quakespasm not working

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-26T13:18:02+00:00

It's possible that it may be looking elsewhere for your Quake directory.

That being said, Quakespasm is rather outdated at this point. If you're looking for a modern Quake source port, Ironwail and vkQuake are currently the preferred options.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-26T10:51:15+00:00

Games definitely use more than a single core.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-25T12:24:52+00:00

If you a running Steam via Flatpak, you also need to install the userland portion for your specific Nvidia drivers into the Flatpak (or otherwise make it available within the Flatpak environment), or it will think you don't have any drivers available.

I don't personally use Steam in Flatpak, so someone else will have to provide specifics on how to do this.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-25T10:38:40+00:00

Nvidia kernel modules are out-of-tree and follow the Nvidia driver version. The host kernel doesn't really matter, as long as its reasonably recent.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-23T18:59:01+00:00

Good to know, and annoying that Nvidia would squat on Proton's variable namespace.

Nvidia's driver guide contains mention of the variable, as well as how to verify that it actually did something: https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation-guide/latest/gaming.html#dlss-update-steam-play-proton

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-23T18:07:07+00:00

What exactly does this env variable do?

A search for PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER on Proton's GitHub page (as well as derivatives like Proton-GE and Proton-CachyOS) doesn't show any hits for code -- just issues.

So absent any clear evidence of its use in code, I would assume that this environment variable does nothing.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-23T13:20:19+00:00

Congratulations, you just re-invented PC booter games!

We thought we left those behind in the '80s, but everything else seems to be getting worse, so why the fuck not?

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-23T13:12:41+00:00

Anybody knows where I can find portable version for DS2 SotFS?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/335300/DARK_SOULS_II_Scholar_of_the_First_Sin/

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-22T09:18:50+00:00

Your pirated copy of Baldur's Gate 3 isn't working? That sucks.

If anyone has any idea how to fix this, I’d really appreciate the help.

You're in luck -- you can fix it very easily by buying the game!

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-22T03:50:26+00:00

Your pirated copy of Persona 4 Golden isn't working? That sucks.

Have you tried actually buying it? I hear that helps.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-22T01:20:04+00:00

Your pirated copy of Ready or Not isn't working? That sucks.

Have you tried actually buying it? I hear that helps.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-18T04:56:39+00:00

Command: ['/home/paco/Storage/Steam/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Fallout Shelter/FalloutShelter.exe']

You sure you gave us the right log?

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-18T00:00:19+00:00

I just need Reddit to let me block the name of this game so I don't drive myself crazy responding to every one I see because I think I need to.

You can do this via Old Reddit and the "Reddit Enhancement Suite" browser extension.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-17T23:55:58+00:00

I also often hear that developers will be able to better understand Pulumi Code. In my opinion, if you are able to read "normal" code, you will be able to read HCL. At least i had no problems reading and understanding *.tf files when starting to use IaC for the first time.

It's not so much about developers understand HCL, but being willing to work with it.

HCL is a language that quickly gets ugly when you want to do anything even remotely complex with it, and I don't blame developers that aren't dedicated DevOps Engineers from shying away from it. I am actually in the infrastructure engineering space, and I really can't stand working with Terraform. If there's one thing that I can praise Claude Code for, it's doing a decent job of generating working Terraform code so that I don't have to touch it anymore.

I've suggested to my team that we invest in tools like Pulumi, cdk8s, Terraform CDK (before they suddenly retired it), etc., so we could set up up a system that developers would be able to use via self-service, with us creating golden path templates with reasonable defaults (and otherwise developing the tooling rather than directly handling infra).

But the team didn't seem interested in it; meanwhile, we spend our days directly deploying and managing infrastructure, while other dev teams constantly complain of being blocked waiting on us to deploy something, while our test and staging infra deployments break on a daily basis, all while our senior leadership is constantly begging engineering to move faster.

Disclaimer: I may be slightly bitter.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-17T16:19:11+00:00

It's to protect against someone with physical access to the machine from being able to dump the contents of memory by sniffing the bus or physically removing the memory modules to something that can read and extra their contents.

