My messy corner. And my somewhat compact rig. I've never posted before so unsure what information to include but I'll give it a go.
- T300RS
- R838 Mod wheel
- ebay arduino handbrake
- TH8A shifter
- Heusinkveld Ultimate+ pedals
- Next Level Racing Wheel Stand 2.0
- Some pieces of wood
- Acer Nitro 37.5" QHD+ 3840 x 1600 display
I'm a bit insane... so I drive all the displays with a Radeon W6800 Pro which works surprisingly well for gaming despite not being intended for it.
I use Linux exclusively and have for over 10 years now. Racing is a more recent hobby but I've been gaming much longer than that. Despite what all the youtubers say it all works mostly fine. Though I found hid-tmff2 to be the most mature of the wheelbase drivers outside of logitech which is why I haven't picked up a used DD wheel base just yet.
EDIT: Dunno why the pic won't upload, maybe a bug with Lemmy 0.18.1? Anyway I added an imgur link instead.
No worries! So I followed, roughly, this guide and it works pretty much flawlessly for me. With the exception of rain, (I'm a patron on x4fab so I tried it, fought with it a lot, and couldn't get it working).
That guide is aimed at the steam deck so I just skipped all the steam deck specific stuff. Pretty much install GE-Proton7-55 like you normally would for any other steam desktop game. Then go through the install process like they suggest, letting it crash, setting the launch options, etc.
The one caveat I suppose I should mention is that I use sway (wayland) and have to run everything in gamescope to make it play nice with tiling and wayland in general. This works mostly fine, except that the content manager window can be resized, and resizing windows in gamescope makes them fill the screen at whatever size they currently are. So if you mess up you might end up with a tiny tiny window and need to launch it outside of gamescope to get it back to a reasonable size. Also the button tool tips are a little flickery, but I just deal with it.
Give it a try! I'm curious to hear if you run into any issues, and let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for the in-depth reply... That actually doesn't sound too difficult. I might have a go later in the week once my new wheel arrives. I shouldn't have any issues with tiling as I am using i3 with Xorg. I'll let you know how I get on, if I attempt it :) .