Hey so I've been looking into the Nvidia driver situation and how NVK is the new open source driver that's being developed and it'll be a significant improvement over the older noveau. My question is how will things such as DLSS and other proprietary things be able to run? Is there some kind of plan or strategy to deal with that? Or is it the ball is in Nvidias court with regards to that stuff?

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There's a big Borderlands Franchise Sale on Steam, and you can get a free to keep copy of Borderlands 2 for a limited time.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I'm struggling with setting up a headless gaming server for remote streaming and wondering if anyone has cracked this nut.

The goal: Stream games from a dedicated PC in my basement to various devices (laptop, different monitors, etc.) at different resolutions. Think GeForce Now but self-hosted.

The problem: Sunshine + Wayland is a nightmare. Pipewire window capture isn't supported, and the KMS capture method is getting deprecated. Even when I hack KMS into kind of working, I run into logind/seat management issues where the session can't access DRM devices properly.

What I've tried: - Using EDID emulators + xrandr to fake displays - works but super janky - Gamescope for isolated sessions - seat permission hell - Various systemd/udev workarounds - temporary fixes at best

The core issue is that I need to capture a window at arbitrary sizes - sometimes 2560x1664 for my laptop, sometimes 3440x1440 for an ultrawide, sometimes 1920x1080, etc. The client resolution should drive the stream resolution dynamically. Changing the actual display resolution isn't viable because: 1) I'd need to pre-program every possible resolution into the EDID emulator, 2) switching resolutions mid-stream breaks everything, and 3) it's just not how modern streaming should work.

The ideal solution would be capturing a virtual gamescope window at whatever resolution the client requests, but that seems impossible on current Wayland. Steam's own streaming uses pipewire for this, but Sunshine doesn't support it yet. Disappointingly, this is trivial on Windows.

Before I give up and fall back to Debian on X11, has anyone solved remote game streaming on Wayland? X11 would work but it's a pretty terrible workaround since it doesn't support HDR and who knows how much longer distros will even ship it. Are there alternatives to Sunshine that handle this better?

Currently running Bazzite (a Fedora-based distro), AMD GPU, willing to try other distros if needed.

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From the Information I got, this is the List

Please look out if it supports multiplayer, or it supports only local Coop.

🎉 Party & Brawler Games🎉

Party Animals – 🐾Brawler, with Among Us-style mode & Liar’s Bar modes.

Stick Fight: The Game – ⚔️ Chaotic combat; abandoned but still fun with custom maps.

🗺️My Custom maps on workshop:

I have some custom maps search in collection for deckmake22 to find the collection or ask me.

🎲Pummel Party – Mario Party-style chaos.🎲

🚀R.E.P.O – Popular recent title.🚀

🐔Ultimate Chicken Horse – Platformer with player-placed traps.🐔

🏗️Tricky Towers – Physics-based Tetris twist.🏗️

🔄Rounds – Made by the Stick Fight devs; often played with mods.🔄

🌳Wild Woods – Casual multiplayer fun.🌳

🍬A Gummy Life🍬

🎤Jackbox Party Games – Always great for groups.🎤

🤜Knock Em Out🤛 (Fun Wrestling Brawler)

🧙‍♂️Witch It – Hide-and-seek style gameplay.🧙‍♂️

💰Rubber Bandits💰(Brawler pretty cheap, you could get it for 1 Euro on sale)(Connection Problems)

🏃‍♂️SpeedRunners 🏃‍♂️

🪄Magequit🪄

🕷️⚔️Spiderheck🕷️⚔️(But laggy according to reviews online)

🚆 Management & Co-op Games🚆

🚂Unrailed – Manage rails before the train reaches the end.🚂

🍳Overcooked – Frantic kitchen management game with friends.🍳

🏠 Local Co-op (Remote Play Possible)🏠

🕵️‍♂️Hidden in Plain Sight – Stealth-based party action.🕵️‍♂️

👊Judofuri – One-button game for up to 9 players.👊

🥏Boomerang Fu🥏

🏇Lance A Lot Enhanced Edition🏇

🤖Robodunk 🤖

🍞Toasterball🍞

🏐Stikbold / Oddballers – Oddballers is the sequel, not sure which one is better.🏐

But Oddballers support MULTIPLAYER (Don´t know if Servers are still up)

🏹TowerFall Ascension🏹

Has Online Multiplayer from the Beginning, but there is a problem currently with it according to steam discussions and also dev.

