Now that the code for Command & Conquer Generals (along with other classic RTS games from EA) is open source, the community is working on getting it working natively on Linux without the need of Wine / Proton.

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It is not in the proton list.

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Lightspeed Studios / NVIDIA have recently updated Quake II RTX, their ray-traced reimagining of id software’s old school classic.

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Due to get an experimental build for you to test it early tomorrow, controller support is coming to Satisfactory along with a whole bunch of other big upgrades.

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Valve's Steam Deck rating system is generally quite correct, but there are clearly some times when it isn't. Thankfully, Valve do go back over various games to re-test them and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been hit with a downgraded rating.

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Cassette Beasts from Bytten Studio has a fresh update announced for release on April 7th, bringing in a number of extras to the already fantastic and unique monster catcher.

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Are nvidia driver versions equivalent in Windows and Linux?

When my friend and I bought Monster Hunter Wilds, I told him, who uses Windows, to install the "Game ready" drivers that were probably available to him. He installed those, and I asked to tell me the version number, which was 572.60.

Over at my Linux PC, I'm currently running driver version 570.133.07. Do I have to wait until 572 to get whatever they did for Monster Hunter launch? or are they completely separated branches and the features that go into them are different?

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Mohawk Games continue releasing some pretty big updates to their Civilization like game Old World, with the latest aiming to fix up lots of issues and improve performance.

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Majority of my games run fine, but this one has made me scratch my head. The free fan game (Megaman Sprite Game, game engine OHRPGCE) runs just fine, sound effects work too. But the actual music is completely gone, was wondering if someone could test the game out for me, or could give some hints as to what you think is causing the issue. It seems to work under a VM perfectly, but not Proton.

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I’m running endeavor OS, which is arch based and I cannot get this game to launch. I’ve tried multiple proton versions. I’ve tried running it straight from wine. I’ve tried setting flags through steam but nothing seems to work. I even tried proton tricks and installed MS redistributables but that didn’t work.

I know it only has a silver rating on proton DB and as such I probably shouldn’t get my hopes up, but I’m curious if anybody here has had any experience with this particular game.

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I installed COD UO with Heroic using the latest Proton GE. I managed to get it running with the env from here

MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2003

force_s3tc_enable=true

__GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700

but as the screenshot shows, the colors are fucked. I don't see anything useful from Heroic's log aside from the usual device details

Launching "CODUO" (sideload) Native? No Installed in: --- System Info: CPU: 12x AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics Memory: 22.92 GB (used: 4.25 GB) GPUs: GPU 0: Name: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] IDs:--- Driver: amdgpu GPU 1: Name: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile] IDs:--- Driver: nvidia OS: EndeavourOS 6.13.8-zen1-1-zen (linux) The current system is not a Steam Deck We are not running inside a Flatpak container Software Versions: Heroic: 2.16.0 Scopper Gaban Legendary: 0.20.36 Urban Flight (Heroic) gogdl: 1.1.2 comet: comet 0.2.0 Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli Game Settings: { "autoInstallDxvk": true, "autoInstallDxvkNvapi": true, "autoInstallVkd3d": true, "preferSystemLibs": false, "enableEsync": true, "enableMsync": false, "enableFsync": true, "nvidiaPrime": true, "enviromentOptions": [ { "key": "MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR", "value": "2003" }, { "key": "force_s3tc_enable", "value": "true" }, { "key": "__GL_ExtensionStringVersion", "value": "17700" } ], "wrapperOptions": [], "showFps": false, "showMangohud": true, "useGameMode": false, "useSteamRuntime": true, "battlEyeRuntime": true, "eacRuntime": true, "language": "", "beforeLaunchScriptPath": "", "afterLaunchScriptPath": "", "verboseLogs": false, "wineVersion": { "bin": "~/.config/heroic/tools/proton/Proton-GE-latest/proton", "name": "Proton - Proton-GE-latest", "type": "proton" }, "winePrefix": "~/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/CODUO", "wineCrossoverBottle": "" } Game launched at: Mon Mar 31 2025 13:52:24 GMT+0700 (Western Indonesia Time) Winetricks packages: ============= End of log =============

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No idea what could be messing this up, I'd be happy if someone helps point me in the right direction.

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I've been using it on windows for a while and when I switch to Linux I can't use it bc my keyboard dose not have socd so I'm asking is there anyone to use socd on Linux

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I've tried Bazzite and Nobara but neither of them work properly with my brother's external GPU. Oculink should be just like plugging the card into a PCIe X4. But it doesn't work. I don't know if it's because both GPUs are enabled or something else, but my brother's only real Linux experience so far has been terrible because of this.

Is it possible to get this working or should I give up and go back to Windows?

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I've been a long time user of Pop_OS!, mainly using my PC for gaming. When I decided to upgrade my laptop to a desktop computer, I made sure to go with only AMD components. I've had both a desktop computer and a laptop with an AMD CPU, but never with an AMD GPU (only Nvidia). While my current system is way better than the laptop, and thus would make a difference in itself, I noticed that only using AMD components had a much bigger impact than I anticipated.

