Other News about gaming on Linux

GOG Fallout New Vegas not launching on linux mint

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 20:19

I spent many hours trying to find a solution to my problem, but i could not find anything related to this specific GOG version of FNV, i tried many things such as oppening regedit with wine and reinstalling lutris copletely, but nothing is working with me. Normaly i would not post my problem on reddit, and this is my first time doing so, but i am Desperate. What can i do?

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Diablo 4 Help

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 20:05

Hi! Video attached for help explaining. But every time i boot into Diablo 4 it seems that randomly the game just likes to freeze. It still understands that I am hitting buttons and doing things, menu sounds can be heard as I click around and it keeps playing the music as if nothing is wrong. I have no idea how to fix this and nothing i look up has given me any useful advice whatsoever. Sometimes I can get into the game and play up until i need to TP to town, or sometimes i can make it to the loading screen before visually it freezes there as i hear the game load me in correctly to wherever i last was. How the fuck did this happen and how do i fix it.

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Are there any universal dock stations that are reliable enough to use with an ASUS ROG laptop?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 19:11

Hi!

So I currently own a ROG Zephyrus G15 GA503RM_GA503RM as my main pc/gaming center, it has one external monitor connected to it and so far it works great.

Thing is, I want to put my setup in a less convoluted point, I already own an "arm" to put my two monitors on a slightly elevated point and own this laptop as well as another one from my current employer, which makes my current setup a four screen situation, this takes a lot of space and I am feeling not really into this as of lately.

Separately from this, a while ago I purchased an HP usb-c dock gen 5 (L61609-001) and seems like it won't work for the "turn on" functionality, since it might be propietary and it only delivers 100w, which would be like half of my needs and it would turn meaningless to put into my setup if i cannot even power my laptop through it. Also as a sidenote, my employer's laptop won't take this either since it is a Lenovo thinkpad and apparently those only take Lenovo docks as fully integrated.

Can I circumvent this somehow? Is there any other usb-c dock that would work for my laptop?? I am running Fedora, so most Linux-oriented solutions might be useful enough. Thanks in advance!!

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Ping spikes on EOS with whired connection

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 18:34

I have like 20-30 ping but it is very unstable and I always get 100 ping spikes here and there.

On windows I have 20ms to 30ms with no spikes. Please help

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Is mediatek support finally good?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 18:17

when i started to use Linux in late 2025, i had an issue where wifi frequently lag spiked. today i tested again and the issue was gone? have the drivers finally matured?

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Best low-budget solution for recording with OBS Studio?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 18:13

Hello everyone,

first of all my system specs:

sudo inxi -b

System: Host: solusARC-A770 Kernel: 6.18.13-330.current arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.6.3 Distro: Solus 4.8 opportunity Machine: Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7C56 v: 6.0 serial: N/A Mobo: Micro-Star model: B550-A PRO (MS-7C56) v: 2.0 serial: 07C5623_N11E409726 Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC. v: A.J0 date: 03/19/2025 CPU: Info: 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 1751 min/max: 575/4151 Graphics: Device-1: Intel DG2 [Arc A770] driver: xe v: kernel Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 driver: gpu: xe resolution: 2560x1440~180Hz API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 26.0.3 renderer: Mesa Intel Arc A770 Graphics (DG2) Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 Drives: Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 176.35 GiB (4.7%) Info: Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.26 GiB used: 3.61 GiB (11.5%) Processes: 425 Uptime: 32m Shell: Sudo inxi: 3.3.40

Overall I had a good experience with gaming on Linux.
Not perfect (especially with Intel Arc), but good enough for daily use.

However, I currently have a major problem with recording/clipping gameplay using OBS Studio, and I’m looking for the best solution on a limited budget.

So here comes the main Question:

What is the best way to configure OBS recording/clipping on Linux in my case?

A recording at 1440p and 30 fps is more than sufficient for me.

I currently see two options:

  1. Buying an external capture card.
  2. Buying a second low profile Graphics Card like for example (GTX 1050 or 1650)

But I’m unsure:

- which capture card is actually worth it
- how well a second GPU works under Linux without causing driver or OBS issues

Why i just don't use my primary Graphics Card for recording?

Because it doesn't work with the xe kernel driver.

