submitted by /u/42ndMedic
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While playing Hogwarts Legacy, my mouse leaves the game from time to time and suddenly I'm on the second monitor clicking in discord.

This is especially annoying when being in the middle of a battle. I tried some stuff without success, so I hope there's maybe a known solution out there!

Information about my system:

• Distro: Fedora 42 with Gnome (Wayland)
• Kernel: 6.15.10-200.fc42.x86_64
• CPU: Ryzen 9 3900x
• GPU: AMD RX 7900 XT
• GPU driver (according to steams system informations): 4.6 (Compatibility Profile)
• Mesa version: 25.1.7 (git-581a4f7e70)
• Steam version (according to steams system informations): 1751405894
• 3 monitors with a resolution of 2560x1440@180hz

Steam is installed via Flathub (software center).

What I tried is using the "gamescope" command in my launch settings, but then my game won't start anymore:

gamescope -f -- %command%

I installed "flatpak-xdg-utils" via dnf:

sudo dnf install flatpak-xdg-utils

The last thing I tried, which sadly didn't help, was this command in the launch settings of Hogwarts Legacy:

flatpak-spawn --host gamescope -f -- flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam

I'm absolutely out of ideas at this point. I appreciate any help possible, thank you in advance!

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Hi! I'm trying to get Beat Saber working on CachyOS with a Quest 3s and WiVRn, but I'm running into an issue. The game launches successfully, the connection is stable, and I can even see the initial Beat Saber logo in the headset. However, immediately after the logo, the screen goes black and stays that way. The game doesn't crash, but it stops rendering. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Steam logs:

ERROR [ipc_compositor_get_reference_bounds_rect] ipc_call_compositor_get_reference_bounds_rect failed: XRT_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED [/home/applone/.cache/paru/clone/wivrn-server/src/WiVRn-25.8/build-server/_deps/monado-src/src/xrt/ipc/client/ipc_client_compositor.c:868]

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I've been playing CS2 stretched using Gamescope and have no problem pushing 400 frames in game, but I can feel my Gamescope dropping to like 60 while my game stays stable at 400. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

OS: Fedora 42 (Kinoite)

Launch options: gamescope -w 1440 -h 1080 -S stretch -f -r 144.0 --force-grab-cursor --adaptive-sync --immediate-flips -- %command%

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Hello all. I am super new to Linux, and I could use a little community input.

Story time:

My old gaming pc died. I was on windows forever since Linux was intimidating. Saw this as an opportunity to make the jump since win 11 turns me off even more than 10 did. Friend of mine gave me his Legion Go, so I'm seeing what I can do on it.

My primary use-case is minecraft, maybe grounded 2 (once they fix it), modding skyrim, and retro gaming. I have already gotten bazzite working, but I am open to suggestions for other gaming distros if there is something less finnicky. Please bear in mind I'm a linux baby. I can follow clear instructions, but I do not know all the ins and outs of getting things up and running.

The retro gaming side of things is fairly covered, but I'd love any suggestions for a cohesive environment to organize and run the games.

Is there a good sourceforge launcher for some general minecraft modding?

The skyrim mod side of things is where I am running into most issues. I got mod organizer 2 running (mostly), but it crashes any time I interact with the mo2 window with the touch screen instead of a mouse. Also, I have yet to get skyrim to successfully launch via mo2.

Is Limo a better option than MO2? I tried it, and it appears to be a more stable option outside of a windows environment, but there are a lot of extra steps that seem like a huge pain if one is building a big modlist. Does anyone know of a step-by-step guide for limo? I can't seem to find one. I'm not really keen on digging through a discord, if I can help it.

Any input is appreciated. I'm suddenly feeling a bit overwhelmed with the multiple research projects that this could become.

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Using Steam Proton natively (tested with hotfix and experimental), the game ran perfectly.

Using Proton GE, the game started fine, but after a few minutes of gameplay, it started experiencing high frame timing, making it unplayable with lots of enemies.

I want to use Proton GE because it's the only way I can use HDR. I'll use Steam Proton until I can fix it, but I love HDR on my OLED monitor.

I haven't seen the same issue with other games.

System:

Debian SID
Gnome 48 Wayland
Mesa 25.1.7
Kernel 6.12.38
Steam Flatpak
ProtonGE 10.13 Flatpak

Hardware:

CPU AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU AMD RX 7900 XTX
RAM (2x) 32GB 6000MHZ DDR5 CL30
SSD NVM-e Gen4 7.1k Read / 6.8k Write

Variables:

ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1
PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
DXVK_HDR=1
MANGOHUD=1

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Ive switched over to Ubuntu, due to hearing its good for beginners and still customisable, but when I download steam, it doesnt open, but its logo still appears but it doesnt open at all. Ive tried from the app launcher and now I have done it with a .deb file, but still doesnt work. How do I fix this? I cant find a solution online. Here are my specs if that means anything.

