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Helldivers 2 arent running.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 8:13pm

im using nvidia rtx 3050 6 gb with intel i5 12450h. i was dealing with some kind of kernel driver incompability issuses with ubuntu 24.04 lts before that. i reinstalled the "competible" driver and now helldivers 2 just doesnt run. i tried some things (launch options commands, and asked some help from ai) but i really dont know what to do rn .

UPDATE: i delete and reinstalled helldivers 2. now its running perfectly fine but still i cant understand why this happened. thank you :)

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Games keep opening half off the screen

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 8:01pm

As the title says. I cannot interact with them either.

Just switched from windows. Clean Linux install. Drives formatted correctly. Using recommend drivers. Downloaded and installed all steam Proton add ons.

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Switched to Pop OS. Reinstall All Steam Games?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 7:46pm

Hello! I just switched to Pop OS today and so far it's been great.

However I am not able to run any Steam games.

So what I did was my games are in a separate drive from the OS. Steam is in my OS NVME drive which the Steam games are on an existing directory in another drive and I had my Steam on Pop OS read that directory. It did read the game files however the games are not running.

Is it a good idea to uninstall and reinstall these games so it'll install as something readable by Linux? The games were installed via Steam on WIndows. Thank you!

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Steam new windows open very slowly on Fedora KDE plasma

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 7:24pm

Everything else is snappy and quick, dolphin file browser opens new windows fast, but when I try to open a new window via steam for example friends list out of my systems tray, it takes like 1-1.5 seconds to open. Anyone have any ideas whats wrong?

Running full AMD hardware, 7900xtx 5800x3d

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Lego Star Wars on Mint and Steam

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 7:06pm

I'm getting almost everything I want to play to work through Steam on my Mint build. Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga however doesn't seem to work. No errors and it does something when I hit play but just stops about 7 seconds after I hit the play button, I've tried most Proton versions but it just refuses to work. Any one else get this game to work in Linux?

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Horda

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 6:45pm

HORDA é um jogo de tiro estilo Arcade 2D, de ação e progressão continua que irá testar suas habilidades como jogador.

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Steam AppArmor profile blocks user namespaces despite claiming to be unconfined

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 6:20pm

The /etc/apparmor.d/steam profile shipped with Ubuntu 24.04 prevents Steam from running with the error "Steam now requires user namespaces to be enabled."

The profile's comment states it "allows everything and only exists to give the application a name instead of having the label unconfined" but it uses flags=(complain) instead of flags=(unconfined), causing child processes like bwrap and steam-runtime-check-requirements to be restricted.

Fix:

Change flags=(complain) to flags=(unconfined):

profile steam /usr/{lib/steam/bin_steam.sh,games/steam} flags=(unconfined) { userns, include if exists <local/steam> }

Then reload: sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/steam

Environment:

  • Ubuntu 24.04
  • Kernel 6.17.0-8-generic
  • steam-launcher 1:1.0.0.85
  • apparmor loaded with landlock, yama, apparmor, ima, evm

The flatpak profile in the same package correctly uses flags=(unconfined). The steam profile appears to have been intended to work the same way based on its comment, but has the wrong flags.

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Steam Games

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 5:45pm

Hello, everyone!

Can someone answer my question: Is it possible to run games from Steam in Faugus Launcher? So that they run from Steam.

Sorry, I don't understand it very well.

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Wildgate through Heroic LAuncher

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 5:25pm

Hi all,
I'm attempting to play the newest EGS freebie, Wildgate, using the Heroic Launcher. The game opens fine, but it fails at login. Stating that connection to the server was not possible. I have tested a bunch of Proton versions with the same result.

Is there any "global" issue with EGS multiplayer games through Heroic that I'm not aware of ?

I kindly appreciate any help given.

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Laptop with hybrid iGpu and dGpu owners. Do your dGpu stays always active?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 4:34pm

I have an intel/nvidia laptop, and i noticed in hybrid mode Nvidia dGpu stays active and consume around 8Watts.

That's the way it works, so on linux it never get off until you completly start the system with the iGpu? Or what?

I'm on KDE and i also tried to start the system with iGpu, then launch a program checking the box to use the dGpu, but it doesn't works.

I'm not an expert, but at this point i don't understand if there is a configuration issue with my system or if this is just how it works, so with the dGpu always active.

Thanks

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Hey my free game now supports Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 4:25pm

Happy New Year guys.

I recently made a game, and the native Linux build is out now.

My self, I'm Debian user so on my rig it runs smoothly, usually use Windows for gaming and game dev, and I've never really tried gaming on Linux before - mostly just regular software development. Now it's become more interesting to explore what experience actually is :D

If you're interested in giving it a shot and spending about an hour to beat the game that I was tinkering with friends, be my guest https://niflforge.itch.io/drownedcaves ^_^! I'd be glad to hear any feedback you have.

Cheers!

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NVIDIA GeForce NOW to gain native Linux support

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 4:23pm

NVIDIA is preparing to add native Linux support to GeForce NOW, expanding the service beyond its current list of officially supported platforms. The company has not shared full technical details yet, but the move would give desktop Linux users a supported way to stream games without relying on workarounds.

GeForce NOW already has an official path on Steam Deck. NVIDIA provides a setup method that adds GeForce NOW to the Steam Library from Desktop Mode, so it can be launched like a regular entry in Gaming Mode. Linux desktop users, by contrast, have largely depended on unofficial GeForce NOW apps or browser tweaks to make the service work reliably, and those approaches can break after updates. That looks set to change once Linux support lands.

Alongside the Linux news, NVIDIA is also set to announce GeForce NOW support for a new batch of games. The next lineup includes 007 First Light, Crimson Desert, Resident Evil Requiem, and Active Matter, based on the company’s latest promotional material.

This comes as GeForce NOW is also moving to a 100-hour monthly playtime limit, which we covered in a separate story. The cap applies across tiers and extends to long-time subscribers, changing how much time a subscriber can actually use each month.

Source: NVIDIA

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Good morning, I'd like a good distro for my PC.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 4 Jan 2026 - 3:33pm

I've used Linux before, I used Linux Mint and Zorin OS, but in those distros my video card didn't recognize my RX 560 video card, but in those distros it recognized it as an RX 460. Can someone help me?

My PC: H61 motherboard, 16GB DDR3, 480GB SSD and RX 560

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