They say AMD works better with Linux. Here’s my setup:
Ryzen 5 5500
RX 550 4GB
16GB RAM 2400 MHz
B450 motherboard
XPG 850W PSU

I see that many games on ProtonDB show a gold rating, which means the game runs but might need some tweaks. My question is: are these tweaks just in-game adjustments like graphics and settings, or are they advanced things that a user with no experience would have trouble doing?

I want to play single-player campaign games and some indie games as well. The only online game I play is Roblox, where I play some FPS games. Other than that, just campaign games.

Games I own:
Batman Arkham Knight/City
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
GTA V (only sp)
Resident Evil 2 Remake
Resident Evil 3 Remake

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I have a gaming laptop (ASUS TUF F15) which I want to install Linux.

I daily drove linux before on my old laptop, but it was mainly Linux Mint. Last month, I tried Arch Linux with KDE; which worked well, smooth, but there was a slight problem -- where watching full screen videos [specially in youtube] for a while results in flickering along the edges of the display. Maybe improperly installed nvidia drivers -- can be. [tried disabling hardware accelaration; non of the "solutions" worked]

I am currently running PopOS; which had nvidia drivers pre installed, and there are no issues, except the customization/features are limited.

So now; I am in a spot where I cannot figure out which distro to install; because every forum I read says different things about each of them. But I kinda want to go with KDE instead of Gnome. Even though Gnome looks clean; it lacks customization (correct me if I'm wrong). Also I need proper nvidia driver support too! (I don't mind re-trying Arch KDE)

What are your thoughts?

• Arch KDE or Fedora KDE?
• Fedora Gnome?

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Well... The title says it all. I'm trying to make EAX work on URU through PROTON. I'm trying with Proton GE 9-27 that (in theory) supports EAX emulation. Also tried this tutorial without success: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009318009 Anyone can give me more advice?

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I've tried to search the issue on ProtonDB, used ProtonHotfix and ProtonExperimental, and Porton 9.0-4 nothing worked

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to run POE2 via Steam/Proton, but keep hitting a consistent crash.

Setup:

GPU: AMD Radeon 6900XT

CPU: Ryzen 3800X

OS: Ubuntu 24.04 with latest PAE kernel

Drivers: up-to-date Mesa/AMD drivers

Proton versions tested: 9.0-4, Experimental, 8.x

APIs tested: DX12, DX11, Vulkan

Steam file verification: no issues found

Problem: The game starts fine but always crashes after about 3 minutes, regardless of whether I’m just in the menu, the options, or trying to actually play:

Screen just goes black and Keyboard becomes unresponsive Music/sound keeps playing (even after 15+ minutes)

Other games run completely fine and performant on my system (War Thunder, World War Z, Half-Life 2, Civilization V/VI, HoI4).

What I’ve tried so far:

Different Proton versions (9.0-4, Experimental, 8) Launch options/workarounds from ProtonDB Switching between DX12, DX11, Vulkan Steam file verification

None of these made any difference.

Question: What’s the best way to analyze/debug this kind of crash?

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated 🙏

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So a while back, I used Ubuntu on my PC, but I switched back to Windows when 10 came out because I was getting tired of fighting with every program I wanted to use, especially games. I’ve been thinking about giving Linux another try because I’ve heard it’s having a golden age for program support. I’m curious if Ubuntu is following this trend. If not, are there any other more casual distros like Ubuntu that also have good program support?

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I've tried just about everything over the last day or two. I can't find a solution to why it wont launch. I'm trying to mod Risk of Rain 2. And nothing it working. I press the "launch modded" button and nothing happens. Can someone help?

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Specifically the LG UltraGear OLED 27GX790A-B https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/product/Bdbypg/lg-ultragear-oled-27gx790a-b-270-2560-x-1440-480-hz-monitor-27gx790a-b

And the LG UltraGear 34GS95QE-B https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/product/FFLdnQ/lg-ultragear-34gs95qe-b-340-3440-x-1440-240-hz-curved-monitor-34gs95qe-b

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Hey everyone, I'll try to keep it as short and simple as possible. I've been using Windows for basically all my life but used some Linux distros as well from time to time, the thing that always blocked me from fully switching was the gaming aspect. Recently I had another phase of interesting myself with Linux and overall privacy concerns so I decided to give it a shot, and I learned that they made tremendous progress with the gaming aspect and that some distros were even made to optimize just that.

