Just thought I should let everybody know! It's working in system Wine 10 via Bottles (which is like a sandbox app for Wine, as Bottles uses Wine at it's core) via flatpak.

At first the window was only a tiny square in the top left corner, so I had to go into the runner settings in Bottles and enable the experimental Wayland backend, which then made the window much bigger but only fills over half the screen. Still much better though!

This is better than Windows 11, which dropped compatibility with Lego Island even further that Dgvoodoo2 had to be used. Here in the latest Linux, via Bottles, it runs without needing that or any other wrappers. Awesome!

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I've been recording in Region mode with "change video resolution" on (3840x2160,i have a RTX 3050),everything was fine but then i reinstalled some drivers and the GSR,now for some reason I can't...here's the terminal (i first tried recording with HEVC,then H264,both as .mkv):
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-application-audio
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder -w region -c matroska -ac aac -cursor yes -cr limited -fm vfr -k hevc -encoder gpu -f 60 -v no -o /mnt/D/Videos/Video_2025-12-07_22-23-23.mkv -bm cbr -q 40000 -s 3840x2160 -a device:default_output -restore-portal-session yes -region 1920x1080+0+0
gsr-ui info: running command: gsr-notify --text Started recording region --timeout 2.000000 --icon-color 76B900 --bg-color 76B900 --icon record --monitor DP-0
[hevc_nvenc @ 0x613525853a40] ignoring invalid SAR: 0/0
[hevc_nvenc @ 0x613525853a40] InitializeEncoder failed: invalid param (8): Frame dimensions are less than the minimum supported value.
gsr error: Could not open video codec: Invalid argument
Warning: gpu-screen-recorder (209) exited with exit status 1
gsr-ui info: running command: gsr-notify --text Failed to start/save recording. Verify if settings are correct --timeout 3.000000 --icon-color FF0000 --bg-color FF0000 --icon record --monitor DP-0
pressed toggle_show
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-application-audio
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder -w region -c matroska -ac aac -cursor yes -cr limited -fm vfr -k h264 -encoder gpu -f 60 -v no -o /mnt/D/Videos/Video_2025-12-07_22-23-32.mkv -bm cbr -q 40000 -s 3840x2160 -a device:default_output -restore-portal-session yes -region 1920x1080+0+0
gsr-ui info: running command: gsr-notify --text Started recording region --timeout 2.000000 --icon-color 76B900 --bg-color 76B900 --icon record --monitor DP-0
[h264_nvenc @ 0x61987d18d300] ignoring invalid SAR: 0/0
[h264_nvenc @ 0x61987d18d300] InitializeEncoder failed: invalid param (8): Frame Dimension less than the minimum supported value.
gsr error: Could not open video codec: Invalid argument
Warning: gpu-screen-recorder (236) exited with exit status 1
gsr-ui info: running command: gsr-notify --text Failed to start/save recording. Verify if settings are correct --timeout 3.000000 --icon-color FF0000 --bg-color FF0000 --icon record --monitor DP-0
pressed toggle_show
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-application-audio
gsr-ui info: running command: gpu-screen-recorder --list-capture-options nvidia
everything else with res change works fine

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honestly i feel like this is the more interesting stat to share around. (data from https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/)

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UFL, the full version from the UFL launcher itself, works perfectly on Linux with GE-Proton10-26 via Heroic Games Launcher ✅

https://preview.redd.it/v0oe0bsdnv5g1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=22ade52bfb71e28cb2703b54d5aebc353af1a4eb

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Hi all,

I'm crossposting my thread from the GTAIV sub in the hopes that someone here has been through the process of "downgrading" the game from 1.2 to 1.0.8. I'm under Fedora 42 and while I'm able to mod 1.2.0.59 , I would like to downgrade so I can play multiplayer with GTA Connected, and also try certain mods. There is a Gillian's GTA IV mod guide I've followed and I think the problem I am running into may be with dotnet, but I'm not certain. (My copy is Steam Complete Edition.)

Has anyone got this to work in recent times?

I am able to apply the mod bundle, and then I've tried installing dotnet both with protontricks and winetricks through Lutris. and launch the game. I have tried copying the 12210 proton prefix into a fresh Lutris prefix and installing Dotnet; I've tried installing dotnet directly to the prefix under \home\.steam\steamapps\compatdata\12210; I've also tried with Bottles.

The game will launch when downgraded but still throws up a wine dialogue box stating dotnet 4.0 needs to be installed. After that, once I'm in the game it says 1.0.8 in the Game menu, BUT, LibertyTweaks doesn't load, which seems to indicate to me something is going on with a dependency perhaps dotnet.

I've tried lots of combinations between Lutris, Steam, and Bottles.

Oh and one caveat: I actually had LibertyTweaks appear one time but I'm not sure how it happened. At the time I thought something was broke due to the dialogue boxes and started over, and have never been able to get LibertyTweaks to appear again.

My main goal is I'd like to play multiplayer. I realize there is not a whole lot of specific steps listed in this post but I've tried so many methods I'm not sure what to actually detail. I'm hoping someone's been able to get this working and can point me in the right direction.

