My journey to successfully game under Linux (and overcome Microsoft's Stranglehold)

[Indus]

I'll try later. Footballs on!

I am doing this when City are still on summer break.

What're you watching? Swansea preseason?

 

[WelshBloke]

I am doing this when City are still on summer break.

What're you watching? Swansea preseason?

Womens Euros. Spain Vs Germany right now.

 

[Indus]

Womens Euros. Spain Vs Germany right now.

Ahh cool!

BTW I just loaded up Crysis Remastered as my first test game.. not 2-3 FPS but 30 FPS.. which I thought was strange but went into game settings and ray tracing was turned on even though it doesn't exist on a GTX 1080.

Turned that off and 144 FPS.. so I'm at least back to where I was with bazzite.. a fully functional gaming system once I install more games.

So I just need to figure out samba file sharing, download more games and hopefully it works like bazzite but better!

Never thought NVIDIA drivers would be my main headache.. but it seems maybe the conspiracy theorists are right.. Microsoft pays NVIDIA to keep gamers using windows via crappy Linux drivers and major headaches to install them.

 

[Indus]

I have to say I'm really impressed by Ultramarine's under the hood stuff.

KDE uses dolphin file manager. Under Bazzite it was a bit slow like Windows Manager but I was like whatever, I'll live with it.

But the same dolphin file manager is very fast with searches on Ultramarine Linux.

Could just be I've only installed one game on it so far but I'm amazed it found the Saved Games folder in less than 3 seconds. Would take like a minute in Windows and bazzite.

 

[WelshBloke]

Womens Euros. Spain Vs Germany right now.

Sorry it's gone to extra time!

 

[WelshBloke]

Fired it up on the way for a wee and it seems to start fine again.

 

[Indus]

Fired it up on the way for a wee and it seems to start fine again.

I was just going to post I can't find the Proton beta 10.1 setting.. just a normal 10.1 in proton plus, but I just found it in Steam at the very bottom.

That's the one right??

And your main storage is /var/cache right?

 

[WelshBloke]

I was just going to post I can't find the Proton beta 10.1 setting.. just a normal 10.1 in proton plus, but I just found it in Steam at the very bottom.

That's the one right??

And your main storage is /var/cache right?

Thats the proton and my storage is home/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/star wars battlefront ii. I'm using the flatpak steam install. I had a few problems with the APT.

 

[Indus]

Thats the proton and my storage is home/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/star wars battlefront ii. I'm using the flatpak steam install. I had a few problems with the APT.

Yeah I'm using flatpak this time too, with bazzite steam came pre-installed.

 

[Indus]

Still takes forever to launch BFII.

When it asks for the shaders.. do you click stop or just be patient with it?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Still takes forever to launch BFII.

When it asks for the shaders.. do you click stop or just be patient with it?

What CPU are you using? If you don't let them finish compiling, it can result in poor frame pacing until they do.

 

[WelshBloke]

Still takes forever to launch BFII.

When it asks for the shaders.. do you click stop or just be patient with it?

I just let it do it's thing.

 

[WelshBloke]

And your main storage is /var/cache right?

Did you set that or did Steam? Mine automagically set it to a hidden folder in my home directory.

 

[Indus]

What CPU are you using? If you don't let them finish compiling, it can result in poor frame pacing until they do.

i5-12600k

Did you set that or did Steam? Mine automagically set it to a hidden folder in my home directory.

Steam set it.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

i5-12600k

While there are obviously CPUs that can accelerate the task, that's a good CPU. Experiment: Stop the compile, and see how the game plays. If it's a bad time, you'll know to let them finish moving forward.

 

[Indus]

While there are obviously CPUs that can accelerate the task, that's a good CPU. Experiment: Stop the compile, and see how the game plays. If it's a bad time, you'll know to let them finish moving forward.

I'm having trouble getting even that game to load.

But it's not every game.. the rest of my games do load and work.. it's just BF II that gives me this problem and I suspect it's due to the EA launcher.

I'm thinking of uninstalling and reinstalling that one.

