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C++ redistributable issues
I'm using protontricks to get a Fallout 4 mod called WARS running, I managed to get the magazines to drop but they all end up empty. Any help?
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Fix for games that don’t recognize DualSense Edge on Linux (make it appear as a normal DualSense)
Seemingly Random Freezes/Crashes in Multiplayer Games
I've been playing Arc Raiders a bunch solo with no issues other than an occasional frame stutter, and only recently started playing in a party with a friend or two. After playing for ~45-60 minutes, my System would freeze, and I'd need to force shut down my PC.
It's been a bit since I've bothered to test the pc, but I think I remembered seeing the issue with other games as well, but those I'd typically be queued in a party as well.
A List of all the games I remember having a Similar if not the Same bug include:
• Arc Raiders • Marvel Rivals • Peak - Only happened in an unmodded lobby • Dying Light: The Beast - In this game, my whole PC would restart, and stay on a Black Screen • Killing Floor 2
I May Add more Games if I can think of any others, but as it stands that is it.
My desktop's running Archlinux primarilly with a dual-boot Windows Partition on the Boot Drive. I did a test or two w/ at least one of these games on Both my Steam Deck OLED, as well as my Framework 16 laptop which exclusively runs Archlinux, and failed to reproduce the same result. I will need to test more of these games soon to see if I can continue to produce these results.
Desktop PC: CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x GPU: Radeon 6950XT RAM: 64GB DDR4 3200
Framework 16: CPU: Ryzen 7 7840HS RAM: 32GB DDR5 5600
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Install steam as a non root system user?
I don't trust Steam or any other native launcher enough to run it as my main user. However, creating a separate user for gaming and switching would be a PITA. I have no experience with Linux gaming so I don't really know the intricacies of various launchers, by in Unix terms, I would envisage creating a system user steam in group games, with home in /usr/lib/steam (or perhaps /var/lib/steam) with steam:games ownership. Then the same for GOG when Galaxy for Linux finally comes (allegedly they started working on it).
Add myself to groups steam,gog,games, etc. et. voila! However, this fails at the first step: I can't even install Steam flatpak as not root, as it attempts to mount something with Fuse. Has anyone figured out how to sandbox it, and then combine it under Lutris/Bottles (most of my games are on GOG anyway)?
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Unexplainable Lag
So I was getting OBS setup and decided to do a test recording. I tried both Xonotic (flatpak) and DUSK (Steam). They lag horribly, like I can barely play them. I thought it was just something with the preview in OBS so I closed it but it continued. I rebooted my PC and the issues still persist even though I haven't opened OBS. They were working fine when I last played them yesterday. I did an update of CachyOS today, but nothing else is having an issue. Curious if anyone has any ideas as to where I can check for what is going on.
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Crazy Chicken 1999
Hey Community, maybe you can Help me. I use an Elecrow Laptop with a Raspberry Pi 4 in it and Raspbian. I try to run Crazy Chicken 1 from 1999 in it. I already got Wine via Piapps. When I run it without emulated Screen, my Laptop Screen shuts off saying the Resolution is Not supported. In an emulated Screen the Window size is too small and the mouse aim is blocked on the right Side. Any suggestions what to do? Is Proton easier to use? How can I get this Game to Work?
Thx a Lot for any solution
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ELI5: how come downgrading wine/proton is commonly the solution to a compatibility problem? I'm probably very naive but it does seem a bit counter-intuitive that newer versions are less compatible.
The other day I installed Age of Empires 2 DE on a new system (fedora 43) and there were some small (non-blocking) issues with the graphics.
I looked it up on protondb and I saw people commenting stuff like "it works better on proton 6" so I downgraded to 6 (which I imagine is quite an old version compared to 10 which was what I was on). And low and behold the game runs much better.
I've also come across this multiple times with wine. Can't quite remember what games it was but I know other games have had the same solution, like "yeah it doesn't work on the newer versions of proton, use version X instead" and then it works.
Can someone explain to me, why this is? Why aren't newer versions of wine and proton more compatible, even with older games?
