If you've recently played Halo MCC on Linux, you might have noticed that the game consistently crashes when loading into your first match. Then upon re-opening the game, you'll be unable to rejoin that match and will instead be met with a short 3 minute long matchmaking ban. Even more bizarre, the game works perfectly fine after you finish waiting out that ban.

So, what's actually happening here?

1. This has nothing to do with any recent Proton updates. This happens in all Proton releases.

2. It (very likely) has nothing to do with your PC or game installation. You do not need to get a better PC to play a bunch of ~20 year old games.

3. This will happen consistently if you rush into a game.

4. This is not inherently fixable by triggering the crash once and then restarting game. It will work as long as you get that temp ban, but it's not the actual solution.

5. As suggested by others, starting up a private match does not inherently fix this issue. It can work, but it isn't actually what fixes the issue.

The solution is actually much simpler than anything you can think of:

You must wait in the lobby for 3 minutes.

Pretty anti-climatic huh? It turns out that the three minute long temp ban was saving you all along! It works with 100% consistency in my experience, but the necessary wait time could change from computer to computer.

I can't take credit for this discovery, as it was originally posted by a user on proton's github page, but I believe that this information needs to be more widely accessible. Hopefully it gets fixed soon!

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i use sober to play roblox and installed it with flatpak

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I'm looking for a Linux Distro to jump to after getting sick of Windows 11, I have tried Bazzite in the past but it was getting on my nerves due to it's containerised nature what recommendations can be made, ideally a distro that has HDR Support

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I tried to use bottles (Linux mint) to install vortex so I can mod my games, Stardew, Subnautica to name a few. But I can’t get it to work right. I think one of my biggest issues (I could be wrong, still very new to a lot of Linux stuff) is I use 2 different hard drives. It looks like bottles only lets me install on my main drive but all my games are on the second. Can anyone help my poor melted brain?

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Hi,

I can't launch Cyberpunk 2077, and I can't understand why. If I uninstall and install the game, it works, but if I reboot the computer, it won't, so I have to uninstall and install again, which isn't an option.

The error messages I can see in the console are something like:

Adding process 7020 for gameID 1091500 Adding process 7032 for gameID 1091500 ATTENTION: default value of option vk_x11_override_min_image_count overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option vk_x11_override_min_image_count overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option vk_x11_override_min_image_count overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option vk_x11_override_min_image_count overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option vk_x11_override_min_image_count overridden by environment. pid 6936 != 6935, skipping destruction (fork without exec?) Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1091500]

But I don't know what is going on here. Any clue?

Thanks!!

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I'm not sure if I'm right but I feel like the shader cache is cleared everytime I restart my system. For now it's not a big deal since I only play indies for the moment, but when I try to launch a slightly bigger game, it takes between 15 and 30min to compile EVERY SINGLE TIME! Even ori takes like five minutes to compile... Is there a way to stop my system to clear the shader cache ? Or am I wrong and it's something else?

I'm on Arch and KDE

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As RAM prices explode and availability becomes an issue thanks to AI companies, Micron announced their Crucial consumer business is no longer a thing.

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After blocking Roblox (by roskomnadzor) , people started to find loopholes. My VPN worked properly but when i opened Sober ive got this error. Any players have the same issues?

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When I launch the game on Steam, the game will show the usual splash screen but the moment I enter the main menu the screen instantly turns black. The audio works fine, the cursor also works and I can click on the buttons in the menu, pretty much the game runs perfectly fine but the only problem is the screen is completely black so I can't see anything.

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For some reasons steam doesn't download any files, it creates folders but they're all empty, not a single file. Moreover trying to validate all files just tells me that everything is fine even tho literally every file is missing. Same goes with updating my games

I did try clearing m download cache and repairing my library but it didn't fix the issue

Im on NixOS 26.05 with the latest steam version available on the nixpkgs

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So no idea what I do wrong here, the hardware is old ok but so are the games.

I try to play games like Defense Grid or NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 or even Flatout Ultimate Carnage that is Deck verified and I barely get any fps.

The system is mint updated, intel i5 3570, 8GB ddt3 ram and a radeon r7 250 1GB

Other games like Silksong and Doom I + II or Trine play just fine (although I think Trine is native).

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All my friends want me to play PVZ: GW2 with them and it makes me sad that I can't on Linux :( but I couldn't find info on whether or not the game can run in a Windows virtual machine. Does anyone have experience or guidance on this?

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Another pretty great selection of games overall here for the new Humble Choice games bundle for December 2025.

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Hey, right now I can't use them on Bluetooth (see video). I have xpadneo. Ubuntu 25.10.

This drives me crazy, because on the very same PC, some months ago, with the same issue and controller, I had it working by editing /etc/bluetooth/main.conf or something. I just can't remember what worked, and it's soo annoying.

Any help appreciated, thanks !

PS: I swear I tried every random solution from other posts, with no success.

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Open source rocks so it's pleasing to see it go well for Facepunch with s&box. They've now added native Linux binaries for the dedicated server and game client.

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Ready to go POSTAL once more? This time it's in a survivor-like bullet-heaven styled setting, because obviously every developer needs to be in this genre now.

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Hello,

I've been stuck on Windows 11 on my latop which is a Lenovo Legion 7i with a 3070ti for some time, and I really don't like it. I've got the chance now to move across wholesale to linux and I'm looking for some advice. I've used Ubuntu server for a long time for development and deployment, so have a good working knowledge of that OS. My question is, I see a lot of posts about using CachyOS as the go to for Linux based gaming but it's based on Arch. Would I see much of a drop in speed / features if I just used Steam via Ubuntu with the proprietary Nvidia drivers rather than trying to learn CachyOS?

Thanks.

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