Thanks for any advice if you've been through this!

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I have a Ryzen 5 5600X on a MSI B550M PRO. I have no issues with the CPU, but I would like to max out the AM4 motherboard. Just because. I don't really want to drop all the cash in a new AM5 motherboard, CPU and RAM.

I know the 5700X3D has a lot of cache and that is supposed to help in games. By a lot!

Is this extra cache useful in Linux as well?

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I am looking to troubleshoot a crash I have while running Battle.net/World of Warcraft through Faugus. Issue is that (as noted on the option istelf) the default logging option in Faugus very quickly creates untenable file sizes (60gb text file after about ~one day worth of playing) and the crash is rare enough that I can't pinpoint when it is going to happen to simply turn on logging.

I have journalctl showing system messages to try to catch it next time but I imagine that is only going to tell me the GPU drivers crashed, not anything specific enough to go off of with Proton. Any ideas here?

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this is for a fresh install, and it may kill your install, etc, backup before doing so! do this at your own risk.

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian13/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt update

sudo apt install nvidia-detect

nvidia-detect

and it should tell you what to install, this repo only has the 590 Driver and Cuda 13.1

reboot after installing and install Steam then reboot once more, and you should have a working Debian 13 install with the latest Nvidia drivers.

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Calling for help

I played Bellwright about 6 months ago with no issues.

This time round, as I launched the game, it gets into the game and says it has failed to initialise steam.

Has anyone encountered this problem elsewhere?

I click OK and it shuts down.

I have tried going through different proton versions including GE 10 26.

I have tried putting SteamDeck=1 %command%

Forced Direct X 11

Disable streamline by renaming the win64 folder so it regenerates a new one

added steam_appid.txt with 1812450 within in

deleted compatdata pertaining to 1812450

At this point I think I've tried just about everything.

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Wir begrüßen Euch recht herzlich zum 8. Türchen im Holarse Linuxspiele-Adventskalender 2025! Im nunmehr schon zwölften (!) Jahr verlosen wir unter allen Linuxspielern und denen, die es noch werden möchten täglich ein natives Linuxspiel. Je nach Tag (z.B. Advent oder Nikolaus) können sich auch mehrere Spiele im Türchen verstecken. Dann haben mehrere Kommentare die Möglichkeit ein Spiel zu gewinnen.

Wie mache ich mit?

Teilnehmen kann jeder, der Lust auf Spielen unter Linux hat! Ihr benötigt zum Teilnehmen nur ein Holarse-Konto, damit wir euch den möglichen Gewinn per PM zuschicken können. Schreibt dazu einfach die Antwort zu der Frage des Tages hier unten in die Kommentare und schon seid ihr dabei!

Unter allen, die bis 20 Uhr unten in den Kommentaren antworten, wird dann der Gewinn oder die Gewinne verlost. Bei mehreren Spielen gibt es natürlich auch mehrere Gewinner!

Seid ihr durch random() ausgelost worden, dann erhaltet ihr den Geschenk-Link (Humble Store, dort benötigt ihr dann ein Konto) oder direkt den Steam-Key zum Einlösen per PM hier auf Holarse zugeschickt. Wenn ihr den Gewinn nicht bis zum 31.12.2025 eingefordert habt, rutscht er automatisch wieder in den Lostopf fürs nächste Jahr.

Wenn ihr bereits das Spiel habt, oder es euch nicht interessiert, ihr aber dennoch kommentieren wollt, schreibt einfach in den Kommentar dazu, dass ihr nicht teilnehmen wollt.

Frage des Tages

Welches Rollenspiel spielst du am liebsten unter Linux?

Was gibt es zu gewinnen?

Im heutigen Adventskalender-Türchen versteckt sich diesmal:

• Türchen: Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, gesponsert von comrad im Originalwert von €19,50.

Auflösung

Heute um 20 Uhr wird die Kommentarsektion geschlossen und danach der Gewinner ermittelt und hier nachfolgend bekannt gegeben.

Today, booting got stuck on Plymouth, and neither CachyOS nor the LTS version would load. Tried fixing it with a live USB, but that didn’t help at all.

All of this happened when the goal was just to play a quick match, which made the whole situation even more irritating.

Reinstalling CachyOS now feels risky, since the same issue could pop up again right when it’s least convenient.

Yes, CachyOS is bleeding edge and naturally less stable, but at this point a reliable, gaming-focused Linux distro sounds far more appealing.

With an RTX 5080, Bazzite isn’t an option. That leaves choices like Nobara — but is it actually good?

Starting to wonder whether Linux gaming is truly ready for daily use yet, or if waiting another year would be wiser.

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https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/599669707226744434

i just read the above announcement from a week ago stating that win 10 and 11 are getting 64bit versions of the steam client, hopefully that hits linux soon.

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https://preview.redd.it/pzc62hepou5g1.png?width=797&format=png&auto=webp&s=f25925ac2d8844e0d5b8760ca48e556a75c70147

I tried my best to make it run following all the options on ProtonDB, but I think they just remove all the chance to run this.

