Hi everyone! I've been on the search for some games from my childhood that have felt like a fever dream but I SWEAR I played them. I don't have pictures sadly, but all I can remember is little me sitting in front of my mom's computer and playing a variety of Linux games, the one I remember (slightly) more is one of Lux sliding through the snow, it was some kind of race I believe. Please if someone has any clue of what I'm talking about I'd highly appreciate it, I swear I've been on the hunt for these games since like forever!

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System Background

I am running fedora 42 on a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16ITH6 which means i7-11800H and a nvidia 3050 laptop gpu. I installed the nvidia linux drivers using rpm-fusion.

My laptop has integrated and dedicated graphics. I would like to use integrated for everything except gaming (battery life reasons). I think my hdmi port is wired only to the dedicated graphics. I play on a separate monitor.

Problem

Assume I am an idiot. I downloaded lutris, then linked my epic games account. When I try to launch the epic games launcher (to claim free games) or launch celeste, it says running for a few seconds before showing nothing is running. Here is the wine console log for celeste

lutris-wrapper: Celeste Started initial process 18416 from gamemoderun /home/<user>/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine /home/<user>/Games/epic-games-store/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Epic Games/Launcher/Portal/Binaries/Win32/EpicGamesLauncher.exe -opengl -SkipBuildPatchPrereq -com.epicgames.launcher://apps/Salt?action=launch Start monitoring process. gamemodeauto: Monitored process exited. Initial process has exited (return code: 0) All processes have quit Exit with return code 0

Can anyone tell me why lutris isnt launching games?

Secondly, I have installed steam and downloaded hollow knight. When on my integrated display, the game says over 200 fps (which is expected), but the game doesnt feel as smooth as on windows. It feels like there is something wrong. The audio also sounds a bit different (using same bluetooth headphones). When the game runs on my separate monitor (intended way to play), it is stuttering so bad I cannot even enter my save file. I tried adding __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only to the steam game settings, but it made no difference for either issue.

I am not sure about the lutris issue, but I am sure the steam one is due to the nvidia drivers. On both screens I ran nvidia-smi and say that hollow knight was showing up in the list of running processes. All software mentioned was installed using dnf on command line.

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System Background

I recently switched my laptop to fedora 42. I have a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16ITH6 which means i7-11800H and rtx 3050 mobile gpu.

I installed the Nvidia Linux Drivers from rpm-fusion. My laptop can dynamically switch between integrated and dedicated. I wish to keep everything on integrated graphics for battery life, except for games. I use a separate monitor when gaming, and I think the hdmi port is wired only to the dedicated graphics.

Problem

Lutris wont launch games. I have added epic games as a source and installed celeste. Assume I am an idiot. When I click launch epic games, or run celeste, it says running for a few seconds, before it says nothing is running. Here is the console log

lutris-wrapper: Celeste Started initial process 18416 from gamemoderun /home/<user>/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine /home/<user>/Games/epic-games-store/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Epic Games/Launcher/Portal/Binaries/Win32/EpicGamesLauncher.exe -opengl -SkipBuildPatchPrereq -com.epicgames.launcher://apps/Salt?action=launch Start monitoring process. gamemodeauto: Monitored process exited. Initial process has exited (return code: 0) All processes have quit Exit with return code 0 submitted by /u/chaos_anarchy_hell
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Note: Speaking about the GNOME versions.

I switched my main PC from Windows 11 to Project Bluefin then to Bazzite as I was testing both. If you don't want the most up to date gaming version then I can't recommend Bluefin enough. All the settings make sense the initial packages are great. Bazzite is a great gaming distro but I tweaked it to make the initial settings more like Bluefin.

The Bazaar store looks really nice and the curated apps are great. I don't know what else to say really. I think I am a universal blue convert. This is coming from a Windows native person for the past I don't know how long. I have used Linux here and there for 20+ years so it's not new to me and I have managed Linux and Unix servers for past work. But something always made me drop Linux. My last favorite distro was OpenSUSE but no longer.

Time to get WEMOD working. I got it working on Bluefin yesterday, it was a pain. Also was able to get a Podman Desktop container for ComfyUI working for my Intel Arc A770 also surprisingly not trivial to do because they all expect NVIDIA by default. I am used to Docker but Podman Desktop is so nice to use.

IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT GOING LINUX DO IT! Just buy 1 month of Claude AI or ChatrGPT or whatever AI you like usually they are $20 a month. And it's like having a Linux expert next to you. Ask it questions and use it to learn.

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I'm using the Steam Flatpak. Filesystem is btrfs, same filesystem as the OS. I always let the vulkan shader compilation finish.

I've tried dozens of combinations even Proton GE but no matter what I do the game window never opens. Tried X11 and Wayland. Tried Wine's virtual desktop.

The EA apps works and it shows a process "starwarsbattlef" but the game window is not visible.

Any tips?

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I've been seeing posts for the adaption of lossless scaling for the last few weeks but didn't really understand the hype in the enthusiastic posts I saw. Two days ago I went back to Cyberpunk 2077 since it got the FSR4 and FSR Frame Gen 3.1 update, to see how ray-tracing would run on my 7900xtx.

Well, frame gen seems to be completely broken for this game. It actually had a huge negative stuttery impact, with no frames generated. So, I decided I'd finally go check the status of lossless scaling (https://github.com/PancakeTAS/lsfg-vk).

