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Vinegar tells me I need the latest wine version, but I already have one.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 26 Oct 2025 - 12:50am

I spent almost half an hour uninstalling and reinstalling wine and vinegar, restarting my laptop, nothing worked. Genuinely what am I missing? btw the open log button just closes the window, it doesnt do anything else.

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Far Cry 5 no longer boots?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 26 Oct 2025 - 12:26am

Hi linux_gaming!

I'm trying to run Far Cry 5 that I've bought on Steam on my CachyOS install. The game is purchased through Steam, I'm not trying to run this via Lutris or anything like that.

When I boot the game, the button changes from Play to Stop and acts as if the game has booted, but nothing shows. I never see a Ubisoft Connect login prompt, or any sign that Ubisoft Connect has booted at all. I've tried reinstalling Ubisoft Connect with Protontricks into Far Cry 5s prefix and that doesn't work. I've tried Proton Experimental, the latest Cachy Proton, the latest Proton GE and nothing will work to get this game booting.

Is there currently a bug with Ubisoft Connect on CachyOS/Linux? I've checked the Proton Issues page for both Ubisoft Connect and Far Cry 5 and I can't see anyone reporting anything.

Any help would be much appreciated!

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How are b500 and rx 9000 series drivers on Linux these days?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 26 Oct 2025 - 12:11am

I know the performance wasn't that great on launch day with Mesa. And I know it has improved over time.

I'm curious If they've improved in the last few months since I haven't read any news on this lately. And how do they compare with Windows at the moment.

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[NVIDIA + Plasma 6.5] Desktop HDR OK, but Proton games grey/washed (Gamescope path broke). Any fix?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 26 Oct 2025 - 12:07am

Sooo... HDR was going well at least with gamescope enabled... without I already had the same problem.

- Desktop HDR works fine (for example MPV HDR via `vo=gpu-next` + `waylandvk` looks perfect).

- Proton games appear **grey/washed** (SDR tone-mapped as HDR).

- Untilast week, running them with **Gamescope** fixed it; now after Plasma 6.5 update, it’s broken.

- Tried `DXVK_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1`, Proton-GE latest, Gamescope `--hdr-enabled` with/without `--hdr-itm-enable`, no joy.

- VRR toggle / fullscreen modes → no change.

Anyone else on NVIDIA Wayland seeing this after Plasma 6.5? Any combo (Gamescope build, Proton-GE, driver branch) restoring HDR? I can share `vulkaninfo`, DXVK logs, or KWin traces if needed.

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Mind of Marlo no sound arch linux?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 26 Oct 2025 - 12:01am

I am not too knowledgeable on Steam on Linux, just a few games in a couple years sometimes.

I am on Arch Linux, audio device is Focusrite, and other games (I tested Thimbleweed) still sound fine.

I am running Easy Effects always, pipewire, Sway, fully updated everything on Arch. It feels like it's not reaching the right channel but this is beyond me. Anyone?

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Need help with sober!!!

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 11:45pm

I am trying to use sober on my dell latitude e6410. It's old but there shouldn't be any problems running Roblox. Im using Linux mint and I just installed it. I'm getting this weird glitch, can anyone explain and help?

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4:3 in cs2

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 11:18pm

hi all

i know this has been brought up a few times already before but i cannot get this to work for the life of me.

i tried gamescope and the game just doesnt start

im on lmde and x11, gpu is 3070ti

(yes, i like 4:3)

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How close is Bazzite to a console experience?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 11:11pm

I've a laptop with Nvidia GPU (T1000), which I'm using with Kubuntu 25.04. For background, I'm well experienced with Linux and this laptop+Kubuntu has been my general non-gaming daily-driver for many years now. I want create a low overhead, near-zero tinkering, couch+TV gaming setup. Mainly because if I've to tinker I'm too lazy or tired and just end up watching TV instead of gaming (been many years since gaming).

