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drmoose ,

I love my Steamdeck so much. Been like 2 years now? still rocking every game I want to play.

Playing through ZenlessZoneZero rn which isn’t even officially supported in any extent and runs flawlessly! Also it’s a real computer that you can do real work on.

SteveFromMySpace ,

Have you been able to make any tweaks to the settings or something that makes the transition from gaming mode to desktop mode more reliable? I particularly have issues when I go from docked to undocked. The resolution gets borked randomly and other silliness like that

Sabin10 ,

I find that happens if my docked and undocked resolution scales are not the same.

SteveFromMySpace ,

Right but why would I ever have my computer monitor set to the deck’s resolution?

Sabin10 ,

Resolution scale, not resolution. On my monitor I run a 4k resolution with a 125% resolution scale. When I undock the resolution scale stays at 125% so everything looks too large on the decks display.

IndiBrony ,
@IndiBrony@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve been playing OG PS2 San Andreas. Absolutely loving it ❤️

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

My Steam Deck has been awesome, money very well spent.

And Valve has made a good chunk of money off me since buying it too lol. I keep getting games specifically for the Deck.

drmoose ,

I bought like 200 games since I had mine though mostly indie and actually played a lot of them! I spend quite a bit of time traveling and it’s awesome to play some strategy with the trackpad - the trip just flies by!

runjun ,

I upgraded my PC and now I barely touch my steam deck. The money spent on it is still VERY worth it. Even if I never touched it again, I use it when traveling, I would still be unbelievably satisfied with my purchase.

tomkatt ,

Same. I was very impressed by the games that work despite being unsupported. Heck, I’ve got Rainbow Six: Vegas working on it with gamepad support. I couldn’t even do that in Windows.

Cris_Color ,
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world avatar

Are there people telling linux folks to stop enjoying linux gaming…? I say ask as a linux person

scrubbles ,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

Maybe I’m vain, but I posted a post a couple days ago celebrating my success with Linux gaming. So many games are like here.

You know it’s not ready for VR yet. yeah I played VR for about a month 4 years ago and that was enough.

You can’t play games with anti cheat personally I don’t play many of those, but obviously if you do that will play into your decision

Anyway, people are always negative about everything, especially against things other people like

mortalic ,

For real though I’d like a VR system (modern) that can use the steam store natively.

tabular , (edited )
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

I doubt that literally is a significant concern.

When I can’t join others is when I hear confusion as to why I use GNU+Linux, and disappointment when I refuse to use Windows to play a certain game.

onlinepersona ,

I have a buddy who kept asking me to install windows in order to play one of those rootkit games. Had to disappoint him every time. No fucking way am I doing that. Fuck that.

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tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

I’m trying to cut back on proprietary software until I’m only using free software but I make a small exception for some games (usually bought by friends, or to play with them).

laurelraven ,

Except a lot of anti cheat now supports Linux. Destiny 2 doesn’t run on Linux only because Bungie refuses to allow it, their AC supports Linux just fine now

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

there is also other games that dont run on linux

Roblox (sober works which is a workaround),Fortnite (Tim Sweeney hates linux from what i heard),and more

Laborer3652 ,

But the steam deck really disproves the notion that Linux can’t run these games. The companies that make them choose not to support Linux, and in that way its not really Linux’s fault that the games don’t work.

chakrila ,

see also: areweanticheatyet.com

_____ ,

The sheer power of instantly switching desktops in Linux makes the windows user afraid.

But I have seen a lot of old windows heads look at Linux for gaming performance where Microsoft is failing them with bloatware such as copilot.

I don’t think the rootkit anti cheats would ever work to a level windows games developers want it to on Linux though.

MasterNerd , (edited )
@MasterNerd@lemm.ee avatar

To be fair there still is a lot of tinkering involved to get gaming on Linux working properly (unless you’re on the steamdeck, but even them you’ll have to tinker for anything that’s not verified). Switching proton runners, changing launch options, fighting updates. It’s definitely more than most people are willing to deal with. For me personally, I’ve had to stop updating my video drivers because Nvidia 555 causes all Proton games to crash for me.

I enjoy the experience of tinkering and troubleshooting, so I’m okay with all that, but I completely understand why most people wouldn’t want to use Linux for gaming.

Womble ,

I honestly cant remember the last time I bought a game and it didnt just work with no tinkering on proton. Though I am on AMD not Nvidia which makes things a lot easier.

PancakeBrock ,

Ive had a handfull of games that work on steam deck but had to tinker on my laptop. Cyberpunk would crash on the first splash screen and stormworks would only run on my igpu and not dedicated. But also im also using nvidia.

MasterNerd ,
@MasterNerd@lemm.ee avatar

I guess this could also be based on the distro you use as well as your graphics card. For me, I use EndeavourOS, which is very close to base arch, so I had to do some extra setup to get proton working on it. For some reason, Proton refused to work on the Arch repo’s Steam package, so I had to use the flatpak version instead

noobdoomguy8658 ,
@noobdoomguy8658@feddit.org avatar

Pure Arch here, no issues with Proton whatsoever.

