/v/ - Video Games

>>14048631

If this get turned into another furshit thread like the last one, I'm going to report it.

>>14048635

Hey man, I don't know what gaming in Linux has to do with the potential mascot of an office software suite. So report the furfag posters.

>>14048631

>Did you get hardware that allows for PCI passthrough?

reminder that passthrough is shit and OP is a faggot

but indeed, having dualboot is slippery slope to going windows full time

>>14048654

Got proof for that, nigger?

>>14048654

>reminder that passthrough is shit

Please elaborate

>We're going to have this thread anyways.

See, this sort of attitude is why Linux will always be shit.

>>14048843

>>14048860

And here we have butthurt Macroshaft shills already.

I spent 2 days fixing dependency issues and getting video card drivers to work without causing a kernel panic when opening firefox. I also spent 3 hours reading software licenses of every package I use to make sure I am having a true /tech/ approved FOSS experience. Who needs fucking video games when Linux is so fun and challenging to use by itself?

>>14048916

Why would you want to have a /tech/ approved experience? Just get a noob distro and start learning from there. Then decide for yourself how do you want your Linux to be. With stuff like Lutris, PlayOnLinux and Steam itself (if you care about it), gaming is quite easy.

If you started with something like Arch or Gentoo you only have yourself to blame

>>14048916

You don't even need to read licenses to know if software you're using has the GPL or not. Nice fic faggot.

>>14048658

>>14048846

>Please elaborate

you're a running a system within a system, ever heard of overhead? not to mention the headaches to install

either you play native, make it work on wine, or might as well go for dualboot

>>14048957

I disagree. I wasted so much time using a nigger distro like it was Windows when I would have learned so much more if I'd started with something harder.

>>14049150

The whole point of PCI passthrough is that performance is pretty much identical to running games natively.

>Living with Windows 10

I want to get Linux but I'm afraid of vidya gaem support. Is it really that bad? I'm tired of microshit having me in their palms.

>>14049182

That's only a problem if you want to play shitty modern games.

>>14049182

You'll be just as tired of shitty Linux distros made by fucking autists who have no concept of usability or ergonomic design.

>>14049190

Oh I get it, they're refugees who got banned on 4chan. That totally makes it better.

>>14049192

There are newfag-friendly distros all around, that's no excuse. Linux Mint is a good example. Though if you want absolutely no poz and are willing to go the extra mile, getting Gentoo or Artix is worth it.

>>14049192

Ubuntu is pretty easy to use.

>>14049192

You're talking as if M$ has any idea about usability or design, and 90% of window managers just ape the windows shell anyways.

>>14049189

I thought you could play modern games on Wine? I want to play Bannerlord and Mordhau when they're released.

>>14049192

>You'll be just as tired of shitty Linux distros made by fucking autists who have no concept of usability or ergonomic design.

minus the video games. Shit

>>14049249

PCI passthrough is okay because IOMMU "jails" those pieces of hardware through groups. It's a decent middleground for those who really can't let it go, better to be halfway respecting of freedom than no way.

I have enjoyed about 100 hours of Stellaris, the game is crack.

>>14049182

Ubuntu is fine, you just have to understand that it's different, no one buys a mac and then asks why it's different from windows, but for some reason everyone asks linux to do shit like windows.

I have been using Linux as my primary OS for 5+ years and windows is the strange OS for me now.

>>14049249

>why the hell would you switch OS just to not only emulate the cancer you ran from but also to give it direct access to some of your hardware?

That makes sense, but I can also understand not wanting to have to fucking reboot every time you want to play a fucking game. If there was anything I wanted on console I'd just buy one and keep the cancer on its own vlan.

>>14049280

>I thought you could play modern games on Wine?

Well, you can, but you'll need a computer in excess of the system requirements.

>>14048635

*posts furry pics*

heh…. nothing of personal, kid-o.

>>14049280

You can, just keep in mind that unless you're using Gallum 9, Wine translates Direct3D to OpenGL on the fly and as this is tricky shit, vidya performance varies from around the same to slower than Windows or even faster than Windows with some games. Direct3D 11 and 10 support is especially spotty since it's so new.

>>14049344

>GTX 1080

On Linux, AMD is usually a better choice than Nvidia because you can use shit like Wayland or KMS (useful for reducing latency in RetroArch) without being limited by Nvidia's crappy but decently fast proprietary drivers.

>>14049344

>>14049366

Wayland is usable on Nvidia proprietary driver but only for Gnome! Gnome are the only group willing to take Nvidia's bullshit.

Use Ubuntu, it will prompt that it can install the proprietary driver, and do it, on your next upgrade consider AMD, they open source their driver and have it upstreamed directly to the kernel.

>>14049373

>>14049366

I heard on /tech/ that I will have to dual boot if I want to play newer games like Bannerlord or Mordhau.

>>14049373

Nvidia Wayland on Gnome is still unstable enough that Ubuntu disables it by default.

>>14049373

if you wanna use ubuntu, just use mint instead. ubuntu is subpar at this point, and there are forks of it such as mint that are better.

that being said, slackware is the only distro i've used that 'just works', ironically enough.