I've a bunch of games on Steam and EGS, few indie titles and few AAA of 5-10yrs ago; same games that worked on this laptop+Windows 4 yrs ago. I tried Steam and Heroic Games Launcher from flathub, and they were working but with lots of perf issues -- some games worked, some didn't. And Steam's own UI was very laggy. I do have the proprietary Nvidia driver installed.

If I setup Bazzite on a different partition, can I expect a significantly improved / seamless experience, or should I just spend more time debugging/tuning my Kubuntu setup? Or is this just perf overhead of Wine/Proton translation and I need to upgrade hardware?

If yes to Bazzite -- is there a pointer to setting up Bazzite on a 2nd partition alongside some other Linux distro? I found a bunch of Windows+Bazzite dual boot tutorials, but no Ubuntu+Bazzite tutorials and few articles/posts mentioning this is complex -- needs 2 EFI partitions or manual grub modifications etc.

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Cannot launch Marvel Rivals - popOS

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 11:09pm

I tried the commands SteamDeck=1 %command% using proton db experimental, still no luck. Any solution for this?

PC Specs:

CPU : i7 13700k

GPU: RTX 4080

RAM: 32DB 5800MT/s

OS : Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

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What is this flickering? Only happens in the bottom right of the screen.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 10:59pm

I see it when interacting with bottom right taskbar icons and in steam and sometimes in my browser. Very occasionally I'll also see it in a game, although it's not very consistent. it's only ever in the bottom right quarter of the screen though, never anywhere else. I'm a relatively new Windows-abandoner running CachyOS with KDE Plasma. I've got a 7800x3d and an RTX 4080 Super. Main monitor is an Asus PG32UCDP. Thanks for any help!

https://reddit.com/link/1og2i9w/video/eoob63mpmbxf1/player

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Running Games with Transparency on Steam

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 10:57pm

I have a lot of idle desktop games on Steam that I like to mess around with, but running any of them, the part that is supposed to be transparent and allow me to still interact with my desktop, is completely blacked out. Some of these games I can't interact with at all.

Anyone have similar games and managed to find a work around? I'm not dying to play them so if I can't fix it, it's no biggy, but I'd still like to use them.

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[Minecraft bedrock launcher] Crashes on google sign in

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 10:45pm

?
Ive already tried clearing the cache, dont recommend me that.

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Raceroom Steam Linux mint wont start

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 10:39pm

Have Raceroom on steam tried several protons but wont start, i push play, choose 1 of the 3 alternatives the nothing happens. Linux mint. Have Bottles, wine but i dont know wich file to try it with. Plz help. With windows 8 i could run Raceroom and other games like f4, Dying Light but since windows 10 my pc got to slow for games, windows 11 it just couldnt do anything, not even watch youtube, yes i tried shutting of background programs but windows just started it again. Plz help i need to practice tracks before my real race car is fixed. I now have Linux Mint.

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Random heavy stutters while playing

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 9:35pm

Hi, hope you all are good:) linux semi-newbie here. I'm having horrendous stutters while trying to play any steam game. Emulators runs fine, games like Roblox (Sober) Runs fine, too, but anything I tried from steam so far (Metaphor, Rivals2, Dark souls 1-3) had random lag spikes. The spikes starts randomly, from even the start of the game or like 5-10 minutes in. I tried monitoring my I/o and everything seems ok. Switched my sata for an nvme and problem is still there. Idk what else to try and I really don't want to go back to windows. Idk if shaders are the problem because when I enter an old zone i still have frame pacing stutters.

Idk if it's relevant, but sometimes when the lag spikes starts, they don't stop until I change zone/character.

PLEASE please help, I have like 1 month trying to make things work here :(

Specs: Distro: CachyOS GPU: Nvidia GTX1070 EVGA CPU: Ryzen 3 3200g Ram: 16gb Disk: 1 - 128gb NVME, 1 - 480 Sata SSD, both Kingston

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Steam won't let me put in my other drives as download options.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 9:20pm

I'm new to Arch Linux, so bear with me here. Every single time I try to put in my drives in Steam menu > Settings > Storage, it just doesn't work after I select it. I'll figure out how to record it if anybody would like a recording of it. I've pretty much exclusively used Windows with all my time using computers, so I'll need help here.

