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February 27, 2022 Episode 22: The sound of prices dropping
This episode we have Steam Deck, NFT, GPU prices, Master Chief's face, and the Nobara Project!
Steam Next Fest Feb 21-28th
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest
Still waiting to purchase my steam deck.
Valve is testing native Linux games to decide if the native version runs better than proton.
https://www.techradar.com/news/steam-deck-will-run-native-linux-games-where-it-makes-sense
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/valve-clarifies-how-they-test-native-linux-or-proton-for-steam-deck/
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/valve-is-testing-native-linux-ports-for-the-steam-deck-in-addition-to-proton/
GPU prices showing signs of normalizing
https://www.techspot.com/article/2418-gpu-pricing-2022-update/
Hacker steals 1.7 million worth of NFTs from Opensea customers
https://www.techspot.com/news/93481-hacker-steals-over-17-million-worth-nfts-opensea.html
Master Chief’s face to be revealed in new Paramount+ series
https://www.techspot.com/news/93479-gaming-icon-master-chief-face-revealed-new-halo.html
Nobara Project
https://nobaraproject.org/
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Music from this episode
"Bit Quest" and "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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1 hr 16 min
February 03, 2022Episode 21: Amazon Luna and Distro testing marathon
This episode we discuss the latest news of possible Activision Blizzard purchase, Amazon Luna testing, and which Linux distro is the easiest out of the box for game performance.
News
Humble Bundle “Humble Trove” dropping Linux support - https://kotaku.com/latest-humble-bundle-change-leaves-mac-linux-gamers-ou-1848356728
Valve squeezing more battery life out of Linux drivers - https://www.pcgamer.com/valves-tweaking-linux-drivers-to-squeeze-more-battery-life-out-of-the-steam-deck-on-steamos-30/
Microsoft set to buy Activision what does this mean for Linux gamers? - https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-acquire-activision-blizzard/
Microsoft's New Metaverse - https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/01/25/microsoft-activision-blizzard-isnt-metaverse-play/
Sony to buy EA? - https://www.techspot.com/news/93143-sony-could-respond-microsoft-acquisition-activision-blizzard-purchasing.html
Amazon Luna Testing
Luna+ - 5.99
Ubisoft+ - 17.99
Family - 2.99
Games I played on Luna
Control
A Plague Tale
RE: biohazard
Blair Witch
Distro Testing
Linux Mint the clear winner
I have been testing a ton of games with a ton of distros lately on my new laptop and the results speak for themselves Linux Mint just came out on top.
Games I tested
Horizon Zero Dawn - There was a fix for the messed up grass and sound crackling during my testing so I went back and tested this one again and is now actually mostly playable on every distro except Garuda and ZorinOS.
Witcher 3 - This game had a lot of stuttering under anything but Linux Mint.
Metro Exodus (Linux Native and Proton) - Linux Native was not playable on any Distro I tried due to being half cut off of my screen or severe stuttering. Proton on the other hand was not too bad for the most part but Linux Mint still was the smoothest.
Halo CE Anniversary - Played mostly smoothly with some stuttering on the arch distros but was totally playable on all the Ubuntu distros.
Splitgate - Has some general Linux issues when comparing it to Windows but is playable on Linux with over 200 FPS on my system just some stuttering issues.
Valhimne - Playable on all distros except Garuda.
Project Zomboid (This game ran fine everywhere I tested probably due to low system requirements)
Arch Distros I tried
Manjaro - Was mostly fine but had some glaring issues such as multi monitor issues and gaming performance issues.
Endeavor - had some fairly deal breaking bugs like OBS and Screenshots not working with Plasma and generally more stuttering than on most other distros.
Garuda - Just plain didn’t work out of the box with its dragonized plasma desktop.
Ubuntu Distros I tried
Ubuntu Gnome 21.10 - This statement goes for all but Mint but basically stuttering was very prevalent on all distros except Mint. Other issues I had were getting optimus to work properly.
Kubuntu 21.10 - Other issues I had were, games not popping up on the right screens I wanted and super + shift + arrow keys did not help.
FerenOS - Same kinda issue as Kubuntu with games not working on the right screen
Zorin OS 16 - Extreme stuttering in most games even with graphics set to low
Linux Mint 20.3 - Once vulkan shaders were compiled ( which I allowed every distro to compile that I tried) The games ran smoothly with little to no stutters or slowdowns. Even my laptop fans are controlled correctly on mint out of the box. Caveat to that is I do have to set the speed profiles under windows but once thats set mint uses the correct settings.
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Music from this episode
"Bit Quest" and "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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1 hr 27 min
January 13, 2022Episode 20: Will there be Ubuntu in heaven?
