Hello there!

I wonder, if we have such (old) GPU (like GTX 660, R7 240), that does not support DX12 (or it is DX12 11_0, 11_1), but it supports X version of Vulkan/OpenGL (which specifically Vulkan/OpenGL version is required, I don't know).
Is it possible to play (lightweight) DX12 titles via DXVK/OpenGL on such GPU setup?

And does the same logic apply to previous implementations of DirectX and DXVK/OpenGL? Like, if GPU does not support DX11, DX10, etc, but Vulkan/OpenGL version X, can we use the same theory here?

From practical point of view, I can guess, even if it would be possible to run DX12 titles on such old GPU, the performance would be terrible, because of the lack of computing power (unless the game is really lightweight), but still, interesting to know.

Also, I can guess, if the GPU does not support DX12, probably it would not support the needed Vulkan/OpenGL as well, but again, I ask community to clarify that.

UPD/TL;DR: Would update post from the answers I have gathered for strangers (not everything or at all I have tested/confirmed myself) in the future.

- If the GPU is too old to support DX12 natively, it is probably does not support needed Vulkan/OpenGL version as well. At time of writing (24/07/2025), for DX12 you need support of Vulkan 1.3 (mentioned old GPU:s do not support this version of Vulkan).
It is possible to downgrade VKD3D (DX12 to Vulkan technology), which requires older Vulkan versions, that old GPU may support. For Vulkan 1.2 here is the link for the latest available version.
Comment link.

- No Vulkan to OpenGL (OpenGL to Vulkan, though. Technology is called "Zink").
Comment link.

- If you have a choice, probably buying APU with good iGPU is the way to go instead of tinkering with old stuff.
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Specs: - CPU: Intel i3-4030U - RAM: 8GB + 4GB swap - GPU: Intel integrated (512MB shared) - Storage: Crucial 500GB SSD

OS: Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon with X11 Home folder is encrypted using eCryptfs.

TF2 used to run perfectly until about 15 days ago (before a vacation). Now, when I try to launch it via Steam, it crashes instantly. No error from Steam, just closes immediately. I verified the game files via Steam and no issues were found. I also tried running it with launch options like -novid -fullscreen -nojoy, but it makes no difference. When the crash happens, sometimes I get thrown to a black screen with white terminal-like text, showing repeated ecryptfs_decrypt_page errors (image: https://imgur.com/a/C8htVKw ).

Sorry for bad quality

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Hey so a bit of a tricky question, i have a friend that would like to try some of my games, however he doesn't have any gaming setup whatsoever and so I proposed to him to simply stream the games from my pc. He cannot come to physically play them, we're separated by quite a long road.

The goal would be that he play a game using Steam Link or another software with a similar purpose while i continue playing on my side with another game. Is it possible ?

I was thinking to use a VM exclusively for his game stream but wasn't sure about the efficiency of this method.

We're both using debian 12 with cinnamon if that can help in some way.

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If you're ever bored and want to try this out :D

Let me know how I did?

1. Install latest AntiX-Net - Runit version

2. Put in the Commands:

su

apt update

apt install unattended-upgrades

unattended-upgrade -d

apt update

apt install --only-upgrade bash libc6 libstdc++6 udev init runit apt install curl wget git neovim ca-certificates dialog lsb-release gnupg

echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" > /etc/apt/sources.list

echo "deb http://security.debian.org/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

apt update

dpkg --add-architecture i386

apt update

apt install firmware-amd-graphics mesa-vulkan-drivers vulkan-tools libgl1-mesa-dri libdrm-amdgpu1

apt install sway xwayland wayland-utils

apt install foot wofi wl-clipboard xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

apt install steam lutris libvulkan1 libvulkan1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386

apt install wine winetricks

apt install gamemode libgamemode0 libgamemodeauto0

apt install pipewire pipewire-audio-client-libraries wireplumber libspa-0.2-bluetooth libspa-0.2-jack -y

