Has anyone tested to see what the performance difference is in games that have native Linux support but running with proton instead?

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Ive been trying to play mass effect legendary edition and it worked for a little bit but now it won't even launch i previously launched it with proton experimental but now it just won't even open.

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I've been struggling with some advanced 3dcg software lately and this inspired me to create a new subreddit designed to improve/fix/generalize what WineHQ/ProtonDB does and adapt it to modern web realities (such as search indexing, LLMs and the general habit of searching things by typing "reddit my question" into search engine).

Address: r/works_on_linux

Why use it when there are resources like WineHQ and ProtonDB?

Because WineHQ is dying and doesn't even include older versions of Wine in their reporting form and ProtonDB is, while good, focused solely on Proton (also, I don't think you can have questions/discussions there). And in this new community we have general-purpose all-encompassing subreddit designed to be indexed by search engines and parsed by LLMs for future reference.

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https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/directx12-performance-is-terrible-on-linux/303207/615

The post says:

"Belated thanks for this report. Can you try 590.48.01? I expect performance is restored. Internally we are seeing improvements with this driver across many DX12 titles compared to 580"

It might be THE fix but let's test it and see if it finally competes with AMD

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I use steam. All other games work just fine including MELE until today (Jan 23). I've tried multiple different Proton versions, verifying game files, reinstalling the game, clearing Steam's caches, even launching the exe directly from my system's files, and ofc restarting my computer and checking for any updates. When I press "play" on Steam, it looks like it's starting and even sometimes opens a small window of the EA launcher, but it immediately closes, and Steam looks like I never pressed play in the first place.

The computer itself is a Lenovo laptop with an RTX 4070 and AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor (I think - if necessary I can check for sure).

I have a feeling it has something to do with the EA launcher, but any help would be much appreciated. Again, it was working until today (last played --with no issues-- two days ago - Jan 21). I have no idea what happened or how to resolve this. If more details would be helpful, I'd be happy to provide them.

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Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share that PUPAI is now officially available on Steam for Linux.

The biggest challenge was making everything behave nicely with the API across platforms, but after a lot of testing, tweaking, and swearing at logs, we finally got it running smoothly.

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Hi @ all, I have a really weird problem that I'm unable to fix.

Before everything: Installed Cyberpunk 2077 (Steam; CachyOS; 9070 XT), everything worked fine. Game was sharp, no graphical glitches, and I could choose FSR4 in the InGame-Options.

Then, I did something stupid, out of curiosity: I used Goverlay to activate Optiscaler, and used the Start-Parameter /home/user/fgmod/fgmod %command% on Cyberpunk.

Since then, all Texts and the HUD is blurry. No Problem I thought, I simply remove the Start-Parameter... I did it, but Optiscaler was still here, INS-Key opened it. Okay no problem I thought, I manually remove the whole Game-Folder (.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Cyberpunk 2077/) and reinstalled/redownloaded the Game through Steam... Okay, Optiscaler is gone now, but the Problems somehow still exist. Wtf?

Since then, I can only activate FSR4 if I use the Start-Parameter PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 . But this is the least of my problems: The whole Game is now blurry, nearly unplayable so:

https://imgur.com/q7NU2PT - "Blurry Menu"-Screenshot with MangoHUD for comparison.

And there are Glitches everywhere now:

https://imgur.com/SilI07Y

https://imgur.com/1z5fY7S

https://imgur.com/Ksc9uiV

It doesn't matter what Settings or Preset I choose, it doesn't look any better than that.

Pardon my words, but wtf is going on there? The Game did run perfectly for the last 2-3 Days without Problems, but after activating Optiscale through Goverlay, I can't get rid of this.

Other Games (like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) don't suffer from that Problem, but I never used OptiScaler on that either. It seems that Optiscaler had installed itself somewhere else, where it caused these Problems (and would explain why even FSR4 is gone without the Proton-Start-Parameter).

