Good morning lemmites, I just installed nobara on my aging gaming laptop, hoping to get a few more years out of it and potentially hook it up as a capture device for my desktop. Most of the process has been seamless but there are a few outliers. First being that I had an issue getting the version of Steam working off of the software portal, so I installed the flatpak to work around it being hung up on installing directX.

Now, I’ve managed to get some games working through Proton-Qt but I’ve noticed that it won’t detect what version of Proton I’m using for Mass Effect LE due to me installing it originally on the non-flatpak version of Steam which Proton-QT is still detecting. I uninstalled the old version of steam but am not sure what the appropriate method of cleaning the drive of old content is on Fedora linux or any linux distro, really.

  • simple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    In my experience the Flatpack version causes more issues than it fixes. Try installing it through Nobara’s package manager instead (I think Nobara uses dnf?)

    I don’t use Nobara though so someone can correct me if I’m wrong.

    • Stiltonfondu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I second this. On fedora I had a few too many issues with the flatpak and all were solved by switching to the rpm/native version

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I tried installing it through the package manager originally and it wasnt able to get past installing directx.

      Funnily enough regardless of what directories it sees, a reinstall of steam allowed protonup-qt to see that ME:LE was using GE-Proton 8-5 and is currently working!

      Amazing… I’ve never had smoothness like this on this machine. I am getting the same performance out of 1440p that I used to get on 1080p, and at 1080p it feels like I’m playing it on my desktop. I never thought it would be usable again, this is crazy. The old girl’s 1050 is still chugging along and getting a clean 60fps.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I tried installing it through the package manager originally and it wasnt able to get past installing directx.

      Funnily enough regardless of what directories it sees, a reinstall of steam allowed protonup-qt to see that ME:LE was using GE-Proton 8-5 and is currently working!

      Amazing… I’ve never had smoothness like this on this machine. I am getting the same performance out of 1440p that I used to get on 1080p, and at 1080p it feels like I’m playing it on my desktop. I never thought it would be usable again, this is crazy. The old girl’s 1050 is still chugging along and getting a clean 60fps. If I can get my main games all functional on here I might actually consider changing my desktop over as well.