Other News about gaming on Linux

what was the last straw for windows to you?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 04:03

I've had it with windows 11, everytime i tell someone I'm moving to Linux, they ask me what's wrong with windows, i can't articulate it well.

what made you finally snap and decide to install Linux?

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Trying Linux again

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 03:58

With the recent Bs with windows Ai I’m not willing to stay with windows at this point. But I’m stuck here between different distor’s I game a lot but now some of the games I play like league or destiny won’t work( I know devs screwed this up). But the two distorts I’m looking at are nobara and bazzeite( I can’t spell it). Which would be better in terms of some light school work along with gaming and media consumption?

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Problema con mi teclado en Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 03:55

Daré un poco de contexto aunque se que no es muy relevante, llevo meses pensando librarme de Windows, soy usuario gamer (casi no juego competitivos, ni que tuviera amigos para eso además tengo consola) el caso es que me he estado planteando la idea de pasarme a Windows tras ver todas esas jugadas extrañas que le harán a su sistema y que de por si mataron a Windows 10, entonces instale CachyOs para tener una distro llamativa con KDE Plasma, tengo un teclado mecánico genérico de la marca Gamer Tech, tiene una perilla, para ajustar el volumen y varias teclas de función las cuales no funcionan bien, cuando subo el volumen con la perilla este baja en el sistema operativo y cuando lo subo al igual con la perilla se baja, no soy mucho de conocer el sistema operativo pero cacharreando un poco con la terminal pese a no saber y con la ayuda de chat GPT descubrí que constantemente el teclado esta mandando señales como si estuviera presionando teclas cuando realmente no hago nada, también cuento con algunas teclas de FN las cuales no funcionan en su mayoría, y al igual que con la perilla de control de volumen al presionar la tecla FN+F2 (que es la que corresponde a bajar el volumen) se sube y las demás no hacen nada, quisiera saber si hay solución antes de vender y comprar otro teclado, se que se puede re mapear pero pues no soy usuario experimentado así que no es algo que pueda solucionar solo o con ayuda de Chat GPT, si alguien sabe como puedo solucionar el tema del teclado agradecería porque suelo usar mucho las teclas de FN (actualmente estoy en windows pero no tengo problema en instalar linux para buscar soluciones) si es necesario puedo adjuntar foto del teclado por si sirve de algo

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Webcam support on GPU screen recorder?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 03:43

Since i started having really bad performance issues on OBS i switched to GPU screen recorder and absolutely loved it, the only problem is that it doesn't have webcam support implemented. The app does support plugins according to the git page, however i am not smart enough to figure out how to create plugins, nor have i encountered other custom made ones apart from the example one.
So im currently wondering if anyone has made working plugins for GSR, and if so, is it even possible to implement webcam support through the use of plugins?

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Razer BlackShark V3 Pro and linux?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 03:10

Have anyone tried it? I’m looking for a upgrade to my old headset and I’m not sure if there could be a issue with these on linux?

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GTA V Enhanced not loading

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 02:29

It had been working before on a lower tier Nvidia card. But ever since I swapped to a better AMD GPU, GTA V failed to initialise.

I resolved that problem by switching from Proton Experimental to Proton 9. But now it says that it failed to initialise the DirectX 12 drivers.

I've seen tutorials on how to resolve this on Windows, but not Linux. What shoulx I do?

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Windows games with an installer through Steam

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 02:14

I am trying to run a Windows-only game on Ubuntu 24.04 through Steam. The game uses an installer that expands to a directory on the C: drive.

After I ran the installer through Steam, the files were stored in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/[a set of digits]/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Desktop (I guess the game installed to the local user because of Admin privileges). But now the game's EXE is in there and I can't figure out how to run it in Steam.

I tried resetting the Steam shortcut to launch that EXE, but it's not working. I feel like I'm missing a setup step here.

Would someone please fill in my missing knowledge for the final step in this process?

Thanks!

