Hello penguin gamers!

I have been exclusively on Linux for around 4 years now and it has been amazing, the freedom is amazing and loved all the tiny tinkering i have done with it. I have experineced some hiccups; biggest ones being peripheral support (some games not recognizing my wheel or joystick correctly), modding capabilities (can go to greater lengths on windoodoo), and some odd crashing in coupe games. Couple major things i swtiched to Linux for was privacy and freedom. Now that i have stumbled upon software that allows me to take those back on windings too i'm considering to go back for less-hazzle-with-niche-stuff experience.

So i ask you guys what could i be missing if i go back to the soulless windongs? There is a package manager and wins*xtoys or whatever it's called for my needs of customization and all apps i use have windork versions etc.

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Hey guys, we’re going straight forward and here are the positive things first and then the negative(the reason I was going back to win11 as a gamer)

My rig: RX 9070 XT R5 7600x 32gig of RAM 6000mhz

Positive:

Performance: The first time in my life since Darktide came out I had the smoothest experience. I played darktide on windows back then with a 5700xt, 6700xt, 7800xt and now with the 9070xt. On windows it was through and through a bad experience. Bad frametime, dropping randomly from 120 fps to 30 fps and all that shit on windows. On CachyOS it worked, no drops, very good frametime, constant 120 fps(capped). All games I played were running way smoother on Linux then on win11 and not only this, I didn’t got a single hiccup.

Workspace was super smooth, smoother than any winDOWS I EVER HAD.

Now we come to the reasons why I still can’t do the change.

Negative:

Sound: I have a steelseries arctic nova pro and it was bad, on win11 it worked out of the box with its surround-sound. On cachyOS only stereo and mono for mic, I searched AUR for a solution, never found one in 8 hours and the station from my headset didn’t worked either. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care if I can setup my mouse and keyboard, but I play a lot of hunt showdown and I need the good sound quality. Hunt showdown looked way better on Linux and worked smoother with 10-20 fps more on same settings, but I prefer the better sound over fps, over all. I found a package in AUR but it was outdated and I never got it to work, sadly. Pipewire was very bad to setup, so I gave up.

I wished I could make the switch and I will do if there will be a package to fix my headset.

Thanks for hearing me out, hope you will have a nice weekend

Edit: wanted to change the title to „Linux is bad for me and here is why“

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I would like to ask a few questions about running Linux for gaming/regular desktop. I was thinking of using Bazzite, but would like to hear feedback on that. Another thing is how the whole "getting a game to work" works. I was on ProtonDB and I see games sometimes require different versions of ProtonDB and was wondering if it gets tedious? Like if im playing 2 games interchangeably, do I need to switch Proton versions everytime or is it a one time thing for that game? Let's say Portal 2 (Native) and God of War (Gold). Last thing is how well (if even) Nvidia is supported. As in its overlay and dlss.

Thank you. Any additional notes is appreciated or things I missed but would be a concern.

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Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share that Umamusume: Pretty Derby officially launched on Steam in June 2025 with full Linux support through Proton. It's even Steam Deck Playable verified!

I've written a comprehensive guide covering:
- Steam + Proton setup (works out of the box with 9.0-4)
- Alternative methods (BlueStacks, MuMu Player)
- Performance optimization tips
- Troubleshooting common issues

The anti-cheat (CrackProof) is now Linux-compatible, so no more workarounds needed. Performance is excellent and installation is straightforward.

For anyone interested in trying this popular anime horse racing game, here's the full guide:
https://gamertagzero.com/how-to-play-umamusume-pretty-derby-linux-2025/

Has anyone else tried it yet? Would love to hear about your experiences!

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Hi all!

I recently bought a GPD Win2 out of curiosity (Win 2, not Win MAX 2. This has a relatively old Intel chip specifically an m3-7y30).

I installed Linux on it, (since I use it anyway), and was somewhat surprised about the extremely poor game compatibility. (more on this further). Bazzite didn't want to install for some reason, I prefer Mint or Ubuntu anyway, but running or not running Wayland made no difference whatsoever. (Which makes sense tbf).

The graphics processor in this chip is an HD 615 which is "old" and "entry level", but according to these specs has pretty decent 3d performance https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-615.174029.0.html . What I'm saying is that it is not a display adapter. It has DX12 and Vulcan support.

