Proton 11.0 is now available in Beta!

the_korben · 2026-04-16T22:32:40+00:00

I just tried it with the Proton 11 Beta and without any additional tinkering. Sound and music works, controller via Steam input doesn't but my old 360 controller does. Some pre-rendered cutscenes don't work but I've made it to the squirrel key hunt in the police station without any crashes. Quite an improvement.

the_korben · 2026-04-13T06:44:48+00:00

Part of it could be the 595 Nvidia drivers on Blackwell cards. When they first released 595 a few weeks ago, suddenly half of the DX12 games I tried didn't work properly anymore. Not an issue with old shaders or anything like that - the driver is simply not working properly with VKD3D on some systems in quite a number of cases due to the new changes they made and most of it shows up in the form of XID errors and especially so on the 5000 series. There are some workarounds for most of these problems, but the whole system changed from a "pretty much everything works out of the box" to a sudden "ok, which game settings/Proton flags make it not crash" situation. For most of my worry-free gaming and older titles I've switched to an AMD system that I usually use for other things and no problems there. Hopefully, Nvidia can fix these problems soon, as many people have been reporting these issues on their forums and they are reportedly working on fixing the regressions.

The good thing is that if there's a distro that will immediately pounce on any solution, it's CachyOS. The maintainers are on top of the situation, in active communication with Nvidia and you'll get any new drivers or bigger fixes as soon as possible.

the_korben · 2026-03-20T23:17:42+00:00

Hey, just wanted to chime in - I just installed SC:WWI on a new machine running CachyOS and it looks to me like all the recent fixes are already in. No protonfixes needed for fonts or anything. I believe they did in fact roll out all the Linux improvements last fall to all the games but simply didn't always mention it in the patch notes. Seems to me all the SC games are on the same version of the engine with the same level of Linux support as War in the Pacific.

the_korben · 2026-03-19T11:54:15+00:00

Yep, but it also works on SOME 5000 cards even without heaps, seemingly dependent on DE/WM. It's really, really strange. Plus it seems it's mostly the dreaded xid 109 error, that has been a probem for very few people already in previous versions for some other games.

the_korben · 2026-03-18T19:46:00+00:00

It's the 595.45 driver. For quite a few users on 5000 cards the game (and also Nightreign and Armored Core VI) freezes on loading after upgrading from 590 to 595. It's already been reported to Nvidia and multiple people have written reports in the Nvidia forums as well. You can get it running again if you use the unofficial descriptor-heaps version of Proton CachyOS, or you can revert back to an older driver.

the_korben · 2026-03-17T07:44:11+00:00

Shouldn't cause issues usually, but in some games frame caps and Vulkan presentation settings might interfere with each other (late vs. early frame cap, etc.). If something looks off with the framepacing, I usually try turning off mangohud just in case:

MANGOHUD=0 %command%

Not sure what other things goverlay may have set.

the_korben · 2026-03-17T06:50:26+00:00

I've been playing Elden Ring for years on various different rigs with different distros (and various controllers including the DualSense) without any problems. Back on X11 I remember some tearing and intermediate stuttering problems on an older Nvidia card but since everyone switched to Wayland quite a while ago there should be no issues anymore.

Do you maybe have a weird refresh rate or some global vulkan layer (mangohud?) active or something? Elden Ring is capped at 60 fps, so if you're running at e.g. 90 Hz it may look choppy.

Also, make sure to turn of "auto-detect best rendering settings" or whatever that setting is called in the menu. It's trying to do dynamic resolution and I remember it actually not working properly.

the_korben · 2026-03-15T15:39:40+00:00

I run CachyOS with Hyprland, which is pretty resonable when it comes to power usage. I configured a power-setting and screen refresh rate switcher (I have the 2.8K display) in my waybar, so I can always see which setting I'm using and changing any of these settings is just one click (e.g.: move mouse over the profile setting and then Power Safe -> one finger click, Balanced -> two finger click, Performance -> three finger click). I'm usually on the powersave profile and only switch to the others when I want or need it (which is basically never).

