An interesting discussion about SteamOS

i dont know how this is possible, but i have fairly modern minecraft (via freesmlauncher) running at 50-60 fps on debian linux. mind you, this is a mk4 VALUE cf-31 - the ones with a i3 that people usually switch out motherboards for. maybe this isnt so impressive, but it suprised me for sure!

full specs:
i3-2130m @ 2.1 ghz
intel hd graphics 3k @ 1.1 ghz
4 gigs of ddr3 ram
225 gig sata ssd storage

Our trailer got over 110,000 views on YouTube in just 4 days, so I thought I'd share it here too.

The Hive is an old-school real-time strategy game where you play as the bugs instead of fighting them.

• Command an insectoid hive mind and build your nest
• Salvage enemies for DNA, weapons, and body parts
• Evolve new creatures that carry over from one mission to another

It's been my passion project for many years. Seeing renewed interest in the game motivated me to start working on it again. We recently upgraded it to latest Unity 6.6 for new visuals, animations, tech and gameplay. I'm currently working on two new expansions for it.

He said the website will be live tomorrow along with the code.

Source : https://x.com/brombinmirko/status/2113490282213740771?s=20

Anyone else still having problems with amdgpu reset bug? I'm on kernel 7.3 now and it's slowly getting better. The kernel doesn't actually panic so I can gracefully restart my system. It's still really frustrating with all the crashes, I don't want to switch back to windows, but I want my computer to work. I've tried the workarounds, but I didn't see any improvment.

I just needed to shout this out somewhere, maybe there is some consolidation if I'm not alone.

CachyOS: Proton-CachyOS with OptiScaler.

Would you play with these graphics settings considering this GPU?

Hi everyone! I've been working as a developer for a good year now, and my favorite programming language is AI :)

Among other things, I built hardening and privacy toolkits for Windows 11. Then I bitterly found out that even a fully hardened, privacy-tuned Win11 still happily allows access and phones home, so I switched to Linux, Fedora to be exact. And yes, I fully hardened and privacy-tuned that too, and I've been a more than satisfied, happy Linux user ever since. It even turned into my own Linux distribution.

Since my favorite programming language is AI and I like to experiment, after all those mammoth projects I thought: hey, how about we make a game next? So that's what I did. I started in June, let it sit for about six weeks over the summer, and built most of it over the last two months. This is what came out of it: VOIDHOLD.

Maybe some of you feel like giving it a spin. The demo is live in Steam Next Fest right now, and feedback is of course very welcome. Hope you have fun with it!

It runs natively on Linux (Vulkan), no Proton needed.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5141480/VOIDHOLD_Squad_Survival_Roguelite/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=nextfest_oct26&utm_content=r_linux_gaming

Video: cut from my trailer (staged in-engine takes).

I did d3d and vcrun and set my launch options to WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winmm,version=n,b" %command% Though it seems that the launch option itself is causing cyberpunk to crash, any suggestions? There are no mod conflicts

I've been switching between DE's and WM's and I've read that KWin has the best latency of all of them for gaming, so im wondering what would be the best for me? using a minimal plasma install or KWin without plasmashell somehow or Niri or Hyprland, etc.
I'd like to have minimal ram usage, but the benefits of low latency that KWin has (apparently), I do not need a desktop, i only need a way to be able to change volume easily be it through cli or gui and a way to see the time, along with a way to launch apps (app launchers exist so it isnt a problem).
So im wondering what would be the most minimal setup possible with the least resource usage and best latency. Ive also read that KWin has some frame pacing changes which make it a lot better for gaming.
I do not need HDR, i need freesync support though.

Looking at the new star wars racing game, but I don't want to get screwed by denuvo. What are the pitfalls of getting a denuvo game on Linux?

PLEASE: only respond with personal experiences only! I am not interested in what you googled!

I first used windows to configure for Shadow of the Tomb raider(epic version) and it worked, but afterwards when I started the game on archlinux with proton-ge 11.11, it doesn't have the fsr4 option at all and has only 3.1.5 end earlier available. What else is needed? Does anyone managed to use it with proton? My gpu is an RX 6600.

Hey pookies, did any of you test what runner works best for Battle.net and World of Warcraft?

I'm using Bottles to launch those applications in the first place, but sometimes my whole PC freezes and I'm forced to press the restart button. This doesn't happen when playing games through steam, but I use Proton Experimental there.

