Hi, I'm having trouble running games on Linux (even native Linux games) and I don't know what to do anymore. Usually the game opens and then closes or gets extremely laggy with the mouse stopping working (eg. Oxygen Not Included).

I have a GTX 1050 Ti, R5 5600x, 16GB RAM, and a single QuadHD 165Hz 10-bit color monitor. I use Arch Linux Wayland Hyprland with the proprietary v565 drivers. I only play on Steam and they are not competitive or online games.

I've tried using Proton (from Steam), I've tried using GameScope, I've tried adding specific windows for games, etc.

I configured it as follows:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope

https://wiki.hyprland.org/

https://wiki.hyprland.org/Nvidia/

And several posts on forums and reddit

All parameters, env, etc. were configured but can you tell me the obvious because the error is usually something stupid.

My dotfiles:

https://github.com/GOLD875379/Hyprland

I would be very grateful if you could help/share your settings and what you know about hyprland gaming

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Hey guys!

I'm relatively new to Linux, about five months of experience so far, and I absolutely love it! That said, I only just decided to try emulation again now that I've fully switched over and I'm getting a really weird issue.

So, I'm trying to play the Game Shadow of the Colossus on RPCS3 and when I boot up the game, I get a toast in the window saying that RPCS3 Has likely crashed. When I looked in the log, I got the following text:

https://preview.redd.it/5gjw9sq8v3zd1.png?width=874&format=png&auto=webp&s=583e2bd0361880645c255e69e69868ac3d2eca1c

Now, I know for a fact that I was able to emulate this game when I had a Windows installation on my system, but I have no idea what could be causing this specific error. I know it has something to do with trying to read/write to a specific memory address, but I don't know much past that.

There's also another tab that I found that had the following printed in it:

https://preview.redd.it/0q9r7s9lv3zd1.png?width=569&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae15d7a1c5cee0e10e6d02448a18ea7c8bcaa526

I don't know if this might be helpful, but I'd rather give you guys as much information as I can so I can get this resolved as quickly and (hopefully) painlessly as possible.

One more note: I was able to successfully boot the system's firmware, so that's at least a start.

If anyone can help, that would be fantastic.

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One I missed from Halloween - Two Point Museum got a new trailer to showcase the haunted Wailon Lodge as the latest playable museum location.

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Recently we had the news that the classic Croc Legend of the Gobbos was getting a remaster, and then we learned it would be a GOG exclusive. Now we at least know it will release in December.

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I'm using an external RTX 3070 with my laptop and I managed to finally make it run all steam games on the egpu, but I still can't make Minecraft do the same. It'll say that it's running the gpu, but there's almost no difference in fps. I already tried this tutorial (https://askubuntu.com/questions/1108043/running-java-minecraft-with-the-nvidia-gpu) but all it did was put my system in something of a boot loop. I'm running Zorin OS 17 with Wayland and Gnome.

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TLDR: 1080p 60hz with 5ms ping on average on Linux. Stream quality is limited by being browser-based but there is a beta Steam Deck "app" so perhaps NVIDIA will have a native app at some point. Picture quality is acceptable. There is some fuzziness in the image but streamed versus native picture quality is like the difference between Netflix and a local Blu-Ray.

I thought I was finally done with Windows on my desktop in 2023 but this past summer Call of Duty drew me back. I set up a dual-boot again with Windows on a PCIE NVME card. With the rollout of Copilot and Recall I quickly found myself back in the "I don't want Windows on here" state of mind. Neither of those services affect me right now as I disabled Copilot, to the extent I could, and Recall won't run on my CPU. But in the future whenever I upgrade they will if I keep having Windows around. So I was thinking of alternatives.

I already knew that consoles weren't going to work for me. I have CoD on the PS5 but it just didn't suite me. I played MW2019 a lot on PC and that spoiled me. I have known of Geforce Now for a while but my first reaction was always "I don't want to stream games I want them on my hardware. And what if the network is down?" A switch flipped for me though the other day when I realized that with the way games like Call of Duty are set up now if the network is down I can't play regardless. I bought one month of the ultimate subscription for Geforce Now and tried it out on my Steam Deck and MacBook.

Steam Deck:

• The Geforce Now "app" is browser-based. It uses Chrome and sets itself up to use controllers and appear in your Steam Library.

• Due to the browser limitations we get a peak of 1080p and 60hz.

• The codec used is H264/8bit.

