When I start Battlefront 2 in Steam, the EA window opens, then minimizes and nothing, the game is not running, the EA window says that I am already in the game, and after about a minute the EA window closes and the play button reappears.

Here `PROTON_LOG=1 %command%` log file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hOVWQyHDBmMsIZNRe6X6yN9xMY5Rb-f9/view?usp=sharing

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Hey everyone, I'm making the reddit post I wish existed yesterday before I semi blindly rebuilt my steam machine and tested going back to Nvidia from AMD now that there's been a ton of work with Nvidia and gamescope in 2025. The way it's worded on the Bazzite website leaves some doubt about how well this actually works these days. (Before I get flamed for switching to Nvidia, I have a 6600xt I bought for gamescope features last year, and my 4070oc has just been collecting dust)

If you've been waiting for Nvidia support to get good enough to run Bazzite with an Nvidia graphics card for a htpc, the wait is over. It's good now, it boots right into controller friendly steam deck ui, the quick settings menu and performance overlay menu works now, and the best part, it's stable. Install the Nvidia os version (I've seen weird issues with rebasing breaking gamescope, but try it lf you want), then set max resolution to 1440p and max game resolution to 1440p. Then go through desktop mode -> steam -> settings -> enable hardware acceleration for web menu views. That's it, now you've solved all the known issues on Nvidia. Go play games, it just works.

I had tried Nvidia about a year ago on my htpc, but it only went to desktop mode, you needed a keyboard and mouse for those first few clicks to get going, and gamescope didn't work, so that handy right hand menu for performance overlays etc, just didn't exist. So I went out and got a 6600xt to tide me over. Now Nvidia has same features. I've yet to try 4k or HDR, which I believe there are known issues with, but I'll try and confirm later today.

Side note, if you don't have a living room gaming PC, throw $500 at one. I did an older ryzen 5, 16gigs of ram, b450 mobo, and a 6600xt for about that price (Canadian dollars, boxing Day sale), and it averaged 60fps at 1080p, and 40fps at 1440p. I did PS5 controller because it has a touch pad that works with the mouse on Bazzite beautifully. Now with the 4070 I'm running 1440p at like 80 fps on everything. PC games in the livingroom is awesome, go do it!

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I recently decided to push Linux Mint a bit further to see how well it handles gaming in 2025 — particularly with a mid/high-end GPU under pressure. The goal was to test how well the system manages memory, drivers, and real-world gaming performance without any terminal tweaks or custom scripts.

Test setup:

• AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (6 cores / 12 threads)
• NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super 8GB GDDR6
• 16GB DDR4 3200MHz (2x8GB)
• SSD NVMe + 2TB HDD
• Linux Mint 21.3, using Steam via Flatpak and Proton

I ran Resident Evil 5 on ultra settings at 1080p, and the benchmark showed 351 FPS — no stuttering, no config hacks, just install and play.

What really surprised me was how smooth the experience was. The proprietary NVIDIA driver worked flawlessly, and using Flatpak with Steam made installation completely painless. Everything just worked.

Is anyone else noticing how much easier it has become to game on Linux lately? Especially with Proton, Flatpak, and NVIDIA drivers?

If anyone’s interested in seeing the full video with gameplay and benchmarks, just let me know in the comments and I’ll share the link. Didn’t want to drop it directly here to respect the rules.

https://preview.redd.it/h8p2k4r6oaaf1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=977a66d1f84e418287bdec9dae211b5bb1b4b812

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We just released spotlight images for several playable heroes in Dark Quest 4, their latest tactical RPG inspired by Hero Quest.

Works great on Steam Deck and under Proton so far sharing this in case fellow Linux gamers want to take a look !

Hero Spotlights steam link : https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2453840/view/546739082808525498

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I updated the installer and the various packages that needed installing, understand Proton and steam play from my time on my steamdeck. I tried Resident Evil 7 as my first game and it chugs like absolute crazy. Like chugs the actual desktop as well, not just the game. The driver i installed was the nvidia 570 open one, and I've gone all throughout the various Proton versions and it still chugs. Would I be better off just downloading a VM and running any steam games in there?

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So 4GB is enough for this title and it also perform well and don't worry about the temps cause this laptop has been used for mining crypto, So basically when i bought this it started throttling and i tried every thing like repasting, changing to a new more powered cooling pad but nothing worked and yeah windows 11 does not do any thing if your laptop is thermal throttling so i switch to linux and everything started to work now i was even able to play RDR 2 and yeah it was an upgrade for me because even without throttling i wasn't able to play rdr2 on windows so Thanks Linux XD!

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Im trying to use gamescope in Another Crab's Treasure to prevent my mouse from going to my second monitor while im playing, but it seems to have shifted the color of the game. I am using the launch settings "gamescope -W 2560 -H 1600 -r 240 --force-grab-cursor --backend sdl -- %command%." The game does not start with the gamescope launch setting without --backend sdl but I think that may be what is causing the issue. It also shifts colors in other games, it is not exclusive to this game. Any alternatives I can use to prevent my mouse from leaving the screen without having to unplug my second monitor while I play, other launch settings I could use so the game starts without --backend sdl, or anything else?

