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A list of almost all PC games I've played in 2025 and how easy it was to play on Linux!
8BitDo Ultimate 2.4G Wireless Controller back buttons not recognized on Steam
I bought the 8BitDo Ultimate 2.4G controller yesterday and immediately loved it. It's the first controller I have had that has hall effect sticks and really the first controller that isn't a major console brand controller. The one issue I have been running into, however, is that the back buttons aren't being recognized on steam. I can't seem to find any info about it online, so I thought I'd come here and ask for some help.
Has anybody run into this issue? Is there a fix or is it just kind of a waiting game, hoping for support to be added?
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Having trouble keeping up with newest version of proton? Let me help
Valve contractor who made the recent improvments to the oldest GCN GPU drivers posts about those and the changes still to come
Hey guys it's my turn to repost this!!!
I wonder how many times this kind of image has been posted in a linux sub.
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Clair Obscur Expedition 33 not running RTX 5090
Operating System: Bazzite 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-ba22.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
Manufacturer: ASUS
First just tried launching it just as it was, it would start the steam bootup, then just instantly crash.
Next i tried skipping the shader loading to no change in success.
I have tried the DX11 force boot in steam, i could launch the game with the menus but all cut scenes are red and is basically crashes there.
I switch back to DX12 (or rather an empty box) but try proton 10.0.3 and i think 9.something for the force boot. With these i can finally play the first cut scene, but it often takes FOREVER to load into it and i hear a bit of the music before it almost seems like it crashes then comes back to with the whole cut scene working fine. But i never make it to the game really. I got to it once, and it was like 5 frames a second and just not playable. I have tried with low med and high settings.
Is there something else i should be doing to make this actually work? I havnt had a tun of Linux experience but with this new build i wanted to not use windows as its become quite awful to deal with.
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Where Winds Meet in Linux? Needed Help!!
I recently started playing my first AAA game on Linux and chose Where Winds Meet via Epic Games.
System:
- Lenovo Legion 5
- RTX 4060
- 24 GB RAM
- 512 GB SSD
For reference, I previously played The Last of Us Part 2 and Spider-Man 2 on the same laptop on Windows, getting ~85–110 FPS and ~80–100 FPS respectively.
On Linux, the game initially froze twice during startup (stuck on early screens). On the third launch, it finally loaded and became playable.
During the first 30 minutes of gameplay, I noticed:
- Random 1–2 second stutters , rame drops
- Occasional fast-forward feeling, like the game runs at ~1.5x speed
my question is this a game issue, or Proton or Wine issue, or NVIDIA + Linux issue, or this is how it will run on my laptop
need advice from anyone who has tested this game or has experience with Epic (heroic launcher)+ Proton setups on NVIDIA GPUs.
thank you
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Black Ops Cold War now works on linux but....
The game is running flawlessly performance-wise at max settings (no RT) using proton-experimental without getting banned. The only thing I cannot seem to figure out is the texture/shader flickering.
Things I've tried:
-Gamescope on/off
-HD texture pack on/off
-Recompile shaders
-Running battlenet through steam *and* lutris
-d3d11 and -DISABLE_DXR in launch commands
My specs are:
Arch linux - Kernal version 6.18.2-arch2-1 (64-bit)
DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.4 (Wayland)
CPU: 5700X3D
GPU: AMD RX 9070XT
Memory: DDR4 32GB 3800MT/s
I've seen online that users on windows with AMD GPUs also had this issue when the game was more current. I haven't tried different proton version as experimental is the only confirmed way to not get banned. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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One Piece Bounty rush steam issue
im running linux mint 22.2 and i want to play opbr on steam i tried changing proton and did every thing but i can't and yeah i looked at my storage and i have 100 gb free so any solution
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8 threads in 2 weeks - amd gpus crashing on everything
there so many people with same crashes on amd gpu
amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout
how this can be considered as "normal" I have no idea
- Embark games freeze randomly, ARC Raiders and The Finals. Can't seem to find any help online or figure out a source of the issue, issue only happens with Embark games and no others.
- UE5 games frequently crash with amdgpu
- Anyone else experiencing crashes/shader cache issues with Unreal Engine games? perhaps with Predecessor and Arc Raiders?
- Games crashing and unsure how to troubleshoot.
- Hard Freeze (lock up with audio loop) 9800x3D 9070XT - KDE Plasma
- Helldivers 2 crashing or freezing my entire desktop
- Constant Freezes while playing Path of Exile 2
- Helldivers 2 crashing randomly - GPU hang?
