I was part of the August survey :)
And I did let them count all... desktop PC, VR notebook, old VR notebook, surface pro tablet, old surface pro tablet, LCD deck, OLED deck, rog ally, legion go... so 0.001% has for sure been me! And no, I don't have a problem... that stuff just accumulated over years :whistle:
Haven't bought new hardware in the last two years. I guess the Legion Go (2023) was the latest aquisition, and that's already 2 years ago.

Unfortunately my VR headset wasn't detected in the survey each time I had it attached. No idea why.

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On my ROG Ally I switched from bazzite to cachy os. Not because bazzite wouldn't be great for the ROG Ally, yet I wasn't able to get VR running.
Also I have the 2022 XG Mobile (6850M XT) with it, which does work on bazzite too (after I enabled it in Windows). Yet, only on cachy os I was able to get Steam VR and Monado up and running.
There are more steps involved to get it running fully and how I wanted. E.g. I prefer handheld deamon, so here are some tweaks needed, and I need to disable the igpu via all-ways-egpu when I want to run VR with full performance. Looks like copying the image from the egpu to the igpu does take some performance otherwise. Also I need an external monitor when operating it with the egpu only.
And now I can operate the ROG Ally in gaming mode for the handheld purpose of the device and still use it in desktop mode for VR when wanted.
And I'm impressed how I can go down to 8W TDP (with VRR enabled) and have a fluid experience in Fall Guys, while that was neither possible in Windows nor bazzite. Under 10W TDP I always got stutters there. And with 8W lets me play about 2h of Fall Guys, while before it wouldn't last an hour.
Cachy os is for sure a bit more effort and more tricky to setup than bazzite (e.g. you need to sign files manually for secure boot), yet once you got the hang of it... it's a really nice experience.

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This sounds like exactly what the "Stop Killing Games" initiative aimed for. Noice!

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Ah, that's nothing...

Read this!

Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

(cattle marking and beef labeling supervision duties delegation law)

Also looking forward to this game... ONL had been pretty underwhelming, except maybe "Cronos: The New Dawn" it seemed to me just more and more of the same, so many sequels...

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Good old times... there is also Gradius Origins just released:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2897590/GRADIUS_ORIGINS/ [External Link]

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tl;dr use 550 for VR and Monado with recent presentation env vars.

The 580 driver is probably great for pancake (=non VR) use, but for VR it's better to use 550.
If you are using the Valve Index and a game maxes out your GPU, heavy stutters occur. Steam VR has issues with async reprojection since Steam VR 2.0, and though it's technically working again with nVidia, it's still not giving the experience it should.

Instead Monado got recently some fixes that adressed the headset tracking latency (the image is a few ms behind your movement, and it feels like swimming in VR) and in general its async reprojection implementation is much better than Steam VR's, yet since driver 555 (and up to 580) apparently the driver is not giving priority to async reprojection which then results in stutters in VR. These don't happen with 550.

This thread has most of the information and also mentions the needed env vars for Monado:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/substantial-drm-lease-presentation-latency-resulting-in-unusable-vr-hmd-experience/332386/ [External Link]

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I've installed LACT as I got adviced to use it for VR, there should be a VR profile, but for me on nVidia (2080 and 3070) there are no profiles at all. Has anyone use this and has profiles?
Someone stated SteamVR on Linux is putting the GPU into a kinda save mode periodically and that profile would change that. Yet, I've not been able to find a VR profile neither in LACT nor in corectl.
Any help would be appreciated.

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And now we got used to it. And it's interesting to see how it changes over time. I remember when people got upset, because of Proton in general. Then it was okay, because we could still play those games. Then people got upset because drops of native builds. Damn, the backlash Rockfish Games got, because they couldn't fix the performance issues in UE5 for Linux and went the Proton way. Sure, mostly a minority, yet pretty vocal.
It has proven to be benefical for Linux to be able to play games through Proton. It's the success the Steam Deck builds upon.
If a dev goes the way to support a native build, they have my special gratitude. If they decide to drop the native build but still make sure it works with Proton, I'm all ears.

What do we want? Playing games! Where do we want to play them? On Linux! Can we do that? YES!

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I love JayzTwoCents reason, why he has never touched a Linux topic in his life:

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxia5tx5gdqh07gMJ5CcVTvaHMeApUj3BV [External Link]

:woot:

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Hey, maybe I'll finally actually go through it all the way now. Seems like a good time to do it.

Absolutely! I had been already good with patch 1.6 when I started to play it... and it got better and better. Haven't played the DLC yet, I'm already looking forward to play it when I find the time.
CDPR really knows how to tell stories, shape characters... aww, I envy you playing this for the first time. This game is a great experience!

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