Other News about gaming on Linux
Asking for delisted protonGE/EM versions to try MECHA BREAK
It seems something happened to these versions and they are delisted. But there are reports that the game works under them. Anyone have either version?
Proton EM 10.0.23 / GE-Proton10-5
https://www.protondb.com/app/2452280
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volt-gui 1.0.0 released: A Linux optimization tool focused on performance and ease of use
Hi there lads, I’m here to announce that volt-gui has officially reached its 1.0.0 release.
If you're wondering what volt-gui is, it's quite simple: a simple GUI program for modifying and creating the "volt" script and more. It provides an intuitive interface for configuration management, with the goal of squeezing out the maximum performance possible from a Linux PC.
You can change your CPU governor, start or kill scx_* schedulers like lavd or rusty, and tweak a wide range of kernel values to alter system behavior. Don’t worry if something goes wrong when you restart the PC, and everything reverts to the default boot values.
You can also choose values for a very wide variety of GPU related environment variables. All of these have been extracted from official NVIDIA and Mesa documentation, and in some cases from Freedesktop documentation. I’ve spent quite a bit of time digging through all of that, even reading source code as some of those aren't even documented :/.
The whole point of the project is not just to give you the tools to fine tune your system for gaming or performance, but to do so in the most user friendly way possible. A good example of this is in the GPU section: you can simply select an OpenGL and a Vulkan renderer. That’s it. The program will detect the available renderers on your system (just make sure you’ve installed the requirements), and once selected and applied, it will add the correct parameters to use that driver to the volt script.
I built all of this to make the transition to Linux easier for my friends switching from Windows 10, keeping things as simple as possible.
I’m already very happy with what the program can do, but if you want more features, feel free to open an issue and tag it as a [Feature Request].
Here’s are some images of the program:
And the links:
volt-gui github repo
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Performance uplift in Rimworld compared to Windows
For context, I've dualbooted Linux on and off ever since I was in college. I preferred Linux and liked tinkering, and would occasionally try games on Linux, but my laptop at the time with an nvidia card didn't play very nicely so I avoided games in general. Fast-forward to now, I've recently started dualbooting again and to my surprise a lot of games have been working pretty fine. I play league, so obviously I can't fully migrate, but otherwise most of the games I play have worked as well as on Windows or with minimal fps losses
Rimworld specifically had a performance-related benefit that was actually noticeable: zooming out fully on 3x speed was pretty taxing for my computer on Windows as soon as I got more than 6 or so colonists, usually leading to my frames dropping from a constant 144 to inconsistently spiking below 80. On Linux I still have a performance drop doing that, but it's sticking to around ~110-120 fps without any spikes, and chilling above 130 if I'm not moving my camera around at all. I don't think it's being limited by my specs since I have a 5800x3D and a 9070xt, so I imagine it's something to do with Windows vs Linux CPU scheduling or something, but I'm not really knowledgeable on those specifics. Either way, this was a pleasant surprise. Once I figure out some things like discord screen sharing and input remapping on my dualsense, I might primarily play games on Linux and save my windows partition just for league lmao
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Last Of Us part 1 has busted my pc
I was playing Last Of Us Part 1 on CachyOs when my whole system turned off by itself. I cannot power it back on, even after reseating RAM removing CMOS etc. Could my psu, Aerocool Integrator, have fried or could it be that the Mobo Asus A320m-k have died. Not particularly Linux related question but I need an answer nonetheless.
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I can't seem to download Bottles (which apparently runs Windows programs) without having to donate. Is this worth it or a scam?
I'm new to Bazzite and wish to start modding The Witcher 3 with its own mod manager. But it looks like I have to use some program that would help me access Windows applications like this mod manager. I came across this video about modding on Linux https://youtu.be/7YrBUMnnCNs?t=90 , where it recommended a program called bottles. When I went to go download, it wanted me to donate some money. There doesn't seem to be a free option.
Is this a scam? Or is it worth donating at least 1 dollar to utilize it? Or is there a free version that I can use?