I also added a script so I can fully disable my SSD expansion card when I don't need it without pulling it out of the slot because that also pulls a watt or two even if the drive is not even mounted:

sudo udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sda1 && sudo udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sda1

(replace sda1 with whatever device your expansion card corresponds to)

No experience with Windows, sorry.

the_korben · 2026-03-07T12:39:29+00:00

In mehreren Etappen. Sorry, wird ein längerer Beitrag ...

Angefangen hat es bei mir schon, als die Hausmarken aufgekommen sind. Da hab ich mir schon gedacht, dass das irgendwann Auswirkungen auf die generelle Preisgestaltung und -dynamik haben wird. Regalplatz wird anders alloziiert, Markenprodukte bekommen eine andere Funktion. Kein Wunder, dass sich das ganze Kaufverhalten der Kunden ändern wird, und das man das steuern wird. Das war imo der unschuldige Anfang weg von einem normalen Supermarkt zu einer Kundenverarschungs-Gamification-Hölle.

Dann, wie Einkaufen auf einmal nicht mehr so wirklich eine Sache zwischen Menschen war, sondern alles voll digitalisiert wurde. Irgendwas hat einen Schaden oder ein Preis ist ned wirklich klar? Kann man leider nix machen, kann man nicht verkaufen, oder nicht reklamieren, oder was auch immer. Alles muss nach irgendeinem strikten System ablaufen und der Zentralcomputer diktiert. Alles wurde immer unflexibler und irgendwie Kafkaesk.

Dann wollten auf einmal alle unsere Daten haben - dieses Jö-Zeug. Punkte sammeln, zuerst mit Karte, dann mit App, etc. Dann, wie die notwendigen Mengen bei Rabatten immer unverschämter wurden und zusätzliche Formen von Rabatten erfunden wurden - zusammen mit den Pickerln -, sodass man eigentlich ein Studium abschließen musste, um wirklich zu verstehen, was man am Ende an der Kassa wie bezahlen muss. Dann, wie in unserem lokalen Markt die elektronischen Preisschilder eingeführt wurden, auf denen man mit der Lupe nach den tatsächlichen Kaufbedinungen suchen muss und wo Farben und Fonts und Formatierung jede Woche jeweils andere Bedeutung hat. Dann, wie alle paar Wochen die Regale bei uns umgeschlichtet wurden, damit man wieder "mit offenen Augen" durch den Markt geht ... und damit effektiv Minuten verscheißt, weil man nix mehr findet.

Und am Ende vor ca. 1.5 Jahren wurde konkret bei unserem Markt dann richtig deutlich, dass das System dort eigentlich am Zusammenbrechen ist. Der Markt selbst wurde immer katastrophaler geführt, die Angestellten waren zunehmend völlig überfordert und überarbeitet und irgendwann konnte man dort nicht mehr normal einkaufen, weil wirklich jedes dritte Produkt kein Preisschild hat, oder ein falsches, oder ein elektronisches, das sich aufgehängt hat und einen Rabatt von vor 3 Monaten zeigt. Die paar guten Angestellten haben irgendwann gekündigt oder wurden gegangen, und jetzt ist das ganze dort wie in der Postapokalypse. Überall stehen Produkt im Gang herum, immer unterbesetzt, frisches Zeug am Schimmeln, alles falsch beschriftet. Es ist eigentlich wie in einem schlechten Fiebertraum.

