Dear community, I am having difficulties with an old game that doesn't want to run, Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed from the year 2000.

I got the installer from myabandonware.com and I install it via Lutris, all goes well, but when I launch it I get an error message saying something lilke "you have DirectX 0 and you need DirectX 7 for this game" and I can click options "yes" or "no" (??) and the game then exits.

Has anybody found a reliable way to play old DirectX 7 titles?

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In dialogues, during loading screens, including the one going into main menu, during movement on locations. Without rhyme or reason. Used Proton Hotfix, 9 and 10, tried window mode, tried different graphical settings -- nothing helps. Game can work fine for five minutes, or freeze every five steps taken, only to go on fine after a few reloads. When the game freezes, sound still goes on undistorted and the game does not close itself, requiring killing the process. Another thing is, when alt-tabbing or otherwise switching to another window the game reliably freezes about 9 times out of 10.

I'm using Linux Mint, with a Lenovo Laptop that is well above recomended requirments. Since the laptop has 12th gen intel CPU, I thought that might be the issue, like it was with Titanfall 2 for me, but using the string of launch attributes that fixed TF 2 for me did nothing for Disco Elysium (the string being: "OPENSSL_ia32cap=~0x20000000 %command%." without brackets)

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Hello r/linux_gaming !

I’ve been replaying this masterpiece lately and decided to push things even further...
so I installed a new ultra-realism mod to make the whole experience even more immersive.

The visuals, the atmosphere, the small details… everything feels way more alive now.

My OS is GNU Guix with custom kernel linux 6.18-rc6.

Hardware:
Ryzen 3 2200G
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
32GB ram

All my Gnu Guix configuration do you can see here: https://codeberg.org/berkeley/guix-config

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Hi! I'm a beginner programmer who has always used Windows, and I’m thinking about switching to Linux. I’m looking for a distro that can replace Windows 10—something that lets me play games but also continue studying and practicing programming.

I’ve seen some gaming-focused distros like CachyOS, but my main question is:
If I install a gaming-oriented distro, won’t it interfere with programming?
For example, could it make it harder to install programming tools?

Most people I know who code use Ubuntu, for example. I also liked Pop!_OS with Cosmic.

For context, I’m already comfortable with terminals, so that part wouldn’t be a problem.

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When I launch a game, I can hear menu music, but blank display.

• sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
  • says is already installed.
• nvidia-smi
  • shows my gpu model and driver name NVIDIA-SMI 580.105.08 Driver Version: 580.105.08 CUDA Version: 13.0
• tried adding this command to steam launch (right click, properties, general): __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_

Checked the logs and found this:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/omohr/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/omohr/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

My PC:

• OS: Fedora 43 Workstation
• Kernel: 6.17.8-300.fc43.x86_64
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7800X3D
• GPU: 4070TI Super
• Steam installation origin: rpm

Some env variables

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Been having this issue when trying to game where the mouse just doesn't feel as responsive and snappy. It feels like theres a level of input lag and floatiness, and I am wondering if there is a fix.

I have tested it with TF2 and BO3 so far.

I have already turned mouse acceleration off (or to constant as it is in Mint)

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im on arch linux and running kde plasma as my de

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Hello,

I am trying to play DYNASTY WARRIORS 7: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition through Proton. However, I've run into multiple problems while trying to play this game. First of all, my specs:

OS: Linux Mint 22.2 x86_64
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics (12) @ 4.280GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q
RAM: 16 GB
X11

If you need more info, let me know.

As for the problems that I've had:
1. The game would not go beyond the loading screen. It would literally just show a little loading prompt at the bottom and then go black. Unresponsive, nothing. I managed to fix this by renaming "movies" to "movies_backup" in the games folder. I arrived to this solution through loads of chats with an LLM and scouring the many forums for similar problems. Simply put, it will not play video cutscenes. But that's okay.

What's not okay, is:
2. The game lags. A LOT. Once I fixed the black screen issue, I could now load into the game, yet once I get into the gameplay, it lags SO bad its unplayable. The audio is constantly ahead of the game and run normal, but the actual game? It moves at like 12 FPS. And I know this isn't caused by my specs lacking, since more intensive games run perfectly fine. While trying to figure out the solution to this, switching to an older Proton version caused another issue.

1. Once I switched to an older proton version to see if that'd make a change, But it introduced another error. The game booting up with a "the game could not start because an audio device was not detected" popup and then closed. Switching back to the Proton version that actually started the game did not help, as the issue persists.

