Afaik their launchers were the main issue as they only worked in very specific Ubuntu environments. Everywhere else they would straight up not work and you would have to use Proton.

Luckily, they won’t do launchers again. Unfortunately, they now use Denuvo.

I’ll wait for some QoL updates and a sale on Ara instead. Can’t stand the idiotic Humankind-like mid game civ swapping anyway.

Had the same issue with another title. After a lot of trial and error I contacted their support with a copy of my recipe, explaining the situation, and they activated it for me so I could redeem my Steam code.

Wait. It doesn’t even run through Proton? Meaning you cannot play Repentance through Linux at all?

Noooooooooooooooooo! D: I guess no more news articles for me now.

Use Bitwarden.

Discrete: NVIDIA® GeForce® MX350, 2 GB, GDDR5

Yep…

I don’t get flickering from adaptive sync but my screen just goes black for a couple seconds every now and then when it is enabled, usually when playing. No idea why or if Windows would have the same issue.

I think it is technically still counted as a beta.

Link your Steam profile to ProtonDB and make sure it is public and you can see the ratings of your library in their dashboard. Of course it isn’t a 100% accurate thing since they’re user based reviews but it might give you a surprising insight on how much is actually playable with little to no effort.

Alright… I don’t know what the hell is happening, but after I put my 6650 back in yesterday and going to bed I started the game up just now, waited for the shaders to go through and loaded the save that I left at to test the textures on my old gpu… And yeah, my ground textures are back, somehow…

It can’t really be the shader cache though, because that was rebuilding on my old gpu already, and of course on game updates too. And I’m pretty sure I even deleted my old cache files a few times to test this too. But aside from that or another Proton Experimental update, and me switching my gpu back, nothing else happened that would explain this?

Anyone who experienced something similar before who might have a clue?

Starfield does not have a texture resolution setting.

I do have issues with VRR on my AMD gpu too though, so that’s not strictly exclusive to nvidia.

I’m sorry but not using a mod manager is just stupid and asking for all sorts of trouble. It’s downright impossible to manually keep track of all the mods you install in case of updates or potential removals.

I use this version of MO2 in Starfield just fine, just had to use the pipx version of Protontricks since the one from the Fedora repos & the Flatpak version were both borked and caused an error during installation.

https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer I definitely had some woes with it and at the moment you also have to source protontricks from a more up to date repo but there’s also definitely a lot of room for improvements.

I hope this new app is going to be not as much of a confusing clusterfuck as Vortex. We really need a good native mod manager for Bethesda titles.

I use it for Starfield at the moment and it works okay. There’s definitely some caveats though and it’s still something that might require some tinkering / fixing. That said, the last time I tried Skyrim on Linux it also ran atrociously bad, the framerate was just not what I’d expect from my system and way worse than what I had on Windows with my previous system (which was much worse in). Similar experience when I tried Fallout NV. The performance dipped down into the low two digits and I didn’t even really went into modding all sorts of stuff into either of them.

Starfield runs much better but I suspect it might still perform better in Windows. Not sure what it is but it seems that gamebryo just does not run well under Linux, or rather even worse than under Windows.

Maybe I try NV again at some point since I kinda want to play it before season 2 of the TV show. It’s been a while since I tried so maybe there had been some fixes & improvements since then and I’ve seen some engine optimization mod too.

I’d still hope for a native mod manager for Linux though. R2Modman is kinda decent but does not support Bethesda games.

Or from the other side, taking a random ass USB stick from someone you barely know? Nah. Who the hell knows what it could be infested with.

Depends on the games and their implementation of Vulkan but generally Vulkan is preferable and typically runs much faster.

I don’t understand why everyone’s so hell bent on turning the EU into yet another authoritarian mass surveillance state.

Depends highly on your country. Generally, for file sharing (peer 2 peer such as torrents), yes. For regular downloads & streaming sites, not so much, just a fully subscribed adblocker and a bit of brain juice. Although there had been some cases of peer 2 peer streaming in the past, but I think that was via flash players. I don’t know if that’s still a thing anywhere and if it is, I think it would not make it into the megathread (I hope).

I just find the whole UI obtuse. Also too many dependencies if you’re on KDE.