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Why is there always one file that needs to be validated every time my pc reboots (helldivers 2)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 9:23am

OS: Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.17.9-300.fc43.x86_64
Uptime: 9 mins
Packages: 2517 (rpm), 28 (flatpak)
Display (XB271HU): 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz in 27" [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.3
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Breeze [GTK3/4]
Icons: Papirus [Qt], Papirus [GTK3/4]
Font: Adwaita Sans (10pt) [Qt], Adwaita Sans (10pt) [GTK3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: konsole 25.8.3
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 5.36 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT [Discrete]
Memory: 5.19 GiB / 31.24 GiB (17%)
Swap: 12.00 KiB / 8.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 50.47 GiB / 1.82 TiB (3%) - btrfs
Disk (/mnt/Disk2): 1.27 TiB / 1.79 TiB (71%) - ext4
Disk (/mnt/SSD): 782.02 GiB / 1.82 TiB (42%) - fuseblk

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Help with my iGPU

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 9:22am

I'm getting significantly worse performance on my 6600H running Linux Mint compared to Windows. Based on YouTube benchmarks, it's performing below a Steam Deck, even after copying equivalent settings and dropping the resolution to 800p.

My first thought was that the iGPU might be stuck in a low-power state, so I tried checking clocks with: sudo watch -n 1 cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_pm_info

But I get: cat: /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_pm_info: No such file or directory

I assumed debugfs might not be mounted, so I checked: mount | grep debugfs

and got: debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)

So, I believe debugfs is mounted. Then I tried: ls /sys/class/drm/card0/device/pp_dpm_sclk

and got: ls: cannot access '/sys/class/drm/card0/device/pp_dpm_sclk': No such file or directory

At this point I'm not sure what's going on or if I'm on the right direction, I'm kinda noob tbh. Does this mean the amdgpu kernel driver for my iGPU isn't loading with full PowerPlay/DPM support? Or what? Any insights would be really appreciated.

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Will Debian work on BC-250?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 7:36am

I'm currently using Zorin OS on my old laptop and I'm very satisfied. What I'm worried about is whether I can use Debian on BC-250 for my first time with Fedora, or if I should just use Fedora-based.

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Beware Lutris can delete your save files ! Don't be stupid like me.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 7:05am

I am still a beginner to gaming on linux, so I still don't understand this perfectly. I downloaded Bioshock Remastered, installed it and tried running it with lutris but it wouldn't work for some reason. So I decided to manually create a wine prefix and run it myself with wine and it worked perfectly, played it for a few hours.
Now I like seeing my games nicely organized on lutris, so decided to add the game on lutris again. This is where I fucked up. I gave the path to the prefix I created manually. Lutris just overwrites over that, which also deleted all my saves !! Now when I open the game I can't find my saves. Don't make this mistake.

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Pre-loading Vulkan Shaders?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 6:57am

Whenever I launch a game on steam it never launches the game first, it starts "Pre-loading vulkan shaders" and I'm just wondering if its ok for me to skip it?

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Just realizing I've been dual boot free for more than 5 years

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 6:27am

Had a friend asking about getting Windows and Linux to play nice without grub getting destroyed with all that and I couldn't help them because I realized I forgot how.

This isn't even a pain challenge or anything, I wasn't counting. Why? It stopped mattering. It's been a long while since I wanted to play a game badly enough, and it didn't work in Wine/Proton either out of the box or with minor hacks. So one time when it was time to set up a new Linux PC I just... didn't even bother with the windows partition, didn't see the need.

If it's an indie title, there's a decent chance it's either native already or runs in Proton easily enough.

If it's a POPULAR title and doesn't have kernel level anti-cheat/DRM (which is a no-buy sticking point for me anyway) then when it breaks due to expansions or updates, some vigilante coder will write the Wine patch themselves within the month. I've watched this happen more than once for World of Warcraft.

I don't play ranked competitive games these days, I was into them at one point but disliked the kind of person they were turning me into so I quit them as an entire genre of activity. These are the main culprits of going overboard with invasive anticheat and other nonsense and they basically don't apply to me for the most part.

In the DXVK era, the performance loss/overhead from having a compatibility layer is so negligible that I've stopped caring about it. Some Linux ports, especially ones that were done third party, actually run better running the Windows version in Proton now. And this is often a necessary step in multiplayer to avoid version mismatch errors anyway (looking at you, Total War franchise)

What does suck, is if you're after a title made by a small to medium size studio that isn't quite indie but isn't quite AAA either, so they kinda do things their own way and nobody understands it. Case in point the only game I think it kind of sucks I haven't been able to play without a Windows partition is the original Assetto Corsa and even that supposedly works I've just never managed to get the workaround working, it's one of the more complicated ones. That's the one stickler I've kind of given up on, but still couldn't be bothered to make a windows partition just to play this one game. And now the sequel is around the corner, anyway.

I am also into music production and have found that the LSP plugin suite along with a few others basically replaces most paid plugins and audio tools you would want to have, it's far from perfect but almost everything is doable and the few things that are crucially missing easily run in Wine or Yabridge. Melodyne runs just fine in stock system Wine for me, for example, it didn't even require any screwing with. I've taken online audio engineering classes and the course reviewer didn't even notice that my mixes were using 99% FOSS plugins instead of commercial ones so I'd say it passes the sniff test.

