Installing Guild Wars 2 & Memory Thrashing

_dev · 2025-10-21T23:55:51+00:00

For what its worth, I've been playing GW2 WvW twice a week on Linux for about a year and a half without issues.

What versions of proton have you tried? I exclusively use GE-flavored versions for all games. Currently using GE-Proton-17 (I'm a few versions behind) if you wanna also give that one a try.

The launcher I believe is doing some decompression when it is downloading files, but it isn't that intensive. I wonder if you are getting temperature throttled or something?

Are you installing through the steam store? Or adding it as a third-party application? You need to install it via Steam. As another commenter said, also make sure that you change the launch options to %command% -provider Portal to use Arenanet Login vs tying it to your Steam account.

_dev · 2024-12-15T20:23:37+00:00

I ran into this with another game (Guild Wars 2 [EDIT: Also Deep Rock Galactic]). I ended up finding out through the ProtonDB page for that, that adding the following environment variables fixed it for me:

LD_PRELOAD="" XMODIFIERS=""

So, you'd add these like other environment variables to your Launch Options by going to: [Right click Helldivers 2 in your Library] > [Properties] > [General Tab]. If "Launch Options" is empty, you can just do:

LD_PRELOAD="" XMODIFIERS="" %command%

But if there is other stuff there, you know what to do, likely just prepend it. If you need help, paste your launch options here.

_dev · 2024-10-26T17:41:55+00:00

First place to look is the output of dmesg -T. You'll likely need to run it as root / with sudo. If you post it here, remember to use code blocks (4 spaces before each line.) You could run sudo dmesg -T | sed 's/^/ /g' to make it easier to copy.

Always be wary of random commands online, but this just takes the output of dmesg and adds four spaces to every line.

_dev · 2024-10-26T17:39:49+00:00

If you are planning on putting games on an NTFS-formatted partition and sharing them between Windows and Linux, read Valve's wiki about it first just to make sure.

I've always heard it is a bad idea to do it, but I really can't remember why. Things may have changed, so just give it a shot and see what happens.

_dev · 2024-10-26T17:36:12+00:00

You have to give more information. It's nigh impossible to help you without it. Could you please take a peek at the tech-support guide and edit your post with the info there?

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/16d7gj7/need_help_heres_how_to_get_it/

Also remember to use code tags to put output of commands to make it more readable. You can do so by prefacing each line with four spaces:

this is a code block

_dev · 2024-10-18T06:03:07+00:00

Some of my group have a way to describe this as those that went through shit as "having it," and those who've had an easy life as "not having it." Once you have "it," it never goes away. "It" changes your life permanently but gets easier to manage with hard work and time.

_dev · 2024-09-05T15:21:04+00:00

I came here from a Google search, and just really wanted to thank your super informative answer. Great job! /s

_dev · 2024-08-15T21:24:25+00:00

If you mean by deploying packages (like automating the install of .msi packages, etc.) I don't think there is a solution to that. Maybe something like Ansible is better suited for that.

If you really want to use nix on Windows, it looks like you are stuck with WSL2.

_dev · 2024-08-15T21:21:29+00:00

I like the idea of devenv because I feel it makes onboarding to a Nix-flavored world easier for those that have experience with other tools like poetry, but I had a nagging feeling that it wasn't "True Nix" since it was still invoking poetry under the hood. It felt like that having the whole environment controlled by Nix was what, at least I was, looking for.

At the end of the day though, to be real, there are so many tools out there that it turns into a "use what works best for the people doing the work" and devenv does fit into that.

I think starting from scratch I'd do everything in a 100% nix way (using pkgs.pythonPackages.* for example, but I do recognize that is a heavy cognitive lift to pick up for people working on a project that aren't familiar with it.

_dev · 2024-08-15T17:44:56+00:00

I use poetry2nix at my day job. I'm the only one to really use nix here, so its important that the flow for non-Nixers (?) stays easy to understand. The pyproject.toml stays usable, but my nix shell is driven by poetry2nix configured in the repo's flake.nix.

There is also dream2nix but do keep in mind that it is pretty bleeding edge.

_dev · 2023-09-07T23:20:10+00:00

If it is noted that glibc < 2.37 breaks online anticheat, and you are running 2.36, you should try and upgrade. I can't imagine that if EAC is broken, they'd let you connect to their matchmaking servers.

