Hey guys,

I'm thinking about upgrading my RTX 4070 Ti Super to either RTX 5080 or maybe AMD 9070 XT. In terms of performance, the AMD option is just barely better, though it's half the price of the RTX 5080.

Also I'm running Arch distro, and I wouldn't say that the experience with Nvidia has been smooth. Half the time you can't even use ray tracing because the game crashes. Personally also think that ray/path tracing overall is a feature that costs way too much performance than what it delivers. Half the time the "fake" tracing looks pretty fine, and who spends time gawking at pixels when you have a game to play?

I have a 4K monitor, some games play really well. I get around ~90 fps constant on Pragmata for example on highest settings. Can't run ray tracing, because it crashes the game.

I was thinking that maybe I should ditch the Nvidia card, or rather plug it into my wife's PC to upgrade her RTX 3070 to something better and get myself the AMD option and live with kernel drivers, minor performance upgrade, save money and still enjoy pretty much the same experience.

But I've had bad experience with AMD in the past, where notably I had RX 550 and had to RMA it TWICE. Ditched the card and got a 1070 Ti which lasted me for like 7 years.

Dunno... some sanity check would be nice from others.

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My game currently has a public playtest on Steam. I don't have any experience with linux builds and I'm on Windows myself, so it would help me out a lot to get some Linux testers on board! I just uploaded the first linux build and to be honest I'm completely clueless as to whether you can even start the game at all ^^

Here's the link to the steampage: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3722660/Cosmodrill/

The game was made with Unity by the way. Thanks in advance for your help!

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Pues eso, cuando juego Silksong con este lanzador esas escenas no aparecen. ¿Cuál podrá ser la razón? Es la versión .exe del juego actualizada.

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tengo un i3 2100 con intel hd graphics 2000 y quiero pasar a linux porque windows es muy problematico y me da dificultades para jugar pero tengo una carpeta llena de juegos para windows y vi se pueden poner en linux pero algunos de esos juegos son de vulkan y en windows me van bien pero en linux no creo porque usa vulkan algo asi investigue mi punto es se puede jugar en linux con hd graphics 2000 y que recomiendan que haga

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If you aren't aware, ATL or All Things Linux was one of the big discord servers centered around general Linux discussion, and it got deleted by the owner unexpectedly a few days ago. There is a brand new server, Neon Genesis Linux, that got created by most of the original staff. If you want to help rebuild the community, go join over here with the link https://discord.gg/nglinux

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Context:
I just downloaded and tried to run overwatch on steam, but it crashes at start, tried with AI but it only says that the problem are packages I already downloaded.

Ideapad Gaming i3
- 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz
- Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (integrada)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (dedicada)
- 16GB de ram

Software
- SO: Void Linux
- Proton: GE-Proton10-34

Problem/Log:
chdir "/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Overwatch"

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Game Recording - would start recording game 2357570, but recording for this game is disabled

Adding process 19169 for gameID 2357570

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Adding process 19170 for gameID 2357570

WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!

WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!

Adding process 19171 for gameID 2357570

Adding process 19172 for gameID 2357570

Adding process 19253 for gameID 2357570

ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Running protonfixes on "GE-Proton10-34", build at 2026-03-23 03:55:11+00:00.

ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Running checks

ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: All checks successful

ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Using early stage global defaults for "Overwatch®" (2357570)

ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: No early stage global protonfix found for "Overwatch®" (2357570)

ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Running protonfixes on "GE-Proton10-34", build at 2026-03-23 03:55:11+00:00.

ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Running checks

ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: All checks successful

ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Using main stage global defaults for "Overwatch®" (2357570)

ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: No main stage global protonfix found for "Overwatch®" (2357570)

Adding process 19254 for gameID 2357570

fsync: up and running.

Adding process 19262 for gameID 2357570

Adding process 19263 for gameID 2357570

Adding process 19264 for gameID 2357570

Adding process 19267 for gameID 2357570

pid 19265 != 19264, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=2357570]

Removing process 19267 for gameID 2357570

Removing process 19264 for gameID 2357570

Removing process 19263 for gameID 2357570

Removing process 19262 for gameID 2357570

Removing process 19254 for gameID 2357570

Removing process 19253 for gameID 2357570

Removing process 19172 for gameID 2357570

Removing process 19171 for gameID 2357570

Removing process 19170 for gameID 2357570

Removing process 19169 for gameID 2357570

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Hello. I'm now prepping to install linux on my laptop(ASUS FX505GT if relevant), and my main game is my main concern. Are there any GTFO players here? What distro do you use, and what would I get into if I were to switch to linux?

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Following on from officially open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0 back in 2024, Microsoft have announced more early DOS code has been made available.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 24.04 to 25.04. A couple of days later, my NVIDIA driver also got updated from 590 to 595. I’ve always been using Wayland, so that hasn’t changed.

Since then, I’m having performance issues with Blazing Chrome. It used to run at a rock‑solid 60 FPS (it’s a simple 2D game with Sega Genesis–style graphics), but now it hovers around 30–45 FPS.
The only way I can get smooth performance is running it in windowed mode at x2. As soon as I switch to x4, FPS drops again.

I don’t think this is a hardware limitation. I’m running an RTX 2060 12 GB, and on the same day I played RIDE 5 at a stable 60 FPS with no issues at all.

The game is running through Proton, using Heroic Game Launcher.