🎂Cake Bash – Looks yummy, features minigames.🎂

📦Moving Out📦

💥Multiversus – Free Smash Bros alternative.💥(Server shutted down)

🛸 Upcoming Party Games🛸

🎨Color Breakers 2 – Draw the floor with friends.🎨

🥩King of Meat – 3D platformer.🥩

👽Cuffbust – Goofy prison break with aliens.👽

🔮Ritual Party – Summon a beast, but be aware of the police!🔮

🚴Ultimate Sheep Raccoon – Like Ultimate Chicken Horse, but with bikes!🚴

🥾Big Walk – Goofy exploration game.🥾

💪Out of Shape💪

🪡Restitched – Cooperative 3D platformer.🪡

🤖Botsu🤖

📦Mail It to the King📦

If someone have also play other Games and describe them, I'm open to suggestions.

Discord Server for German Party Game Meetings:

https://discord.gg/5VNWSNtwhY

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i need a better fps rate because windows 11 is slow.

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Hello everyone,

I decided 2 weeks ago to slowly migrate from Windows to Linux, mainly because my Windows installation started to rot, but also because gaming on Linux experience on my Steam Deck was pretty solid.

I've also been hearing a lot about Bazzite and Nobara recently, which seems to please a lot of people. Nvidia drivers had improved a lot recently, many said. That was a lot of indicators that it was finally time to switch from Windows to Linux. So I did it. I Installed CachyOS because it had a lot of good reviews, worked well with Nvidia cards out of the box, and was mainly directed on games and performance.

So what was my experience with it? Let's go for the good points:

• First, it's very user friendly, installing the game package gives you everything you need to start gaming (or not ? We'll see that later)
• User experience is really good overall. KDE Plasma which is the default DE is really beautiful, and gives you the most "Windows-y" experience of all the Linux DE, and it's really appreciable (I have nothing to say about Windows UI in general, I like it so that's good for me), and you can switch to Gnome if you want more of a MacOS UI, or even other DEs like hyprland (which seems very cool indeed) if you feel adventurous.
• Package managing is very cool too. I like that you never have to download shady packages on software's websites. Everything is in Octopi, either in pacman repositories, or in AUR via paru if you search more exotic packages. So everything is upgradable on the fly. That's really cool, way better than what I could try on Debian/Ubuntu for example.
• And then you have all the cool scripts you can do by yourself. For example, at home my PC is in my office, with 2 screens on my desk, and is also linked by a 10m HDMI cable to my TV which is in my living room. To switch between my office configuration and my TV, I must use a paid software, Display Fusion Pro, which mainly works but is a bit slow and janky when doing the switch. In Linux, I could write myself a script which uses kscreen-doctor to change screen config on the fly, which I bound to 2 keyboards shortcuts, one for my office, one for my living room. And that works perfectly, way faster than Display Fusion Pro.

Now let's talk about the bad points:

• Proton is great, and is really impressive, but you still must download several versions to expect running everything you want, and you must do trial and errors to find the most efficient version for you (fortunately, ProtonDB helps a lot)
• Nvidia drivers greatly improved recently, that's true, but you still have to download the latest beta drivers to run games through gamescope, and they are not on the official pacman repo, so they won't upgrade automatically.
• Now, let's talk about performance. Yeah, I have an Nvidia card. Yeah, I know it's bad for Linux. But that's what I got, and I bought it very recently, so I won't buy an AMD card for Linux now. When you talk with Linux users, they will always say that performance in games is way better than in Windows. Maybe that's true in some games, but I'm afraid that's only the case for AMD users. With an Nvidia card, the best you can get is the same performances as in Windows. And that is when you're lucky. Then, if you want shiny things like HDR, or DLSS frame generation, you MUST use gamescope, and it will have a cost in terms of performances. And you will need trials and errors to get everything you want.
• That said, don't expect other shiny things like RTX HDR in desktop, frame gen out of games that natively support it, DLDSR, and many other things like that, to work in Linux. In fact, everything that is available through the Nvidia App or the Nvidia Control Panel won't be available in Linux. You must be aware of that, because that's very cool features you'll likely never (or in a very distant future maybe) see on Linux. You won't be able to use Lossless Scaling neither, and there is no equivalent in Linux - even in gamescope, at least for now (but maybe that'll come, I don't despair of seeing this happen in the future).
• Hardware compatibility too, while very good, and even more so with Arch based distros of what I heard, is still a work in progress. For example, I didn't found out how to make Dual Sense haptics work in The Last of Us Part II Remastered. Everything works, even adaptative triggers, but haptics won't work. I know it has to do with the impossibility for the game to find the gamepad's sound device, and there is many workarounds. I tried ALL of it, but still, it doesn't work. That took me several hours to try it, and that's what finally made me give up on Linux for gaming for now.

