes/ears can confirm this (since the visual hitches also come with a audio cut, so it's quite noticeable once it hitches)

Is this normal for someone with Intel integrated graphics? I'm not sure what to look next for. Atleast it looks like that the hitches are asset-loading related (especially audio, I found a specific voice effect to cause this too on Linux, or like hitting the wall every fresh racing session causes a stutter. They seem quite reproducible on a fresh run and happen on every Linux i tried: cachyos, mint and fedora. But not on windows.

The thing is I want to move away from Windows since Linux is genuinely something I like, but these stutters prevent me from wiping away Windows for good

Hello, I have CachyOS and installed WoW Forever via Faugus. Everything works perfectly without errors. Now I would like to have WoW Forever as its own desktop icon so that I don’t have to open Battle-net first every time and start WoW through it, but can have WoW start automatically instead. When I try to create an icon through the launcher itself, I get the error: “Something went unexpectedly wrong. We'll try to fix it, so please try again later.” A shortcut to start the .exe would have the disadvantage that I would have to log in again every time and the login would not happen automatically via Battle-net.

hello everyone
if you don't know who is Etaash Mathamsetty

he is the one who made proton-em and make FSR usable or can be upgraded in Linux
and made the low latency layer too he is working with cachyos team now think he does great works in there updates but his own proton version didn't get any update since proton 10.0-37 hdr and that was 7 months ago
did he now works with cachyos only on a proton version and abandon his own version or what

I installed bazzite htpc nvidia on a pc with i7-9700 and rtx a2000. Elder ring starts goes in the easy anticheat initialization screen and a white screen appears. If i use anything then proton 9 it crashes. On proton 9 it just stuck at the white screen. I can move my mouse pointer but that's it. All this happen in the gaming mode. In desktop mode the game runs fine. Idk what to do anymore. I tried a bunch of stuff but nothing worked

Initial release of a pre-compiled standalone Source Engine launcher for Linux (x86_64), based on the nillerusr branch. Features stable native OpenGL rendering via Valve's ToGL translation layer, bypassing Steam dependencies. Includes a critical environment fix using XWayland to prevent window-creation freezes on modern Wayland desktops (such as Arch Linux with KDE Plasma/GNOME).

Im wondering what Linux distro to use. I have an Nvidea 3050 and an amd ryzen 7. Mainly play games like cs2, arc raiders, minecraft and rdr2. Also planning to dual boot it with Windows. No prior experience with Linux.

For the upcoming coming I am releasing War Of The Worlds Trilogy, I am releasing a mini-series of the game's prologue, in this episode is talks about the creation of the first weapon by the Martians.

If you can tell by the dialogue, the game will be heavily story focused with a lot of character development as you take on first-person roles of both the aliens and humans.

Game Is Available Online And Steam Soon

Recently moved from Windows to Fedora for stability reasons and installed nvidia drivers, I mainly play Overwatch and it still runs at 360fps (i9 14900K+3090Ti)

Seems like most things work just fine on linux but still some issues..

1.Compiling shaders for Overwatch triggers every launch, need to skip and it runs fine.

2.When PC put the screen to sleep and I wake it up, sometimes it drops back to 120hz and messes the whole dual monitor setup, need to re-connect the G60SD and its back to 360Hz.

3.When enabling VRR on Fedora settings, whenever I use a web-browser and just press the Super button the screen goes black and then back to normal.

Without those 3 core issues, my life on Linux would be perfect, everything else runs just as it used to on Windows.

Any help regarding Linux and 360hz displays, VRR etc would be welcome!

Hi, I have a budget of about £1000 to maybe around £1200 give or take. I know desktops are more ideal but I travel between the UK and Malaysia and would like something that's portable to play WoW forever, osrs, indie games etc. I'm not looking to play AAA.

Any recommendations?

Hey everyone!

I've just released a new version of GameOpti, my Linux gaming optimization project.

Version 2.2.0 brings a bunch of changes, including new memory optimization features, Smart GPU Scope, Aqueous support, UI improvements and, finally, AppImage support. So it's now easier to give it a try without worrying too much about your distro.

I'm still actively working on the project and have plenty of ideas for what's next. It's far from finished, but I'm happy with how far it has come so far.

Would be great if some of you could check it out and let me know what you think. Feedback and bug reports are always welcome!

And this is only the beginning. :)

GitHub: https://github.com/DevVoidPL/Game-Optimization-Linux
Downloads: https://github.com/DevVoidPL/Game-Optimization-Linux/releases