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