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Black screen in NFS Heat

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 10:16pm

Does anyone know the solution to this problem?

I'm using Fedora 42 KDE and NFS Heat opens in windowed mode with a black screen. After a while, I can press Alt + Enter and switch to full screen, the EA logo appears in the corner and the screen remains black.

I'm using Steam rpm and have tested several different protons. NOTE. Last month it was running normally. After formatting the system and clean installation this problem occurred.

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Corrupt update files - steam

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 10:08pm

Anyone else have this issue happen to them? Seems to always happen with Marvel rivals. No issues with fsck. Reinstalling the game seems to fix it for a bit and I'm wondering if it's something to do with my PC going on suspend maybe. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I'm currently using Arch

Edit: never seem to have this issue with Windows 11, only Linux

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Controller problems makin me insane

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 9:31pm

ok so for some weird ass reason far cry 5 REAALLY hates the 8bitdo wireless ultimate 2c, for no explicable reason! im not sure what it is that makes my controller unrecognizable but its driving me up the wall by now as theres no reasonable explanation for it to be completely ghosted by the application. but then again what the hell do i know? one day you wake up and suddenly steaminput is the devil for your controller and if its not disabled before startup it wont recognize any inputs either! euuuuhg. anyone know any fixes to my blight?

pop_os 24.04 cosmic a7

intel i9-9900kf

radeon rx 7800xt

48gb ram

bunch of storage

yadayada

also for some reason whenever i use %command% in steams launch line, very often itll crash the launch as soon as play is pressed so if anyone has any idea what the hell thats up with thatd be nice to know. Thanks for putting up with my post and doubly so if you provide solutions/answers to my blight

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Star Citizen in Lutris fails to run launcher.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 8:29pm

Been playing Star Citizen on Pop OS using Lutris for a while now. Yesterday, it prompted me to update the RSI Launcher. After the update, the launcher never opens and it just falls back to the main Lutris window after a couple seconds. I've made sure everything is updated, but still have this problem. Even tried removing and reinstalling, and I'm getting the same issue. The RSI Launcher log in Lutris shows the following:

Started initial process 5209 from gamemoderun /home/USER/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine /home/USER/Games/star-citizen/drive_c/Program Files/Roberts Space Industries/RSI Launcher/RSI Launcher.exe Start monitoring process. gamemodeauto: fsync: up and running. wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely [204:0531/110933.384:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(188)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8 (node:204) [KOFFI003] DeprecationWarning: The koffi.cdecl() function was deprecated in Koffi 2.7, use koffi.func(...) instead (Use `RSI Launcher --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created) Initial process has exited (return code: 768) Monitored process exited. Exit with return code 768

Tried doing some digging about a couple of the errors in here, and haven't found anything meaningful. Also tried using the '--trace-deprecation ...' and it returns the following:

> Started initial process 5565 from gamemoderun /home/USER/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine /home/USER/Games/star-citizen/drive_c/Program Files/Roberts Space Industries/RSI Launcher/RSI Launcher.exe --trace-deprecation ... > Start monitoring process. > gamemodeauto: > fsync: up and running. > wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely > > [204:0531/111438.883:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(188)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8 > [504:0531/111439.416:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(188)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8 > (node:204) [KOFFI003] DeprecationWarning: The koffi.cdecl() function was deprecated in Koffi 2.7, use koffi.func(...) instead > at wineGetVersion (C:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\RSI Launcher\resources\app.asar\lib\src\utils\operating-system.js:3:1891) > at getOSData (C:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\RSI Launcher\resources\app.asar\lib\src\utils\operating-system.js:3:2029) > at C:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\RSI Launcher\resources\app.asar\lib\src\analytics.js:3:2965 > at new Promise (<anonymous>) > at sendAnalytics (C:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\RSI Launcher\resources\app.asar\lib\src\analytics.js:3:2524) > at App.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\RSI Launcher\resources\app.asar\lib\src\main.js:3:20098) > Monitored process exited. > Initial process has exited (return code: 768) > Exit with return code 768

Anyone have any ideas?

