@vertigo which GPU and cable.? I'm on a 7800XT running CachyOS and Bazzite (both on KDE), using a DisplayPort 2.1 connected to an AOC monitor, and have zero issues with VRR.

@Lofty Bazzite and CachyOS are both good options. Expect CachyOS to get 6.5 soon (available already in the Arch testing repo if you want to try it now), Bazzite will be a bit later but still will get it sooner than most other distros. I'd recommend CachyOS only if you're a bit technical and don't mind ocassionally getting your hands dirty (aka using the terminal, maybe to fix something). Bazzite on the other hand is a great option if you want something that "just works™".

Avoid Ubuntu-based distros like the plague, they're always outdated and tend to break when you do upgrades.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

@Caldathras I wouldn't call it a VM. Even the original DOSBox supported running Windows btw, and this was mainly possible because old versions of Windows were all based on DOS, so it's not much of a stretch to emulate the extra hardware bits needed to run Windows.

I also wouldn't call it a VM in the modern sense as you can't just boot any random x86 disk image (like how you can do so in VirtualBox), nor does it make use of any type 1 hypervisor acceleration (Hyper-V in Windows, KVM on Linux).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

v20 is already out btw:

HOTFIX:

- removed unnecessary webview2 patch (fixes Forza Horizon 5 login never opening)
- added workaround to allow darkwinter software region version of Girls Frontline 2: Exilium to work

About webview2 patches:

Originally in wine 9 a stub was introduced which fixes/allows webview2 to install properly. This fixed webview2 installation for vermintide 2 as well as the Haoplay version of Girls Frontline 2: Exilium. Unfortunately the Haoplay version requires additional missing functionality in wine to work properly (it currently is still broken), so supplementary webview2 patches were added which were proposed to upstream wine for a merge request (separate from the original stub that was accepted). The additional patches were not accepted, and in addition, broke the login prompt for Forza Horizon 5. Additionally they did not help with getting the Haoplay version of Girls frontline 2: Exilium to work, therefore there is no point in keeping them.

As of now without the supplemental patches FH5 login and the Darkwinter Software version of Girls Frontline 2: Exilium are working. The difference between the Darkwinter Software version and the Haoplay version is only in region coverage. Darkwinter Software covers North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland, while Haoplay covers most European countries and the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

View this comment - View article - View full comments

@robvv @tuubi You can actually run the firmware update via Wine: https://gist.github.com/archeYR/d687de5e484ce7b45d6a94415a04f3dc [External Link]

View this comment - View article - View full comments

SuperTux and SuperTuxCart are pretty fun alternatives to Mario and Mario Kart, definitely worth checking out IMO.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

@monyarm Out of curiosity, which one is it exactly? Because most XP-era games work well in Wine.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

@Joom: Why not just run pure Wayland? In my experience, most games seem to be working fine with Proton GE, at least on an AMDGPU+KDE multimon setup. Just need to set PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Would this help with games which don't support HiDPI Screens? Still lots of SDL-based games are nearly impossible to play on HiDPI-Screens without manually chaning the resolution.

Personally, I would use gamescope for that.

Gamescope is okay, but it uses only FSR1, which is ancient. Instead of Gamescope (and Lossless Scaling), a better option is to use Optiscaler, which supports upto FSR4 (if your GPU supports it), or FSR 3.1.4. It even supports DLSS and XeSS! Basically it looks at whatever method your game is using, and allows you to inject the DLLs for whichever scaler you'd like to use, so it's pretty flexible, and gives you a better result compared to Gamescope.

Of course, this is assuming your game has a native scaling option.. if not, then you'd have to resort to using Gamescope. But in such a situation, there's a good chance there may be a mod available for your game to add higher resolution/scaling natively. And for old DirectDraw games you could use cnc-draw.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Happy Birthday! Genuinely surprised you've been around since 16 years ago! Although I've been gaming on Linux for about as long, I only came across your site a few years ago - mainly I guess due to the rise of Proton, the Steam Deck and clones.

In any case, gaming on Linux definitely has come a long way along. I recall back then being able to play only older games like Age of Empires 2, Oblivion, Diablo 2, and emulated games like Crystal Caves (DOS). Attempting to play anything new/AAA was next to impossible. Since it was around that time that I switched to Linux for good, I missed out on a TON of good games that came out in the 12+ years that followed. But thanks to the viability of Linux gaming these days, I'm finally catching up on all the games that I missed out on. Literally every Steam sale, I'm buying something new. Only problem is that I no longer have the time to play all these games! So ironically, the games that I spend most of my time these days on are the (updated) classics that I used to play 16 years ago: AoE 2 DE, Oblivion Remastered, Project Diablo 2, Crystal Caves HD etc.. XD

View this comment - View article - View full comments

To add to that ^, GNOME devs HATE themeing, and actively go out of their way to discourage people from it. In fact, they even went to the extent of making an entire website for it: https://stopthemingmy.app/ [External Link]

This extreme user hostility is why I boycott the GNOME ecosystem.

View this comment - View article - View full comments