laskobar

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Since some time, I'm play Satisfactory on Linux. Performance is fine so far. But if I look on the moving conveyer belts with objects like iron ore or other things, this moving parts produce smudged artifacts on the screen. I don't know what this is called and what I can do against that. I have played the same game on the same laptop on Windows with exactly the same in-game settings. There are no such artifacts.

Is there anything I can do against that? Graphics card is a Nvidia 1050 with proprietary driver. I'm on Arch Linux. Proton is 8.25 GE. I have tested several Proton variant without any difference.

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

According to the linked wiki, try to go to https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html.

Check on your laptop with dmesg | grep -i chipset the codename of your graphic card. With this you can check which driver is the best on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA. There is a paragraph, explaining which driver is the best.

If I understand it right, the nvidia package is the correct one for 1050. So you can use pacman -S nvidia with root privileges. All dependencies should be resolved automatically.

I would recommend to reboot, in case there are changed kernel modules.

2 things i have to note: Using Wayland is a total mess with nvidia. Specially on Arch Linux. I have screen flickering in GUI and games, the performance is so lala and tools like KeePass which needs access to the text in window titles did not work complete. On Manjaro, the flickering doesn't exist, but the other symptoms do. Maybe im missing some packages on Arch.

Second with Vulkan i have some tearing in games. I have not looked further in to that.

On the other hand, games like Satisfactory or Elder Scrolls Online, have more FPS with the same settings as on Windows.

Currently i test Arch and Manjaro in parallel on the same Laptop. But I tend to keep Manjaro and remove Arch. There are light pro's and con's, but overall, I'm more happy with Manjaro. But this has nothing to do with you're issue.

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I have a 1050 in my Laptop and it works fine with the nvidia package AS proprietary driver

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

I got it to work...

I have used the command grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id="Arch Linux" before, but without success. This didn't worked before. But now...

I have no idea, whats changed. Anyhow. Im happy.

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

df -h

Manjaro:

dev             7,8G       0  7,8G    0% /dev
run             7,8G    1,9M  7,8G    1% /run
/dev/sdb3        68G     50G   15G   78% /
tmpfs           7,8G       0  7,8G    0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           7,8G    9,0M  7,8G    1% /tmp
/dev/sdb4       587G    272G  285G   49% /mnt/games
/dev/sda1       296M     56M  241M   19% /boot/efi
tmpfs           1,6G    100K  1,6G    1% /run/user/1000

Arch:

dev             7,8G       0  7,8G    0% /dev
run             7,8G    1,7M  7,8G    1% /run
efivarfs        128K     46K   78K   38% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sdb5        69G     21G   45G   32% /
tmpfs           7,8G       0  7,8G    0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           7,8G    8,6M  7,8G    1% /tmp
/dev/sdb4       587G    272G  285G   49% /mnt/games
/dev/sda1       296M     56M  241M   19% /boot/efi
tmpfs           1,6G    108K  1,6G    1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb2       1,2T    796G  332G   71% /mnt/volume
 

The first OS on laptop was Windows 10. After that, I have added Manjaro. Manjaro has added a Grub menu, with entry's for Manjaro and Windows. Now I want to switch to Arch. I have installed Arch on a separate partition. Arch has not added a entry in this grub menu, but this was expected. I have used update-grub from Manjaro, what added Arch to the menu.

But for some reason I can't edit the menu from within Arch.

I have tried to understand Arch Wiki what I have to do, to edit this menu from Arch. Can someone please help me to get this to work? I have tried to add my EFI partition /dev/sda1 via fstab to /boot/efi like in Manjaro, but this doesn't help to find the same menu with grub-customizer.

Any idea's?

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Because some games work only with proper privileges. This can get complicated on NTFS.

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Keep a minimum of 30GB free, for Windows update processes on the windows system partition. I don't how much the windows installation counts in space, but add that to the 30gb free space. I would recommend to have a extra partition for the games on NTFS and move your steam, epic, ubisoft, whatever library to that partition.

I have tried to use the same gaming partition between Linux and Windows, but failed every time. In the worst case this can alter your Windows privileges. At least I had this issue.

Currently I'm using Windows only for 2 games: Space Engineers and Empyrion. The rest works with better performance on Linux. Satisfactory, Ark survival, Elder Scrolls Online have more FPS on Linux with the same settings. I have to use a nvidia 1050 Ti in my laptop. With a AMD GPU the situation is a lot better on Linux.

I'm not a hardcore gamer, mostly im coding here and there. But sometimes gaming is a must have.

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago

OK, many thx for the tips. Since my script in the service file is already doing some logging, i will try to use the last log entry, to find out, when it was last time running and exit the script, if it is not in the timeframe of 1 week.

 

I try to create a timer unit for weekly and daily backups. For example with the weekly unit, it should be executed once in a week, some minutes after login. If the unit was successful, it should shutdown and not start again until the next week. If a start of this unit was missing, it should be start again some minutes after the next login.

But for some unknown reason, the current unit starts after every login when I reboot the laptop. I am relatively sure that this timer unit is set up wrong, but unfortunately I don't know how I can implement such a unit better with the functions mentioned above.

[Unit]
Description=Run backup weekly
Requires=backup.service

[Timer]
Unit=backup.service
OnCalendar=weekly
RandomizedDelaySec=120
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target
[–] laskobar@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Many thx for your suggestions.

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Many THX. That's exactly what I have searched for. I was confused by frame_timing.

