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LMU - Le Mans Ultimate - Online racing won’t work on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 8:07pm

I have Pop!OS 22.04 - I just did an online race in LMU, all went fine. I tried to join the next one and it fails every time with an error “Y have been booted: Anti-cheat client protection not active (NullClient) Connection lost”

Ive restarted the game, the machine, still can’t join the same session.
Anyone else experienced this?

Restarting the game before joining a second race it’s my hope to fix it - I’ll try that next.

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Black and transparent models on CS2

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 8:03pm

After installing CS2 on my i7 1355u laptop with Iris XE graphics I am frustrated with fps 45 . Moreover, my enemies are transparent and black sometimes

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A solution to Fedora 43, 32bit libraries', MangoHUD / Goverlay / Gamescope issue.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 7:26pm
Long story short: I miss Windows 7. Command below image...

I don't understand these intricacies with magic spells as much as I have no idea what a .exe is or does, but stuff is easier on Windows (or at least was; I've used W since Wxp when I was a kid, 7 through my early teens, and 10 since 2015; I hate 11 on many levels, but mainly that it's not humae anymore. I have been using Fedora KDE since the death of 38, 2 years ago).

The average Linux user, after 20 years of practice, risking its life to install Discord.

Here's what I did in my Fedora KDE install:

sudo dnf install mangohud.i686

This has worked for me, here and now, but I can't assure anyone that this will work for you too.

One thing that I KNOW is that by Fedora 44 there will be MORE problems...

One example is me being unable to even launch Left 4 Dead under Proton if it wasn't "Hotfix" (details to the wind, I don't care right now, I am too busy. I just want my PC to work).

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Help me to choose

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 7:01pm

Hi everyone,

I’m deciding between two business laptops and would like advice focused on Linux compatibility and stability.

Option 1 – Dell Latitude 14 Pro

Intel Core Ultra 7 255U (Meteor Lake)

24 GB DDR5 RAM

512 GB NVMe SSD

14" FHD+ display

Option 2 – Lenovo Thinkpad

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840U

Radeon 780M graphics

32 GB DDR5 RAM

NVMe SSD

Touchscreen display

Option 3 - Ideapad 2-1

AMD Ryzen 7 AI 350

Radeon 860M graphics

16 GB DDR5 RAM

Both would run Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch).

Questions:

Which platform has better Linux support right now: Intel Core Ultra or Ryzen 7 PRO?

Any known issues with drivers, suspend, power management, or firmware?

Which would you choose for long-term Linux use?

Thanks for your help.

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how do you deal with denuvo games?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 6:29pm

you can't keep switching proton versions, because it will count as another device, and after multiple "devices", you get blocked for a few hours.

which proton version do you use?

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Genshin on Linux?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 6:21pm

I heard that games on Linux have better performance than on windows. I play Genshin, but is it possible to run it on Linux, Manjaro? I heard Genshin has a kernel anti-cheat.

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Old game (Evolva) runs well but Textures do not load

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 6:08pm

https://preview.redd.it/usau591eiz8g1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=ef6169d7b6efe73afe719f839238a3cdc1884e00

Hello. Trying to play this old 2000's game, Evolva. It runs perfectly fine except that none of the textures load.

Tried it on my Steam Deck and Laptop (Linux also) and the issue was about the same. Tried it on Windows and the textures worked, albeit with several other issues- On Linux the textures are the only issue.

I haven't been able to get it to run in either Lutris or Bottles.

Looking in the files, most of the textures are in a .dds format, but also have .png files too. The UI textures as you can see work fine, and they seem to all be .pngs, so I suspect the issue is with the .dds files. Any ideas?

Using Steam to run it. Tried a few versions of Proton, no difference.

Also tried running it through Steam in the terminal, but no errors regarding the textures came up.

