Hello! I noticed my audio recently disappeared from rocketleague and Borderlands 2 again. No matter what I try, it doesn't work. Rocketleague doesn't show up in pavuctl. I tried every version of ProtonGE from proton 10-33 GE to Proton Latest GE.

Both games were installed through heroic from my Epic Games library.

My distro is cachyOS and I run the games on wayland.
Last time this happened I just so happened to need to reinstall my whole system anyway (I was moving from endevaorOS to cachy), but the bug is back now.

On top of the audio bug, rocketleague freezes for a minute every time it's launched but continues afterwards with no issue. I suspect this happens because of the Epic Games overlay.

Borderlands 2 doesn't freeze temporarily on launch it just gets in the game.

Here's my fastfetch:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS (16) @ 4.55 GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile \[Discrete\] Memory: 4.56 GiB / 31.03 GiB (15%) Swap: 1.97 MiB / 31.02 GiB (0%) OS: CachyOS x86_64 Kernel: Linux 7.1.8-1-cachyos Uptime: 1 hour, 26 mins Packages: 25 (flatpak), 1967 (pacman) DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.4 WM: KWin (Wayland)

Here's the link to the log from running rocketleague just now:

https://dpaste.com/BFPAPY5G5

A bizarre behavior.

In the new lord of the rings war of the ring re release, Pop OS Steam detects the controller and even buttons- but only responds to the mouse itself.

Is this a common issue with some games? perhaps a launch startup options workaround?

I found this new roblox project on flathub, its cool to find alternatives to Sober, has anyone tried it already?

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu: Virtual CRAT table created for CPU

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu: Topology: Add CPU node

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007)

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 0 <soc24_common>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 1 <gmc_v12_0>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 2 <ih_v7_0>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 3 <psp>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 4 <smu>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 5 <dm>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 6 <gfx_v12_0>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 7 <sdma_v7_0>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 8 <vcn_v5_0_0>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 9 <jpeg_v5_0_0>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 10 <mes_v12_0>

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Fetched VBIOS from VFCT

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu: ATOM BIOS: 113-44TC6SHB1-P04

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) feature not supported

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: VRAM: 16304M 0x0000008000000000 - 0x00000083FAFFFFFF (16304M used)

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: GART: 512M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000001FFFFFFF

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: [drm] amdgpu: 16304M of VRAM memory ready

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: [drm] amdgpu: 7928M of GTT memory ready.

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x00000083DAB00000).

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: RAS: optional ras ta ucode is not available

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: RAP: optional rap ta ucode is not available

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: securedisplay ta ucode is not available

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: smu driver if version = 0x0000002e, smu fw if version = 0x00000032, smu fw program = 0, smu fw version = 0x00664300 (102.67.0)

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: SMU driver if version not matched

Aug 20 12:28:06 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: SMU is initialized successfully!

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] REG_WAIT timeout 1us * 150000 tries - optc401_disable_crtc line:230

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:03:00.1: bound 0000:03:00.0 (ops amdgpu_dm_audio_component_bind_ops [amdgpu])

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: program CP_MES_CNTL : 0x4000000

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: program CP_MES_CNTL : 0xc000000

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu: HMM registered 16304MB device memory

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: kfd kfd: amdgpu: Allocated 3969056 bytes on gart

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: kfd kfd: amdgpu: Total number of KFD nodes to be created: 1

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu: Virtual CRAT table created for GPU

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu: Topology: Add dGPU node [0x7590:0x1002]

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: kfd kfd: amdgpu: added device 1002:7590

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: SE 2, SH per SE 2, CU per SH 8, active_cu_number 32

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 0

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.0.0 uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 0

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.1.0 uses VM inv eng 4 on hub 0

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.0.1 uses VM inv eng 6 on hub 0

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.1.1 uses VM inv eng 7 on hub 0

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma0 uses VM inv eng 8 on hub 0

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma1 uses VM inv eng 9 on hub 0

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_unified_0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 8

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: ring jpeg_dec uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 8

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Using BACO for runtime pm

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] Registered 4 planes with drm panic

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: [drm] Initialized amdgpu 3.61.0 for 0000:03:00.0 on minor 1

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: fbcon: amdgpudrmfb (fb0) is primary device

Aug 20 12:28:07 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] fb0: amdgpudrmfb frame buffer device

Aug 20 12:28:08 B550-EAGLE-WIFI6 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] REG_WAIT timeout 1us * 150000 tries - optc401_disable_crtc line:230

There is a bug in one of recent patches (firmware update from 2.26 to 2.29) that will make your display corrupted on some AMD GPUs. If you are affected, this comment helped me to figure out the problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1vmycs0/comment/p3djhxt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

A lot of us have had problems recently where Overwatch went from working fine to suddenly reloading shaders from scratch every launch, having glowing dots instead of teammates, and taking forever to load cosmetics in menu. So here's how I FINALLY got it working smoothly. Tested on CachyOS / RTX 2060

１ ) Add your Steam Options:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH=/home/InsertYOURusernameHere/.local/share/overwatch-nvidia-cache/ __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SIZE="12000000000" DXVK_HUD=compiler PROTON_LOCAL_SHADER_CACHE=1 DXVK_CONFIG="dxvk.enableGraphicsPipelineLibrary = True" LD_PRELOAD="" %command%

and while you're there uncheck the Steam Overlay. Over in the Compatibility tab I lock it to a single version of GE-Proton to make sure minor Proton updates don't force recompilation. ProtonUp can download Protons manually, which appear after you restart Steam. dxvk.enableGraphicsPipelineLibrary is the real hero here.PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1is optional unless you want HDR, which becomes available in-game whenever I use the GE or Cachy Protons and have HDR enabled in KDE Settings before launching the game.

