Hey! So I have always wanted to make the jump to linux and pc gaming and figured I would do them both together. I would not consider myself techy, just aout tech literate in that I am aware of how much I dont know.
I have linux mint, on a mid to late i5 w/16gb memory. I wanted initially to make a home server but I have jusy been poking around and ended up trying to play all the games I have in attic through emulators and the like.
So I got loads of emulators, I use Cartridge which is a Lutris fork. It just seemed cleaner and worked when I tried it out. In that I had been booting into PCSX2 and finally playing MK Deception again. After three evenings poking and gaming PCSX2 shuts down every time I try to boot a game.
I have uninstalled, reinstalled and changed from 1.7.xx to 2.2 to the nightly 2.3 (I think). I cannot get it to work.
I have so many questions but if I could get back to Konquest I would be so happy, and bother you all later.
Hmm, has been a while since I last tried PCSX2, but isn’t there a module for it in Retroarch these days? Usually that works better.
I have no experience with PCSX2, but maybe something in its configuration causes your issues. Reinstalling or updating it will not make a difference. If you really want to start over, close the application, remove the directory ~/.config/PCSX2 and restart the application. You will have to run through the initial wizard again. If it still won’t work, some other issue is the culprit and you would likely need to share logs. Alternatively, if the application prints logging to stdout, you could run the application from a terminal (f.e. by launching pcsx2-qt) and see if anything is printed there when it shuts down.
Okay so uninstalling and then pressing the shortcut opened it meaning it wasnt gone. This confused me. So just deleting the directory is how you uninstall?
I got it back working, I left it hang for ages beyond the forcr quit prompt ans it started.
no, you uninstall with the package manager/app store, however, that directory is where your config files are kept, and those are not removed when you uninstall the app.
Hello all, I made the jump.
And I saw the avatar for the community, and for this fleeting moment thought it was a post about successfully making some particularly hard jump in supertux2.
Are you only wanting to emulate games with PCSX2 or multiple different emulators? If the latter, have you tried the automated install process of Emulation Station or EmuDeck? I haven’t dealt with PS2 games through it yet, but maybe the automated installers and configs will help?
The end point I want to get to is moving this pc to my living room and having it serve as my everything console. I am not sure about it dual purposing as a jellyfin server and emulator station but I want to get to a point where anyone else can easily pick up the remote and jump between consoles and games.
If you have multiple TVs and are already considering a Jellyfin server, you could make it a Sunshine server as well. It’s the open-source replacement for GeForce Now, with Moonlight as the client-side software
Emulators work pretty well on Linux. I mainly use them on steam deck with the bazzite distro, perhaps you might consider that over Linux mint? Don’t get me wrong, mint is amazing for switching from windows but bazzite is full on gaming focused.
I run bazzite on a deck as well, and the main reason is because I can actually use it as a pc without as much hassle from SteamOS really wanting to be read only.
If I want to set up say, a dev environment, from git sources, and all the required libraries to compile things, bazzite comes with distrobox so it’s not too hard set that up… whereas SteamOS will blow up all of that when it updates, even after you turn read only mode off.
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That and the AUR sucks, lol.
I thought Bazzite was immutable as well? I know I’ve faught with SteamOS a few times to make something work only to get it wiped, so that makes sense, but I assumed the same would happen with Bazzite.
How do you find it? Do you miss SteamOS for anything or does it feel the same in gaming mode?
I run a lot of “alternatively sourced” games and it has better compatibility with that. Pretty similar otherwise.
Could you expand on that? Not the alternative sourcing, but why the compatibility is better. Is it just something to do with Fedora vs Arch, or is there something else that makes Bazzite work better?
I source almost everything officially, but one I was trying to do was Mass Effect 2. I played 1 on the Deck and loved it, so I wanted to buy 2 and 3 only to find that they don’t sell them anymore. You have to buy this huge trilogy remaster pack with remastered graphics and huge file sizes, which defeats the purpose of a battery powered 720p device.
I couldn’t for the life of me get it unpacked and working, even if I copied the files from a Windows computer over. I assume that I’m just not good enough at Linux to figure it out but that it is possible. Would be helpful to know of a different distro would make that easier.
