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mudle , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Assuming when you created the bottle, you chose “gaming”, it will use “soda” as it’s default runner, which is based off of proton. Maybe try going into preferences, runners, then click on “Soda”, and try messing around with different versions.

According to the latest ProtonDB reports of Ape Out, Proton 8.0-5 was being used. Looking at my available “Soda” runners in bottles, I see soda-8.0-2,soda-9.0-1, and soda-experimental_8.0 as the latest runners available. I would try using those runners as a start.

Also, (I only now just noticed it), under preferences, in General, there is an “Integrations” section. Under that there’s “Steam Proton Prefixes”, which (I assume) allows you to use Proton prefixes.

Here are the following commands, depending on your installation method of Steam to give permissions to Steam’s path if it doesn’t have it already.

Steam non-Flatpak:

flatpak override --user com.usebottles.bottles --filesystem=xdg-data/Steam

Steam Flatpak:

flatpak override --user com.usebottles.bottles --filesystem=~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam

Alternatively you can use Flatseal and add the path: ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam

mudle , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Happy to help!

It runs at 3–5 fps, and the CPU is maxed

Do you have a GPU or are you running the game on integrated graphics? Running on integrated graphics can definitely be the issue here but It’s more likely that it’s shader compilation however.

mudle , 10 days ago

You can check if it’s using the Discrete GPU by going into “Details” in your game’s bottle, then go into “settings”, and make sure that the toggle for “Discrete Graphics” is turned on. You can also set an environment variable; DRI_PRIME=1. Also might want to check your HDMI or DP cable is plugged into your GPU. You could also try checking GPU usage while the game is running, and seeing if it’s using your GPU at all.

You said you moved to Fedora from Pop_OS; If you are using an Nvidia GPU, you might want to check if you’ve got the Nvidia Proprietary drivers installed or the Nouveau drivers. You can check this by running lsmod | grep nvidia in a terminal. If you get any output whatsoever then you’re using the Nvidia Proprietary drivers, which is what you want for gaming.

If it is a shader issue; in the same “settings” in bottles make sure DXVK and VKD3D aren’t disabled. There’s no real way to bypass shader compiling. All your games need to compile shaders.

mudle , 9 days ago

The only times I’ve encountered a game or program not launching via Bottles, it had to do with missing dependencies and/or other issues with the installer.

SteamDB has a list of dependencies that are used for Ape Out, of which you can try adding to your Bottle.

However, I would try running the game in Lutris; In Lutris, if you encounter issues with the game, you can click on “show logs” which will (hopefully) help you out a great deal. Lutris uses their own runtime which is primarily pulled from Valve’s Steam runtime (IIRC), saving you from having to hunt for dependencies (if missing dependencies are the issue).

mudle , 9 days ago

Sorry for the trouble

No problem! I’m glad I could help :)

Do lutris always download user-made scripts, or is it just if you select it?

Lutris does not automatically download user-made scripts; you have to add them manually.

mudle , 13 days ago

Undoubtedly

mudle , 17 days ago

Streaming games to my living room just got a whole lot better😎

mudle OP , 17 days ago

LMAO. Microsoft really mad Windows Server and won’t even use that crap themselves.

mudle OP , 17 days ago

I don’t think it ships with a desktop environment by default; I think they’re just referring to the Qt framework. If it is mentioning a desktop environment - it’s probably LXQt.

mudle OP , 19 days ago

For those curious about the “Memory on Package”; this isn’t soldered on RAM. The RAM is integrated into the CPU package itself. This can be a good thing; improved performance and power efficiency, increased memory bandwidth which allows the CPU to talk to the RAM at insane speeds due to how close the RAM and CPU are to each other . The downside to all of this, is you can’t upgrade the RAM. Intel’s probably gonna pull an Apple, and charge you an insane amount for more RAM. Also, currently they only support memory capacities of 16GB and 32GB.

mudle OP , 19 days ago

You can thank AMD for that.

From AMD:

Console-Class Gaming on the Go: Built-in AMD Radeon 800M graphics are the world’s best graphics for gaming^8^, ensuring top-tier gaming experiences with high frame rates and ultra-low latency.