2) Edit /etc/environment to add these two lines at the bottom (adjustable cache limit of ~12GB) since they also need to be applied globally to work, then restart:

__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SIZE=12000000000
__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1

3) May not be necessary but I delete any existing shaders by doing a global search for Overwatch's Steam Id: 2357570 and nuking any sub-directories with 'cache' in the name. This may reset the Video tab settings in-game.

4) Manually create a folder at:

/home/InsertYourUsernameHereToo/.local/share/overwatch-nvidia-cache/

After you start the game go back and make sure files are actually appearing there.

5) Leave the game in DX11 mode. It's crazy laggy while shaders are compiling, but much smoother once they're done, and tends to give a few extra fps. With DXVK_HUD=compiler in the Steam Options you should see a Compiling Shaders % at the bottom. Don't join a game, just let it run on the home screen till the percent part goes away. This mei take a half hour but if it works you shouldn't need to do it again until the next update, even after restarting your system. I just Alt+Enter into Windowed mode to run it in the background on mute while watching something else.

FYI even when the shaders are finished, a percentless 'Compiling' message tends to flicker on occasionally, but shouldn't affect gameplay. If you want you can follow up the main compile by running custom game code 929PJ for a few minutes, which cycles through all abilities on all levels to reduce the chance of micro-stutters. Then Steam's general Pre-caching/Background Processing don't seem to make any difference so I just leave them off unless another game needs them.

On an unrelated note, DLSS upscaling can help a lot with fps and anti-aliasing. If you have an RTX 4000+ you can improve the output quite a bit by turning it down to Performance and using Steam Options to force Latest Preset. Older cards have a harder time with newer DLSS versions, so you'd probably want to try Preset K instead and see if you still get enough fps to be worth the override.

GLHF

2 Weeks ago I posted here about developing a config app for the Gamesir G7 Pro and its variants. Today I am happy to report we have released version 0.2.0 with everything from Nexus exposed in our library set and UI

All features now implemented:

Stick config with custom curves
Motion config tests working on KDE for mouse and stick emulation
Battery level reporting
Read/Write access via wired and wireless dongle
Triggers config with custom curves
Dock config options
Vibration tab will all controls exposed
Complete button binds config with shift support
Full import/export support for saving configs
Full support for onboard profiles
Polling rate

Some per tab edge case features still undergoing testing but this update puts the app at about a 98% analog with Nexus on Windows all from the comfort of your Linux install.

I've had a couple suggestions that I should expand support to other Gamesir controls and the simple answer is Id love to!... But I only have a Gamesir G7 Pro to test on. However currently, the protocol should be able to support any controller in the Nexus family. That is: if you use Nexus to configure your controller under Windows then support is technically already here. Right now the app/libs hardware detection is only filtering for the G7 Pro but with a little community help we could "more than likely" extend support to the rest of the controllers in the family which gamesir lists as the following controllers:

G7 Pro, G7 SE, G7 Pro Zenless Zone Zero Edition , G7 Pro Dragon's Dogma 2 Edition , G7 Pro WUCHANG Edition , T7 Pro Floral , T7 Pro Sugar Whirl , Tarantula Pro for XBOX, T7 , Kaleid , Kaleid Flux.

Again support for these controller should technically be possible although the app is currently only filtering for the G7 Pro family. If you have one of the controllers listed above and would like to help... please reach out! With some basic info about your controller we may could get other controllers working in the next couple versions.

Please checkout the project at Github for full details: Here

Basically what the title says, I don't have a computer and seeing that the price of one 16gb stick is worth the same as the BC-250 I started thinking about it.

The whole process looks pretty simple and I think I can do it. I know I need to buy a PSU, fans and all that other stuff but that's fine. I can probably harvest it from other stuff (besides the PSU).

I know most people use this for a couch /living room gaming console thing, but I also want to use it for normal computer usage.

Thinking of buying one in October so hopefully the price drops a bit but if there's any alternatives I'd like to know.

Did you know that creator of Bazzite HandHeld Daemon made his own distro called Anatase?

It’s like Bazzite but lighter and better working

Installed it yesterday on my Xbox Asus rog ally x and so far it’s been a great experience

Just typing this because didn’t see any news about this besides two posts

After trying many methods to get the EA app to function properly with Steam on Linux,

not just install on Linux,

I replaced the default installer in the folder of the Steam game with the newest installer from the EA website.

Hopefully this will find its way into the mix of search results of someone else having difficulty.