echo 'pipewire &' >> ~/.bash_profile

echo 'wireplumber &' >> ~/.bash_profile

echo 'exec dbus-run-session -- sway' >> ~/.bash_profile

apt install zram-tools earlyoom

apt install cpufrequtils

echo 'GOVERNOR="performance"' > /etc/default/cpufrequtils

apt install amd64-microcode

Reboot

apt purge dialog gnupg

apt install curl gnupg -y

curl -s 'https://liquorix.net/liquorix-keyring.gpg' | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/liquorix.gpg

echo "deb http://liquorix.net/debian bookworm main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/liquorix.list

apt update

apt install linux-image-liquorix-amd64 linux-headers-liquorix-amd64 -y

Reboot

Check to make sure using Liquorix Kernel with:

uname -r

echo "seat * xcursor_theme default 24" >> ~/.config/sway/config

echo "exec swayidle -w timeout 300 'swaylock -f'" >> ~/.config/sway/config

echo "default_fade_duration 0" >> ~/.config/sway/config

echo "shadow none" >> ~/.config/sway/config

echo "workspace_animation none" >> ~/.config/sway/config

echo "floating_minimum_size 150 100" >> ~/.config/sway/config

swaymsg reload

net.core.rmem_max=26214400

net.core.wmem_max=26214400

net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=4096 87380 26214400

net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=4096 65536 26214400

net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=bbr

sudo sysctl -p

Reboot

For Steam, go into Launch options for games and put:

gamemoderun %command%

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From PCGW page of the game:

This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Such a cool, native Linux game with cross-play console support will be killed for yet another battle royale shooter. Shame...

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Hi guys,

I'm triodo, the developer behind Arena Tracker.

If you play Hearthstone on Linux, take a look! Arena Tracker is focused on Hearthstone Arena, but it also works in Standard and Wild modes.

You can find everything it does — in both free and premium versions — here.

Features:

• Go over your deck while you play.
• Track your enemy's deck
• Get value info of enemy's hand. Cards sent back from the board, spare parts or the coin (among others).
• Test enemy secrets. Watch the remaining posibilities while you make your moves.
• Check new cards drawn before the animation even begins in Hearthstone.
• Check the total attack of all your minions and enemy ones. When playing arena, secrets are ordered by their popularity acording to hsreplay.net, know what to test first.
• Save and organize your constructed decks.
• Import/export your deck with Hearthstone.
• Keep your arena stats locally, divided by 2-month periods.
• Check hsreplay.net hero winrates when choosing your arena class.
• Draft your arena with Firestone/HSReplay/Heartharena scores.
• Do you stream Hearthstone? Let your viewers vote during drafts.

Now fully standalone on Linux

The Linux version of Arena Tracker has been updated to be fully standalone, with fewer external library dependencies. This improves portability and reduces problems related to missing system packages.

X11 only — Wayland is not supported

Arena Tracker on Linux currently works only under X11. Wayland imposes strict restrictions on screen access, which makes it incompatible with the image recognition needed to detect Hearthstone cards.

This detection is only needed during Arena drafts, so the rest of the app works fine under Wayland — but drafting won’t function unless you use an X11 session.

If you have any questions, I’m here to help!
— Triodo

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I get this every time i click "Install Studio" in vinegar.

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So it can Auto-Update? Are there any workarounds to get the files to work, or to automatically replicate the update process?

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Disclaimer:
I’m not doing anything breaking TOS, just running 2–3 separate Roblox clients and an auto‑clicker on one Ubuntu PC for convenience. It’s the exact same as using multiple devices, which I already do without issues, but more efficient.

