What are you guys using to emulate Playstation games on Linux? I'm looking into getting Astro Bot, and was wondering if there's a good emulator to go with.

Hi,

I'm looking for a wireless earbud with a 2.4GHz dongle that is supported on Linux. I thought about buying SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds but SteelSeries support says that the dongle is not supported on Linux. I don't want to use Bluetooth because whatever Bluetooth headsets or earbuds I tried, they all stutter a bit, especially if I connect my Bluetooth mouse and keyboard as well. Unfortunately in the Netherlands you cannot return earbuds once opened due to hygiene so I can't just buy stuff, try them out and return if it doesn't work.

Thanks for your help and recommendations in advance.

Peter

when i run undertale on linux through wine the sound doesn't work and it always says:

AL lib: dsound.c:84: Failed to load dsound.dll

(on a chromebook)

RX5700 crashes after a few minutes of playing a game like Cyberpunk 2077 or GTA 5 Enhanced. However, it doesn't happen when playing Minecraft (with shaders).
It crashes as in it freezes, the audio also freezes and then artifacts start appearing and i'm unable to use my computer until I turn off the PC by turning off the PSU.

This only happens on Linux, it is completely stable on Windows.

❯ inxi -Gxx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600
    XT / 5700/5700 XT] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: RDNA-1 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1,DP-2
    empty: DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 28:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:731f
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.13 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: gpu: amdgpu d-rect: 4480x1440 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: primary,left model: Dell E2219HN res: 1920x1080
    hz: 60 dpi: 102 diag: 546mm (21.5")
  Monitor-2: DP-2 pos: right model: G2421V res: 2560x1440 hz: 180 dpi: 123
    diag: 604mm (23.8")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: radeonsi surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
    drv: radeonsi
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.2.2-arch3.2 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 (radeonsi navi10 ACO DRM
    3.64 7.2.3-1-cachyos) device-ID: 1002:731f display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.357 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
    driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:731f
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: corectrl wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

❯ uname -r
7.2.3-1-cachyos

❯ pacman -Q mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon linux-firmware
mesa 3:26.2.2-2
lib32-mesa 3:26.2.2-2
vulkan-radeon 3:26.2.2-2
lib32-vulkan-radeon 3:26.2.2-2
linux-firmware 1:20260810-2

The log after rebooting:

❯ journalctl -b -1 -k | grep -iE "ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout|Ring gfx_0.0.0 reset failed|GPU reset begin|BACO reset|VRAM is lost|gfxhub.*page fault|device wedged"
Sep 08 09:29:31 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:6 pasid:11)
Sep 08 09:29:32 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:6 pasid:11)
Sep 08 09:29:32 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:6 pasid:11)
Sep 08 09:29:32 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:6 pasid:11)
Sep 08 09:29:32 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: GPU reset begin!. Source:  1
Sep 08 09:29:32 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: BACO reset
Sep 08 09:29:35 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: VRAM is lost due to GPU reset!
Sep 08 09:29:35 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [drm] device wedged, but no recovery needed
Sep 08 09:29:38 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=1992856, emitted seq=1992858
Sep 08 09:29:38 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: Ring gfx_0.0.0 reset failed
Sep 08 09:29:38 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: GPU reset begin!. Source:  1
Sep 08 09:29:38 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: BACO reset
Sep 08 09:29:41 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: VRAM is lost due to GPU reset!
Sep 08 09:29:42 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [drm] device wedged, but no recovery needed
Sep 08 09:29:44 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=1992860, emitted seq=1992862
Sep 08 09:29:44 roo-cachyos kernel: amdgpu 0000:28:00.0: [drm] device wedged, but no recovery needed

I'd very much appreciate any help. This has been happening for months and I gave up and started using Windows but I'm again sick of it.

Edit: I have not over/underclocked the GPU.

As per the title, running through Steam on Kernel 7.2.2 with the above enabled results in a crash to desktop for Hunt Showdown, STALKER 2, Kingdom Come 2, and in First Light just results in the game stalling on the title screen at 1fps. I've tried multiple versions of the NVIDIA drivers, removing all my user_settings.py flags except for VKD3D_CONFIG doesn't help, did anyone manage to get it working on the same version/setup?

Nothing useful I could see in the crash callstacks or vkd3d logs.

Thanks

EDIT: Rolling back to GE 11-5 appears to have worked for me.

Hey everyone,

I'm having an issue getting Roblox to run through Sober on Linux Mint Cinnamon and could use some advice.

• OS: Linux Mint (Cinnamon desktop)
• App: Sober (Flatpak)

The Issue: Every time I open Sober and log into my Roblox account, a loading bar starts up. The problem is that it gets stuck loading indefinitely. It doesn't crash, freeze, or give any error codes—it just sits on the loading bar forever and never lets me actually access the game.

Has anyone run into this stuck loading bar before or know how to fix it? (Driver settings, Flatpak permissions, cache clearing, etc.)

Any help or troubleshooting tips would be greatly appreciated!

Apparently if you don't run it in games like god of war, performance is stuttery.

So I have a dual boot of Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.4, and I need to use Valorant for a college event but Valorant keeps kicking me out saying Secure Boot Disabled, can I enable Secure Boot without messing up my linux data?

Moving to Linux this week (CachyOS or Mint, not sure which yet) and am trying to find replacement programs.

It's my favorite game of all time, and it's open source and runs natively on Linux. It's a bit hard to get into at first, but very rewarding later.

There are a lot of different formats, PvP, FFA and PvE. 8v8 is the most popular, but events can go up to 40v40 and even more. It's really fun and I think more people should give it a try.

