Other News about gaming on Linux

Linux users have no reason to worry about recent AMD GPU driver changes

Gaming on Linux - 31. Oktober 2025 - 14:55
This is a little PSA to Linux users and Linux gamers, with news reports out there about AMD shifting focus away from certain GPUs.

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Can't use side buttons on my Logitech G502 HERO

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31. Oktober 2025 - 14:49

I identified the problem as the generic HID driver taking the device over the Logitech HID++ driver as shown in dmesg:

[ 43.725454] input: Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-4/3-4.4/3-4.4:1.0/0003:046D:C08B.0006/input/input25
[ 43.725517] hid-generic 0003:046D:C08B.0006: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse] on usb-0000:00:14.0-4.4/input0
[ 43.726377] input: Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-4/3-4.4/3-4.4:1.1/0003:046D:C08B.0007/input/input26
[ 43.777398] hid-generic 0003:046D:C08B.0007: input,hiddev97,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse] on usb-0000:00:14.0-4.4/input1

The kernel wouldn't let me unbind the generic driver and bind the logitech driver, so I grepped my mouse's VID:PID in the list of usb ids in the hid-logitech-hidpp driver with modinfo, but it outputted nothing, meaning the driver doesn't even know my mouse.

What can I do? Arch on kernel 6.17.5-arch1-1

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Inspired by Advance Wars, the new Earth vs Mars from Relic Entertainment is out now

Gaming on Linux - 31. Oktober 2025 - 12:47
A smaller team at Relic Entertainment under the Relic Labs umbrella have released Earth vs Mars, a homage to some classic strategy games like Advance Wars.

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ARK: Survival Ascended gets bumped up to Steam Deck Verified

Gaming on Linux - 31. Oktober 2025 - 12:30
ARK: Survival Ascended entered Early Access in 2023, and while it worked well enough on Linux / Steam Deck - Valve noted it was Unsupported until now.

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Northgard Definitive Edition announced for December with expanded content

Gaming on Linux - 31. Oktober 2025 - 12:08
Shiro Games have revealed they're giving their strategy game Northgard the Definitive Edition treatment in December, with a whole bunch of new content planned.

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issue with running byond.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31. Oktober 2025 - 11:59

i installed it via lutris, its started, did past "loading game info" but then at "loading live games..." just makes transparent and does nothing. console show nothing. tried restarting and etc. help pls idk what to do. version of byond is 516

https://preview.redd.it/ux6kmcl1ifyf1.png?width=403&format=png&auto=webp&s=cfd00803ee7317d49d6fcf78f428e7541878eaf2

https://preview.redd.it/t7tbg3yshfyf1.png?width=396&format=png&auto=webp&s=9a021691df9fbda3eeeeedbe38f271bbba0227a7

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The classic tense horror roguelike 'Basingstoke' from Puppygames gets a big surprise upgrade

Gaming on Linux - 31. Oktober 2025 - 11:56
Basingstoke (now known as Welcome to Basingstoke) is an absolute underappreciated gem from Puppygames, and now is the perfect time to jump back in.

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DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake out now and Steam Deck Playable

Gaming on Linux - 31. Oktober 2025 - 11:45
Square Enix have released DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake and you should be mostly good to go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck with it.

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New to Linux [Zorin 18] i got some GPU issues i'd assume

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31. Oktober 2025 - 11:45

Hey guys

As the title may suggest im experienceing some issues with Linux overall and i am a bit unsure as to why. I got these specs more specifically:

GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700KF 10th Gen Core

RAMs: 2 x 8GB Corsair DDR4 [16GB total]

Storage: NVMe Disk 1TB SSD [Where Zorin is installed]

I have the issue that a lot of games i download lags a good amount more than it would on windows 10/11, and i am not really sure as to why, because apart from the games being installed on linux, through other meassures such as alternative launchers i feel like the experience should be somewhat the same if not even better, considering that Linux takes up less space.

I have looked at which drivers that is installed "Additional drivers" and the version which are being used is the latest one by Nvidia themselves and not the open source one.

[NVIDIA Driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-580 (proprietary)]

So to sum up, im really unsure as to why all of these games that runs "very well" on Win10/11 runs between Low/medium on Linux. Any suggestions and or help would be appriciated.

https://preview.redd.it/ev1z2n06ffyf1.png?width=893&format=png&auto=webp&s=ccaf99e0c7e3cdf296d388f2acc3eeeab81075b1

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Until I Have You - Native game won't run

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31. Oktober 2025 - 10:03

So this game has a native Linux version. It will not run. I'm running EndeavourOS, trying to play this on my HTPC with my XBOX 360 controller. When I click the Play button in Steam it briefly turns into a Stop button and flashes what I think is the vukcan shaders compiling window before the Stop button once again because a Play button and nothing else happens.

I've tried the default version of Proton, Proton Experimental and GE-Proton 20 and the result for all three is that the Play button will become a Stop button, the game will ask me whether to run config or play the game. I can run config but when I try to play the game, nothing happens. The Stop button remains a Stop button but the game never actually launches.