As a final word, I would say that for now, at least with an Nvidia card, all you'll get compared to Windows will be a degraded experience, so it's not worth it, at least for now.

TLDR: Linux isn't ready for a seamless experience with an Nvidia card yet. But I'm not without hope for the future.

PS: Sorry for my english.

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I`m using Arch Linux and i want to play Terraria. When i first opened it - i found the players folder and worlds but fps was low. I changed compatibility option to Proton Experimental. But there comes an issue - where are my saves? I can`t find no one of them. I tried to search in ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata but there`s no folder named 105600. Where else my saves can be?

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I'm a Linux user (Ubuntu 20.4) using Proton, and can't seem to finish Deltarune due to crashes. I completed Chapter 3, but upon attempting to enter Chapter 4 the game crashed almost immediately. I tried using all the versions of Proton available on Steam below 7.6 (versions above that didn't even start, instead returning the error message "Win32 function failed: HRESULT: 0x887a0002 Call: at line 229 in file \Graphics_DisplayM.cpp), as well as reinstalling the game, disabling Steam input, and adding -dx11 and -dx12 to the launch options (not at the same time.)

Any advice?

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I recently started using Sunshine and Moonlight more extensively and if it works, it works great. I had a lot of issues with it over the last few years, so never really got the hang of it. Now that it (mostly) works for me, I'd like to go all in and turn my main desktop PC into basically a game streaming server (plus AI, but I never had any issues accessing OpenWebUI remotely so I'll just assume that it'll work fine). I have a 4k HDMI dummy plug (although in 120 hz it only works in 2k but that's fine for me). My network is 10 Gbit, but I do need to use 1 Gbit so wake on LAN works on the PC (via the motherboard, the 10 Gbit NIC doesn't support it). The quality is fine though.

Now my questions to the people who already done this (I've seen quite a few posts about rack mounted gaming PCs in the past) are: - Which distro are you guys using? I'm used to Arch, but if I won't access the PC daily I also don't want to update and tinker as much. Ideally it'd be a Debian Server, but then again I also want up to date drivers. I'm not sure if one of the gaming focused distros (Nobara, Bazzite etc.) is applicable as I don't need a DE. - I want to start and power off the PC remotely via wake on LAN. It works fine on the CLI, so I figured I'd just build an Olivetin dashboard with basically a turn on and turn off button. Are there any better solutions? - Since it's a gaming PC, there's a bunch of RGB that I no longer need. I was able to disable everything in the BIOS but the RAM. Normally I'm using OpenRGB, but this doesn't seem to work/crashes when launched on the CLI. My plan was to just run "openrgb --mode static --color 000000" on every startup to turn off the RAM RGB. - Sunshine and moonlight mostly work fine, but sometimes the picture freezes while sound and controls still work. I need to stop and resume the stream for it to work again. Annoying, but I'm hoping this will resolve itself on the fresh system. - Finally without a DE installed, is Sunshine still able to start Steam in big picture mode or is there anything I need to keep in mind?

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Hey all, I am a linux noob but since steam deck gave us the possibility to play our games on linux i switched over. The problem is that I ordered a 9060 xt card, and I want to get my system ready for it. So far I have managed to install latest mesa and kernel thanks to chatgpt, but the linux-firmware is driving me absolutely mad.