>>14049181

>pretty much identical to running games natively.

yes and no, for example source engine works significantly worse when using GPU passthrough (since it uses a lot of CPU calculating capabilities). Same thing with GSGs and 4X, on the other hand games/engines which demand less CPU "power" work fine with 1-2 FPS loss.

>>14049296

>>14049299

Fair enough if it makes the person at least not use windows mainly, still you should make an effort to not use it at all and Qubes rightly considers passthrough as security breach even if said hardware can be "jailed"

>>14049344

That setup should get you through pretty much all things concerning the "overhead". Nvidia are assholes but their cards usually run stable on linux.

>>14049309

It depends, if the game runs on OpenGL/SDL/etc you should get performance close to native, you do take a bit of a hit if it's DirectX.

>>14049548

That explains why Source games in Wine run around the same or sometimes better than Windows. Also, even without Gallum 9 most Direct3D 9 games run smoothly in Wine once you check the AppDB so OP shouldn't have too much to worry about.

>>14049620

Meant >>14049344 , not OP.

>>14049623

>>14049620

>>14049614

>>14049398

>>14049373

>>14049366

Thanks anons. Some guy on /tech/ told me to dual boot for future games like Bannerlord. Should I do it or should I just get rid of windows once and for all? Also I don't know much of the stuff you guys casually talk about like Wayland since I don't use Linux yet.

>>14049190

Oh, so it's furshits from /g/ that took over /tech/

It's all clear now.

>>14049638

Wayland is a display server protocol that's poised to replace X11, and probably would have by now if Nvidia stopped being whiny bitches. The tl;dr is that Nvidia's Linux drivers are their Windows OpenGL and Vulkan drivers running in a compatibility layer and they're too lazy to make it work like a regular Linux driver, so instead of implementing GBM like everyone else they shat out EGLstreams and loudly insisted everyone else use their nonstandard shit that doesn't even work properly on their own fucking drivers.

From a user's perspective, the main advantage to Wayland is that desktop composition is way better without the extra latency or performance impact of X11 composition. Without Wayland, shit like scrolling or moving windows around looks much worse than Windows even with composition enabled and it gets more obvious at higher refresh rates.

>>14049718

>implying it wasn't that way since Kiki

Lurk for a few eternities more.

>>14049202

Mint has so many outdated packages it ain't even funny.

>>14049638

>>14049752

copypasted from a Wayland compositor dev's blogpost

>There’s something I need to make clear about Nvidia. Sway 1.0, which is the release after next, is not going to support the Nvidia proprietary driver, EGLStreams, or any other proprietary graphics APIs. The only supported driver for Nvidia cards will be the open source nouveau driver. I will explain why.

>Today, Sway is able to run on the Nvidia proprietary driver. This is not and has never been an officially supported feature - we’ve added a few things to try and make it easier but my stance has always been that Nvidia users are on their own for support. In fact, Nvidia support was added to Sway without my approval. It comes from a library we depend on called wlc - had I’d made the decision on whether or not to support EGLStreams in wlc, I would have said no.

>Right now, we’re working very hard on replacing wlc, for reasons unrelated to Nvidia. Our new library, wlroots, is better in every conceivable way for Sway’s needs. The Nvidia proprietary driver support is not coming along for the ride, and here’s why.

>So far, I’ve been speaking in terms of Sway supporting Nvidia, but this is an ass-backwards way of thinking. Nvidia needs to support Sway. There are Linux kernel APIs that we (and other Wayland compositors) use to get the job done. Among these are KMS, DRM, and GBM - respectively Kernel Mode Setting, Direct Rendering Manager, and Generic Buffer Management. Every GPU vendor but Nvidia supports these APIs. Intel and AMD support them with mainlined1, open source drivers. For AMD this was notably done by replacing their proprietary driver with a new, open source one, which has been developed in cooperation with the Linux community. As for Intel, they’ve always been friendly to Linux.

>Nvidia, on the other hand, have been fucking assholes and have treated Linux like utter shit for our entire relationship. About a year ago they announced “Wayland support” for their proprietary driver. This included KMS and DRM support (years late, I might add), but not GBM support. They shipped something called EGLStreams instead, a concept that had been discussed and shot down by the Linux graphics development community before. They did this because it makes it easier for them to keep their driver proprietary without having work with Linux developers on it. Without GBM, Nvidia does not support Wayland, and they were real pricks for making some announcement like they actually did.

>When people complain to me about the lack of Nvidia support in Sway, I get really pissed off. It is not my fucking problem to support Nvidia, it’s Nvidia’s fucking problem to support me. Even Broadcom, fucking Broadcom, supports the appropriate kernel APIs. And proprietary driver users have the gall to reward Nvidia for their behavior by giving them hundreds of dollars for their GPUs, then come to me and ask me to deal with their bullshit for free. Well, fuck you, too. Nvidia users are shitty consumers and I don’t even want them in my userbase. Choose hardware that supports your software, not the other way around.

>Buy AMD. Nvidia– fuck you!

>Edit: It’s worth noting that Nvidia is evidently attempting to find a better path with this new GitHub project. I hope it works out, but they aren’t really cooperating much with anyone to build it - particularly nouveau. It’s more throwing code/blobs over the wall and expecting everyone to change for them.

