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!

  • @c10lEnglish
    7•1 year 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.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      1•1 year 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?

      • @c10lEnglish
        6•1 year 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.

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          3•1 year 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.

          • @c10lEnglish
            2•1 year 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.

            • @[email protected]OPEnglish
              1•1 year 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.

      • @A_Random_IdiotEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I was a life long ubuntu user who switched to Nobara earlier this year.

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

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          1•1 year 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.