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Error when trying to launch FragPunk and other games
I'm on Arch with KDE Plasma, my CPU is an i5-7200U and my GPU is an Nvidia 940MX. There are other games that don't work but don't have that pop-up message that FragPunk gives me. The only ones that work are Celeste and TF2.
Thanks in advance to anyone able to help me.
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Holarse Linuxspiele-Adventskalender 2025 Türchen 21
Wir begrüßen Euch recht herzlich zum 21. Türchen im Holarse Linuxspiele-Adventskalender 2025! Im nunmehr schon zwölften (!) Jahr verlosen wir unter allen Linuxspielern und denen, die es noch werden möchten täglich ein natives Linuxspiel. Je nach Tag (z.B. Advent oder Nikolaus) können sich auch mehrere Spiele im Türchen verstecken. Dann haben mehrere Kommentare die Möglichkeit ein Spiel zu gewinnen.
Wie mache ich mit?Teilnehmen kann jeder, der Lust auf Spielen unter Linux hat! Ihr benötigt zum Teilnehmen nur ein Holarse-Konto, damit wir euch den möglichen Gewinn per PM zuschicken können. Schreibt dazu einfach die Antwort zu der Frage des Tages hier unten in die Kommentare und schon seid ihr dabei!
Unter allen, die bis 20 Uhr unten in den Kommentaren antworten, wird dann der Gewinn oder die Gewinne verlost. Bei mehreren Spielen gibt es natürlich auch mehrere Gewinner!
Seid ihr durch random() ausgelost worden, dann erhaltet ihr den Geschenk-Link (Humble Store, dort benötigt ihr dann ein Konto) oder direkt den Steam-Key zum Einlösen per PM hier auf Holarse zugeschickt. Wenn ihr den Gewinn nicht bis zum 31.12.2025 eingefordert habt, rutscht er automatisch wieder in den Lostopf fürs nächste Jahr.
Wenn ihr bereits das Spiel habt, oder es euch nicht interessiert, ihr aber dennoch kommentieren wollt, schreibt einfach in den Kommentar dazu, dass ihr nicht teilnehmen wollt.
Frage des TagesWelches humorvolle Linux-Spiel bringt dich immer wieder zum Lachen?
Was gibt es zu gewinnen?Im heutigen Adventskalender-Türchen versteckt sich diesmal:
- Türchen: Deponia Doomsday, gesponsert von comrad im Originalwert von €19,99.
- Advent: Chaos On Deponia, gesponsert von comrad im Originalwert von €19,99.
Heute um 20 Uhr wird die Kommentarsektion geschlossen und danach der Gewinner ermittelt und hier nachfolgend bekannt gegeben.
A bit of advice for a gaming noob, please and thank you in advance.
Which is better launcher for Windows games not native to Steam? Ive heard good stuff about both Lutris and Faugus launchers.. What is the general consensus here, especially for a noob like me?
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Any tips to get Avowed working?
I see Avowed has a gold rating on ProtonDB, so it seems most linux gamers are able to run this. But for me, it shows an empty black screen for a couple of minutes, then crashes with this message:
Fatal error: [File:D:\Projects\Alabama\Engine\Source\Runtime\RenderCore\Private\RenderingThread.cpp] [Line: 1272] GameThread timed out waiting for RenderThread after 120.00 secsMy machine:
OS: CachyOS x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.18.2-2-cachyos DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.4 CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700K (16) @ 5.00 GHz GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate [Discrete] GPU 2: Intel UHD Graphics 750 @ 1.30 GHz [Integrated] submitted by /u/gsdev[link] [comments]
can't install epic launcher lutris warning: wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine cmd.exe /c echo '%AppData%' returned empty string, error message ""
Lutris, fresh Kubuntu 25.10 installation, vulkan, mesa installed
I was able to install BG2 from GOG, WoT from Steam.
I just clicked Epic Games Store in Lutris, and lutris tries to install it:
from logs:
warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug. ... can't install epic launcher lutris warning: wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine cmd.exe /c echo '%AppData%' returned empty string, error message "" ------------------------------------------------------ Monitored process exited. Initial process has exited (return code: 256) All processes have quit Exit with return code 256however there is still one tiny window hanging:
"The Wine configuration in ..... is being updated, please wait..."
but 10 mins later nothing happens...
I have it installed on other PC with Kubuntu (however I did that like 1-2 years ago, I don't remember how, maybe I've just installed epic installer.exe manually and installed in Lutris?)
Any tips ?
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How do i run steam and selected steam games on integrated GPU
- Arch Linux (kernel: 6.18.2)
- Hyprland: v0.52.2
- nvidia-open: 590.48.01
- mesa: 25.3.2
- gamescope: 3.16.19
Both the steam client and games start on the dGPU.