Any chance this could have been related to EndeavourOS in any way? Like with something pre-installed?

I’m just being curious and throwing ideas here.

MasterNerd ,
@MasterNerd@lemm.ee avatar

The only thing really preinstalled is basic stuff like desktop environments and a few tools to help with updates and manage the system (eos-update, etc). Even almost all the package repositories are the ones maintained by arch.

CubitOom ,

I’m on EndeavourOS with an Nvidia gpu. I’ve not had to do anything extra for the the version of proton that comes with steam to work besides install the os with the Nvidia proprietary drivers. And then running eos-update --aur --nvidia

I did notice that I got a lot of screen tearing if using Wayland and that more recent versions of proton didn’t work if either Force Composition Pipeline or Force Full Composition Pipeline were enabled; which should have fixed the screentearing so I just use x11 for now.

There are some things I did to make my experience better however. Like installing an proton-ge. Here is a list of what I installed.


<span style="color:#323232;">nvidia-dkms
</span><span style="color:#323232;">nvidia-settings
</span><span style="color:#323232;">libva-nvidia-driver </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># required by vlc to play mkv files with nvidia gpu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">nvidia-tweaks </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># https://github.com/ventureoo/nvidia-tweaks
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lib32-nvidia-utils
</span><span style="color:#323232;">gamemode
</span><span style="color:#323232;">proton-ge-custom-bin
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lib32-libudev0-shim </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># fixes Steam runtime's super old 32 bit version of libnm
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lib32-libnm </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># required if using systemd 253.5-2 or newer
</span>

I would also install nvidia-dracut-hook if you are using both Nvidia and dracut. Dracut is the default on recent versions on endeavorOS.

For proton ge, I also added myself to the games group with


<span style="color:#323232;">sudo usermod $USER -a -G games
</span>

I also like to prepend the following to my games launch options in steam


<span style="color:#323232;">gamemoderun PROTON_CONFIG=dxr11,dxr PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11,dxr VKD3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_KHR_present_id,VK_KHR_present_wait VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_1 VKD3D_SHADER_MODEL=6_6
</span>

And I set proton-ge as my default proton version on the steam options.

OR3X ,

I’m on Nvidia and have had the same experience as you. Everything just works.

noobdoomguy8658 ,
@noobdoomguy8658@feddit.org avatar

Mostly that for me on Nvidia (proprietary drivers), although 555 broke my 2nd DVI-D monitor (which is admittedly old, but I don’t have any reasons to replace the little guy).

Nevertheless, I’m very set on getting an AMD GPU whenever I have to replace my GTX 1080 from 2017.

OR3X ,

I’m unfortunately stuck with Nvidia for the time-being because I need NVENC.

Moghul ,

Yup. I know exactly what you mean. I bought Nobody Wants to Die, which is rated platinum on protondb, and it just crashes within 1 second of startup for me. 3h of fucking around with proton versions, launch arguments, even tried lutris, nothing. The only error I could see took me to a stackoverflow thread about vga to dvi adapter issues and the fix was not relevant. My protontricks is apparently also broken which I have no idea why or when it broke.

I got it refunded, it is what it is. I’ll look into fixing my protontricks when I have more time…

laurelraven ,

Funnily enough, I’ve had almost this exact same thing happen… On Windows. More than once. Spending days getting it to run hardly at all and weeks trying to figure out how to make it run well. On modern hardware, with both old and new games alike.

I’ve not had that much trouble yet with Linux gaming, with only a few exceptions where I needed to tweak a couple things stuff has pretty much just worked.

Moghul ,

I’ve never rarely ever had that except one or two games in the last 15 years…

iorale ,

Same for me with DRG and Dolphin+XLinkKai+ZeroTier, they just didn’t work for me on Fedora 40 no matter how much tinkering I did.
Lemmy’s response? sKiLl IsSuE.
Well sheesh… Seems I’ll stick to Windows since I lack the skills to use Linux then.

my_hat_stinks ,

I’m on Mint with a nvidia card, I haven’t really had to do any tweaks since I stopped trying to install games on an NTFS-formatted drive and nearly every game works perfectly out of the box. There’s a lot of very loud voices complaining about nvidia/tinkering but it’s definitely not universal; you won’t necessarily need to put in a lot of effort to get games to work on Linux.

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

agree

frezik ,

On my Ubuntu system, I installed Steam. That was it, the things I want mostly work.

chakrila , (edited )

am I wrong in thinking it’s as [e:/s/easy/simple] as “encrypt your drives, keep two partitions, and boot into windows when you need to play something with a kernel anticheat” ? this is what I do today for League whenever i’m in the mood for an ARAM

e: and actually you don’t even need to encrypt your drives, that’s just going beyond if you’re concerned about what the kernel anticheat might try to do

Rolder ,

For the vast majority of people, that isn’t easy at all.

chakrila , (edited )

yeah but that’s just a usability problem that a guided installer wizard could fix

e: and besides, if your solution to that issue is ‘i’d rather not play’ or ‘that’s really inconvenient’ or ‘whoa slow down buddy not everyone is a GRUB wizard’… then that’s not a compelling sell of ‘just switch over’, is it?

jbk ,

especially if all those windows dual booting experiences from over 10 years ago which is now misinformation wasn’t kept commented like every time someone brings up dual booting

uranibaba ,

It is simple but not convenient. I don’t want to dual boot. I’d rather not play the game at all if that is my only option.