There are no files at all for any cards past rx 5000, and I cant find any newer packages anywhere. I am looking at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/ , and I know for a fact that people have been playing with navi4 cards like the 9070 xt on linux mint.

So, how the HELL are you supposed to find the navi4 .bin file? Where is it? I have been wasting hours trying to look. About to table flip soon. So now I turned to this group for help. Appreciate if someone could solve this head ache :)

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So, as the title suggests, I've tried every OS — from Debian, Fedora, and Arch to distros focused on gaming hardware like Nobara — but this issue still persists.

My screen won't turn on after a sleep/suspend, i think the pc is on, cause i get for a split second one frame of the desktop as i left it but then again blank..black with just the backlight on, i have to force reboot using the power button.

I do think it's an NVIDIA driver issue, because when I use my integrated graphics, everything works fine.

Has anyone found a fix for this? It would be really helpful, ive been trying to fix this for the past 2 weeks, i find it really hard to adjust to WIndows 11(Slow, clunky, packed with unnecessary features I rarely use — even the File Explorer sucks) after two years of using Linux on my old laptop.

P.S.: This is my first time posting a query, since I’m usually able to fix most stuff from some random 10-year-old forum eventually — but not in this case.

If any additional information is required, please feel free to ask. Thank you!

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I've had this PC for three years now. It's always ran Linux. When I first bought it I installed arch. Back then this game got 45-49 FPS in this game at these settings (Horizon: Zero Dawn). I'm now on Debian 12 stable. With old drivers, getting an average 73fps in the same game. As someone who has played games on Linux since before steam proton was a thing, this is amazing to see. (I work full time and have a child. No I'm not going to run a faster release. I've spent enough time rolling back borked Nvidia updates. I want my pc to just work when I finally get an hour or two to myself.)

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So for more than a year i dualbooted windows 11 on one drive and EndeavourOS on a second drive.

Gaming was fine, i used a 2080 super and more recently a 4070 ti super, it had a bit of performance loss but that was ok.

As long as you stay inside steam itself not much is needed from the user (if at all), just like my steamdeck it just works.

But going outside steam things get sometimes ... tricky, juggling with different versions of proton/prefixes etc.
I love to play older games, i have loads of em i bought before steam was a thing, some i bought again on steam others are no longer available.

But that's beside the point, my breaking point was updating the OS.
I only ever used the official endeavourOS menu shortcut to update the pc and for the second time in a year i update the pc, something went wrong (which i haven't even seen happening but probably flashed by in the wall of text), linux tells me it completed all the updates and when i reboot it can no longer find /boot/linux-image something something.

The first time i was able to fix it after having to boot from a live image but as i am no linux expert it felt like black magic and voodoo trying to mount disks again etc. it doesn't feel very user friendly.
Now yesterday, it happened again!

No indication, no errors while updating (the nvme drive itself is perfectly fine), after updating i retried it kept telling me all was updated, no updates found.
I reboot my pc and ... once more it cannot find the @/boot/linux-image something.

I understand windows also has it's issues but i cannot fathom how linux would botch my install twice in a year using only the standard update shortcut provided by endeavouros.
Let alone make the entire operating system unbootable.

Now i use Timeshift, i probably could have booted into a live image, mount my drive and then launch Timeshift to roll back but i just .... kind of lost it yesterday.

Went into gparted, nuked the entire disk including, games and went back to windows 11.

I think i'm getting too impatient now, i'm in my late 40's, always worked in IT (DOS/Windows, not so much linux) but i'm just a bit tired of it.
I don't like windows much anymore, it's a privacy nightmare getting infected by AI by all sorts of means but i haven't had to ever reinstall my system in the last 7 years or so.

I am sure i will eventually come back to linux but for now i'm too frustrated.
But i do hope gaming on linux will get even more convienient in the future.

Sorry for the rant.

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Got gaming working on my BC-250 with Manjaro. Created an automated script that installs mesa-git and oberon-governor, inspired by mothenjoyer69's work for Fedora. Tested on Manjaro, EndeavourOS and Garuda. Only Manjaro requires the installation of mesa-git; both EndeavourOS and Garuda use mesa 25.1.

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Hello, I want to try Linux as my main OS on my laptop, but the reason I haven't gone full Linux yet is because of my very old and low-end hardware.

