Other News about gaming on Linux

Proton-Sarek (Async) - Stutter Fix for Once Human

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 23:10

Download ProtonPlus & install Proton-Sarek (Async). Set it as the game's compatibility tool.
Change the game to DX11 and turn mouse smoothing to 0 under game settings, control.

DXVK Async seems to work better than GPL in this game.

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Are people actually buying dongles for their Xbox Elite 2 controllers?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 22:38

I can connect the gamepad to my phone, but not my Linux Mint. This is already the most expensive gamepad I've ever bought, and they seriously want us to buy more shit to get the thing to work?

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For the heroic games launcher are cloud saves made specifically for that launcher?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 22:33

Because I downloaded cyberpunk 2077, and none of my GOG cloud saves are showing up, and cloud saves are enabled.

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OpenRGB recognizes my GPU light as 6 different devices.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 21:15

i wouldnt have a problem if it worked, but changing any of them doesnt work. i use linux mint cinnamon (i have it with windows dualbooted) and got the bookworm deb build. i have the udev stuff installed through the websites install command and i can configure my mouse's light, but not my gpu's. i couldnt find any other post similar and i dont know if this is where i should be posting but please help me if you can. this was working properly when i was on windows.

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Using a 10 year old Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 Mobo vs a newer Refurbished Workstation for Linux build.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 20:56

To get the components I need to put together a desktop using a 10 year old Gigabyte motherboard (Z170X-UD5), would cost me about $250. I could get a refurbished workstation from the link below for a similar price. I already own an old GTX 1070 GPU that I'll be using for gaming. The most intensive game I would probably play is something like Fallout 4. Any feedback on what you'd do?
https://pcserverandparts.com/refurbished-workstations/?search_query=&min_price=&max_price=250

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Wine fix for Anti-cheat blocking mouse being held down.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 20:48

I had been playing Mech Arena for a long time then with a recent update the Anti-cheat system started blocking the signal that tells the game I'm holding down my mouse buttons. This meant that a lot of the weapons in the game were suddenly unusable. After a few days of research I figured out how to fix it.

Open regedit for the game's environment using winetricks or protontricks then find

' HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse '

There are two properties we need to find there: MouseThreshold1 and MouseThreshold2

Edit those values to double them. I'm not sure why the anti-cheat systems are triggered by these values being too low but here we are.

If you are unfamiliar with these functions the jist of it is that if the mouse movement speed exceeds the value in MouseThreshold1 in pixels per second, the cursor speed is doubled. This lets you click and drag things without needing to lift the mouse and drag it repeatedly just to get the pointer across the screen.

Likewise, if the mouse movement speed exceeds the value in MouseThreshold2, cursor speed is quadrupled.

Hope this helps!

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Is it possible to install MS Store to Linux (just for Halo 5 forge)?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 20:45

I am 99% sure this isn't possible. But I better ask just to be 100% sure. Unless anyone knows a way to make this possible, I'll have to install a VM to play the game after many years and celebrate its 10th anniversary!

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Resident evil 4 (2005), game/video runs incredibly slow

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 20:44

I downloaded the game from steam. I first noticed issues when the video was lagging behind the audio. After the opening cinematic ended, the game was excruciatingly slow and it was like it’s in slow motion. I’m on Linux mint, is there any way I can fix this?

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Terrible performance at red dead redemption 2 online using mint

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 19:58

I used to play the game at windows and was running fine (30 fps which is fine by me)

I downloaded now that im using Linux and im getting literally 1 fps, i tried proton 9.04 and proton experimental and no solution

The game is installed at the hdd and im using a vega 7 as gpu, ryzen 5 and 16gb ram at dual channel

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Why do you think Proton 10 is still in Beta?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 19:42

It has been nearly a year since Wine 10 has been release and Proton normallly would get a new version doing spring time. But not this time. We are closing in on Chrismas and it is still in beta?

Is this the new Half Life 3?

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Linux safety with piracy

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 19:15

So i just started using arch. and reallise that i want a game from fit girl repack. is it safe to install games of fitgirl repacks in linux (using wine)

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My fans are too loud in games, even lightweight ones

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 19:07

My fans are getting too loud in games, any game on steam, i don't know why and i haven't gotten any good solutions.

Some questions from other posts i did about this issue:

I'm using a laptop with a ryzen 9 7940HS and an nvidia 4070 mobile.

I do use cooler control, but can't apply it for some reason (i have no channels but it's not the issue im trying to fix)

I don't believe it is a shader caching error, it happens every second and doesn't stop anytime.

I cannot open my laptop and i firmly believe it's not hardware as windows had no issues anywhere.

(Also extra note, on ubuntu gnome nothing happened, on kubuntu it did this, and i currently run nobara linux)

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Steam(flatpak) second drive in Ubuntu

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 18:11

As the title suggest, I am not able to add and use a second drive. I have the Ubuntu drive with ~200 GB and an ---empty--- SSD with 2 TB ready to get some games.

I tried a lot of things like:

- mounting the partition into a folder and trying to select that in Steam - not working

- changing the RW from terminal and restart - not working

- adding the folder as Storage option from that drive (SteamLibrary) is working, it is seen as external drive, but when I try to install a game I get "Disk write failure"

- changing the mounting point from /mnt to /home - someone mentioned that /mnt is temporary and has special set of read/write permission

- asked ChatGPT for solutions, at some moment I broke the system. Not an option

Why I am using flatpak version and why I DO NOT want apt or other option: The main game I want to make it work is Anno1800 and I managed to make it work on the Ubuntu drive, which is only 200 GB. With apt I cannot make it work. It starts but then freezes for 20 seconds then unfreeze for 1 or 2 seconds, and the cycle continues. Been into that rabbit hole, tried everything, not working. Please do not suggest this again. It is pain.

Beside Anno I have some other games I want to play, so 200 GB is not enough.

System is a dual boot with windows which eventually I will phase out. The dual boot drive is 1 TB.

Linux XP: 4 weeks

And the question:

How to do it? Do I need to sprinkle some magic over it?

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Black bars on some games

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 17:50

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Hi all, when playing some games, black bars appearing on top and bottom of my screen (2560x1600). I tried to launch the game with gamescope using -W 2560 -H 1600 and -w 2560 -h 1600 (and applying both of them at the same time) but it didnt work, game used to display correctly before, so it is happening randomly i guess. Anyone else experiencing this and found a solution?
System info:
- intel igpu & nvidia dgpu (hybrid laptop)
- niri window manager, (tried --backend wayland option with gamescope but didnt work)
- archlinux 6.12, nvidia driver version: 580.95.05, gamescope: 3.16.17

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Most games running proton blackscreen after switching workspace/monitor

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Oktober 2025 - 17:25

I'm a dwm user and Ive heard that it is a bit more specific when it comes to workspaces.

But that's basically all I know. Also for some games just switching the proton version fixes the issue.

But for genshin it doesn't seem to work that way. The in game cursor is kept if that means anything.

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Cronos: The New Dawn now has a demo available on Steam

Gaming on Linux - 24. Oktober 2025 - 17:14
If you were interested in Cronos: The New Dawn but weren't sold on picking it up yet, you can now try the demo that's recently released.

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From former Telltale Games veterans, Dispatch is out and Steam Deck Verified

Gaming on Linux - 24. Oktober 2025 - 17:07
While only two episodes are currently live with the rest to follow soon, Dispatch from former Telltale Games veterans has arrived.

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