I mostly play TF2 and Cyberpunk though.
Both run well(I had to troubleshoot CP77 for like a day though)
Id play fallout4 more but I have issues installing Mod organizer2.
>Id play fallout4 more but I have issues installing Mod organizer2.
I remember reading that modding bethesda games on linux was really hard, that true anon?
iDK Im relativelly new to linux and Fallout 4 is the first bethesda game i tried modding.
Im using a guide to install MO2 but I get an error .
And looking it up Im told that some package or whatever is outdated even though it clearly isnt.
But yeah afaik none of the main mod managers are nativelly supported on linux.
Fallout4 anon here again
It is probably possible to manually mod the game(like how I did to cyberpunk)
But I have no experience manually modding fallout games and dont plan on learning how to do it on Fallout4
>It is probably possible to manually mod the game(like how I did to cyberpunk)
NOT A GOOD IDEA, modding bethesda games manually, more than just texture pack is quite literally impossible
I tried to switch to Ubuntu again from Windows and my bluetooth dongle doesn't work. I could buy another dongle that works, but frick that.
It's not that I don't know how Linux works, I use Centos every day at my job. But using it, or rather, trying to use it as a desktop, is a trial of patience. I suppose it's easy enough to use Linux when you simply cross off doing anything that Linux can't do but I'm just stunned to see that in 2023 it is scarcely more usable than it was in 2005.
no, it's a kernel issue.
This isn't my thread but it's the same exact problem I have. I thought it was a problem with my go-to distro at first (Q4OS) but it's the same on 'Buntu.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=280693
And it's not the only problem I've had with Linux by far.
My mom's acer's touchpad doesn't work, for instance. Sometimes numlock is on when I turn on the PC, sometimes not.
I've had problems playing native games on Steam, NWN kept crashing my laptop, Dota 2 was the same, TF2 on my aging desktop kept crashing even though it ran without a peep on Windows... and i'm not talking about shit from 10 years ago, this was in 2020 maybe.
HL1 mods like USS Darkstar didn't work... HL2 mods had to run in D3D mode, so they ran like dogshit...
To this day, the only two games on Linux that have never given me any shit are Doom, Quake, and for some reason RCTW which ran perfectly fine thru Proton.
I don't mind troubleshooting now and again but when I have to troubleshoot literally everything that's more complex than a web browser, it becomes insufferable... I'm starting to think that people who say Linux is perfectly good for games are people with expensive hardware who basically ride through Linux's many problems with sheer hardware power.
I'm playing EVE Online, a little Everquest II and trying to resist the urge to play some League of Legends.
Recently did a proper install of Arch. I'm only using a sudo account to install software and setup things, and a non privileged account for general use. Implemented some tweaking and other security measures. Using a xanmod kernel with bore cpu scheduler, which seems pretty good so far. Oh, and I quit using wayland and am sticking with xorg because it's better in general for gaming.
Can someone with a amd gpu read through this thread and confirm that it works by just using xrandr? Works as in you could emulate a game in wine that isn't 1920x1080p and play it in it's native aspect ratio with letterboxing. You cannot do this with with nvidia, It just doesn't work. Please
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=366662
So what's the final solution to the audio/video codec question?
I swear 99% of problems for Linux gaming are video cutscenes not playing properly because of some in-built video player tarding out.
Has Valve got a solution? This can't go on forever.
Most of them works now. Although, I'm not a fan of how Valve handled it in some cases, they sometime serve some transcoded videos in their compat data. That quite annoying if you have the game from itch, gog or pirated.
>they sometime serve some transcoded videos in their compat data
I've yet to understand how they even do this. For games that have loose video files, maybe, but what about ones that have them shoved into weird archive formats?
Surely they're not relying on users to upload the videos.
They have a gstreamer plugin called media-converter. They do not replace games files but provide alternative transcoded videos or audio. The incoming video data is put into a file, it also hash it, if a transcoded video/audio for that hash is found in the compat dir, then that video/audio stream is replaced by the transcoded one.
1. Steam Deck owners (being the only Linux users that most publishers will acknowledge) need to recognize that broken video playback is nearly always the result of a game developer's decision, not just some random Linux bug, and should leave negative reviews on games that have this problem. Doesn't work on Steam Deck, thumbs down. It's that simple.
2. A platform-agnostic substitute for Valve's video transcoding thing would help, but I don't know how feasible this is.
So what's the final solution to the audio/video codec question?
