Look long story short, what i expected to be a short install ended up being a 5 hour manhunt for an issue that resulted in needing a closed source instead of open source nvidia driver. Shes all switched to linux, and if her trial goes well and i don’t end up tearing my hair out doing tech support. I may switch over as well, probably a different distro though.

One thing i will say though, even though the state of gaming has drastically improved since my first foray into linux, the “fine details” of gaming have not. Fuck me the first time i looked into the modding scene on linux and how much busywork that took, that just killed a little bit of my soul. Even trying to get her game open, we first had a xbox game controller bluetooth not connecting issue, my bandaid was to do a wired connection, and sitting here just now i hear a laugh and look back and see this in her game. What i can only imagine is some sort of video player error, but the game works. Its rough, but it works.

It’ll be interesting to see how this goes, thats for sure

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
    2·
    14 days ago

    To fix the missing videos, use Proton-GE. Easiest method: Download it with Proton-up QT (bundled with Bazzite) then chose Proton-GE from the game’s Steam compatibility settings.

    It’s because they use proprietary codecs that Valve can’t freely distribute.

  • luckyeddy@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    14 days ago

    Do you mind sharing what the issues were/was?

    I’m the pool of people where my computer “just worked” when installing Bazzite.

      • snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        I was a dum dum and installed the wrong version of Bazzite for my graphics card. If someone is having drivers issues the first thing I’d check is if they have the right version for their card, and then check that the card is actually recognized. Immediately fixed most of my problems by installing the correct version.

        Now if I could get my Steelseries headset chatmix to work reliably I’d be 100% happy lol.

  • Mechaguana@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago

    The xbox controller thing is because you gotta update the driver of the xbox controller on windows, then it works. (Source: had to do it)

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    15 days ago

    Yes, you need closed source Nvidia drivers. That’s a pretty heavily discussed topic. Basically, it’s because Nvidia refuses to open source their drivers. They’ve started open sourcing some components, which is nice, for sure, but not enough to game on. I buy AMD video cards specifically because they work really well on Linux without any work at all.

    I’m surprised you’re seeing issues on Hogwarts Legacy though. My wife and I have been playing it over the last few months on two different machines both with Bazzite and haven’t had any issues at all. We don’t use Nvidia cards, so it might be an issue with Nvidia’s drivers.

  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
    01·
    13 days ago

    First mistake using bazzite second mistake not using cachy.

    Third mistake? Playing Hogwarts that game just wants to not be played it’s wildly hard to get to work right for some damn reason.