>there are people ITT right now who do not use firejail to sandbox their videogames

laughing_whores.jpg

>>14049776

>>14049752

why did I even bother with nvidia. Guess I'll just stick with windows for games until I need to upgrade. Then it's AMD for life. Fuck the mega jews, I'll stick to the normal jews.

>>14049840

I'll take your word for it because I really want to get rid of this OS. The only thing I've ever seen Dirext 12 use is Total war warhammer and that shit ran worse on X12 then X11 so fuck it. Here's to hoping Bannerlord will work on Linux. Or whatever that program Wine does. I'll be getting Ubuntu since everyone recommends it for beginners.

>>14049892

>The only thing I've ever seen Dirext 12 use is Total war warhammer and that shit ran worse on X12 then X11

I think I should clarify that when people say "X11", they're not referring to DirectX, but rather the X Window System, which is what most Linux distributions (and also UNIX) have used for graphical environments for a very, very long time.

Modern vidya is so trash that I spend most of my gayming time just playing older shit in emulators like mednafen, mame, dosbox and pre-win7 pc shit via WINE.

I want these threads.

how do I make GTA 3 or san andreas run on fucking wine?

I'm tired of dealing with this BS.

>>14048631

>What games did you get

Shadow tactics, sudden strike 4, and Civ V

I want to play on my OS of choice but both Shadow tactics and SS4 have an annoying bug on i3wm where the control key gets stuck the moment you press it. only way to get it unstuck is to unfocus and refocus the window even if fullscreen.

I suspect that the button release event is not being registered in the game for whatever reason. This is only happening to me with Unity games. Other titles such as COH2 and DivOS don't have this problem.

>Did you get hardware that allows for PCI passthrough?

Was lucky enough that I already had hardware that supports passthrough otherwise I wouldn't have made the switch.

Works quite well, I do not perceive the performance loss on the CPU even my HTC vive works without a hitch.

Only recently got a 2k IPS 144Hz panel, for older titles I am managing to hit the framerate cap. Performance loss would likely be higher at higher refresh rates (perhaps even noticeably so) since the CPU works harder haven't tested thoroughly to get an idea of how many frames I'd be loosing.

My main issue is with the HDD performance despite using virtio, perhaps I configured it incorrectly. Not an issue with most games except the ones that take forever and a half to load such as shadow tactics.

One other problem I have is that I cannot seamlessly pass the dedicated GPU back to the host OS without logging in/out.

Passing sound through the host was a bit of a pain had to use AC97 and disable GPU HDMI audio since intel HDA pulls a shit fit.

I passed through a PCIE usb3.0 controller primarily for the HTC vive to circumvent the 4 device limit in QEMU, but it also comes in handy since I can hotplug devices into the VM through my front panel USB ports. Also installed a cheap USB KVM switch which is more secure than using a software solution such as spice and has less input lag.

It was a hassle to setup initially and far from a gratis solution but I think it was worth it for me since my PC isn't rendered unusable while windows updates and I don't have to deal with "basic" telemetry.

Privacy is a whole other can of worms. Merely installing a different OS is not sufficient in this day and age when the hardware itself is backdoored but at least it is a step in the right direction.

>>14049999 (checked)

This. The only recent games that aren't shit are puzzle/logic/autism games, which are usually available on linux anyway.

>>14049190

Is that the same nigger's who took over the /v/ vola?

>>14050248

Someone was working on an open source rewrite of GTA3's engine.

https://github.com/rwengine/openrw

>>14050662

if you mind sysD*

>>14049192

>Every linux distro is Gentoo or Arch

>I totally know about Linux, I swear

>You'd be better of using Windows 10, pajeet!

>>14049921

>I think I should clarify that when people say "X11", they're not referring to DirectX, but rather the X Window System, which is what most Linux distributions (and also UNIX) have used for graphical environments for a very, very long time.

Oh. So once again I have no idea what anything means. I'm basically jumping into murky water with this.

>>1405112

Dx11 games can be pretty hit or miss, and Dx9 isn't perfectly polished either, even with gallium. Hence my own suggestion about dual booting.

Anything I can do to make Wine run better besides disable HLSL in winetricks? I really want to be able to play Phantasy Star Online without booting up Winblows.

>>14050265

>I suspect that the button release event is not being registered in the game for whatever reason. This is only happening to me with Unity games.

I had two keyboard layouts and used L_ctrl+R_ctrl to toggle between them. After disabling that control doesn't stick.

I find it odd that it is happening with unity 3d games only.

>>14048631

What makes hardware not able to do PCI passthrough? I thought that was always because of drivers limiting such and not the actual hardware ability unless you have something like a actual PCI bus instead of PCI 2.0 or something like that.

>>14049249

>the botnet attacks another botnet, the post.

>>14049296

>what is energy, what is electricity

Listen up you fucking brainlets going on about graphics cards, if you are going to use linux for very FOSS vidya you have three options. Use AMD's mostly free but still has propritary blobs loaded at runtime in kernel driver stack. Use pre GTX 700 series nvidia cards or pre intel HD 4000/skylake for entirely FOSS with no blobs. Or use nvidia's great performing but entirely non-FOSS drivers.