The major difference is in the random crashes I would experience with non-native games. Previsouly when I've played non-native games, they've been randomly crashing, especially when Alt+Tabbing, or even adjusting the volume with the volume knob on my keyboard. In some games I would also experience random stuttering. Until now, I thought that was just the experience of gaming on Linux. I was wrong.

After the upgrade, all of those random crashes and stutters has "magically" disappeared. All my games run smootly, even those that users on ProtonDB reports as stuttering, or even crashing while Alt+Tabbing.

I'm positive the AMD GPU makes a difference, but I'm not sure if the RAM also makes a difference. Either way, I'm so happy that everything works perfectly. The difference really is astounding, and I'd recommend anyone playing on Linux that are considering upgrading their system to go for AMD components only.

For those that are curious, my current setup is:

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
ASUS ROG STRIX X870-A (because E and F wasn't available in my country)
Sapphire Pure RX 7800 XT 16 GB
G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 4x32GB DDR5 6000MHz CL30
Crucial T700 2 TB SSD
NZXT H7 Flow RGB (2023)
be quiet! Straight Power 11 850W
Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black (unfortunately the only black component)

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I’m already duel booting, and my partner is considering switching to linux too. I’m the more tech savvy between the two of us so I’ll be doing all his installing, trouble shooting, and whatnot. He’s between Pop and Mint, hasn’t decided. The main way he plays games is via Gamepass, both on xbox and pc. I already know how to get steam going on just about any modern distro, but Gamepass is foreign to me and I haven’t heard anyone talk about it on linux. Is it just “use wine” or is there anything else I can do so he has a good experience? And how is support for xbox controllers?

Also, his favorite game is Insurgency Sandstorm (or Sandstorm Insurgency, sorry idk the word order). Does that have an anticheat that’s incompatible with linux? He can always play on xbox but I’m asking since he does play it on PC sometimes.

His specs are an i7 10th gen, and Nvidia 3070 ti. Currently 32gb ram, but he’s getting a new mobo that’ll have 4 slots so he can upgrade to 64 at some point this year. And like I said, he’ll be going with either Pop or Mint. I know ram isn’t an issue on linux but more info is better than less.

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So long story short, I installed Ubuntu about a month ago and everything works perfectly except a minor inconvenience.

I have steam installed on my SSD but installed a game on my second SSD mostly because of space limitations. So on the second drive I now have another „SteamLibrary“ folder containing the game.

Whenever I start steam it does not automatically detect that drive and I have to manually add the drive again in the steam settings.

It‘s only 3 clicks but still if I didn’t have to do it I’d be happier.

Any ideas?

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I saw an article about how it would improve performance in WINE/Proton yesterday, got excited but only the RC7 was available. This morning the 1.0 dropped and I installed it and rebooted, then hopped into some of my proton games and have been absolutely floored!

Then I hopped online to check out what people were saying about it, thus far only reading comments from days ago with everyone agreeing that there would be almost no performance increase for proton games and only native games would see a performance increase. Haven't seen any reports from anyone actually using it though and want to see if anyone else is having the experience I am.

Proton games have seen a MASSIVE performance boost for me, while the few native games I checked only got a marginal performance increase. My specs are AMD R5 3600 CPU and RTX2060 KO GPU. I keep all games at 60fps 1080. I was having issues on the 6.12 kernel where I could not even play simple 2d games like Oxygen Not Included and play a 720 youtube video at the same time. It would cause the youtube video to lag and stutter and with 3D games it would make the game stutter even if the FPS were reported a steady 60. The 6.14 kernel fixed that, now both game and video are butter smooth, even at 1080.

At max settings Sims 4 went from using 80-85% of my GPU at 105 watts to 35-40% of my GPU and using 35-40 watts, which is pretty friggin amazing! Hell my jaw hit the floor when it loaded up and I disturbed my roommate with all my cheering about it. Sims 4 has been punishing my GPU to the point that the fans have had to run momentarily at 110% sounding like a jet engine and now they are quiet, barely noticeable. The framerate is much steadier now as well.

No Man's sky went from 85-90% GPU usage to ~50% at the same settings so I am going to experiment with boosting those. Fallout 4 dropped to 50% usage, 76 dropped to about 60% usage.

For comparison Palia, a native game, went from 85% usage to 70%, so not as much of a performance boost but it is still noticeable, especially with the fan noise as it was causing my fans to go to 110% as well but not any more.

Does anyone know what they added to this kernel version to get just a massive performance increase? As far as I understand it Proton does not use NTSYNC so that is not it but I would like to know what changed to cause a 50% drop in GPU usage with improved performance because it is simply amazing.

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I run a "Steambox" on Ubuntu, where I just have it boot into Big Picture mode. I have updated Ubuntu a couple times now, and each time, after the update, I'm getting a generic error message in the GUI, followed by the system failing to boot.

Going to the Recovery Mode option in GRUB reveals the following error:

Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

I used the answer to this question to fix the failure to boot each time, and it DOES work, but I'd rather not have to deal with this every time it installs updates.

Anyone know what I could do to prevent this from happening? Anyone have any idea WHY this would be happening? I'm not doing anything unusual with my Ubuntu install. I'm a pretty basic Linux user, and thought Ubuntu would be relatively trouble-free.

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