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Error running last of us part 2 in wine lutris

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Apr 2025 - 4:27am

After installing i tried to run the game but it showed me this error. I tried to adjust the windows version to 10 in winetricks byt it didn't work. Any help?? Thank you

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Should I switch?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Apr 2025 - 3:37am

I am currently building a new computer and am considering switching to Linux as my main operating system. I will primarily be using this computer for heavy gaming, but with some various light productivity-related stuff (most likely programming). I have become increasingly attracted to Linux's customization features and its lack of bloatware that has become prevalent on my current PC. My limited experience using Linux through the Steam Deck has also grabbed my attention.

I primarily play single-player games, so I prefer a higher resolution and textures over framerate and speed. I understand that most multiplayer games don't work on Linux (which I'm okay with). I'll probably just use my old SSD running Windows as an alternate boot if I ever need to play with friends.

I was originally drawn to linux mint since I don't have any experience with linux, but I learnt that most linux distros (including mint) don't support HDR. I recently got a 4k oled monitor and want to use it to its fullest potential, so mint is out of the question. After doing more research, I decided to stick with Arch Linux, despite its notoriety, as I appreciate its documentation and am usually pretty good with command line stuff (also hyprland looks cool).

I want to take advantage of my hardware as much as possible while also having the advantages of using Linux. I know that linux gaming has come a long way, especially with proton, and performance seems excellent on most games, but from what I can tell, some of the more advanced features (HDR, VR, raytracing to an extent) seems to still be better on windows. In my position, is it worth it to make the switch?

tl;dr: is the absolute best gaming experience still stuck on windows, or is linux just as good?

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Testing latest ntsync vs esync (Cyberpunk 2077)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Apr 2025 - 2:12am

Comparing Cyberpunk 2077 with esync (Wine 10.5) vs latest MR of ntsync (Wine git master) in one scene near Advocet Hotel and results of benchmarks runs.

Using recent vkd3d-proton master / Mesa main. Kernel 6.14.1.

Conclusion:

In that random scene ntsync loads GPU more fully resulting in higher framerate. Benchmark is better for ntsync probably due to better GPU utilization.

There are still some anomalies with this ntsync MR, like random crashes, and randomly disappearing sound (which don't happen with esync).

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Rocket league on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Apr 2025 - 1:46am

So I’ve been watching YouTube, and then I said, does Linux have rocket league? So I just went and searched how to install it, but those are videos of 5 years ago, so I don’t think they do work as I tried 2 an none of them worked. So now I’m here, is there anyway if playing rocket league on Linux Ubuntu’s system?

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Anyone here have a GP2040-CE board?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Apr 2025 - 12:38am

Got one in the other day, but xinput mode does not seem to work on my Fedora install. dmseg says a controller has been plugged in but not input is received.

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Skyrim SP does not work when I use my main GPU

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Apr 2025 - 12:17am

Image shows log from Lutris

What i am trying to do

I am currently trying and failing to run skyrim on my laptop using my Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q. However when i try to use said gpu, the screen turns black shortly, an the game crashes. When i use the inegrated graphics this issue does not happen and the game works normally.

What i tried

I updated my entire system

I tried all the available drivers in the linux mint driver manager.

I tried different versions of wine

System Information

OS: Linux Mint 22

Wine version used: wine-ge-8-26-x86_64

Windowing System: X11

Current GPU Drivers: 550.120

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Looking for the right distro for an nvidia/intel laptop with a 4070 max-q

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Apr 2025 - 12:14am

Hello,

First of all my English is not the best sorry (I speak French mainly)

I bought a Lenovo legion 7i with a intel/nvidia 4070 max-q and I tried a lot of distro in the last weeks. The problem is frame rate are really inconsistent. In fedora the nvidia x server in powermizer is alway messed up I cannot have fixed performance level (I made the laptop use the GPU always in the bios). In unbuntu I can set to level 3 but cannot force to use level 4. My max tgp is 140w but I cannot exceed 100w of power draw when I game. In game like Diablo 4 (don't judge me lol) I have high fps like 100 and drop to 40 with hiccups for no reason) on windows everything work perfect no lag the laptop draw the max wattage. I really want to stay away from windows and I could get some advice. I tried fedora, ubuntu, popOS (the worst in my test) and cachyos (for some reason cachyos hate my external monitor). I need advice for the desktop environment too should I use gnome or kde with nvidia ? Thank you !

