Other News about gaming on Linux

Ultrawide mod for Hollow Knight(first one) breaks controller support... Any ideas?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15 Sep 2025 - 1:46am

Tried this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/hollowknight/mods/47

Haven't found any others that don't look like they're from sketchy websites.

I've tried:

  • Adding -screen-height 1440 -screen-width 3440 as a launch option(as mentioned in the mod description)
  • Various permutations of having steam input enabled or disabled
  • Force Compatibility
    • Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 (Scout)
    • Proton Experimental
    • Proton 9.0.4

Any ideas?

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foot pedals for push to talk - linux support?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15 Sep 2025 - 1:36am

hi folks,

im wondering about foot pedals for use in push to talk for my MMO games play. Is there any certain brand or microcontroller i should be looking for? what software can i use to rebind or remap keys onto the pedals?

any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Building a Fightstick for Use on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15 Sep 2025 - 1:25am

I’m planning to build a fightstick, but I’m not sure whether the available hardware for assembling one is fully compatible with Linux. I assume it should work, since most devices rely on generic drivers (standard joystick support). However, I haven’t found clear information specifically about fightstick compatibility on Linux, so I’d like to know if anyone has experience using them on this platform. I’m currently running CachyOS, and before investing in building one, I want to make sure I won’t run into compatibility issues.

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HDMI 2.1 works on AMD GPU with this converter.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15 Sep 2025 - 1:14am

I've thought it's not possible.
Here are few screenshots showing my 7900xtx getting 4K@120Hz VRR HDR RGB on two different TVs: Samsung and Hisense.
The important part is that it's RGB only achievable on HDMI 2.1 and not YCbCr420 what is possible on HDMI 2.0. No random signal loss (black screens). Just works.

Interestingly, it didn't work well on Windows. I could get 100Hz on Samsung but got image glitching at 120Hz. Hisense couldn't display at all. Maybe handshake problem but can't tell for sure.

Samsung doesn't tell what chroma subsampling is displayed so I took a screenshot of my desktop on HDMI and another one when using the converter. The first one show YCbCr420 and converter show true RGB.

My converter came with the right firmware out of the box so I didn't have to patch it like some other people.

I hope this helps. It's expensive but it does work.

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Xbox One Controller only works on startup

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15 Sep 2025 - 12:14am

Hello!

My problem is pretty much as the title suggest. I'm playing a game I installed from GOG. If I have my controller connected via USB on startup it will work perfectly fine. If for any reason it disconnects (wire fell out of controller, usb was unplugged, computer was put into sleep mode, etc.) the left and right triggers as well as both joysticks cease to work. I test it on an online game pad tester to confirm. Usually the left stick still registers in this but not in game. I have to restart my computer for it to go back to working properly. It does the same thing if I connect via bluetooth. If I load a game from Steam my controller works perfectly fine. I've tried many different wires and a few different controllers. As far as I am aware I have all drivers updated. Any help is appreciated!

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Questions about nvidia drivers

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14 Sep 2025 - 11:49pm

Nothing pops up here on my drive

My linux is shown to be unkown and no other info is displayed

this part seems to be normal

This is from a guide to installing the driver and it already looks different than mine

also in this section there's these info

I was looking at this video (images have description, each of them) guide to installing Nvidia drives, but it had so many steps (even going into the no GUI step to install the drive) i found it confusing and just went to RPM and used their guide instead which in turn resumed to one line of command in terminal, but his in turn resulted in my drive looking different from the guy in the video.

The nvidia site returns that the drive available is 580(something something) already and not 575(something something). Should i reinstall it following his guide? Can I fix problems like screen tearing using the drive i downloaded?

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arm PC running Steam Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 at 43fps

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14 Sep 2025 - 11:30pm

https://reddit.com/link/1nh3iub/video/xv02jw9c57pf1/player

43fps Steam Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on arm desktop with Wine/Proton box64 Debian 12 AmpereOne 96c 3.6GHz RTX 4080 Super 1080p default graphics. I think AmpereOne developer desktops will be good for game developers working on arm devices such as Steam Deckard VR headset and Windows on Arm. Rebecca Cran's screen capture is here https://youtu.be/xCT_0lbjwnE

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Steam not opening on Ubuntu

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14 Sep 2025 - 11:13pm

I've tried reinstalling different versions, deleting and reinstalling, updating. I've had thus problem on another computer as well.