Source: amd.com/…/2024-6-2-amd-unveils-next-gen-zen-5-ryz…

mudle , 20 days ago

If you’re only going to pick Pop!_OS or Manjaro, I’d suggest you go with Pop!_OS. The Manjaro team has been very weird, and made some poor decisions in recent years. I’ve had a very good experience messing around with Pop on an Nvidia GPU.

mudle , 20 days ago

Or as I’ve taken to calling it; GNU+Linux

mudle OP , 23 days ago

I just hope they don’t update their previous titles to require a PSN account.

mudle OP , 26 days ago

Yes. It means we have better compatibility with DirectX shaders on Linux. It enables a unified shader development workflow across platforms. Developers can focus on HLSL without worrying about different shader languages for Windows and Linux.

mudle , 26 days ago

I’m still in shock how quickly they have progressed.

mudle OP , 27 days ago

The first “2” probably indicates that it’s a sequel. “Ship” probably refers to the developers, “Harbour Masters” who made “Ship of Harkinian”, the PC port of Ocarina of Time. The second “2” (I’m not too sure on this) might again, refer to it being a sequel, and “Harkinian” is likely taken from “King Harkinian” from the old Zelda CD-i games.

mudle , 29 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

Since you have Nvidia you’ll want to use the Nvidia proprietary drivers for the best performance. The open source driver for Nvidia (nouveau) is awful when it comes to gaming performance, unfortunately. (Although this will soon be fixed with NVK)

Depending on your distro of choice, you’ll need to figure out whether you want Secure Boot on or not. I believe Windows 10 doesn’t require Secure Boot to be enabled, but I think Windows 11 does. So depending on how frequent you want to be booting into Windows this might be a bit of an annoyance. You can leave Secure Boot disabled and use the Nvidia Proprietary drivers as-is, but if you want to enable Secure Boot you’ll have to sign the Kernel yourself - it’s a pretty straight forward process.

I recommend you try to keep Secure Boot enabled for the added benefit of security and ease of use when dual-booting, but if you don’t want to go through the hassle of signing your own Kernel, then simply leaving Secure Boot disabled when in Linux will suffice.

I recommend against using Ubuntu because of Canonical’s many poor decisions with Ubuntu. I won’t get into it right now, but if you’re comfortable with Ubuntu don’t let me stop you from using it.

In reality, you can use whatever distro you want. One distro isn’t inherently better at gaming then another. It’s a matter of configuration.

mudle , 29 days ago

I would say wait to buy an AMD card (but you do you). Wayland Explicit Sync is out in the 555 driver, and NVK is cooking.

mudle , 1 month ago

As per your request, PoVoq, I am volunteering to help moderate this community@[email protected]

mudle , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

TLDR; It started as a young teen who just wanted to get games for free; It continues because companies don’t give two flying hoots about me.

Currently, I pirate because I can’t rightfully give any money to these anti-consumer companies that will only victimize me. I can’t own anything anymore, and this absolutely frustrates me. If I could own the media I purchase, I wouldn’t pirate anymore. (by this I mean I wouldn’t pirate the media I consume. I’d still data hoard because it’s a literal addiction, please help!!)

I don’t pirate games anymore; or better said, I rarely pirate games, and when I do they’re ran in a VM with VFIO because I really don’t like the idea of running arbitrary code on my system; even though we have reputable, vetted, and trustworthy groups. (As a general rule, I don’t trust what I can’t verify.) I buy all my games on Steam for convenience, and I opt to use Goldberg’s Steam Emulator (which is open source!!) to store backups of my games, and this setup works wonderfully! I stay away from games with invasive DRM like Denuvo (I play these in a VM), and I’ve long stopped buying EA and Ubisoft games. The only forms of media I pirate nowadays are movies, and music (and the occasional game).

mudle , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

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mudle OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Wow. I’ve gotten quite a few Steam Survey requests throughout the years; from what I can tell, it picks users ‘at random’. I’ve also read very mixed things on whether or not you can do it yourself, eg; go into settings and choose to do it?? Or run some command/dialog on Steam startup??

mudle OP , 1 month ago

I take pride in being able to represent Linux through a “stupid hardware survey.”