 

I want to have only the FPS and the time to be displayed. On my screenshot you can see a setting with 16.7ms. I have no idea what this is, How can i remove this and keep only the FPS and the time?

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes, I think the card is the weak point here or better the weak driver support. My next laptop will definitely have a AMD card. But I have absolutely no idea which one is good enough to handle actual games with full details and usable fps. I don't expect Desktop like experience but at least 40 fps with full details in an actual game would be fine. Im not a professional gamer, but when I have the time to play, it should be fun and not frustrating. Mostly I do coding with VSCode and some database stuff in different flavors. So a not to small display is a must have.

Can you recommend a good GPU? For the rest I can do my own research...

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yes, of course. But nothing helped really. There is a small difference between the used Proton version. With 8.25 GE i get 13 fps and with 6.4 GE1 i get 19 fps. Using PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 makes it more worse than ever, with only 5 fps.

On the same laptop with windows, I have ~ 60 fps.

 

I try to play "Empyrion" on Linux via Steam. I have tried other games like "Satisfactory" without any issues and with a better performance as on Windows. But with Empyrion i get a max of 10 - 13 fps, where i have ~60fps on Windows on the same laptop. Graphic adapter is a nVidia 1050 GTX and OS is Arch Linux. If i remember correctly, Empyrion is a Unity game.

[–] laskobar@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

From my point of view, this is all relatively unstable and not really well thought out, far from being reliable. I have spent the last 2 weeks trying to convert my Crossbowser bookmark backend (https://codeberg.org/Offerel/SyncMarks-Webapp) into a functioning PWA. Very disappointing. Don't ask me how many nerves I've lost in the process. At least you can now use the WebApp as a PWA. The share_target also works if it was installed via Chrome or Samsung Internet. It also works offline. These functions are even retained if you subsequently uninstall Chrome/Samsung Internet. The WebApp then asks which browser wants to take over the functions. This also works with Chromite or Firefox. Strange but what the heck. At least you can now share any URLs with the backend. This also works offline, even if this is more of an Edge case for bookmarks.

 

I have installed Davx5 from F-Droid, from IzzyOnDroid Repo. Today I have checked for updates with the Google playstore and the App was updated to the playstore variant. I thought this isn't possible? What's going on here?

 

Is there some way to set the keyboard layout on GFN in the browser, or at least use the system keyboard layout from Gnome?

According to the Arch Wiki, i should start Chromium with --disable-features=UserAgentClientHint` and spoof the UserAgent to Windows, but this doesn't work anymore. There are no Keyboard area in the settings.

If I use GFN on Windows, the area for keyboard layout is working.

Or is there some way to copy the settings from windows via Cookies or any other storage method?

 

A similar question was raised some day's ago from a other person, but with different background. In this case, I would like to buy a nice gaming laptop. Of course I would use it for office and coding to, but primary I'm searching recommendations for gaming. I would like to play Wine/Proton game's and also native Linux games. As OS, I like to use Manjaro Gnome.

Should I better buy all of AMD (if yes, which CPI, GPU) or Intel/Nvidia? Or Intel CPU and AMD GPU? Which combination is the right one with best performance for a casual gamer? I prefer FPS games, if that's important...

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by laskobar@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I'm on Manjaro Linux with Gnome. When I attach a USB HDD to my laptop, it mounts as /run/media/username/uuid. But for some reason, it is mounted as root and not with the owner set to the currently logged in user. For that reason, I can't create new directory's on this HDD, after I attached this to the laptop.

I can only switch to root, create the folder and change ownership of this new folder to the currently logged in user.

Is there any way to automount the USB hdd/stick with ownership of the currently logged in user?

 

Hello together. I try to use a systemd path unit, to monitor a directory structure. But as of now, I was only successful for the top level directory. The unit should be triggered, if a new file is written to either the top level of the monitored directory and also, if there is a new file in any of its subdirectories. I don't know how to do that. Any ideas?

Additionally, the triggered service unit should be delayed for some time. Background is, that I automatically upload sometimes more than one file in a batch. So I will give the script triggered by the service unit the chance, to wait until the upload of all files is finished, so that I can work with all the new files with one script call, instead of multiple calls for every file. Is that possible?

 

This is my first time setting up a Raspberry Pi4 (8GB). Before, I have used a RPi 3B for some other things. From what i have read is, that IO performance should be a lot better on the RPi4, as with the RPi3B. But i get the same speeds as before. I have setup the following:

  • Installed Raspbian Lite (64bit)
  • enabled SFTP/SSH
  • Setup a user for SFTP only access, with home on a connected USB HDD
  • the USB HDD is connected to one of the USB3 ports
  • This is the same setup on the RPi3B

When I now try to start to copy a 2GB file from my Laptop via LAN, i get in both cases a max of 11.6 or 11,5MB/s. But according to articles like this (https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-25-gbps-16-tb-omv-nas-setup-and-performance), it should be much faster. Is there some secret, or whats the problem?

BTW: The Laptop runs on Manjaro Linux, where i start the transfer, there is no Windows available.

 

I have played that game a lot in my old days on Windows, but under Linux I have a lot of crashes. I have installed the game via Steam and it starts in to mainmenu. But mostly when I try to start a game, it crashes. After reading some tips, I have changed proton to GE-Proton 8.3. with that crashes occur a little bit rarer, but to often. I have also tried GE-Proton 8.4 or Proton Experimental, but without luck.

Is someone here with some tips?

BTW: im on Manjaro

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