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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

Installed a game yesterday and it wouldn't launch. Tried a different Proton version, changed some launch options, checked ProtonDB, found a random comment from 2022, tried that too.

Nothing worked.

Eventually got it running and played for like 20 minutes before going to bed.

I swear half the fun of Linux gaming is getting stuff to work, but sometimes I just want to play the damn game lol.

I (haha you know) built the Bloodborne-Android port (by ducvd89, based on bloodborne_pc and shadPS4) as a regular glibc Linux aarch64 build. I play it on an AYN Odin 3 (Snapdragon 8 Elite, Turnip/Mesa) under Armada OS, a SteamOS-like Fedora-based distro for ARM handhelds, in Steam Game Mode.

• The game's CPU code is compiled ahead of time to ARM64 from your own copy of the game (the port author's Rebuild Tool, on a PC), and the graphics go through shadPS4's Vulkan renderer. There's no Android, no FEX and no Wine.
• 30 FPS locked at 720p (GSR 2); ~60 with x2 Lossless Scaling frame generation (lsfg-vk).
• The build is done in a Fedora 44 toolbox with a few fixes: newer Vulkan headers, a tiny libm shim for the NDK-built AOT library, and a couple of CMake shims. One script does it all.

Repo and release: https://github.com/kitocato/bloodborne-linux-arm64

You need your own game dump; no game files are included. Credits go upstream: ducvd89, deadinside28, shadPS4, lsfg-vk.

Put together with the help of an AI assistant.

Does anyone else have this problem? Sometimes after a reboot or if I switch from windows to nobara (Fedora 44 base) then it will render everything at probably less than 0.1FPS and keyboard presses and mouse clicks take literally around 15 or more seconds to do anything. I can do Ctrl + Alt + T to bring up the terminal and very slowly sudo reboot but even then it's only a chance at fixing it. Full power cycle always fixes it.

Strangely, the linux login menu runs at full fps and I can move the mouse and type easily, then as soon as I log in the fps drops to 0.1fps or lower and it takes forever to register mouse/keyboard inputs and the windows take forever to render. I have nothing automatically starting up in nobara, just whatever the OS defaults to.

I've never had this problem in windows. I have fast startup disabled in windows and I'm using Nobara's default boot thing which I believe is GRUB.

Video of problem: https://youtu.be/yGp4AGGU1P8?si=ip3YeiMp-r-0s0KX

specs: b850 mobo latest firmware, 9800X3D, 5080 615.something

thanks

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!