I’m happy for the growth— but are we sure this isn’t just from the increased counts due to the steam deck?
I read further; “When looking at the Steam Linux breakdown, the SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck is now accounting for around 42% of all Linux gamers on Steam. “
The launcher hasn’t worked in over a year for me, it just refuses to log in. I think from what i ended up reading on reddit recently that it’s an mtu issue, but changing mtu also didn’t do anything. I might have to change something in a config file but i didn’t want to bother going through the trouble to get their stupid launcher working. I don’t really play their games anyway. Most of the games on my account are games that they gave away for free.
Just installed Pop OS a few days ago and already got the survey, so I guess I’m helping?
That said, gaming on Linux is still a bit too fiddly to set up for your average person. Out of the 6 games I played so far, I had to tinker with 3 of them to get them running, despite having none of these problems on a Steam Deck. Though the common theme seems to be non-Steam launchers (Ubisoft Connect, Riot Games and FFXIV) causing them.
For non-gaming purposes (browsing, programming, multimedia) on the other hand it’s been smooth sailing.
I’m still having some issues even though proton experimental was apparently updated. Trackmania just gets “Ubisoft Connect is not currently installed” when starting Trackmania.
Any suggestions? I’m on pop os
I’ve also tried rubbing Ubisoft Connect via Lutris but when hitting play it opens up a blank square on the screen and the launcher/login never come up.
Stupid Ubisoft, I just got into Linux a couple weeks ago as my daily driver and this was the first thing to make me boot back into Windows.
Thanks for the reply. I did try this and it wasn’t working but I tried reinstalling the game and that did work. It reset my settings and keybinds, it did keep openplanet but lost the plugins. Not a big deal. I had some weird issues with the game the last week or so. So maybe when ubisoft breaks it again the usual fix (like in this case waiting for the proton experimental update) will work without a reinstall.
Which polling rate on your mouse are you using? I‘ve read something about a couple of months ago that 1000 hz polling rate on proton could cause mouse input lag, I don‘t know if its still present, but give it a try lowering the rate
you are editing the right ini file by changing another setting and see if it takes effect in the game
something else like Mangohud is forcing vsync
If it you manage to turn of vsync and the mouse lag is gone you probably want to limit your frame rate to something close to your monitor refresh rate to minimize screen tearing. You could use Mangohud or libstrangle for that.
i’m now quite shure the ini tweaks are correct because i did it with the BethINI tool and i tried without mangohud (i can see frametime throu the shadowboost menu) still at 60 fps
oh sorry gorgot to mention i have tried the newest version of proton GE, proton experimental, proton 8 and 7. also nince i forgot my system specs are: Ryzen 7 3800x, Rtx 2080 super, an the game is on an nvme ssd
webcam i sadly can’t help you but on the gpu side i would try and search for a used one. i have an rtx 2080 super in my main system and an rtx 3050 ti in my laptop both seem to work fine under linux. i may have gotten lucky since i had no problems with the drivers. tldr in my experience 20 and 30 series rtx cards work.
i have linux running for about 1 year on my main pc and laptop. often when buying games i forget to check protondb because most game I play work fine. but i like to play bethesta games, farm sim and older ones also Cyberpunk runns fine on my system. some games may require you to tinker to get them running smooth. and i thankfully never ran into problems with the nvidia drivers for my 2080 super. all in all i would say the linux experiance is quite good overall for my case. as for distro i only have used arch for a longer period but from my tests and what i heared fedora(i tested it on an old laptop worked gread out of the box), PopOs(i tested on my old system (amd fx6300 ,gtx980) ran fine), mint(never tried it myself but people say it’s quite good) and EndeavourOS(same as mint)
for anyone reading this you can install mo2 and vortex via steamtinkerlaunch was the easiest and stable for me the lutris installers were really outdated and crashed all the time
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