AMD is ok for any performance including 4k as long as you buy their newer cards. Pre GTX 700 nvidia cards with nouveau/free drivers are ok as long as you don't do 4k vidya playing at max settings. Intel graphics is shit for 1080P gaming but you might get away with low res low settings gaming for anything after intel HD 2000. Nvidia's propriatary driver won't work with wayland desktops and runs very fast for anything else. But if there's bugs it is not getting fixed and their EULA is cancer incarnate.

If you have a nvidia card made before the GTX 700 series then keep it. If you have a AMD card upgrade it. If you have a intel card get a AMD card or a pre GTX 700 card. And don't buy newer nvidia cards, ever! AMD beats nvidia in price point for energy performance, even if both are fucking botnets AMD less so, but still a botnet for the newer cards.

>>14052014

Doesn't dead rising have a loonix port?

>>14049718

Clearly you've never been to a single Krita thread. /tech/ has always been full of closeted furfags (like most boards).

>>14049755

Dubs of truth.

>linux

>gaming

The only game worth playing on linux is VirtualBox with a Windows VM that has actual vidya on it

>>14052682

Does GPU Passthough*

>>14052655

>>14052682

>>14052685

>>14052686

>tfw no smart furry coding gf

>>14052703

Rolling distros are great, until something breaks.

>>14052707

If I had a heart :^)

Kill me, i just want a girlfriend.

>>14052703

this right here, been using manjaro after moving from windows for about a year now and it's fuck easy

>>14052203

In order to do passthrough, your Intel CPU has to support VT-d, some sort of virtualization technology, and your motherboard has to support IOMMU groups. If you have AMD, your CPU has to support AMD-Vi. It's not drivers.

>>14052703

>Manjaro

Manjaro dropped OpenRC, it has systemdicks cancer. The devs behind Manjaro OpenRC moved to Artix, which also has a graphical installer and options to install graphical package manager frontends, among other things.

>>14052806

>bitching about systemd

>current year

Nobody who isn't a hypocritical mega autist cares anymore. You want life without systemd? BSD is still a thing.

Is it possible to remove some components or do I have to delete the whole prefix? Managed to create a 32 bit wine prefix but my games don't run even when I have the correct components. Should I just use playonlinux?

I want to play some co-op game with my friends but they refuse playing the little multiplayer games that run on Lunix because they want me to go back to Windows. What do.

>>14052813

Kill yourself Redhat kike.

>Lutris makes gaming on Linux easy!

<Many of the games you want to install only have Steam install scrips, or the one you cant use.

Lutris is useful, but what happens when you dont have the Steam version of the game, or another version no available? And its not like all the games I installed were on Lutris, but even with Wine staging+gallium 9, some games doesnt work regardless of the options I change in the Staging tab in winecfg.

>>14052548

i dont think any capcom game has a linux port

>>14052703

counterpoint to this. At least with my GCN 1.0 card (amd HD 7770) it installed the old privative drivers which meant my system froze when reaching the display manager, didn't have access to tty either from what I recall, X was just fucking frozen.

Antergos, in the other hand, used mesa

>>14052840

> Should I just use playonlinux?

always. It's not worth it getting a game to work, then installing a new one and then breaking the previous game by getting the new one to work, just separate them.

>>14052928

you head to winehq until you learn to manage wine and use it along playonlinux

>>14052703

>Arch or arch-based distros

No.

>Arch or arch-based distros for starters

Shoo microsoft, linux is coming for you and there's nothing you can do besides put out your first good product of the millenium, which we all know you're not doing.

>>14053126

You're right the game with a linux port is Dead Island.

>>14053268

Manjaro is fine for starters.

>>14052813

>Don't want systemd? Don't use Linux!

Nice try, Poettering.

>>14053268

>Not providing arguments

The only argument against Arch and Arch-based distros is systemd, which is reason enough to shun them. The only Arch-based distro that's worth it is Artix, because it uproots that cancer.

>>14054659

Here's a (You) for your trouble.

>>14054659

go back to your vita thread autist

>ctrl-f void

>1 result

I'd recommend Void Linux as a systemd-free Arch alternative. Documentation isn't as comprehensive but it has a good package manager, Manjaro-style installation images with preinstalled DEs for newfags, and startup times are fast as fuck thanks to runit.

>>14054773

I used Void for a server but I'm still not ready to move off hand-holding for desktop. Runit really is a comfy init.

>>14054773

>systemd-free

why do autists still insist in this meme? what did systemd did to you?

>>14053217

Yeah I used it for a while on my laptop and then took some inspiration from it when I made my artix setup

>>14054773

>Void

I'd like to try it out alongside my main install, is the xbps that you can find in the AUR a good way to try it?

>>14054773

But how user-friendly is for new-users? Or at least for people who had some experience with linux (I have been using Ubuntu Mate for a bunch of moths, for example)? How it is compared to other newbie distros?

>>14055226

You will definitely need to learn to use the terminal with Void, I'm not aware of any graphical front end for xbps.

>>14054773

Artix is also great.

>>14055061

Crashed my system constantly while choking on resources. Fuck Pottering and his kike shit.

>>14055061

I like simplicity and systemd is as far from simple as you can get. If it wasn't for my Nvidia hardware and static linking to OpenGL being a terrible idea, I'd probably run stali or 9front as my main OS.