This shouldn't be taken as a humblebrag. I guess the point of this message is if not knowing how to set up a dual boot is one of the things keeping you from trying Linux as a daily driver, stop worrying about it, I'd hardly call it a required step these days. Yet I see people like my aforementioned friend going through the motions about it as if it's just another thing on the list of tasks you have to tick off before a computer is usable. Please chill on that.

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Faugus Launcher / Migration from Lutris / Wine Support?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 6:18am

Hi all,

I'm attempting to migrate my games over to Faugus Launcher for reasons, but I also run some applications through Lutris that require certain versions of WINE, I notice I can't get WINE set up on Faugus, only Proton. Is there some kind of work around that I'm too stupid to see?

Thanks in advance.

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Looking for guidance

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 5:40am

So im wanting to jump away from windows and get into Linux for gaming...I grabbed a kubuntu iso, and wrote it to a usb...wondering what is the preferred Linux distro for gaming.

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I found my new home for gaming

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 4:36am

After three years of pop os gaming and fails it was time to try a different distro so I went with Garuda Dr46mized KDE gaming edition and didn't take long for to fall in love with the new interface. So Garuda is my new home for gaming on Linux. Garuda runs well on my hp 15" gaming laptop no issues with the install no issues with the games I've got on it every runs fine. If there is any recommendations for custom kernals for Garuda let me plz let me know

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Steam error says it's missing libc6:386. But I can't add it? And maybe it's there?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 4:25am

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I see that a lot of people have had this problem. I tried the suggestions I could find and.... nothing. All of this happened when I decided to try Lutris and installed it. Since then, I get this error and my Epic store games on Heroic Launcher won't run.

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Finally made the switch

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 4:12am

Got into pc gaming 1.5 years with a steam deck added a gaming pc running windows. In last year and a half I went from knowing almost nothing about anything computer to building my first pc and now running a full home sever starting with Ubuntu server then moving to promox. Moving my gaming setup to Linux only made sense. Went with Manjaro Gnome ( a major selling point being AUR) Any tips of tricks for a Linux desktop noob?Quality of life settings? Must have repos? I'm decent with Linux at this point but ease of use on my daily driver while maintaining privacy is a pretty big thing for me. Ryzen 7500f cpu and 7800xt gpu.

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Palworld causing full system restart on launch

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 3:54am

Friend of mine is trying to launch Palworld on Linux Mint, experiences a complete OS crash every time, and only on this game. Have tried different Proton versions including GE as well as launch options like DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME, etc.

DX11 or DX12 both cause these full OS crashes, launching with -vulkan in the launch options causes an Unreal Engine crash instead. Any solutions or suggestions?

There are no crash reports generated anywhere when this happens. The only exception is launching with -vulkan which returns:

Unable to launch with RHI 'VulkanRHI' since the project is not configured to support it

We have followed several online guides and other similar issues including using ProtonDB. Interestingly nobody else is reporting the OS crash/restart issue. Additionally, another user in our group also installed Linux Mint and was able to get the game to run, albeit slightly different hardware. This is the only game on friend's computer that suffers from this crash, there are no obvious hardware issues that would result in this on launch as far as we can tell. There is about a 10 second gap during which the game appears as a black screen, Steam Overlay starts, and the OS dies.

Cinnamon 6.4.8 Mint 22.2

CPU = Ryzen 5600

GPU = AMD 6900 XT

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Steam tinker launcher (YAD), Linux Mint 22 new install error

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 2:37am

I have a brand new system with a new Linux Mint 22 install. I had Steam tinker launcher installed on my previous system but am trying to get it set up again. I am trying to compile yad following the myriad of instructions I used previously, and found all over reddit and the internet at large. However this time I'm recieving and error I have not been able to pinpoint.

When I run autoreconf -ivf && intltoolize
I get ERROR: 'IT_PROG_INTLTOOL' must appear in configure.ac for intltool to work.

Itltool is installed, and reinstalled. Perhaps my google-fu is weak, but I've not been able to find a solution. Any suggestions?

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Wine Popup Error when starting game fix

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10 Dec 2025 - 2:36am

Just thought I should share this. Got the annoying GUI crash dialog pop up everyone else has gotten. Entered the code below and it worked. No more pop ups.

How do I disable the GUI crash dialog?

Wine includes a GUI crash dialog that is turned on by default. Users of apps that work despite a background crash may find the GUI dialog annoying, and in some cases the dialog itself has been reported to prevent an app from working.

The easiest way to disable the crash dialog is with winetricks:

sh winetricks nocrashdialog

If you prefer to do it manually, copy the following key to a text editor:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\WineDbg] "ShowCrashDialog"=dword:00000000

Save the file with a .reg extension (e.g. crashdialog.reg), then apply it with regedit:

wine regedit crashdialog.reg

(You may need to specify the full path to the file, depending on where you saved it.)

To turn the GUI crash dialog back on, change 00000000 to 00000001 and reapply.

These changes can also be made by simply running regedit and adding/changing the appropriate key the point-and-click way.

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