Other News about gaming on Linux
Bayaya on Steam: 3D point-and-click adventure with Linux support
We are getting ready to publish a game demo within a few weeks, with Linux support: Bayaya on Steam: Bayaya on Steam
Being a Windows user, I have only tested the game on VMWare so far. If someone likes the game’s style and would like to check it out before the demo goes public, please contact me to get a key.
I’m curious to see how many Linux players we will get. Most developers report between 1–10%, depending on the genre. This game is more relaxed/casual; my impression is that Linux users often prefer more hardcore or intricate games — but perhaps this one has more under the surface than it seems.
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CS2 Wayland broken again after last update
I play on 4k resolution and the latest update broke Fullscreen native Resolution in CS2 for me. I cant switch to fullscreen, the only two options are windowed and borderless windowed but those two options only allow me to set the resolution to 1920x1080p. Did anyone else who uses Wayland for CS2 notice this?
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Information
So I’ve been thinking about the far future of PC gaming — specifically, what happens to all our Steam games if we jump ahead to the year 2060. Gabe Newell eventually steps down, new hardware architectures arrive (ARM, RISC-V, “ARM2”), and the Steam Deck hype may or may not last forever.
Here’s a breakdown of what could realistically happen, based on Valve’s history and current tech:
🔹 Valve’s Track Record- They don’t abandon old games. Half-Life (1998) and CS 1.6 (2000) still run fine today.
- They fund open-source solutions. Proton (built on Wine/DXVK) is Valve’s biggest investment in Linux gaming.
- They already ship emulators. Many DOS/point-and-click classics on Steam include DOSBox or ScummVM bundled. ➡️ This shows Valve cares about compatibility and is willing to use open-source tools to make sure stuff still works.
Steam Deck and similar devices stay profitable → Valve keeps investing in Proton.
- Wider compatibility, even for AAA titles.
- Linux gaming reaches full parity with Windows.
Steam Deck stops being profitable → Valve slows down Proton investment.
- Proton goes into “maintenance mode.”
- Still works fine for most games, and because it’s open-source, the community keeps improving it.
Valve drops Proton entirely and steps away from Linux gaming.
- Official support ends.
- BUT Proton is open-source → community + Wine devs can continue development (just like Wine has survived for 30 years).
- Big shifts will need emulation (like Apple’s Rosetta 2).
- Valve hasn’t promised anything, but based on Proton + DOSBox history, it’s likely they’d support a solution.
- Even if not, open-source devs will almost certainly step in.
- High chance (70–80%) → Your single-player Steam games remain playable in 2060 thanks to Proton, emulation, or community projects.
- Moderate chance (15–20%) → Some games break temporarily after big tech shifts, but later get fixed.
- Low chance (5–10%) → A few niche games might die forever (mainly ones with broken DRM).
Valve has already proven that they’ll use open-source solutions (Proton, DOSBox) to keep games alive. Even if Valve pulls out, the community won’t let decades of PC games vanish.
So while nothing is 100% guaranteed, it’s very likely that by 2060 you’ll still be able to boot up your favorite single-player Steam games — even if it takes a bit of emulation magic.
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CS2 Feels funky and wont work with gamescope
Specs:
RTX 4060 Ti
Ryzen 5 7600
32Gb ram
Pre-info:
I am using KDE Fedora 42
Gamescope causes crashes on launch
So at the moment I have a decently fresh install of fedora just learning the lay out and playing small games. At the current moment I am trying to play CS and it just feels weird. I'm going to provide screenshots at the end of this post to show what I mean but it just feels like I'm playing a 32bit game. My FPS is fine, I'm slightly annoyed I can't fullscreen but I can play stretched just fine. Honestly linux in general just felt blurry on my second monitor mostly but sometimes on my main(could be paranoid but shrug). If I could get some help fixing anything, most likely gamescope, or any times to make my time better it would be greatly appreciated.
The main thing I have noticed is that my crosshair is longer. When I used windows It was 4 squares now its 4 trectangles. It honestly feels like I'm playing the CSGO version of Doom
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Latest nvidia 580 update question (sorry another BL4 post)
I was pretty surprised I was able to run BL4 day 1 (performance issues aside, my own fault for not buying a 5090, sorry Randy). Anyway, it ran fine, I used Proton 9 and the latest driver (using Ubuntu btw if this makes any difference).
