Hey everyone, I just made the switch to Linux Mint(first user, bear with me!!!) on my 2015 13-inch MacBook Pro. It has 8 GB RAM with Intel Iris graphics. I know classics like Half-Life 2 run fine, and I also enjoy cozy games. I’m curious about what else it can handle, how well it emulates, and how far I can push it. Any suggestions would be amazing. Thanks!

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On windows you could just select the game, hit stream and stream only the selected app's audio. On Linux however you stream everything except discord (so game + browser or anything else). Is there a way to stream only the selected app's audio? Preferably without creating virtual audio devices and redirecting their audio there - as much automated as it can be.

I'm on CachyOS if that's important and I'm pretty new to Linux (had couple of attempts over the years, now trying to do the jump completely)

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Some games (noita and slay the spire) will launch, sound works but it only shows my screen not the game. Tried reinstalling, changing versions and updates etc the only way I can get the game to work for a few days is to delete and reinstall steam.

on linux Mint

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This is with Fragment Shader Interlock merged. A LOT of DX12 games now launch with VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_1 and performance is much better than I initially thought. Resident Evil is on everything maxed out (yes, even textures) in 1600p and despite the fact that it should have been running out of VRAM (I have 8 GBs VRAM and the in game settings were like 10.3 GBs I think) it works like an absolute champ close to 60 FPS at all times!

Cyberpunk is buggy still but this is on Ultra at close to 30 FPS with FG on!

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered also runs really well with close to 40 FPS most of the time on High (Very High would cause a GPU hang so I had to reboot) with FG on as well!

In general this is some amazing performance considering Fragment Shader Interlock is not yet even merged normally (I used mesa-tkg-git on Garuda Linux). Exciting stuff! :)

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I can’t run Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with mods on Linux (CachyOS + Heroic + Proton).

The game launches normally, but when I try to run it with BLSE, I get errors and can’t open the modded version of the game.

Is anyone else having this issue? How can I fix it? Is there anyone who can actually play Bannerlord with mods on Linux?

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Specs:

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13.4

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Proton : Tried 10.0-4,GE-Proton10-34 and Experimental

Mesa version: 25.0.7-2

Tried these launch options but still doesn't work: +com_skipIntroVideo 1 +r_mode -1 +r_customWidth 1280 +r_customHeight 720 +r_fullscreen 0 adv_force_64k_sparse_alignment=true radv_zero_vram=true radv_leagacy_sparse_binding=true radv_disable_dcc_stores=true

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Afternoon gamers,

Out of nowhere I've encountered an utterly bizarre bug with team fortress 2 and divent even know where to begin with it. The game has not updated recently (lol) nor my system configuration but suddenly I can't move in-game, I can only crouch, aim or shoot unless I'm holding the alt key, in which case normal input resumes until I let go of alt. I know there is an old feature in TF2 where if you hold alt you can strafe with the mouse however me being quite fat fingered I've unbound that years ago

TF2 is the only affected game, every other native or proton game I play on this PC takes inputs completely fine. I've tried rebooting, resetting the game's configs, reinstalling fresh, changing keyboard layouts and had no luck, I know my keyboard is not at fault as it behaves normally in evtest so I'm led to believe there's some software quirk causing this.

I'm running "snidey kubuntu" (as in, I originally installed base Ubuntu but later installed KDE Plasma on top because I wanted more customisation than gnome offers) unsure if this could be in some way contributing to the issue though it's been fine for the past year so I'm not so sure. I was planning on a shift to Mint at some point in the near future cause snaps are a bit funky so if the solution here is nuke it all and start fresh, well it is what it is

I'm pretty comfortable working in a *nix environment but I'm really quite out of my depth with this one so any and all help would be greatly appreciated as I am canny frustrated by the whole thing, genuinely feel like I'm going insane hahaha

System info:

• Operating System: Ubuntu 25.10
• KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
• KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
• Qt Version: 6.9.2
• Kernel Version: 6.17.0-20-generic (64-bit)
• Graphics Platform: Wayland
• Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600XT 6-Core Processor
• Memory: 34 GB of RAM (32.5 GB usable)
• Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
• Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
• Product Name: B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI

tl;dr I can't move in TF2 unless I'm holding alt, it's the only game affected and the issue persists between reboots and reinstalls, only TF2 is affected and I don't know where to start with fixing this, please help xx

If you need any more information please let me know

Cheers

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Hello! I am pretty new to Ubuntu (or at least returning after a really, really long time).

Certain games (like Hades) will give me this error message when I attempt to launch them, while others run just fine.

I have a pretty average laptop, with iris xe graphics.

Please treat me like a complete newbie if possible. I tried to find similar questions and/or answers here but couldn't (or couldn't understand them).

:P

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After loading the game, it runs fine for a minute until it completely freezes, requiring me to kill it from System Monitor. I have tried running it with Proton Experimental, Proton GE 10-34, still freezes on both.

When I run Steam via terminal, it keeps showing err:winevulkan:signaller\_worker wait timed out with non-empty poll list. while it's frozen.

If I disable DLSS Frame Generation, it seems to run just fine, but I'd really prefer to play it with Frame Generation with my high refresh rate monitor. Other games work fine, even with Multi Frame Generation.

