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Download the zip from GameBanana.

Extract directly into your Sonic Mania Steam folder

Open the .exe using Protontricks

It may take a minute, but the mod loader will load.

Set your codes/mods etc.

Save and Play.

If it doesn’t play (nothing happens), launch the game via Steam and it should be working.

For e.g the code for disabling Super forms OST is working.

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My setup uses a Ryzen 5 5500, 32go of RAM and an RX 6700XT. I use the latest version of Bazzite.

When playing Clair Obscur, I struggle maintaining 60fps on medium settings (without upscaling) and the image quality is relatively bad. Much like FSR was enabled at a performance preset or something even though it's not the case (btw every FSR activation results in an horrible result even native AA)

Tried with Clair Obscur Fix and the Steam deck=0 flag, it's a little bit better but still looks grainy especially hairs and shadows. Also tried with the latest ProtonGE, no improvements whatsoever.

Other UE5 games like Oblivion Remastered looks and runs better than this.

Is it a known issue, if so is there a workaround?

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When looking on protondb I see an insane amount of different replies ranging from working out of the box to requiring massive amounts of manual tweaking. Outside of the obvious issues like kernel anti cheat how often do real issues prop up with playing games with proton?

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TR where fourth art thou!
Any news from any one would be welcomed.

I switched to linux about 5-6 months ago and choose Pop. At first it was great. Few issues, but was able to google my way through them. But with each update more things break. My steam games don't launch, things crash, desktop shortcuts constantly vanish, sleeping freezes my PC. I think the only two things that do work are my browser, and surprisingly my emulator. I have a 2019 ish (can't remember the exact year) Asus Tuf F15 so I'd prefer something that has nvidia support, which is why I choose Pop over Mint when I first switched. But now I'm looking to switch to a different distro. Does Mint play nice with Nvidia? I heard Catchy is good, but then also heard its a buggy mess. Any recommendations would be amazing.

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I can't play the game basically. Is flickering all the time. This is my setup

https://reddit.com/link/1rm1jks/video/2fx6qkb45cng1/player

Distro: Cachy OS - Hyperland

Amd 7700

radeon RX 6800xt

32gb

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I saw that the new Nvidia drivers were released for linux today. I try to avoid using the .run drivers directly from Nvidia because it often creates issues within my system. (especially beta drivers)

Does anyone running Fedora know of a way to get a clean install of these drivers or of any plans to release the rpm fusion package?

I only ask because I am trying to play Resident Evil Requiem on a 50 series card, which didn't run before these new drivers.

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i put the downloaded CET files into the game directory from nexus and tried to run the game, instead it said "Unable to load cyber-engine-tweaks.asi. Error: 998" or something. my game is version 2.31, and CET is version 1.37.1. i cant find any help with this and i wanna mod my game :(((

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Tired of other operating systems pushing breaking changes? Or dislike the complete lack of privacy on other operating systems? Try playing your favorite game r/Helldivers on Ubuntu with this guide!

The only way to make Linux gaming better, is to get more people doing it, so I hope that this helps someone at some point either new to Linux or even well versed in it.

TLDR: This a guide to setting up and running Helldivers 2 on a Ubuntu 24 LTS machine. I was able to get relatively close to my Windows performance with 1% lows being mostly tuned out by settings and frame limitation similar to how you need to optimize it on Windows.

1. Installing Ubuntu:

• Ubuntu Desktop Installation Guide
• Pending on your storage situation you may need to partition your drive if you do not plan on taking over a full physical drive for Linux. Here is a link to the Windows Disk Management tool if you plan to use a single drive and dual boot windows and Linux.
• Once you have the OS up and running do an update either though the software portal or by running sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y in a terminal.

2. GPU Drivers:

This is one of those areas that might take some trial and error. If you want the easy button, Ubuntu has a GUI that lets you add "additional drivers".

• NVIDIA Driver install guide
  • If you are brand new start with the easy methods through the Ubuntu GUI or driver-utils in the terminal (shown it he guide linked above). Other wise if you don't have success or know what you are doing I recommend the following:
    • Before selecting your diver version or guessing if you are going the direct or apt route take a look at the NVIDIA driver support page to find the "best" version for your hardware. This method doesn't always work.
    • I find the best luck with the apt install method and open drivers for newer GPU's. Running sudo apt install nvidia-driver-<version>
    • I use nvidia-smi to verify my system can use the GPU. You may need to also install utils for this via sudo apt install nvidia-utils-<version>
• AMD Drivers Download if you want the proprietary variant. Otherwise to my knowledge AMD GPU users can skip this step since 24 LTS uses mesa out of the box. I am sure other folks will chime in on this as it has been a few months since I ran my AMD GPU.

