I recently switched from windows to Kubuntu (Ubuntu 25.04) on my dell laptop with:

- 11th gen i5-11300H

- TigerLake GT2 Iris Xe integrated graphics and

- 16 GB of ram

But whenever I play #Drive rally (using steam's proton experimental) after a few minutes the my computer freezes, audio still plays in the background but I am unable to interact with anything other than to hard shut down my laptop. If anyone else has encountered this problem or has thoughts on how to fix it please tell me

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One of the best "Linux gaming" videos I've ever watched.

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Hey everyone,

If you're dual booting Windows and Linux and want to share your Steam library without duplicating game installations, here's a setup that has saved me a ton of storage and frustration.

The Problem Steam installs platform specific files like executables and launchers depending on the operating system. Since those files can conflict between Windows and Linux, users often create separate installations for each OS to prevent corruption. This approach wastes disk space and forces redundant downloads, even though most game assets like textures and audio files are identical across both platforms.

Using a shared Steam library on an NTFS partition might seem like a solution, but it creates new issues. Steam repeatedly downloads and replaces executables depending on the current OS, causing instability. NTFS, when written to from Linux, has a reputation for corruption risks, especially with Proton setups or symbolic links.

To avoid these problems, many users maintain two separate libraries, one for Windows and one for Linux. This doubles disk usage and causes updates to be downloaded twice, even though the core data is nearly the same.

The Solution OverlayFS on Linux allows you to mount a read-only NTFS partition as the lower layer and save only Linux specific changes to a writable upper layer. The result is a unified view where Steam sees a complete installation, but only Linux specific files like executables and configs are stored separately.

This allows Linux to see a complete game install while only storing Linux specific changes and without touching or modifying the actual data on the NTFS partition.

Any other changes like shader caches or asset tweaks can also be safely layered through the upper directory without modifying the original NTFS data. This setup keeps your Windows install intact while minimizing storage and download overhead on Linux.

How it works

• NTFS partition with the original Windows install is mounted read-only in Linux.
• Upper directory stores Linux specific files like Proton binaries or configuration overrides.
• OverlayFS combines both into a seamless virtual filesystem for Steam.

Benefits

• No duplicated installs. Only the Linux layer stores changes.
• Read-only access protects the Windows files.
• Minimal disk usage and no redundant downloads.

My setup looks as follows

What I did was overlay the entire Windows SteamLibrary disk, not just individual game folders. This lets Linux access and modify the necessary game files without ever touching the original data.

1. NTFS partition mounted read-only (Windows SteamLibrary HDD):

UUID=... /mnt/ntfs ntfs ro 0 0

2. Separate partition for overlay data (could also be a folder in /):

UUID=... /mnt/overlay ext4 defaults 0 0

3. OverlayFS entry merging both into one view:

overlay /mnt/overlay/merged overlay noauto,x-systemd.automount,lowerdir=/mnt/ntfs,upperdir=/mnt/overlay/upper,workdir=/mnt/overlay/work

The noauto,x-systemd.automount option is essential, without it, the overlay won't mount correctly at boot or when accessed. This ensures the merged view becomes active only when needed, avoiding startup issues and making mounting dynamic and reliable.

This gives me /mnt/overlay/merged as the unified filesystem where Steam under Linux sees the full game installation. Linux-specific changes like Proton executables and configs go into the upper layer, while the base game remains untouched in the lower NTFS layer.

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Days Gone doesn’t work with Lossless Scaling on Windows, it's a known issue. I have a 180Hz monitor and was getting around 100–120 FPS, but it never felt smooth. Usually, when I get around 90 FPS in games, I cap it at 90 and use Lossless Scaling in 2x mode, it works perfectly and feels super smooth. Recently I found out that Lossless Scaling works on Linux now too. I tried it today and was honestly shocked, it runs way better than on Windows, with much lower latency and way more stability. Every time I switch to Linux I realize again how bad Windows actually is. How can software originally made for Windows work better on Linux?

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Remember that Nvidia already showed a demo four years ago with an arm CPU and an Nvidia RTX 3060 running a ray tracing game on Arch Linux.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBfci5hYN1c

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OS: Pop!_OS 22.04

Hey all, I've been playing WoW on Linux with a Razer Tartarus v2 for a couple of years. I use Input Remapper to bind the keys.

A few months ago (it could have been happening for longer), I noticed that the game will occasionally micro-stutter when I'm pressing keys on the Tartarus. I also noticed that this only happens with the Tartarus - if I use my normal keyboard to play (cutting out both the Tartarus and Input Remapper), there is no more micro-stuttering. If I stop injecting my keybinds in Input Remapper and use the Tartarus "raw" in WoW, I still get micro-stuttering. The issue also persists in WoW across Lutris, Bottles, and various versions of Wine and Proton.

I assumed that the problem was with the Tartarus itself. My unit is very old, so today, I upgraded from the Tartarus v2 to the Tartarus Pro. Lo and behold, the micro-stuttering persists.

I am not sure how to further troubleshoot this. Has anyone had any similar issues with the Tartarus or a similar device? I could ditch the device altogether, but since I have 15 years of muscle memory of playing WoW with a gamepad like this, I'd rather not, haha.

Thanks!