To be honest, I'm on the verge of remove my local Linuxuser, create a totally new one to redownload everything from Steam, and never dare to use the "Optiscaler"-Tab on Goverlay ever again.

My Start-Parameter on Cyberpunk looks actually like this:

KWIN_DISABLE_TONEMAPPING=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 DXVK_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 MANGOHUD=1 gamemoderun %command% --launcher-skip -skipStartScreen

Would appretiate any help, I really run out of ideas^^.

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Is there a way to remap keyboard keys to other keys in Steam? Maybe with proton env vars? The game I'm playing uses arrow keys for input and doesn't have any key remapping settings in it, but I would like to use WASD instead.

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So i've been trying to get stretch res for dead by daylight but even tho i've tried many launch options and even tried x11 but nothing seems to work. I would appreciate any help thank you!

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to share my experience with Arc Raiders since updating to Fedora 43 KDE and see if anyone else has run into similar issues. For about 180 hours, everything was running perfectly on Fedora 42 KDE—not a single crash or performance hitch. Out of the box. But as soon as I upgraded to 43, things went downhill.

Initially, I noticed a significant drop in performance, which was frustrating enough, but then the game stopped launching altogether! It would show the Arc Raiders window, but all I got was a white screen.

I’ve tried a ton of fixes: different Proton versions, various launch commands, reinstalling drivers, downgrading Mesa drivers, switching between Flatpak and non-Flatpak Steam, and even verifying game files, start Steam from the terminal. Despite all this, I eventually reverted back to Fedora 42 KDE, and to my dismay, the issue persisted—even after completely wiping my disk for a fresh install.

The only workaround I found was using the launch command -dx11, but it comes with its own set of problems: the game seems to set weird resolutions that don’t match my monitor, it fails to recognize my Intel GPU, and therefore, I can’t use Intel XeSS like I could before. Performance has been plagued by microstuttering and lower FPS.

At this point, I’ve switched to Windows (Dual boot) because I’m at a loss for solutions. Has anyone else encountered similar issues with Arc Raiders on Linux/Fedora? It was running so smoothly before, and now I feel completely stuck. Any tips or experiences would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

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For everyone who thought HDR on XLibre was impossible… surprise.
We officially have a working HDR demo on XLibre, running through MPV, and it’s already pushing real HDR10 output. This is the first time XLibre has ever shown true HDR through an actual pipeline instead of theory or mockups.

Demo branch is here:
https://github.com/cepelinas9000/xserver/tree/wip/x11hdr

This is huge for the XLibre project. It proves the core idea:
you don’t need a compositor‑heavy Wayland stack to get real HDR.
The kernel already exposes the right color primitives, Vulkan can carry metadata, and a display server that actually uses them can deliver the goods.

It’s early just MPV video playback for now, but it’s the first concrete step toward full HDR surfaces, game‑ready scanout, and eventually dynamic metadata (yes, including Dolby Vision discussions).

If you want to follow the development or jump into the conversation, the discussion is happening here:
https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/251#discussioncomment-15577145

XLibre is about to make Linux HDR real. This is the spark.

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I'm trying to play It Takes Two with a friend, who is in a Discord call with me. Whenever I start the Steam Remote Play Together session, it streams ALL of the audio from my PC, not just the game. This makes it so that the guest is able to hear themselves talk on discord, as well as my spotify and other unrelated applications. Remote play has worked flawlessly before on a different PC, so I'm not sure what's so special about mine.

Has anyone else had this issue? After hours of searching, I could only find one support thread mentioning the problem, with no solution.

Specs

OS: CachyOS

Kernel Version: Linux 6.18.6-2-cachyos

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

RAM: 32 GB

WM: Wayland

DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.5

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arch linux on gnome

first i downloaded it from flatpak like any sane person would, gave me this (no content)

then i downloaded from the aur, gave me the same shit

anyone else having this?

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