I have a laptop with an i5-3340M, Intel HD 4000, 16 GB of DDR3 RAM, and an HDD. It's an old laptop I got as a present from my grandma.

I use Linux extensively as a developer, both with WSL and on servers. I have a fair amount of knowledge to use it, but nothing too deep, mostly just terminal commands for server needs.

Right now, I'm using Windows 10, and I have to reinstall the OS every 2-3 months just to make it a bit faster again. I tried using a modified version of Windows 11, and my laptop struggled with it.

I'll mostly be using it for programming, with some occasional gaming when I feel burned out. I usually play Stellaris, Darkest Dungeon, osu!, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and some other indie games.

I don't know if my laptop can handle these games on Linux. I've read online that I should avoid using Wine if possible, but for Windows-only games, my understanding is that you still need Wine (or something like it) to run them. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Is it possible to run at least these games on my ancient laptop? Will I need to edit things in the OS before running the games? If so, please kindly help me.

Sorry for the long post and Thanks!

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Lately I’ve seen a huge backlash against borderlands 2 on steam as they changed EULA to make it so they gonna monitor and take a lot of info from you ( that’s what I understood). But afaik proton games in sd are running in isolated containers and they won’t get that much stuff to report/ monitor compared to running in windows right? Or am i wrong!

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You've probably heard of Steam Tools or have already used them (I've been using a few weeks ago on Windows with no problems, there's a lot of discussion about whether they're safe or not)

And for those who don't know, instinct is basically a tool that works with lua files and Steam manifests, so you can trick Steam into thinking you have a game in your library and you download the game from Steam's own servers

And basically it's much better than a torrent and takes up less space, but is it only for Windows?

If there was a tool like this for Windows, it would have been around for a long time because it would be much easier to play, sometimes it is very annoying to have to use it before installing a Windows game on a prefix and everything else.

And by chance if anyone has the knowledge in the confines of this Sub if there is a similar tool or even a sucker for this tool already existing in Linux itself I would be very happy

In case you've never heard of Steam tools, there's a tutorial I know on YouTube that teaches you how to use it and where to download it, but it's in my country's language (Portuguese-Br)

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So I just made a brand new linux kernel built specifically for gaming/performance. Did this out of boredom, still has nothing much in it but I think it'll help me if I can get some feedback at the moment whether the gaming tagline should be kept or be removed? Grab the package here.

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I recently bought the Machenike G5 Pro V2 controller. Overall, I’m impressed by its build quality, analog precision, and feel—possibly better than the official Xbox pad in some respects. However, I’ve discovered a serious vibration bug when using it on Android emulators.

Issue: When using the controller via 2.4GHz wireless dongle on Android, both DuckStation and Redream trigger continuous, maximum-strength vibration.

The vibration never stops from the moment the game starts to when it ends.

There's no context sensitivity—it's not triggered by events like crashes or attacks, just constantly on.

This makes the controller nearly unusable for long sessions; it's physically tiring and clearly not working as intended.

Other Notes: Tried USB wired mode (Switch mode): works fine, but no vibration at all.

Tried different emulators and cables. Same issue persists.

There are no options in DuckStation or Redream to adjust or regulate this vibration behavior per controller.

Specific Examples:

In Crazy Taxi and Crazy Taxi 2 (Redream), the vibration starts immediately and never stops.

In Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (DuckStation), the issue is especially noticeable during the jet ski/motorboat stages.

Has anyone else experienced this with the G5 Pro V2 or similar third-party controllers on Android? I'm wondering if this is a firmware issue or just poor compatibility with haptic APIs in these emulators.

Any fixes, tools, or workarounds would be much appreciated.

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Hi everyone!
I have an HP Notebook 14-am006la with an Intel Celeron N3060 and 4GB RAM. I’m looking for a Linux distro that works well for gaming, especially for Geometry Dash via Steam or Lutris, and can be installed fully (not just live) on a 14GB USB drive.

I’ve already tried a few distros like antiX, Debian, Puppy Linux, and dpup Bookworm, but I’d love recommendations for the best performance with my specs.

Optional but ideal: full installation to USB instead of running in live RAM.

Thanks in advance!

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