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Hello

I have some games that used run with Mangohud enabled in the steam command options (ie mangohud %command%) but now they crash on startup with this and i can only get the performance monitor to work by enabling gamescope with --mangoapp instead. Is there a way to fix this so games run with only the mangohud %command% again? I'm on Nobara with a 9800x3d and 9070xt.

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I bought it from the official page and got sent to other versions for downloading purposes. I clicked on other distributions because thats has the linux penguin guy. I got a tar.gz file, what do I do with it?

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now how can i run gta 6 on it

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After seeing the comments on my previous post, I decided to update my Linux kernel version and GPU drivers. Here are the results:

In Superposition, I was happy to see that the score increased from 17830 on kernel version 6.8 to 20640 on version 6.14. It even beat out the score on Windows 10 by a small margin. I guess my GPU was being held back by my outdated OS.

In Minecraft with SEUS PTGI shaders (4K High), I experienced a small uplift of 2fps on the new kernel version. This could very well be due to other reasons though, like the time of the day in game.

In CS2 (4K High preset), the average FPS in 6.14 is nearly unchanged compared to 6.8; however, the 97% FPS number increased by a small 9fps. This again could be attributed to inconsistencies in the benchmarking; for instance, the first run on version 6.8 was done over around 9 minutes, while the second run on version 6.14 was done over only 7 minutes.

Overall, the updated kernel did make a significant difference in Superposition, while improvements in other games were minimal.

Also, some people in the comments have suggested for me to switch to CachyOS (some others have suggested Endeavour, Bazzite, Nobara, Fedora, etc.), since Mint and other Ubuntu-based distros are slower for gaming. Should I try other distros like these next? If so, how should I proceed?

So I ended up listening to you guys, and I downloaded CachyOS and installed it on my PC. I knew that CachyOS would be more optimized for performance and be more up to date, but I was genuinely surprised at how much of an improvement I achieved.

In Unigine Superposition (4K Optimized, High), there was a 1% difference in points between CachyOS and Linux Mint with kernel version 6.14. It's not a noticeable difference by any means, but an improvement nonetheless.

In Minecraft with SEUS PTGI shaders (4K, Default settings), there was a whopping 46% increase in FPS with CachyOS compared to Linux Mint with kernel version 6.14. This was absolutely noticeable, and I could tell that CachyOS ran much smoother.

I know that my sample size of games is rather low, but it's enough to prove that CachyOS is better for gaming than Linux Mint, even with updated kernel and drivers. Not only that, but CachyOS also does helpful things like install GPU drivers by default and install necessary gaming softwares all in one package. Thank you all for introducing me to this distro, I love it and in my opinion, it's the overall best distro for gaming.

My PC's parts:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/b/sw3ypg

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (-25 curve optimizer PBO) | CPU Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX | Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 | Storage: Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 2 TB for Linux Mint, Timetec 35TTFP6PCIE 512GB for Windows 10 | Video Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 9070 XT (374W power limit, -100mV voltage offset) | Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case | Power Supply: Montech CENTURY II 850 W

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Hello,

I'm having issues using my Dualsense PS5 controller with some games through Steam. I'm using Linux Mint 22.2 which I just installed yesterday.

My controller is connected via Bluetooth (which itself was difficult, I had to follow the steps in https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=427054 to get it to actually connect). It works fine in Steam Big Picture Mode to navigate Steam. I was also able to use the controller successfully with Steam Input for at least 1 game, CoD Black Ops 3.

However, for other games (Elden Ring and Sekiro), when I boot in to the game, the controller is non responsive, except for the touchpad which can still be used as a mouse. I've tried researching how to fix this, and I've found many posts of people having similar issues, but I have not been able to find a solution that works for me. I have Steam installed through the Software Manager as a system package, not a flatpak. Some things I've done/verified:

• I also have "steam-devices" installed through the software manager as well. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it.
• I made sure Steam Input was enabled, and tried disabling it as well, and there was no change in behavior. I fiddled with this a lot but nothing seemed to work.
• I switched Proton versions between 9.0-4 and experimental
• I switched to Steam Client Beta.
• I confirmed I have the right udev rules for the dualsense controller according to the ones here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices/blob/master/60-steam-input.rules
• I used an 8bitdo ultimate controller successfully with Elden Ring (that controller has other connectivity issues in general unfortunately).

One additional issue I see is that for these games where the controller is not working, if I select the controller icon on the Big Picture game change to access the controller settings, I just get a blank window. If I do the same on the game that works (Black Ops 3), the controller settings do actually show up.

Does anyone have any ideas? Let me know if there is any more info I can provide.

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Hello! I'm currently using a CRT Monitor on Linux, an example of what I want to do is that I want to play 640x480 160hz for Deus Ex, 1024x768 120hz for Halo and 1280x960 90hz for Divinity Original Sin 2, all of this without going to the display and manually changing the monitor's resolution every time. I installed gamescope, but it only seems to be changing the game's internal resolution (and doesn't do it properly in many cases), whereas what I want, is for the monitor's resolution to be changed depending on the game.

I want this for Native and Proton/Wine games.

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