And yet, almost any game I tried, on any runner straight up crashes on startup. (Cursed to golf, Horizon chase turbo, Xpand Rally Xtreme, Flatout Ultimate carnage, Crazy taxi, Call of Juarez Gunslinger). I'm convinced all of these games would run on Windows. I managed to get a handful of games to run, (Crash time III, Slay the Spire, the original Flatout through Heroic)

I installed Wine, the i386 build flag is enabled, I messed around with different Wine versions, and Proton builds (The latter of which did yield some result, Crash time and WatchDogs managed to at least launch (and run alright-ish on proton 9)

However all unity games crash with a Wine Access violation such as this:

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000010 in wow64 32-bit code (0x75a7cfd8).

I have the full dump, but honestly it seems rather low level, and pretty general so I doubt anyone would be able to look at it and present a solution, Still if you need it I can publish it.

This isn't the end of the world, I bought it more as a UMPC, but it has a gamepad built in, and it would be fun to play games on it, but more importantly I am a bit dumbfounded on the 'why'. I had an old Latitude 5470 which had the HD 530 Intel graphics (which I am fairly sure is basically no different architecturally), and I don't remember games refusing to even launch.

I searched a bunch on google, and came up short. Is there something I don't know? Are there some fixes for HD graphics? If this is as good as it is gonna get, can someone explain why? Basically please help my hyperfixation on this issue, I need to move forward with my life.

Thank you.

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i have a acer nitro 5 AN517-54 (Laptop) with this specification, but I can find a way to increase the fan speed, someone can help me?

https://preview.redd.it/5se08rihw5ff1.png?width=740&format=png&auto=webp&s=4bd10b18cebec15fd5af45aca812c7f623beb55b

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I just ran Skyrim via Steam and where the SteamLibrary is where I installed it, there is a compatdata pfx for each installed game separately. That can't be right. I install a certain WINE/Proton version for Steam, tell it to use it for all games, but surely it cannot be right (because huge storage space need) that it installs many hundreds of MB of that for each installed Steam game. I had to patch it with xact to have vocal audio in the game and had to do it into that, not some system-wide WINE.

Can you clear up my beginner confusion?

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I use Debian 11 (bullseye), using a laptop with ChromeOS (I didn't think first before buying, oops) and I will respond with any required info if needed. I am not using Proton.

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My system is a i7 4500u that got both the integrated intel gpu and another integrated gpu which is a radeon HD 8600M(which seems to be the main one for apps and games), i have recently installed Linux and was able to enjoy a great fps boost in roblox with sober, however the only thing i cant fucking run for my life are Proton games.

Currently, the only games(that i have interest and tried to run in the Linux system) are bloons td 6 and Dead by daylight, which both seems to need directx11, i also tried vampire survivors, which worked without me having to do anything at all, so thats great.

Yes, i have tried using most Proton versions, from GE, experimental, 10, 9, 5, 3, Yes, i tried to enable wine3d in all of them, no, it didnt work, dbd opens the anticheat but doesnt do anything after in most Proton versions, or it just show a message talking about directx, bloons is also the same but without the EAC of course.

I am aware that Proton needs vulkan which might not support completly or even half for old gpus, or something like that im not sure, but since Linux seems to have billions of workarounds, i come here asking for it, also if it would be able to stretch res that would be great, in case i needed to increase my fps.

I currently use ZorinOS with Xorg, in case someone asks.

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Well, I know that every day on this forum there is someone asking this. Which distro do I choose for games? I've recently been looking to move away from Windows and I'm looking at every tool I use on Windows to see if it runs on Linux and now it's time for games. I play light and simple games like Celeste, Cuphead, Undertale and Hollow Knight. I know there are tools like Wine and ProtonDB. But I worry about gaming performance, whether the system can handle it. I know this depends more on the hardware, but a fear still comes to my mind that these games won't run well or won't run properly on Linux. I'm between ubuntu, fedora and arch for me to use, and I know there are distros focused on this like nobara, bazzite, cachy os, garuda, anyway... tell me your opinions please!! Furthermore, there is the issue of game emulation that I am curious about. But my biggest concern is the games in my Steam library.