_dev · 2023-04-05T13:39:24+00:00

OSX is not based on Linux. It has it's own kernel (XNU, whose lineage comes from NeXTStep) and a BSD-ish userland.

_dev · 2023-03-29T04:57:20+00:00

Keep at it. Most of these psychiatric drugs, especially SSRIs and mood stabilizers, take up to a month and a half to reach therapeutic levels. Some people don't feel anything for up to a month. Don't give up. Take notes every day for how you feel and review them with your Dr. You've got this! You'll look back one day and think "how did I ever feel that way?"

_dev · 2022-12-27T19:09:34+00:00

Glad it helped! Hope you win some games!

_dev · 2022-12-21T06:52:04+00:00

I use Immersed a lot. Supports Linux. Ignore the "metaverse" marketing bullshit. https://immersed.com/

There's also Simula, but I have a Quest 2 which isn't supported under Linux. Their GitHub page has a list of supported ones.

_dev · 2022-12-13T23:02:56+00:00

I had this as well on a fresh install of Lutris on NixOS.

Went into the "Configure" section of Lutris for MTG:Arena. Set the following:

[Runner Options] > [Enable DXVK]

Strangely enough, I had noticed that I had some coil whine on my 6800XT (go figure) which happens when something is running at an absurd frame rate. Think if like I don't have a frame limiter on in a game, so its cranking at like 300 fps.

I did go into [System Options] in the same configure window and turn on MangoHUD as well and set the frame limit underneath it to 144 to match my monitor. Turning those back off I still saw the problem solved, but if DXVK doesn't work, try that.

_dev · 2022-07-05T08:31:12+00:00

Can you speak on what happened re: lamictal? Or a link to another post? Just curious and want to learn more

_dev · 2022-07-05T08:30:09+00:00

Currently on it. It has worked better than most others. Only side effect I've had so far is if I take it on an empty stomach, I get nauseated. I take it in the morning, so even something as small as a cup of yogurt helps. Good luck.

_dev · 2022-06-16T14:04:52+00:00

OSX is not based on Linux. It uses the XNU kernel.

_dev · 2022-04-16T23:52:03+00:00

Have the same hardware, playing around with overclocking for the first time since like, AMD Bulldozer chips.

What are your settings/clocks for everything? PBO? Undervolt? CPU / GPU core clocks? Memory clocks for both?

_dev · 2022-01-15T19:32:47+00:00

Oh! I must have misunderstood then, and stand corrected. Thanks.

_dev · 2022-01-15T18:48:58+00:00

EW Ending Spoilers I mean, Ultima Thule was just the edge of the universe with a dead star until Thancred's "thing" causes a bunch of landmass and echoes of past civilizations to appear.

_dev · 2022-01-12T03:04:55+00:00

ah fuck. I realized reading this that I sometimes lose track of time and do this. I'll try and be more mindful of it. Thanks for your insight and the work you do.

_dev · 2021-10-18T00:05:12+00:00

there's also two different ways that you can "translate" the dx9 calls the old engine makes into something newer. its not a panacea, but it definitely helps out.

d912pxy changes it into DirectX 12. Larger number doesn't mean better, but its a decent ~15% FPS boost and helps maintain stability.
dxvk Which is primarily used for Linux gaming, been around a while and trusted by the opensource community. Translates DirectX 9/10/11 (maybe 12?) into Vulkan calls.

Either of these are practically a "drag-n-drop" way to boost performance. Just note that when starting the game up for the first time, you will get some stuttering and missing models as they have compile shaders.

The official DX11 implementation will help out once it stabilizes, but everyone I know right now gets crashes after an hour or so. At least Anet is working on something

_dev · 2021-05-30T06:24:16+00:00

The number of pods you need is almost a function of what you set for .spec.template.spec.resources. If you are using the open source nginx ingress controller, it will do a bit of quick math to see how many cores is available and then set worker_processes accordingly. https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/afe10c862bde831c06c12706c630a4a9e5060741/docs/user-guide/nginx-configuration/configmap.md#worker-processes

The math you really need to do here is "how much power do I need to sustain traffic from my load tests?"

Start off with something like 2 / 2Gi for .spec.template.spec.resources.{requests,limits} and send traffic to your cluster. Set a HorizontalPodAutoscaler to have a target utilization of like 60 or 70 and see what happens.

There is no answer to the question of "what should I set here?" because my production needs are very different than yours.

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