CubitOom ,

It should be, but I’ve had too many issues with windows somehow updating and ruining my boot partion/grub.

If I want to run windows, I only run it on a VM with hardware passthrough or on a totally different machine since physically unseating my Linux M.2 from the motherboard is too much hassle and I don’t want to move it to a PCIe card.

LANIK2000 ,

Personally haven’t encountered a game that wouldn’t run, so as far as I’m concerned it runs anything. I’m not going to shed any tears over Fortnite.

Ibaudia ,
@Ibaudia@lemmy.world avatar

Checks ProtonDB

So I’m missing out on Destiny, PUBG, CoD, Siege, Battlefield, and Lost Ark… Yeah I’m totally okay with that personally. There are thousands of other games I’d rather be playing and they all work great.

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

Same most of the games that dont work on linux/proton are pretty bad and boring anyways

h3mlocke ,

I like linux but this is stoopid.

Mwa ,
@Mwa@thelemmy.club avatar

I remember seeing someone in a comments section say why bother use linux for gaming bro got destroyed by the replies lol ‎ he also called linux users ekittens 💀

SaharaMaleikuhm ,

Elden Ring works. Crashed on me for the first time yesterday. I went to bed immediately. Thanks Elden Ring.

franklin ,
@franklin@lemmy.world avatar

Wow, that’s more stable than it was on my Windows machine. It crashed, like, 6ish times during my playthrough but this was immediately on release, so it might have gotten better since then.

ayaya ,
@ayaya@lemdro.id avatar

I have been playing through Elden Ring again with a friend using the seamless co-op mod and my friend on Windows gets (what we assume is) shader compilation stutter in every new area while my game has been smooth as butter.

BarbecueCowboy ,

I know this won’t work for everyone, but I just quit playing games that don’t work or even from publishers that do shitty things and there’s still plenty of games out there. There’s a lot of shovelware out there, but there’s also a lot of good stuff out there.

noobdoomguy8658 ,
@noobdoomguy8658@feddit.org avatar

I think it’s worth advocating for quitting shitty games, though.

Out of many friends I’ve had who (used to) frequent games like PUBG, Dota 2, League of Legends, Valorant, Overwatch, etc., most were just having a bad time, all the time. Granted, some of these work on Linux, but the point is, those of my friends that still play Overwatch (“2”, lol) just seem to be happier and more functional when they have to quit for some period of time.

I’ve been having a much better time with my life once I went for the good old enjoyment rather than chasing rank or wins or skill, finally making time to play amazing single-player titles again or just screwing around in online games.

And curiously enough, the online games I actually want to play and have fun doing so are the ones that work on Linux, while the rest thankfully refuses!

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Well it’s not wrong.

I switched over my steam and epic games to my Linux install and there’s plenty of games I can’t play because of the anti-cheat or other issues. Can’t install my EA games at all.

Still made the switch and hoping things will catch up as time goes on.

Karyoplasma ,

The only EA game that is worth playing is C&C Generals anyway.

Z3k3 ,

That’s cool games thar require anti cheat measures or have sports are generally speaking games I’m not interested in as a rule.

gregor ,
@gregor@gregtech.eu avatar

Hell yea brother!

themeatbridge ,

“We need kernel access to prevent cheaters from ruining our game” is the dating equivalent to a guy asking for your phone password on the first date.

Z3k3 ,

It’s not even that. I have zero interest in multilayer games even less so “seasonal” games. Basically all the stuff AAA says is dead I like and all the stuff they say I should like I dislike

thisbenzingring ,

The season nomenclature is fucking stupid and I hate it. If a game makes its DLC or quarterly updates and calls them “Seasons” I am revolted.

gpstarman ,

This is what made Clash of Clans alien to me.

naticus ,

I will say that in general I also agree, but there are games where I have been completely okay with it, like DRG. But those updates are always free and really just define (formerly) time period in which a long-term event is contained within. I do love that the latest season is really more of a chapter than a season since you can pick and choose whenever you want to jump into whichever season you want to play and progress through. Only seasonal events have time constraints now.

This is particularly nice since my DRG group has moved to playing Grounded instead, with the occasional DRG night and don’t want to feel tethered to a release schedule.

onlinepersona ,

More like asking for access to your email and keys and phone pin code, or (if people have it) their password wallet, to make sure you aren’t hooking up with other guys on the side.

Just as crazy

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NafiTheBear ,
@NafiTheBear@pawb.social avatar

I’m one of the guys on the couch.

Mazoku ,

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