SMITE 2 added Proton in system requirements for Linux (lemmy.ml)
store.steampowered.com/app/2437170/SMITE_2/
Orange Pi NEO First Gaming Handheld Console (www.youtube.com)
Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software (www.phoronix.com)
5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity (www.zdnet.com)
Minecraft will now require Java 21 and a 64Bit OS, as of 24w14a (www.minecraft.net)
More security issues in X.Org and Xwayland revealed and new releases live (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Stop Killing Games is a new campaign to stop developers making games unplayable (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)....
Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Steam Deck: 2 Years Later! (www.youtube.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....
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...
Pirate Software (Thor) on how his game sales on Linux went from 2.4% to close to 5% thanks to Steam Deck (www.youtube.com)
Latest update on Proton Experimental fixes THE FINALS not working on machines with AVX512 (github.com)
A Dance of Fire and Ice on Steam (store.steampowered.com) French
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/13828033...
Against the Storm tips and tricks minor spoilers (lemmy.ml)
Hi...
EA Kernel Level anti cheat will be added to Battlefield V (www.ea.com)
SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu 24.04 increases vm.max_map_count for smoother Linux gaming (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Work around for dotnet48 on proton
Hi everyone I have recently started modding GTA IV, and needed dotnet48 to work for some mods.but as many of you may know current proton(4.11
Wine error when using virtual desktop
Whenever I run any app, including winecfg, I get this error: 00a0:err:hid:udev_bus_init UDEV monitor creation failed 012c:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. 012c:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"The explorer process failed to start."...
EA games launched through Steam are borked
Ever since the issue with Apex not launching was fixed, I’m not able to play any EA games with Steam Proton....
Proton 9.0 (Beta16) brings more regression fixes, updated Steamworks SDK (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Windows compatibility layer Wine 9.5 released (www.gamingonlinux.com)
[Question/Issue] In Game and Discord randomly no Audio
When I’m in-game (using steam and proton-ge or just proton) and have Discord open, I sometimes (or better often, just not predictable), have no sound. I can’t hear the system-sound anymore (including discord) but my microphone works fine, meaning others in a discord call for example can still hear me. When I have Spotify...