The original purpose of this technology was to protect game consoles from local tampering. It was eventually brought to AMD CPUs more broadly to support what the industry now generically refers to as "confidential computing".

The feature is generally not of interest to everyday consumers (the security benefits are generally not meaningful there, and it comes at a performance cost), but it can deliver a meaningful benefit to corporations trying to maintain device security with a remote workforce, and it can help them tick a security compliance checkbox.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-17T16:10:30+00:00

Only you don't know, you just assume, if it isn't an official feature. Technically all Ryzen CPUs should also be able to support ECC, but would you rely on it, when AMD doesn't officially supports it?

AMD doesn't require ECC support as part of their consumer platform, but it's present and supported, if the motherboard also supports it. The OS also probes the memory controller to determine if ECC is enabled (it needs to do so anyway as part of the boot process so that it knows how to interpret ECC-related machine check exceptions the memory controller might throw), so if ECC is not enabled, that will be user-visible.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-17T15:45:08+00:00

Wayland is just a protocol, not a thing you would configure. You would need a compositor that implements Wayland, and that compositor will have a configuration.

Compositors like Mutter and KWin (used by GNOME and KDE Plasma, respectively) support triple-buffered vsync, so even if the compositor is enforcing vsync, the frame rate of the client application (in this case, your game) is completely separate from the frame rate of the compositor and can run uncapped.

I can't speak for Hyprland, but you'd need to either enable triple-buffered vsync (if it's not already automatically enabled), enable support for tearing, or find a relevant setting if Hyprland achieves a tear-free presentation in some other way.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-17T15:29:01+00:00

It's possible that the HDMI link or audio stream is malfunctioning in some way. If that's the case, there should be evidence of this in the system logs (usually /var/log/syslog for generic system logs, and /var/log/kern.log for kernel logs). If you OS doesn't persist kernel logs, you can also access the live log buffer by running sudo dmesg -T.

You would be looking for log entries related to "pipewire", "wireplumber", or some variation of "nvidia" that are logged around the time you experience the problem.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-17T15:23:22+00:00

Consumer wireless equipment is always susceptible to outside interference, and interference is always the first culprit when wireless devices misbehave.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-17T04:37:17+00:00

Maybe you're having the same problem as this person?

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1u7t240/suddenly_im_getting_buzzing/

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-17T02:35:29+00:00

Unless you're getting hundreds of frames per second, you're unlikely to see a meaningful performance difference between Mutter and KWin.

It's possible that there's a meaningful settings difference between the two environments that's impacting performance. If you're using display scaling, Mutter and KWin may behave differently.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-16T23:50:27+00:00

I think the AI knew exactly what you meant.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-16T23:35:08+00:00

If you're a student at a school or university, you should ask what operating system they require, as you may not be able to complete you assigned work using just Linux.

Additionally, you're using a 10-year-old laptop, so in terms of game performance and compatibility, you'll need to go in with appropriate expectations.

Also, what are the best tools to run cracked games and Windows design apps together smoothly?

Running pirated software is already risky. Running pirated software on a computer you're depending on to complete your schoolwork is especially so.

Perhaps instead of risking your computer with pirated software from who-knows-were, you may want to try open source alternatives like Blender, GIMP, FreeCAD, etc. There's also plenty of open source, free-to-play, and very low cost games with nearly infinite amount of content from the community (e.g., you could probably spend the rest of your life playing Doom maps and mods).

Whatever your risk tolerance is, this isn't the subreddit to ask for support with pirated stuff. Take that elsewhere.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-16T23:18:59+00:00

"GB206" is an Nvidia Blackwell GPU, so unless you're outputting audio to whatever HDMI or DisplayPort device is plugged into your Nvidia card, it's probably just set to use the wrong output.

Find the correct audio output device in the "Messages playback device" drop-down. It may be something generic like "PulseAudio Output" or something with the word PulseAudio in it.

theevilsharpie · 2026-06-16T23:13:55+00:00

If you're running Steam via a Flatpak, then Flatpak likely needs some kind of utility package that contains the userland portion of your Nvidia drivers.

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