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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Not op, but mine is

  • check protondb, try the last few recommended versions
  • search web for "game name + linux" or your distro
  • ask for help on relevant discords for either your game or your distro
  • NEVER trust any ai answers.

So far that has covered the problems i ran into, but maybe someone has something to add?

[–] Cytobit@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Add to the list "Deactivate Steam overlay". That had fixed multiple games for me in the past.

[–] DeLancre@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Same here.

And if there no protondb info or it have "platinum", then start praying. Also, god forbid if you want something extra like FSR4 or install some mods. Then you mixing this things to whole "is that my hardware\software\proton issue or game genially bugged?"

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

One thing to add to that list:

When checking ProtonDB, cross-reference the environment variables with those listed on the proton-cachyos README. In my experience, most people are copy-pasting environment variables they read from other people without understanding what they do or even if they do anything at all.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is why I play console. I am just too lazy/busy/worn out to learn all that I'd need to know about that side of the gaming world. That's why the steam machine interested me until I saw the price.

[–] DeLancre@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm afraid we will disappoint you further here, cause steam machine is just a PC with SteamOS (which is "just" an Arch Linux with few tweaks\changes). So all those issues described above and their workarounds also applied to steam machine.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It wasn't an insult. I admire that you guys know that much about computers and software. Its like an alien language to me. Dunno why I was being downvoted for self deprication.

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Dunno why the downvotes, but dude, if you ever Google how to do anything on your phone, then you've basically done the above already. Id argue a lot of us don't know what we're doing, we Google thing, someone has an answer, we do the thing, boop things work.

Just trying to make Netflix work on my Xbox head a bunch of issues where I did the steps above to get it to work. It's all the same process, no matter what the hardware