3. Download and Install Steam:

Go to the Steam Official Page and download the deb file.

• Use dpkg -i steam_latest.deb
  • dpkg is "debian package manager" and -i is the install flag. You will likely need to use the change directory command to access the right folder cd ~/Downloads.
  • After installing go ahead and run the application, recommend pinning to dashboard. If you do not know where to find it in the OS just use your old windows key and search for the application and it should come up with the shortcut.

4. Login into Steam and download Helldivers 2.

• I recommend just seeing at this point if you can run the game. You should hopefully have some success, but if your experience was like mine we will need to do some tuning to get it run smoothly.
  
• If the game fails to launch completely you can try going into Steam setting and go down to compatibility mode, I had luck with Proton Experimental out of the box (default).

5. Initial Experience in Helldivers 2 out of the box:

Personally Helldivers was not optimized out of the box on the settings front, I had the same experience on Windows.

• I recommend going into display setting in the game and turn on advanced performance monitoring to see how your display and graphic settings change your 1% lows and fps.
• If settings alone do not do it for you, I recommend jumping to the next step before fine tuning any other graphic or display settings.

6. Limiting frame rate outside of the game

• The in game fps limit seems to make things worse than better on both Windows and Linux for some reason. I recommend installing MangoHud to easily limit the fps outside of the game settings on Linux:
  • sudo apt install mangohud
  • Once installed MangoHud has quite a few different features which you can see here. You can also configure things for multiple games which is nice.
• The easy button is in steam right click on Helldivers 2 in your library and open properties. In the launch options box enter the following:
  • MANGOHUD=1 MANGOHUD_CONFIG=fps_limit=60, mangohud %command%

7. Graphic Settings

This will be personnel to everyone but this is what I had luck with for running things smoothly. I highly recommend trial and error with both MangoHud and the in game performance monitor up in graph mode. My settings:

Display Settings:

• Camera Shake: weak (same on Windows)
• Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (same on Windows)
• Display Mode: Full screen vs. borderless window on Windows
• Render Scaling: Ultra Quality vs native on Windows.
• Frame rate limit: off (same on Windows)
• Vsync: off (same on Windows)

Graphics Settings

Ultra/High on everything except for the following:

• Motion Blur: 0 (same on Windows)
• Depth of field: off (same on Windows)
• Bloom: off
• Sharpness: 1.0 (same on Windows)
• Ambient Occlusion: off
• Anti-Aliasing: off
• Async Compute: no

8. Play the game and have fun!

I really enjoy Helldivers 2 and I find it so awesome that you can essentially run it out of the box with just a little bit of effort. I hope to see some a larger shifts towards Linux within the gaming community and is the whole reason I made this post in the first place. Keep it positive and help people if you can if they have questions in the comments, lets grow this together.

As a side note I also know a new beta version of the NVIDIA drivers are addressing some known issues with some aspects for Linux gaming. Some exciting stuff!

For my fellow Helldivers I hope to see you out fighting for democracy on your new Linux build! If you see Knight while playing let me know if this helped you out.

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I'm having problems with CS2. The situation is as follows: CS2 won't open in its native version (I've already tried updating the drivers and mesa, and all the startup options). I've tried using all the protons to open the game, but the only one that works is Proton GE. However, I can't play competitive online using Proton GE because of Valve's anti-cheat. In other words, without Proton GE, the game won't open, and with Proton GE, it opens, but I can't play competitively. (Help! I don't want to have to use Windows just to play CS2.)

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Hello. I am running Debian 13/ Gnome (on xorg), with an nvidia 2060 with the correct proprietary drivers installed through apt.
I have so far:
- reformatted the SSD as ext4.
- given my user and the group my user is in permissions.
- claimed ownership of the drive through disks and given my user permissions
- installed steam through apt and not any of the other options.
- totally purged steam and deleted all the config files and then reinstalled steam and logged in again

I have no idea what else to try. I'd really like to be able to play slay the spire 2 sometime today, alas, things are not going well. I have ran steam through the terminal and nothing is clearly an error message. I am out of options I can find myself. Thank you for your time.

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Hey everyone,

I’m running my games through Proton on Linux, and I noticed that my shadercache folder has grown to 14+ GB. A few subfolders are several gigabytes each, while others are tiny and months old.

Before I start deleting things, I wanted to check: is it safe to wipe this folder to reclaim space? Will Proton or Steam freak out, or will games just rebuild whatever they need?

From what I understand, Proton stores precompiled shaders to reduce stutter and speed up shader building. Deleting them shouldn’t break anything — the worst case is that the next time I launch a game, it might stutter a bit while shaders recompile. Some people even recommend clearing shadercache if a game starts behaving weirdly after an update.