This native Linux game does not run in Linux and I can't make the Windows version work with Proton.

Does anyone have any ideas? Any other version of Proton I should try? At this point I'm shooting in the dark and if someone can suggest a specific version so I don't have to just blindly try every version, that would be great. Or maybe there's some launch parameter that would work?

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"application not responding" message everytime I open cs2

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31. Oktober 2025 - 09:55

I showed my launch options and fastfetch

this problem started after I set cs2 to use wayland so I could play streched

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FSR4 upgrade for native title

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31. Oktober 2025 - 09:31

Is there is a way to upgrade FSR3 to FSR4 in native title like we can do with proton ? My search on the subject didn't find anyone talking about that.

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Any downsides I should know about when using Fedora Kinoite for gaming?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31. Oktober 2025 - 08:23

I quite like the idea behind immutable distros and already am using Silverblue on my laptop. So far the only downside I found is that installing certain things is obviously a bit more troublesome but nothing I couldnt deal with so far. Also without being able to use dnf I couldnt install additional codecs which made the preinstalled Firefox quite annoying to work with at times, but it didnt annoy me enough to look for a workaround, so probably that isnt as much of a problem too. Worst case I could just replace it by a Flaptak install of FF (which should come with the codecs missing in RPM Firefox).

Anyway, so far most problems I had where minor at worst. But how about gaming? Will there be any big issues with Kinoite (as I prefer Plasma DE for gaming)? I know Bazzite is based on Kinoite too, but I prefer pure Kinoite to keep bloatware at a minimum. All I need is Steam and ProtonGE anyway. Just wanted to hear some opinions or first hand experiences. Thanks in advance!

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Bazzite Fall Update Arrives with Fedora 43, Handheld Expansions, and Nvidia LTS Support

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31. Oktober 2025 - 08:23

The Bazzite Fall Update has officially landed, bringing the Fedora-based gaming image up to Fedora 43. The release introduces expanded handheld device support, renewed Nvidia compatibility, and updated desktop environments, making this one of the most comprehensive refreshes for Linux gamers this year.

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How to get my gpu to work on VM (running Ubuntu through the VM on a Windows 10... I'll explain below)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31. Oktober 2025 - 07:49

I'm running an older version of Windows 10 - a heavily modified version at that that I have configured for myself over the past eight years. I was so fed up with the unnecessarily aggressive Windows updates that I couldn't disable, I literally deleted the update driver and am stuck on version 1607.

It is wonderful. So good.

But, and this is where time is catching up to my rig, some more modern applications (particularly software released post-2023) have decided that my OS is too "outdated" and doesn't want it to run on my system :( Now as I stated before, this is a heavily modified Windows 10 - it's one-of-a-kind unique - and it still runs flawlessly and I have become attached to it. I really don't want to change systems (and I REFUSE to reinstall the update driver and update the damn thing to Windows 11 >:( inb4 that's what you tell me to do).

I've decided for my next PC, when the time comes to upgrade - and that won't be for quite some time as my gpu is still relevant and everything that is compatible with this system runs perfectly - that I will end up installing Devuan with either IceWM + PCManFM (it's what I'm used to for Linux at this point) or XFCE/KDE... the point is I'm going Devuan with some kind of already established GUI, and will likely just use WINE when I need it.

But for now, I just want to emulate an OS that *can* run the software I want to that the devs have barred me from doing so - mostly Unity 2023/Unity 6 games at this point. I've gone mostly open source anyway, and the majority of my software are windows ports of linux apps. but I digress...

I managed to get Ubuntu 20.04 to run perfectly on Oracle's Virtualbox 6.1.5 (VBox 7.0 is ironically one of the apps that refuses to cooperate with my OS) with IceWM and PCManFM as the GUI, since it's by far the most resource-friendly combo I could get (yes there are lighter Linux kernals than Ubuntu [the GUIs I'm using reduces a ton of RAM usage] but since VMs are a royal pain to use, I wanted the most common one, since I'll be using a lot of Youtube tutorials to get it working right.

Another digression - why wouldn't I just run Windows 11 on the VM? Well I tried. Now Windows 11 on top of Windows 10 used so much RAM, it was so slow I couldn't stand it, no games would work properly on it.

Anyway, while I got this Spartan Ubuntu to run applications perfectly on the VM, there's one major problem I didn't consider and that is I doesn't detect my NVIDIA gpu, meaning the games are getting less than 1 fps. I have no idea how go about solving this.

So TL;DR, my situation is the OPPOSITE of what most have going on; that is I'm trying to game on my Windows running a VM of Linux, rather than vice versa. How do I get my gpu to passthrough the vm and run games on it?

What other options do I have? I'm not ready to buy a new system, yet and I REFUSE to update my Windows 10. If I have to partition the hard drive, I will do that, but I would much, much rather just use a virtual machine.

Thank you in advanced. No it's not ragebait, it's very much a real situation lol

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