Just now I had an update, and now getting dx12 error. I checked the logs and saw that it was the nvidia 580 driver. I first tried Proton experimental and beta, still no luck. Tried rolling back the driver (with the help of ChatGPT because I'm a bit thick to do it myself), turned out 575 is using components from 580 now, managed to purge everything and roll back to 535, 550 and 560 and had no luck with either versions. I assumed that I could somehow get back to my previous version, however it seems like the 575 itself was updated from 575.64.03-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 to 0.3, and I can't seem to roll it back as it goes straight to 580.
I understand that my best way forward is to move to an AMD gpu to avoid this type of stuff, so I'm likely to switch over in the near future, however wanted to see if there is something I'm missing that I could do in the short term. Or does this mean now I gotta wait for the next nvidia patch?
Any advise would be appreciated.
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Help taking 4K screenshots
I have a 1080p monitor but I want to take 4K screenshots of games I already tried gamescope and steam's built in screenshot tool still captures 1080p and I have confirmed that the game is running in 4K in the gamescope window
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Can't get Metal Gear Solid V: GZ/TPP running for the life of me on cachyOS
The game runs perfectly on my ROG ally running bazzite, but my cachyOS desktop cannot. I've tried multiple versions of proton, cachy proton, GE proton, etc. How did you get the game running?
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Crusader Kings III crashing (Linux Mint)
Hi everyone, I installed linux mint cinnamon for the first time on my laptop. I have an older laptop from 2017 with a GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile GPU and im using the recommended Nvidia drivers. Other games I've tested on my laptop work fine, but CK3 does not and this is an absolute deal breaker for me as it is my favorite game on pc and it ran perfectly fine on windows but it crashes everytime I start it up on linux, and no fix seems to work. A common solution I've found online is to launch it without going through the paradox launcher by using the terminal but that does not work for me as the game loads but never makes it to the start menu before freezing my entire computer and forcing me to shut down with the power button. I was wondering if anyone can help me find a solution as I might have to go back to windows which I dont want to do.
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Switch 1 Joy-cons not connecting to Mint cinnamon 22.2
I've already tried installing Joycond and hid-nintendo. I've tried adding them through the terminal, but the same thing happens, the right one wont connect at all and the left one flashed between connected and disconnected. My ps4 controller and Bluetooth earbuds connect fine. (They were also off when I tried to connect the joy cons just in case.) System information is included in the pictures bellow. I'm running bluez version 5.72.
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Laggy mouse
So, I recently changed to Linux and in most of the games I tested, the mouse seems to be in the framerate of the game, and not in the refresh rate of my monitor. Like a software mouse, as in it lags when my game lags. I tried different versions of Proton and the latest GE seems to almost work (it works half of the time) in Guild Wars 2 (the game I was testing with) (it actually works in fullscreen, bugging only in borderless). Anyone knows any fix? Thanks!
Bazzite 42, KDE Plasma, Wayland, all AMD stuff, 2 monitors with VRR and different refresh rates.
Edit: typos
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Ps5 audio through PC
I switched to Linux a little over a month ago, and cannot seem to get this working. I tried doing the same aux cord setup I was using on W11, but it doesn’t work for me on Linux.
When I plug in the aux cord from the ps5 controller to the PC I see the line in pop up in the volume mixer, but it doesn’t play audio through the headset.
I’m running Endeavouros with KDE DE. I’m using a dual sense and dual sense edge controller, both no audio.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what I should try? Or if there is something else I can do to get the audio to go through the PC other than the aux cord.
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Elder Scrolls Online - Choppy FPS / Stuttering Tip
Wanted to share a fix for an issue that has been bugging me - I have installed Elder Scrolls Online using Lutris on the Bazzite linux distro. Installation was relatively smooth but when launching the game I noticed that my FPS, despite being high at ~123, was incredibly choppy with my screen stuttering severely while turning the camera.
While scrolling through my phone idly I found a thread somewhere that suggested to try closing the ESO launcher in the background (I cannot find this thread again so sorry for not giving credit). After closing the ESO launcher in the background, ESO's FPS became super smooth. I do not know why this fixes the issue, but it was a surprisingly simple fix and I wanted to try to make it more visible for people in the future.
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Whats the best performance ill be able to get from linux?
