Yeah, make sure you get steam from the steam site not flat pack and if you use Nvidia, use the official Nvidia driver, also make sure you select compatibility in steam. Sometimes you need a different Proton version. Turn settings down and the fps will normalize.

I just saw that suggestion from someone else, will try that if wlx doesn’t work out, ty

Wlx, that’s the one he suggested. I have it in a folder in steam and will be testing sometime soon. Will check out envision as well, ty

Steam/SteamVR is where all my games are located, I like to have 1 launcher. Tho I cannot interact with the monitors from inside steamvr, yet, if i click on the window it closes unlike in windows where I control OBS and other stuff, also only shows 1 of my 2 monitors. BUT, when I get a chance the creator of Desktop+ that I use on windows suggested a linux app that does most of what his app does so that may give me the pc control I need since I do most everything in vr for streaming.

edit: I think some of my issue may be the poor old Ryzen 7 3800 I am using vs the RTX 4070ti super. The Ryzen 7 is having issues with a few games now, especially the VR mod ones like Satisfactory

So far, with the 2 games I have had a chance to try, other than having to lower the settings to bottom, they load and play if a little stuttery. With how Proton has improved by leaps and bounds I have no reason to believe it won’t keep improving at near the same pace. It is just that darn translation layer combined with the very high requirements of VR that needs to be overcome. If enough linux users go on the vr games and lament there is no linux native option we may get movement on that end. The flat games run so smooth right now I forget which OS I am using, compared to 2 years ago. I even have the disadvantage of an Nvidia card, at least the official driver is better meeting our requirements, shoulda gone AMD…

Then VR games will work at better than min specs. Trying hard to get off windows, mostly there. Except when streaming VR games, Kubuntu is my daily driver. All my flat games (like 8 of them) work flawlessly now that cloud is syncing. Just need drivers for one device and software for another but may just have to deal with the loss of a left hand kb, and 2 buttons on trackball.

I did get some useful looking apps recommended not long ago, not 1 will compile on my os and I am way to tired at the end of the work day to read read and read some more(I used to do more complex stuff 20 yrs ago but, well, I forgot most of what I knew. Why is “make” looking to github instead of the directory I am in?

Proton is is coming along great, I used to support Cedega to play win games before.

TY. Will check that as well, and maybe your device as well.

I actually have 2 of those trackballs. First one I bought after about 4 yrs one of the 2 boards inside died so I went and bought another one (they were $99 cdn each, $35 in the states at the time of purchase), it lasted about 4 yrs as well then one of the boards died. The best part was the boards that died were different in each so I pulled em apart and combined the working boards and have been using it since, total this device is about 25 yrs old now

So yeah, software package, I mean the trackball is working (main 3 buttons) but not the side 2 (I now have a few suggestions to try out to keep these old favs runnin tho I am willing to purchase new ones). I have been in the windows world so long now that, as you said, I use drivers and software for a device interchangeably cause that’s what I’ve been seeing in windows, when I dl the “drivers” for my trackball the interface is part of it, same with the G13. It is amazing what you forget in 20 yrs of not thinking about it

Will check this out, ty

The display is mainly for time, stopwatches, which game profile is selected, system information from an app (I forget the name but I had a good free system monitor at one time and it would display on that screen) Will see if the lcdproc/lcd4linux will do what I would like, ty again

Will be checking it out

Generally-speaking, USB mice/trackballs don’t need drivers.

Except to program the buttons

antimicrox

I will check this out

I use Debian Linux

Hopefully will work for me too

Windows games that have integration

not games, other than the profile layout, but system monitors in windows display on it.

g13d

Will check this out as well, the display stuff I could learn to live without, if it will let me program the buttons I will be happy.

if you want game-specific bindings

in windows you can also change profiles by pressing the little round button on the top left, but need the display to see what game is selected

Will check that out, ty

Only the main buttons work on the trackball, left/right/wheel, the 2 little buttons do not do what I need. The G13 does nothing, the display only shows G13, I cannot program the buttons or anything else

ZoneAlarm was so upset with me that day…