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mixed gpus - prefer amd on install

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 8:02pm

Hey all - i was originally on arch with just a 3090. I started having hard crashes on idle, just solid frozen screen. Instantly made me think the 3090 was dying so i bought a 9070xt, still crashed. Nothing in the journal indicating anything abnormal. Reluctantly swapped back to windows to try to produce a BSOD message - nothing. Days of dickin' around, it turns out it was an issue with cstates on the 5950x.

Now that i've got that solved by just disabling cstates, I want to go back home to linux, but i've only ever had a single gpu and i want to do it 'right' from the start.

Obviously it's going to run much better with the AMD card and had earlier. The two cards are pretty on par in performance, but i do a lot of local AI stuff which makes me want to keep the 3090 in there. Have any of you run a similar setup? Main'ing the amd gpu and just having an nvidia card installed for compute?

I was working with a hodgepodge, chucked together mess prior. Suggestions on installing? Should i NOT install the proprietary driver at the beginning? Perhaps the open drivers would suffice since it's not going to render games etc, just compute and be a vram vessel?

I'd love to do it correctly and not just make a mess of the system again.

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How can i fix My Cuphead Copy On Linux?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 8:00pm

I recently Migrated from Windows 10 to linux mint and everything has gone ok, but my cuphead doesnt want to open besides its classification on protonDB, does anybody know how to fix it?

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Disto help: Kids want to switch from Bazzite, what's next best?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 7:56pm

I have 2 boys (10 and 11) heavy steam players. They are both on Bazzite, but my youngest is having issues with it - system is running hot, not liking the KDE desktop, ect. Better to just reinstall at this point. Any suggestions?

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CS2 not able to get 1440p in fullscreen

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 6:13pm

Hi all,

I am new to the Linux gaming world and I need help. I have installed CS2 on my Bazzite OS. I am simply not able to get it to work with native 1440p fullscreen. Max I can go is 2048x1152 I have tried setting the launch options:

-w 2560 -h 1440 -fullscreen -noborder -nojoy -novid

But it did not help.

Anyone who has any ideas or fixes?

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Madness: Project Nexus crash

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 6:01pm

I'm trying to play Madness: Project nexus on Linux mint cinnamon, every 5 minutes or so, the game crashes and I can't alt tab, can't alt f4, alt f1-f6 doesn't work either, i can only leave it by holding the power button to reset my pc. I'm running it on proton 9.0.4. Specs: Cpu: Ryzen 5600G Gpu: RX 580 16 gb ram 1 Tb kingston ssd (about 600gb allocated to mint) Happy to provide other info

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Linux Mint freezes after dual booting with Windows (hibernation turned off)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 5:58pm

im dual booting windows and linux mint on my hdd and i have a 1 tb ssd for storage both of them are accessing it the partition is ntfs which im guessing is what causing the problems, its been like this for almost a month debugging formatting the systems and reinstalling them either on the ssd or the hdd and updating the graphics drivers at first i had the systems installed on the ssd so i tried switching to see what is causing the problem and i was right they didnt freeze as much on the hard drive windows didnt have any problems at all it was just linux mint, then i tried booting to linux mint and immediately unmount the ssd and it was working fine for like 2 days then it started freezing again even if its unmounted for some reason

on windows i tried turning off hibernating with control panel and cmd "powercfg /h off" and i tried "chkdsk" and "ntfsfix" on linux and i tried shutting down windows properly with "shutdown /s /t 0" and i disabled fast boot and i even tried disabling the whole "windows 8.1/10 features" in the bios and i formatted the ssd a couple of times but it didnt fix anything

note when linux mint freezes it keeps playing music and even skips to next track but i have no control at all ctrl+alt+f3 doesnt work nor does ctrl+alt+backspace or any shortcut

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İ need help

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 5:55pm

Hello.Sorry to bother you. How can I add this command WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dxgi=n,b" WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" taskset -c 0-7 %command% to lutriss dll overrides?

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I can't for the life of me get the EA App to work on Linux Mint and it's driving me crazy

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 5:37pm

For context I want to play Star Wars Battlefront 2017 on linux mint (used to play on windows). Now I am a launch player meaning my game is actually from the EA App. Not via Steam or Epic games. I truly need it to fully work from the EA App since my game isnt coming from steam or epic.