Sorry for my ignorance.
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City Game Studio, I've been working on it for almost a decade, is now on sale at 45% with a major update. Yes it's been made using Linux, no need for playtesters.
Hey FOSS lovers!!
Long time no see. I'm a solo dev and I've been working on several indie games, but my biggest project remains City Game it and I'm open to feedback, for real folks.
It works on Linux like a charm, made with a custom version of Godot 2.1 (it's reliable and runs everywhere). About the game, it's like Game Dev Tycoon but deeper. You can have several studios working together or on different projects. And if you don't want to bother managing them, then you can hire a studio director that will handle them (they take their share though).
There is a lot to say about the game. There are competitors that make games and consoles (you can choose to follow history or let your competitors make games before 2025). You can build, furnish, poach employees, crack games or simply watch all the bubbles moving around (it's hypnotic at some point).
I'm here to answer your questions, either about the game or making games IRL.
Thank you Xavier aka Binogure
Edit Its 53% off not 45%... Sorry
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Using Lossless Scaling in browsers like Firefox/CachyBrowser
Until recently when I had to reinstall CachyOS, I managed to make Lossless Scaling (with x2 Multiplier frames mostly for YouTube/movies - i liked the "smooth" motion effect and the input lag wasn't that bad) on CachyBrowser (I know it's deprecated but I used extensions for passwords) but now it doesn't work anymore because of the reinstall. To make it work, I had to force the browser to run on Vulkan instead of WebRender and I forced it to run with Nvidia instead of Intel gpu. LS is set up correctly (it works on games) but I can't manage to make it work on either Firefox or CachyBrowser. I'm on Wayland KDE Plasma. Already tried setting the browser on X11 but still not generating the frames, and neither Firefox or CachyBrowser showup in lsfg-vk-ui as processes, so here's the problem.
These are the env variables I ran in the past for CachyBrowser that used to work.
env WAYLAND_DISPLAY="disable_wayland_now" \
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 \
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 \
GDK_BACKEND=x11 \
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 \
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia \
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/liblsfg-vk.so \
VK_INSTANCE_LAYERS=VK_LAYER_LS_frame_generation \
ENABLE_LSFG=1 \
MOZ_DISABLE_GPU_SANDBOX=1 \
MOZ_DISABLE_CONTENT_SANDBOX=1 \
prime-run firefox --ozone-platform=x11 --use-vulkan --ignore-gpu-blocklist
What else to try?
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TIL how to use GameScope to play a 4:3 game on a 16:9 display
I've been toying around getting the old native port of Psychonauts 1 to play again, I know it's easier to emulate, but I found it a fascinating detective challenge.
After a lot of fiddling around with Gamescope, I have found out that in order to make 4:3 games run pillarboxed on KDE, I have to supply the --force-composition parameter. The full gamescope command is thus:
/usr/bin/gamescope -W 2560 -H 1440 -f --force-composition -- PsychonautsMy reference: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/1177
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Fluorine Manager (Mod Organizer 2 Linux Port) 0.1.0 Alpha Released. Lots of Changes!
Fluorine Manager serves as a port of Mod Organizer 2, yes I'm currently in the progress of updating the readme. There is a quickstart guide in the Wiki tab also a WIP. Below is the changelog.
This is a huge release and update compared to the last release that was out. Biggest change is that it is no longer based on a flatpak, it is now setup and designed to run like MO2 was.
The VFS based on FUSE has been improved a lot, mainly on bigger lists with 1k+ mods. Before the VFS would take anywhere from 15-30 minutes to launch the game if your modlist contained more than a thousand mods. This has been improved at least in my local testing from 25 minutes to 1 minute and 45 seconds. Other users report similar improvements in discord as well.
Loot has been built and now has an appimage the sort button will download and load your modlist, the loot build is still being worked on so you might encounter a few issues.
A browse VFS function has been added to the data tab, this will lock MO2 and mount the VFS and open your file browser. This gives you an easy way to view all the mods as if they were "mounted" when you are playing the game.