So I decided to go for Bazzite as I've heard a lot of good about it. Now here are the things I do on my computer : watch youtube, play games and run a media server (jellyfin), that's it. Let's say from start I had a lot of troubles with the media thing, but I did sort it out after hours/days of tinkering. Thing is, the pattern keeps repeating itself from time to time, there's always a specific software I used to run in a matter of seconds on Windows and on Linux it takes a ton of time, which I am ready to invest, but at the end it doesn't even always work or it works for a while and then breaks later when the program updates or whatever.

Now I really love a lot of things about Linux and this distro in particular (especially the "atomic" part) which is why I put in the effort and didn't switch back up til now and still don't really want to do it. The privacy/security aspect is important to me despite being pretty much a casual user, I also love the customizability that Linux offers, the package manager, the cmd, and more. But I'd just like the few programs I use to just work. Also, minor thing but still, there's BF6 coming up and I've been waiting since BF4 which I've been a huge fan of to have one day a similar experience (I'm sure many will understand).

So yeah sorry for the rant, I'd like you guys opinion on the matter, is it just a skill issue ? Should I dual boot (never liked the idea tbh I'm like it's one or the other), should I switch back and use things to alleviate the spyware/adware nature of Windows (privacy.sexy or whatever) ? Definitely confused right now.

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Idk if this is a linux problem or discord problem when it comes to codec , but when i try using vencord in window i can stream up to 1440p , now on linux using vesk , equid , i can only stream 720 even when selecting 1440p option i also tried to change the environment from wayland to x11 but same issue still .

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I've played quite a bit of arena, tactile, team base, duel, and I wanted to try something new

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Hello! As the title says, some of my games freeze on a single frame until I alt-tab, and when I come back to the game it's like it wasn't frozen at all and moved on to the next frame, but it's still frozen until I alt-tab again. It seems to be a tendency with full-screen games, and I'd like to know how to fix it since I've ran into this problem with games like Celeste, Fallout New Vegas, etc.

My specs are: OS: Lubuntu 22.04.5 CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual 4200+ GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 And I've got 4 gb of ram, really old computer I know but I just want to fix this problem.

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Just switched to Linux (ubuntu) few hours ago, been trying to play a game from steam but it failed to launch every time. I have put PROTON_LOG=1 %command% on launch option and got pic related. Anyone know what I should do? Specs on second image.

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Hey folks,
I’m losing my mind here and hoping someone can either confirm my suspicion or point out something I missed.

Setup:

• Linux Mint 22.1 (Cinnamon)
• CPU: Intel i9-12900K
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti
• Drivers tested: 535, 550, 575 (open & proprietary)
• Proton versions tested: 5.13-6, 8.x GE, 9.0-4, Experimental

What happens:

• With Proton 5.13-6 → the game launches but immediately complains: “Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime required”. (this could be fixed with winetricks vcrun2019)
• With Proton 8.x / 9.x / Experimental → the game shows a black screen for <1 second, then instantly crashes.
• Running with PROTON_LOG=1 %command% shows at the end: Failed to initialize Easy Anti-Cheat
• Vulkan is working fine (vulkaninfo shows NVIDIA 575.64.03). Shader cache & compatdata wiped multiple times.

What I’ve tried:

• Deleted shadercache & compatdata
• Installed vcrun2019 into the prefix via winetricks
• Tested launch options: -dx12, -force-d3d11, WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dxgi=n" %command%
• Tried PROTON_NO_EAC=1 %command% → still instant crash

My suspicion:
This isn’t my setup — everything else runs fine — but Palworld recently started strictly enforcing Easy Anti-Cheat. It used to work on my older PC + Proton setup, but now it crashes instantly before anything renders.

Question:

• Has anyone here managed to get Palworld running recently under Linux (NVIDIA)?
• Is there any known workaround (e.g. launching Singleplayer without EAC), or is it just dead on Linux until the devs explicitly enable EAC for Proton?

Thanks in advance 🙏

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I recently kept Total war warhammer 3 for download. After the download i set the compatibility layer to proton. in the setting i checked the force compatibility. Now it says "updating" and looks like re-downloading the entire game?

Should i not have checked that "Force compatibility" and just played the game?

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According to this video (6:34), Zotac Zone Pro should have eGPU support confirmed by Manjaro lead Philip Müller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kfkRPXOLU4

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Hello guys i have some problems with Fedora KDE.

After some updates on Fedora my PC acts like in this guy post. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/s/GQVBdY08JZ

The issue for me this is the second time happening. First time i bricked the OS so i have to reinstall everything.

I reinstalled the OS, installed drivers and apps. After the last updates a few days ago the problem came back. I press play on steam and games do not start. I tried with every Proton version including ProtonGE, nothing works same results.

Does anybody know what i have to do to avoid this behavior? I kind of do not want to remain behind with updates for security reasons...

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