Now I have tried so many videos, tutorials, reddit threads, forum threads etc but I run into so many issues and in non of those situations does any game actually launch. Is there anyone out there that is in my boat? That has gotten to make this work? So many people who bought the game on steam get this to work and thats cool and all but my progress is on my EA copy.

I'v tried:
- Running the EA installer via Steam non game and using proton. The launcher installs, I get into the launcher but the game wont work. I click play, the ea launcher minimizes and after a few seconds it comes back up (meaning the game "crashed" and the launcher goes back to the starting phase. Issues with this method is that the EA App is installed and does work however if I close I can never access it again. No matter what target and start setting I set in the shortcut it won't ever launch the EA App again unless I restart the entire process

- Lutris really pissed me off since it doesn't actually install any EA files even tho it says it does. So when you press launch on the EA launcher it just tells you to install the actual files (since they arent there) If you manually put them there then the background services crash meaning you have to """"update""""" the app even tho its on the latest version. So you click update anyway and all it does is tell you its already up to date and it will close itself after 5 seconds.

- Bottles. This program has the same issue as running it via steam but every program has this issue with bottles for me. It runs once, but if you close the program and ever want to start it again it just won't. Not even a prompt or anything no. Just nothing. Because why would I ever want to use a program a second time. Ofcourse I want to reinstall everything every time I want to use it. Fresh installs work the best anyway /s. Even when I get it to work with bottles the game never works

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Performance on Linux for the rx 580 2048sp is really bad

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 5:17pm

I really want to stay on Linux but every time I install it I realize that for example in Cyberpunk, I have like 10 fps less than in Windows and I get a lot of fps drops I think it could be because I use Vulkan to play everything, I always have to compile some shaders, and not having it on Steam is a problem. I don't know if anyone here has any recommendations on which version of GE Proton to use, or which distro to use, I usually do my testing on Arch Linux.

My PC It's really low-resource, but on Windows it usually works well with Windows 10 ltsc, these are my components: i7 4790 rx 580 2048sp 8GB 16 ram DDR3 1600mhz Psu Thermaltake 500w 80+ white SSD sata 1TB

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Guide: GeForce Now on desktop Linux.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 5:00pm

I have written a small summary on how to install the GeForceNow Linux client outside of SteamOS. And wrote down troubleshooting steps for the issues i faced while doing this.
https://gist.github.com/Mihitoko/bd76340e56e78ec972c8a1365abb0d55

I hope that can help someone in the future :)

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What game should I play?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 4:55pm

Hello,

I use Linux systems for over 4 years now (currently Fedora Silverblue 42). But I'm almost thinking to switch back Windows 11, because I would like to play League of Legends, maybe (probably) I will not even like it but last few days nostalgia is hitting hard and I used to play LoL a lot 7 years ago. I have tried to play Dota 2 on my laptop, but I don't like the game (to complex compared to LoL) and it's a bit to heavy for my system.

But I maybe if someone has good recommendations of a game to play on my system. Generally I like 2D games that is either multiplayer or singleplayer + multiplayer. Not singleplayer games because I get bored quickly or it makes me depressed. Graphics has to be nice, I usually like the looks of Nintendo games. The games I like to play are quite easy to understand.

I kinda liked to play PokeMMO but it to much focussed on single player.

Games I liked to play. Legend of Zelda Link to the past (SNES) Super Mario World 2 (GameBoy Advance) League of Legends (PC) Agario, Slitherio, Diepio (browser) Habbo (Only imitation versions) (browser) Clash of clans (Mobile) Pubg Mobile (Mobile) Goodgame Maffia (Game is dead) (browser) Arcane Legends (Mobile)

Like you can see those are al low spec games. I don't play games nowadays sometimes I try but I mostly don't like it.

My specs: Dell Laptop Intel I3 8th gen 256 GB SSD 16GB DDR4 Sodimm Ram System: Fedora Silverblue 42

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FSX SE is stuck on the Loading complete screen after starting free flight. (Linux Mint)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 31 May 2025 - 4:46pm

I just switched to Linux less than a week ago thinking that all games work the same (turns out they dont) and now I have a semi broken flight simulator. Photo to show you what it looks like.

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