• Latency for games like the Witcher 3 are noticeable on WiFi - like 20-30ms ping for me - but not enough to impair gameplay for me. When wired in latency goes as low as 5ms which, in my opinion, is really good. This applies to multiplayer games as well. Checking the CoD leaderboard the ping reported by Geforce Now is the same as in-game.

MacBook:

• The Geforce Now app is native.

• I can get a full fat 4K 240hz with the ultimate subscription.

• Code is H265/10bit.

• Playing CoD at 120hz with both controller and mouse the latency is hardly noticeable. It is to the point where I am more than likely missing shots because I am rusty from not playing for over a month compared to the latency being an issue. I mean 5ms ping is not different from what it's like playing on my desktop. I would have to have both side by side for me to potentially notice when wired in. Obviously WiFi is not recommended for online shooters.

Obviously there are pros and cons to this solution.

Pros:

• Your hardware is not an issue. Even on an M1 MacBook Pro I can still play with high/ultra settings and ray-tracing because I am connecting to a 4080.

• Picture quality is, in my opinion, more than adequate. For me it is like the difference between watching a Blu-Ray movie on your TV with your Blu-Ray player versus streaming the movie on Netflix or Disney+. The stream may have a bit of fuzz whereas the Blu-Ray is clear. But the fuzz doesn't have an effect on the ability to enjoy the movie/game. Keep in mind I am streaming 1080p to a 1080p display. If I was streaming a higher resolution I expect the image would be sharper.

• You can bypass the issues with Linux or macOS for online shooters. Apex Legends, Call of Duty, Fortnite, etc. are all playable.

Cons:

• It is a subscription. The ultimate package (4K 240hz)) is, in CAD, $26 a month or $140 every six months. The priority package (1080p 60hz) is less at $14/month or $70/six months.

• You still need to buy the games. Quite a bit of my Steam, Ubisoft, Xbox (with GamePass), GOG, EA, and Epic Games libraries are available. But when new games come out that I want to play with Geforce Now I need to buy them separately.

• You're streaming so your proximity to the nearest datacenter and internet speeds are variables to consider.

• It isn't running on YOUR PC.

• No mod support outside of what might be supported in games themselves.

• Your sessions are timed. You are not limited by how many sessions you create on a device but your overall session length is either 6 or 8 hours depending on how much you spend. There is also the free-tier which I did not try. It has ads, overall sessions are 1 hour, I don't know what the max FPS or resolution is.

Overall I am impressed because I was expecting Geforce Now to be nearly unusable for online games. But it is quite the opposite. I don't think this is an ideal solution though. I would much rather that I could download and play whatever games I want on my PC. However, as it stands the state of online multiplayer with anti-cheat is a mess on Linux. I haven't played Apex Legends in like 2 years but EA/Respawn stopping the support for Linux with Proton is a big blow for a lot of people here. I also think there is something to not having some of these games running on your hardware. Like on my RX6600 ray tracing is just not something I have touched besides with World of Warcraft. If you live in a region with expensive electricity and half-way decent internet this could be good as well. You aren't pushing those watts on your PC. On Witcher 3 I cranked the ray tracing to the max with all high settings and I was getting a silky smooth 60fps on my Steam Deck. Instead of the Deck struggling to hit 30 fps with low-med settings I was being wowed by the ray tracing.

If the money isn't a barrier to you and you are opposed to dual-booting Windows Geforce Now may be the solution. I know some people will say that if a game isn't playable on Linux then "who cares? Just don't play it." But I don't think some of these people making these arguments are considering that it can have a negative impact on your social life. I'm not too far away from age 30. My friends and I all have jobs. Some of the only times we can hang out is online playing a game like CoD. Being the odd one out using Linux and just not being able to play with my friends meant I wasn't included on most sessions. I don't blame the guys either. They play a handful of games to begin with. Having a way to play with friends and not deal with Microsoft's bullshit is a win win to me.

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gamemode software saved my gaming on linux, i tell you... first of all, I'm a LinuxMint user, I also tried fedora with wayland and kde to see if the problem persisted and yes, I identified the problem: gpu optimization, in fact on cinnamon which doesn't have vrr, my monitor was constantly changing its frequency between 152-180hz, I found this very strange so I went to try fedora kde wayland , before realizing that the problem was still there and that freesync wasn't working either, worse my screen had a lot of flickering, the frequency was absolutely not keeping up with fps!!

and that's where gamemode saved me, in the file found here: /usr/share/gamemode/gamemode.ini

I modified 3 lines :

apply_gpu_optimisations=accept-responsibility

amd_performance_level=high

gpu_device=1

to check that everything was working, I checked in the terminal with gamemoded -t and all tests passed

now when I play, the screen stays perfectly at its frequency on linuxmint cinnamon, I haven't tried it again on fedora kde-wayland, but I imagine it could solve this problem in the same way and that the vrr would work, to be checked. but i removed it to reinstall mint so i will try later.

while doing various tests, I noticed that the mesa kisak killed the machine if I tried to update the drivers on linuxmint 22, so I advise you not to do it.