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Dead cells

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I haven't booted into Windows since I started using bazzite 2 months ago. I can't recommend it enough.

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> Minor bug fixes and improvements

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PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 v2.4 has been released, bringing with it many enhancements to game support and improved Linux support too.

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Want to know what's popular on Steam Deck? Got you covered here with the latest details on the most popular games for June 2025.

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Want to know what's popular on Steam Deck? Got you covered here with the latest details on the most popular games for June 2025.

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setup:

i5-12400 ----------- Arch Linux x86_64

rx 7800xt ----------- Linux 6.15.4-arch2-1

32gb (4x 8gb) -----------KDE Plasma 6.4.1 (Wayland)

Installed on SSD ----------Bootloader= Systemd

Proton-GE

Issue:

-Game runs around 60fps but has major hitching both in solo and multiplayer runs

Solutions tried (still applied):

-https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8751#issuecomment-2945876353

variation to link:

1. instead of changing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= I added intel_pstate=disable into /usr/share/systemd/bootctl/arch.conf
2. added VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv gamemoderun %command% to launch options

- in console used sudo echo performance | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governorecho performance | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

Desired result:

-Making the game run at a stable fps (even if it means switching to medium settings or somehow removing fps limit) without stutters.

I'm pretty new to arch and linux in general

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So I had tried linux and was my main daily driver for 2 years untill I switched back to windows because the reason is whenever a game released on PC the drivers were available for windows the day before on release day or the day after but with linux there is no driver ready for new games that freshly releases. How do you guys workaroud that and is there a workaround or do you guys just wait?

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Hey everyone, just wanted to share how I upgraded my Linux gaming setup this weekend in case it helps anyone else.

I'm running Fedora with KDE Plasma and wanted a second NVMe (4TB) to store games and videos. My old motherboard only had one M.2 slot, so I picked up a Gigabyte B550M Aorus Elite. Decent price, worked fine. Only small issue was it has just one USB header, so I had to ditch the RGB on my case fans. The fans still run, just no flashy lights. I’ll live.

Once the drive was installed, I used KDE Partition Manager to:

• Set it to GPT
• Format it with BTRFS (for snapshots and compression)
• Gave it the label "games" (which I later changed)

I mounted the drive to a folder in my home directory (something like /home/mogeo/4TB) and added an entry to /etc/fstab using the UUID. That way it mounts automatically at boot. Using UUIDs is more reliable than using device names like /dev/nvme1n1p1, which can change. I also created a Steam folder on the new drive and set the permissions so I had full access.

Then Steam threw me a curveball. I couldn’t install any Proton games. It was giving me "disk write" errors. After some digging, I realised I was still using the Flatpak version of Steam, which runs in a sandbox. By default the sandbox doesn't have access to arbitrary folders on your system, including my new drive.

Rather than messing with Flatpak overrides, I just removed the Flatpak version and installed the RPM version of Steam from the Fedora repos (finally). Problem solved. Proton games installed right away, no complaints.

I already had a bunch of games from Flatpak Steam, so I copied them manually from the Flatpak folder to the new Steam folder on my 4TB drive. After launching the RPM version of Steam and pointing it to that folder as a library, it detected the games and verified them when I went to launch them. No need to re-download.

One small thing I noticed: even though I labeled the file system as "4TB", Dolphin (KDE’s file manager) showed the drive as "Games". Turns out it displays the partition label, not the file system label. Since I plan to use the drive for more than just games, I went back into Partition Manager and changed the partition label to "Storage". Since I mounted it using UUID, that change didn't break anything.

After all that, I cleaned up the leftover Flatpak Steam data. Only copied over the games I needed, then deleted the rest. Got back around 300 GB of space. Disclaimer: Make sure you know what you're deleting 😳

Final setup:

• 4TB NVMe drive mounted with UUID
• Steam and Proton games install and run without issues
• For me. RPM Steam works better for this use case than Flatpak
• Drive renamed and multi-purpose now
• No RGB on the fans, but I can deal with it

If you've done something similar or have thoughts on better mounting practices or file system tips, feel free to drop a reply. Always keen to learn from others in the community.

Here's the video for those that prefer the dulcet tones of my voice 😜 (plus I am one away from 100 subs 🤩)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHDQFJ-b5o

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Quick and simple / I run risk of rain, mangohud says 144 fps, steam says 144 fps but what i see is 60 So please can some one help me with this

Using linux mint Yes the monitor is at the right fresh rate

I3 12th Rx6600

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LizardByte released the latest major update to Sunshine, the game streaming host platform for Moonlight to stream games from one system to another.

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