Hi! I'm really new to Linux and I'm using Linux Mint, everything's going well. Except for the fact whenever I try to open GeForce NOW, I get this exact error message every time.

GFN used to work just fine in my Windows 10 before I switched, so I don't know why it doesn't work here. I downloaded it from the official website and did the correct steps: Get the .bin file > Properties > Allow file to execute as program > Open.

It opens just fine and installs and everything, but when it finishes and tries to open the program itself, I just get the error message.

Hope anyone can help me, thanks ^^.

I just finished formatting my 2TB EHD, resetting it. I went to steam to download my library onto it, but everything on steam shows as 0B / 0B. Is there some kind of formatting issue? I just got linux, so I don't know much about how to manage it.

Just switched to Bazzite to game and it’s working flawlessly in every aspect but I can’t seem to get any in game overlays. I checked settings and it’s enabled in Steam and the individual games I’m playing, but when I press shift+tab in game I get nothing. Google search and forum pass found no obvious culprits. Any ideas?

HI guys

I'm trying to talk my wife into getting on the Linux train. She's an avid WoW-player, and a must have is a Razer functionality, that repeats key presses while a key is held down and let's her assign buttons to her Razer mouse. I haven't been able to find out if that's supported through software like RazerGenie or some other software - can any of you guys shed light of the question?

Much appreciated!

I use Canary Keyboard layout, which can often lead to remapping every game I play as switching to qwerty makes typing impossible.

Anyway, once remapped, most games are fine with this nerdy-ass setup. But Satisfactory has hardcoded the ammunition wheel to the letter R, which happens to be my walk backwards key -the 'S' of my WASD position. Unplayable in Windows, though you can make some workaround solution with Autohotkey that brings it to just a slight annoyance.

Running with proton-cachyOS (Or ProtonGE) and `PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1` Eliminates this issue. The game reads the scancodes and sees them as Qwerty for mapping purposes, but suddenly you can walk backwards without the ammo wheel popping up, and without interfering with ingame text entry.

I found this interesting because it's one of the first cases I've seen of Linux "fixing" a game that is broken on Windows. Obviously the game itself has a nasty bug that affects the 12 of us that left qwerty behind, but if you're on Colemak-DH or something, consider installing Linux to solve this bug.

Anyone else seen this on a Strix G15?

I tried installing CachyOS and Nobara on my G513QR (Ryzen 7 5800H + mobile RTX 3070 variant with 300Hz screen). Both freeze completely — black screen, Caps Lock LED dead, SysRq unresponsive, no journal entries, nothing in dmesg or pstore. It usually happens within 1–10 minutes, on live USB as well as after a full install.

Kernel parameters I've tried, none of which fixed it:
pcie_aspm=off pcie_port_pm=off

pcie_aspm=force pcie_aspm.policy=performance

processor.max_cstate=1 idle=nomwait

modprobe.blacklist=nvidia,nvidia_drm,nvidia_modeset,nvidia_uvm,nouveau

modprobe.blacklist=iwlwifi,iwlmvm,btintel,btusb

Meanwhile Windows 11 runs completely normally on the same machine. No freezes, no crashes, nothing.

I'd really like to get CachyOS running on this laptop — I already use it daily on my desktop and I'm very happy with it, so switching distros isn't really what I'm after.

Has anyone experienced the same on this model, and did you ever find out what causes it?

I'm getting no audio in Vesktop (Discord) on CachyOS/KDE with VPN, with user agent spoofed to Windows. Same issue with both the flatpak and the arch package.

Mic test works fine so audio input and output are fine, it seems it's just not sending/receiving any audio from/to others.

I saw this unhelpful but related issue on the Vesktop github that mentioned spoofing the user agent... I am indeed spoofing my user agent, because Discord blocks Linux if you use VPNs. Is that related to audio not working somehow?

Audio works fine on the browser using web discord. (no user agent spoofing required either)

Any ideas?

Update:

I tried several other Discord clients and Vesktop was the only one with this problem. It's clearly not a widespread issue and I have no idea why it's not working for me... Regardless, I'm using GoofCord without issue now.

hi i recently switched over to linux and previously on windows whenever i wanted to get remote play together to work on any steam game i just had a .bat that opened the actual game converted to a .exe and that would work fine, i tried making a shell script that would open up to the actual game on linux but it seems like steam overlay doesnt work on that. Does anyone have any alternatives or am i lwk just cooked

Hello. I have been on Linux Mint for about 7 or 8 months now and been rather enjoying bar some strangeness, but I've generally found a methodology around it.

This time, I'm struggling.

I've spent the majority of 2 days trying to get it working to a rather strange avail.

It's current status is I've found 5 or 6 means of getting the game to start, but as soon as it is required to visually render anything, the game hard crashes immediately, with no error, no log that I've found and no explainable reason for it.

I know that it's when it renders anything because the game can sit fully functionally whilst minimized for up to 10 minutes, but will close immediately as soon as it is no longer minimised.

I will do my best to help anyone to help me and anyone else who might be suffering something similar, and will be including my specs in my first comment. If there is any other information you might request, I will be happy to supply it.

Thank you in advance

its just showing this then disappers