Wow, @mrdeathjr, for a DX3 game, MotoRacer 2 looks pretty amazing.

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Unity Engine games are one of the most problematic games for me to get running stable in Proton. They are the most likely to crash unexpectedly. I'd say that the Unity devs have a lot of work to do for both Proton and Native support...

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Quoting: sonic2kkGranted, I'm not sure if any launcher can integrate with it out of the box (iirc Heroic may be able to if it finds it installed from Steam, Lutris may do the same?), but it isn't necessarily a walled solution only for Steam; Linux ports targetting the Steam Linux Runtime will not necessarily only benefit ports coming to Steam but also those released standalone and/or through GOG.

Heroic has a toggle you can set to turn the Steam Linux Runtime on or off. It doesn't say which runtime and doesn't give you the option to choose either.

Lutris, at least up to v0.5.18, has its own set of runtime libraries that you can toggle on or off. There is also an option to manually set a library override folder which, theoretically, should work with the Steam Linux Runtimes. After v.5.18, I don't know because I won't be installing any newer versions.

Outside of any launcher, it is also possible to add a runtime override folder to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, either permanently or temporarily, via the Terminal or script. You put it at the front of the list and Linux checks there first.

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Quoting: PaldinoX

but for the Verified status they're expecting 30FPS at 1080p

Oh lord, expect the incoming tidal wave of idiots thinking the Steam Machine will ONLY run games at 1080p 30fps because they don't understand how Valve's verification program works.

I don't get it either. I understood on first reading that 30fps at 1080p was just the minimum needed for a game to qualify for Verified Status, not the maximum performance of the Steam Machine. These are two different things, after all. I'm astonished that people could possibly be that stupid.

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Quoting: EWGEspecially good for books, CDs, DVDs/Blu-Rays if you ask me.

No, nope, definitely not. Clearly asking you would be, in my case, a terrible idea. I'm picky. Random books, CDs, DVDs would almost all be worth zero to me. Less than zero, because they would take up bookshelf space and I'm running out already. So yeah, I wouldn't take mystery random boxes of that kind of thing if you offered them to me for free.

The same applies to me. Also applies to those random video game bundles that are put out every once and a while. I don't want digital clutter either.

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Quoting: F.Ultraif you are a songwriter you have to register each work you create to PRS. Organizations that then pay license to PRS have to also track which song is played so the payouts is actually divided per how much your music was played.

To my knowledge, that is not how SOCAN or RE:SOUND work here in Canada. Certainly, the manager of our community hall did not have to track songs or submit a report with those details. Just a list of events that featured pre-recorded or live music along with a cheque, of course. (Until they upgraded the facility to an annual all-events fee, that is.)

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Quoting: CaldathrasInteresting. I was forced to 580 from the 550 series. Wasn't given a choice. Based on the link below, Nvidia no longer supports the 550 series, by the way:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

To do that I had to drop my kernel to 6.14 (which is now also unsupported I think) and remove one line from the code. But any drive above that messes up my VR (among other things), so it has to be done.

hey man, I'm trying since weeks to get back to 565 from currently 580
It updated automatically and it seems like I have no choice or way back....

I'm on POP OS (No wayland) and kernel 6.17.9-76061709-generic

Is there actually a way to get back to 565.77? Can you please tell me how?

Not exactly and it'll take a bit of doing. But I installed the old packages from the Launchpad PPA. This failed because the glue module wouldn't compile. Then I just went through the compile log and tried to fix the errors. Doing that for a "too old" driver on a "too new" kernel was just too much, so I enabled the older kernel from before my distupgrade. This combo only required commenting out a single line from the driver to make it compile.

There's not exactly a manual for this and if it's still broken after a reboot then you'll have to continue from the console. So if you're not prepared to just do it and deal with whatever happens, it may be easier to just downgrade the whole system.

It was the graphics-drivers PPA that automatically pushed me from the 550 series to the 580 series. I don't think you'll get any joy there.

Keep in mind that the 565 series, like the 550 series, is no longer supported by Nvidia.

That being said, it seems to me that the best chance would be to use Nvidia's installer. You'll need to make sure you have a compatible kernel, however, or the install will fail. I suspect that kernel 6.17 is unlikely to be compatible. The last 565 driver update was in Dec. 2024.

Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver 565.77 | Linux 64-bit [External Link]

Also, you can look here:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ [External Link]

(Yes, Nvidia refers to Linux as Unix.)

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So, basically, nothing changes unless you choose to use Steam or GOG as your download source.

Direct downloads and repositories are not affected.

Good.

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Bureaucratic overreach. As usual, they know that their demands cannot be backed up by existing law. They're just hoping that businesses and citizens will give in to their demands without questioning the legal validity of those demands.

We've seen the same conduct here in Canada, just in different industries.

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Quoting: g000hAs soon as Californians are no longer able to legally run Linux, their own citizens will go after this law and end the moronic political overreach.

This assumes that the majority of Californians are Linux users. Linux is not significant enough to overturn this law. Besides, the majority of eligible voters are indifferent sheep ... they are more likely to just accept or ignore the overreach.

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