Nice to see more Linux distributions make changes to ensure the gaming experience is good. Arch Linux is now following Fedora and Ubuntu on upping the vm.max_map_count value.

After the most recent main release of the Heroic Games Launcher, there was an issue people found where games using Proton on Linux / Steam Deck wouldn't run. This latest hotfix should solve it.

Hey guys i use linux since 2016 but now in moment i using windows 11 because gamings, but i decide to change again for spyware questions ... i have a notebook with amd ryzen 5500u, 8gb ram, for this specifications which distro i should choose? i considerate for play games a little bit and battery eficiency, thanks!

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Greetings!

I want to run Doom Eternal with Ray Tracing but the option on the settings menu is disabled for some reason.

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My system:

Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ACH6

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile (4 GB)

Memory: 16GB

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I'm running on Kubuntu 23.10. Is there something that I need to do in the nvidia driver settings so that I can play DE with RTX? Any help would be highly appreciated :D

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So Im wondering how people that have world of Warcraft and for instance heroes of the storm have it setup?

I installed heroes of the storm, which installed bnet then I had to install through bnet.

I then installed wow through lutris which installed a separate bnet , then installed wow after.

Couple questions; 1. Why TF are these all separated, I know I can just install bnet app in lutris then do it through there but wanted to make sure I got any lutris optimization that we're game specific if any 2. I see I can enable Gamescope through config for each item, but for these it's launching bnet not the game, and really I only want to launch WOW or hots with Gamescope, not bnet launcher

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hello, for some background Plutonium ran perfectly fine before, however recently it's been running very poorly. when i open the launcher everything appears to load very slowly. bo1 freezes in the activision/treyarch loading screen, and bo2 runs at 30ish fps in the menus, and i'm sometimes able to get into games, if it doesn't freeze when loading into a map. if i *do* get into a game, which has happened once, the game runs at quite literally 1 fps according to the game's draw fps setting. i'm using wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 and am running the game from lutris. all my other games work fine with this version of wine, bo4 running at 180-200 fps in the map Classified. any help would be appreciated, let me know what information i need to post and how.
wine-ge-8-26-x86_64
endeavouros
6.8.2-zen2-1-zen
openbox (x11)

edit: i forgot to mention that i also tried using lutris-7.2-2-x86_64, proton experimental, lutris-fshack-7.2-86_64, and also attempted reinstalling plutonium to no avail

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I hope I'm clear but basically I have tried but probably did not search the proper terms to change time clock/timezone for one of my steam games using proton.

I use the small clock thing in Path of Exile and well I think proton defaults to gmt +0/+1, and I am very much not in that time zone at all. I have tried modifying some configuration files (suggestions I managed to find online a while ago) to no avail.

Anyone has a clue about what I'm talking about and maybe how to fix it?

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Hello.

Can you please recomend other team based fps games except Team Fortress 2 or CS::GO which can be run on linux, without much dancing.

In case i interesting in something like overwatch but differ.

P.S. due to some circumstances i currently stuck on potato PC (GT1030 - i5 5500k) so it will be good if this game will be able run on this hardware.

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Wanted to make a post to get more traction on this topic for Ubisoft Montreal to reach out to Battle Eye to enable services for Proton on their end.
If anyone is not aware; Battle Eye support on Linux is as simple as the Dev team reaching out via Email to grant access.
https://r6fix.ubi.com/projects/RAINBOW6-SIEGE-LIVE/issues/LIVE-58221

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I'm hoping for some help troubleshooting Morrowind on Proton Experimental (I know about OpenMW but I want to use mods that aren't compatible). I'm using MGE XE, which converts the game from DX8 to DX9 and adds some graphical features. For testing, I've disabled all my other mods. I've got the game installed on Linux and Windows (dual-booting on the same PC) with identical settings except for the draw distance for MGE's Distant Land feature, which is measured in "cells" on the game's grid system.

Here's my problem. On Windows, I've set the draw distance as high as 50 cells, and the game runs fine and uses about 600MB of memory. On Linux, once I push the draw distance into the range of 35-40 cells, the game starts crashing in exteriors, I think due to running out of memory (this is a 32-bit game so it can't use more than 4GiB). The actual crash from the Proton log is a segfault in the GPU driver:

2362.553:0120:0138:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault code=c0000005 flags=0 addr=0xe9a63fa8 ip=e9a63fa8 2362.553:0120:0138:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault info[0]=00000001 2362.553:0120:0138:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault info[1]=00000028 2362.553:0120:0138:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=02f2fb40 edx=7e15c6d0 esi=7e3fc0d0 edi=02f2e76c 2362.553:0120:0138:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault ebp=fe092b00 esp=02f2e6a0 cs=0023 ds=002b es=002b fs=0063 gs=006b flags=00010202 2362.553:0120:0138:warn:seh:handle_syscall_fault backtrace: --- Exception 0xc0000005 at 0xe9a63fa8: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnvidia-glcore.so.545.29.06 + 0xe63fa8. 2362.553:0120:0138:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault returning to user mode ip=785db575 ret=c0000005 2362.553:0120:0138:err:msvcrt:_wassert (L"!status && \"vkCreateDescriptorPool\"",L"../src-wine/dlls/winevulkan/loader_thunks.c",2841) 2362.553:0120:0138:trace:seh:raise (22)

