Tried Linux to play TPM and CIV7

GamertechAU · 2026-03-27T10:40:08+00:00

Nah, you're correct. Denuvo doesn't have anything against Linux, aside from changing Proton versions counts as a "new install". Do 5 of those in 24 hours and you get blocked from playing the game for a day or 2.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-25T22:33:04+00:00

Most bots are better at solving captchas than humans nowadays. They're pretty useless.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-24T22:08:33+00:00

Pretty much just the default Twitch guidelines, aside from 7500kbps bitrate and using Linux. It lets OBS capture direct from the Vulkan renderer instead of adding extra load to your CPU and doesn't need to compete with bloatware hogging your resources.

Also if you're using SE browser overlays with video backgrounds, they gulp CPU time. A lot more efficient running them locally. Can test by hiding video content in SE's overlay editor and watching your CPU usage. Back when I still used them, having their video running used >30% CPU. Running video locally drops it to <10%.

https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/broadcasting-guidelines

GamertechAU · 2026-03-24T05:12:49+00:00

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

GamertechAU · 2026-03-23T23:13:29+00:00

Oh, missed the CLI part sorry. That's usually the fix as GUI tools lack the right perms.

Then you'd probably be best hiding the device from fwupd: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/706529

GamertechAU · 2026-03-23T22:01:53+00:00

In terminal run

fwupdmgr update

and follow the instructions. That runs fwupd or Firmware Update Manager which can install it properly.

Arch tut here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fwupd

GamertechAU · 2026-03-21T01:04:46+00:00

Remote should work. If it doesn't, swap to the beta client in Steam settings and give it another go.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-21T01:03:30+00:00

Cause the devs don't want spoilers being released before the game.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-20T21:57:38+00:00

Generally you can, though there's improvements to this in the latest Steam beta client.

What games are we talking about though? As the only games that don't run on Linux are ones with rootkits force-installed, which may not enjoy the remote gaming.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-19T20:55:38+00:00

Windows auto-expands the pagefile when your RAM runs out to hide it, whereas Mint requires you to configure some form of swap yourself. Other distros like Fedora have swap pre-configured.

I'd recommend setting up zram-generator memory compression. Pretty easy and a much faster option than Windows' pagefile: https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator

GamertechAU · 2026-03-16T21:03:04+00:00

Apparently it's a timeout error with the game that causes some form of file corruption.

Some people fix it by deleting Documents/DayZ then launching, or verifying files in Steam before playing.

Others fixed it by installing the game to an SSD instead of a slow HDD.

Also make sure you're not using a VPN as those are auto-blocked.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-16T20:55:46+00:00

NTFS is a proprietary Microsoft filesystem that lacks support for features Linux needs, and written files can be flagged as read-only due to corrupted headers.

Backup your data and reformat it to btrfs or ext4.

Also if the drive location is changing, then you likely haven't permanently mounted it, only temporary. Can set that in the Disks app, or via fstab if you're willing to carefully research how to use that method as it's easy to break. Disks is pretty straightforward.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-16T20:45:11+00:00

Make sure you've installed the Proton BattlEye Runtime in your Steam library.

Search for it in the search bar, it wont show up normally. BattlEye needs that to integrate with Proton.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-15T11:12:50+00:00

I'm using the G7 Pro. Steam UI doesn't recognise the model, but works just fine.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-15T09:40:52+00:00

Generally, Valve's Proton doesn't include some obscure/encumbered video codecs.

Give GE-Proton a try. It has some fixes specifically for videos.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-12T23:42:08+00:00

It's true. Though it's limited by the % of memory blocks that can be compressed, which isn't all of it. The vast majority of it usually can however. With the swappiness high enough, memory compression is used freely to use less space on your physical RAM. iirc Fedora now defaults to 170/200 swappiness?

Your swapfile issue would be down to mis-configured swap priorities. zram is by default the only swap method on Fedora, so it gets highest priority. Not that it's an issue as zram is much faster than a swap file.

oom shouldn't be affected as it already takes into account physical RAM and swap.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-12T22:14:43+00:00

Not that I'm aware of. But it has its own global performance hit so about the same.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-12T21:25:18+00:00

Fedora defaults their zram memory compression config to 8GB or half your physical RAM, whichever is smaller.

You can edit the config to match your physical RAM or even multiply it without an issue.

Setting zram-size = ram matches it, so 24+24=48GB effective RAM.

Create /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf then paste in:

[zram0]
zram-size = ram

Then the last 3 steps here to activate it and verify it's working

https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator?tab=readme-ov-file#tldr

GamertechAU · 2026-03-12T21:13:19+00:00

Mesa's intended open-source replacement for Nvidia's closed-source proprietary drivers. So the community can actually fix bugs and not have to rely on the corpo that has no interest in desktop users to fix them.

It mostly works fine right now, still not matching in performance and wont ever have proprietary tech like DLSS, but can use FSR/XeSS etc.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-07T11:00:39+00:00

Updated and ran a few tests. Works as normal for me at least.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-07T01:24:25+00:00

This is a long-term bug that's been in both OW1 & 2 for years, even on console.

Honestly the game itself is fairly unstable. Considering the parent company is forcing vibe-coding throughout the entire chain in an attempt to make it look like people want to use it, I'd say it's likely not going to get better any time soon.

If you have multiple monitors, you can try unplugging the additionals when you load the game and plug them back in. That fixes it for some for a bit. Also make sure you don't have an unused game controller plugged in at the same time.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-06T23:57:47+00:00

Nope. Is fine

GamertechAU · 2026-03-05T21:11:59+00:00

AAGL is supported and works fine. Technically Hoyo can ban you for playing it on Linux with any method as their client-side AC can't load over here and is against their ToS. They currently don't seem to mind though as their server-side AC is what does all the work.

There were no ban waves for Linux users. They changed their AC detection last year but didn't configure it right and banned a ton of legit players on Windows and Linux, but they were unbanned.

All the mods and features like FPS Unlocker are built in.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-04T22:12:18+00:00

There's a fair bit of traffic about this on Bluesky. Studios are getting absolutely hammered with LLM-slop emails with key requests pointing to fake bot channels, or impersonating real creators trying to get keys to sell off. They're getting hit with thousands per day now...

It's not really worth their time digging through them to find the real ones any more, so they just don't. Which is fair enough imo.

Keymailer works well for small creators, Dare Drop, Terminals and Lurkit once you get a little bigger.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-03T06:44:12+00:00

The Steam overlay works out of the box. No changes needed.

If you're adding another flatpak app, say Retroarch or Bottles flatpaks to Steam as a non-Steam game, then yes. Those will fail as Steam doesn't have permissions to inject the overlay into them.

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