I got this laptop and installed linux mint on it. Before I tested a bunch of games on windows like Dota 2 and they worked perfectly.
Now on Linux, most steam games that I've tried freeze my laptop after a few minutes of playtime, Dota 2 freezes as soon as I click start a match (Even bot matches). The freeze isn't just on the game, my whole system seems frozen and I have to shutdown manually.

Tried a bunch of online solutions I've found but no luck. Changing kernel versions and using a newer Mesa version didn't work. Made a timeshift back to my initial configuration so I didn't make any big permanent changes.

This is my system info: https://pastebin.com/tY7YV3rW

I've hear intel integrated graphics might have a lot of problems with Linux, but games from Lutris have been working without a problem. I installed steam through system package. Don't know if the .deb file would work any differently.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

TL;DR: Steam games crash my laptop

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I've recently moved from a pair of dell 1080p monitors to two AOC 4k monitors, and they seem to have caused some mystery issues across a variety of games:

Blasphemous - Stutter every second or so, went away with VSync disabled. Seems to have gone away on its own at some point

Death Howl - Same as Blasphemous, but with no option to disable VSync.

Snowrunner - Slowdown evey second or so. Again, went away with VSync, and also no longer seems to be an issue.

These issues occurred on Linux Mint 22.2 with the 6.8 and 6.14 kernels, and now seem to be gone with the update to 22.3/6.17.

Now for the one that's still causing issues. Elden ring runs at a solid 60 FPS regardless of settings, but as you can see in the image there's a noticable drop to ~40 FPS like clockwork. This definitely happened before the update, but unfortunately there's no options for VSync, so I don't know if that's the issue.

It seems not to happen if I use my old monitor again, but it doesn't seem to be obviously performance related. It happens with and without adaptive sync, and forcing the composition pipeline (or full composition pipeline) in the nvdia settings has no effect. Has anyone run into anything similar?

System:

Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 6.6.4 64-bit

6.17.0-1009-oem

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

GeForce RTX 4070

32GB RAM

X11

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Hello guys,
The Adversator MOBA demo is ready for Steam Next Fest.
I still have a month to polish it, so your comments and suggestions are very welcome!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4072270/Adversator/
thank you !

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for example the patch notes for ge proton typically state:

update dxvk latest git

update vkd3d-proton latest git

update vkd3d latest git

however in bottles I get to select dxvk-2.7.1 (for example) regardless of which version of ge proton / wine I am using

is it an override? what happens if it's disabled? how do I use the one that's bundled with ge proton as mentioned in the patch notes?

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I recently switched completely from Windows 11 to CachyOS. The computer has always been shared between two people, so we always created two users (this is convenient so that each user can customize their workspace and their data doesn't conflict with the other user). However, in Linux, we ran into a premissions issue: a file or directory must always have a single owner. Our games are stored on a separate drive, and each user needs access to it, so we took the simple approach of creating a separate group for disk access. This would be fine, but Steam Proton requires the compatdata owner to be explicitly specified so that the game can run under the current user's account. Therefore, if compatdata is owned by User1, then when User2 presses Play, the game will close within a second. I was advised to use bindfs and mount SteamLibrary separately for each user, but this requires entering the root password each time, which significantly complicates life and seems less secure. Is there a graceful way out of this situation? Perhaps there's a way to store compatdata separately for each user, which sounds more logical and reasonable? In the Heroic Games Launcher, for example, the wineprefixes is stored in ~/games for each user.

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Hi, maybe someone will be able to help me. I've been trying to play nfs most wanted with a few mods (widescreenfixes, extra options, mwunlimiter, hd reflections etc...)

But for some reason every time i try to install those mods the game refuses to launch, just one pop up of a black screen before closing right away.

I've tried with proton-ge, proton-em, proton-cachy, proton experimental and few older versions but nothing.

The games does launch once i delete the asi loader.

It's the first time that i'm facing a wall like that, I usually always find a way but this one doesn't want to work

specs:

cachy os

rx 7900 xtx

ryzen 7950x

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I made a game where you can start a cult and send your cultists to raise hell in various silly ways. Best of all, it runs entirely inside the Linux terminal!

Hope you find it funny!

You can wishlist CultGame on steam today! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2345980/CultGame/

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So i am trying to use my old laptop into an og machine to play these old rpgs, but no matter what i tried daggerfall just wont workshop properly, i tried found vídeos for fixes but only found for the unity mod, if somente have any clue of what i could do to make it work, I am oppen to sugestions

(Sorry for the sloppy Wrighting, english is not my native language)

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Hello everyone! I have an issue that only happens when I share using discord. I can game for hours with no issues but once I turn on screen share the screen flashes black then appears to artifact. Running Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon fully up to date. Discord hardware acceleration is turned off per another post I found with similar issues. AMD FX8350, 16gb memory, XFX RX 570 8gb, 500gb SSD + 2TB HDD. Once again I game for hours with no issues on games like AC: Valhalla and others and this only happens when I screen share with Discord. Thank you for any help!