>>14054773

Perhaps I will try it in a virtual box. Using an AMD CPU, the one should i get is this one right?:

>void-live-x86_64-20171007.iso.

I presume that not having no other description, and not seeing a ISO with the MATE name on it, that the ISO file mentioned have MATE preinstalled, right?

And should I get the normal ISOS or the musl ones? Its said that musl is a new standard library really fast and capable, but that some programs may have incompatibilities…Is that much? Or is a minor thing?

>>14055275

>>14055342

>No more Libbie

at least there's butts.

>>14055369

No. x86 was poisoned from the start. Buy a Talos workstation.

>>14055385

I would, but

>muh money

>still not released

If it is released I'll ditch my old computer. Linuxniggers need to make more software for POWER.

>>14055296

>I'd probably run stali

That's the most autistic thing you can possibly use as a daily driver.

>or 9front

I stand corrected.

I have Xubuntu 16.04 and Steam won't open. I typed "sudo apt-get install steam" then I opened Steam but it didn't open. What should I do?

>>14057110

Install gentoo

or just double click it again to open it. Sometimes the shell script to run it doesn't run on first launch for some reason.

>>14057110

open the terminal, type in steam and see what error message spits out.

there's no reason to write apt-get

>>14057119

I tried multiple times to no success.

>>14057124

Okay. Here's what I got:

Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit

STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)

libGL error: unable to load driver: nouveau_dri.so

libGL error: driver pointer missing

libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau

libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so

libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

>>14057138

are you not using the proprietary nvidia drivers?

>>14057149

I accidentaly left the "Install extra software" unchecked and I though it wasn't a big deal because it said it was going to install so mp3 players software and other gay shit. Should I reinstall Xubuntu?

>>14057160

>>14057175

make sure its proprietary, the open source ones are shit (courtesy of nvidia)

>>14057175

Thankyou

>>14055296

>9front

If you're being unironic, how exactly would you have your games other than vanilla Doom and all those emulators bundled in working in there?

>>14060014

I probably wouldn't have 9front as my only operating system, but it's a comfy OS and I wouldn't mind making source ports and original games for it.

Is there a way to install windows only games from Steam and then run it through wine? My little brother wants to play Cuphead and his computer is too shitty to run it. I would let him play it, but Cuphead isn't linux compatible. What should I do?

Install the Windows version of Steam using WINE.

>>14055675

>just keep a collection of the original games and consoles around

On the contrary, pirate everything and emulate. Even go as far as emulating Windows to play vidya on your freedumb OS.

>>14060236

>what is google

Yes, you can install a command line version of steam and set an option to let you download any game you have, regardless of platform. I won't spoonfeed you any further.

>>14060236

man steamcmd

>>14060372

>>14060381

>>14060236

yes but if the game isn't drm free then you also need the windows version of steam (thanks, valve).

When you have the option, just install the gog version (like in the case of cuphead), it worked without problem in my machine, no complaints.

>linux

>games

>>14061862

Linux won't just execute any old file. It needs to know you want it to be executable. Try

chmod +x doomrl

then

./doomrl

Note the period and forward slash.

>>14061862

binaries may end in .bin or just have no extension. Generally developers will add x86 or x64 to the name to denate if it is 32 or 64 bits. As I don't have doomRL I can't be any more specific than that but as it is a games 99.99% they gave you binaries.

>>14061906

also, yeah. Need to make it executable. If devs used something dumb like .rar or something else that doesn't keep file permissions you'll have to manually make the binary executable

>>14055369

>Protect your digital privacy

>Fine with police state

Where did /v/ go wrong?

>>14061906

this has at least gotten me closer and has opened up a valkyrie sdl window. what's the theory behind those commands? i recognize +x and imagine i'm changing its parameters, but what about the "./"?

>>14061925

In line with .. being the parent directory, . just means current directory. Personally I haven't found any purpose for it other than writing stuff longer. Get back to me if you find out, please

>>14061925

If you just type in "doomrl", it will try to execute a file in whatever bin directory it looks at like /usr/bin, /bin, etc.

By typing in "./doomrl", It will look into the current directory and try to look for doomrl.

>>14062087

>>14061929

>>14061910

>>14061906

thanks for your help guys, i got it working. i had to spend like an hour figuring out how to check which libraries i had and update them as needed but it finally worked

>>14048631

>Linux gaming

Docker is love, Docker is lyfe

>download docker container for gaem

>run it

>it just fucking works

>>14048631

>What games did you get for your Freedom™ OS PC this Christmas?

All the games in the Hexcells series for like 4 eurobucks, and I gave a buddy a game and got Factorio in return. Pretty happy with both.

>>14066683

Nice. We need bring the Linux loli back.

>>14068666

I think her design needs an update. Namely her clothes. I mean, clothes represent the opposite of transparency, don't they? Linux-tan is open source, so she shouldn't be wearing any.

>Want to try out Vampire Masquerade

>WineHQ says it works flawlessly

>Crashes before it even boots up

>Every forum talking about it says it's finnicky as fuck even on windows

>Install unofficial fan patch

>Nothing

Anyone else able to get this thing working or am I just fucked?