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SKlauncher loading but not opening

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 5:56pm

yesterday it was fine, but today when i open it it doesnt load and the blue bar is a bit laggy, i already restarted my pc, deleted and downloaded sklauncher and updated my jvm, help is appreciated, thanks (sorry for my bad english :P)

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Everything I Should Know Before I Attempt to Make A LAN Server

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 5:29pm

I am asking this because I cannot do any tests without buying another copy because the game is family shared through Steam. For context: I want to play Age of Empires II: DE on LAN. One player will use a Win11 laptop. Mint 22.2 is installed on the second laptop (laptop is low-end). I barely managed to make that game work and I have no idea how it will react to a multiplayer game. What should I know about LAN and what should I do for possible issues while testing the server.

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nVidia 535 vs 570-80 on a gaming Potato (benchmarks)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 5:28pm

I have a gaming potato (HP EliteDesk G4 Twr EVGA GTX970SSC) that I have some interesting benchmark data for.

I've seen it referenced elsewhere, but with 535 on this old card I get about a 50% increase in framerate on 1080p EXTREME (lol) settings running Unigine Superposition. My Extreme results in driver 580 are roughly 10fps and my system pulls 189W during most of the benchmark. Using 535 as shown in the screenshot yields much better results and my system pulls 240W during the whole benchmark. Medium and Low are "very playable" coming in at 60+ fps on this gaming potato.

I'd like to see some other results running similar (old AF) hardware with other OS's (yes, even Windows) Cachy or Bazzite, etc. I run Mint 22.2 and the rest of the hw is in the screenshot.

EDIT: I have this card

https://www.xtremerigs.net/2015/03/26/evga-geforce-gtx-970-ssc-acx-2-0-review/19/

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Msfs2024 and Guild Wars 2

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 5:24pm

Hey all, is it possible to play msfs2024 and gw2 on linux? Want to switch but only if I can play these games. Also I use a thrustmaster controller for the flightsim. Thx in advance

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How is driver support for Nvidia on Linux?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 5:09pm

I hate windows and don't wanna use windows. How is gaming on Linux with an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU? I have a 4070 super and an i7-12700kf.

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Roblox on linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 4:40pm

I did some research and saw that Roblox was playable on wine then I did some more digging and saw they disabled support renabled then disabled support again is there a way to get Roblox to work on Linux without emulation because I want it to run the PC version and not the mobile version

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Gaming on Debian

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 4:13pm

Hi, I recently switch to an AMD GPU. Which got me thinking of switching to using Linux (especially Debian) for my gaming computer. For context i'm studying IT, so I already use a bit of Linux in my everyday life :
I use a Debian13 on my laptop. (which is used mainly for torrenting, text editing, browsing).
I tinker with some servers running Debian/Debian based distros.

I really like Debian and it's philosophy, but it is also why I am questioning using Debian as a "Gaming Distro".

After researching on this sub and other forums I have a few question :
I have seen that Debian isn't as performing as other distros such as Arch due to it's update philosphy, what type of under-perfomance are we looking at ? Game crashing, or just worse performance.

If anyone is using debian for gaming, could you share your experience, did you feel like back porting some softwares and drivers is something to consider that conclude to actually better performance ?

Also, if I end up dual booting Linux and Windows, could I install games on steam and be able to access them on both OS if I use a dedicated SSD for it ?

Config : CPU : Intel i7-13700KF GPU : AMD RX 9070XT MB : Asus prime Z790-P WIFI submitted by /u/IsaacTheCrusader
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Goverlay/MangoHud constantly showing Power Throttling while playing a game that fully utilizes my GPU, is this normal?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 3:46pm

For context, I'm on CachyOs - 5700x and RX 7900XT, the game runs fine, I recently switched from basic mangohud to the more complex preset of goverlay and I noticed it constantly shows this Power Throttling.

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Cyberpunk 2077 mod help: The Cyber Engine Tweaks mod has this .asi error (I'm on Bazzite)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23 Dec 2025 - 3:16pm

I'm just using the CET mod as my starting mod, yet I'm still having problems. I manually dropped the bin folder in my game directory. I also toggled on Proton 9.0-4 in my Steam properties tab so my game could actually launch. I also currently have WINEDLLOVERRIDES=“winmm,version=n,b” %command% in my launch. Yet I'm currently seeing this error that reads "unable to load cyber engine tweaks.asi. Error 998".

I use Linux, with the distro being Bazzite (an offshoot of Fedora).

For those who had this issue before, how do I address it?

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