submitted by /u/YungSkeltal
[link] [comments]

I installed PopOS 24.04 LTS to play games and run Nvidia Issac Sim and ROS for personal projects.

All games would launch flawlessly before but suddenly they stopped working: When I click the 'play' button it says it is launching and then goes back to 'play', I am pretty sure the games never launch. I recently also installed HOMM3 using lutris and wine and managed to get that to run.

Prior troubleshooting steps
- I installed steam with the .deb file, but I tried the flatpak version and had the same issue.
- I reinstalled my games on an etx4 drive (they were on ntfs) and it still doesn't work
- I tried to apt update/upgrade and it still doesn't work.

Please don't tell me to install Fedora or CachyOS.

Here is my nvidia-smi

nvidia-smi Fri Mar 13 10:56:37 2026 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 580.126.18 Driver Version: 580.126.18 CUDA Version: 13.0 | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |=========================================+========================+======================| | 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A | | 0% 53C P5 21W / 360W | 738MiB / 16303MiB | 0% Default | | | | N/A | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 2730 G cosmic-comp 102MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2800 G Xwayland 6MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2895 G cosmic-panel 20MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2903 C+G cosmic-workspaces 20MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 3061 G /usr/bin/megasync 14MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 3385 C+G ...xec/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic 20MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 3794 G ...share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 8MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 4469 G ./steamwebhelper 24MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 4496 G ...am/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper 182MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 9820 C+G cosmic-term 100MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ submitted by /u/RickAmes
[link] [comments]

I’m looking at getting back into PCVR again and am curious as to what people’s experiences have been like.

submitted by /u/The_Big_H2O
[link] [comments]

Can AMD FSR be used on Linux apps (Flatpak, specifically) that aren’t running through Proton? If yes, how to make use of it? I have no idea how to use features like... the one that's similar to DLSS. I guess it is called FSR upscaling. 😅

submitted by /u/Anonymous_X001
[link] [comments]

Specs:

T14 gen 2

R7 5850u

32 GB RAM 3200 (dual channel)

512 GB NVME (Only 260 for the Linux partition)

So, a few days ago I created a dual boot on Linux Mint to separate my work from my personal life.

I've already tested some games and managed to get them running normally.

For example, Beyond: Two Souls, satisfactory, and another one that I don't remember.

Then I decided to download Atomic Heart to play on my notebook and it "started" normally running on Proton 10, but after a few seconds it simply shut down my notebook.

This had already happened before with Two Souls, so I tested the ideal Protons to run it and managed to do it without problems.

The problem is that after that my Mint started showing some errors, simply shutting down by itself, sometimes the screen going black and freezing the system simply by restarting the device.

I ended up fixing it. The GRUB boot menu uses the AMD drivers and that problem has stopped; it's not shutting down on its own or anything like that.

But now, regardless of which Proton I try to launch through Steam, Atomic Heart simply doesn't appear. Steam indicates that it tried to launch, then the Start button reappears.

At the same time, I can still play other games, like Satisfactory, which still opens normally.

submitted by /u/Nervous-Blacksmith-3
[link] [comments]

so bassicaly i tried running it from faugus (doesnt run), steam (runs on proton 9 only but it has very bad visual bugs and its unplayable), tried using bottle with help of tutorial on YT with same problem (didnt run), idk what to do anymore can anyone help?

submitted by /u/Public_Example_5075
[link] [comments]

So, I've had two 4K displays on my desktop for some time and the one thing that drives me crazy if I enabled Gnome's fractional scaling, to say 125% to make it bearable on the desktop it then runs games in a crazy native resolution e.g. 6144 x 3456 - which is 4K divided by the scale (1.25) and then times by 2 - not sure why!

125% scaling and weird resolutions

It seems to be down to XWayland, as when I run using Proton-GE and force Wayland using PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 the issue isn't present.