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ELECCIÓN DE DISTRO | NUEVO EN LINUX

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 8:56pm

Hola a todos, soy nuevo en Reddit, en la página y en Linux. Actualmente estoy usando Windows 11 así que entenderán el porqué estoy pensando en cambiarme a Linux. Tengo varias opciones tales como Pop!_OS, Mint y Nobara. Lo instalaría en mi laptop principal, cuenta con procesador AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics (2.00 GHz), 12,0 GB de memoria RAM, 256 GB de memoria y hasta donde tengo entendido poseo gráficos integrados. Mi uso principal es universitario (estudio Derecho así que más allá de programas de ofimática no necesito) y videojuegos. Por la parte universitaria uso Word principalmente y pocas veces Excel y PowerPoint, tengo entendido que WPS Office en Linux es una opción muy excelente, además uso Notion para apuntes pero me parece que puedo usar la versión web, otras aplicaciones son Spotify, HP smart print para mi impresora y OBS, Brave como navegador principal, Google Meet en su versión web y Zoom para una que otra clase virtual. Por la parte de videojuegos uso Steam, mis indispesables son: Red Dead Redemption 2, Left 4 Dead 2 con sus mods de Workshop, Minecraft (con mods aunque no sé si se puedan instalar en Linux, no he encontrado respuesta), Beyond Two Souls, entre otras posesiones de Steam.

Quisiera su ayuda para saber cuál debería escoger para adentrarme en Linux, si alguna de mis alternativas son las correctas, aunque sea para probar una semana para convencerme, o en tal caso, si desean, podrían darme algunas otras alternativas, o en us defecto, quedarme en Windows. Ya que vengo de Windows no me gustaría matarme la cabeza para instalar cosas, sé que nada es sencillo y estoy dispuesto a aprender a usar la terminal ya que es un mundo que me llama mucho la atención, pero tampoco soy un experto, me gustaría algo sencillo, moderno. He visto que GNOME es muy vistoso y amigable. Un gusto conocerlos, estaré a la espera <3

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Arch linux 5070ti native baldurs gate 3 awful performance

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 8:55pm

Arch linux (using Archinstall)
Hyprland
Zen kernel
ryzen 7500x3d + rtx 5070ti

I've installed open-dkms drivers, nvidia-smi shows GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and driver version 580.95.05

I believe i could have conflicting drivers installed via archinstall but as a newbie I haven't found a way to check if this is true

Proton BG 3 - 100 fps smoothly
Native BG 3 - 30-50 fps

When running the game natively mangohud shows that GPU is 100% loaded at 130 watt and 1800 MiB of VRAM

Do i need to install some packages to make native games run smoothly?

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How does steam determine where a proton prefix is created?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 25 Oct 2025 - 7:17pm

Very niche problem but maybe somebody knows the solution. When you run a game through proton a folder is created with a proton prefix. You can set an environment variable to change where this is, but by default steam will either put it in the folder of that steam library, so for example if you have a drive called Games that has a steamapps folder, it would be in /Games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compadata while hte game would be in /common, *or* it could put it in ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compadata as a default location.

My issue is, I set up a gamescope session that I can switch to by pressing a button. It works wonderfully, but when I run steam on my normal arch desktop it will default to putting the compadata on the same drive as the game, and when I run it through gamescope it puts it in the default steam folder. This *still* wouldn't be a problem, but if ran this way it doesn't force a cloud sync, so it's possible for me to have two different saves for games when I don't want that for obvious reasons.

So my question is does anybody know how this behavior is determined and what I could do to preferably always make it prefer the drive for every game? I imagine the opposite is possible by simply setting the environment variable to a specific folder, but I'd rather not do that.

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