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Minecraft Bedrock

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 9 Apr 2025 - 11:43pm

Hello! Has anyone managed to install the new Minecraft Launcher or Bedrock on Linux yet?

I'm aware of the Bedrock Launcher that uses the Android Pocket Edition Version to allow playing Minecraft on Linux, but I'd rather not buy the game again on Android just to play it on Linux.

Has anyone managed to get a WineTrick or anything going to get actual, proper, PC Bedrock Edition running on Linux?

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Weird graphic issue

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 9 Apr 2025 - 11:13pm

Game testing continues, reinstalled my system and decided to try lutris, everyone has a skin issue in arkham knight.

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ReShade or ENB for Grand Theft Auto V Legacy (GTA 5)?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 9 Apr 2025 - 10:55pm

When I try and use ENB with GTA, I get to the siren loading screen followed by a CTD. Tried some suggestions I found online but no luck unfortunately.

I've also attempted to use ReShade, but nothing happens. I installed it from that one GitHub Linux ReShade installer, but any time I load my game nothing seems to happen. Can't pull up the on screen display or anything.

Have any of you guys had any luck getting it to work on GTA V for Linux? I'm using Pop!_OS and have the Steam version of the game.

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Price aside, and only for the sake of performance would it be better to purchase old school retro titles available through steam or is emulation on Linux better?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 9 Apr 2025 - 10:36pm

Hey all,

So this question came up while I was playing a bit of the original Final Fantasy on Steam. Price aside (since I usually get these kind of games when they're on sale for like a dollar or two) do these games tend to run better on Steam or would they run better if emulated on Linux? Or is it more of a case by case basis? If so are there any resources available that compare how the games run via Steam or an emulator?

I'm interested in building a library (not sure how large yet) of older games I played as a kid or games I never got a chance to play since my parents didn't have much money when I was little so I'd only get maybe a game or two a year out of like the hundreds I wanted lol

I plan on emulating on desktop linux (Arch) and also my Steam Deck likely both via EmuDeck and I do dual boot with Windows so might consider having a copy of the library there as well

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Nobara or Bazzite?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 9 Apr 2025 - 9:27pm

I've been using linux mint for a while and I didn't like that my laptop's ssd was split into 2 for some reason in which the other 100 became a removable drive for some reason and gaming was a hit or miss with some tinkering involved and I wanted to know which of the two is better for gaming?

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cachyos, bottles, GTX 3060 and HDR issues

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 9 Apr 2025 - 9:21pm

I'm going to try and explain my issue best I can. I can provide any extra information or logs that may help find out why I can't get HDR working.

Basically seeking help from people with a similar stack to what I have listed in the title.

I'm running cachyos and tend to install games using bottles, I am not using Steam. I have no issue running most games and I'm confident in what's required to get things running on Linux in general.

The issue is that I cannot get any games to recognise my HDR display and therefore toggle HDR on.

HDR is toggled on in gnome 48 display settings and looks great.

I have tried launching games using both gamescope and gamescope-git which I installed from the cachyos repo. I have also tried using gamescope via flatpak. I've tried bottles and heroic launcher.

HDR works fine in windows so feel like I can probably rule out my display and AVR as the problem.

I'm at the point where I'm starting to think HDR/gamescope is broken or I just need to wait a few months for gamescope/driver fixes.

Info below (sorry about the formatting)

Runner: proton 9 26 DXVK: 2.6 VKD3D: 2.14.1

Launch command:

`ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=1 gamescope -f -w 3840 -h 2160 -W 3840 -H 2160 --hdr-enabled -- flatpak run --command=bottles-cli com.usebottles.bottles run -p DaysGone -b 'ge-proton9-26'`

Some snippets below from logs that I think could be relevant. Can post full logs.