https://preview.redd.it/cr7fobn6ptkf1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=503e35d9e4fb032734382f8536a92986c273122c

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I recently installed CachyOS in the hopes of switching over from Windows to Linux and wanted to use my reshade addons such as as RenoDX, I tried with just ReShade by itself installed using just the normal DLL and also using steam tinker launcher, both worked with DLSS disabled in the game (I tried with Yakuza Like a Pirate and Clair Obscur 33). Once I enabled DLSS however the game immediately froze and I had to force close it.
If I disabled ReShade then enabled DLSS the game would function fine, but if I re-enabled ReShade it wouldn't go past the shaders loading screen on either game.
So it seems each works independently but when both are enabled the game will not run no matter what I've tried;
DXVK_RESHADE_DEPTH_CAPTURE=0

EnableShaderInjection=0
ForceVsync=0
NoReloadOnInit=1
Any success from anyone else? Google and all other search engines only come up with people using AMD and ReShade but not a single thing about Nvidia/DLSS and ReShade.

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Just some thoughts on the Windows 11/anti-cheat TPM 2.0 fiascos from a person who recently swapped to Linux.

Watching these threads on gaming subreddits of gamers desperately trying to enable compatibility with their old hardware is just rough to see; doubly so because I was in their shoes. Registry edits, fiddling with advanced BIOS and firmware settings, BIOS flashing, advanced powershell scripts to rebuild windows indexes, installing these sketchy bypass tools, and on and on ... just to be able to boot their computer to play the latest game.

Meanwhile I recently swapped to Linux with the same older hardware and know how hard it was to start? I booted up Cachy, double clicked on the steam button, clicked on the 'use proton' setting, and clicked install. I was up and gaming within 10 minutes.

It's made me realize that, for all that I used to hear how "user unfriendly' Linux is to use, just how convoluted it is to do so much on Windows. Much of it you don't even realize it until it's gone. I guess people are just used to Windows that they don't realize how convoluted so much of it actually is? But it is very strange watching a person in one post talking about powershell scripts and making regedits and then in the next say he could never try Linux because it's "too complex" ... where the most complex thing I've had to do on Linux was run sudo pacman -S discord once.

Anyways TL;DR, gaming on Linux (and even just using in a general purpose sense) has been an absolute dream.

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i want to start out by saying that I am incredibly grateful to linux devs and this post is in no way me complaining , just looking for advice.

i have an asus ROG flow z13 AI amax 395+ and a lenovo legion pro 7i 5080. I immediately put cachyOS on both and sadly I have had various problems on both. Long story short the problems are somewhat under control on the flow by reverting to the normal arch kernel, because sadly there were regressions on the cachyOS kernel. unfortunately that means I have to give up some hardware perks like being able to use my touchpad with multiple fingers but at least shit works now, but on the 7i my performance is abysmal along with other issues such as speakers not working properly so unfortunately as much as I really don't want to I have to go back to windows.

I want to avoid this problem in the future so in general I want to know what is the rule of thumb for new hardware and linux? How long should I wait generally? I heard that it basically used to be you had to wait a year for ubuntu to support it at all let alone all of the advanced shit like getting max performance, but I was under the impression that it was a lot quicker now. when is the best time to retry or is it generally dependent on the hardware and its popularity?

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hello friends, recently switched to Debian, downloaded latest NVIDIA drivers and steam and decided to try CS2, at first it runs OK but as the game continues the game frame dips a lot. If I have discord in the background its even worse. I'm on Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 for compatibility and cant seem to use any other compatibility tool cause it wont let me in to comp. Any advice? Ik my pc could run it but this is just kinda sad.

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Linux Mint latest, 32GB RAM, X299 Micro, Cinammon, Intel i-7-9800x, Nvidia 2060 Super

Just got better at Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered on Steam/Proton that uses EA Launcher. I've wanted a racing wheel for the racing games I have but have yet to get one because I'm not sure it'll actually work.

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Im gonna use ubuntu only for minecraft is it good and can you provide some advice for making the performance more optimized

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This might be a silly question but when building a gaming PC with Linux in mind and considering system requirements. Are there some things that should be kept in mind to the approach on Linux vs how how you would select hardware on Windows? The only rule of thumb I generally see is choose Radeon over Geforce. What about cpus, ram and motherboards? Are there way more things to keep in mind with Linux or is it more straight forward?

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EDIT: I actually think this may be my compositor, labwc, at fault: maybe it's somehow losing focus. i thought about testing this in sway and after like 10 minutes of testing i was not able to replicate the issue (and it definitely appeared more quickly than 10 minutes)

i wonder if i could fix this in labwc with some AlwaysOnTop rules ...

Arch Linux, labwc 0.9.1-1

I have a multimonitor setup (1 central monitor, 2 flanking) and in some games the cursor will randomly go out of bounds of the window and into my side panels.

