I mean very rarely the editions of the game itself is different (I’m thinking of the windows epic and steam fallout new vegas versions) and one doesn’t mod properly, but failing something like that I go with whatever has the less obtrusive DRM. So lately I’ve been getting whatever I can on gog.
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.
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.
Sennheiser audio quality, with a bit meh but still above average mic, (wireless bandwidth limit I assume).
What really makes these my favorite wireless pair ever, is the truly insane battery life. 100 hours, enough that by the time you get the low battery warning, you can still finish gaming for the day, and the next, and then plug them in to charge. They go into standby on their own, I’ve only ever touched the power button to turn them on the couple times I completely drained the battery.
What do you mean by surround? Headsets either have good stereo or they don’t. Are you referring to virtual 7.1 surround that basically all cheap gaming headsets advertise? (it doesn’t work, there’s a reason Sennheiser, an actual audio company, doesn’t bother) I have never once used the feature on a headset that supports it. You have two ears, the headset has two speakers. Either the game has good positional audio or it doesn’t, some extra processing in the middle has never been able to fix that imo. The GSP 670 seal well and positioning footsteps or gunshots has been easier than on any previous set I’ve had.
And they work perfect on linux, they use a usb dongle and are detected like any other usb audio device.
Maybe “Spatial audio” fits my description better than “surround sound”. I wasn’t quite sure whether additional processing is mandatory for realistic ingame sound. Back in the day (long long ago), EAX 4.0 was a huge improvement above direct sound. I guess that has changed, luckily!
Long story short: What I’m looking for is an immersive sound simulation for ingame environments, and I don’t like to lack behind proprietary solutions.
A really good stereo pair is ideal, something that gets the audio into your ear as clean as possible. I like closed because it’s easier to hear the quiet sounds as well as the loud ones, I’m often the first to pick up an approaching squad in apex with my friends.
In modern games all the advanced spatial processing is done by the game engine.
That was always going to be the best way to do it, as the game engine can account for not just the position in space of a sound source, but the geometry around it.
“Surround” only makes sense when dealing with a physical set of speakers. While with a stereo headset feeding audio into each ear, modern games are able to positionally process and place audio at any point around you.
Virtual 7.1 surround is just a worse way to do the same thing, and often in a way that ruins the audio quality. Not to mention it’s a standard for 7 discrete points of audio, not truly 360 degree spatial placement. But it can be done for cheap in software, no matter how crappy the hardware, so gaming peripheral manufacturers keep slapping it on as a marketing gimmick.
TLDR: Good clean stereo is worth way more than support for some BS “processing”, modern games already process audio positionally and turn that into the appropriate stereo signal for your two ears.
I use the “barracuda X” it’s black no RGB. It has both Bluetooth and low latency wireless.
I use it mainly in Windows (work/gaming) and PS5 (gaming).
In Linux I used it for gaming too. The only difference is that sometimes the gain in the drivers is very high. But I think it could be my problem (for messing with the drivers in the past months) maybe I need a clean install.
I can’t remember well. But: price in the X was good enough for me like 100€ maybe a bit less.
And secondly. The detachable microphone that can be located close to the mouth. That was a deal breaker for me because I use the headset to work (Microsoft teams) and play with friends (Warzone). And I like my voice to be as clear as possible. Especially if I have the windows open and some background noise.
So in short. I prefer unidirectional microphones that point to your mouth and if they are closer (so the gain doesn’t need to be high), better.
You might try to add the repository for it without using the script. I followed this page, but you can skip the rocm parts of it (except for adding the key). I managed to install it on Debian 12 this way.
As most people suggested, I guess I don’t need the proprietary drivers at all. I managed to get it working with kisa’s ppa and an updated AMD firmware file for the kernel (and a quick initramfs rebuild). However I’m experiencing a weird glitch on multi-monitor setup now…
I would say, when playing games, if you get audio crackling, try a different kernel such as Liquorix (software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home…). I’ve had that issue on my hardware across multiple distros, and this kernel solves it.
I believe it’s something with a kernel parameter regarding scheduling, specifically as noted in this features list (liquorix.net/#features)
High Resolution Scheduling: 1000hz tick rate for precise low jitter task scheduling.
You may or may not get this issue with your hardware, but if you do, then this is something you could try.
I used to have problems with audio crackling. I’d restart pulseaudio, and it would resolve. I haven’t had that problem for a long time now though. I think it’s been resolved.
I hope you already solved your problem. I have a 7800xt like you and bought it a week after it launched, I had a distro based on Ubuntu with xanmod kernel and Mesa from oibaf PPA So after I plugged in the GPU, I had to download the latest firmware.git and extract it on the right path, after this I just rebooted and everything was working good.
It’s great! You can expect updates that don’t take literal years, but you will need to maintain your system a bit more (Garuda provides utilities to make it easier).
Simple stuff like managing some dependency issues (like when packages get renamed), actually knowing how to use the command line (you don’t need to learn awk, grep, and sed just yet), and knowing how your bootloader wants to be treated.
You’ll get it as time passes, but Garuda assists in most of these things.
Garuda was the first Linux distro I was using as a daily driver. To me it was working nice out of the box with a Nvidia GPU and It was beginner friendly to me. I have since switched to Arch now, but yeah. Give it a go
linux_gaming
Top
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.