Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-03-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 17:02 -0400, Ranbir wrote: > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 17:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Has anyone done this successfully on Fedora? There are any number of > > Google hits on similar themes, but mainly focussed on Ubuntu, which > > is > > what Valve are mostly aiming a

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-03-14 Thread Kevin Becker
I installed Steam via flatpak with no issues. On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 17:02 -0400, Ranbir wrote: > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 17:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Has anyone done this successfully on Fedora? There are any number > > ofGoogle hits on similar themes, but mainly focussed on Ubuntu, >

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-03-14 Thread Ranbir
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 17:31 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Has anyone done this successfully on Fedora? There are any number of > Google hits on similar themes, but mainly focussed on Ubuntu, which > is > what Valve are mostly aiming at. I've been running Steam on Fedora for two years now and

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 13:38 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/22/20 3:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Unfortunately, although some games work well (e.g. Witcher 3), others > > don't (Assassin's Creed Odyssey - lots of stuttering), so I'll probably > > back off from this for the moment, though

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 18:24 +, Anthony F McInerney wrote: > > I can't promise anything. The problem is that each game has to be > > downloaded and reinstalled in Linux, even when I already have it > > installed in my Windows VM (and these are not small files - 50GB is > > about the median size

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/22/20 3:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Unfortunately, although some games work well (e.g. Witcher 3), others don't (Assassin's Creed Odyssey - lots of stuttering), so I'll probably back off from this for the moment, though a more high-end GPU might have better results (mine's a lowly GTX-

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 17:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 14:47 +, Anthony F McInerney wrote: > > > Ah! So you just did a direct Windows only title in a > > KVM+GPUPassThru+Windows(?) vs Linux+Steam+Proton > > Essentially, yes. > > > Now, it just so happens that there

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 14:47 +, Anthony F McInerney wrote: > > Ah! So you just did a direct Windows only title in a > KVM+GPUPassThru+Windows(?) vs Linux+Steam+Proton Essentially, yes. > Now, it just so happens that there are comments on the protonDB suggesting > that in this specific title t

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 07:47 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 7:19 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 06:40 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > > > > > I don't think the 1050 should be THAT bad... I did just watch a youtube > > > video on gaming on linux and

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 13:19, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 06:40 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:02 AM Patrick O'Callaghan < > pocallag...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 16:18 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > On 2/21/20 2:46 P

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 7:19 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 06:40 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > > > I don't think the 1050 should be THAT bad... I did just watch a youtube > > video on gaming on linux and it specifically talked about some games need > > to compile shaders on

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 06:40 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:02 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 16:18 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 2/21/20 2:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > That's a good point which I hadn't thought of. I actually

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:02 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 16:18 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 2/21/20 2:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > That's a good point which I hadn't thought of. I actually only have a > > > single monitor connected via an HMDI switch to bo

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 16:18 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/21/20 2:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > That's a good point which I hadn't thought of. I actually only have a > > single monitor connected via an HMDI switch to both video outputs. I've > > been so used to this I forgot to mention i

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/21/20 2:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That's a good point which I hadn't thought of. I actually only have a single monitor connected via an HMDI switch to both video outputs. I've been so used to this I forgot to mention it, but clearly I have to figure out how to run my desktop off the

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 22:20 +, Anthony F McInerney wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 22:16, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 2/21/20 9:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > For several years I've been using a Windows VM with passthrough > > > graphics as a gaming platform. It works pretty well, bu

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 14:15 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/21/20 9:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > For several years I've been using a Windows VM with passthrough > > graphics as a gaming platform. It works pretty well, but ties up > > machine resources even when idle, so I'm now experiment

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 21:50 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 19:19 +, Israel Bermudez via users wrote: > > If you are using rpmfusion they have a guide on their website for the > > Nvidia driver installation. > > > > I am using the rpmfusion repo and I utilize their g

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 22:16, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2/21/20 9:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > For several years I've been using a Windows VM with passthrough > > graphics as a gaming platform. It works pretty well, but ties up > > machine resources even when idle, so I'm now experimenting

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/21/20 9:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: For several years I've been using a Windows VM with passthrough graphics as a gaming platform. It works pretty well, but ties up machine resources even when idle, so I'm now experimenting with Valve's Linux version of Steam with the Proton additions

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 21:24 +, Anthony F McInerney wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 17:32, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > For several years I've been using a Windows VM with passthrough > > graphics as a gaming platform. It works pretty well, but ties up > > machine resources even when idl

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 19:19 +, Israel Bermudez via users wrote: > If you are using rpmfusion they have a guide on their website for the Nvidia > driver installation. > > I am using the rpmfusion repo and I utilize their guide you will have to > install both 32bit and 64bit drivers. > > Our

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 11:56 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/21/2020 10:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I've disabled the VM, installed the latest proprietary Nvidia drivers, > > modified grub appropriately and rebooted. The Nvidia modules are > > loaded. The nvidia-settings command shows the G

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 17:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > For several years I've been using a Windows VM with passthrough > graphics as a gaming platform. It works pretty well, but ties up > machine resources even when idle, so I'm now experimenting with Valve's > Linux version of Steam with the

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Israel Bermudez via users
If you are using rpmfusion they have a guide on their website for the Nvidia driver installation. I am using the rpmfusion repo and I utilize their guide you will have to install both 32bit and 64bit drivers. Our only difference is the use of steam. I use Lutris but at the end of the day, they

Re: Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/21/2020 10:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I've disabled the VM, installed the latest proprietary Nvidia drivers, modified grub appropriately and rebooted. The Nvidia modules are loaded. The nvidia-settings command shows the GPU. How did you install nVidia? If you used the binary blob

Using Steam with Fedora

2020-02-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
For several years I've been using a Windows VM with passthrough graphics as a gaming platform. It works pretty well, but ties up machine resources even when idle, so I'm now experimenting with Valve's Linux version of Steam with the Proton additions to the Wine libraries. I've disabled the VM, inst