Which got me looking at the scaling options for XWayland. Turns out if I set xwayland-scaling-factor to the same scale (1.25) now my games only go up to my native resolution.

125% scaling but no weird resolutions

submitted by /u/lford85
[link] [comments]

submitted by /u/YanderMan
[link] [comments]

submitted by /u/CasuallyGamin9
[link] [comments]

submitted by /u/Liam-DGOL
[link] [comments]

Valve released a fresh update to Proton Experimental for March 13th that bring numerous fixes to various games - here's all the details you need to know.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Hey everyone! I was wondering if anyone would be interested in starting a German Linux gaming Discord with me. I’d love to build a community where we can share games, tips, and just have fun. If you’re down, let me know, and we can get it rolling!

submitted by /u/Bubbly-Towel-6093
[link] [comments]

My specs:
GPU - 9060 xt 16gb
CPU - ryzen 9 5900xt
RAM - 48gb - 2 16gb + 2 8gb - running at 2666mhz because that's the max my processor takes at 4 sticks of ram, with just 32gb it gets up to 3200mhz
Got plenty of storage too and plenty to spare (4.2tb)
Fedora KDE 43 on dual boot with W11, tried with mint too, my previous distro of choice. I didn't adapt well to CachyOS so didn't even try it with these games.

I noticed that in two games specifically, my fps just absolutely FAINTS compared to W11:
Cities Skylines 1
Path of Titans

In Path of Titans i managed to narrow down the main culprits to be shadows and animation quality in the game settings, which makes the game considerably look worse. Fps and stability still considerably lower than windows 11, but lowering these two settings helped.
In Cities Skylines 1 i didn't really mess with the settings, but i've begun to notice severe frame drops on my 8k people city, which should not happen. In the past i got a fully maxed out vanilla city, including squares, every single inch of it built upon, on a significantly worse configuration (i5 9600kf - 32gb of ram at 2666mhz- 1050 ti) but on windows 10 at the time.

My guess would be the proton version i'm using or just some other thing, any guesses or help?

submitted by /u/ChemistMelodic
[link] [comments]

After years of waiting, Google have finally decided to give ARM64 Linux devices the ability to natively install the Chrome browser.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Atari have re-released the classic building sim Transport Tycoon Deluxe, but in doing so they're making it slightly more difficult to get OpenTTD.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Generative AI seems like it's everywhere now right? So here's a letter from the owner (me, hi!) formally setting out the GamingOnLinux stance on it.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Frictional Games have created some incredible experiences and now you can grab a whole lot of them together in the new Frictional Games Humble Bundle.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Então estou tentando instalar o CachyOs porém não está indo fiz um pendrive boot pelo ventou E aparece esse erro quando seleciono " EFI USB Device ( VendorCoProductCode) Só queria meu sistema pra jogar :(

submitted by /u/ConsistentAddress959
[link] [comments]

The issue is, anytime you go into LFC range, it will immediately start juddering and flickering (extremely heavy below 30 fps). It will not properly double/triple the refreshrate, instead wildly fluctuating between random numbers.

I know it's driver related and nvidia is supposedly investigating it, but I don't have big hopes as it seems they've also broken it on windows now too for several driver versions.
Although, maybe that just means they are working on it/updating it, hence the new bugs.

I tried only wayland/KDE on 580, but once I found out it's driver related I just went back to windows and didn't think of digging deeper to see if maybe it works in a different configuration.

Anyone have any experience with this? Maybe there are patches out there that I am unable to find (doesn't have to be kde/wayland, anything will do).

submitted by /u/Neuromancer23
[link] [comments]

Hey there!

I would love to play Psychonauts with Proton but whenever I try with

- Proton 9.0-4

- Xbox One Gamepad or Keyboard

the game completely freaks out.

- The key map is completely broken, I have to try random keys to get the game started

- The character keeps running, no input possible

Do you have any tips how to fix it?

submitted by /u/m477h145h3rm53n
[link] [comments]