Linux Gaming

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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41689077

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41338733

Since a few weeks my Unity games are not working anymore on Steam (not flatpak) on Linux Mint.

I have tried Stick It to the Stickman, Olija and Dystopika. They all behave the same, with the audio starting playing fine, but still on a black screen. After that, nothing happens and even trying to switch window doesn't work or is extremely slow, requiring a few minutes to have anything happening.

Adding the same games to another launcher (Heroic), makes them work a bit, but eventually they stop at some loading screen and remain there forever.

I am on the latest OS version, I have the latest proprietary drivers from Nvidia, I have tried switching Proton versions and my GOG Unity games all work fine on Heroic.

I don't know if there are any logs I can submit, but I am all ears for any suggestions.

UPDATE: Solved! The problem was with the fractional scaling feature in Cinnamon. Once disabled, everything went back to work perfectly.

Great game with Linux version on steam

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41348163

Having played Alwa's Legacy first, I did not expect this ending! Great game, although I like the sequel better ☺️

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/41411460

They had to close down to check that all content was in compliance of the UK Online Safety Act.

Now they have reopened after making a few adjustments. Links and media require approval before being displayed, and links are only clickable if logged in.

So I've been using this machine for a little over 10 years now and making upgrades as nessesary. I don't care much for graphic quality so it's mostly been fine. However, my FPS on certain games has started to become pretty frustrating so I'm trying to come up with inexpensive options to upgrade.

In particular I'm trying to play Nuclear Option online and am having a lot of trouble late in the match. I'm guessing this is due to the high amount of smoke effects but I'm not an expert in any way.

I'm getting 10~20 FPS regardless of graphic settings. I've also checked on my GPU and it maxes out at around 50% utilization so I'm guessing the processor is my limitation

The best CPU my motherboard can take is a i7-4790k (please correct me if I'm wrong) and I think I can get one for $100ish but I'm not sure if that would make enough of a difference. It also seems like DDR3 era board/CPU combos are a little more expensive but fairly affordable on ebay. However, I'm not really sure what would be a good value and worth the investment performance-wise.

Any advice you could give is appreciated. Thanks

Sober is exclusively available on Flathub, whom published these figures in their Year In Review: https://flathub.org/en/year-in-review/2025

I want to do a fedora install of sunshine using WLR as the capture method so I can have a headless zero-copy pipeline on the server. It looks like everyone is using hyprland as the compositor for this but I’m not familiar with it.

Are there any good guides for what I’m aiming to do here?

• wine updated to latest bleeding-edge
• dxvk updated to latest git
• dxvk-nvapi updated to latest git
• vkd3d-proton updated to latest git
• vkd3d updated to latest git
• winewayland/em-10 patches updated + rebased
• wine staging patches rebased
• a status window has been added which now shows when protonfixes are being applied
• a protonfix has been added that allows heroes of newerth reborn to work again using GAMEID=umu-heroesofnewerthreborn
• starcitizen protonfixes updated
• Update fix for Angelic Chaos: RE-BOOT!
• added protonfix for rocket league in-game voice
• added protonfix for sword of the stars
• added eac workaround so the first descendant no longer requires disconnecting network
• added winetricks patch so xalia temporarily disables while dotnet installers are running, preventing popup spam
• updated protonfix for space engineers
• updated protonfix for Full Metal Daemon Muramasa
• added protonfix for escape from tarkov (game still does not allow online play)
• added NOSTEAM=1 capability for escape from tarkov so users who own the steam version can also use it for the non-steam version.

Known issue: Blade & Soul NEO no longer launches (it's also broken in upstream proton-experimental)

Ok, so I have Kubuntu installed running wayland and setup steamvr. The first few times it gave me the screen sharing portal, but through NOT reading carefully I accidentally setup all screens as the same one instead of the 2 different displays and 1 mirror display. OBS has this wonderful little button to trigger this to open to change which screen is shared, does anyone know how to do this for steamvr? (if you need info plz supply the command to retrieve it) I will say that wayland is working great for me so far except for my error, out of the 6 vr games I have tested (they ran badly on my previous system) only Into the Radius 2 has a slight flashing/flickering issue the other games that were almost or completely unplayable under my last system (RTX 4070ti super) are smooth as butter now.

I have temporarily gone back to X11 due to not being able to access my desktop through WLX-Overlay-s. Any help would be appreciated.

Switched off windows last month to POP OS, though they just recently came out with a new OS featuring cosmic instead of gnome. Has anyone here used it for gaming? How is it? I've read people having issues with it when it was in beta.