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Hello new Linux user here ( just installed yesterday),

I tried running some games today and quickly noticed that a lot of them won't start up. In particular every game that pre-caches Vulkan Shaders has this problem. I personally tried Ball X Pit, Deadly Days: Roadtrip, 9 Kings and Hell Clock. While other games like Crab Champions and Brotato worked fine.

So my hypothesis is that something is wrong with the shaders.

I googled already that it could be a problem with NTFS drives, but I installed my games on my external SSD which I checked in the terminal via sudo blkid /dev/sdX or in my case sde1. It's data type was exfat.

Both games that work or don't are on the same SSD.

Here my vulkanifo output: https://pastebin.com/UvvdGJmd

I tried to get a log for games with the PROTON_LOG=1 %command% launch option in steam, but I guess i did something wrong cause I can't find it.

Here is a log from starting steam in terminal: https://pastebin.com/zguXb9KY

If I forgot something I am genuinely sorry I am new to this.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Team Cherry have released Patch 4 for Hollow Knight: Silksong bringing with it more bug fixes, along with a big change to how controllers are handled.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

With the Prime Gaming branding being retired, you now claim your monthly Amazon Prime games via Amazon Luna - here's what you can expect for November 2025.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Just dipping my toes in to Linux gaming and was very surprised that a fair few games feel a hell of a lot smoother on Linux, CachyOS in this instance, Than on Windows 11.

My Windows OS is pretty well optimized and tweaked but CachyOS leaves it in the dust in some titles when it comes to smoothness.

I'd like to understand though, Why is this, Is it more efficient use of hardware, Generally less processes running, Smaller memory footprint of the OS, Kernel optimizations etc... ?

Any input is appreciated.

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Hi all,

I'm just building my new little linux gaming box, I've only really used linux for work (I'd consider myself a power-user and live in the terminal, so happy to take any suggestions that involve tinkering!) and have had a steamdeck for around a year.

I like how the steamdeck in desktop mode can be controlled entirely with the controller + trigger a keyboard with a combo of buttons etc.

Is there a neat way to setup something similar on baseline Ubuntu 25. This PC will be plugged into my TV and mostly be used for Steam.

My key questions are:

1. Can I control with a bluetooth controller + can I wake + put to sleep with a controller
2. Is there any nice controller setups for interfacing with the Gnome desktop?
3. Does anyone use a linux box as a media player, I have a Roku and mostly use Plex, but would be cool if I could have a nice interface (this isn't essential, but curious if anyone knows of stuff for this).
4. What's the best emulation frontend to use ~ I like emulation station but have heard it force removed the ~forbidden console~ and I would like to play my own backups with minimal fuss (note, Im not asking anything regarding setting up emulators, just would like to know the front ends that have a wide range of support in terms of their compatible emulators).
5. I'm guessing I should use similar tools such as the proton/wine bottles for installing things like battle net? Would be curious if there's better solutions. I spent ages setting up my Skyrim mods on steamdeck, but would be keen to know if there's a more streamlined approach I should be using.

Thank you for any and all input

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I am in need of some help.

I want to switch to linux but I don't know which distro would be good for gaming. I mostly use my PC for gaming and windows 11 is utter horse shit and windows 10 (the last good windows) is no longer supported. I HATE windows 11 with a burning passion and would like some pointer to a Linux distro that would be easy to transition to from windows

I don't know if it's needed but my specs are as followed

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6G GHz

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB VRAM

RAM: 16 GB DDR4 2400 MT/s

MOTHER BOARD: Asus prime A520M-K

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I want to use an android emulator to play roblox with exploits.

I want an emulator that can run roblox good

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I'm having trouble with the SteamVR dashboard, specifically the desktop interface and virtual keyboard. They're slow, laggy, and sometimes don't work at all.

The PCVR in general is a bit low-res for my taste, but I think that's just an ALVR settings issue on my part.

I think this might be an ALVR problem, but I don't know enough to know for sure.

When I'm in a game it's basically fine, but trying to interface with the desktop is barely usable. It's a shame there isn't a "restart steamVR" button in the SteamVR interface.