UMU has been removed for now as it was causing issue with GOG/Epic versions of games, it might be readded some point in the future but it is gone for now.
Steam integration has been added as a toggle in the instance manager. This is to also fix issues with GOG/Epic versions of games.
There is also a few more logging improvements if you run the application in your terminal that being the fluorine-manager.
FOMOD Plus has been added, I'm looking to port other plugins if possible.
Reduced build size by changing the python handler as well down about 75-80MBs.
And as a final note, thank you to everyone who helped test this on github and on discord. ❤️
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including Slay the Spire 2 and Methods: The Canada Files - 2026-03-11 Edition
Beat Saber on Fedora 43 (wired Quest 2, ALVR, RTX 3060, laptop)
Just venting about my Gamescope frustrations.
Hey everyone, this is more of a rant than a request for help, because at this point I honestly don’t expect to fix anything.
I’ve been dealing with a really frustrating issue that seems to pop up in several games I play. The bug happens on both Wayland and Xorg, so it’s not specific to one display server.
One of the main culprits seems to be Sober Runtime (yea i like to play some games sorry), where I’ve never really been able to fix it. But the problem isn’t limited to that.. other games have been affected too, and sometimes I feel like I literally bought the games for nothing, because in the end I can’t even play them with Gamescope.
I’ve tried every parameter related to mouse grabbing, but none of them work properly. Sometimes they work partially, sometimes only temporarily, and sometimes they even make things worse. Oddly enough, some games don’t have this bug at all, like WorldBox, Among Us, and a few others, because they don’t lock the mouse.
My original goal was simple: just to lower the resolution in heavier games to reduce bottlenecks. I wasn’t using it constantly in games like WorldBox or Among Us, sometimes just for upscaling.
At this point, I think this may be one of the reasons I’m seriously considering going back to Windows… because at least there I could play my games without dealing with this kind of nonsense.
But, even I have said that I don't expect for fixes, I wouls like if anyone could give me a tip or anything else.
Edit: I'm using Fedora LXQt, but I were using Fedora Workstation and Fedora KDE before.
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Weird rendering bug on RX 9070, any fixes? Vsync made it worse.
Steam won't launch games anymore
I installed PopOS 24.04 LTS to play games and run Nvidia Issac Sim and ROS for personal projects.
All games would launch flawlessly before but suddenly they stopped working: When I click the 'play' button it says it is launching and then goes back to 'play', I am pretty sure the games never launch. I recently also installed HOMM3 using lutris and wine and managed to get that to run.
Prior troubleshooting steps
- I installed steam with the .deb file, but I tried the flatpak version and had the same issue.
- I reinstalled my games on an etx4 drive (they were on ntfs) and it still doesn't work
- I tried to apt update/upgrade and it still doesn't work.
Please don't tell me to install Fedora or CachyOS.
Here is my nvidia-smi
nvidia-smi Fri Mar 13 10:56:37 2026 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 580.126.18 Driver Version: 580.126.18 CUDA Version: 13.0 | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |=========================================+========================+======================| | 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A | | 0% 53C P5 21W / 360W | 738MiB / 16303MiB | 0% Default | | | | N/A | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 2730 G cosmic-comp 102MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2800 G Xwayland 6MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2895 G cosmic-panel 20MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2903 C+G cosmic-workspaces 20MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 3061 G /usr/bin/megasync 14MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 3385 C+G ...xec/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic 20MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 3794 G ...share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 8MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 4469 G ./steamwebhelper 24MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 4496 G ...am/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper 182MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 9820 C+G cosmic-term 100MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ submitted by /u/RickAmes[link] [comments]
Experiences with VR on Linux?
I’m looking at getting back into PCVR again and am curious as to what people’s experiences have been like.
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AMD's FSR & Software not ran using Proton
Can AMD FSR be used on Linux apps (Flatpak, specifically) that aren’t running through Proton? If yes, how to make use of it? I have no idea how to use features like... the one that's similar to DLSS. I guess it is called FSR upscaling. 😅
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