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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I've recently reinstalled Fedora and nuked the Windows install I had sitting unused in a partition of my SSD.

My Steam library was in a shared NTFS partition, which I didn't want to remove because I would have to reinstall all the games. Before the reinstall, Steam wasn't able to launch the games because of the NTFS partition, but symlinking the *.acf files and installation folders of every game over to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/(common/) solved the issue.

After the reinstall, the issue returned and that workaround didn't seem to work anymore. Plus, I tried uninstalling one of the games and reinstalling it in ~, but to no avail, which leads me to think the cause of the issue may be different this time.

Relevant details in summary:

• OS: Fedora 42
• GPU: Nvidia Geforece GTX 1660 SUPER (no iGPU)
• GPU Drivers: Propietary from RPMFusion (575.64.03)
• DE: KDE (Wayland)
• Steam library in NTFS partition (game files symlinked to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/(common/))

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Hey all. I hope this is the appropriate place to post this, so here goes...
I am looking to upgrade my PC sometime soon and want too switch from Windows to Linux.

I already have quite a good grip on using Linux in general, having used it personally from time to time on a second PC I own, and using it exclusively at my place of work (I do web development and Linux server administration). I also own a Steam Deck. So it's fair to say, I know my way around Linux and am not afraid to use the console.

My main experience is with Debian and Debian-based distros (mostly Ubuntu in recent years). I am open to new things, especially if they are better suited for the task at hand, but I also don't want to make it too hard on myself. So my question is, should I switch to a different distro, and if so which one?

A friend of mine has been using Manjaro as his daily driver for quite some time now and he swears by it. He is a bit of a crack though and doesn't mind tinkering with stuff. I know Manjaro comes "with batteries included" as opposed to "vanilla" arch, but how many batteries does it come with? I don't mind fiddling around with things, but I mostly want it to "just work" out-of-the-box.

I have also been looking at things like Bazzite or (thanks to this subreddit) Nobara, but I might want to things other than gaming and browsing the internet further down the line, like maybe hosting a server or doing some programming in my spare time. Are these any good for that or should I just stick to a less gaming-focused distro?

Or should I just stick with Debian, since I am most familiar with it (using it on my main work PC and the servers I tend to at work)? I was considering Ubuntu or a derivative like Kubuntu, but I am not a fan of how snap is integrated into the system and it feels like everything is running in a sandbox, which is not ideal for if I actually want to do some programming. I know since I have Ubuntu on my work laptop and it can be a pain sometimes.

I am mostly torn between Debian and Manjaro.
Manjaro does look tempting, since it seems to be updated on a more frequent basis. But I also like the familiarity of Debian...
So, any advice is much appreciated :)

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Getting this very weird behaviour with the graphics and lighting in Far Cry 5. I've tried different proton versions, all installed via steam, but still happening. Also in the video some of the movement keys weren't working, like S , D. Im not sure what a fix could be, i've tried searching for a fix but couldn't find anything similar.

Any suggestions?

System specs:

-` .o+` OS ➜ Arch Linux x86_64 `ooo/ ├  ➜ Linux 6.15.7-arch1-1 `+oooo: └  ➜ zsh 5.9 `+oooooo: -+oooooo+: WM ➜ Hyprland 0.50.1 (Wayland) `/:-:++oooo+: ├ 󰀻 ➜ Papirus [GTK2], Papirus-Dark [GTK3] `/++++/+++++++: ├  ➜ Bibata-Modern-Ice (24px) `/++++++++++++++: ├  ➜ kitty 0.42.2 `/+++ooooooooooooo/` └  ➜ JetBrainsMonoNF-Regular (12pt) ./ooosssso++osssssso+` .oossssso-````/ossssss+` PC ➜ Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B850 MB Type B850 EAGLE WIFI6E -osssssso. :ssssssso. ├  ➜ AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (8) @ 5.27 GHz GHz :osssssss/ osssso+++. ├ 󰢮 ➜ AMD AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT @ GHz /ossssssss/ +ssssooo/- ├ 󰢮 ➜ AMD Radeon Graphics @ GHz `/ossssso+/:- -:/+osssso+- ├  ➜ 5.45 GiB / 30.46 GiB (18%) `+sso+:-` `.-/+oso: ├ 󰓡 ➜ 0 B / 4.00 GiB (0%) `++:. `-/+/ ├ 󰋊 ➜ 220.35 GiB / 936.84 GiB (24%) - ext4 .` `/ ├ 󰋊 ➜ 1.31 TiB / 1.79 TiB (73%) - ext4 └  ➜ 2560x720 px @ 59.993 Hz - 360x110 mm (14.82 inches, 179.44 ppi) submitted by /u/DrShadyBusiness
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Still, totally playable on Linux

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Thanks to the lsvk-fg project for giving me that idea.