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Hi everyone
I need help. I no longer know what the problem is, I’ve tried a bunch of things.

Context:
Game: Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon (probably build on Unity). Spikes and freezes every equal period of time (you can see it on video and on mangohud GPU visualization in the top left corner. I try mostly everything I know or can google or ask GPT. And now I'm stuck.

ProtonDB says that globally no one has issues with the game. So I didn’t find a suitable solution there.

I asked ChatGPT and tried various options based on its advice, but nothing helped.
Here’s an approximate list of what I tried.

1. I have tried different Protons: cachy-proton, Proton 10, Proton Experimental, Proton 8.05.

2. Use my settings from Arc Raiders

• PROTON_LOCAL_SHADER_CACHE=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_USE_EAC_LINUX=1 DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command%

1. ChatGPT mention that this may be problems with cash or somewhat, and i Tried different things like:

• __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_VALIDATION=1
• DXVK_STATE_CACHE=0

1. Also this variants of sync

• PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1
• PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1
• DXVK_ASYNC=1

1. Tried disable in-game overlay

And many other things...just don't remember and lost chat history due to "temporary" chat. I thought it will be easy and fast solution =)

Game supports only dx11 due to the specs, so I don't use force dx11 options (okay I tried, but that was no sence to do it)

My specs:

OS: CachyOS x86_64
Host: Katana 17 B13VGK (REV:1.0)
Kernel: Linux 6.18.3-2-cachyos
Uptime: 6 hours, 38 mins
Packages: 1512 (pacman), 13 (flatpak), 6 ()
Shell: fish 4.3.3
Display (LG HDR WFHD): 2560x1080 in 34", 7]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.4
WM: KWin (Wayland)
Terminal: konsole 25.12.1
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13620H z
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q / Mob]
Nvidia Driver version: 590.48.01
NVML Version: 13.590.48.01
GPU 2: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.50 GHz [Inte]
Memory: 10.71 GiB / 15.32 GiB (70%)

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Hey everyone, I’m building a dedicated Steam Machine / Streaming game box with an ASRock BC-250 running Bazzite. I’ve even set up a smart plug with Alexa to handle the PSU so I can have a full "couch experience," but I’m hitting a major roadblock with the USB peripherals.

If I boot the system with an 8BitDo Bluetooth Adapter 2 plugged in, it causes a serious hardware conflict: 1. The system clock (RTC) gets completely corrupted at boot. 2. My Realtek WiFi 5G dongle breaks. It sees networks but gives an "authentication error" every time.

The weird part is that even if I manually fix the date and time in the OS, the WiFi still won't connect. The only fix is to physically unplug the 8BitDo adapter before powering on, wait for Bazzite to load, and then plug it back in.

This totally defeats the purpose of a couch setup and most of all as a streaming Steam Machine, since I have to physically fiddle with the dongles every single time. Since the WiFi is broken, I can't even use a script to sync the time via NTP because there’s no connection.

Is this a known resource/IRQ conflict on the BC-250? Does somebody have a solution for my situation?

Thank you in advance 🙏🏻

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As the title says cs2 crashes on launch with vk_error_device_lost. I'm on mint 22.2. Kernel 6.14.0-37

I'm running on a laptop with ryzen 5 4500U with integrated graphics.
I had the newest mesa drivers which I upgraded with the ones from kisak-mesa though it didn't help anything.
- Installed vulkan-tools and vkcube runs fine.
- I tried disabling steam shader caching.
- Did a clean reinstall of steam first from the mint software manager then tried the flatpak version.

CS2 launches and plays fine with proton but vac doesn't work so I can't play online so I guess it means there is a problem with vulkan.
I would settle for running the game through proton if there is a way to get vac working.

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I’ve been using Linux for gaming for a while and I’ve helped a few friends and some fellow people in this subreddit to fix things.

I’m thinking about offering remote Linux gaming troubleshooting as a service, but before pushing it anywhere, I just want to ask this community:

• Is this something people would ever pay for
• Or do most people only prefer DIY fixes only?

Not promoting anything here. I'm genuinely curious what the Linux gaming crowd thinks.

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https://preview.redd.it/lr3fi3xtdycg1.png?width=1502&format=png&auto=webp&s=9267e2c43ab268b8af645b2dc0064f231168584f

All of a sudden I'm seeing this visual bug where the illumination is blocky around cloud and some of the pipes in this precise scene, I'm using Catchyos, tried proton-catchyos with the latest version, proton 9.0-4 and 10.0-3, also running the game in dx11 mode.

I have a r7 5800x and a Rx 9070 XT, with Mesa 25.3.3-arch1.4

Anyone else had this problem?

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I just couldn't find a normal guide, and I don't feel like reading the wiki at all,also I have a laptop with two graphics cards.

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