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I've been trying to use a trainer for RE6 but it doesn't detect my game.

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Hi, i recently installed Steam on Ubuntu 24.04, with the snap store. I bought Sea of Thieves, installed the differents versions of Proton, and whenever i try to play to SOT, my pc start freezing a little bit, then, the game just refuse to launch (i ain't even at the main menu).

I thought the problems would come from SOT, cuz it's from Windows (yeah im new to linux) , but when i also installed Brawlhala, i also had the same problem. I don't know where it come from. My specs ????

(I activated different version of proton on SOT, and also changed the compatibility settings on Steam)

(sorry for bad english/lack of knowledge)

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I noticed discord now has a selection to share a video device instead of a window/screen.
I tried sharing the obs virtual camera via v4l2loopback but this produces a stream that loads forever.

Anyone successfully tried this?

My hope is that the bad streaming experience of discord is because of their capture method which would be taken out of the equation that way.

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I just got on linux and was looking at tutorials to download my games and when i got to tarkov i saw it was offline only . the videos and reddit posts were from 2 years ago. i also saw battleye had a linux version and wanted to know if i could play the game in current day.

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I am on chromebook os and it looks like I need to download additional drivers and I was wondering which drivers I should use.

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P5X is not available on my region yet in steam, but i can open it by the native version. But, i can't sign in, it asks me to open globalloginhelper.exe, but obviously, the web navegator won't understand this order.

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Made with GZDoom, a fresh teaser for Fallout: Bakersfield has been released and now I'm excited all over again for it.

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Like the title mentions, I updated the BIOS and now my games are pretty much not playable. I tried different proton versions and either nothing changes or my system gets soft locked. Any help is greatly appreciated

Ryzen 9 5900x

Msi MPG x570 edge max motherboard

Evga xc3 3080 10gb

32gb 3600 mhz Corsair vengeance

If any more information is needed please let me know and thank you again

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Hey, I've got an issue with DLSS Frame Generation in multiple games including Cyberpunk and Wuthering Waves. When enabling frame gen, the HUD is moving like it's also interpolating frames even though it shouldn't move and create a more or less transparent version of the HUD elements behind the actual HUD. Most of the times this can be temporarily fixed by entering the pause menu and resume however as soon as I enter the pause menu again the ghosting reappears. Is there a solution to this problem? Thanks in advance!

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Hello everyone, as the title says i have messed up the installation of my Nvidia drivers and i'm not sure how it happened.

To spare you the details of how it happened, let me get straight to the current state of my system and what did i try.

First off: i'm running Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS with an Nvidia GTX1650 GPU.

My problem occurred after restarting my system to a system update requiring it, and my frame rate went down dramatically, i investigate and found out through "Additional Drivers" that my current driver is X server Nouveau, i tried switching to an Nvidia driver but it kept failing due to dependency issues.

After a long day of debugging and searching through the internet, and purging my system of everything Nvidia several times, i still am unable to get an Nvidia driver to run properly, and the only time it ran it would crash any game after about 5 minutes.

How do i know a driver is not working? Either A) My second monitor wouldn't turn on, B) the Additional Drivers window says i'm on Nouveau, or C) the command nvidia-smi is either not found or fails to communicate with the driver.

I tried installing a driver through the PPA (tried using 575, 570, 565, 560, and 550) with no results.

I tried through the nvidia official website with a .run file, but i believe it could've made it worse on that attempt.

and most importantly, i have tried using sudo ubuntu-drivers install to install the recommended and sudo ubuntu-drivers install XXX to try a specific version, which always fails except one time where it installed 575 but kept crashing my games everytime.

Currently, running ubuntu-drivers devices shows that my recommended driver is:

driver : nvidia-driver-570 - distro non-free recommended

and any attempt at using sudo ubuntu-drivers install returns the following errors: ``` udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-modules-nvidia-570-generic-hwe-24.04 : Depends: linux-modules-nvidia-570-6.14.0-24-generic (= 6.14.0-24.24~24.04.3+1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: nvidia-kernel-common-570 (>= 570.169) but 570.133.07-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ```

And trying to use the Additional Drivers window to install the 570 driver ends up with the attached image.

I am stumped honestly, I'd love any form of help. and thanks to everyone in advance.

edit: Okay so for some reason the image for the error message did not get attached to the post. I'll post it here as text: pk-client-error-quark: The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-modules-nvidia-570-generic-hwe-24.04: Depends: linux-modules-570-6.14.0-24-generic (= 6.14.0-24.24~24.04.3+1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: nvidia-kernel-common-570(>=570.169) but 570.133.07-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 is to be installed (268)

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I have a dual boot set up with Windows and Linux. I keep my Steam Library on a large exFAT partition to share games between both OSes.

but now that I started to use my Arch Linux as my daily drive, I wanted to game on it but without needing to re-download everything, I mounted the disk and everything went good until I got :
PermissionError: Operation not permitted: os.symlink(...) on exFAT partition.
I think it's because of Proton or Wine Idk but I can't lunch games.

is there any other workaround to have a single Steam library shared between my Oses?

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Pure chaos, that's what Mycopunk is. It's exceptionally bizarre and now my new favourite first-person shooter because it's so wildly unique.

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