Please please be easy on me, complete newbie and I need everything explained like I'm 5.

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I just updated my system after about a few weeks and now I can't play VNs (Endeavour/Arch)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14 Sep 2025 - 11:11pm

I updated my system with sudo pacman -Syu and now nitro+chiral VN windows show a black screen. Audio plays and I can tell that everything other than outputting an image is working since it makes selection noises whenever I hover over an option.

Is there a way to roll back the update to the previous version?

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150fps Steam Path of Exile on arm desktop

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14 Sep 2025 - 11:09pm

https://reddit.com/link/1nh2zjg/video/wcjpbrh617pf1/player

150fps Steam Path of Exile on arm desktop with Wine/Proton box64 Debian 12 AmpereOne 96c 3.6GHz RTX 4080 Super 1080p default graphics. I think the AmpereOne developer desktops are good for game developers working on arm devices such as Steam Deckard VR headset and Windows on Arm laptops. Rebecca Cran's screen capture is here https://youtu.be/xCT_0lbjwnE

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Robocop: Rogue City just doesn't want to run on Arch (System apparently not compatible with DX12)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14 Sep 2025 - 10:55pm

Trying to run Robocop's GOG version on Lutris, but I keep getting the same error: my device isn't compatible with DirectX 12 / D3D12. Which isn't true, I think. I tried several wine versions, VKD3D versions, both NVAPI 0.8 and 0.9, and a loooot of different dotnet framework versions. The same error every single time. I don't think I've ever struggled to run a game on Linux as much as this one. I see a lot of people that manage to run it even with an nvidia graphics card, so what's the deal?

OS: EndeavourOS

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K (12) @ 4.70 GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

RAM: 32GB DDR4

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Quake II RTX + HDR + Nvidia 5090 = Nope

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14 Sep 2025 - 9:18pm

Hi folks--I'm trying to get HDR working on Quake II RTX and I'm having zero luck. No matter what I've tried, I get the same message when attempting to enable HDR in game: HDR was requested but no supported surface format was found.

Hardware

  • Graphics: Nvidia RTX 5090 FE
  • Monitor: LG 45GX950A

Software

  • Arch Linux
  • Driver: nvidia-open 580.82.09-2
  • Desktop 1: Gnome 48
  • Desktop 2; Hyprland

As noted above, I cannot get HDR in game to work on either Gnome or Hyprland which are both correctly configured for HDR and I can confirm on my monitor that they are sending HDR signals.

Some steps I've taken include:

I've followed the wiki including installing vk-hdr-layer-kwin6-git.

I have tried both the Steam version of Quake II RTX and the native version.

I have tried Proton Experimental as well as proton-ge-custom with the Steam version.

I've tried various environment variables (and various combinations):

Steam version: PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

Native version: ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland quake2rtx

Any troubleshooting help / suggestions would be appreciated!

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Need help, wasd not working in warframe

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14 Sep 2025 - 8:57pm

So I'm using nobara distro, at first it worked, everything was working as it supposed too, but when I rebooted wf again, wasd wasn't working, my shift was working tho, and my mouse too, how do I fix this issue?

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Is Proton outrunning Mint 21 drivers? If so, what should I do?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14 Sep 2025 - 7:53pm

I noticed a few months ago many of my compatibility mode games on Steam stopped working at almost the same time. Some of them I can get working again by rolling back to an older version of Proton. Most of them failed silently without any error message, but Desynced complained about not having a D3D11 feature available (Feature set 11.0, Shader mode 5.0). I run an updated Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon distro, which shows Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3 as the Mesa driver for my AMD RX6750XT graphics card. I'm guessing I need a newer Mesa to go with the newer Proton updates (?), but the neither the driver manager or package manager is giving me newer options. Some research indicates that there's a PPA to add for the newest drivers but reading between the lines, it sounds a little risky. I'm asking myself, if the newer drivers were stable with Mint 21, why aren't they offered as an upgrade in the standard repository? Has anyone with a similar setup tried the drivers from the Kisak PPA? Thanks.

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boarder land 4 error

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14 Sep 2025 - 7:44pm

i got the game runnins bu =t wanted to optimize ore=formanxe so changed ny proton verson a few tiems and now im getting a error messege when launchign sayiing

Currently your game purchase cannot be re-validated successfully, please wait 24 hours and try again.

my question is will it actiully work after 24 hrs or am i screwed and should i ask for a refund

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