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Trine 4 does have 80ms framedrops every few seconds
When I run Trine 4 on Linux, I have a framedrop of ca 80ms every few seconds. (See screenshot) I have a notebook with an Amd 5600h Cpu and Nvidia 3070 Gpu. I use Manjaro with Kde. I tried both disabling hybrid graphics, so it uses only the Nvidia Gpu for everything and I tried enabling it, so the desktop itself is rendered by the integrated graphics and only the game on the Gpu, but in both cases I have the same framedrops. Even using the integrated Amd graphics for the game causes the same framedrops. Vsync on or off makes no difference, or setting all graphics details on low. I usually use Bottles and tried different runners and dxvk versions and also tried running it on Steam as a non Steam game. The framedrops occur on both X11 and Wayland.
On Windows, it runs smooth without any framedrops. Other games run fine on the same notebook
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Steam - Arc Raiders - No Sound
Hey everyone - having some trouble with sound not working in Arc Raiders via Proton Experimental. I've tried both the Flatpak and .rpm version of Steam. Sound works fine otherwise, just no sound in the game. Any ideas?
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Total VR beginner, Quest 2 on older hardware (RX 580 + i3-9100F). Should I stick to EndeavourOS or dual boot Windows?
Hi everyone,
I am completely new to the VR world. I'm about to receive my first headset (Meta Quest 2) and a decent Link cable.
I currently use EndeavourOS(arch-based) (KDE Plasma, X11) as my daily driver. Since I have zero experience with VR software, I'm trying to decide if I should attempt to run this on Linux or if I should just create a Windows partition specifically for VR gaming to save myself a headache.
My Specs:
OS: EndeavourOS (X11)
CPU: Intel Core i3-9100F
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB
MOBO: MSI Z390 Gaming Plus
RAM: 16GB 3000MHz
Storage: 1tb NVMe, 1tb HDD, 240gb SATA SSD.
Thanks for the help! I really appreciate any advice you can give 😃
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Refresh Rate causeing flickering
I have 3 monitors all of them have diffrent refreshrates and before you say anything I know this is the cause of the issue but I would like to know if there is any other way to solve it other than not use the max refresh rates on my gameing monitors. I have 2 1080p 165hz monitors one of them is running at 120 because Display port cable cant reach best port to computer and 1 1440p 144hz monitor in the center that I use for gameing. This is the monitor thats flickering and I was hopeing someone has a solution that doesnt involve running my main gameing monitor at 120 hz and my other monitor at 120hz makeing them all 120hz.
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Embark games freeze randomly, ARC Raiders and The Finals. Can't seem to find any help online or figure out a source of the issue, issue only happens with Embark games and no others.
Hello,
Basically the title. I am having issues with game freezes, but only with Embark games. No other games freeze, and the freeze is only with the game not the whole PC. I attached my neofetch, clarification the GPU I have is the 6700 XT. I am using a wire network connection with gigabit internet as well.
Whenever they freeze, I will wait around 30 seconds to a minute before moving the game to another workstation in DWM and then stopping it in steam. I can then restart the game from steam and go for a bit more before having the issue again.
I have tried all the standard Proton presets, as well as Proton GE; but I get the same issues.
I have tried every permutation of launch option I could find in recent (2weeks) posts on ProtonDB.
Oddly, both games seem to work fine on my steam deck. Furthermore, they crash more often if I am in a party with others.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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PC Gamer article argues that Linux has finally become user-friendly enough for gaming and everyday desktop use in 2026, offering true ownership and freedom from Windows intrusive features, ads, and corporate control, and it encourages readers to switch...
Weird fps drop and slowness
so i have an intel 13th gen i7 and rtx 4070 mobile running arch, most games i play feels like there are some slowness going on and cant figure out why
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Install Csharploader for black myth wukong
I am trying to install This https://www.nexusmods.com/blackmythwukong/mods/664?tab=description so i can mod black myth wukong but i cant get it working
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Can an infected piece of software ran through bottles, harm or damage your system
I’m planning on playing games and downloading them through more unconventional ways and getting safe download is a mixed bag
I’m new to Linux and I don’t know a lot, since bottles is a sandboxed environment I know it’s safer than just using wine itself, is there still a possibility you can infect your system with an infected exe with a trojan malware spyware etc
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