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Mod launchers for linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 15:50

I want to mod cyberpunk but i havent been able to get vortex to work on my pc via heroic. im using cachyos.
i know there is the nexus mods app but i saw that nexus stopped support for it this year. are there any other mod launchers i can use that support cyberpunk thx!

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Playing Steam's DRM-Free Games for Windows via Protontricks

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 15:16

I've been having some issues with Steam lately (another post for another time) and was looking more into DRM-free games purchased from Steam. Turns out a decent number of my games can be played without the Steam client, but over half of them are Windows only.

My understanding is that Protontricks might be a way to still play these Windows-only games without the Steam Client being involved. But I'm not sure I fully understand the process. Could anyone lay out the steps needed to do this if it's possible? Is this process also able to play games I would buy on GOG that are Windows-only? Thanks.

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Why is VR on Linux so.. Awful?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 15:08

You'd think Valve, a company who's more pro-Linux than Mutahar, the company that made SteamVR would make it work best on Linux, but no!

I am using Nabora Linux, on a pretty damn new PC, ALVR, Quest 3, and.. Godamn. Shit loves to not work. Just constant errors, getting it to work for a while just for an update to happen and- oh! It doesn't work again! The most recent update of SteamVR just broke.. Everything, and I couldn't figure out why. ALVR was just a black screen. I even tried SteamLink and it actually let me fucking see but it was green and super glitchy. I deleted SteamVR, reinstalled, tried using stable, went back to beta, went to previous branch- I even reinstalled Steam! I tried WiVRn, and it works but the desktop viewer n' all that is super fucking stretched and I don't know how to fix that, so, like.. VR on Linux, for me, is fucked spectacularly. I'm lovin' it!

That being said.. I like Linux. I like gaming on Linux, despite.. Not really being a gamer. I'm just tired. So tired..

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Power Target on NVIDIA GPU

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 15:08

I recently switched to Cachy OS. I'm using a 5070ti which can use 350 watts, but it's always locked at 300W. I set the correct power target on boot via Nvidia SMI, and it applies, but it's still locked at 300 watts. Also, the GPU stays at 2850MHz even when the power state target is at 3105MHz. I don't know if it's just some Nvidia driver nonsense, but on Windows, the behavior was correct. Under Nvidia server settings, I can set an offset, but it seems never to apply.

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Severe FPS drops in CS2 on CachyOS after ~10 minutes (Wayland, RTX 4070, Dell XPS 15 9530)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 14:57

Hey everyone,

I’m having a weird issue running Counter-Strike 2 on CachyOS (Wayland). The game starts off smooth at around 200 FPS, but after about 10 minutes, I get severe frame drops down to 5–10 FPS. These drops last around 5–10 seconds, then the FPS returns to normal. It keeps repeating regularly.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

  • Running only on the internal laptop display → issue persists
  • Switching session to X11 → issue persists
  • Setting Steam compatibility to proton-cachyos-10.0-20260207 → no change
  • Updated NVIDIA drivers
  • Enabled Performance mode via autocpufreq

Laptop specs:

  • OS: CachyOS Linux
  • KDE Plasma: 6.6.0
  • KDE Frameworks: 6.23.0
  • Qt: 6.10.2
  • Kernel: 6.19.3-2-cachyos (64-bit)
  • Graphics platform: Wayland
  • CPU: Intel i9-13900H (20 cores)
  • RAM: 32 GiB
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU + Intel Iris Xe
  • Laptop: Dell XPS 15 9530

I’ve also tried a few CS2 launch options i found on reddit and the internet, but nothing helped. I monitored things with Lact during gameplay, and there were no obvious GPU throttling signs.

Does anyone have an idea what might cause these periodic FPS drops? Could it be something BIOS-related, or maybe a hybrid graphics power issue? Any hints or things to test would be really appreciated!