I hope this helps if you're in the same situation!

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im trying to game on way droid but i can't download the system zip files from anywhere i tried sourceforge github and the official site all of them get to 99% and stop here are some screen shots to help me

https://preview.redd.it/c42x0tbla3zd1.png?width=761&format=png&auto=webp&s=a8eb876688dbd791bc307c3a7de3ef54a9b829bd

now i can't use waydroid and i checked my network and storage everything is fine im on garuda linux

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Cheating in multiplayer games has always been a cat and mouse game with the anti-cheat devs. Even windows kernel-side anti-cheats may be hacked one day as well or already have been hacked unnoticingly.

I think sooner or later big multiplayer games may start to migrate over to a server-to-client game streaming model similar to what stadia intended to do. A big hurdle for this would be the latency. But this is actually the only way to fight cheaters way more effectively. Then only AI based cheating would remain a threat, which are very hard to detect anyway even for the most skilled anti-cheat devs. But at least cheats would boil down to this factor.

So if that happens, meaning more and more windows cheaters are flooding multiplayer games despite kernel side anti-cheat, then its game devs have no choice but to stream their games from their servers, where they have way more control over the hardware.

In my opinion, this would be one of the few scenarios to save Linux gaming as a platform for multiplayer games, as there would no longer be any excuse why these games could not be streamed to other platforms with a browser.

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Don't judge me on this one, but I've been playing with beans for a while in the new release of Bean To Me! from Melonleaf Industries / Very Evil Demons.

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i was realy thinking the cheat was spoofing linux to run on windows but no.

it is really easy to cheat on linux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rM2pl98MR4

this is bad for the support of linux gaming and anti cheat in general.

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Paradox have released the latest small update and DLC event pack with Crusader Kings III: Wandering Nobles now available.

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My controller(gamesir G7se) works perfectly for everything else. I tried reinstalling steam, but that did not fix it.

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Much like Terraria, work never seems to be finished on Stardew Valley, with a brand new update out now with a few new features and surprises.

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Classic Sport Driving is designed in the spirit of retro racers like Lotus Turbo Challenge and Outrun, so if you like the old style of racing this one might be for you.

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Hey guys, after coming from windows, I was missing Afterburner, so naturally I looked for some nvidia GPU fan curve utility. There are several, but no clear winner for simple use cases - some are abandoned, some are quite"hacky", some are way too heavy/feature rich for my use case. Besides, I don't even really want a curve - the fan speeding up and slowing down is personally more distracting, than stable low rpm which is good enough for GPU to stay in safe temperature range (in other words: let temperature fluctuate, rather than fan speed). After some poking, I found ideal solution for me, maybe someone will like it too:

In Steam, get to the Properties of your game, in General tab, there is Launch options textbox, which is usually empty (unless you are already using something like mangohud). Simply put this into it:

nvidia-settings -a GPUFanControlState=1 -a GPUTargetFanSpeed=40; %command%; nvidia-ettings -a GPUFanControlState=0

and you are all done. This will

1. Enable manual control of GPU fan speed

2. Set fan speed to 40%

3. Run your game

4. After the game exits, it will reset GPU fan control back to default (GPU controlled curve)

Change number 40 to desired GPU Fan speed percentage, that gives you acceptable noise and temperatures in this particular game. So you can use different numbers for different games.

Happy quiet gaming!

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The free and open source kart racing game SuperTuxKart is gearing up for another release, with SuperTuxKart 1.5 getting a first Beta that needs some testing.

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Hi fellow Linux gamers!

When do you choose to use Proton GE vs the Proton? Do you typically follow the recommendations on ProtonDB, or do you have a specific version that you prefer to use consistently?

when it comes to multiplayer games like OW2 or The Finals, is there any risk with using Proton GE instead of Valve's official Proton?

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The Manjaro Linux team are asking for testers for their new data collection tool called "Manjaro Data Donor", which they plan to have as opt-out and not opt-in.

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