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Desktop entry fixer
When I am playing games on linux, usually I got annoyed by the gear icon showing on the opened game (normally a proton game) and not the right game icon. So I study it a little and notice that native games usually show it just fine, so analyzing their desktop entries I notice what is wrong: StartUpWmClass is missing from any other game. I did a script in rust (I am learning this week, so sorry if its not that good haha) to automatically fill this field and consequently shows the right icon. Feel free to use it and ask me on github to improve or fix it :)
Known Issues:
- Does not support some native games since they dont follow the same pattern
- Does not mess with the file neither
- Does not support non steam games (WIP)
- Same
You can see the installation script if you want to give a try. Also its important to say that this does not consume too much resources so its just fine to keep it in background (uses 1.5 - 1.8 Mb ram).
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Will Intel Arc ever be good?
I am looking at probably switching to Linux, and am considering upgrading my 2060 as well, and Arc is so tempting for the price, but sounds like a terrible idea. Anyone think it will get worth it?
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microsift
Vivid/Stasis
Got this after opening the game for the first time, first impression was that i thought this was a part of the game, turns out it may not be…pressed y after text finished on each screen and got to this, cant do much else other than close the game.
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Intel + nvidia laptop hangs when gaming
I have MSI GE60 2OE with intel hd 4600 and nvidia 765m and when playing games the laptop hangs (I think I've made a post before about the same issue)
but when looking into Xorg.0.log I found issues related to present flip with the modesetting driver that my intel gpu uses
any help or suggestions are appreciated
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State of meta App on linux
Is it still not possible to play my meta store owned game on Linux?
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Is it important to re-format my games drive from NTFS to Ext4/Btrfs?
I recently installed CachyOS and have had some issues with games not starting on my (former) Windows E drive. I'm not dual booting, but I just thought I could plug and play the drive into Steam on my new install. I did some research and found out that it isn't recommended to boot Steam games from an NTFS drive due to stability issues. I have a lot of games on my drive and it would be a huge pain to reinstall all of them, including some games I emulate. Is it worth biting the bullet and formatting the drive to something like Btrfs? Has anyone else had issues with steam while using an NTFS drive?
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How to enable seccomp in flatpak?
I installed flatpak but found out that seccomp is disabled, but i have no idea how to enable it. I tried some stuff but nothing worked.
(I use linux mint)
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What is the best distro for Gaming And Streaming?
So I have seen a lot of recommendations for the gaming part. But what distro would be the best to multistream from OBS as well? I also have a Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card that factors into this. Any recommendations and why is appreciated. Thanks.
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GPU pass through help
Hey guys, I need some help with GPU pass through on fedora. Here is my system details.
```# System Details Report Report details- Date generated: 2025-07-14 13:54:13
- Hardware Model: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760M AORUS ELITE AX
- Memory: 32.0 GiB
- Processor: 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K × 20
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 7800 XT
- Graphics 1: Intel® UHD Graphics 770 (ADL-S GT1)
- Disk Capacity: 3.5 TB
- Firmware Version: F18e
- OS Name: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)
- OS Build: (null)
- OS Type: 64-bit
- GNOME Version: 48
- Windowing System: Wayland
- Kernel Version: Linux 6.15.5-200.fc42.x86_64 ```
I am using the @virtualization package and following these two guides I found on Github - Guide 1 - Guide 2
I went through both of these guides but as soon as I start the vm my host machine black screens and I am not able to do anything. From my understanding this is expected since the GPU is now being used by the virtual machine.
I also plugged one of my monitor into my iGPU port but I saw that when I start the vm my user gets logged out. When I log back in and open virt-manager I see that the windows is running but I only see a black screen with a cursor when I connect to it.
Could someone please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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…so I made the jump!
Fate Trigger - IA Anti Cheat, One way?
Advanced AI System:Fate Trigger utilizes an AI system to detect and flag suspicious player behavior, aiming to identify and prevent cheating in real-time.
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Steam download speeds absolutely horrendous
This only happens on steam on both the flatpak and native versions - downloads repeatedly crash to individual KB/s sometimes even to 0 making the app almost unusable as it’s impossible to download games. HTTP2 disabled does not make a change. Any help would be appreciated, as all the common fixes I could find do nothing.
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Oolite (free space game!)
Oolite was written for the AppleMac back in 2003, but has been greatly improved since. It has also been ported to Windows & Linux.
It is based on Elite) (1984) but with vastly superior graphics and a much more sophisticated game engine. It also has over 1,100 mods ("OXP"s).
The film above was created by Phkb and features a number of these OXPs (see r/Oolite for more).
Website: https://oolite.space/
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