Another bigger release has arrived on GOG with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle now available for fans of the DRM-free store.

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Hey! So recently, I downloaded GTA V from steam, and I tried Proton Experimental, Proton Hotfix, and many-many GE Proton versions, but when I open it, its start to launch the game, and after like 20 seconds, its "running", but after like 5 seconds its crashes. Nothing, just crash. Any fixes? (I use Fedora)

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I'm facing a weird issue and haven't been able to find the root cause yet and wondering if someone has seen this.

This started after updating to Fedora 43 but the same behavior occurs on a fresh install (GPU is 4070 TI; CPU 9800X3D). To eliminate potential stuff, I also disabled secure boot and didn't restore my home folder after a clean install.

Essentially all games run from Steam display a black screen but I can hear the game audio.

The weird thing is that if I run Steam from the CLI then everything works as expected.

I'm not sure, but could it be that the games are somehow trying to run on the iGPU? What leads me to believe this is that the game process is not listed in nvidia-smi. It might be a GNOME issue, as it works from the CLI, but I'm unsure as well.

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Initial performance was fine but I would get random freezes and I always saw "Compiling shaders" message in the bottom left hand corner of the game. After googling, I found some information about caching the shaders which I thought might help. I think my freezes have stopped or mostly stopped, but my FPS constantly goes from 200ish to 20 or 30 FPS in certain areas. One of my new settings meant to fix the stuttering introduced this I think.

PC information:

```bash OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Host: X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 ICE Kernel: Linux 6.17.5-arch1-1 Display (PG27UCDM): 3840x2160 in 27", 240 Hz WM: Hyprland 0.51.1 (Wayland) CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (16) @ 5.27 GHz GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 [Discrete] GPU 2: AMD Radeon Graphics [Integrated] Memory: 4.16 GiB / 30.46 GiB (14%) Disk (/): 149.55 GiB / 3.64 TiB (4%) - btrfs (Samsung 9100 Pro)

NVIDIA driver: 580.95.05 ```

Steam settings:

```bash

steam launch command

echo "gamemoderun gamescope -W 3840 -H 2160 -r 240 --force-grab-cursor --fullscreen -- %command%" | sed 's/fellowship/fellowship-launcher/' | sh

compatibility:

GE-Proton10-21 ```

Should I use gamemode and/or gamescope or does that make it worse? How do I know if I should use the -dx11 flag or not? FYI, I see now there is a GE version 24 that I will bump.

Config: Some of my settings in envs.conf are causing the FPS drops. I am not sure what is useful or harmful. My goal is to eliminate stutters (potentially from compiling shaders?) and absolutely improve my massive FPS drops.

```bash

monitors.conf

env = GDK_SCALE,1 monitor=DP-1,3840x2160@240,auto,1,vrr,1,bitdepth,10

envs.conf

env = __GL_GSYNC_ALLOWED,1 env = __GL_VRR_ALLOWED,1

env = DXVK_STATE_CACHE,1 env = DXVK_STATE_CACHE_PATH,/home/.../.cache/dxvk env = DXVK_LOG_LEVEL,none env = PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI,1 env = PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU,0 env = VKD3D_SHADER_CACHE_PATH,/home/.../.cache/vkd3d env = __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE,1 env = __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH,/home/.../.cache/nvidia ```

This game is not very demanding so I am hoping to resolve the performance issues and clean up my configuration which I have probably messed up during troubleshooting.

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Does anyone have a good clipping softqare for linux? On windows i use medal to clip funny moment me and my friends have while playing games but it isn't available on linux. I have tried obs replay buffer but i dont really like it. Are there any other options?

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I wanna switch, don’t feel like working against Windows anymore, most of my coding works in WSL but it’s getting annoying. Biggest downside will probably be the gaming side, I mostly play WoW nowadays. I’ll still use Windows as a dual boot until I’m 100% sure on switching

I code in my free time as well, tho any distro should be fine for that. I have full AMD Hardware, heard the support for it is better on Linux compared to NVIDIA

During my limited research it lead me to arch based distros, fedora and debian. I’m just unsure which one I should try, EndeavourOS seemed like a good middleground

I appreciate any input, thank you!

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A single-player extraction shooter with ducks? Escape From Duckov is quite silly, but it works and most importantly it's entertaining to play.

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Trying to play an old game, Lego LOCO, but I can't seem to actually set the color depth in gamescope, but I can set the resolution. Is there somewhere I can set the color depth?

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I recently downloaded linux mint and I am completely new to linux(I come from win10) when I try to launch cs2 I get the valve logo and then it closes. Please help.

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From what I'm aware (from just checking recent posts) FiveM won't work same as GTAO, but what if I use an application like WimApps for it? Would it make it playable at all?

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Pine Studio have released Escape Simulator 2, the follow-up to their first smash-hit escape room puzzle game and it looks fantastic.

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Amazon recently announced pretty heavy job cuts, and it seems they're pulling back on video game funding with New World: Aeternum no longer being supported.

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Everyone talks about performance, or how many games Linux can launch, anticheat…but what about thermals and power consumption during gaming?

One of the biggest thing that makes me move away from Linux on laptop at least what’s thermal management.

Linux was a lot more hot than windows and less prone to use power saving features of the cpu.

Is the same also now? And on desktop?

Actually I tuned on windows my 6600XT to be undervolted to draw less power with the same performance.

In Europe, in Italy, electricity is very expensive…it’s not something that you can ignore when you want to play for a lot hours

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Linux has improved massively. It’s not the clunky, old-fashioned Gnome2 people still picture. Modern distros are polished, fast, and thanks to Proton and Steam Deck, even gaming is no longer a niche experiment. Yet despite all that progress, the user base isn’t really growing as fast as it should.

Part of the problem is still installation. It’s easier now, but it asks users to make choices they’ve never faced before: partitions, desktop environments, disable secure boot, drivers… But the biggest issue starts earlier.

When someone decides to try Linux, maybe after hearing “it runs games great now,” they immediately face a wall of options: Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS, Nobara, Fedora, Arch… and the community’s response is always the same: “any distro is fine.”

That might sound inclusive, but in practice it’s confusing. Not all distros are equally good for gaming or for beginners. Some handle drivers and proprietary software better, others need more tweaking. A gamer just wanting to install Steam and play shouldn’t have to read ten forum threads first.

What Linux really needs is a strong, straightforward answer to the eternal question: “Which distro should I install?”

Until that exists, Linux will stay caught in its own paradox: powerful, capable, and full of potential, but too fragmented for the average gamer or casual user to take the leap.

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A list of quality mystery puzzle adventures from Cyan Worlds is here with the Myst & Riven Complete Collection Humble Bundle.

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I am currently running an HP Omen 15-EK0357ng with an rtx 2070 max q, i5 10300H and 8gb ram

I’ve been using it with Linux for years for years but recently most of my games don’t run/ crash on startup (I.E. rdr 2, gta v, just cause 3/4) some games like ready or not still work but run very badly and when trying to develop on Gondor I get terrible performance. No matter if I use arch or Ubuntu 25.x, the only distros that still work kind of fine are based on Ubuntu 22.04 (currently running on pop os 22.04) does anyone have a similiar issue or fix

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