Bottles via bottles-cli

`[Gamescope WSI] Failed to connect to gamescope socket: gamescope-0. Bypass layer will be unavailable.` `[Gamescope WSI] Failed to connect to gamescope socket: gamescope-0. Bypass layer will be unavailable.`

Logs from Heroic:

`[Gamescope WSI] Creating Gamescope surface: xid: 0x1200051` `[Gamescope WSI] Atom of T was wrong type. Expected XCB_ATOM_CARDINAL.` `[Gamescope WSI] Made gamescope surface for xid: 0x1200051` `[Gamescope WSI] Surface state:` `steam app id: 0` `window xid: 0x1200051` `wayland surface res id: 5` `layer client flags: 0x4` `server hdr output enabled: false` `hdr formats exposed to client: false` `warn: D3D11DXGIDevice::QueryInterface: Unknown interface query` `warn: 0ec870a6-5d7e-4c22-8cfc-5baae07616ed` `wine: setpriority -2 for pid 5778 failed: 13` `warn: DXGI: MakeWindowAssociation: Ignoring flags` `info: Presenter: Actual swapchain properties:` `info: Format: VK_FORMAT_A2B10G10R10_UNORM_PACK32` `info: Color space: VK_COLOR_SPACE_SRGB_NONLINEAR_KHR` `info: Present mode: VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_KHR (dynamic: yes)` `info: Buffer size: 3840x2160` `info: Image count: 4` `[Gamescope WSI] Creating swapchain for xid: 0x1200051 - oldSwapchain: (nil) - provided minImageCount: 4 - minImageCount: 4 - format: VK_FORMAT_A2B10G10R10_UNORM_PACK32 - colorspace: VK_COLOR_SPACE_SRGB_NONLINEAR_KHR - flip: true` `[Gamescope WSI] Created swapchain for xid: 0x1200051 swapchain: 0x555576890ec0 - imageCount: 4`

inxi -G

Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07 Display: unspecified server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch tty: 224x69 resolution: 1920x1080 API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nouveau, nvidia, swrast platforms: gbm, wayland, surfaceless, device API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.3-cachyos1.2 note: console (EGL sourced) renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2, zink Vulkan 1.4 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (NVIDIA_PROPRIETARY)), llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7 256 bits) API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 drivers: N/A surfaces: wayland Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo gpu: nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

nvidia-smi

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 570.133.07 Driver Version: 570.133.07 CUDA Version: 12.8 | |-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | 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 3060 Off | 00000000:06:00.0 On | N/A | | 39% 56C P2 44W / 170W | 2412MiB / 12288MiB | 8% Default | | | | N/A | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 918 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 429MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 984 G ...b/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon 2MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 1241 G /usr/bin/Xwayland 2MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 1607 C+G /usr/bin/sunshine 172MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2367 C+G /usr/bin/kgx 134MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2563 G /app/lib/firefox/firefox 398MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 4382 G ...ess --variations-seed-version 585MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 4834 G ...ess --variations-seed-version 266MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 5140 C+G /usr/bin/python3 102MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ submitted by /u/pyramidassembly
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Discouraging NTFS on linux... what's the problem?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 9 Apr 2025 - 8:49pm

Personally, i have been running a ntfs sata ssd as my games storage for almost 3 years now, and i have never had any issue.
Steam finds the library both on windows and linux, i am able to install a game on linux, play it, then reboot into windows and play it there without reinstalling anything (even if i rarely do it).

I recently saw a thread about how you should not do this, but nobody was able to tell me why...

What am i risking?

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Razer Naga Trinity: side buttons don't produce any output

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 9 Apr 2025 - 8:26pm

Hello,

I recently tried to switch over to arch from windows and I would love to use my razer mouse. I own the wired version with swappable side plates. However the side buttons, in the 12 panel setup, apart from the 1 and 2 which register "back" and "forward", do not register any output at all.

I tried looking around for a solution but couldn't find any that worked.

Has anyone experienced the same? How did you solve the issue?
Thank you for your time

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need help choosing an os for a very old pc

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 9 Apr 2025 - 7:54pm

hey guys, i need help finding an os for my old pc, it has a core i5 5th gen, 4gb of ram and no graphics card (it has intergrated graphics tho) i just need an os that can run some games smoothly like roblox or something, thank you in advance.

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