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Plague Tale: Requiem, performance degradation

I’ve used to be able to play this game just fine at around medium graphic settings through Proton (GE), but today when I launched it again after a while the performance was just really poor....

[HELP] Option for Variable Refresh is gone after installing new graphics card (PowerColor 6750 XT)

EDIT: The audio issue on Wayland seems to have magically resolved itself after several reboots, so while I never figured out why the option for VRR disappeared in the Xorg session, I’ve resorted to using Wayland and everything seems to be as it should....

Halo infinite on Linux

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/12119895...

Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland now merged (www.gamingonlinux.com)

This merge resquest has finally been merged into XWayland, which means NVIDIA users are just one beta driver release away (May 15th) from probably having a good experience on Wayland now!

Release v0.5.17 · lutris/lutris (github.com)

Explicit Sync support has been merged into KWin! (invent.kde.org)

Slay the Spire 2 announced, using Godot as its engine (store.steampowered.com)

5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity (www.zdnet.com)

KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Explicit Sync Support (Nvidia Stutter Fix) (www.phoronix.com)

Horizon: Zero Manpage (fedia.io)

To anyone who might be tasked with programming Gaia and her subroutines when Elon Musk Ted Faro eventually fucks up... Can you please remember to write "sudo shutdown -h now" and "sudo killall -9 Hades" on every bit of your machines? Thanks.

SMITE 2 added Proton in system requirements for Linux (lemmy.ml)

store.steampowered.com/app/2437170/SMITE_2/

Arch Linux changes vm.max_map_count to match Fedora, Ubuntu for better gaming (www.gamingonlinux.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14214945...

AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland (www.phoronix.com)

Orange Pi NEO First Gaming Handheld Console (www.youtube.com)

Minecraft will now require Java 21 and a 64Bit OS, as of 24w14a (www.minecraft.net)

Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software (www.phoronix.com)

Valve COO on Epic's Tim Sweeney "you mad bro?" when launching the Epic Store (repost, clarified was internal email) (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Best front-end for MAME on Ubuntu?

Hey y’all, I have a small collection of mostly 80s arcade game ROMs I like to play via MAME. They’re games like Robotron and Joust, nothing advanced. This is just me playing on my PC with a keyboard and mouse....

Stop Killing Games is a new campaign to stop developers making games unplayable (www.gamingonlinux.com)

More security issues in X.Org and Xwayland revealed and new releases live (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Steam App with Wayland

It seems that the Steam app only supports with X11 (and with Wayland, I need to use xwayland to run it)....

Crunchy audio coming through some Proton games on desktop but not on Steam Deck

Hi, folks. A bit of an unusual problem here. In some Proton games, in semi-predictable places, I’ll get this audio crunch noise. It’s not deafeningly loud or anything, but it is distracting sometimes. I first heard it when playing Starfield, and it was most common when loading into a city environment. This crunchy audio...

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