Yesterday the project released a new pre-release version, and it now includes easier-to-install binaries, and a GUI to set up variables that can be called by steam to enable profiles.

Once enabled... it's honestly a game-changer. Went from 50-60fps to around 130-140fps with unnoticeable input lag (talking like 1.5ms on my pc, using 3x lossless settings), with everything maxed out and RT on ultra. Amazing clarity and buttery smooth on my ultrawide 3440x1440 monitor.

I've worked on computers for a long time (20+ years), as a builder, C++/C# programmer, DBA... and it's one of those rare times I feel like a piece of software is magic. Feel like I just downloaded some RAM for real.

I'm know others have felt this way about "fake frames" before me - but as a long-time AMD and Linux user, it's awesome to experience what this piece of software does. Props to the original creator(s), and the team porting this to Linux. It's a game changer and I encourage folks to buy the software and try this out on your more demanding games.

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I'm a noob looking to switch over to Linux.

I've heard AMD's Adrenaline software is simply not available on Linux, which I find very troublesome, because I've come to like it a lot and have been wanting to finally move over from windows to either Ubuntu or Mint.

Is that really the case? There is a download for Ubuntu at least on AMD's page, does it not work as it does on Windows?

I worry because, besides overclocking and fan control, how about features like frame-gen, driver-level upscaling or down scaling, would I lose access to those on Linux?

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Example: i used to play cod IW a lot but i play at high fps. The game is capped at 91 fps and on pc gaming wiki there's a fix that unlocks the fps on the game. https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2368-fps-unlocker-for-call-of-duty-infinite-warfare/

The thing is, the file is an executable. And on windows that isn't a problem but i dont know how to launch it on linux and make it work. Im on nobara 42 (basically fedora). There also other games i play, that it's fixes are executables... Any tips?

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Plasma 6.4.3

Hdr looks correctly in mpv.

Games tested: God of War, Death Stranding, Cyberpunk. All of them washed out.

These are my launch options: PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1

Is this a bug? Something am I missing?

Any help would be appreciated. Ask me any more info that you need.

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Hi,

I’m using Fedora KDE 42 with the following hardware:

GPU: RX 6700 XT

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X

RAM: 32 GB DDR4

When gaming ( helldivers 2, like a dragon infinite, etc.), after a while my GPU is always at 99% usage, but only draws about 70-80W max of power according to btop and core ctrl. The RX 6700 XT should normally draw between 180W and 230W at full load.

As a result, in-game performance is terrible — about 3x lower than it should be.

The problème occur until I restart sddm or the computer but that very annoying to do.

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Hi, im a complete noob to arch and trying to bypass EAC to play Rust I ran two commands I found on these subreddit (i know, shouldn't be running commands I don't understand so lightly, my bad). The issue is, it sent my pc into kernel panic cause it didn't correctly re-install glibc (as far as I understood). Any idea how could I fix it? I'll add the commands on the comments

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Here's the English translation of your message, aiming for clarity and a natural flow:

Hello,

When I exit Gaming Mode, Steam remains active. Is this normal? I then have a Steam icon in my taskbar, and if I close it, my mouse no longer works with the right stick, but it continues to function with the trackpad. Additionally, the keyboard no longer appears. If I relaunch Steam (the Steam icon, not "Return to Gaming Mode"), it works again. I don't understand why this is happening...

I want to specify that I'm using a Steam Deck OLED, it's up to date, and a factory reset didn't resolve the issue. Thank you for your help!

System Information:

• KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
• KDE Frameworks: 6.9.0
• Qt Version: 6.8.1
• Kernel Version: 6.11.11-valve19-1-neptune-611-g88b36D49a5e2 (64 bit)
• Graphics Platform: X11

For the desktop-mode logs, I don't know where to find them yet, but I'm working on it.

I couldn't find the logs, but when I right-click, the application tells me the path doesn't exist... even though it does. When I go into the Desktop (Dolphin), I see several folders including "home," "esp," "var-A," "root-fs," and "efi" on the left under "Devices." And by following the path that supposedly doesn't exist, I find it. I can even run the Steam application, so the path must exist. Maybe my question is strange, and it's normal that when I quit Steam via the icon in the taskbar, I can no longer use my keyboard and my left stick loses its mouse function, but it just seemed odd to me...

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I recently upgraded my PC and switched the operating system to Linux. It's been a bit of a struggle, but little by little I'm starting to get the hang of how to use it.

Now I want to download some games, but I understand it's different from installing games on Windows. I've read a few things on FedGamer, but I’d love to hear how do you all play games here? Any tips or go to tools you recommend?

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As the title says, I'm considering switching back to Linux for gaming from Windows.

I last was doing so over a decade ago, but ended up going to windows as some games took ages to get working and it was annoying me, but I've now decided to give it a go again.

Any suggestions for which distro? I mostly used ubuntu-based distros (I went through a period of changing them often, apparently installing a new OS was a hobby) but I'm wondering if there's any specific good ones currently

I don't tend to play any really new games, though I do sometimes like to load up VR (oculus rift 2) and I have a GTX 1080ti gpu (in case that makes a difference.

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I'm used to simply using the NVIDIA control panel on Windows to put frame limits on a game-by-game basis where sometimes high frame rates end up with wonky physics.

For reference I'm on a fresh installation of Fedora (KDE), I'm only using Steam and Heroic and I've got the latest GE-Proton installed.

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