>>14072440

Did you read through all the WineHQ notes? Some Platinum entries still require some tweaking.

>>14072575

All it says is how to get the unofficial patch to run, and how to improve the graphics. I thought I'd ask here since so many people love that game and I have PTSD from spending weeks trying to get shit to work in wine

Happy New Year of the Linux Desktop

>>14077727

And happy new year to you as well, dear anon.

>>14082052

Fug, what a depressing sight, I just realized what day it is. Ha-happy new year…

>>14082052

Installed msxml3 redistributable with winetricks and it's working although it's performance is worse. Might try on a newer distro with the latest wine staing eventually.

Going to try out running Project Reality in Wine, wish me luck.

>>14082052

What steps did you take to get Civ 4 to boot? I must've missed something while setting it up.

>>14082052

I get civ4 running perfectly, best civ tbh

and ha-happy new year to you too

>>14082112

In the future try to use isolated versions (or prefixes/bottles) of wine next time so you can just restore or delete them if you fuck them up. Programs like "PlayOnLinux", "Crossover" (paid, but easily pirateable) and "Lutris" let you do that. Also, get your wine version as updated as possible.

recommendations for a mouseless 2006-era toaster laptop for a linux newbie?

>>14099615

just look at thinkpads

>>14099645

my bad, i meant game recommendations, i already have the piece of garbage laptop installed with mint

>>14099649

doom / id software games in general

duke3d (eduke32 source port)

emulators - console and mame

rhythm games

nethack and other actual roguelikes

this is a stupid question giving you broad answers, why not use your package manager to find games

>>14099615

Freeciv is one of the few games besides emulated stuff that I can actually enjoy on a shitty trackpad.

HITMAN™ - Game of The Year Edition torrent when

>>14100282

i know, i freaked someone out on tech.lulz

I'm not so sure this has been posted, and technically irrelevant of this thread:

https://meltdownattack.com

It describes a cache vulnerability on Intel Processors with out of order execution.

And Spectre, which affect nearly all processors architecturally, which isn't limited to x86, ARM, Power, PowerPC, Sparc, etc..

https://github.com/Eugnis/spectre-attack

All I personally hope is that RiscV can design a way to mitigate it.

ROP based attacks have me more scared

>>14049769

>LTS based distro

>outdated packages

I mean, it's practically written on the tin…

>>14100365

There have been gaming benchmarks with the new patches protecting against Meltdown in Linux, and it turns out there is no performance hit at all. Spectre can't be fixed through software, but it's really hard to exploit.

>>14100174

>>want to switch over

No you don't, otherwise you'd be using Linux as your daily driver and only booting into a windows partition for gaymen.

>>14102335

>No you don't, otherwise you'd be using Linux as your daily driver and only booting into a windows partition for gaymen.

Not the guy you're replying to but dualbooting is fucking annoying as hell. Most people here play games on a daily basis, and it's such a hassle to reboot your PC two or four times a day just for gaming, even if you have an SSD.

Personally I'm fine with my 3DS and Switch and emulating games in Linux but if I actually were interested in Windows-only games enough I would consider building/buying a different PC for Windows, just having it on alongside my other "main" PC and plugged into a different video port on my monitor. It would be a far better solution than cucking out for a windows-only desktop or trying to manage a dualboot with resetting constantly.

>>14103814

>>14102335

I played more Windows games back when I used Wine instead of dualbooting. Rebooting to play a couple games is inconvenient when most of them work well in Wine with similar performance.

You notice how the open source games thread did a lot better than this one? You might want to think on why that might be OP.

>>14111952

Who cares, man.

>>14052203

>price point for energy performance

Wat?

Either way nvidia still has by far the most efficient gpus, but AMD might be cheaper (less so if you consider how you'll need a more powerful cpu and cooling system).

>>14124252

>powerful cpu

Should've beeen

>powerful psu

>Dawn of War Soulstorm sound is fucked up, and the game freezes on the loading screen before the menu(The sound of the menu starts, althought fucked up)

What do? Using Wine Staging with Gallium 9.

Been going through my back catalog of old PC games via wine. Currently playing Deus Ex Gog version and it runs beautifully

>>14131133

Why do you need wine to have its own partition?

>>14131073

https://www.reddit.com/r/cemu/comments/6o0obp/complete_guide_to_cemu_on_linux/

Old, but may help.

>>14131805

Lost is at the Mesa drivers. No idea how to build them

Does anyone know how to play Touhou Hisoutensoku online without the horrible slowness?

>>14131133

I think you mean installing Steam on a Wine prefix, which is a folder containing a confined Windows environment and is definitely not a partition.

>>14131668

>Why do you need wine to have its own partition?

my bad, for a moment I thought you were retarded, but I meant to say prefix there

Just finished Fallout 1 using POL on Solus. Once you get past the foundation they built, it's a pretty shit game that I wouldn't even trade FO3 for. Not Todd, I swear.

>>14146166

Maybe CRPG's just aren't for you, anon.

>second hand PC

>Mint, easy as shit to setup, works out of the box

>windows, still trying to make it work

what timeline is this

>>14149916

>older laptop

>install windows

>coil whine

>no sound from headphones

>minimum brightness burns my eyes

>install linux

>no coil whine

>no sound issues

>can set the brightness to whatever I want with xbacklight

Windows is a meme.