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Ram issues

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 01:58

I'm pretty new to Linux. Been gaming with it for a couple weeks now. However I have been having ram issues. When I run my games I have only steam client open, nothing else. At launch KCD2 will have my pc sitting around 14gb of ram usage but after several hours it seems to climb to my cap of 15.7 and results in TuxedoOS shutting down steam and KCD2 citing memory limits. Today I tried running ETS2 and no matter what graphics setting I would have the same memory cap issue closing the game. When running these on Windows I never had issues with my ram limits. Could it be TuxedoOs, a lack of fan control or something else? If anyone can help me find a fix that lets me keep TuxedoOs I'd appreciate it as I like the distro. But if I have to try another distro I will as my main use for this pc is gaming.

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Is there any point to downloading a Linux distro

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 01:56

I really wanna install Linux but there are alot of games I can't play on Linux like almost all multiplayer games league/Valorant etc

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Proton Experimental for SteamOS / Linux gets fixes for Marvel Rivals, BlazBlue Centralfiction and more

Gaming on Linux - 22. November 2025 - 01:26
A fresh Proton Experimental update from Valve for the weekend with various game fixes for SteamOS / Linux.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Wuthering Waves black screen

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 01:24

Hello frineds, I have a Lenovo Legion laptop with the Ultra 9 cpu and 5070 ti gpu running CachyOS and when I go to run Wuthering Waves I get audio but a black screen. I have tried the STEAMDECK=1 command, changing proton to experimental but still no luck. If anyone has any other suggestion please let me know

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Can't load a save in cyberpunk 2077

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 00:48

Hi i downloaded cyberpunk yesterday and wanted to play my old save but when it started loading in it started stuttering like crazy and around after 15s it just stopped completely and i had to turn off my pc using the button on the case i just thought it was a mod desync since i had mods installed on my windowws but i didin't install mods on linux yet so i just went to sleep, but now i started a new game and the same thing happened and im kinda bummed out since i really was craving cyberpunk but had no space before.

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Launching game takes 100% CPU to start up and causes my PC to slow entirely

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 00:13

This problem only exists in one game, that game is called the isle, every time I launch the game, my CPU load goes through the roof, my audio starts getting distorted and I literally cannot do anything else, even talk to my friends in discord as I said my audio gets all distorted.

I am currently using arch linux with Hyprland with the following PC specs

AMD Ryzen 5900x

AMD Radeon 7800xt

32 GB DDR4 Ram 3600mhz

1TB NVME SSD

Now when I am actually in the game, it runs beautifully, 120fps average on high settings at 1440p, no CPU bottleneck at all and honestly overall smoother than on windows

This is also a more recent thing like within the last year or so, it was running fine before when I was using KDE Plasma, and I tried swapping to fedora KDE to see if it was something in the distro, but the issue persisted, then I tried Gamemoderun steam command and that did nothing, and I have also tried many different types of proton versions (not any GE types though) and im wondering if this is a me problem or if it is just the game.

A couple of my friends on linux do not have this problem at all which is something else that confuses me, one is on steamOS and the other Nobara.

Any help or explanation would be greatly appreciated, if more info is needed or would like a video I can absolutely take one to show exactly what is happening

Thanks in Advance

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Can't play any Steam games on my dual GPU build.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. November 2025 - 00:06

I got an old 2060 from my job and decided to use it on my rig while gaming to record my games and maybe stream sometime. But for some reason now that I have already installed whenever I try to open a game on Steam a message appears saying "Processing Vulkan shaders", loads and then crashes.
Anyone knows what's happening?
This screenshot is the error message I get whenever trying to play ARC Riders, which was running just fine before the installation of the second GPU. Just for reference, my main GPU is the MSI OC 3070 Ti.

https://preview.redd.it/70v1azuyyo2g1.png?width=745&format=png&auto=webp&s=21274045e01989ca4fe9bf2180d89202b9f3ee61

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