I play a lot of Helldivers 2, and I’m basically forced to use the xe kernel driver.
With the default i915 driver, the game has major rendering problems:

- weird texture corruption
- during mission landing the whole screen becomes a white void
- the same can happen after alt-tabbing

I created a Mesa bug report here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/work_items/14580

But the response was basically:
"Cant confirm. Game works flawless on my system..."

I tested this on multiple distros (Nobara, Arch, EndeavourOS, Void Linux, Debian, ...) and the behavior was always the same.
The bug report is older now and Helldivers 2 runs much better today, but only with xe.
With i915, the graphical issues still persist.

So for Helldivers 2, i am forced to run with the xe driver.

Unfortunately OBS recording is the opposite situation.
With the xe driver, I cannot use:

- VAAPI
- QuickSync

OBS either throws errors or crashes.
Sometimes it starts recording, but after stopping/saving the file it throws errors AND crashes. With i915, OBS works perfectly (QuickSync/VAAPI encoding works fine).

Like an vicious circle:

xe driver -> game works, OBS hardware encoding broken
i915 driver -> OBS hardware encoding works, game broken

That forces me to use x264 software encoding, which costs a lot of CPU performance.

Helldivers 2 is already heavily CPU-bound (thanks to Arrowslop's (Arrowhead) enemy-spawnrate and optimization), so recording causes major FPS drops down to ~50 FPS, even on steam-deck preset.

What would you recommend?

I would appreciate any answers or solutions.

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[GNOME] Icon Matcher: updates and demonstration

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 17:51

My extension

Previously I came here bringing my newest extension to workaround the icon matching problem on gnome. It indeed work great and even the worst scenarios I could catch on my computer, I fixed. Now I do think it is stable enough for others to use but it kind stills in beta tests because I need more cases to validate the heuristic rules (responsible for the harder matches). I bring a demonstration on Arc Raiders running on Wayland just to show how much it could go.

I published this extension on Gnome extensions but I am waiting for some approves, or rejects and do what needs for it fits the guideline. Once it is published, I will come back with updates. Again, it is not a silver bullet, it could no work on your case but it stills dont mess with your files so its easy if you want undo some change. Feel free to test if you want, and remember to let me know your experience.

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Faugus Launcher no longer launcher Battlenet?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 17:31

Has anyone experienced issues with the Faugus Launcher for Battlenet today? It worked fine last night, but I tried to boot it up today and it is stuck on 'Downloading new files.' It has been this way for a few hours.

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How do you download genshin?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 17:18

My friends are gonna kill me if I dont I need help

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Cs 2 keeps redownloading even though it did download completely once.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 16:20

i am using fedora 43 with Kde Plasma and i installed steam and downloaded cs 2 when it reached 100 percent some shit happened and it said corrupt files and started verifying the file and got stuck in that verifying loop then one next boot it didn't stuck in the loop but is redownloading everything.i am suspecting it because my other computer was on while the downloading and it took the windows game files and is now fucked i haven't been able to even launch it. please help

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I used to have to revert back to windows. Now it's the opposite!

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 01. April 2026 - 16:12

so first thing I have a i7 2600 and RX 6400 on my PC with me and I installed CachyOS and I play my games on there like ESO, Dead Island, and older games in my hotel room and i was like I haven't played Destiny 2 for a year now so I might give it a chance. so I deleted my CachyOS partition and installed Windows 11 from CMD way since I don't have TPM 2.0. so anyway continue the setup and installed Destiny 2 and for some reason I was getting 40 - 30 fps in PvP and I was getting 60+fps last year including PvE which have alot of effects in PvE so I was confused i tried everything to figure out what the problem is disabled game mode in Windows and nothing seems fixed so I went back installing CachyOS and so I downloaded some games and 2 days later I said I'm going to install Windows 10 this time maybe that will fix it so I installed Windows 10 and download Destiny 2 andddd nope nothing changed so I looked online and people mentioned disable GPU scheduling, couldn't find it so I searched online and worst mistake I did was downloaded a .reg to turn it off and reboot and other of sudden my epic games launcher is in Chinese. so I went back to CachyOS and never again done with Windows. I'm amazed that Linux is so playable and easier than Windows 10! I'm glad it's evolving each day!

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