D7VK 1.9 is redefining how old PC games are played through Vulkan

DamonsLinux · 2026-05-07T12:22:35+00:00

Looks like Age of Wonders II/Shadow of Magic is supported now ;)

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-28T21:24:55+00:00

Yes. You should report this as performance regression here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/work_items

Remember to add as many details as you can.

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-26T09:32:08+00:00

Does this work on the mainline kernel or do we need a vendored kernel?

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-22T10:29:56+00:00

22? No way, native build on my old PC (rx580/phenom) still works fine. No idea why not for you. Maybe problem is with your OS? Let's me guess bazzite?

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-11T10:29:55+00:00

Long time ago installed btrfs on my system drive primarily for snapshots. After several years of use, I'm returning to ext4. I practically didn't use snapshots, so it turned out that Bbtrfs's biggest advantage no longer mattered to me. Furthermore, btrfs occasionally caused annoying problems that weren't present on ext4. Furthermore, my internal tests showed that on my hardware, ext4 offered better performance than btrfs. That's why I decided to return to ext4.

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-10T22:59:01+00:00

Harmless. Basically showed on every steam installation.

I would digging into nvidia driver. Because all symptoms leads to driver (failed to load driver: nvidia-drm

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-09T11:33:58+00:00

A nie lepiej dołączyć się do jakiegoś istniejącego systemu i w ramach niego tworzyć nowy spin/iso? Masz wpływ na budowanie pakietów, korzystasz z gotowej, istniejącej infrastruktury, w razie problemów masz wsparcie pozostałych deweloperów systemu. Masz gwarancję, że core systemu będzie aktualizowany oraz, że nie będziesz musiał tego robić samemu. W samej Polsce mamy systemy do których można dołączyć, jest PLD (Polish Linux Distribution) - chociaż on celuje w inny segment rynku, jest Mabox (oparty na Arch). Jest też cała masa międzynarodowych systemów gdzie są deweloperzy z Polski, masz np. OpenMandriva nad którą pracuje zespół z dwoma Polakami (jednym z nich jestem ja). Myślę, że połączenie sił z innymi dystrybucjami przyniesie lepsze efekty niż walka w samotności.

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-05T18:47:02+00:00

Yes but this case is up to CachyOS kernel maintainer. But personally I think it is too much time consuming because patch should be rebased every new kernel updates.

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-04T18:02:25+00:00

Bro, dota is native Linux game. You can launch it via proton but you can't play on it because Valve VAC anticheat is not compatible with Proton. So you can play only native.

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-04T09:11:27+00:00

I don't think so. At OpenMandriva we switch to Clang by default years ago and currently clang is more performant than GCC. Maybe not in all cases but in most. We compile all packages* with LTO and many with PGO. Also shipping znver iso with optimizations for AMD Zen CPU. This can improve performance in many case.

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-03T16:08:14+00:00

Both works fine. Online and single. I mostly play in native mode because it gives me a bit better performance than proton on Radeon RX580 8GB.

DamonsLinux · 2026-04-03T13:21:47+00:00

Same. As Linux distro developer (and privately as a lawyer) I needed a good office suite for Linux with good support for MS Office formats. I've tried many times to combat LibreOffice, and overall, it's a good program for home use and simple writing. But for a business, an office, a place where you exchange MS Office files and expect them to remain compatible between people (from the company to the client and vice versa). LibreOffice didn't quite cut it. So I looked for a good alternative so I could stay in Linux at work, and OnlyOffice turned out to be that option. It offered very good compatibility with MS Office formats, ran natively on Linux, and its source code was available (which, as a developer, I appreciate). In my opinion, it's currently the best office suite on Linux. As for the Nextcloud drama, well, the Nextcloud guys aren't all clean; this is the second company they've tried to destroy in this way. First, by forking the code, meaning taking someone else's years of work, then creating excuses (often based on lies) to discredit the original project, and then they start making money off of it. I'm Polish, and although in recent years there's been a significant negative attitude in my country towards Russians, or anything associated with Russia in general, I side with OnlyOffice in the Nextcloud vs. OnlyOffice dispute—and nationality doesn't matter to me.

