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Rand , in 14 years after playing League Of Legends for the first time ever, I, today, played it on Linux!
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What method you use? Lutris or just adding as non-steam game?

swnt OP ,
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lutris

DrDominate , in 14 years after playing League Of Legends for the first time ever, I, today, played it on Linux!
@DrDominate@lemmy.world avatar

I have a question for you. I noticed the client is really sluggish on Linux though it wasn’t on windows. Did you notice something similar?

swnt OP ,
@swnt@feddit.de avatar

I did notice the sluggishness as well. but I didn’t mind much

brunofin , in Rust on Linux

I am out of the loop, do you mean as native or in proton?

nintendiator , in Steam Flatpak or running steam from Bazzite distrobox container. Which one is better for gaming ?

Debian schroot in a distro. Give the user in the schroot access to the snd device. Install Steam in the schroot. There, done. It’s even portable.

docclox , in STARFIELD NOW WORKING WITH NVIDIA BETA DRIVERS!!
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Anyone familiar with arch/artix who can give me a quick rundown on how to move from nvidia-dkms (artix) to nvidia-beta (aur)?

I tried trizen, but everything depends on something else right back up to steam itself and I’m wary of uninstall too many packages at once without knowing what I’m doing.

luthis OP ,

Um… I use Yay, and just ran yay nvidia-beta. It asked me if it should remove conflicting packages. I typed y. Installed and done.

docclox ,
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Sounds good - I’ll give that a shot.

Did you do it to run Starfield? How was performance, if so?

luthis OP ,

Yes, and performance was wierd.

It defaulted to Ultra graphics, and was pretty consistently at 50 FPS.

I set it to lowest graphics expecting to see 300+ FPS but it only went up to 70.

There’s definitely some optimisations that need to be done, or graphics is not my bottleneck.

CPU usage though was pretty consistent across all cores at 60%.

So… no idea.

docclox ,
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Oh well, I’ll be happy if I can get 60fps at 1080p. One advantage of an aging rig - it doesn’t have to push as many pixels as a modern monitor would need :)

Thanks for the help!

luthis OP ,

Let us know how your experience goes, would be good to compare PC stats and performance.

docclox ,
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Alas, no joy:


<span style="color:#323232;">removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=535.113.01' required by lib32-nvidia-utils
</span>

Basically, the same problem I hit trying it from trizen. And Steam wants lib32-nvidia-utils

I tried installing nvidia-utils-beta, but that breaks because the old one is needed by nvidia-dkms, and I can’t seem to get yay to consider two packages at once.

I might jut wait for the full release.

luthis OP ,

Just remove utile first, I did and it was fine. Yay -Rns lib32-nvidia-utils

Then install drivers

docclox , (edited )
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I had to remove Steam before lib32-nvida-utils would go - now Steam won’t reinstall

[edit]

Got it with --assume-installed lib32-vulkan-driver

Let’s see if it works :)

[edit]

Nope. Builds shaders (a little too quickly perhaps) and then stops.

Skyrim still works, which suggests that the problem is with version of proton and environment variables rather than the beta drivers. And at least I’m no worse off than before.

I might give this another go tomorrow - look at it with fresh eyes and all that.

luthis OP ,

how did you get on?

docclox ,
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I didn’t. Sunday was broken up with all sorts of RL issues, and when I did have time, I spent it on Windows playing the game.

I’ll give it another shot tomorrow. Proton experimental looks like it should do the job with minimal fuss, assuming everything else is in place. It would be nice to move over fully to Linux. Even if it does mean accepting a lower FPS for a short while.

Molecular0079 , (edited ) in STARFIELD NOW WORKING WITH NVIDIA BETA DRIVERS!!

Are you able to get Wayland working? I tried it and I kept getting kwin_wayland_drm: Atomic modeset commit failed! Cannot allocate memory messages in journalctl.

EDIT: You have to pass in fbdev=1 to the nvidia_drm module. This will disable simpledrm which was causing the issue. I now have this in my modprobe.d:


<span style="color:#323232;">options nvidia_drm modeset=1 fbdev=1
</span>
luthis OP ,

Have not tried Wayland, last I checked there were issues with Nvidia so I haven’t switched from X yet

warmaster , in What makes Debian so different from its derivatives that gaming on it is almost an heroic task to achieve?