Im talking borderline insanity, ill do anything i distro hop all the time ive used cachy os arch pop os void linux nobara bazzite and i just wanna know how can i get the max performance and builds you guys suggest me??? I just cant do gentoo dont got much time, i always try a bunch of WM's and DE's, ill do any difficulty can u guys suggest me linux distros that are absolutely hardcore performance?? :D Its just what i like to do, lol im thinking of trying alpine linux rn. And suggestions for more performance aswell that helped yall? EDIT: My hardware is Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3i Laptop i5 10300h Gtx 1650 12gb ram.
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Linux + Windows Sharing same game drive
I love Linux, mainly because it is not windows. But I also hate Linux, mainly because it is not as stable for gaming as windows is.
Due to this, I dual boot with separate drives. Sometimes, after a long day, I just want to game and not deal with various Linux issues I face, so I switched to Windows which I have de-bloated, de-microsfted as much as possible and it is a very smooth experience for gaming.
The question though from the title. My windows drive is not large enough to have all the games I regularly play installed. It really only has enough space for windows exclusive games (someone tell me to stop playing League....)I would really like it to have all the games I regularly play on Linux but don't have the space. Is it possible to have a 3rd drive as a Steam Library that both Linux and Windows can access?
If it matters, I currently run CachyOS but I am not married to that distro and can switch if need be.
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non-steam games don't recognize input
I've had my controller not work with a few non steam games when I add them to steam and play them through proton. They let me use keyboard inputs, but the controller just doesn't work. I've tried different versions of proton (GE10, experimental, 9.0,8.0). and tried it with steam input enabled and disabled. I've tried some of these games on lutris, and I was able to get my controller working there. It's just weird that it's happening on steam and that it's not happening to every game. a few nfs games had controller support out of the box, and I've seen videos of people playing the games I try to play on steam deck fine without any issues.
The controller I'm using is an 8bitdo ultimate
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Is there any ReWASD alternative on Linux?
I have a windows handheld and i use reWASD cus it has a specific function where i can make the xbox controllers be recognized as a PS controller, so i don't have to look at the ABXY pattern cus i rlly don't like them. Now i think on trying linux on my handheld, but the only reason i still didn't do it is because i don't find any remapper for linux that has this EXACT function
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.jar mods on mint
hi im running Linux mint and recently got the curseforge alpha app for mint when i went to put some .jar files in the mods folder of one of the instances but it did not work yes i do have java downloaded and i have tested other mods downloaded directly though curseforge and they do work its just the direct .jar files i am running forge and my computer is ass so i can at most run 1.12.2
edit: i tried prism and got this error log
Prism Launcher version: 9.4 (flatpak)
Launched instance in online mode
login.microsoftonline.com resolves to:
[2603:1036:3000:e8::4, 2603:1036:3000:e8::1, 2603:1036:3000:e8::3, 2603:1036:3000:f0::2, 2603:1036:3000:f8::1, 2603:1036:3000:f8::4, 2603:1036:3000:e8::2, 2603:1036:3000:f8::3, 20.190.151.68, 20.190.151.134, 20.190.151.67, 20.190.151.7, 20.190.151.8, 20.190.151.9, 20.190.151.131, 20.190.151.69]
session.minecraft.net resolves to:
[2620:1ec:bdf::41, 13.107.246.41]
textures.minecraft.net resolves to:
[2620:1ec:bdf::41, 13.107.246.41]
api.mojang.com resolves to:
[2620:1ec:bdf::41, 13.107.246.41]
Minecraft folder is:
/home/sucram/.var/app/org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher/data/PrismLauncher/instances/1.12.2/minecraft
Java path is:
/home/sucram/.var/app/org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher/data/PrismLauncher/java/jre-legacy/bin/java
Java is version 1.8.0_202, using 64 (amd64) architecture, from Oracle Corporation.
Instance update failed because: Game update failed: it was impossible to fetch the required libraries.
Reason:
One or more subtasks failed
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Ubuntu 24.04 - Trying to just use Linux Tablet as a streaming client from host. The CPU is taxed out on the table when it's streaming. It's stuttering basically with each peak you see in the bottom right of the screenshot below. I've been constantly...
This is also a wired connection from the tablet to the windows host. As I removed the bottleneck of potentially it being the wifi. But with each peak, every once in a while you will see the red "poor connection" meter come up.
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R.E.L.I.V.E. -- open-source re-implementation of Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Absolutely stable 60 FPS even with 100% CPU load on custom kernel with new implementation of BMQ scheduler by Alfred Chen
https://gitlab.com/alfredchen/linux-prjc/-/tree/linux-6.17.y-prjc-lfbmq
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