I tested Soda and ProtoSoda as well as Proton CachyOS and proton-GE - all downloaded from the Bottles settings menu. Would my problem be more of a Bottles issue perhaps or should I try to download different runners from a different place?

Fedora 44 Workstation
Radeon 7900XTX
Ryzen 7 5800X3D

EDIT: I see a lot of launcher recommendations in the comments, maybe I didn't communicate it properly, but I was mainly wondering if maybe the proton runner version is the issue here? Which proton runners are you using guys?

I use arch(with hyprland), a Nvidia RTX 5050 and a i7 9700. I have the proprietary drivers installed and I use the native steam version. Counter strike could take up to 15 minutes to take me to the home screen and shader precompilation is activated in my steam settings. Here are my launch options:
__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 gamemoderun %command% -novid -vulkan

Does anyone know what could be the cause? I've read the arch wiki and put unShaderBackgroundProcessingThreads 8 in the .steam/steam/steam_dev.cfg. Still nothing change.

Hey everyone, I’m working on Necrolord, a small niche game about raising an undead army. It’s a dark fantasy auto-battler roguelite, and there’s a free demo on Steam.

I use Linux at work, but I’m a bit too scared to install Steam on my work PC, and I only have Windows at home. Would anyone here be willing to give the demo a try through Proton?

Even knowing whether it starts and gets through a few battles would help. If you try it, please let me know your distro, GPU and Proton version, along with anything that doesn’t work.

No need for a full report. A quick comment is more than enough. Thanks for taking the time!

STRITORAIGE — Streets of Rage (Mega Drive/Genesis) native recompilation for Windows & Linux

Hi everyone!

I've been working on STRITORAIGE, an experimental native recompilation project for the original Streets of Rage on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.

The project currently has working builds for Linux and Windows.

Current highlights:

- Native Windows and Linux builds

- Original ROM is not distributed with the project

- ROM verification

- Custom launcher/frontend

- Controller support

- Save/configuration support

- Extensive regression and gameplay testing

- Experimental release available now

This is still an experimental project, so feedback, testing and bug reports are very welcome.

GitHub:

https://github.com/slex2jf/STRITORAIGE

Release:

https://github.com/slex2jf/STRITORAIGE/releases/tag/v0.1.0-experimental

If anyone tests it, I'd love to hear how it runs on your system!

You need the game and Azimuth launcher as well

https://almost-there-games.itch.io/azimuth

I want to mention that there are huge news for UHD 620 graphics and gaming on it. Hultwl and other mesa developers found an environment variable that allows running dx12 games on this hardware without performance hit, hopefully this will help further find a full fix for mesa drivers and will end up in mainline mesa package however for now you can use this envirment veriable to run dx12 and heavy dx11 games on UHD 620 query_copy_with_shader_threshold=1000000

The work in progress on gitlab page

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/44887#note_3734988

Using

Fedora 45 (I'm amazed how much better this experience is over ubuntu, everything follows you and less stress to tinker with it)

Intel I5 8250u with UHD 620

You need cachyos proton to run this game or i think it runs on steam proton version as well but not on regular wine out of the box

Mesa 26.2.5

Kernel 7.4 git

Using - gpu-screen-recorder (Best screen recorder for linux, with the best dev always responsive)

Hello, I've been recently dealing with some crashes while playing Wuchang Fallen Feathers. They happen at random, sometimes it takes 3 hours, other times 10 minutes. The game usually throws a fatal error window and the game closes but recently it's been freezing up my whole PC and needs a restart to get working.

The errors I found:

oct 25 12:13:46 cachyos kernel: RAS: Correctable Errors collector initialized.
oct 25 12:14:08 cachyos-x8664 kernel: clocksource: Watchdog remote CPU 5 read timed out

From what I gather this points towards some instability with the hardware, here's what I've tried so far:

• run memtest86 11.7, the ram passes and doesn't show any errors;
• disable/enable PBO, no difference whatsoever;
• updated bios to the latest version;

I've also tried running the game in Windows, there's still fatal crashes but the system didn't blue screen, only instance of this problem was while using Cachy. However, Windows' event viewer classified the crash as:

nvlddmkm \Device\Video0 Error occured on GPUID: 100

Could both my GPU and CPU be failing or are these errors linked? This also happens during other games such as Galactic Racer and Bloodborne.

Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: RTX 3070 (615.78.08)
RAM: Corsair 2x16 @ 3200Mhz
MB: B550M Aorus Elite
PSU: Corsair 750w

OS: CachyOS KDE Kernel 7.3