I swear 99% of problems for Linux gaming are video cutscenes not playing properly because of some in-built video player tarding out.
Has Valve got a solution? This can't go on forever.
Most of them works now. Although, I'm not a fan of how Valve handled it in some cases, they sometime serve some transcoded videos in their compat data. That quite annoying if you have the game from itch, gog or pirated.
The problem isn't that you "can't" play the videos, the problem is that you "CAN'T" play the videos. By this mean the problem is usually not technical, but legal, most troublesome videos use Microsoft's media foundation codecs and you can't play them outside windows due to licensing. You'd think the dominant platform making a codec that can't be played on other platforms would be illegal but...
The actual problem is game developers using those proprietary codecs that no one forces them to use. Probably because they don't know any better.
"Huh? What do you mean Steam Deck and Linux don't come with Windows Media Player??"
I spent 10 hours trying to set up a dns within my private network in your piece of shit garbage os and still couldn't do it because it kept turning on dhcp and messing up all my devices.
Solved it in Windows 10 with just two clicks.
How about you turn off DHCP in your router if you don't want DHCP, dumdum. Also, not Vidya
The actual problem is game developers using those proprietary codecs that no one forces them to use. Probably because they don't know any better.
"Huh? What do you mean Steam Deck and Linux don't come with Windows Media Player??"
>It's the fault of the possibly crunching developers using something supported in their target platform, not the trillion dollar company abusing its market position to make others worse
CK3 keeps crashing on me, both native and proton, x11 and wayland I don't know what to try, I already disabled vsync in a config file
Let me get out my crystal ball... At least give some basic hardware and driver information, install inxi and run "inxi -G" give game logs, mention if other 3D games work
I mostly play TF2 and Cyberpunk though.
Both run well(I had to troubleshoot CP77 for like a day though)
Id play fallout4 more but I have issues installing Mod organizer2.
>Id play fallout4 more but I have issues installing Mod organizer2.
I remember reading that modding bethesda games on linux was really hard, that true anon?
iDK Im relativelly new to linux and Fallout 4 is the first bethesda game i tried modding.
Im using a guide to install MO2 but I get an error .
And looking it up Im told that some package or whatever is outdated even though it clearly isnt.
But yeah afaik none of the main mod managers are nativelly supported on linux.
Fallout4 anon here again
It is probably possible to manually mod the game(like how I did to cyberpunk)
But I have no experience manually modding fallout games and dont plan on learning how to do it on Fallout4
>It is probably possible to manually mod the game(like how I did to cyberpunk)
NOT A GOOD IDEA, modding bethesda games manually, more than just texture pack is quite literally impossible
is it really that pain?
No, it's not hard, you just install mo2 with wine and use it the exact same way you would do on windows.
elden ring, it works perfectly
I tried to switch to Ubuntu again from Windows and my bluetooth dongle doesn't work. I could buy another dongle that works, but frick that.
It's not that I don't know how Linux works, I use Centos every day at my job. But using it, or rather, trying to use it as a desktop, is a trial of patience. I suppose it's easy enough to use Linux when you simply cross off doing anything that Linux can't do but I'm just stunned to see that in 2023 it is scarcely more usable than it was in 2005.
>bluetooth dongle doesn't work
do you have Secure Boot enabled in the bios? that could be it
no, it's a kernel issue.
This isn't my thread but it's the same exact problem I have. I thought it was a problem with my go-to distro at first (Q4OS) but it's the same on 'Buntu.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=280693
And it's not the only problem I've had with Linux by far.
My mom's acer's touchpad doesn't work, for instance. Sometimes numlock is on when I turn on the PC, sometimes not.
I've had problems playing native games on Steam, NWN kept crashing my laptop, Dota 2 was the same, TF2 on my aging desktop kept crashing even though it ran without a peep on Windows... and i'm not talking about shit from 10 years ago, this was in 2020 maybe.
HL1 mods like USS Darkstar didn't work... HL2 mods had to run in D3D mode, so they ran like dogshit...
To this day, the only two games on Linux that have never given me any shit are Doom, Quake, and for some reason RCTW which ran perfectly fine thru Proton.
I don't mind troubleshooting now and again but when I have to troubleshoot literally everything that's more complex than a web browser, it becomes insufferable... I'm starting to think that people who say Linux is perfectly good for games are people with expensive hardware who basically ride through Linux's many problems with sheer hardware power.