But I’m not 100% sure if there are any downsides, especially with newer versions of Proton or Vulkan shader pipelines. Has anyone here deleted their Proton shadercache recently? Did it cause any issues, or was it totally fine?

Also:

Is it better to delete the whole folder, or only the older subfolders?

Does Steam automatically rebuild everything cleanly?

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Hey, so I have a low end i3 laptop that I was wanting to switch over from windows to Linux, any recommendations that can n run stuff like steam, roblox, and most games made for windows? I'm new to Linux as a whole BTW

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I'm on Arch Linux using KDE Plasma 6.6.2 (thought it was been an issue as far back as I can remember), but my Dualsense controller over bluetooth never powers off while idle, regardless of the setting in steam or any settings I can find in KDE.

I can't imagine this is a unique issue, but I can't find any mention of it on the Arch wiki or the searching I've done on reddit. I've tried a couple of snippets of udev rules which looked promising but I've had no luck with that either (Mind, I don't remember exactly what, nor am I at all familiar with udev in general).

I'd just like for my bluetooth controller to power off after idle / no inputs for, say, 5 minutes. How would I go about doing this?

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I used sandboxie to have multiple instances of steam running on different accounts. Is there an alternative on Linux for this? I'm specifically using Fedora 43 KDE Plasma.

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I've recently movet to linux Mint (since december 2025) both on my desktop (Ryzen 5 3000 series, with integrated graphics, 8gb DDr4 ram) and on my laptop (Ryzen 5 7520U, 8gb DDr5 ram), and encountered little trouble to do most things. However, since last Mint update, i've noticed some strange things happening rwgarding Steam (and other things too, but this isn't the sub for this, maybe you'll find me on linux4noobs asking more questions later), where, after starting, Steam just stays open but invisible on the screen.

https://preview.redd.it/dloy4he63bng1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=daf0afeaa588a18f6ef40f42b8f46c2fed46fc3f

In this image, Steam is open, but the interface is invisible (I can still interact with the buttons), and my solution is to open big picture mode, and after closing it it gets back to normal, but it's annoying to fo this every time and clearly the app's not working as intended.

But this is just a minor inconvenience, the real problem happened since earlier today, when I try to play most Steam games, they open for a fraction of a second and then close, even with proton I cant run them. Example below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sqzZIXEAf9E8iDJ9KbUx4YICQtBp7Kc7/view?usp=sharing

I've tried running on every version of Proton, and always crashed. Notably, Terraria didn't, but it ran really slowly, like when you try to run a game without installing the drivers (wich I hav, I've tried installing, reinstalling and updating all of my drivers multiple times today, though, admittedly, I have no Idea if I did it right. It would be incredibly helpful if someone linked a video or a doc explaining how to install drivers in a simple way).

This has hapenned (so far as I have tested) only on Steam, as when I tried to run Disco Elysium from an outside app, it worked (although it got stuck in the loading screen and crashed). I've seen today that Steam was very slow and even with the servers down for some time, due to the release of Slay the Spire II (I think), so maybe it can just be because of the slowness today, though I don't count on it.

If it isn't, it could also be the drivers, though IDK, as it's happening on both my Pc and my laptop (and on the Pc it was working fine until at least last week, possibly until yesterday, I'm not sure as I haven't used it this week, and my laptop was bought yesterday).

So anyways, if any of you guys have any idea on what could be going on (and managed to endure this massive wall of text), pleas comment here. I apologize again for the big ass text, and sorry if it's strangely written, as english is not my first language.

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Hi, I'm having a strange issue with Steam downloads on Arch Linux.

When I first installed Arch everything worked perfectly, but after a day the Steam download speed started behaving very strangely.

Problem:

• Download speed constantly goes up and down
• Network graph fluctuates all the time
• A few GB game can take 30–40 minutes
• Disk writes spike high (~1 GB/s) then drop (~200 MB/s), and the network drops at the same time

System:

• Arch Linux (archinstall)
• Kernel: linux-zen
• Filesystem: ext4
• NVMe SSD
• Hyprland
• Steam from pacman

Things I tried:

• Changing Steam download region
• Regenerating Arch mirrors
• Changing NVMe scheduler (kyber, bfq, mq-deadline)
• Checking vm.dirty_ratio, vm.dirty_background_ratio
• Restarting Steam and deleting configs
• Checking network connections

My disk speed is fine and my internet connection is also fine.

The strange part is that this did not happen on other distros (like CachyOS) where Steam downloads were stable.

Has anyone experienced Steam downloads constantly fluctuating like this on Arch?

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