This is probably the data hoarder in me complaining but I have a ton of sub-gigabyte (and even a lot of sub-500MB) games on Steam that end up eating a lot of storage on my hard drive, since every single game installation has prefix folders that often exceed the size of the actual game.

As Proton development progresses, will we see more optimizations or even alternative solutions to the traditional prefix process?

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https://youtu.be/6coBPGlrIYE?si=3q6NttZhyMU3DoKV

I just tested the latest in development driver and it's looking very promising.

Before when hardware RT was enabled it would tank the frame rate but now it's not too far off windows! Big improvement !

Unfortunately I noticed a 4fps on average regression in Assasins Creed Shadows so it's not all good. But hopefully the stable release will sort that out and I will retest when it's out

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I bought bundle Watchmen: The End is Nigh and Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 2. When I try to install either game, the install buttons are greyed out on Steam, and there is a message saying "AVAILABLE FOR WINDOWS" besides the install button. How do I override this behavior in Steam as both games have a Platinum rating on ProtonDB? My Steam account is ancient, and I have never seen this message before. Then again, my Linux gaming time is very limited.

Thanks in advance,

Cagey

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Hey folks!

I have little to no experience with Linux. The only experience I have is with the Steamdeck.

I would really like to switch (or at least dual boot) from Windows 11 to CachyOS. I heard it was the most optimised distro for gaming.

I have seen a couple of benchmarks that shows the 1% lows are higher and micro stutters almost completely disappears. Those are driving me crazy right now on my rig.

I want to eventually ditch Windows because...Microsoft...

The rig in question: AMD Ryzen 7 9800x3D 32 go RAM 6000mts CL30 ASUS TUF RTX 5070 Ti Samsung 990 PRO 2TO Ultrawide 1440p 144hz monitor

I was wondering if anyone has about the same config and how was the experience?

Is it really worth it to switch?

How are the 1% lows? (Compred to Win11)

How are the performance in general? (Average FPS and smoothness)

Are almost all the games compatible without too much hassle? I know anti-cheat games don't work but I don't play competitive multiplayer games.

Here is a couple of my recently played games: Arena Breakout: Infinite (this one does not work I think) ARC Raiders No Man's Sky Witcher 3

Thank you very much!

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I got tired of PTT being flaky on GNOME in apps like Discord, so I built a tiny tool that just toggles the system mic globally. Hold a key or mouse button and your default mic unmutes; release it and it mutes. It’s fully open‑source and written in Rust. There are probably easier ways to do this, but it was a fun way for me to learn Rust.

GitHub: https://github.com/Wuild/pttkey

If you try it, let me know what you think!

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So i have a old pc that is just a baterocera rn it has a nividia 660 ti and im wondering if they still support it of if i have to install it my self

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I'm using the latest Linux Mint Cinnamon Kernel and I have recently installed a TP-Link Archer TX300E for my internet. The controller shows up in bluetooth but doesn't in steam and I just want to see how to fix it.

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I have a video capture card by AVermedia I want to capture the output of in OBS but when I plug a hdmi input in to the capture card and boot up my console it does not show up as a capture option, I see posts of people getting other AVermedia cards to work with drivers but I'm not sure what ones are options for me, I'm using arch linux

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Anybody else running into this? I'm playing with a 50' series card on Nobara.

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Hey all, I had chatgpt whip up a little script to test to make sure ports are open to Steam. I'm having some problems with Steam multiplayer, and needed something to check to make sure my connectivity is as expected.

Can someone who knows more of what they're doing that me take a look at it and determine if the results from this script would be accurate for what I'm trying to do? If so, then great - and I'm happy to throw this out there for people to use ...

#!/usr/bin/env bash # ===== CONFIG ===== # Steam servers to test against STEAM_HOST="steampowered.com" # Common Steam TCP ports TCP_PORTS=( 80 443 27015 27016 27017 27018 27019 27020 27030 ) # Common Steam UDP ports UDP_PORTS=( 27000 27001 27002 27003 27004 27005 27015 27031 27036 3478 4379 4380 ) TIMEOUT=3 # ===== FUNCTIONS ===== check_tcp() { local port=$1 nc -z -w $TIMEOUT $STEAM_HOST $port &>/dev/null if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then echo "TCP $port ✅ OPEN" else echo "TCP $port ❌ CLOSED" fi } check_udp() { local port=$1 nc -u -z -w $TIMEOUT $STEAM_HOST $port &>/dev/null if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then echo "UDP $port ✅ OPEN (or not blocked)" else echo "UDP $port ❌ BLOCKED / NO RESPONSE" fi } # ===== MAIN ===== echo "Testing Steam connectivity to $STEAM_HOST" echo "----------------------------------------" echo echo "Checking TCP ports..." for port in "${TCP_PORTS[@]}"; do check_tcp "$port" done echo echo "Checking UDP ports..." for port in "${UDP_PORTS[@]}"; do check_udp "$port" done echo echo "Done." submitted by /u/weeglos
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OK so I've seen a lot of posts about this and have run through some troubleshooting, but games still won't launch. I tried to run Emily is Away because extremely light game with quick install and that one runs. I don't understand why. Any other game above that won't work. I'm starting to hate Emily rn. But the games will work if on the C drive where the Linux installation is.

Since getting that issue I have formatted my drive from ntfs to ext4. Tried different Protons. I have run lutris, installed wine, all of it. I have done terminal stuff I've seen as solutions for some people and none of it makes the games run. I've installed from the site, from the linux app thing, neither works.

Is there any more solutions that I don't know about since I'm a complete noob atm. Going insane here...

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More infos about the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4165740/Vena/

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Hi,

I'm kinda new in Linux Gaming. I got Ubuntu, 7800X3D and 7800XT.

When I play Rocket League, the Steam Overlay shows stable 240 FPS, but I feel like I am playing 100FPS. I though it's the VRR, but no, according to the monitor, it was stable 240Hz.

I decided to try enable VSync in Game, and it fixed it. The game is feeling smooth. But I wonder, why is it happening? And I would prefer playing without VSync in competitive games.

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https://www.gog.com/en/work/senior-software-engineer-c-gog-galaxy

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I was trying to play Asphalt Legends on my Linux Mint (22.3 x86_64) desktop. There's no Linux build so I had to play with Proton.

The game runs with good performance. However, it starts freezing for no reason during gameplay. It's so bad that the game is not fun anymore. This is also followed by audio issues like sounds not playing or the music stopping.

Changing the graphic settings doesn't do much. I originally used GE Proton and then Proton Experimental and there was noticably less freezing, but the problem isn't fixed.

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so with how nvidia infamously is on linux would it be worth it to sell my rtx 2080 for an amd or intel card? and how is the intel A750 on linux? i currently still use LTSC 2021 as my main OS but i'm sure program support is ending soon so I want to hop over to bazzite. any tips are appreciated!

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