It's not a linux issue, you just picked a garbo hardware that barely works even on windows.
>ubuntu
Found the issue
I'm playing EVE Online, a little Everquest II and trying to resist the urge to play some League of Legends.
Recently did a proper install of Arch. I'm only using a sudo account to install software and setup things, and a non privileged account for general use. Implemented some tweaking and other security measures. Using a xanmod kernel with bore cpu scheduler, which seems pretty good so far. Oh, and I quit using wayland and am sticking with xorg because it's better in general for gaming.
Can someone with a amd gpu read through this thread and confirm that it works by just using xrandr? Works as in you could emulate a game in wine that isn't 1920x1080p and play it in it's native aspect ratio with letterboxing. You cannot do this with with nvidia, It just doesn't work. Please
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=366662
if you're on amd/intel why not using wayland out of the box??
But why not just use gamescope?
That doesnt work very well with nvidia, or it's just a hit and miss. I've tried it heaps.
I'm not on amd, I'm thinking about switching if amd can actually allow you to do something as simple as preserving aspect ratio becaus nniggida can't.
>when she sees big human wiener
linux is only free if you don't value your time
Total warhammer 3, BG3 and the newest Ratchet & Clank. Very smooth sailing so far on manjaro.
>Ganker is only free if you don't value your time
Mostly dark & darker, having a blast and it worked without problems
So what's the final solution to the audio/video codec question?
I swear 99% of problems for Linux gaming are video cutscenes not playing properly because of some in-built video player tarding out.
Has Valve got a solution? This can't go on forever.
Not unless Microsoft decides to release the source code for windows media player and internet explorer 6.
Most of them works now. Although, I'm not a fan of how Valve handled it in some cases, they sometime serve some transcoded videos in their compat data. That quite annoying if you have the game from itch, gog or pirated.
>they sometime serve some transcoded videos in their compat data
I've yet to understand how they even do this. For games that have loose video files, maybe, but what about ones that have them shoved into weird archive formats?
Surely they're not relying on users to upload the videos.
They have a gstreamer plugin called media-converter. They do not replace games files but provide alternative transcoded videos or audio. The incoming video data is put into a file, it also hash it, if a transcoded video/audio for that hash is found in the compat dir, then that video/audio stream is replaced by the transcoded one.
1. Steam Deck owners (being the only Linux users that most publishers will acknowledge) need to recognize that broken video playback is nearly always the result of a game developer's decision, not just some random Linux bug, and should leave negative reviews on games that have this problem. Doesn't work on Steam Deck, thumbs down. It's that simple.
2. A platform-agnostic substitute for Valve's video transcoding thing would help, but I don't know how feasible this is.
Been playing Spyro on my Steam Deck.
Frick this Tree Tops level.
Why does steam take so long to exit now?
Sorry the spire is a drug
Slay*, what I get for posting while out
The problem isn't that you "can't" play the videos, the problem is that you "CAN'T" play the videos. By this mean the problem is usually not technical, but legal, most troublesome videos use Microsoft's media foundation codecs and you can't play them outside windows due to licensing. You'd think the dominant platform making a codec that can't be played on other platforms would be illegal but...
The actual problem is game developers using those proprietary codecs that no one forces them to use. Probably because they don't know any better.
"Huh? What do you mean Steam Deck and Linux don't come with Windows Media Player??"
When are nvidia drivers improving?
I thought nvidia released part of their drivers as open source, where are thr improvements?
there's slow work being done on a new open source driver.
I spent 10 hours trying to set up a dns within my private network in your piece of shit garbage os and still couldn't do it because it kept turning on dhcp and messing up all my devices.
Solved it in Windows 10 with just two clicks.
Frick you, communist penguin never again
pebkac
also not video games
also no one asked
Your router still uses linux, as your provider's routers lmao. good luck building your own internet chud.
>Your router and provider use linux
No wonder they are shit
How about you turn off DHCP in your router if you don't want DHCP, dumdum. Also, not Vidya
>It's the fault of the possibly crunching developers using something supported in their target platform, not the trillion dollar company abusing its market position to make others worse
Let me get out my crystal ball... At least give some basic hardware and driver information, install inxi and run "inxi -G" give game logs, mention if other 3D games work
CK3 keeps crashing on me, both native and proton, x11 and wayland I don't know what to try, I already disabled vsync in a config file
Try Windows
off-topic, kys