Is it just one guy’s project though? that kind of thing worries me in an xkcd #2347 kind of way.
honestly I don’t know. That’s a fair point, though I don’t really consider proton-ge to be mission critical by any means.
The worst kind of an Internet-herpaderp. Internet-urpo pahimmasta päästä.
Is it just one guy’s project though? that kind of thing worries me in an xkcd #2347 kind of way.
honestly I don’t know. That’s a fair point, though I don’t really consider proton-ge to be mission critical by any means.
When there’s a call for action, Avengers assemble, do nerds compile?
proton ge is actively maintained: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom - same guy that maintains nobara linux.
it’s essentially proton experimental with extra patches and more up to date dxvk etc etc. While it is the bleeding edge of proton experimental, and all the other components, it’s pretty stable in my experience. But as always: experimenting with different proton versions is key, what works - works.
Been waiting this feature to drop for ages, the average improvement seems to be pretty bonkers.
Hoping this would fix some of the issues I’m having with games stuttering a bit, most notably Darktide.
since proton experimental works better (as in, works, but bad performance), are you on a distro which has proton-ge-custom available? Eg. on arch (and adjacent) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/proton-ge-custom-bin / https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom is pretty baller. No idea if other distros have it packaged.
The github page does have the compiled version available under releases, but as for what you’d need to do to get it to steam requires some manual work, afaik. I’ve only used the packaged version.
The TLDR about proton-ge-custom is that it incorporates a lot of patches, newer dxvk, etc, bells and whistles and all that. Might work better than proton experimental, might not. Worth a try?
probably asking the obvious, but you did the … whatever mkinitcpio does, after changing the module’s config? Totally derped with that myself and wondered why my new settings didn’t take x)
try disabling the gsp, helped a lot with weird stutters on my system (kde/plasma, wayland, 3090, 565 driver).
IIRC it was just setting NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0
to nvidia module
edit: only works for the regular nvidia driver, not for nvidia-open
Yea, using wayland. 2 displays too, 120 and 60 Hz.
hopefully this ends up helping the desktop experience as well. I’ve been disabling the GSP for the nvidia driver because it seems to introduce weird stutter to my desktop (kde/plasma). And switching to nvidia-open just has the stutter all the time (because can’t disable the GSP).
On that note, what is the gsp even for?
and you’re absolutely sure the files are av1? if you try to open the video files with ffmpeg, eg: ffmpeg -i videofile.mkv
, what does it say the codec is?
at least my av1 videos say: Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: av1 (libdav1d) (Main) (av01 / 0x31307661), yuv420p(tv, progressive), 854x854, 464 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 1:1, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 16k tbn (default)
seems like the codecs=‘something’ is REALLY nitpicky. managed to get a test video to play with:
<video>
<source src="test.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401f"'>
</video>
I made the video by encoding some random clip with ffmpeg -i random_video.mp4 -c:v libaom-av1 -crf 30 test.mp4
(seems to work just as well with libsvtav1
)
As for how are you supposed to know the “4d401f”? beats me, found it here: https://caraya.github.io/av1-video-demo/
edit: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/codecs_parameter#av1 does say that the codec string should look a bit different, but… I dunno, not a video-understanding-webmonke.
edit2: and now I realize that since it works with the codecs=avc1 - it’s the older av1 variant? Not really what you were asking. Whoopsiedaisy.
just spitballing here, but: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/geogebra/ -> requires java-runtime, so it’s a java-app?
the wiki ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Java ) seems to have some leads - but my takeaway is: with gtk3 it might work but otherwise the feature doesn’t exist yet, but I dunno. Only java-app I run in wayland+plasma is Netbeans and it seems to work fine as is
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how is it broken? Genuinely asking because my home system is using wayland (kde/plasma too) and works just fine with nvidia with the 555 driver, the previous drivers did have all kinds of stutters admittedly.
edit: mainly using the system for media playback (youtube, videofiles, audio files) and gaming
ooh, shiny.
Can’t wait until my distro gets this to stable repos. I don’t have issues atm with 555.whatever version, but seemingly the 560 version does have quite a bit of fixes and improvements.
Anybody in the know if the gsp is usable / actually offers some benefits in the new version?
oh, I’ve been wondering about this, as I’ve had occasional youtube-video just enter the infinite buffering. Oddly it has only happened on linux o_O
if you use the archinstall to setup everything (partitioning, locales, de’s, etc), not that much, but def. more than some “everything and the kitchensink straight out of the box” distros. The installer worked nicely on 2 machines I’ve tested it on, a laptop and a desktop. While the base system and graphical desktop installed nice, there was quite a bit of manual tinkering left.
But, steam works more or less the same on linux as it works on windows - but there is some proton version selecting, and even then absolutely everything doesn’t work.
Personally, nvidia+wayland (and xwayland in general) is pretty horrid with some games, but supposedly that’s supposedly getting fixed next month… It’s always something and the fix is so tantalizingly close.
and, it’s not like the EOL for win10 is that close, seems to be October 14, 2025, so there’s still plenty of time.
sample size of 1, admittedly, but there’s so few times I’ve managed to break arch - which I can’t 100% attribute to myself.
Once the updates broke, somehow wiping bash -binary and kernel. Not entirely sure how or why, all I did was a normal pacman -Suy
. I might have issued the pacman -command from a long path which didn’t exist anymore, not sure if relevant or not. Hasn’t happened since, so… dunno. It did spook me a bit, but nobody else at the time reported similar issues.
I’ve ran arch for years at work (webdevelopment, desktop and laptop), home server (irc shell, mumble, etc hosting) and now home desktop too (gaming, media, dualbooting with win10).
The home server has required a powerbutton -forced boot once or twice, many months of uptime & regular kernel updates can apparently mess something with networking and usb, so can’t ssh in and keyboard doesn’t get regognized when plugged in. So, you know, reboot after kernel updates? :D
It’s always a good idea to check the website for breaking changes which require manually doing something, there has been a few along the years.
just… bookmark folder? menu -> bookmarks -> “…” on the bookmark folder you want -> open all in private tabs?
awww. I somehow thought it was coming in 6.13 (which is in testing -repos for arch atm), oh well.
Either way, seems like good stuff for gaming and - hopefully - productivity apps.