The steam client is a bit weird since it says steamwebhelper uses the dGPU as per lsof /dev/nvidia* (but not nvidia-smi). From testing launching the client wakes the gpu from sleeping for a bit, but then it goes back to sleep and using the client does not bring it back. Closing the client wakes it up for a bit again. This happens with all electron apps though and it's tolerable so it's not as much of a problem.
The second one is all steam games launch on the dGPU seemingly no matter what I do. A big problem with trying to google this is that everyone else seems to be having the exact opposite problem, and the fixes from the few posts available do not actually fix the issue in my case. Here are the things I've tried to remedy this:
- AQ_DRM_DEVICES="/dev/dri/amd-igpu" set in uwsm
- __EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES=/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/50_mesa.json set in uwsm
- __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa
- DRI_PRIME=0
- MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT="1002:1900"
- gamescope --prefer-vk-device "1002:1900"
The complete steam launch command looks like this:
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa DRI_PRIME=0 MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT="1002:1900" gamescope --prefer-vk-device "1002:1900" -W 2560 -H 1600 -r 165 -f -- %command%
The games I've tested are CrossCode and Hollow Knight if that helps.
Also in order to use the iGPU as much as possible i do not have any env variables set as specified by https://wiki.hypr.land/Nvidia/.
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Two games, one PC
I’ve done some searching and seen a few posts about this, but they end up with VMs or multi-user and/or multiple GPUs.
I currently play Minecraft with my kid by running a server and firing up two clients. One client has the controlify mod installed and the other does not.
One player can use a controller, the other the mouse and keyboard. One player is on monitor 1, the other is on monitor 2.
All of this runs on a single Linux machine and single user signed in. I believe it works because the controlify mod picks up the controller input and even if the window for that client is not focused, it just works. Since the mod is not installed for the other user, and Minecraft doesn’t have controller support, the client only reacts to the M&K.
But now I’d like to try other games. For example, I’d like to play Diablo with M&K, while kiddo plays Minecraft with controlify, or something else.
Is there any easy way to isolate input to certain windows? In the D4/minecraft example, D4 supports controller, so the controller input starts controlling both games.
It seems like an input isolation type solution would be much easier than trying to setup VM or multi-user in the OS.
I am using CachyOS, AMD 7800x3d, Nvidia 4080S.
Minecraft is Java edition, just fired up through terminal, connecting to server running on same machine. Diablo 4 is running through Heroic within latest GE-proton latest.
Any ideas? or if my “input isolation” idea is just crazy, tell me.
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Steam and OW2 issue
Sometimes I want to see a person's stats and when I go I accidentally click on Steam proifle, not battle.net prifle. So steam comes up. However, if I click back into the game, the game no longer accept key or mouse inputs. The mouse cursor moves though, but not accept clicks. The mouse cursor is from OW2 (stylized mouse cursor), not the generic desktop mouse cursor, so it seems the game at least sees the movement.
I have no idea how to fix this as I have to force close the game to fix it. I don't know of any way to recover. This gives me a timed temp ban every time it happens, and it adds up.
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Steam download stuck at 1% on Linux Mint (Debian package) – help!
I’m using Linux Mint and installed Steam from the default software manager (Debian/apt version). Whenever I try to download a game or when Steam tries to update its runtime/Proton, the download starts but gets stuck at 1%.
I have plenty of disk space and the download speed is fine. I think it might be related to permissions or the Steam installation path (~/.steam/debian-installation).
Has anyone experienced this before? What’s the best way to fix it? Should I switch to the Flatpak version of Steam?
Thanks in advance!
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Trouble Getting Avermedia Live Streamer Ultra HD (GC571) to Work in OBS
Hello! I've recently switched to Linux (Kubuntu) from Windows and in my process of getting everything I used to use to work on Linux, I have discovered that my capture card is not streaming any video through OBS.
I have OBS installed through Flatpak and used Flatseal to enable access to all of my devices and yet the program doesn't seem to pick it up at all and only shows a black screen when the device is used as a Video Capture Device Source.
I'm including screenshots of my OS fetch, the settings in OBS, and Flatseal in the hopes that someone can help me with this.
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BC-250 PC Discord Invite
Looking to join the BC-250 PC build discord server but all the invites I have seen has expired. Can I get a link if possible please?
Need to purchase one and also wanted to see if someone in there would have a better price than Ebay for me to purchase. (Obviously not $30-50 price or anything like that... I know that time has passed.)
Going to be using it for the living room to play Minecraft with my son.
Thanks everyone and happy holidays!
