Hi guys!

So…yeah. Brand new computer. I installed Lutris flatpak, and installed Alan Wake 2 without much fuss. However textures are a bit off, and the Path Tracing options are all greyed out. How can I enable them? Also, is there any updates on the bug fix for this? Just in case, I’m running KDE Neon (based off of Ubuntu 22.04, but I updated the kernel to OEM 6.5.0). Thank you!

  • c10l@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Most likely you need a newer version of Mesa.

    If this is a gaming only computer and you don’t want to go off fussing with installing packages from other sources and maintaining a hybrid system, just install Nobara Linux.

    • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Doesn’t look…very user-friendly? As a lazy ubuntu/deb user, I’m a bit concerned about jumping to rpm/arch…Isn’t there any other alternatives that are ubuntu/debian-based with KDE?

      • c10l@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        That’s kinda why I said “if it’s a gaming-only computer”. Nobara is the best and simplest out-of-the-box experience for gaming. Do everything through the GUI, treat it like an appliance-ish. Updates, packages, it’s all got its own GUI.

        My gaming PC runs a mix of Debian testing with some stuff pulled in from sid and some stuff from experimental (just Mesa, really), plus a Xanmod kernel which updates frequently (I’m not convinced the patches make much difference).

        I did all this because I’m a long time Debian user (going almost 3 decades) and I wanted the computer for a bit more than gaming. It’s not without its issues though, and I find myself frequently tinkering and troubleshooting.

        I still have a Nobara partition that I can boot into, update and trust that it will be game-ready without fuss.

        • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          So…how did you get that damn partition working?? I’ve just tried it. Which required me an EFI partition of at least 600MB. I already had it at 500MB but apparently it didn’t think that was enough…So I had to reinstall all of windows in order to resize the EFI. Then Nobara installer was happy when I chose the EFI partition as “/boot/efi”, and 500GB at the end of the same SSD as “/”. After a reinstall, reboot…and it goes to Windows. Ugh. Manually choosing from the BIOS the new “Fedora” entry I get a grub crash. start_image returned “not found”…Wtf? For a “simplified” installation, this is resulting quite the PITA.

          EDIT: OMG…figured it out, but holy cow. The installer is rather borked. It demands 600MB for /boot/efi, which at least this, it warns you of. BUT. It will install without warnings a full system and then crap out, if you ignore a very specific requisite not mentioned anywhere during the install! You need at least a 1GB ext4 partition somewhere for /boot. Ignore this, and you’re crapped.

          • c10l@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Oh wow, that sounds fucked up. I don’t remember the ext4 requirement for /boot but after reading your comment the EFI stuff came back to me. I also thought it was weird and painful.

            Anyway, glad you sorted it out. It should (hopefully) be smooth sailing from here.

            • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              Sigh…Thanks. I wish it was. I just ran the same Alan Wake install on the provided Lutris and well…the Textures are indeed fixed, I can see the FBI jackets and the faces look better…but now performance is abysmal, with frame drops to 10-15fps (1080p all max)…and RT is not even enabled (still grayed out), checked both in Wayland and X11. I think for a 7800XT I should be getting much better as long as RT or Path Tracing is not running.

              EDIT: Seems this happens only with AW2. Cyberpunk and Starfield seem to have similar performance as before. So there’s something going on with AW2 in Nobara.

              • c10l@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                11 months ago

                It’s a fairly new game. The WINE and Proton devs might still be working out kinks.

                I couldn’t even find it in ProtonDB.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I was a life long ubuntu user.

        Nobara is the least painful linux experience I’ve ever had. Pretty much everything you need is already pre installed and ready to go.

        • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          It…took some adapting on my case. Quite a few bits and bobs don’t quite work the way I intended at boot…but it’s starting to settle after a week of fiddling with it.

    • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Yes i know. But it’s a brand new computer and i want to see it working. Moreover, if it’s not working here it might not work in any other game, so this is something i want to make work.