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Remove gamepad as keyboard and mouse input from proton

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 14:40

I recently switched to proton ge and noticed my gamepads works as keyboard and mouse. This appers only in proton ge and proton above 8.0. Before even version 10 worked without issue. Steam layout is set to empty and this appers with and without steam input. In modern games it's not big deal but with older when I try to map buttons it exits menu or click on highlighted option beceuse it's eather enter or escape key. Buttons work simultaneously, so for example "A" is enter and "A" at the same time. I can switch back to 8 but only on GE some games have working cutscenes or menus. Highlight works separately for keyboard and gamepads, keyboard is doted and gamepad is solid color.

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Sims 4 Modding on Linux using curse-forge

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 14:30

Hello everyone!

I recently made my girlfriend switch from windows 11 to Linux and one of her requirements for switching over was that i had to get modding for sims 4 to work on it.
More specifically get curse-forge working together with sims 4.

I have been trying to do this, using both Lutris and Bottles, i have the ea-app installed through lutris using the latest proton-ge version and through the ea-app sims 4 is installed.
I have tried installing curse-forge through either bottles or lutris but cant get curse-forge to install at all, i have tried using the same prefix as the ea-app but it either throws an error saying that curse-forge is already on or it just fails silently.

Bottles is installed through flatpak and lutris through pacman.

Has anyone here been able to get it to work? I have googled it but i would only find answers saying that it was not possible, however those posts were a couple of years old and thought therefore it was worth asking.

Her distribution is Cachy-Os and everything is up to date.

I also want to note that i don't think that it necessarily has to be curse-forge that is a mod manager it can be any gui mod manager for the sims 4, but curse-forge would be preferable!

Thanks in advance!

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my mincraft speedrunning instance keeps crashing because of "Xwayland dropped wayland connection"

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 13:39

https://mclo.gs/5AdvNeC

it litterally doesnt matter what i do it keeps happening

edit: its because of waywall warapper command what to do

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God of War 2018 crashing at startup on PopOS 22.04 LTS

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 13:10

Good morning everyone,

I am trying to play God of War 2018 through Heroic Games Launcher but I am not able to.

When I launch the game it immediately crashes, even if sometimes it seems to work for a second showing me the initial display settings (hdr/brightness).

I already tried different proton version and disabling gamemode but still no luck :(.

My specs are:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q

Memory: 4601MiB / 7283MiB

Your help would be really appreciated on this!

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Helldivers 2 freezes when hosting game

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 12:54

Hi guys,

I'm on Linux Mint. I've been playing Helldivers 2 without issues for over a month since switching from Windows. In the last couple of days though I've been having issues whenever I play solo. When I drop into the mission the game freezes after just a few seconds (during the drop cinematic/loading screen), all audio goes, and I have to kill it.

It's perfectly fine when I join other peoples' games, no issues whatsoever.

I've tried a couple of different proton versions, currently using Proton 10.0-4. Using these launch options (have tried to remove them to no effect):

+connect_lobby -1 -USEALLAVAILABLECORES --use-d3d11 -force-vulkan

I've also tried different nvidia drivers. Currently on 590 but have gone back to 580 and 570.

I know this game has some issues with it's net code, causing inconsistent behaviour between hosts and other players, but this is locking me out from playing solo.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can try?

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Giocare a PC calcio su steam deck

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 12:22

Buongiorno, qualcuno gioca a PC calcio su steam deck?

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Faugus Launcher - Issues with copy paste

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 11:27

Hey everyone,

Thanks to this sub, I finally discovered the Faugus launcher and installing and playing WoW has never been easier.

However, it seems that I can't copy anything from my desktop into the game, it simply doesn't work. Is there anything that I might be missing, a config, a flag, installing something?

If it helps, I'm using lxqt on arch, on wayland session with labwc. And also using Proton Ge ( though I already tried other proton options, untick the Wayland experimental support, and the issue remains).

Thanks in advance!

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I missed it

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 10:39

I installed cachyos + hyper land on my old laptop for a while but since then I’ve got a new laptop and stayed on windows but I have missed Linux so much (so do you guys recommend Garuda Linux),I like it because of the way it looks and the better performance compared to windows

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