you know what you need to do, start drawing.

So I keep hearing. Here’s hoping it ends up being the case.

Switched entirely over to linux mid-cyberpunk playthrough and the game just about barely holds 60 fps in places where it used to be in the 90’s on Windows. :P

This driver had the vk heap descriptor -thingydoods? does DXVK or VKD3D have those implemented yet?

I guess I need to put it into game argument? That did not work :/…

put it as environment variable in game’s settings in heroic. https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/Environment-Variables

this of course only works if you’re using proton AND wayland (EDIT: regular valve’s proton doesn’t have this, btw. only some souped up forks, like proton-ge)

“mouse flickers like crazy” … as in, mouse cursor shows & disappears rapidly?

if by chance you mean that the mouse motion isn’t smooth, it could be a wayland/xwayland issue. I’ve came accross few older games where the mouse movement stutters noticeably, but if I use PROTON_USE_WAYLAND=0 so the game will run with xwayland, it’s smooth as butter.

Ooh, nice. I’ve been wanting to play Drakan again. Gotta bookmark this for when I can get the game files, lost my original cd ages go :/

is the game configured to use wine or proton? which version?

if I’m not mistaken, the game uses ddraw instead of d3d, so dxvk probably doesn’t help here.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082 - it seems like this is a fairly long standing issue. Though, apparently if you can blindly navigate through the menus, the game should work otherwise? Hardly ideal, though.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2082#c181 - the later comments on the thread seem to have some solutions to get the game working “more properly”

edit: though, as the other comments have pointed out, devilutionx is probably the way to go. TIL about it as well.

even current steamdeck / steamos can run basically any desktop apps. I’ve seen some folks even run kdenlive (nle video editing app) on it, obvs using mouse&keyboard rather than the “gamepad”. While it’s gaming first ui, it does have a regular desktop too.

As for literally word/excel? Not sure, but doubt it. Reasonable alternatives like libreoffice or others? Absolutely.

seems like it, it’s one of the mascots shown on their website: https://supertuxkart.net/Discover

on that note, but at a bit of a tanget: apparently SuperTuxKart has football mode now

I haven’t checked it out yet, but it apparently came out in the fairly recent 1.5 patch - and it looks pretty similar, might scratch the same itch. Dunno how active the playerbase is.

got to wonder what’s going on, got multiple email notifications today about updating the 10-13 version which was released few days ago. Seemingly the files on the releases-page got updated too

Point & click, beer? I feel targeted, but damn if that doesn’t look like fun. Wishlisted so hard. Thanks for posting!

Depends. I’m still keeping win10 (but haven’t booted into it in months), just in case when on a game night something refuses to work on linux and I can just boot to windows and game with my friends. I’m not going to start troubleshooting then and there, doubly because in general alcohol is involved during those friday night gaming sessions.

The day for repurposing those partitions is coming closer though.

It’s not an unreasonable to think that a backup os is a good thing to have, even if in this case it’s the one (most likely) being the reason Bazzite broke.

Now, I did listen to the video on my way to work, so I might have missed some details, but after checking the comments it seems like Jay’s performance wasn’t really where it should have been. Got to wonder if there’s some funky gotcha with the gpu module or proton settings.

Also, does Bazzite default to xorg or wayland? I honestly have no idea.

If you installed it from flatpak theres probably some permissions you need to set. Otherwise I dunno.

Yea I have done that, but logging into the launcher (and it apparently keeps it logged in as well) unlocks in-game items - they are entirely non-essential, but… you know, hoarding.

I haven’t tested yet if that’s even the thing which is showing me in-game to my friends. I was kinda amazed to hear they saw me playing cyberpunk to the early morning hours :D

heroic overall seems to work better for installing games from gog, but the odd issue I have is that I seem to be always online on gog’s service when I’m playing games. Do you happen to know if there’s any way to set myself invisible? I don’t want everyone to know how often or late I play games :P

I guess technically signing out of the storefront would do that, but then I’d have to re-login to install/update games, eh

edit: oh derr, it dawned on me that it might be the Cyberpunk launcher which I had to login as well, which shows me online

make sure first that it isn’t issue with specific games, some may require some proton flags to be set for them to behave properly. Or just newer/older proton/wine.

in general worth a try to switch the compatibility thingy (technical term),

steam, in game’s properties:

but similar option is in lutris/heroic too.

Everything this.

Personally nonissue since I don’t play any of those online/pvp games

IMO, basically any distro with fairly modern (fairly often updated) packages should do. Apart from some build/packaging differences it’s all same software anyway. The gaming side of software gets updated fairly often, so that’s why you’d probably want frequently updated packages.

“Gaming” distros are basically just selection of gaming specific packages installed as default, instead of lets say productivity apps. You can run VM’s in gaming/studio/whatever distros

FWIW, I got 5800x3D, RTX3090 - so, “close enough” same system as you. At least same series cpu/gpu. Running Arch, and gaming has been pretty easy, haven’t yet found a game which didn’t work - that said, some occasional game has had odd stutters (Darktide, for one. But I haven’t tested in months).

Getting things to run did get a bit more involved than “just click it”. Some extra compatibility stuff (proton-ge-custom), launchers (lutris, heroic, because GoG Galaxy just refuses to work). Steam & steam-games tend to “just work”, although actual native-linux games seem to have issues while running the windows-version of the same game on proton just work - WEIRD.

But overall, stuff works, and in case of issues it now just seems to be either disabling ntsync and/or wayland for specific games and gaming away.