Here are my system specs:

OS: Fedora Linux 43 KDE Plasma Desktop
Kernel version: 6.19.10-200.fc43.x86-64
KDE Plasma version: 6.6.3
Graphics Platform: Wayland
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
RAM: 32 GB

Is there any fix for this? Any help would be really appreciated.

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Linux Lovers, We’ve Got You Covered! (Small Update)
Some of you actually use #Linux on x86? My apologies for the "Does Not Compute" errors! My main goal is to deliver this tool to any artist at any hardware...
#Gamedev #pixelart

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I just wanted to share my positive experience with gaming on Linux. It’s a bit of a niche situation but demonstrates the advantages of Linux quite well.

I’ve been playing wow’s the burning crusade anniversary and I have two accounts which I use to “dual box”. Which is essentially playing two characters at once. Not using any input software but having one follow the other for example.

This requires I have two instances of the game open. I could set one to be a small window on the lowest settings, but I am often switching between the two windows and prefer to at least have them full screen.

I dual boot and on windows, I need to lock the fps to 60 and typically drop the settings to 3 out of 10. If I bump them up to focus on one game and forget to close the other or have a browser open I’ll encounter “not enough memory” errors which result in the game crashing and sometimes websites or discord.

However on Linux using faugus launcher, I’ve been able to have two instances of the game run on separate monitors at each monitors native resolution and max refresh rate and usually set the graphics to 8 out of 10.

I have an older gpu and I’m really only able to do this with a low load game like classic wow, but it still is a testament to Linux’s power.

Looking forward to the continued growth in the gaming space

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I started playing Until dawn recently and when i first booted the game up the dualsense controller was working fine (adaptive triggers and motion sensor) but after the game had a freeze and i had to forcefully close it all the dualsense specific stuff stopped working.

i've tried using proton 10.0-4 and protonGE 10-34 but neither have made a difference and idk where to start with troubleshooting

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I just recently got into linux (cachyos) and want to fsr4 upgrade wuthering waves that i have on steam. I have a 7800xt and i used the command (PROTON_FSR4_RDNA3_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_FSR4_INDICATOR=1 %command%" and it does not work

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Did something changed in genshin cause 3 months before i just put it in steam and it worked each time... well now it ain't working

My setup:

• AMD Ryzen 7 5800H + RTX 3050 Mobile
• Arch Linux 6.19.10-zen1-1-zen, Hyprland WM (BTW)
• 1920x1080 @ 120Hz, nvidia 595.58.03 driver

What I've tried:

• Proton Experimental, Hotfix, GE (10-28), dwproton
• Native Lutris script

Key log errors:

wineserver: NTSync up and running! [umu.umu_run:740] DEBUG: Child 412808 exited with wait status: 0Monitored process exited.

The game launches through UMU (Lutris runtime) but crashes immediately with exit code 0. No errors, just silent failure. The prefix keeps getting corrupted between attempts.

Has anyone had success with this specific hardware combo on Arch? Really want to stay on Linux for Genshin but it's becoming impossible.

Thanks in advance for your help :D

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1. change the launch opt from "-fullscreen -gl" to "-fullscreen -vulkan"

2. go to the compatiblity and click to "force the use of a specifix Steam Play comp tool, click to the steam runtime tool soldier"

3. bring back your settings and you done

ONLY LINUX MINT GUIDE!!!!!!!!

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I was curious as to what some of you guys use for streaming a game from pc to whatever your playing on. right now I have a windows machine I built out of some older hardware I had laying around and tossed it into my rack so that I could use some cad software and other software that doesnt play super nice on linux. and I use steamlink right now to stream games from it. but I started playing deadside again and realized that steam link really compresses the video and I can't see anything or anyone on the game. I have a 2.5gbps link between both pc's and dont plan on ever playing outside my network anytime soon. I was reading about moonlight but I figured maybe someone might have a better solution. or someone might tell me im an idiot and missed a really cool setting that was out in the open somewhere, that would be cool too.

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OS: CachyOS | Kernel: 6.18.20-1-cachyos-lts (64-bit) [I'm on lts because I rolled back to an older driver] | KDE Plasma 6.6.3 | Wayland

CPU: Intel i5 13600k | GPU: RTX 4080 Super, Ram 32 gb

I was using Proton Experimental | Nvidia driver 595.58.03

Initially, I was on Nvidia driver 590.48.01. The ray tracing option in the game wouldn't show up unless I put /WineDetectionEnabled:False in launch options. After that, the option showed up and I was able to select all the options without it crashing. The game worked great. Then I updated and it just kept crashing randomly. Often, it would happen when I get a cutscene and then it will get stuck on the loading screen. Now, I can get to the main menu, but it will crash on the loading screen when I start a new game and I have to force close.

I noticed that if I remove the /WineDetectionEnabled:False from launch options, the game works with the latest driver, but then I lose all ray tracing features. I switched to Proton 10.0-4. I ended up rolling back to driver 580.119.02 and it works again. Is there a way to get it to work using the latest drivers or am I just out of luck and should wait?

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