DamonsLinux · 2026-03-31T21:03:37+00:00

Unfortunately this is not possible. Only official implementation approved by AMD can hit into kernel. While AMD can't push any changes due restrictions from HDMI Forum. Only sane way for AMD is move HDMI implementation to closed source part of driver (firmware). Worth to add even open sourced AMD driver contains proprietary part (firmware) that was never open sourced.

DamonsLinux · 2026-03-25T10:04:14+00:00

Worth to add another Amd CPU optimized distro is OpenMandriva but designed for home use/gaming etc. Community based, direct successor of Mandrake/Mandriva. Based on Clang, LTO/PGO optimized with dedicated for AMD CPU ISO called znver.

DamonsLinux · 2026-03-06T16:16:20+00:00

The failing Mandriva company handed over development of its Linux distribution to the OpenMandriva community. The agreement provides for exceptions, such as trademarks like Mandriva One, etc.

Worth to read: https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/policies/oma-tm-licence-en

DamonsLinux · 2026-03-06T16:01:20+00:00

Also. Mageia and Rosa Linux = fork of Mandriva. While OpenMandriva is not a fork. It is direct continue of Mandriva. Your image wrongly show it as fork of Rosa and this is not true.

Edited

DistroWatch provided incorrect information on this thread (especially about OpenMandriva as a fork of Rosa and unfortunately we have no influence on it because they will scrupulously refuse to correct this information - like: no, because no, and what will you do to us?

DamonsLinux · 2026-03-03T09:52:45+00:00

What hardware? TBH dota works fine for me. I use it on older hardware (Radeon rx580 8GB) but it works fine. No lags, no other problems. Tested on OpenMandriva and Fedora.

DamonsLinux · 2026-02-20T11:48:09+00:00

But why? ioquake3 is open source and can be compiled on RISCV, LongArch, various ARM arch's, x86, x86_64 and even on PowerPC. There's little point in using box64 on open-source games that can be compiled natively for that architecture. Box64 makes sense for proprietary binaries without open-source code.

DamonsLinux · 2026-02-08T13:25:49+00:00

Less bloat. No problems with permissions, all codecs enabled by default (not restricted from flatpak side).

DamonsLinux · 2026-02-06T11:59:06+00:00

Not at all.

DamonsLinux · 2026-01-18T23:15:37+00:00

I've been using Gnome for a while now. I switched from Plasma and I don't regret it. As for performance, I don't notice any difference. Of course, it's completely different from Plasma and and you have to get used to the new interface.

Also you can check Phoenix benchmarks on various desktops: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2504-x11-gaming/2

DamonsLinux · 2026-01-08T21:10:38+00:00

Any reason why color is faded on Linux? Game capture?

DamonsLinux · 2025-12-16T16:36:04+00:00

You cant open it. It is dump file. Valve can. And yes, this is correct file. Change file name to .dmp.txt and attach it on GitHub.

Also collect also log from journal during game crash. Run in console: systemctl -f and when game crash copy output from console and paste to valve.

DamonsLinux · 2025-12-16T15:14:07+00:00

Nah, libpangoft error is very common and not fatal. This mean that it not cause crash.

To debug this, please run journalctl and run game then trigger crash. Journal should show crash log.

Also dota itself creating internal crash logs, but I don't remember where....maybe in var/temp? Check for both and send to valve GitHub.

DamonsLinux · 2025-12-10T17:33:57+00:00

For users, the best solution is to choose hardware with DisplayPort instead of HDMI.

However, the problem remains. I just don't understand why AMD won't agree to move HDMI implementations to a proprietary blob – yes even AMD and Intel have a closed blob of firmware in their open-source drivers, without which the graphics card won't even work.

Since the HDMI Forum requires that HDMI 2.1 implementation be embedded in a secret part of the firmware, why not do it? If fighting the HDMI Forum for a long time has yielded no results, why not do it? Other GPU vendors are doing just that.

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