News
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/01/easy-anti-cheat-not-as-simple-as-expected-for-proton-and-steam-deck/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/01/ubuntu-is-looking-for-a-desktop-gaming-manager
https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-future-of-snapcraft
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/releases/tag/v2.0.0
Contact Us
Discord - https://discord.gg/CddBwcFs
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Music from this episode
"Bit Quest" and "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Testing Ubuntu Wayland x Horizon Zero Dawn
Ubuntu 21.10 Wayland and X Horizon Zero Dawn
Needs to be downgraded from 1.11 to 1.10 to avoid lsd grass. Downgrade Horizon Zero Dawn Github Script
Ubuntu 21.10 performance
* FPS between 40 and 65 roughly
* Frametimes highest about 25ms
Gameplay seems smooth
Windows 10 21H2
* FPS between 75 and 115 with DLSS enabled
* FPS between 60 and 85 without DLSS
Frametimes no more than 15ms
Gameplay extremely smooth
Conclusion
Valve and Ubuntu have a long way to go to catch up with Windows performance from what I have seen. I have tested over 20 games both Windows and Linux native games and almost always Windows pulls out ahead. This is not an issue with games that run at a high FPS (60 FPS or higher) but becomes much more noticeable when getting below 60 FPS.
Heaven Dust and Heaven Dust 2
Dev - One Gruel Studio
* Two person team from China
* Publisher - Indienova
ProtonDB - Has no reviews yet (I’ll be writing one)
I had 0 issues or modifications to get the games to run.
“A love letter to Resident Evil.”
A cutsie, anime, chibi style survival horror. Our character wakes up locked in a maintenance closet. We don’t don’t know immediately who he is or why he’s trapped in this zombie infested mansion but we learn about that as we solve puzzles and make our way out of the mansion/laboratory.
Journals
* The story is told through journals in true 90s survival horror fashion.
* The localization is relatively bad. Better in Heaven Dust 2 but still not perfect.
Combat
* Controller - auto aim system
* Mouse/keyboard - MG:S style
HD1 has an animation issue, when bitten by zombies the animation takes longer than the zombies next bit. Often leading to one bit means death.
* HD2 map is a little tighter than HD1 and zombies are often hidden behind the isometric wall and bit you without any clue they are there. The rooms in HD2 are blacked out before entering.
Puzzles
* The puzzles in HD1 are fantastic and sprawling. Leading the player to run back and forth across the already explored map to find keys and items needed to inch further. The items are callbacks to the RE franchise without being spoilers to the puzzles.** Vending machines
* HD1 has a vending machine system. Each section of the game has 1 vending machine that can sell the player a map, gun powder, and various magazines.
* The currency is coins gained from killing zombies.
* The magazines are buffs to PC.
1 hr 22 min
December 22, 2021Episode 19: Distro Tier List
00:00 - Intro
03:55 - Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
https://playwonderlands.2k.com
09:14 - Square-Enix suspends sales of ffxiv
https://www.techspot.com/news/92660-square-enix-suspends-sales-final-fantasy-xiv-due.html
14:00 - Valve reduces size of steamOS to 10g
https://www.techspot.com/news/92656-valve-reduces-size-steamos-steam-deck-10gb.html
20:46 - Amazon luna linux windows proton cloud gaming jobs hiring
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/15/22827185/amazon-luna-linux-windows-proton-cloud-gaming-jobs-hiring
25:00 - Nvidia dlss linux arrived proton game deathloop support
https://www.theverge.com/22803980/nvidia-dlss-linux-arrived-proton-game-deathloop-support
Proton 6.3-8
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Proton-6.3-8-Released
28:00 - Valve improving remote play support with steam deck
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/valve-improving-remote-play-support-with-steam-deck
33:00 - Distro Tier List
1 hr 19 min
November 13, 2021 Episode 18: Zombies. Linux. DRM.
Back on Linux Mint baby! This episode we discuss several stories from Valve, Steam, and the linux community. We dive into Dying Light Hellraid and Guild Wars 2.
Cold Open
OpenMW - This is bad ass!
News Items
Steam survey shows drop in gpu
steam survey Oct
Indie dev says Linux users give better reports
Valve improves DRM compat
Wimpy's Quickemu
Guild Wars 2 - https://www.protondb.com/app/1284210
Dying Light - https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/239140/
Batman Arkham Asylum - https://store.steampowered.com/app/35140/Batman_Arkham_Asylum_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/
Notes From Gordon's Email
Launch command for Rise of the Tomb Raider
ENABLE_VKBASALT=0 __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command%
Game Mode - https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode
Contact Us
Discord - https://discord.gg/CddBwcFs
Send us an email at [email protected]
Music from this episode
"Bit Quest" and "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
1 hr 14 min
October 28, 2021Episode 17: Deals with the devil
Welcome to Crowbar Kernel Panic,
the Podcast at the intersection of Linux and Gaming
News
Valve hiring compatibility testers
Valve hired compatibility testers
Introducing Steam Deck Verified
Steam removing NFT
Wanderings
Baldur’s Gate 3
Larian Studio - Divinity
Early Access - 59.99
DnD 5e
WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”cchromaeditorlibrary64=” %command%
Proton Experimental
WarTile
Playwood Project
Deck13 and WhisperGames
Nvidia Wayland 470.74
Not out of the box on fedora 34 or 35
How to enable Wayland + Nvidia
Edit the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file and comment out the line WaylandEnable=false
Edit /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules and comment out the lines that disable wayland for nvidia. Note that this file gets overwritten by updates.
