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Hello all, I made the jump. Its been hard and I am here for some help (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How did you install PCSX2? The fact that you are launching it through Cartridge makes me a little worried that you are using the windows version. Try the AppImage or Flatpak packages and see if you have any improvement (assuming you aren't already using those)

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got the flatpak initially, I realised it was a few releases behind current and got the appimage direct. For whatever reason, the flatpak version is now current in my manager.

Another oddity, opening in steam blocked my dualsense from being recognised by pcsx2 despite steam seeing it and pcsx2 seeing it when launched directly or through cartridge.

[–] phar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly I recommend the version made specifically for your distro. I haven't had the best luck with flatpak but the ones made for Debian, rpm, etc always work great

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Lutris has an option to act essentially as a frontend for pcsx2, so in theory it should be a Linux version, but I have also struggled in the past with lutris's versions of things like emulators not having the right permissions to run, since they are a sandbox in a sandbox.