That was good advice until somewhat recently, but Intel’s i225-v and i226-v ethernet chips are garbage (extraordinarily high rate of malfunctioning silicon) and they are unfortunately common on motherboards. You might end up with a good one, but it’s a gamble. Probably best to avoid them.
My board has Realtek 2.5gbit ethernet, and it’s working very well.
It is also a possibility to get a MB without WiFi and add an add-on pcie board. Like that it is possible to upgrade that part too.
Edit : Bonus point if you take one with removable wifi chip, like that one, as you can upgrade for cheaper (buy a $30 laptop card and swap it on the add-on card, and you are good to go), and reduce e-waste.
From my experience at least, some games are just like this, more often than not when using proton. I don’t really have this issue that often after switching to i3wm. Can you switch to a different workspace? Is your game in fullscreen? It usually works better for me in windowed borderless. The benefit of using i3 is that you can run games in standard windowed mode, and let i3 fullscreen the application, or just switch workspace entirely. Hopefully this helps.
Maybe I’m missing something, but… why is this a problem? You can just like, move the mouse to where you want it?
I can’t replicate this issue on mine. I recently somehow broke Gnome (again) during an update, so I finally went back to a tiling WM (awesome this time). I start the game in a separate desktop, and then when I need to do things outside of the game, I just change to another desktop using the keyboard shortcuts. Pretty sure this is possible in all WM/DEs on Linux.
When it centers it there it often is delayed. So I will drag my mouse to my second window, usually Firefox, and it will suddenly jump centered to the game.
Ignore this if you’re on Wayland, it doesn’t have this problem. If you have two monitors, X11 throws a hissy fit over varying refresh rates. Ie, your main monitor runs at 144, the secondary runs at 60. If you launch a game on the 144hz monitor, it often locks it to the lowest refresh rate (60 in this example). Double check to make sure the game is actually running at the desired refresh rate (easiest way is to turn off the second, slower monitor and launch the game. 144hz would now be the lowest refresh rate).
Also look into CPU scheduling. Could be locked to a power saving governor. You want it on a dynamic or performance mode. Also check out if Resizable BAR is enabled in your BIOS.
Is it on a tty in embedded mode? If so does switching ttys using CTRL+ALT+F{1…10} work? Usually the display manager is on F1 or F7. If it’s not in embedded mode, does Left Alt + Enter work?
EDIT: Re-read and realized I didn’t understand completely. You’re starting it with your display manager. I’m not sure how you would kill it in that case.
Shot in the dark - Is there any chance the game data is on a shared NTFS partition? The start > blackscreen > dead pattern often happens if you happen to be accessing the game data from an NTFS partition, but that part of the error message is super deep and not really obvious.
After some more trial and error, I think I’ve come to the conclusion that either the Epic Version can’t actually be run DRM-free, or I’m somehow being too dumb to copy paste the launch option that allows it to.
Is this able to maintain its profiles between reboots? I use amd-clocks as its low profile set and forget unlike corectrl which would need to launch its ui each boot and ask for polkit auth
Yes, it maintains its config across reboots, it uses a systemd daemon that handles the backend. On most distros it should just work automatically, but if not you can edit the config.yaml file to set up your permissions there.
It’s great software. I’ll have to try editing the permissions because on Tumbleweed it only works when run as root. It complains that the service isn’t running as a user.
Also, I noticed that series 7000 gpus have serious problems under the most recent stable kerne when using an egpu setup. LACT shows that they cannot draw enough wattage, so they never get up to speed. Older gpus work fine.
I don’t know if I’m ready to switch my main PC over to Linux just yet but I may give it a try with my media server PC. I mostly just torrent and run Plex on. Would be a good environment to test it in. It’s basically just a PC made from old parts and it’s running windows 10 right now.
I had to downgrade it to play anything on my ultrawide, some really weird stuff happening in 9.0 with multiple monitors. It can’t detect mouse input on the right 1/3 of my screen. Very glad they let us choose versions
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