>>14149916

it was pretty much always like that, Windows is irredeemable shit in regards to installing

people just don't notice that because it usually comes bundled with all drivers and shit

>>14149916

Just had to set up a toaster for someone and went with linux as well, any popular distro is better for (almost) do-and-forget things nowdays

>>14149916

Always was the case. Windows isn't a good option if you want backwards compatibility.

>>14063272

>video has no really loud hard bass in the background

gay

>get AMD RX Vega 56 during Black Friday

>boot up usual Debian install

>it breaks and will never boot

>get this error

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853122

<play a shit load of windows game during Christmas and New Years since Bayonetta & Divinity: Original Sin 2 have a garbage rating on Wine>

>reinstall Debian

>run Xonotic as a test

>get 25 fps

>its not even detecting my video card

>read later on that Linux 4.12 supports RX Vega cards and Debian is just too outdated for it

>pick another distro that's generally more updated

>try Antergos

>gets an error while loading graphical installer

>try Arch Linux

>all goes well until trying to install LightDM (gets core dump) & xfce4

>try Xubuntu

>same kind of failure as Antergos

Does anyone else have this video card and a functioning Linux install?

>>14156152

might be unrelated, but GoG uses some fucked up scripts sometimes, for example I got pirate Shadowrun version from GoG, they have two scripts calling the game, neither of them worked

but actually just running the executable worked totally fine

so it might just an issue with the scripts they shipping in some of their games, try that

>>14148985

Oh but they are. If it were as comphy as Infinity Engine games, I'd be singing its praises. The nightmarish puppetry is pretty inspired though.

GPU passthrough is NOT Linux gaming. If you do this you are a windows gamer in denial, and you should vacate the thread.

all the retards on other sites say start with ubuntu and its better for games but I immediately hated it and had shit not working on a fresh 16.04 install, on the other hand I love antergos, will I be missing absolutely anything by not using ubuntu for playing games?

>>14173062

>ubuntu

>for gaming

???

>>14173062

>>14173470

They recommend Ubuntu on the basis that it's the most user-friendly experience, given that most people transitioning from Windows to Linux gaming don't really want to learn new things. If you have the will to learn how to use a Linux distro, you shouldn't have trouble dealing with Arch or Gentoo. I went cold turkey on Windows and I wasn't disappointed, though beware, you've got to take some time when doing this.

Objectively speaking, and without taking user experience into account, rolling release distros are better for gaming, since they offer newer drivers and other packages in general than regular distros.

>>14173498

Have you considered maybe dual booting windows, without connecting it to the internet if you're afraid of botnets? The games will just work

>>14173498

>If you have the will to learn how to use a Linux distro, you shouldn't have trouble dealing with Arch or Gentoo

I wouldn't exactly agree with you there, linux have a tad learning curve so most people should try to easy into

I don't know about gentoo meme, but Arch drops you blank from the get go, even though you can follow instructions its quite hard at first

that being said, I confess that I only learned certain aspects of linux by going in deeper and Arch helped me there

>Objectively speaking, and without taking user experience into account, rolling release distros are better for gaming, since they offer newer drivers and other packages in general than regular distros.

true to that, but rolling releases also tend to break things easier, which can be mighty troublesome if you're not ready for it

ubuntu package and updating system tends to be reasonably recent enough for most things

>>14164380

now that is fucking weird, at the very least antergos should have recent drivers, and the good drivers are the open source ones that should be installed by every distro. I could think of wayland being the problem, but you are using xfce4 and I think that's X11 only. That's fucking weird, man

>>14173498

anyone recommending ubuntu for gaming ](for noobs) MUST mention launchpad repos with updated drivers, otherwise they'll get fucked

>>14174133

>>14173498

>>14174374

Appreciate the input

>>14174068

I have, but I am trying to stay off of windows completely if I can

>>14174940

Honestly, when I switched over a decade ago I left windows for a while, but it was just left unused because I just used wine for my games, so I eventually just removed windows' partition to have more space for linux.

What gpu do you have? AMd benefits more from rolling release distros than nvidia

>>14174068

Older games will not just work, with newer Windows versions at least. Also, the games I do want to play are online only, so I can't just keep my computer disconnected. Most games I want to play work. This is the case for most people here.

The least botnet, the better.

>>14175121

Right now just intel hd but it works for most of what I play

>>14175221

Same, and it seems wow private servers, guild wars 1, dfo, and lotro run fine so far. Running xubuntu on my desktop for now while I learn more about arch (through antergos) on my laptop to see if I want to use it full time.

>>14184624

>>14175434

WTF?

hummmmmmm

you might be wondering why is this here, completely out of context?

well I'm wondering it too, should be in a different thread altogether

>>14062250

How fucked is someone on a pirated kikedows &

>>14187246

7

Is anyone running Aurora through wine? The appDB page didn't mention any problems but I always get some dll related crash when trying to assign a govenor to earth

>>14184624

Great, now I want to do another fresh playthrough. Shame the game is so easy and that most of the companions become worthless halfway through the first NG playthrough.