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Poor performance
Today i started using CachyOS on my Acer Nitro V15 with an RTX 4050 and i5 13420H. After i tried to run the finals with CachyOS Proton with the Nvidia drivers that sudo chwd -a gave me (It gave me the open-source ones, and i think this Is the fault), the game ran at 20 FPS. That's an 83% drop! Any help pls?
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[RELEASE] RogueX: A Native, Lightweight Linux Alternative to G-Helper for ASUS ROG Laptops
Hi everyone,
I'm excited to share RogueX, a new open-source control center for ASUS ROG laptops running Linux! 🚀 Inspired from G-Helper Windows
If you've used G-Helper on Windows, you know how lightweight and convenient it is compared to Armoury Crate. I wanted that same experience on Linux—a fast, native GTK3 app to manage all the hardware features without dealing with CLI commands or heavy Electron wrappers.
📸 Screenshots
✨ Key Features:
- 🚀 Fan Profiles: One-click switch between Silent, Balanced, and Turbo.
- 🌀 Custom Fan Curves: Visual editor with sliders to set fan speeds at different temps.
- 🎮 GPU Switcher: Easily toggle Integrated/Hybrid/VFIO modes (via supergfxctl).
- 🖥️ Refresh Rate: Toggle 60Hz/120Hz/Auto to save battery.
- 🔋 Battery Limit: Set charge limits (60-100%) to protect battery health.
- 🎹 Lighting: Control keyboard brightness and RGB modes.
- ⚡ Auto-Optimize: Automatically switches refresh rate & fan profile when unplugged.
- 🔄 Auto-Update: Built-in update checker.
📦 Installation (.deb available!): It currently supports Debian/Ubuntu-based distros (and others via source).
Quick Install:
wget https://github.com/NurdyansaWink/roguex/raw/main/roguex_1.0.0_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i roguex_1.0.0_amd64.deb(Requires
asusctl🔗 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/NurdyansaWink/roguex
This is my first release (v1.0.0), so feedback and contributions are very welcome! Let me know what you think.
Made with ❤️ for the Linux community.
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Switched to CachyOS
Hello fellas
Ive recently switched to CachyOS and basically thats my main OS on my PC
theres but...
I miss my favourite game called 'Apex Legends' and unfortunately for like 1.5yr its unavailable for linux.
I was thinking about dual boot Windows10 only for getting apex to work.
Whats the best way to do it? I was thinking about some sort of USB Stick only with windows so I just plug pendrive, boot windows and Im good to go. I dont need windows on my main drive and I dont want spend extra money on one.
Any good ideas and some tinkering around? Thanks!
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Tried installing battle.net via Faugus Launcher: won't launch
I installed Battle.net via the Faugus Launcher. Whenever I try to start it, it won't start. That said, I'm using the Linux Development Environment on an Acer 514 Chromebook Plus. Am I just intrinsically limited by hardware?
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Has anyone figured out how to run BG3MM on Linux? I'm at the end of my rope.
Hello everyone!
I've recently switched over to Linux from windows, specifically Debian 13 and everything has been working amazing, EXCEPT Baldurs Gate 3 and Mod Manager. I have tried every single fix I could find on the internet and I can't get the Mod Manager to export my mods to the game. I've made sure the paths were correct, downloaded all of the necessary dependencies, uninstalled and then reinstalled everything and nothing works. I'm at the end of my rope and debating switching back to windows even though I hate it so much. Has anyone gotten it working or have a surefire way of getting it to work? I don't understand what I'm missing when following all of the guides. Right now I'm sitting on a fresh install for BG3 so if anyone has any insight, I'm down and willing to try it out.
Thank you!
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Addition of ftech details on howto do this: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1pqs4em/samsung_np370r5e_the_edison_way_the_naked_wine/
Wils Edison’s Way: LotRO on Linux without the stress
This guide is for those of you who want to get maximum performance out of older hardware (like the Samsung NP370R5E) by using "Naked Wine"
Preparing the system
Open the terminal and prepare the machine for 32-bit architecture (required for LotRO) and install Wine
- sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
- sudo apt update && sudo apt install wine-stableFind your graphic IDs
To force the game onto the Radeon card, we need to know which one it is:
- Run vulkaninfo --summary and look for the "Vendor ID" and "Device ID" for your dedicated card.Setting up the Edison script
Create a file called lotro.sh paste the following to enable FSR and the correct GPU:
Bash
#!/bin/bash
export DRI_PRIME=1
export MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=1002:6660 # Replace with your ID
export WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1
wine-stable LotroLauncher.exe
- Make the file executable: chmod +x lotro.sh
- In-game optimization
- FPS lock:Set Max FPS to 40 to keep the temperature at 66-67°C.
- The store: Check off for "External Store" so that it opens in Firefox.
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