Ideally I'd be able to use this computer through the headset exclusively, no need for a physical monitor or peripherals. If anyone knows how to make that happen, in all ears.

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I've made it over 40 hours into Control in Windows on GOG. I've since migrated to Linux and am currently running CachyOS. I haven't played Control in years but I never finished it and would hate to have to start over whenever I get around to finishing it.

I tried installing Control in Heroic in the hopes that it would simply have my GOG cloud saves there, since I'm pretty sure Heroic Games Launcher supports GOG cloud saves, however it only gives me the option to start a new game.

I booted into Windows and used GOG Galaxy's built in feature to download my cloud saves for the game and ended up with a !Downloads folder, which I have copied into the corresponding folder in Control's wine prefix for Heroic Launcher, but it still only gives me the option to start a new game.

Does anyone know how to accomplish what I'm trying to do here? Is it even possible?

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I have a Bazzite system I use for couch gaming with an rx580, and I'm thinking about using that card for something else. The only spare I have laying around is really nice but it's Nvidia, a GTX Titan Pascal. Will I have any issues swapping the cards, especially since my system is set to boot into game mode?

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Reshade Installer (with GUI)

Hi you all! I have made a university project that kinda works. The project is a installer with GUI for linux using Qt, the project was made because I wanted to install reshade on Dark Souls Remastered and Far Cry (the first one) and you have all the manual setup to do. I know that some people like to flex on cp dgxi.dll steam/steamapps/common/game but it's nice to make stuff easier for everyone.

The project is still in early development state, it works but have only the basic functionalities and a nice GUI by now...

Repo: https://github.com/Ishidawg/reshade-installer-linux

I did not make a package (yet), tho.

https://preview.redd.it/l93g4u3zhrzf1.png?width=751&format=png&auto=webp&s=9383ccff3c61d4ac863b3b7acd6f22884cd2d5dc

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I have over 1,200 hours playing Fo4 on Linux and recently decided to start a new play through. I used some new launch options and using the latest Proton-GE and the latest kernel to enable NTSYNC and at first everything seemed wonderful. The most buttery smooth 60 FPS with max settings when it always used to stutter before. Then came the problem. Loading screens are a crap shoot. Sometimes they are just black, sometimes they show, normal loading times for me are 3-5 seconds but now when the screen goes black and the indicator stops moving it can take 3-5 minutes, or more, or just not ever load at all with the game just hanging. The gameplay is AMAZINGLY smooth now, but every time I have to enter a door I have to quicksave first, or many times now like 7/8 times when I die the game just hangs and never loads again.

I have searched protondb and nothing there references issues like this. When the game is running normally load times are 3-5 seconds as I am running the game from an NVME drive. I want to keep the great performance which requires NTSYNC which needs a kernel above 6.14 and a Proton-GE version above 10-10.

I have seen references to the load accelerator mod but I don't think it can actually work under Proton because it needs to set processor affinity and I don't think that is an ability an application within WINE/Proton has the ability to do.

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I have installed and successfully launched Forza Horizon 5 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, but I cannot get past the sign in. Forza just closes the dialog after successful credentials and says I need to sign in. MSFS 2024 shows a black window after entering successful credentials and if I drag my mouse I can see a message saying to use a different login method.

Stuck, not sure where to turn. Other non-Xbox games work just fine. I tried temporarily removing my authenticator, no difference. These were Steam purchases, not the MS Store versions. Ubuntu 24.04 and I've tried a bunch of different Proton versions including GE. Help!

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I've been using Linux since Red Hat Linux 5.2. Linux is how I bring in my bread and butter. I've long discounted Linux as a viable gaming OS and just stuck to Windows as the path of least resistance. The TL;DR: is that I ended up wiping an older distro for reasons and installing CachyOS... There's only a single game in my library that doesn't work on Linux and that's Apex Legends (and we all know it works on Linux but EA sucks).

I'm actually annoyed now that I have to boot into Windows to play Apex. I'm trying to find another game to replace it at this point so I could just reclaim my windows partition.

Also, Valve, shout out to all the effort you've gone through to make Linux gaming viable.

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