Other News about gaming on Linux
Is switching from Windows to Linux worth it for performance? What is best distro? Dead by Daylight have issues with Linux?
I’m thinking about switching from Windows to Linux mainly for better performance in video games, I’d like to know if the difference is really noticeable and if it’s worth the change overall I’m also looking for distro recommendations, I never have used any distro of Linux so I don't know anything about it, and I’m concerned about whether Dead By Daylight has issues on Linux
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Can't play Ghost Recon Breakpoint on Ubuntu!
Hey guys I wanted to play GRB which is on my Ubisoft account sadly, the only game I have on that freakin launcher. I installed it with Lutris, downloaded all the depencies, vcredist and dx11, dx12, vulkan drivers and the newest runner. I entered Ubi Connect and downloaded the game, but whenever I launched it, it was stuck on the startup logo which appears on the center of the before the game fully launches. Can you help me fix it please? I have an nvidia card btw, if it is important and I get no errors on Lutris logs.
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STILL no luck!
I have tried EVERY trick I can find to get my controller (Turtle Beach Rematch Core wired) to work in Linux Mint since about 2 days ago, to no avail. It vibrates when I plug it in, but when i push the XBox button nothing happens. jtest-gtk can detect it, but that's it. When I try moving the sticks and push buttons, nothing. The Controllers tab in Steam settings shows it as a generic XBox pad, bu nothing happens when I try to test the controller. I can NOT afford another controller at this time. Should I try another distro more that is more of a "gaming distro", such as Bazzite, or just bite the bullet and go back to Windows for the time being?
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Attempted to run Roblox on mac mini 2010 on Lubuntu (KDE)
So i managed to get Roblox Studio working using Vinegar, and i also managed to get roblox working for a bit by using an online android emulator but it kicks me out cause roblox recognizes it as an emulator which it is sadly This shows how progressively worse Roblox’s anticheat is right now…
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How can i theme steam's big picture mode?
I already have the adwsteamgtk app and loove the theme but i also frequently use big picture mode and am really bored out of the outdated look there. So how can i theme it? CachyOS btw
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Error when trying to launch FragPunk and other games
I'm on Arch with KDE Plasma, my CPU is an i5-7200U and my GPU is an Nvidia 940MX. There are other games that don't work but don't have that pop-up message that FragPunk gives me. The only ones that work are Celeste and TF2.
Thanks in advance to anyone able to help me.
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Holarse Linuxspiele-Adventskalender 2025 Türchen 21
Wir begrüßen Euch recht herzlich zum 21. Türchen im Holarse Linuxspiele-Adventskalender 2025! Im nunmehr schon zwölften (!) Jahr verlosen wir unter allen Linuxspielern und denen, die es noch werden möchten täglich ein natives Linuxspiel. Je nach Tag (z.B. Advent oder Nikolaus) können sich auch mehrere Spiele im Türchen verstecken. Dann haben mehrere Kommentare die Möglichkeit ein Spiel zu gewinnen.
Wie mache ich mit?Teilnehmen kann jeder, der Lust auf Spielen unter Linux hat! Ihr benötigt zum Teilnehmen nur ein Holarse-Konto, damit wir euch den möglichen Gewinn per PM zuschicken können. Schreibt dazu einfach die Antwort zu der Frage des Tages hier unten in die Kommentare und schon seid ihr dabei!
Unter allen, die bis 20 Uhr unten in den Kommentaren antworten, wird dann der Gewinn oder die Gewinne verlost. Bei mehreren Spielen gibt es natürlich auch mehrere Gewinner!
Seid ihr durch random() ausgelost worden, dann erhaltet ihr den Geschenk-Link (Humble Store, dort benötigt ihr dann ein Konto) oder direkt den Steam-Key zum Einlösen per PM hier auf Holarse zugeschickt. Wenn ihr den Gewinn nicht bis zum 31.12.2025 eingefordert habt, rutscht er automatisch wieder in den Lostopf fürs nächste Jahr.