I've launched the game under the debugger so I can pause it at the point of the crash. When the crash happens, Resident Memory is 1.9GB and Virtual Memory is 4.3GB. So I see two issues:

1. Even aside from the crash, the 1.9GB of Resident Memory on Linux is more than 3x the 600MB used on Windows with an even higher setting. Why is Linux using so much more memory? Is this is a known issue with Wine/Proton?
2. The 4.3GB of Virtual Memory is almost the entire 32-bit address space. I'm interpreting that to mean more than half the address space is reserved but unused. Maybe it has something to do with how Wine works, I don't know. But increasing draw distance increases memory usage, and the crash occurs when almost the whole 4GiB is reserved, so that's why I suspect an out-of-memory issue. Maybe the segfault occurs because some allocation attempt is returning a null pointer which the driver then attempts to dereference. I'm hoping someone more familiar with Linux and/or Wine memory management can tell me if that's plausible?

My specs:

• OS: Ubuntu 23.10
• CPU: i9-13900K
• GPU: RTX 4090
• RAM: 32GB DDR5
• Driver: NVIDIA 545 (I also tried 535, which had the same issue)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF5PE-VhlGI

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For some reason,all steam games started stuttering really badly for some reason,this only happens with steam games for some reason.this also didn't use to happen when I was first using steam,I haven't made any significant changes to the system so I have no idea what is going on,this happens on both proton and linux native games

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Hey everyone,

I was recently given a PS5 as a gift, but most of my games are still on my PC. I've been trying to use my DualSense controller on Linux, but I've run into a few frustrating issues:

The controller connects just fine, and was working in Hollow Knight just the other day (through Steam). When I booted up today, though, the Steam UI still works fine but Hollow Knight doesn't recognize the controller until I disconnect and reconnect. After this, the Steam UI is still fine but the game seems to follow the Switch controller's button layout (square is A, X is B, etc), even with Steam Input enabled. I do have a video of this, but I'm having trouble uploading it so I'll update this when I figure that out.

This is a problem I've found in general: outside of the Steam UI, the controller has the Switch's button layout. I've tested Death Stranding, Fallout New Vegas, and Minecraft, and they all have the same issue. Has anyone run into this problem before?

Some system details if it matters: I'm running vanilla Arch, with a Ryzen 5 5600x and RTX 3060. HID support is enabled.

Anything is appreciated! It's just frustrating knowing it was working less than a week ago, and now everything is backwards.

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I am trying to play Dead Cells and every time I launch no matter what proton version I use I get the following error

Failed to initialize DirectX driver (DXError 887A0004 line 112)

Called from h3d.impl.DirectXDriver.reset (h3d/impl/DirectXDriver.hx line 172)

Called from h3d.impl.$DirectXDriver.__constructor__ (h3d/impl/DirectXDriver.hx line 136)

Called from h3d.$Engine.__constructor__ (h3d/Engine.hx line 72)

Called from hxd.$App.~__constructor__.1 (hxd/App.hx line 46)

Called from hxd.$System.start (hxd/System.hl.hx line 105)

Called from hxd.$App.__constructor__ (hxd/App.hx line 45)

Called from $Boot.__constructor__ (Boot.hx line 417)

Called from $Boot.main (Boot.hx line 376)

My Distro is Garuda Linux (Cinnamon) with Nvidia driver 5.50 with Linux Kernel 6.8.4-zen1-1-zen.

Does any one know how to fix this, when you look at the Proton DB page for this game almost every post says it is working for them with various proton versions. Thanks in advance for you help.

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IMO, under the EU's new DMA (Digital Markets Act), Microsoft should be forced to open-source the Win32 and DirectX APIs under the BSD or GPL license, so WINE or OS's directly can simply adopt the actual Windows API's code and achieve 100% compatibility with Windows apps and games. This could be considered similar to Apple being forced to use USB-C connectors on iPhones to enable the use of non-Apple chargers, and Microsoft is definitely acting as a "gatekeeper" in this area, given many people's understandable reluctance to switch due to games in WINE having about a 20% chance of not working that doesn't exist in Windows.

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The vesktop devs and community had been trying to figure out why discord screen sharing was so bad under vesktop, well they were able to find the problem by raising the bitrate cap that discord has + enabling hardware encoding for amd cards using vaapi

I cannot believe that third party linux developers have to figure this out when discord should be the ones figuring his out

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I'm not exactly sure on which hill im dying on either but steam has been available on linux since forever, how hard would it be if they implemented some option to use the native system borders?

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