Be aware on kde with wayland that ps2 doesnt play nice with open windows in the background, for me anyway. I have to minimize anything else i might have open or suffer stuttering and frame drops.
Before you ask “why aren’t you running Starfield with Steam’s Proton Experimental or Proton-GE” let’s say I went out sailing yesterday and met a fellow legitimate sailor who was giving many people a great discount on the game.
In spite of this, before you try working all this out, I do want to make sure that you are aware: you can add Starfield from another vendor as a “Non-Steam Game”, still use Proton, and likely avoid all of it.
I’m not sure sadly, I don’t use Arch. I would expect there’s a way of uninstalling llvm16 and re-installing llvm15. Again, if you don’t need the hassle you can just use Flatpak steam for these games.
The only programs I know that call llvm during usual non-developer operation is radeon drivers. But in that case entire graphics system would be broken.
I believe you need to set the file association within the settings of your desktop manager. If you use KDE, you can find these in the Settings panel under Applications/File Associations
I don’t know about this specific Fedora situation, but you should really be using something like Lutris or Bottles to create individual prefixes for each game and use downloadable Wine versions to launch the games instead of your system Wine. That will avoid situations like this in the future.
Agreed. I use Lutris on 37, and play a bunch of stuff with no issues. Took me too long to figure out how to use the Lutris posts, but it’s been smooth sailing ever since.
You don’t need to install it with Lutris per se - as long as the files are already “installed” somewhere on your drive you can set it up in Lutris as a locally-installed game and just use Lutris as a Wine prefix manager. This is largely how I use Lutris - I don’t tend to use their installer scripts because I tend to already know how I want the install to go.
I understand that the 8.12 version of Wine is buggy, but by using a manager like Lutris or Bottles you’re able to use any Wine version you want in order to run the game, and you could just pick a different Wine version from the list without messing with your system Wine installation. If you don’t have time to mess with learning Lutris or Bottles right now that’s fair, but they’re generally a much better solution for this sort of problem, for now and for the future.
nobara is great! I am on arch now, but for a plug-and-play gaming system it works great. It really feels like a fedora gaming “spin” and honestly I think fedora should try to upstream changes into that kind of distro.
I agree. I enjoyed the Arch landscape and kind of thought that’s where I’d end up after the Steamdeck being so awesome. But It was just turning into too much time/work.
I do my gaming on Bookworm with a handful of extras, and it works very well.
There is a certain group of people who insist that only the distros with the latest packages are good for gaming. Those people are wrong in most cases.
Unless you have a very new GPU (released less than a year ago), your games are not likely to get any benefit from the latest kernel.
Unless your games require the very latest Vulkan features and you run them without Steam, Flatpak, or any other platform that provides its own Mesa, you’re not likely to get any benefit from a distro providing the latest version of it.
Practically everything else that games need is comparable across all the major distros, so choose one that makes you happy, not one that some shill claims is best for gaming. Even Debian Stable, contrary to the undeserved bashing it often gets by a certain kind of gamer, is generally excellent for gaming.
This is encouraging. I do have somewhat older hardware but you are right. Even updating the kernel for update sake in other distros don’t seem to bring me visible value other than just updating to the lasers available.
How would you have phrased it? I figured if I left “falsely” out, it would come off like the bans were intentional. But to be fair, I guess we don’t know if it’s intentional or a bug yet… but I imagine, and hope, it’s a bug.
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