Anti-Lag 2 on Linux is nothing more than a vulkan layer that can be installed in the home directory. It has no dependency to mesa itself. Due to that it should work with any mesa version including stable (provided the vulkan version is recent enough).

Sadly there is no "easy" way of building the anti-lag sub project within mesa which is why I went on compiling the whole mesa project to keep things simple.

Obviously one could provide the binaries directly but compiling it yourself will ensure compatibility with your own system.

If you have questions feel free to ask!

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Hi, I have both bazzite and windows with dual boot and I was wondering if there is a way on Linux to play RDR2 with FSR 4. I tried on windows with optiscaler but the game would crash after playing for 10-20 minutes.

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Hello, I am running into an issue where if I play games like Street Fighter 6 or Cyberpunk Discord just freezes on a frame. Still completely functional but requires me to minimise it and then bring it back up. I also have no clue if it has frozen or not, wondering if this is a common issue with Discord. I am using an Nvidia GPU on CachyOS and I do have Hardware Acceleration enabled. Thank you

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So I've been haunted by an issue for some time now over several distro's that I can´t really get a grip on why this exactly happens.

About 75% of the time when launching a game, it seems that in the background after like 20 seconds when the game launched, Steam by itself initiates a shutdown. Now I never initiate it myself, but it does it nonetheless. In-game this causes the steam overlay to go haywire, giving me a notification every couple of seconds that I can use my configured keyboard shortcut to show the overlay (like when starting a game). This is already frustrating, but the actual shutdown of Steam won´t even go through all the way, instead, when you either close the game or alt+tab, you can see this:

https://preview.redd.it/nx4zvihzk2ff1.png?width=613&format=png&auto=webp&s=bd09a7268295398d5447e7f278b4df58950549fd

This never completes, and the way to close Steam at that point is to right-click the status icon in the bar and 'Exit Steam' as you normally would. But in this case you´d have to do that almost each time you start/close a game.

It sometimes also shows this:

https://preview.redd.it/s6src133n2ff1.png?width=484&format=png&auto=webp&s=fb9892f385f68dd80bdca390e4eed30b9acee821

I don´t have any controllers, let alone a PS3/4/5 controller connected.

I've had this issue for over a year, spanning several distro's: Fedora 41, 42 and now CachyOS. Everything's up to date, running the latest kernel for that specific OS (I don´t try to mess with out-of-line package versions for a specific distro unless absolutely necessary). Also doesn´t matter whether I have Steam installed as a native app or flatpak. Only thing I did notice, that it seems that using the launch option 'gamemoderun %command%' seems to at least increase the amount of times I have this problem and possibly be the culprit, but after some testing it's not clear cut. After removing that launch option, the game often still shows the same behavior.

Regarding Steam, this is with both the stable client as the beta client. Regarding Proton, tried the hotfix, experimental and GE-Proton, but all have the same issue. But also native games (like HL2) show this same behavior, so seems not related to Proton anyway.

I am curious whether some other people encountered an issue like this.

Here's my build:

Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro (running most recent BIOS version)
Intel Core i9 9900K
32GB DDR4 Memory
AMD Radeon RX 9070 (but also had the same issue on the RTX 2080 I had previously)

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I downloaded waydroid and libhoudini using casualsnek's waydroid script. Everything worked fine until I opened an app. It's just stuck on the opening screen. The application I try to run is Phira.

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Hey guys, I wanted to ask if someone has the same issue and if there is an solution to it.

I got myself a dual boot since I wanted to switch from Windows to Linux, in this case Nobara.

And one thing I noticed about that is Discord on Linux works rather interestingly.

Now my setup. I have Discord installed natively on my distro through the app manager. I then have Steam installed via Flatpak.

I got things to work so Discord recognizes what game I am playing. What I am missing however is the option to stream the game directly as I could on Windows.

I can stream a window and just select the game window so it works but the one thing I cannot figure out with that is that is streams not only the window audio but my entire system audio as well.

Is the option like in Windows present as well where it shows the game you are playing above your voice chat options instead of having to select the share your screen option?

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i kinda messed up, no info so used gpt and it nuked my mint... now gona do usb recovery or smth

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