The only line marked as an error in the log is this:
0144:err:service:device_notify_proc failed to get event, error 1726

If you know any way to help or any ideas, let me know. I tried looking on the web, but most people don't have any problems playing it on proton according to protondb. Nor did I find anyone listing a similar problem to my 2. or 3. with Linux.

Thank you.

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Bought black ops 2 in the sale today and loaded up zombies as soon as it downloaded.

As soon as I shot at the first zombie I noticed a massive inconsistency between the times I clicked the mouse and the times my weapon actually fired. It works fine for 2/3 shots then it stutters on the next; I also noticed very noticeable stutters after each kill.

I’ve pretty much tried everything I can think of- tweaking in game settings, different proton compatibility layers, launch commands, resolution settings in both desktop and gaming mode etc.

Has anyone ran into a similar issue or is this just common with older cods? I know they are quite dated and weren’t made with modern technology/mouse and keyboard in mind but I find it odd that I’ve only faces this issue with this game when I’ve played plenty off older (10+yo) games.

Any advice is appreciated.

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I know this may be very hard since the laptop I’m on is Chromebook hp 11g4, but I was wondering if it is possible to get second life through Linux or kokua ? I went through firestorm but i don’t understand fully what is happening

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Alright, so I'm a total Linux noob. Literally installed it the other day, all for the singular goal of playing Sims 2 because it's nearly unplayable on Windows. I have somehow managed to give life to Linux Mint Cinnamon (after a very traumatizing first try with Fedora, lol) and after some issues even installed Sims 2 through Lutris. It is an...unofficial version, so not running through Steam or EA app or anything. And I would like (well, NEED!) to install either GShade or ReShade! (I don't really care which one because I know ReShade is better, but I've been using GShade for months on Windows since ReShade wouldn't work for some reason)

I read this post, but it talks about how you need to run a game through Steam in Lutris. Which I do not, like I said. And since I am a complete and utter beginner, I find advice that is not super specific really confusing. I already had a slight mental breakdown trying to make Sims work, and I honestly know next to nothing about how Linux works (I've just been pasting everything into ChatGPT to explain stuff to me like I'm five, lol) so I can't explain how helpful any advice would be...

Also, while the game runs fine and everything, I followed a tutorial of another player when installing it, and she suggested installing some more Windows packages to help run programs related to Sims through WineTricks, like dotnet20, dotnet40, which my Linux refuses to. I obviously don't understand the errors at all, but basically it did install d3dx9, but the dotnet-s and some Windows fonts it just refused, and I'm not sure if that's a problem and if I will need those for ReShade/GShade.

Super duper grateful if anyone decides to help. Thank you!

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im thinking of switching from kubuntu 25.04 to fedora 43 but valve doesnt make a steam client for fedora. is there any risk for my account if i use the unofficial client from the fedora package repo?

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Hi All,

I have been using linux on my laptop for years, although recently I decided to upgrade from Windows 10 to Mint 22 on my gaming pc. I've noticed that whenever I load into games with high requirements, my entire pc lags - the mouse slows, my audio cuts out on discord and everything stutters.

This normally only happens when I boot the game up, so for games like Civ VI it doesn't last too long. However, games like RDR2 and Ready or Not are constantly hogging resources, and so the problem lasts longer and happens more frequently. What makes this issue unbearable is how it tends to cause my audio drivers to crash/reset. I'll often find that randomly pulseaudio has changed my device settings, or alsa has enabled a random mic input that makes me inaudible on Discord.

My Specs are:

• Linux Mint 22.2
• Kernel 6.14.0-35-generic
• KDE Plasma 5.27.12
• Ryzen 5 2600
• RTX 3060 Ti
• 16gb DDR4 ram
• All games run on SSD connected by SATA

Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Of course, I expect my PC to get slow when I boot games up, but it was never this bad on Win10. I am posting here because my searches about this issue didn't yield any good advice.

Thanks in advance!

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But it is possible, even Jack Sparrow editions from Tortuga, arrrgh!!

Using Lutris and some trial and error.

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I ruined the game back for like half an hour in windows, but didn't had the time to play. In the time, I switched to linux, and trying to get it to work to properly start the game, but it loads until 100% and just get stuck there, with the popup saying that the game has frozen and asking if I want to shut it down repeatedly.

I'm running in a low specs notebook, but I was able to make it run in windows

Using proton 9.0-4 have an Intel graphics iris xe processor: I51235U 32 gb ram it's a Samsung Galaxy book 2

I've tried to use Linux native version, but it runs poorly in the loadscreans and breaks in the same part.

also, running with vulkan, direct X just won't opens the game

any help? I just want to play and don't really care if I lose some progress, I've just create the character, no big deal.

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