Is there a way to fix this without using gamescope, or without readjusting my multi-monitor setup? (I know i could turn off all other monitors to fix this but i don't want to do that)

re gamescope: The problem with gamescope is that some games (the game in question here is Wildgate, but others do this too) especially those that run EAC will break gamescope: the EAC splash will appear, but gamescope won't actually attach the game process, and it'll eventually coredump. (there are several issues in the gamescope github about this)

other games, such as Dota2 running in Proton, do not have this problem

Thanks!

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I'm on CachyOS running the Native Steam client. X11, Nvidia GPU. Hardware accel. is turned OFF, Steam client beta branch, Steam overlay is OFF. Every time I start my PC or restart the Steam client my screen freezes and my mouse lags for a few seconds. Not sure what is causing this. It didn't happen before.

ALSO, my wishlist page gives me a black screen and I already tried clearing my cache and signing out and in.

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I have currently got an 8BitDo Ultimate 2C controller and I have connected it to my PC via the dongle and have switched the controller to the 2.4G mode on the back.

Unfortunately I have no luck with the controllers inputs working, I have used evtest to detect the controllers inputs but it doesn't appear either.

When I use lsusb, one device appears:

`Bus 001 Device 012: ID 2dc8:310a 8BitDo 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless Controller`

When I use evtest however, there are two devices:

`/dev/input/event29: 8BitDo 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless Controller Keyboard`

`/dev/input/event30: 8BitDo 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless Controller Mouse`

I had this problem previously, and it was fixed by reinstalling arch linux. However it has appeared again and I don't want to do that every time I encounter that problem. I assume it is being caused by some misconfiguration or a faulty update.

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Soooo.i just realised that playing minecraft win 10 edition is this easy. No im not talking about playing mcpe and having to buy from playstore. Im talking about the original win 10 edition from windows.please upvote this so this appears on google and helps noobs.and i would love yalls opinions.

(People may need this to play multiplayer so i thought i should post my findings)

With both ways,online play is possible as long as you have and hotmail/gmail acoount with which you have bought the minecraft bedrock copy.

(Note:there are two ways.both work perfectly.the 2nd way is a bit immoral and requires 0 to none risk. For most people the 1rst option should be optimal)

1:open store.install the minecraft launcher flatpak. (If you cant find it you can also download from the minecraft websites for almost all distros) Install the mc windows 10 edition.(Yes even though it wont work) go to /var and locate the minecraft launcher apps' data.there you will find the installation of mc bedrock. Open heroic games launcher.(Or your preffered launcher.) Click the add game option. Select the same mc bedrock file exe from /var. Select and test different versions of proton ge.(Most probably any of the latest will work greatly). Go in settings of that and open winetricks. Select " select default wine prefix" Then select "install windows componenets or dlls" There scroll down until you find these "Vcrun 2022" "Dotnet 48" Select both if these and then click okay. Both of these will then install in your prefix. There you go.now its just a click and play in the heroic games launcher. (NOTE:this is updateable.everytime you need to update go in the launcher and update while you exe selection wont change).

2. (IMPORTANT NOTE:this is not mcpe edition.the vedrock version of minecraft for android is also available. THIS IS WIN 10 EDITION kind of. Also with this method manual updating is needed.)

(This is just a bit risky.also i dont endorse pirating and hacking.) Open browser.search "minecraft apk mcpedl" Open the mcpedl website.download the latest apk file.(Non beta). Then,install waydroid.(This only works for systems with wayland 11)(If you dont use wayland 11,you can use any other container or emulator for android) Set up waydroid with the "GAPPS" option. Select the downloaded apk and run it in the android container. Now when you sign in minecraft will work normally with all online play features enabled. (NOTE:performance might be considerably worse than playing on normal android or the normal win 10 edition) (NOTE2:this method has not yet been tested by me).

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Hello everyone! I've been loving Linux (I'm using Arch) a lot and finally switched it to my main OS a couple of months ago. Does anyone happen to play the game Gray Zone Warfare? I was reading on ProtonDB about it and noticed some people have problems while others don't.

So here's where I need help. I am running a 9950X3D alongside a RTX 5090 (Any other 5090 Linux users here?) running the latest Nvidia Open drivers and for Gray Zone Warfare I can't seem to be able to play the game without it stuttering really bad. I believe it has something to do with the shaders because once I load into an area it's fine for a bit but when I move I can get drops all the way to 2 fps and my game essentially freezes. This is extremely annoying because it has gotten me killed in combat. I have tried using Proton 10.0.2 Beta and GE-Proton10-12 but no luck. The shaders are said to have been compiled on steam and in the menu of the game but when I load into the game each time I get 100% CPU usage and my entire PC lags and audio glitches. After a bit everything is loaded and my GPU is finally being utilized. Maybe it's not saving the shader cache? I also tried the games reset shader options a couple of times but no luck.

Tldr; game stutters and 100% CPU usage when spawning and going to different areas even on a 9950X3D and 5090 running Arch Linux with the Nvidia Open Driver 580.76 (The latest one I'm not at my PC to check)

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