You need the Nvidia proprietary drivers

luky , in First time seeing Devs respond to a lack of anti-cheat support on Linux

this is awesome. i like this dev. i give it 5 more years to expext most games and graphics drivers work with an easy setup

Lazorne , in Steam Flatpak or running steam from Bazzite distrobox container. Which one is better for gaming ?

I have ran the flatpak version for a long time without any issues for games from Steam. How ever if you want to “add none Steam games to Steam” that are also flatpaks you need to add more permissions to the sandbox. You might want to do this in certain cases for example you want to utilize Steam Input for a flatpak game/emulator for better controller support.

sugar_in_your_tea , in Steam Flatpak or running steam from Bazzite distrobox container. Which one is better for gaming ?

IDK, try it and find out? I run it native and haven’t had any issues, and my main concern running it in a FlatPak would be access to system devices like controllers and whatnot. If I ever run into issues, I’ll probably give the FlatPak a shot, but I don’t have a good reason to at the moment.

aruser , in What makes Debian so different from its derivatives that gaming on it is almost an heroic task to achieve?

From your report, what command are you using to launch Stardew Valley? It appears to be a bad shell interpretation. Are you using sh or bash? What’s the first line of the “start.sh” script? What’s your “echo $SHELL”?

I’ve been using debian testing for years for my gaming PC, for laptops and debian stable for servers. I’m very happy with it!

seaQueue ,
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IIRC debian defaults to using dash for /bin/sh, the problem could be as simple as pointing these scripts at /bin/bash instead.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, looks like a bash vs dash issue, which is why I always set my shebang to be explicit about the shell I’m using.

qyron OP ,

I was using sh but when using bash start.sh it gave a completely diferent pront, regardless not running. Copied the entire prompt on another reply.

“echo $shell” returns *bash : echo : command not found

just_another_person , in What makes Debian so different from its derivatives that gaming on it is almost an heroic task to achieve?

Try Fedora 38 and enjoy that different type of pain.

Use an Ubuntu derivative geared towards gaming maybe. Ubuntu stock is made generic to perform as best for core features on as many hardware configurations as possible. There’s also a TON of tools and scripts out there that can tune a default install for you to make it perform better for gaming.

qyron OP ,

I ran Mint for about six years but Debian is my first love. It’s a harsh and cruel mistress but it has a mystique I never found on other distros.

agent_flounder ,
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Or use Nobara and probably quite a bit less pain; meanwhile, stability for me has been …not as good as mint … But I havent tried to track it down either so maybe it’s just something simple.

Willdrick , in What makes Debian so different from its derivatives that gaming on it is almost an heroic task to achieve?

I have Debian on a secondary laptop and it’s rock solid. I’m really tempted to go debian on my main rig but keep the gaming stuff as flatpaks for more frequent updates

qyron OP ,

Debian was my daily driver for years. For fun I mostly ran games from the repos and out of boredom learned how to run Neverwinter Nights.

It was when gaming onnlinux gained more traction I moved to a derivative but Debian is Debian and I really want to go back.

cyberpunk007 , in Horizon Zero Dawn 1080p Ultra with FSR2 - 5900HX, 6800M - NixOS

Don’t know much about this game but tbh this looks rough by today’s standards. In my opinion, looks worse than the witcher 3 OG from 2025 or whatever. Maybe I’m missing the point? I don’t know what the latter acronyms are in the title.

theragu40 ,

5900HX: mobile Radeon CPU 6800M: mobile Radeon GPU

This game looks roughly equivalent to TW3 because it is roughly contemporary with TW3. (2015 vs 2017). HZD was well known for being a very pretty game in motion when it came out, though this video doesn’t really do it justice to be honest.

I imagine the point of the video is seeing the framerates on mobile hardware in Linux.

Polyester6435 , in Best Desktop Distro for Gaming?

I’ve used a couple different distros in my time on Linux (Debian, fedora, arch, artix, gentoo) and I could never tell the difference between the performance.

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