Wenn ihr bereits das Spiel habt, oder es euch nicht interessiert, ihr aber dennoch kommentieren wollt, schreibt einfach in den Kommentar dazu, dass ihr nicht teilnehmen wollt.
Frage des TagesWelches humorvolle Linux-Spiel bringt dich immer wieder zum Lachen?
Was gibt es zu gewinnen?Im heutigen Adventskalender-Türchen versteckt sich diesmal:
- Türchen: Deponia Doomsday, gesponsert von comrad im Originalwert von €19,99.
- Advent: Chaos On Deponia, gesponsert von comrad im Originalwert von €19,99.
Heute um 20 Uhr wird die Kommentarsektion geschlossen und danach der Gewinner ermittelt und hier nachfolgend bekannt gegeben.
A bit of advice for a gaming noob, please and thank you in advance.
Which is better launcher for Windows games not native to Steam? Ive heard good stuff about both Lutris and Faugus launchers.. What is the general consensus here, especially for a noob like me?
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Any tips to get Avowed working?
I see Avowed has a gold rating on ProtonDB, so it seems most linux gamers are able to run this. But for me, it shows an empty black screen for a couple of minutes, then crashes with this message:
Fatal error: [File:D:\Projects\Alabama\Engine\Source\Runtime\RenderCore\Private\RenderingThread.cpp] [Line: 1272] GameThread timed out waiting for RenderThread after 120.00 secsMy machine:
OS: CachyOS x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.18.2-2-cachyos DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.4 CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700K (16) @ 5.00 GHz GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate [Discrete] GPU 2: Intel UHD Graphics 750 @ 1.30 GHz [Integrated] submitted by /u/gsdev[link] [comments]
can't install epic launcher lutris warning: wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine cmd.exe /c echo '%AppData%' returned empty string, error message ""
Lutris, fresh Kubuntu 25.10 installation, vulkan, mesa installed
I was able to install BG2 from GOG, WoT from Steam.
I just clicked Epic Games Store in Lutris, and lutris tries to install it:
from logs:
warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug. ... can't install epic launcher lutris warning: wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine cmd.exe /c echo '%AppData%' returned empty string, error message "" ------------------------------------------------------ Monitored process exited. Initial process has exited (return code: 256) All processes have quit Exit with return code 256however there is still one tiny window hanging:
"The Wine configuration in ..... is being updated, please wait..."
but 10 mins later nothing happens...
I have it installed on other PC with Kubuntu (however I did that like 1-2 years ago, I don't remember how, maybe I've just installed epic installer.exe manually and installed in Lutris?)
Any tips ?
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How do i run steam and selected steam games on integrated GPU
- Arch Linux (kernel: 6.18.2)
- Hyprland: v0.52.2
- nvidia-open: 590.48.01
- mesa: 25.3.2
- gamescope: 3.16.19
Both the steam client and games start on the dGPU.
The steam client is a bit weird since it says steamwebhelper uses the dGPU as per lsof /dev/nvidia* (but not nvidia-smi). From testing launching the client wakes the gpu from sleeping for a bit, but then it goes back to sleep and using the client does not bring it back. Closing the client wakes it up for a bit again. This happens with all electron apps though and it's tolerable so it's not as much of a problem.
The second one is all steam games launch on the dGPU seemingly no matter what I do. A big problem with trying to google this is that everyone else seems to be having the exact opposite problem, and the fixes from the few posts available do not actually fix the issue in my case. Here are the things I've tried to remedy this:
- AQ_DRM_DEVICES="/dev/dri/amd-igpu" set in uwsm
- __EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES=/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/50_mesa.json set in uwsm
- __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa
- DRI_PRIME=0
- MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT="1002:1900"
- gamescope --prefer-vk-device "1002:1900"
The complete steam launch command looks like this:
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa DRI_PRIME=0 MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT="1002:1900" gamescope --prefer-vk-device "1002:1900" -W 2560 -H 1600 -r 165 -f -- %command%
The games I've tested are CrossCode and Hollow Knight if that helps.
