Steam using CPU to process vulkan shaders instead of GPU? (kbin.social)
Hey all, I have a RTX 3060 and a Ryzen 5600G and I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. Since Steam has shader pre-processing on Linux I thought I'd ask on a Linux gaming community about this. I noticed that when Steam processes Vulkan shaders, it uses the CPU (my CPU heats up a lot and the process manager shows CPU being used while GPU is not...
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launching titanfall through steam opens an ea app installer and then immediately crashes
I have installed the ea app through lutris, but when I click on titanfall in steam it says it is running ea app installer, a popup ea window opens and crashes immediatly
Steam Link broken on linux? Anyone have experience?
I set up Steam Link on my raspberry pi to try and do some couch gaming over the holiday… but its no bueno. I am on a 5600x/6700xt with wayland on linux, and steam is up to date....
Alan Wake 2 on Lutris, with a 7800XT. How to raytracing? Fix textures?
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Wine-GE-Proton8-24 Released (github.com)
HOTFIX:...
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NVK Gaming - MGS V High Stable 60 FPS - 7945HX 4090M (video.hardlimit.com)
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NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance (www.collabora.com)
NVK Debug Test vs Nvidia - Final Fantasy XIV - 7945HX 4090M (For the devs - I thought people might be interested though) (video.hardlimit.com)
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Suggestions for a wireless headset, anyone? (lemmy.world)
One of the challenges when it comes to switching gaming setups from the Windows world to Linux, is fully-featured hardware support....
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Wine-GE-Proton8-23 Released (github.com)
Added yakuza 5 cutscenes fix (thanks NishiyamaPedro) gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/…/4244...
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GE-Proton8-24 Released (github.com)
Added protonfix for Fable III...
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Playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Anomaly 1.5.2 on Linux
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NVK Gaming - Mass Effect 1 @ 1680x1050 - Stable 60 FPS - 7945HX 4090M (video.hardlimit.com)
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Vulkan Support Begins Landing For Wine's Wayland Driver (www.phoronix.com)
A few days ago the Wine Wayland driver merged HiDPI support improvements and now for ending out the week is yet more work to land for Wine’s Wayland driver: the first bits of Vulkan enablement…
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NVK Gaming - Shadow of Mordor @ 2560x1600 Ultra, 7945HX 4090M (video.hardlimit.com)
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NVK Gaming - Valheim Ultra @ 1920x1200- 7945HX 4090M (video.hardlimit.com)
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Can somebody help explain why this is happening? (lemmy.world)
It doesn’t look like I can install non linux games even though proton is enabled
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The fact that I could just install linux and run my current game with (almost) zero issues impresses me immensely!
The only issues I’ve had were audio related, first the soundcard wouldn’t work and I switched to a USB mixer, but after waking the computer this morning the USB mixer won’t work and now I have to use the magically working built in sound card. What’s that about?...
Proton Experimental fixes controls in Starfield and supports Assassin's Creed Mirage (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Works Around Bugs For Unreal Engine (www.phoronix.com)
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TR1X (formerly Tomb1Main), open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider (1996), releases version 3.0 with Linux support (Linked version: 3.0.2) (github.com)
Note that I’ve linked the latest version at the time of writing this (3.0.2), the original 3.0 version with its changelog is available here: github.com/LostArtefacts/TR1X/releases/tag/3.0...
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ProtonDB now accepts Chromebook reports (www.protondb.com)
Consider Supporting Plasma 6 - KDE Community (kde.org)
While not being directly related to Linux gaming, this does effect gaming in various ways. From Plasma getting features like HDR, Compositor Hand-offs, Crash Recovery that protects against progress loss, true Hibernation and a mega-ton more, to contributions to various Wayland protocols & advancement to Linux as a whole, to...
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OpenSuse Tumbleweed Gaming Advice (or in general)
Hey guys,...