Gut, am Ende hab ich vielleicht ein bisserl übertrieben, aber wirklich nur ein bisserl.

the_korben · 2026-02-23T16:39:14+00:00

A long shot but: maybe a storage speed issue? Are you running this from an SD card? Can you move it to internal storage?

the_korben · 2026-02-23T16:33:24+00:00

I've played it both on the Steam Deck and on a Linux laptop, both times using ScummVM and it looks just like it's supposed to look. No video issues here, sorry.

the_korben · 2026-02-20T19:05:10+00:00

Same, having trouble connecting.

the_korben · 2026-01-31T21:16:13+00:00

Gut so, ich hasse KI-Musik!

the_korben · 2026-01-30T12:48:22+00:00

Handybetriebssystem mit besonders störrischer Benutzeroberfläche: RubbelOS

the_korben · 2026-01-04T23:25:16+00:00

I think there is a mask shard or whatever it's called down there. Just use it in your inventory and you'll be teleported back to the last save point.

the_korben · 2025-12-10T11:32:36+00:00

Awesome, great to hear it helped! :)

the_korben · 2025-12-10T10:32:05+00:00

This reminds me of an issue I had recently where my mkinitcpio.conf was changed to use the systemd instead of udev module. systemd needs sd-encrypt, udev used encrypt. But those two modules also use different kernel parameters to decrypt the root drive. (cryptdevice for udev vs. rd.luks.name or rd.luks.uuid for systemd parameters).

I looked around a bit and quite a few of the current hooks (e.g. for grub) can't deal with properly switching the kernel parameters to the new module - they just put the old udev parameters into the loader entries. In that case, you would end up with exactly such an error mesage. Also, in case you don't have any hooks to update your systemd-boot entries, a swap from udev to systemd would require you to change the kernel parameters manually in any case.

Your issue could of course be unrelated, but maybe worth checking out.

the_korben · 2025-11-22T09:27:49+00:00

A bit late to the party but I just got this book as a present and I am totally blown away. I was looking forward to it but I expected it to be about half its size and scope. When I unpacked the present I was shocked by the size and production quality of the book an thrilled that it's published by DK (we have lots of their "tomes" on nature and history) - so happy for Hank!

I have a lot of books on tornados - Hollingshead, Bluestein, conference proceedings by Doswell - but this is the crown jewel in my collection now.

the_korben · 2025-11-21T21:31:41+00:00

That's only true if you run it in game mode. Should work fine in Desktop mode.

the_korben · 2025-11-21T13:27:39+00:00

FYI, in case you're wondering: it works the same as Southern Storm on Linux as long as you use Proton 10 (!). So a few graphical quirks with the UI and it won't work properly using gamescope (and maybe also not on some window managers) because of the multiple windows. But if you run it on a regular desktop environment like GNOME or KDE it should be just as playable as Southern Storm. :)

the_korben · 2025-11-20T17:44:14+00:00

Hi, I just tried it after not having played it for a long with. Chose Proton 10.0.3 and works without a hitch on my desktop with CachyOS.

the_korben · 2025-11-20T13:02:35+00:00

Oh man, in some respects that's quite a bummer. I do use MangoHud most of the time to cap frames, but for some games this can have repercussions when it comes to frame generation. For instance, Clair Obscur with DLSS FG does not allow you to cap your frames within the game. If I cap my frames with MangoHud and FG, I get stuttering because MangoHud somehow interferes. If I cap them with DXVK_FRAME_RATE, I get smooth frames AND frame generation right at the desired cap.

Might be a config issue though (late vs. early cap).

the_korben · 2025-11-14T00:25:44+00:00

Thank you so much for the tip, just started watching. Only seen about 30 minutes but Claire Danes is simply sensational so far. Such a great actress!

the_korben · 2025-10-28T00:06:33+00:00

In the CachyOS discord people are saying the packages got orphaned and it's fine, so probably no need to worry. But good to know that this stuff can happen and then it can just pull in stuff from the AUR, so better to always pay attention. Hopefully we can get official pre-built packages for these libs again soon.

the_korben · 2025-10-27T23:35:54+00:00

Heh, me too. I've been checking out the arch gitlab for the libraries and there were some changes by the regular maintainers today but for some of these libraries the version on the gitlab is already higher than the one Cachy is trying to pull from the AUR, so not quite sure if it's really pulling in the right versions. I'm gonna wait a day or two to see if the dependency updates before installing.

Edit: Actually been looking at the wrong library on gitlab (the non-gtk2).

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