My journey so far:

1. Sober (Flatpak): Launched Roblox fine, but running two FlatPaks caused one instance to disconnect after a few minutes (they detect each other). Tried renaming FlatPaks and Firejail sandboxes, no luck.
2. Windows VMs: spun up Tiny11 and a full Windows 10 VM (VirtualBox), installed Roblox (and FishStrap)… both setups crashed or refused to render the Player.
3. Waydroid (Android container): Best performance and lightest footprint so far.
   • Issue: Couldn’t install any auto‑clicker app inside Waydroid, so AFK’ing was impossible.
   • Bonus problem: No easy way to run 2+ isolated Waydroid instances.
4. Dockerized Android VM: Way too heavy and complicated, abandoned.
5. Genymotion: Emulated Android worked, but consumed half my RAM/CPU (16 GB RAM, i5 10th Gen) and Roblox was unplayably laggy on minimum settings.

What I need:

• 2–3 fully independent Roblox sessions on Ubuntu
• Lightweight (ideally <2 GB RAM per instance)
• In‑container auto‑clicker support for AFK

Has anyone pulled this off?

• Waydroid multi‑instance or work‑profile hacks?
• Docker/LXD recipes that actually let you install clickers?
• Better Wine/Proton prefix techniques for multiple Players?
• VM/container setups that let you AFK with per‑instance clickers?

Thanks in advance for any pointers! 🙏

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I'm trying to run ace combat 7 on linux but it keeps giving me this error no matter what proton version do i choose, i tried running the same folder on windows and it works perfectly, does anyone know a fix that isn't switching to windows?

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I've started playing Green Hell recently.

Question nr one: The mouse cursor leaves the game (dual monitor setup using KDE wayland) when I turn right. I then lose control of the game until I move the cursor back into the screen where the game is running.

gamescope --force-grab-cusror makes no difference

gamescope without the option seems to kinda solve the issue, but now I have a new issue, in that I can aparently sometimes only turn about 360 degrees (eg from minus 180 to plus 180) after which I can't continue turning in the same direction, I'm forced to turn back around the other direction.

My Launch Options look like this (copied from one of my other games, cyberpunk I think):

gamescope -W 3440 -H 1440 --adaptive-sync --mangoapp -f --hdr-enabled --hdr-itm-enable -- %command%

Any fix for this other than restarting?

Question nr two: After about 5 minutes of playing, the FPS abruptly suddenly tanks from a perfectly smooth running 90-120 fps to 40 fps, which itself doesn't bother me, but the frame-graph from mangohud shows constant severe spikes (in stead of the regular 8ms I get when it runs fine). I can still play but input is noticeably laggy. If I quit and re-start the game it is fine for another 5 minutes. Any idea what would cause this?

FWIW: Fedora 42, AMD 7900x3d, Radeon 7800 xt, 64 GB ram, nVME drive.

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So, I have been seeing this sybau memes a lot like people used to comment on each other's post "sudo sybau". Well you can actually do that on your system now. I have made a linux package which upon running shuts your system b*t*h a$$ up (just powers off your pc).

git hub - https://github.com/Arshdeep-singh-chahal/Sybau

And it's also available on AUR under name "sybau". just run "yay -S sybau"

And just run "sybau"

So, yeah now you can say sybau to your system.

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After closing star wars bf2 the ea app will be there for a couple seconds and I saw that mango hud showed it used a whopping 5 gigs of ram for a launcher thats way to much and since it runs in the background I assume it uses the same amount of ram any thoughts

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I run Manjaro on my laptop. Back when it had Windows installed, Space Engineers ran just fine; almost as well as my much older PC, which also has 16 GB of RAM, though in that case it's DDR4 instead of the DDR5 in my laptop. Using Proton (it's a Steam game), I get into menus just fine, but when I try to run a world the game disappears and I get the attached notifications. I was wondering if there were any known tweaks I could try so that my machine can run the game like I know its hardware can. Thanks!

https://preview.redd.it/yvu9in9lgnef1.png?width=347&format=png&auto=webp&s=c725aaeff4c107c7376783833cfee8e45d79b1c9

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ive tried portproton, GE and a couple other things including wine from discover but wine isnt working in general for some reason. any advice would be so much appreciated. thank you in advance💗

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The Wayland driver is receiving many fixes and is already proving to be more efficient with fewer stutters compared to XWayland.

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