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Vesktop

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 22:44

Hi everyone, I’m using Arch Linux with KDE Plasma on Wayland. Vesktop (Discord client) used to show my currently playing games, but after recent system updates it no longer detects any games

Is there any solution to this problem?

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Satisfactory on Linux Mint won’t detect GPU, Epic/Heroic crashes

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 22:10

Hey, I’m trying to run Satisfactory on Linux Mint XFCE with a GTX 1080 (NVIDIA 535) via Heroic or Epic Launcher.

Problem:

  • Epic Launcher crashes immediately under Wine/Proton.
  • Heroic starts but Satisfactory gives:

A D3D11-compatible GPU (Feature Level 11.0, Shader Model 5.0) is required to run the engine.

What I tried:

  • NVIDIA drivers + Vulkan (libvulkan1, libvulkan1:i386, vulkan-tools) → GPU detected via vulkaninfo
  • Wine 64/32 installed, winbind installed (ntlm_auth fixed)
  • Protontricks: corefonts, vcrun2019
  • Heroic Launch Options: -ForceDX12, PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0

Nothing works. Satisfactory never detects my GPU under DX11 or DX12.

Has anyone actually run Satisfactory on Linux Mint with NVIDIA? It seems like I am the only one with this kind of problem

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Undervolt Nvidia GPU on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 21:05

Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to undervolt a 4070Ti Super on Linux to increase its lifespan and reduce temperatures, the same way you can on Windows. I can't find any software for it.

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Had enough of windows crap switching to linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 20:49

My entire life I used windows and a bit of macos, but in the last years I downgraded from windows 11 to 10 and almost to 7 because of how shitty the updates were. And now I’m thinking to switch to linux. I already have a steam deck and i like it pretty much. What would you recommend to a linux newbie. Going through a fast search on google and youtube, many recommend mint and bazzite. I’m 80% of the time playing games(that s why i posted here and not on the main linux reddit), for photoshop found gimp as an alternative. What are your recommendations, please teach me the linux way lol. (Yes i have amd cpu and gpu)

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Baldurs Gate 3 Runs Flawlessly

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 20:14

This might be the most demanding game that I've ran on any system. I know the native build was more designed on steam deck but it works flawlessly using Pop os. Highly recommend the game overall especially on Linux!

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steam launch options in an sh file as a non-steam game?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 19:47

hey all,

I'm using r2modman for Enter The Gungeon. You can start the mods through steam if you put some commands in the launch options for the game, but then every time I want to play vanilla ETG, I would have to take these commands/arguments out.

What I want is for ETG to be vanilla, then have modded ETG as a separate nonsteam game, which launches from a .sh file. For this to work I need a way to have these launch options from within the sh file. I tried just pasting in the options after "steam steam://rungameid/311690". I tried putting them before that command, I tried putting it in between steam and steam://rungameid/311690. I tried putting them in the launch options of the nonsteam game. Nothing worked.

Is there a way to do this? Thanks!

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Assetto corsa moded problem pls help

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 19:36

I install Assetto corsa moded content manager work but idk why custom shaders patch

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Monster Hunter Wilds shader cache troubles

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 19:00

Game is working perfectly on CachyOS, with AMD RX9060XT 16GB other than the fact that the shader.cache file in the game installation folder keeps resetting itself, despite the fact I'm pretty sure I changed the global shader max size a few days ago in hopes of trying to fix. I think it worked, at least I'm pretty sure it did, I rebooted the game a few times and the file stayed the same size but now it's back to resetting. Back when I was on Win 11, it used to balloon up to 1GB+ and stay that way but these days its at 10-20MB and keeps resetting to 6MB. Any help to solve this so it doesn't recompile shaders constantly would be much appreciated.

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Recomendations on an rx580?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 18:50

So here is the deal, I was setting up a low end Linux gaming machine with one of those random brand rx580 cards. This burnt itself out and I replaced it, bit after doing some research I found out that some of these random brand as well as name brand cards don't have proper fan curves in the firmware. Linux defaults to hardware fan control and once the os loads, the fans never kick on. Windows drivers default to software control and everything works peachy. I just wanted to know if anyone else encountered this or has a recommendation of brand or model with a proper vbios that works on its own?

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Physics building game Besiege heads into space with The Broken Beyond expansion

Gaming on Linux - 10. Februar 2026 - 18:35
Besiege is going to the final frontier with the newly announced The Broken Beyond expansion.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I can't use Linux because both X11/Wayland won't fully work for my hardware

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 18:13

Hi, my setup is a nvidia laptop plugged to two monitors through displayport. One is 240hz, the other is 165hz.

I have to use the dGPU mode to get a somewhat acceptable framerate when docked.

In Wayland, even though I'm using the dGPU mode, I will get noticeable fps drops when using the desktop (KDE) moving the cursor around , browsing through the web or moving windows will drop the fps from 240fps to around 100fps for no reason. The stutter is very noticeable.

In X11, I can't get mixed refresh rates to work. Kwin is stuck at the lowest monitor refresh rate (165hz) no matter what. Unless I disable the compositor, but that introduces tearing and takes the good visual experience away. The only solution to this is disabling the compositor and enabling Force Full Composition Pipeline in Nvidia settings, but this introduces a performance hit. I also lose modern features like multi-monitor fractional scaling and HDR.

Windows seems to do this all fine. Fractional scaling, mixed refresh rates, HDR... but I really want to use Linux.

Has anyone in a similar situation found a solution? I've been thinking on buying a new laptop just for Linux.

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I got a problem with heroic games launcher

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Februar 2026 - 17:50

I installed a game before enabling shortcuts, and after I enabled them the shortcut still didnt appear i dont lnow if it importent but the game works fine how do i fix it

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