Has anyone seen similar FPS drops after upgrading to Ubuntu 25.04 or the Nvidia 595 driver, especially with Wayland and Proton?

https://preview.redd.it/3lza7v3yi4yg1.png?width=757&format=png&auto=webp&s=8687886bb68c772f3046bba1704d07d27ef98154

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My name is Kennedy and I just completed and released the first full playable mission of this free-of-charge open-source game I'm making with Python and pygame-ce.

I present you Bionic Blue 0.13.0!

You can find it here on GitHub: https://github.com/IndieSmiths/bionicblue (the README has instructions to install the game or use it as an standalone program).

For those used to Python tooling, you can install it with pip install --upgrade bionicblue.

I don't use generative AI tools nor code generated by it. I made all the code/systems and the vast majority of the art (except for a few UI icons). SFX, music and font are all free assets. All these external assets are used within the terms of their respective licenses (mostly CC0) and properly credited in the game.

The game's source (not its art) is released to the public domain with the Unlicense.

I'm also on patreon, GitHub Sponsors and other similar sites, in case you are interested in helping fund this kind of work (creation and maintenance of free open-source games/apps, including the Nodezator node editor, a generalist Python node editor).

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Ik wondering if it's possible to get Minecraft bedrock online as I've played bedrock on Linux before but never the online version

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Hello I'm still relatively new to linux mint and I got deadlock running awhile ago with some troubleshooting with the help of AI and now i accidentally installed an update on my driver (dont remember what) and it wont launch anymore, I tried reinstalling everything, steam, deadlock and drivers, rolled it back to nvidia 535, reinstalled vulkan stuff and it still wont work,

currently this is the error message I get trying to launch it with proton expiremental

"Unhandled exception in Xalia:

System.ApplicationException: No displays available

at Xalia.Sdl.SdlSynchronizationContext.Init (SDL3.SDL+SDL_InitFlags flags) [0x00046] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0

at Xalia.MainClass.Main (System.String[] argv) [0x0002b] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0

[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.ApplicationException: No displays available

at Xalia.Sdl.SdlSynchronizationContext.Init (SDL3.SDL+SDL_InitFlags flags) [0x00046] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0

pid 13753 != 13752, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1422450]"

weirdly i got the game to run on Opengl rather than Vulkan but it looks very buggy with many artifacts, and if I switch to proton 9.0-4 it launches for abit then shutdowns by itself

I've tried all the avenues with Chatgpt to troubleshoot and fix this problem but it seems it has no data regarding this problem and just goes on a loop reinstalling stuff

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Hi everyone.

We’re tired of seeing games that run perfectly on Proton get nuked by kernel-level anti-cheats that serve no purpose other than platform locking. Following the momentum of the "Stop Killing Games" campaign, I’m launching a dedicated hub to coordinate our efforts: Stop Killing Linux Gaming.

We aren't just here to complain. We are here to:

• Coordinate targeted email campaigns to studios that refuse to "flip the switch" on EAC/BattlEye.
• Document evidence of arbitrary blocking for consumer rights complaints (especially in the EU).
• Advocate for server-side AI anti-cheat that doesn't require a Microsoft-signed rootkit.

If you’re tired of your hardware being a hostage to Windows, come join us. We need researchers, writers, and gamers who are ready to take action.

Join the movement: Stop Killing Linux Gaming

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A return of a classic, the popular Cache map has finally returned with the latest Counter-Strike 2 update that's out now. All while ANIMGRAPH 2 work continues.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

My dgpu gives 30-40 fps on the more visually intensive parts of the game, but igpu gives stable 60 fps. How is that possible? Here are my specs:

https://preview.redd.it/mu0qeqndr3yg1.png?width=391&format=png&auto=webp&s=1ff11894103aa650ada18c4b0d61d3affd992bf9

With dgpu only the game is on it, there is enough VRAM (no GTT used)

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I don't get any errors. Game works perfectly fine.

Using DW-Proton 10-25 using Lutris. Launched the Game using Launcher

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Along with the small release of NVIDIA 595.71.05 yesterday for Linux, NVIDIA also updated the older driver branch with NVIDIA 580.159.03 driver out now too.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

obs-kmscap is a display server-agnostic zero-copy screen capture plugin for Linux, which works by directly exporting OpenGL textures from the framebuffer using native system calls, in favor of double-copy XSHM capture, which is incredibly slow. Depending on your system, it might be potentially more performant than even Wayland Pipewire capture. The idea started from w23's project, which does something very similar in concept, but hasn't received updates or support in years.

I am currently trying to test the plugin on a larger scale, and I would highly appreciate it if anyone tried it for themselves and gave me feedback. I am also curious about NVIDIA support, as I don't have an NVIDIA graphics card myself, but seeing as newer drivers have better DRM/KMS support (with nvidia-drm.modeset=1 as a kernel boot parameter) it makes me curious.

The project can be found here.

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Just a quick report for anyone curious about the day-one performance of nte. I managed to get it running smoothly on EndeavourOS using DW-proton latest.

How I set it up:

• Downloaded the launcher from the official site ( https://nte.perfectworld.com/jp/ )
• Added the installer .exe as a non-Steam game in steam
• Forced DW-Proton-latest in the compatibility settings
• Ran the installation normally, installed the game first before changeing the target and start in, in options then starting it

The Experience: The Unreal Engine 5 visuals look amazing and it's surprisingly stable on Wayland (Niri). Driving through hethereau feels very responsive, and the combat is snappy.

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