kms-modifiers must be enabled through gsettings: gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features '["kms-modifiers"]'
Reboot
Will work with some tweaks to gnome
Gaming performance is promising but not there yet
Next step is to try out the 495 drivers
Nvidia Optimus support coming
Contact Us
Discord - https://discord.gg/WKtXbFE4mN
Send us an email at [email protected]
Music from this episode
"Bit Quest" and "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
1 hr 4 min
October 12, 2021Episode 16: GPU cakes and BloodyStealers
In this episode the cake is NOT a lie but maybe Github is. I'm not sure what that means. We talk about Linus Tech Tips Linux challenge and BloodyStealer before talking about new peripheral hardware we want to purchase. Oh, and we're getting old and first person games make us nauseous.
News Items
Guy sends anniversary cake to store he purchased GPU from
BloodyStealer advanced malware targeting game accounts
Linus and Luke are testing out Linux
Wanderings
Josh got his new laptop!
https://github.com/JafarAkhondali/acer-predator-turbo-and-rgb-keyboard-linux-module
Red Dragon K599 keyboard
Logitech G604
Razor Naga Pro
UtechSmart Venus Pro
Red Dragon M913
Logitech Lightspeed G604
Some games I picked up but haven’t had time to review yet.
Noch
The Ling Dark
Underworld Ascendant
Contact Us
Discord - https://discord.gg/WKtXbFE4mN
Send us an email at [email protected]
Music from this episode
"Bit Quest" and "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
1 hr 19 min
September 30, 2021 Episode 15: Retro Linux MMO
This episode we tried out some new stream tech that didn't quite pan out. It did however, inspire a more deep dive into one game. Project: Gorgon. A two person dev team linux native geared towards old style mmo players. The game is unique and self aware.
We also celebrate the breakthrough in EAC on proton!
0:00 - Pixelated graphics, aesthetic choice or lazy design?
6:15 - intro
7:30 - Comments
17:30 - Josh's new laptop
31:40 - EAC has come to proton
38:40 - Project: Gorgon
Acer Predator Helios 300
https://www.newegg.com/abyssal-black-acer-predator-helios-300-ph315-54-731m-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16834360088?Item=N82E16834360088&Source=socialshare&cm_mmc=snc-social-_-sr-_-34-360-088-_-09242021
EAC Linux/Proton
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/23/22690670/epic-eac-anti-cheat-linux-valve-steam-deck-support-games
Project Gorgon
https://projectgorgon.com/
Contact Us
Discord - https://discord.gg/WKtXbFE4mN
Send us an email at [email protected]
Music from this episode
"Bit Quest" and "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
1 hr 7 min
September 03, 2021 Episode 14: Valve Magnum Opus
We want to say thank you to the Linux_Gaming subreddit and our new subscribers! This episode is pretty laid back because it's pressed in an already busy week. Some light news, Weekly wanderings, and discussion of future changes to the Youtube channel.
Improving the show
Breaking up the segments
When we have an in-depth topic, should it go first?
Weekly Wanderings
Struggling to get my son to bed has made a house DJ
Now that I have my Owl mount I don’t care about albion
Playing FFXIV on proton GE
Pop!OS i3WM
Lubing & ringing my keyboard
Modding the crap out of skyrim on Windows.
Trying to mod Skyrim easily on Pop!OS.
I want to get back into Valhime.
News
Selaco is a Linux native built on the original 93 Doom engine
Garry's Mod Garry is fixing EAC
Will Halo Infinite run on Linux?
Contact Us
Discord - https://discord.gg/WKtXbFE4mN
Send us an email at [email protected]
Music from this episode
"Bit Quest" and "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
1 hr 11 min
August 22, 2021 Episode 13: Linux Native MVPs
We've been talking a lot about our love of Proton, this episode we wanted to cover some great Linux native games. This isn't a "top" list but a list of note worthy.
Games mentioned in this episode
FFXIV
LOTRO
Albion
Bless Unleashed
Bioshock Infinite
Borderlands 2
Half-life 2
Valheim
Asura: Vengeance Edition
Portal
Shroud of the Avatar
Contact Us
Discord - https://discord.gg/WKtXbFE4mN
Send us an email at [email protected]
Music from this episode
"Bit Quest" and "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
1 hr 12 min

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