>>14061862

Right click the file and go to properties and check the run as executable box, works for some things

>>14187246

>>14187247

Given that you're using Tor through Windows, you're quite fucked.

>>14191409

Are you memeing?

How fucked am i?

>>14191453

I think the sentiment is: using Tor is going to put you on a watchlist of some kind.

>>14191761

That's right goy. Do the exact opposite of what I imply you to do in my post. Windows is a trustable system and your VPN/Tor will make you safe.

>>14192733

The older the Nvidia card is, the better should performance be with Noveau. That's the theory, at least. I have no info about Nvidia cards in Linux beyond this.

>>14191453

Not memeing. Embed related, this is what I meant.

>>14191693

That's not what I meant, but that is likely.

>>14191761

You're already on a watchlist for being in here, using Tor wouldn't worsen things that much.

The takeaway here is to not use Windows.

>>14197748

Here's the source for it if anyone else is interested

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

MAny of the games I installed in Ubuntu Mate, using WINE stagging+G9 doesnt work or dont load, regardless of games being gold/platinum, and changing stuff in the staging tab of winecfg doesnt fix it.

Is there anything that I missed?

>>14197884

Check the pages for each game. They will usually have configuration info for them.

How is amdgpu on kernel 4.15?

Guys, I'm on my wits end. I've had killing floor sitting on steam for a while, and decided to give it a go in december.

It played nice enough, got separated of computer for like two weeks and now when trying to play the game hangs for like 5 seconds before the first wave, if I'm hosting and there are people connected to me it is even worse, have had it freeze for half a minute with 3 people (as I'm the host the game freezes for everyone, if I'm playing in someone else's server time passes for them normally).

I have an intel xeon e5400, and AMD HD 7770 with radeonsi and amdgpu.

The problem happens:

>whether or not steam is in offline mode

>whether or not overlay is enabled

>no matter if I use steam-runtime, native, or LSI (linux-steam-integration)

<does NOT happen when launching outside steam (but then I can only play solo due to DRM)

The worst part is that in a laptop with a shitty intel celeron and intel HD 2000 the game doesn't hang (it still plays like shit in there due to specs). To reiterate, KF plays fine in my desktop except for the initial hang before the initial wave, said hang almost always happens 5 seconds into the game(about 70% of the time), but sometimes triggers 6,7 or 8 seconds into the game.

I used gallium hud to track anything weird, when the hang happens gpu usage and cpu usage go down and there's nothing weird going on with I/O operations. Further checking, using radeon-profile I saw core clock and memory clock went down to their lowest value during the hang. Using radeontop I saw that tesselation and vertex grouper, shader interpolation, primitive assembly and EVERYTHING ELSE except VRAM usage went to 0%.

So, to me it seems something is "holding" the game during the time it hangs, hence cpu and gpu utilization drop, but I don't understand what it is, one may think it is something related to servers, but it also happens on solo, then if you assume even then it queries for something there's the fact that it also happens while in offline mode, and if we assume that even in offline mode it queries for shit due to retarded devs, then why doesn't it happen in the significantly weaker computer?

I don't understand this shit, I don't get why this is happening and I don't know how to fix it (reloading the game and opting in steam beta didn't help either). If anyone has any remote idea of what it could possibly maybe be, I'm all ears.

>>14205718

So I could get some more information.

I decided to test KF again, now without internet, and I encountered… no hang up, I load another map and same thing. I switched to offline mode, the game continued normally. This means that while I'm connected to internet the game/steam must be querying something, it does so even when playing solo, and it does so even when playing in offline mode. I reconnected to the internet without switching steam mode and without closing the game, an guess what? it hangs again.

What should I use to monitor requests to the internet to see if I can just block them or see what the fuck is happening to cause these hangs?. Networking is definitely not my forte.

>>14050050

< S p o o k y

>>14052703

Arch based distro are better simply because of the package management. I used debian based shit for years, tried an Arch based distro and never looked back. Manjaro is a pretty good place to start.

>>14052813

How big is your nose?

>>14055061

Systemd is a cluster fuck and broke on me several times. It also fucks my wireless devices and wifi adapter each and every fucking time. Also fucking kill yourself Poettering.

>>14208712

any tips to start up? I get over 1 thousand results in a bit over a minute, I need a way to filter this shit

>>14208750

>wifi adapter

>not using ethernet + wireless router

lol

>>14208896

The text bar directly above the results is a filter. You can specify stuff like protocols and it should offer plenty of autocomplete options. Try "http" and work/look up more filters from there.

Does wine work for fruityloops?

Honestly the whole shit with switching from windows is an issue because if something can legitimately compete with windows microcock would probably try to sue for virtualization software and code interpreters.

>>14210061

>"Does wine work for fruityloops?"

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=178

Going by this, it does flawlessly.

Check the WINE App Database (the link I just gave you) if you have doubts about more software

>>14211108

I was mostly curious because fruityloops uses a ton of extention programs.

Almost a year of Pure linux. Lots of vidya and even more productivity. there is a learning curve. but its better then sucking pajeet cock with windows 10.

>>14197748

I swear this some kinda of weird stuff you were showing,

like swords in her ass or something

>>14210805

If (haspenis == true){

System.out.printIn(">she");

}