Also in order to use the iGPU as much as possible i do not have any env variables set as specified by https://wiki.hypr.land/Nvidia/.
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Two games, one PC
I’ve done some searching and seen a few posts about this, but they end up with VMs or multi-user and/or multiple GPUs.
I currently play Minecraft with my kid by running a server and firing up two clients. One client has the controlify mod installed and the other does not.
One player can use a controller, the other the mouse and keyboard. One player is on monitor 1, the other is on monitor 2.
All of this runs on a single Linux machine and single user signed in. I believe it works because the controlify mod picks up the controller input and even if the window for that client is not focused, it just works. Since the mod is not installed for the other user, and Minecraft doesn’t have controller support, the client only reacts to the M&K.
But now I’d like to try other games. For example, I’d like to play Diablo with M&K, while kiddo plays Minecraft with controlify, or something else.
Is there any easy way to isolate input to certain windows? In the D4/minecraft example, D4 supports controller, so the controller input starts controlling both games.
It seems like an input isolation type solution would be much easier than trying to setup VM or multi-user in the OS.
I am using CachyOS, AMD 7800x3d, Nvidia 4080S.
Minecraft is Java edition, just fired up through terminal, connecting to server running on same machine. Diablo 4 is running through Heroic within latest GE-proton latest.
Any ideas? or if my “input isolation” idea is just crazy, tell me.
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Steam and OW2 issue
Sometimes I want to see a person's stats and when I go I accidentally click on Steam proifle, not battle.net prifle. So steam comes up. However, if I click back into the game, the game no longer accept key or mouse inputs. The mouse cursor moves though, but not accept clicks. The mouse cursor is from OW2 (stylized mouse cursor), not the generic desktop mouse cursor, so it seems the game at least sees the movement.
I have no idea how to fix this as I have to force close the game to fix it. I don't know of any way to recover. This gives me a timed temp ban every time it happens, and it adds up.
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Steam download stuck at 1% on Linux Mint (Debian package) – help!
I’m using Linux Mint and installed Steam from the default software manager (Debian/apt version). Whenever I try to download a game or when Steam tries to update its runtime/Proton, the download starts but gets stuck at 1%.
I have plenty of disk space and the download speed is fine. I think it might be related to permissions or the Steam installation path (~/.steam/debian-installation).
Has anyone experienced this before? What’s the best way to fix it? Should I switch to the Flatpak version of Steam?
Thanks in advance!
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Trouble Getting Avermedia Live Streamer Ultra HD (GC571) to Work in OBS
Hello! I've recently switched to Linux (Kubuntu) from Windows and in my process of getting everything I used to use to work on Linux, I have discovered that my capture card is not streaming any video through OBS.
I have OBS installed through Flatpak and used Flatseal to enable access to all of my devices and yet the program doesn't seem to pick it up at all and only shows a black screen when the device is used as a Video Capture Device Source.
I'm including screenshots of my OS fetch, the settings in OBS, and Flatseal in the hopes that someone can help me with this.
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BC-250 PC Discord Invite
Looking to join the BC-250 PC build discord server but all the invites I have seen has expired. Can I get a link if possible please?
Need to purchase one and also wanted to see if someone in there would have a better price than Ebay for me to purchase. (Obviously not $30-50 price or anything like that... I know that time has passed.)
Going to be using it for the living room to play Minecraft with my son.
Thanks everyone and happy holidays!
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Poor performance
Today i started using CachyOS on my Acer Nitro V15 with an RTX 4050 and i5 13420H. After i tried to run the finals with CachyOS Proton with the Nvidia drivers that sudo chwd -a gave me (It gave me the open-source ones, and i think this Is the fault), the game ran at 20 FPS. That's an 83% drop! Any help pls?
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