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Recently installed arch w/ hyprland fully on my laptop, installed steam setup proton and whatever else (note this isnt a gaming laptop its using intel integrated graphics) I've installed so far just 2 low end stuff to test the waters which are both deck verified and playable BUT both will go through the process of launching on steam, and then they'll just die, no proper error or anything , and I'm not exactly sure on what to do so I've come here for some hopefully insight to figure out what I should do to try fix it.

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Hi!

I've recently made the jump to Fedora but also dual booting with Windows 10 and I am having a blast. The only multiplayer games I play are TF2 and Marvel Rivals which work perfectly on Linux for me thankfully.

The only thing that's holding me back from completely jumping ship is game streaming with Moonlight and Sunshine. Not sure if it's because I use an Nvidia GPU, but I always seem to have a laggy stream streaming from Linux compared to Windows no matter what I do, so I keep my dual boot only for this purpose.

I love to game in my living room streaming from my PC, so this is the ONLY thing holding me back from going all in. Is this an issue for anyone else? I know for a fact that Nvidia's driver are not as mature as windows when it comes to this aspect, so maybe that's it, but I'm curious if anyone else is having this problem and if it's holding them back as well :)

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Before you get the wrong idea, I already know about having to update the kernel and mesa drivers and Linux firmware. The problem is, before finding out about all that, I tried to update the drivers normally and was testing using elden ring, which had been giving me a white screen, but for some reason this time purple pixels went everywhere on my screen and the computer froze. After a bit I force shut down my PC, and when I tried to reboot it neither the motherboard display port slot or the GPU slot worked. After a bit this seemed to resolve, but now when I plug in the cable to my gpu everything gets very sluggish just on the desktop. In mission center it says the clock speed is 0-2 megahertz and is drawing next to no power. I updated my motherboard bios, I updated the kernel to 6.14, I updated the mesa drivers to 25, and reinstalled the amdgpu firmware. Still the same as before. Did I somehow cause some kind of hardware damage or is it just because of the drivers still not working?

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Hi folks,

since Star Citizen 4.1, the game no longer runs under Proton or Lutris. It used to work flawlessly with the `EOS_USE_ANTICHEATCLIENTNULL=1` workaround.

Now:

- Game hangs at load (no crash).

- EAC throws a generic "module error".

- User reports suggest a new "heartbeat" check was enabled.

This effectively blocks all Wine/Proton environments – even GE-Proton or Steam Deck setups.

🧠 Has anyone found a workaround? Or is this a hard lock now due to EAC changes?

Spectrum thread for visibility:

➡️ [https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/50259/thread/4-1-eac-star-citizen-no-longer-launches-on-linux-v\](https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/50259/thread/4-1-eac-star-citizen-no-longer-launches-on-linux-v)

Would appreciate any insights – even a “won’t work” confirmation. We’re not asking for native Linux builds – just to not be silently excluded.

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Hey Guys,

I wanted to play ARK Survival Evolved with some friends of mine.
So i installed ARK Survival Evolved on my pc with the latest arch, the latest nvidia drivers, the latest steam and GE-proton10-10.
When i press start it will continue starting with the maintitle melody playing but no game pops up and after some time a crash message pops up.
I tried debugging for a few hours now and i kinda now what the issue is but not how to fix it.
Here's the error message:

