Hi all. I recently came to Bazzite after being a Windows snob for, well, ever. The single player games I play and Hell Let Loose work great, but I am struggling to get my racing sims to work. All the games are through Steam, howver I think it is likely to be the non-native support for Simhub, Moza and SimLabs Race Director software. Are there any sim racing Bazzite users here that could offer some advice? I have tried a few online guides via YouTube, but I’m coming up short. Any advice would be appreciated.
I use aurora os and an thrustmaster t500rs.
You have to make sure that the wheel is recognized by an program called “oversteer”
As soon as i made that work, every game just worked… Even live for speed thorugh “bottles”
Oversteer was what made it all work for me as well on fedora
There are lots of good resources here https://simracingonlinux.com/
Also the SROL discord (linked from there) is pretty active and helpful.
I have an OpenFFBoard wheel and many many peripherals and all games I’ve tried apart from those that are actively hostile to linux (EA WRC, iracing) work fine. I don’t use sumhub though. From what I understand I guess it does work? https://github.com/srounce/linux-simracing-utils There are also some alternatives but I’m not directly familiar with any of them.
EDIT: Sorry, forgot to clarify that I’m not a Bazzite user, I just use vanilla arch. But I don’t really think there are significant differences when it comes to this. Except if you can’t install some of these tools, in which case you might choose a non-immutable distro since hardware often requires light customization beyond what Bazzite might package.
Thank you for that link. I’ll head over to their Discord and ask there.
I use pithouse, most games work.
No workaround for the cheap amazon handbrake works but that is more the cheap handbrakes fault, works on windows
Iracing and WRC don’t work, neither does f1 and a few others.
I play the crew motorfest, dirt rally 2, asseto corsa (mods are less finnicky on windows, im swapping), beamng (beammp works on windows, swapping their too), most free and cheap on sale or key games worked otherwise. It was mainly an anticheat issue, the wheel and settings function better with the third party linux app for me for moza.
I dualboot and swap to windows when I want to play iracing or wrc, it takes a minute maybe, on a second drive to avoid issues. 90% of the time I just play somthing linux compatible which includes most sim racing games.
Ask in the simeacing on linux matrix room, the guys are very knowledgeable. It’s linked by some poster below. Devices like handbrakes often don’t get recognised as joysticks, because they don’t have buttons. You have to add a little config file and it will be recognised just fine on linux.
Sure, not on bazzite.
These solutions should work on any distro. Why not on bazzite, it says here it’s based on fedora.
Youll also straight up get every sign in the terminal that it should be recognized and it still won’t work in any game, not with any flag or whatever added to steam either
immutable, I tried literally every fix you are thinking of from reddit, other people have mentioned it didn’t work on bazzite either on the discord, ill prob have an ai agent give it a go at some point, it usually finds workarounds for bazzite based on it being based on atomic silver blue fedora or whatever the fk it says, im just taking a break from simracing and didn’t trust ai with sht back then
Thats what I’ve been doing. It isnt really an issue because I have a decent system and I probably wont get much if any of a performance gain, just want to be less reliant on Windows.
I’ve never had the wheel not work if the game worked, it’s often just a calibration issue either in game or in settings, some games are finnicky
Sadly can’t help but upvoted for visibility.
Bazzite might be the wrong distro for you. Being immutable means you have fewer options for building out specialized hardware support.
You could also try using Bottles to make yourself a dedicated Bottle/prefix for your sims. You would then put everything you need — games and tools — inside that Bottle. There are many ways to do this, but I consider Bottles the easiest to learn and use.
Being immutable means you have fewer options for building out specialized hardware support.
With Distrobox you can install any Linux software you could on any other distro. Immutable isn’t the hurdle people make it out to be. It’s just different than what people have been used to for so long.
It depends what kind of software exactly. If you need a kernel module driver then you’ll have to make a custom image. It’s pretty easy if you just follow the steps in the docs and use the custom image template, but it’s probably not something a complete beginner would want to do.
I have to do this in order to load the sensors driver for my motherboard sensors, for example. Any software that requires changes to the base image would have to follow this process.
Moza hardware should be plug and play on Linux and be easily configurable with Boxflat (https://github.com/Lawstorant/boxflat). At least that’s the way it is for me on Manjaro. I really have no idea if Bazzite might be problematic though because it’s immutable.
Considering Simhub and Simlab I have no clue. The last time I checked Simhub was not working on Linux at all.
Thanks, I’ll certainly give this a go.
I don’t do racing sims but with Train Sims I have used other accompanying software, and modlaunchers etc. in the past. I assume Simhub etc. are programs that launch the main game or run concurrently.
If you want to install it semi-manually, have you tried setting it up with Lutris? Set the wine prefix to be a folder insids your steam user folder steamapps/compatdata/[gameid]/pfx on the drive the racing game is installed. Other guides I found:
https://www.simhubdash.com/community-2/simhub-support/guide-simhub-on-linux/
https://github.com/srlemke/SimHub_on_Linux
If it’s hardware connection issues, that’s another whole beast