Gaming Desktop
Nvidia
Installed with
local/nvidia 570.124.04-3
NVIDIA kernel modules
local/nvidia-utils 570.124.04-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities
originally installed
nvidia-open
570.124.04-3
Sway
BOTH caused weird artifacting/flickering in the bottom right of the screen
This is not caused by scaling but from having DSC enabled on my monitor. Disabling this setting fixed the flickering. This limited the frame rate to 120 4k instead of 240 4k.
Hyprland
No Flickering works fine with DSC
Minecraft
If you get this error
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGFPE (0x8) at pc=0x00007fb586c9fb4d, pid=1026061, tid=1029892
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (17.0.9+8) (build 17.0.9+8)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (17.0.9+8, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, compressed class ptrs, g1 gc, linux-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libopenal.so+0x9fb4d]
#
# Core dump will be written. Default location: Core dumps may be processed with "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c %h" (or dumping to /home/raptorox/.local/share/PrismLauncher/instances/SteamPunk [LPS]/minecraft/core.1026061)
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# https://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
#
Make this file
~./alsoftrc
and add in it
[general]
drivers=pulse
hrtf=true
Source:
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/18qjnwk/minecraft_crashing_from_openal/
Reflector (Pacman Mirrors)
Run this to get the best mirrors
sudo reflector --latest 10 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist -c 'United States'
Systemd TImer is Enabled
https://man.archlinux.org/man/reflector.1#EXAMPLES
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Reflector
OBS Studio
In order to have Web Browser Source use the package obs-studio-tytan652 to have the functionality compiled.
OBS version 31.0.3 is not compliant with v4l2loopback-dkms 0.14.0-1. Currently downgraded v4l2loopback-dkms to 0.13.2-1. Until OBS is updated to be compliant Virtual Camera only works with 0.13.2-1
Easy Effects
Install Easy Effects from flatpak in order to have all of the plugins included