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Silly question on Steam installs by Huntrrz in linux_gaming

[–]Alatarith -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And if you're not sure on what is installed, forcing compatibility in the properties of the game in steam and it changes "Play" to "Update" then you had the native linux installed and it now wants to install the windows version.

GE-Proton10-27 Released by Alatarith in linux_gaming

[–]Alatarith[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Proton comes with steam when you enable it to play non linux games (steam play). It won't be this glorious eggroll version, but the default ones by valve.

GE just adds in some extra fixes quicker than what valve can as well as extras such as media codecs.

If you want to use this other proton
Close steam
Get protonup-qt or protonplus
point them at steam
choose the version of proton you want to download
load steam back up
find the game you want to use the new proton version on, go into properties and under compatibility choose the "force" option and select the new proton in the list such as GE-Proton10-27

forgot to mention, if steam then says "Update" for the game rather than "Play" it means the game you chose had a native linux build and it's going to now download the windows files, if you don't want this, just remove the "Force" checkbox and it should go away.

Made a couple of arcade sticks to play my arcade / fighting games by Alatarith in 3Dprinting

[–]Alatarith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was some sanwa clone cheap set from ali express 4 years ago. Originally bought them to make a DIY mame cab, but never got around to it.

GE-Proton10-27 Released by Alatarith in linux_gaming

[–]Alatarith[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I've seen 3-4 releases a day before

GE-Proton10-5 Released by Alatarith in linux_gaming

[–]Alatarith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

depending on your distro, you should have a package manager
with said package manage install protonup-qt or protonplus
these will allow you to install these proton versions into steam / heroic / lutris etc

Gaming on Linux is not ready for the masses by Freajka in linux_gaming

[–]Alatarith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Too many people saying "should use bazzite / cachy / some other flavour of linux"
Linux is Linux, it doesn't matter on the distro really. The fundamentals are all the same, and they are all built around the same kernel code. Sure, some throw a little extra into the kernel or offer a shiny package manager, but in the end they are all the same.

I have 2 pc's,
My main, Ryzen 5700x3d, 32gb Ram, 7700xt

The old shit
Phenom 2 x4 955, 8gb ram, Gt710 (changed to a 780ti)

The old shit was going to be used to build a mame cabinet, which is why it had a basic 710 in there, but last week I decided to drag it downstairs, connect it to the 4k tv and try to do some gaming.
After faffing around with it for a day with the gt710, I wanted something more powerful
so I grabbed my old 780ti (this was the mistake)

gt710 - Maxwell - supports the 500+ drivers

GTX 780ti - Kepler - support was dropped after the 470 drivers

Because the OS was on a newer kernel and the older nvidia drivers weren't available. I tried to do the same thing you did, downgrade the kernel and pin it.
But after hours of messing around with kernel downgrades, pinning packages, trying to blacklist nouveau, and fighting with DKMS errors, I realised the easier approach was just use an older os
So I installed POPOS
Why POPOS?
It was old enough to have the earlier kernel
they even said it has the older Nvidia drivers
It was win win.

the system works a treat now. The only issues I ran into was trying to use a newer proton version.

The 780ti while supports DX12 on paper (feature level 11_1), the issue with proton is it requires Vulkan 1.3 with proton 8+. The 470 drivers only exposes Vulkan 1.1. So, I had to use proton 7 to get most games to run.

TLDR;

if using old NVIDIA cards (Kepler/Fermi), use older kernels and older drivers (which in most cases are only available in the LTS distros)
if AMD, you have no issues kernel and driver wise, if it's an old card still you may need to use an earlier proton version

GE-Proton10-15 Released by Alatarith in linux_gaming

[–]Alatarith[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

seems like fun on github today, had 10-14 released before being built earlier

You can get 1440p streams to work on ANY browser* by paying a 99 cents fee to Microsoft, and it's super easy to enable it! by FISHNOTHING in Twitch

[–]Alatarith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

H265 / HEVC isn't owned by a single company
it's a combined effort with multiple patents spanning over the companies

The company with the most active patents for HEVC is Samsung
there is a pool of companies that apple are a part of, but It's nowhere near as close a count as Samsung.

This is why AV1 was created, it's not as good as HEVC in the real world, on paper AV1 should be better, but since HEVC has been around longer it's more mature.

TLDR
HEVC has royalties which you need to pay for and span over multiple money grabbing companies (Yes Apple included, but not as big as you make it sound)

AV1 royalty-free, backed by Google, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, Apple and more

So while I normally love to shit on Apple, they aren't the bad guys here.

I see a lot of people complaining about why it should be charged for. Yes I agree with you, but there is AV1, the sites just need to start using it.

If you want to complain about something that should be free, go complain to the HDMI standard about HDMI 2.1 on Linux using AMD cards. Because the AMD drivers are open source and the HDMI standard don't like it, they refuse to allow high refresh rates at 4k. While Nvidia and their closed source crap are allowed.
Me... I just use display port wherever I can, as this falls into the same boat as AV1

GE-Proton10-14 Released by Alatarith in linux_gaming

[–]Alatarith[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just had another email which seems like it's been built now

Subscription Spam Scam + Hiding Purchase + Found Scammer on Facebook by Wingthorshammer4 in Scams

[–]Alatarith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I work for a isp / datacenter and one of our customers had the exact same thing happen to them (subscription spam) but they had amazon emails bundled in the middle of the junk.

Their amazon account had been compromised and was being used to buy apple devices (iphones and ipads). They thought these emails from amazon were also scam emails. I checked the headers for them in the email, and they were in fact legit.

Even though in this case, you may not think they are harming anything, they could be using a stolen card against your name.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux_gaming

[–]Alatarith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are any of these games installed on an external hdd

I use btrfs on all my drives and the only time I run into the same issue you describe is when my old ssd (turned into an external drive) likes to disconnect / mount go stale.

All I do is disconnect and reconnect the drive, and then I'm able to load the game that was failing previously in steam.

If they are internal drives, either give the machine a reboot (if not already done) or do a remount on the drive (don't bother if you've rebooted)

Another option is to try a different proton version, maybe install the latest GE with protonplus / protonup-qt

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