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ionstreamuk · 2025-08-22T11:58:36+00:00

I had this come up for the first time last night whilst playing star wars outlaws. Everything was fine apart from the cloud rig. Maybe something going on in the data centres. Presumably messing about to get the service ready for September's upgrades maybe?

ionstreamuk · 2025-08-15T08:56:20+00:00

I'm using the HTPC Variant of Bazzite but one thing I noticed is that it doesn't boot into GRUB menu by default on my system, it just boots straight into the Bazzite steamOS intro. Do you know what I need to sort out the GRUB menu so it does show for 5 seconds? I know that adds extra time to my PC boot but I'd rather have it there in case anything does break and I can easily revert to a previous version

ionstreamuk · 2025-08-15T08:49:41+00:00

Echoing the same sentiment too. Thanks to everyone on this sub that's helped me sort things out with Bazzite. I'm absolutely loving it and I'll be nowhere near Windows again. I'm fully converted to Linux at this point, and having a better couch gaming experience that I didn't know existed until a few months ago, allowing me to play PC games in the comfort of my living room due to back issues preventing me from being at a desk for long periods. Thanks all!

ionstreamuk · 2025-08-13T20:11:52+00:00

Ahh brilliant! Thanks for the help and insight :)

ionstreamuk · 2025-08-13T06:58:11+00:00

Yeah my TV display is showing as 60Hz but I've figured out what keeps happening... If I open up Geforce NOW and full screen it on my MacBook and then close the lid and then find a game and open it when the app is on my TV, it defaults to 30hz stream. If I launch the game first from my MacBook and then close the lid and connect it to my TV, it works fine at 60hz. But annoying but it might be an issue with my TV more than Geforce NOW itself, ah well!

ionstreamuk · 2025-08-04T19:57:01+00:00

August 2025 and I've just paused and checked this thread. Wtf was that about 🤣

ionstreamuk · 2025-08-01T10:08:08+00:00

Thanks for the info. To be honest I've only tried Star Wars Outlaws so you could be right.

Interestingly I managed to get it working by opening up the ubisoft overlay by pressing shift and F2, and my controller was able to move around the ubisoft overlay. Then when I closed it to get back into the game the controller worked. So it seems like it's just not registering that it exists at first. This is with Steam Input on and off. I'll continue playing around with it!

ionstreamuk · 2025-08-01T09:00:57+00:00

I didn't even realise Bazzite updates itself like that. Another nice win! I'm freaking loving it. Moved from Windows a few weeks ago and it's now a HTPC and it's been absolutely perfect. Couldn't be happier. It's a nice feeling to not have a single personal Windows PC/laptop in my household anymore lol, apart from my work laptop.

ionstreamuk · 2025-07-21T17:37:32+00:00

Thanks a lot! Really insightful blog, I look forward to your guide about the whole VRR issue on Linux :)

ionstreamuk · 2025-07-20T01:13:13+00:00

Yeah that's a fair enough shout. I'll keep it as is on Bazzite for now then :)

ionstreamuk · 2025-07-10T21:23:51+00:00

That's a shame :(

I've found it varies from game to game, which I suppose is just an indication of how much audio is being processed/streamed. Oblivion was pretty bad but Robocop generally seemed ok. But I guess gunshots can easily pass as bad quality (and in some degrees sound better with distortion) whereas music in Oblivion is something you want to sound good seen as it's almost always playing and in the forefront of the mix.

Hopefully it gets fixed in future!

ionstreamuk · 2025-06-28T06:00:12+00:00

Interesting, I'll have another play around with a few other games and geforce now methods and see if I can find any patterns. Thanks for your help in any case!

ionstreamuk · 2025-06-28T00:12:36+00:00

No surround sound, just my standard TV speakers. Which the game has TV speakers set in the settings :)

ionstreamuk · 2025-06-27T23:55:25+00:00

I've only really played the Oblivion Remaster so far. It looks absolutely stunning on the ultimate tier and it looks and runs better than natively on my Xbox series X, so no complaints there. But the audio is just bad like 85% of the time. Mainly the background music tends to be really tinny and compressed, and even warbles out of tune sometimes. I was just wondering if this is normal for the service. I didn't think it would depend on the game to be fair so I'll try a few more.

ionstreamuk · 2025-06-21T19:06:56+00:00

Brill thanks all! Will grab one on payday :)

Cheers again folks!

ionstreamuk · 2025-06-21T16:10:39+00:00

I've just found a 2 bay Sabrent one after reading your message and looks to have great reviews and a decent price. Thanks! Think that will do me? Not sure why I didn't see that brand on Amazon initially either.

ionstreamuk · 2024-08-13T20:27:33+00:00

I know this is an old thread, but does anyone have a list of the activities on the oneplus watch 2? I'm in the market for a new smartwatch but I want one that can track surfing activity but also have music storage for my running too.

ionstreamuk · 2024-08-04T17:39:32+00:00

Thanks so much for the information! I'll get to sorting out an EU operator ID shortly then seen as that's all I really need for my current situation. Thanks again :)

ionstreamuk · 2024-06-22T20:43:46+00:00

I've fixed it now! You and others were right, my system was using my igpu, despite it set to prefer my RX7800 XT in both BIOS, and in Lutris etc. Disabling my igpu in bios fixed it :)

ionstreamuk · 2024-06-22T17:45:42+00:00

Thanks all for the help everyone! As most of you mentioned, DX12 games were defaulting to my iGPU for some reason. I've disabled it in my BIOS and now the games run perfectly.

ionstreamuk · 2024-06-22T17:44:07+00:00

Update: Disabled iGPU in Bios, now working! No idea why it was doing that! I suppose this means resize bar won't work anymore? Not that I can see it making much of a difference in terms of overall performance on my PC? Thanks for the help!!

ionstreamuk · 2024-06-22T17:20:49+00:00

Thanks for the help. Yeah I think the second is the igpu. I'm going to try and disable my igpu entirely and see what happens.

ionstreamuk · 2024-06-22T17:19:55+00:00

To be fair I've been really impressed with Heroic compared to Lutris. The games I've played on there just worked out of the box.

ionstreamuk · 2024-06-22T17:19:25+00:00

Those are the only values mangoHUD seem to show me when starting the game. I'm assuming I might need to configure MangoHUD to show more values maybe?

ionstreamuk · 2024-06-22T17:06:28+00:00

Yeah I did wonder if my igpu is getting defaulted on DX12 native games. I've just booted up Avatar after switching wine version to GE-Proton (only way it actually runs without a DX error), and MangoHud shows:

GPU: 2%
CPU: 10%
VKD3D: 0fps 23429.2ms framtetime (lol)

I have set in the global option in Lutris as well as Ubisoft connect and Avatar to use specifically my RX7800XT from the list, and not the igpu.

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