 

[Zepp]

I have to say I'm really impressed by Ultramarine's under the hood stuff.

Nice, glad you like it.
After you reported that the migration went quickly and smoothly I decided to do that to my HTPC that was running Fedora 41. It went smooth as well but I was a little surprised to still see the Fedora logo on the initial booting up screen. Do you see that as well or did it change to the Ultramarine logo?

 

[WelshBloke]

I'll have another look at mine in a few minutes but I'm pretty sure I don't see the EA launcher at all when I launch BF2 through Steam on Linux.

I'm just in windows transfering the Halo game files. I want to see if they will run on Linux just for S&Gs!

 

[Indus]

Nice, glad you like it.
After you reported that the migration went quickly and smoothly I decided to do that to my HTPC that was running Fedora 41. It went smooth as well but I was a little surprised to still see the Fedora logo on the initial booting up screen. Do you see that as well or did it change to the Ultramarine logo?

Everything looks like fedora except 2 things..

1. The very bottom where it would say fedora changed to Ultramarine on the loading screen.. you know where the spinning round circle denotes loading is and it said fedora just below that, its now Ultramarine.

2. The "start" icon which used to be a fedora f is now the ultramarine mountain with snow.

Other than that it's exactly the same.. well apart from 1 annoying thing.

The login screen is BLINDING FULL BLAST WHITE.. but to get rid of it, you just change the theme or just put in password. Since it's only there when it loads.. I just try hard not to look at it.

Edit: I seem to have found a bug with ultramarine linux but it's not huge.

You know how you can make desktop icons from Steam of your favorite games.. but Ultra Marine doesn't allow that.. no biggie.. I can just load them through steam.. all games work like that. I guess Ultramarine insists on a completely clean desktop!

 

[Indus]

I'll have another look at mine in a few minutes but I'm pretty sure I don't see the EA launcher at all when I launch BF2 through Steam on Linux.

I'm just in windows transfering the Halo game files. I want to see if they will run on Linux just for S&Gs!

Mine doesn't just load, it insists on linking to username/ password which wasn't there before. And then refuses to load at all.

So I'm thinking it needs a complete reinstall.

 

[WelshBloke]

Mine doesn't just load, it insists on linking to username/ password which wasn't there before. And then refuses to load at all.

So I'm thinking it needs a complete reinstall.

You could try backing up the installation files, uninstalling it, then reinstalling from the back up, might save you a bit of time and bandwidth. That's what I've been doing as my connection is pretty slow.
Make sure you verify the files as well!

 

[WelshBloke]

You could try backing up the installation files, uninstalling it, then reinstalling from the back up, might save you a bit of time and bandwidth. That's what I've been doing as my connection is pretty slow.
Make sure you verify the files as well!

By this I mean use Steams backup option rather than copy/pasting the files from your installation folders! I tried this to start with and a few games were ok with it but most weren't!

 

[Zepp]

2. The "start" icon which used to be a fedora f is now the ultramarine mountain with snow.

that logo is actually a dolphin's fin

Edit: I seem to have found a bug with ultramarine linux but it's not huge.

You know how you can make desktop icons from Steam of your favorite games.. but Ultra Marine doesn't allow that.. no biggie.. I can just load them through steam.. all games work like that. I guess Ultramarine insists on a completely clean desktop!

I think that's probably a flatpak issue. If you haven't already, find the app flatseal in the software store. Open it and find steam in the flatpak list, then you can give it permission to your file system which should allow it to save links to the desktop.

 

[Indus]

BTW I apparently need to edit fstab file for samba later on but I thought I'd do it first for auto mounting partitions..

Since I've never done this before.. I thought I'd ask.. does this look right?? (Partition manager info is on the right.. and my edits are on the left)



I'm a bit confused since some places on the internet told me to put the mount point under partition instead of the partition itself.. ( https://ostechnix.com/mount-a-drive-permanently-in-linux-using-fstab/ )

 

[Indus]

that logo is actually a dolphin's fin

LOL that would make sense with it's name being Ultramarine.

I don't know why it looked like the paramount mountain to me without the stars.