And to think that if you want to use fully free software in your stack a la FSF, the answer is more like “my friendship ended with external GPUs, now the iGPU of a Librebooted Intel from ten years ago is my only friend left”
it was actually the nvidia drivers that was in the install, had to modify the boot so i can download and install the proprietary drivers. everything is running perfectly smooth now :) i was using a 16gb USB
Good to know you solved your issue. I remember in Nobara 36 I flashed it onto a 4gb stick and it was pretty full. Wasn’t sure if the subsequent releases increased in size or not. :p
Are you starting a game with lots of mods enabled?
Can you try creating a new save with no mods enabled and see if you still get crashes? I think some of the mods in the Steam workshop just doesn’t work well in Linux.
Very interesting. I’ve had similar issues that you had but it was when joining a friend’s multiplayer server with lots of mods. Single player works fine for me.
Sorry, I can’t think of any other possible solutions for you to try.
I don’t have an Index, but I’m running Arch and using ALVR with a Quest 2. It works reasonably well, but Steam VR does sometimes require me to restart it. Also, some games just don’t run via Proton. Many games do just work though. I’m having a blast playing Alyx right now! It runs well through Proton.
Yeah I had horrible issues with stutter in PopOS. There was a very long running thread with many people having similar issues. It was a thing across multiple CPU’s and video cards that simply didn’t occur on other distros, but seemed to be some sort of IO throttling.
Went back to Mint/Ubuntu and haven’t had an issue since, but the forum was showing people continuing to have the issues on PopOS for 6mo+ after I quit it
That’s truly odd, I’m running a Ryzen 5600G and a 6700XT and the game is rock solid (Fedora 38, Gnome, Wayland). Runs great on Steam Deck as well. I wonder if the RX580 is the culprit? If MESA is up to date, try a newer kernel for updated Radeon driver? (I assume as Ubuntu 22.04 is LTS that you’re on an older kernel)
I’ve been playing BG3 using Proton since Patch one. It went from running alright, too absolute shit, too Amazing recently. There was a period during EA where Vulkan wasn’t working at all. Possibly because they were optimizing. As of now, I run it 1440p, max or near max settings, on a mediocre PC with Proton 8.0x. It’s a truly beautiful game, and I’ve only seen about 75% of ACT 1…
So yes, although not natively supported, it runs perfect with Proton.
Afaik it's nearly impossible. Even the Index has a lot of issues and is I think somewhat semi abandoned in favor of the Deckard and because of their internal SteamOS change towards Arch. I would expect some news & improvements with the Deckard release but right now I wouldn't recommend it.
Unfortunately it’s pretty normal for gaming laptops to get very hot. Check your internal temperatures though, if your CPU is over 90C on heavy load you may have to reapply thermal paste. Also clean the vents and fans when you get a chance.
The outside heat of the laptop doesn’t matter much, just make sure the CPU doesn’t hit 98C or so.
From what I got yesterday it balanced around 70. But think I have to realise that it’s about time a I got a new laptop, something with Linux at its core.
8BitDo ultimate 2.4GHz is amazing. Uses a usb dongle for low latency, but the latest update also enabled a bluetooth mode. It also has a charging dock and the best dpad I’ve used.
Yeah I was a staunch user of the Dual Sense but once I got the charging dock and low latency with the 8bitdo I haven’t looked back. Also back buttons are handy
Oh yeah I forgot it had back buttons, they’re always useful for games that aren’t optimized for controllers. Especially with steam input, since you can make radial menus to do a lot of things.
Oh yeah I forgot it had back buttons, they’re always useful for games that aren’t optimized for controllers. Especially with steam input, since you can make radial menus to do a lot of things.
Oh yeah I forgot it had back buttons, they’re always useful for games that aren’t optimized for controllers. Especially with steam input, since you can make radial menus to do a lot of things.
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