--------------------------- The UE4-ShooterGame Game has crashed and will close --------------------------- Fatal error! VERSION: 0.0 MSVCR120.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffc45382e) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] MSVCR120.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffc453bd5) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] MSVCR120.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffc4422da) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] MSVCR120.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffc44ae32) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] MSVCP120.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffc57cd11) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] MSVCP120.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffc57d0e0) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] GameNetworkingSockets.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffa4741df) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] GameNetworkingSockets.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffa474e9f) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] GameNetworkingSockets.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffa4622c5) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] GameNetworkingSockets.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffa463bef) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x00000001425e19d1) + 14 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\sockets\private\steamopensourcesockets\socketsubsystemsteamopensource.cpp:260] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x00000001425e0b64) + 13 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\sockets\private\steamopensourcesockets\socketsubsystemsteamopensource.cpp:16] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x00000001425db883) + 0 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\sockets\private\socketsubsystem.cpp:93] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x0000000142293f43) + 0 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\core\private\modules\modulemanager.cpp:291] ShooterGame.exe!FModuleManager::LoadModuleChecked<FSocketSubsystemModule>() (0x000000014011f058) + 21 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\core\public\modules\modulemanager.h:268] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x0000000143ab0332) + 0 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\online\onlinesubsystemsteam\private\socketsubsystemsteam.cpp:28] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x0000000143aa5526) + 0 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\online\onlinesubsystemsteam\private\onlinesubsystemsteam.cpp:485] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x0000000143aa41b1) + 60 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\online\onlinesubsystemsteam\private\onlinesubsystemmodulesteam.cpp:47] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x0000000142835718) + 0 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\online\onlinesubsystem\private\onlinesubsystemmodule.cpp:223] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x0000000142834fa8) + 14 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\online\onlinesubsystem\private\onlinesubsystemmodule.cpp:191] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x00000001428345f9) + 21 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\online\onlinesubsystem\private\onlinesubsystemmodule.cpp:83] ShooterGame.exe!UnknownFunction (0x0000000142293f43) + 0 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\core\private\modules\modulemanager.cpp:291] ShooterGame.exe!FEngineLoop::AppInit() (0x000000014011d71c) + 60 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launchengineloop.cpp:3096] ShooterGame.exe!FEngineLoop::PreInit() (0x0000000140119e34) + 5 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launchengineloop.cpp:1133] ShooterGame.exe!GuardedMain() (0x0000000140117059) + 8 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launch.cpp:112] ShooterGame.exe!GuardedMainWrapper() (0x000000014011deba) + 5 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:125] ShooterGame.exe!WinMain() (0x000000014011e009) + 8 bytes [d:\ase\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:213] ShooterGame.exe!__tmainCRTStartup() (0x0000000143ebe041) + 21 bytes [f:\dd\vctools\crt\crtw32\dllstuff\crtexe.c:618] kernel32.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006fffffed4b0d) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction (0x00006ffffff4fbaf) + 0 bytes [UnknownFile:0] --------------------------- OK ---------------------------

Here's the console-output:

ProtonFixes[497051] WARN: [CONFIG]: Parent directory "/home/snackzz/.config/protonfixes" does not exist. Abort. fsync: up and running. chdir "/home/snackzz/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/ARK/ShooterGame/Binaries/Win64" ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/snackzz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Game Recording - would start recording game 346110, but recording for this game is disabled Adding process 497379 for gameID 346110 ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/snackzz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/snackzz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/snackzz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/snackzz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Adding process 497381 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497382 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497534 for gameID 346110 ProtonFixes[497534] WARN: [CONFIG]: Parent directory "/home/snackzz/.config/protonfixes" does not exist. Abort. ProtonFixes[497534] INFO: Running protonfixes on "GE-Proton10-10", build at 2025-07-19 04:57:28+00:00. ProtonFixes[497534] INFO: Running checks ProtonFixes[497534] INFO: All checks successful ProtonFixes[497534] INFO: Using global defaults for "ARK: Survival Evolved" (346110) ProtonFixes[497534] INFO: No global protonfix found for "ARK: Survival Evolved" (346110) Adding process 497536 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497537 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497538 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497541 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497543 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497546 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497583 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497588 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497624 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497702 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497757 for gameID 346110 Adding process 497801 for gameID 346110 Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=346110] Removing process 497801 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497757 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497702 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497624 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497588 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497583 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497546 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497543 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497541 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497538 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497537 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497536 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497534 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497382 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497381 for gameID 346110 Removing process 497379 for gameID 346110

and here's the proton log:
https://pastebin.com/yUmLfv68
(it was to large for the reddit post)

I tried to reinstall vcrun2013 with protontricks to repair the .dll, i tried reinstalling the game and the proton version and i tried to rebuild the prefix.
It is perfectly reproducable on my pc.

I hope that maybe someone of you, is in the mood to take a closer look on this and fix it or maybe you'll look at this post and see this shit and you'll have a little smile on your face, however i will give up fixing this shit :D
If you want a copy of this prefix or more data about the problem hit me up(I posted all available logs, the game logs mentioned in the proton log simply just don't exist) :D

Best Regards,
xTheGrashalm

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