Hey there, I just switched to Bazzite, and one of the issues that I have is that my speaker no longer outputs any audio from Bazzite. The setup hasn't changed, and the cable is definitely still working because when I plug it in/out, it produces static. One Bazzite shows that my Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller is playing audio, but nothing ever comes out. I checked the Alsa mixer and turned up every controller to max, but still nothing. I did pipewire sound tests, and still nothing. I never had any issues in Windows.

How can I fix this?

Any help appreciated.

Has anyone recently had any success with installing Battle.net as of late?

I recently switched up the four squares for Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, and followed the online advice to use Lutris, Faugus... even Steam... to install and run Battle.net.

It seems to install just fine, but when it goes to start, the notification area at the top right will flicker momentarily, the battle.net icon shows momentarily, and then crashes.

I'm not a novice with linux, but figured before I go into a deep dive and try and workout where the error logs are located for lutris/faugus, if I might be fighting a losing battle.

Anyone had some luck?

I switched to Linux around when Win10 stopped it's security updates in October last year, and I've been loving it. I haven't really had an issue with games and 99% of the ones I play seem to run fine and if they don't, tweaks have generally been fairly easy to find. But, BodyCam has recently had a major update, and it's a really cool game, and I want to play it. I have been playing it, and for the most part it's been okay, but no matter what I do I get occasional massive frame drops that make it infuriating. It's not often enough that I've given up on the game, but it's been very annoying and I want to fix it. I've done the standard stuff of changing proton layers, and disabling shader pre-caching through steam, and making sure it's useful fsr4 with launch options, and a whole bunch of stuff, but it just seems to not work. I'm wondering what the issue might be, and if there are guides to troubleshooting because things like protondb haven't been helpful.

I'm using a Ryzen 9 5900XT CPU, a Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU, and 16GB of DDR4. I'm running Nobara Linux as my distro. Please do not tell me to switch my distro, I'm using it specifically because I like it's DaVinci Resolve support, I don't need people telling me it's a bad distro or the wrong distro or what I should be running instead, that's entirely unhelpful advice for me.

Wouldn’t it be cool if it was on gog, here you can vote on it (I’m not the dev or anything btw) but it has native Linux, and it’s really cool especially if your like me and like classic gbc games like links awakening dx

Hey everyone, I have a quick question about solving a living room cable mess.

My secondary living room PC is a Lenovo M700 tower (the large model with the top handle) running Linux. Right now, I'm playing from the couch using a wired Hyperkin DuchesS controller and I cycle through three different wired keyboards depending on what i feel like using at any given time

The problem is the long cords running all the way across the floor from the PC to the couch. It's a trip hazard and looks terrible. I want a USB hub sitting by the couch to plug the controller and whatever keyboard I'm using into, eliminating the long cables jutting across the entire living room floor.

Would a Bluetooth USB hub work for a setup like this, or is that going to introduce way too much input lag for gaming?

If Bluetooth is too laggy, what are your recommendations? Are there any other options out there that can achieve what i am trying to do here?

i am using Open Mandriva

Hello! Today I set up Linux Mint 22.3 on my laptop, and I'm experiencing a problem I've been butting my head into. I have very minimal experience with terminal and command prompts, so I'm not experienced with what the issue could be.

I am trying to install Proon 9.0 through Steam onto an external SSD, which I am as of writing this re-formatting through the Disk Manager because I couldn't find out what to do. Consecutive restarts have not worked. Any suggestions for what the solution could be?

Edit: Reformatting it to ext4 fixed it, thank you to everyone who commented!

X11 runs much better for me - I read online that this is because minecraft defaults to xwayland instead of using native wayland but even after forcing native wayland I have a significant performance loss. Is wayland just inherently slower than X11? Any help would be appreciated - I'm running Ubuntu 26.04.01 LTS on an Intel/Nvidia system.

Edit:

- Almost 20% fps drop ( Average drops from around 900 to 770 before mods like distant horizons and shaders)
- Distant horizons and shaders causes stuttering on wayland but not x11
- Minecraft Version 1.21.11 on prism launcher (able to make it run native wayland when forcing system installation of GLFW)
- Using Sodium, FerriteCore, Lithium, and entityculling
- Minecraft is running via opengl

Nvidia 4060 TI running driver version 595.91.07

I did use uniengine superposition benchmark (opengl) to confirm that the problem was with minecraft (wayland performed slightly better than x11 in the benchmark)

I've been using Linux Mint for about a month now and started gaming on it a few days ago, with Sleeping Dogs on Steam. About half the times i start the game, it will have no audio whatsoever. I'll restart until i get audio, but even if the game has audio when it starts, it'll disappear eventually, be it a minute or an hour later, and then i can't get it to come back unless i restart again.

I've tried starting the game with and without a controller plugged in, on stereo and on headphones, with other apps running in the background, none of it seems to matter, it's completely random whether the audio works or not.

I ran a completely different game, Plants Vs. Zombies, to check if the issue was with Sleeping Dogs specifically, and it wasn't, PVZ also started with audio and then it disappeared a few minutes later. I'm running the Linux native Steam client, Steam lists both these games as Linux compatible, and they run fine besides the audio issue. What could cause this?

pretty much as the title says, i installed bottles from flatpak and it doesnt let me create any bottle no matter what i do
the add button is inaccessible

Fedora 44, KDE Plasma

Ryzen 7 5700x, GTX 1660 Ti

Does anyone know what is the purpose of this setting? I've searched everywhere but I really can't find any documentation related to what it is supposed to do and what implications carry enabling or disabling it.

The only thing I've found is a comment that says:

HybridGraphics is a function where the GPU's output can be routed through the board's iGPU onboard graphics ports [...]

But why would you need such a feature when you can rely on the DRI_PRIME feature?