I have a sneaking suspicion its something wonky with steam itself, cause like I said… the mouse on the streamed TV is flawless, and audio is flawless, yet the video runs at frames per minute.
and i have no problem streaming video via discord to friends or anything.
There are some options to enable or disable hardware acceleration. You can also try running it in x11 to see if that makes a difference. But for me Wayland with KDE seems to work.
Last time I did Anomaly the install script was written in powershell, and the only way I could get it to run was to install a windows VM and install it from there… updating and running was fine afterwards via lutris, but just getting it installed required a windows VM.
If this is a gaming only computer and you don’t want to go off fussing with installing packages from other sources and maintaining a hybrid system, just install Nobara Linux.
Doesn’t look…very user-friendly? As a lazy ubuntu/deb user, I’m a bit concerned about jumping to rpm/arch…Isn’t there any other alternatives that are ubuntu/debian-based with KDE?
That’s kinda why I said “if it’s a gaming-only computer”. Nobara is the best and simplest out-of-the-box experience for gaming. Do everything through the GUI, treat it like an appliance-ish. Updates, packages, it’s all got its own GUI.
My gaming PC runs a mix of Debian testing with some stuff pulled in from sid and some stuff from experimental (just Mesa, really), plus a Xanmod kernel which updates frequently (I’m not convinced the patches make much difference).
I did all this because I’m a long time Debian user (going almost 3 decades) and I wanted the computer for a bit more than gaming. It’s not without its issues though, and I find myself frequently tinkering and troubleshooting.
I still have a Nobara partition that I can boot into, update and trust that it will be game-ready without fuss.
So…how did you get that damn partition working?? I’ve just tried it. Which required me an EFI partition of at least 600MB. I already had it at 500MB but apparently it didn’t think that was enough…So I had to reinstall all of windows in order to resize the EFI. Then Nobara installer was happy when I chose the EFI partition as “/boot/efi”, and 500GB at the end of the same SSD as “/”. After a reinstall, reboot…and it goes to Windows. Ugh. Manually choosing from the BIOS the new “Fedora” entry I get a grub crash. start_image returned “not found”…Wtf? For a “simplified” installation, this is resulting quite the PITA.
EDIT: OMG…figured it out, but holy cow. The installer is rather borked. It demands 600MB for /boot/efi, which at least this, it warns you of. BUT. It will install without warnings a full system and then crap out, if you ignore a very specific requisite not mentioned anywhere during the install! You need at least a 1GB ext4 partition somewhere for /boot. Ignore this, and you’re crapped.
Oh wow, that sounds fucked up. I don’t remember the ext4 requirement for /boot but after reading your comment the EFI stuff came back to me. I also thought it was weird and painful.
Anyway, glad you sorted it out. It should (hopefully) be smooth sailing from here.
Sigh…Thanks. I wish it was. I just ran the same Alan Wake install on the provided Lutris and well…the Textures are indeed fixed, I can see the FBI jackets and the faces look better…but now performance is abysmal, with frame drops to 10-15fps (1080p all max)…and RT is not even enabled (still grayed out), checked both in Wayland and X11. I think for a 7800XT I should be getting much better as long as RT or Path Tracing is not running.
EDIT: Seems this happens only with AW2. Cyberpunk and Starfield seem to have similar performance as before. So there’s something going on with AW2 in Nobara.
It…took some adapting on my case. Quite a few bits and bobs don’t quite work the way I intended at boot…but it’s starting to settle after a week of fiddling with it.
In Linux Mint MATE 20.3, I’m getting errors basically saying I need GCC 2.32 or higher. I have GCC 2.31, and actually did find, download and compile GCC 2.32, but online tutorials say to only run GCC 2.32+ from the home directory, otherwise it’ll likely break other packages short of an OS upgrade.
I’m not in any rush to upgrade past this LTS version, nor can I get TR1X to recognize whatever it needs from GCC 2.32 from the home directory.
Any advice, that hopefully doesn’t involve upgrading Linux itself? I don’t quite have enough free space to even consider an OS upgrade right now…
Ah, no I haven’t tried that yet, but it sure sounds like a plan. I’m not at my computer right now, but I’ll definitely try that this evening or as soon as I can.
I doubt there are any. It’s not like it involved stolen code or anything like that, it’s just an open source driver developed by a third party, of which there are many. And Nvidia have if anything been less hostile to OSS drivers in recent years, including some of their own OSS work for the kernel side (they aren’t remotely close to AMD or Intel in this respect, however).
When I pulled the trigger on moving my old gaming laptop to Nobara Linux I was able to get ME1/2LE running at 60 FPS stable with an i7-7000 series and a 1050 GPU (1920x1080.)
That machine never got me stable performance running windows, ever. Even when those specs were reasonable 8 years ago.
Steelseries Arctis 1 for sure. Hits all the right spots and is reasonably priced.
The connection is made through a usb c dongle but I prefer it that way because it lets me be use bluetooth for controllers instead. Also has a detachable mic and a headset jack.
I have a pair of Sony WH-H900N and they work fine over bluetooth. I use it for Hunt Showdown, in which hearing your enemy is very important. I can tell pretty easily which way another player is, what they’re stepping on, if they’re running or walking, if they’re above or below, etc.
The build quality however is not very good, it always starts in noise canceling mode which I don’t want, and recently it has started to try to deafen me by playing a loud buzzing noise at max volume. I’m careful now not to put them on before turning them on.
I’ve been looking at a pair of SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless to replace them but I can’t justify the purchase right now.
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