Using Linux mint 22.1 xfce. Laptop with iGPU + nvidia 1050 mobile.

I'm trying to make an old game work with Proton (works with wine). While I'm on-demand mode, if I execute the game via steam, it launches but then freezes but cursor is movable.

While still on-demand mode, if I execute steam with prime-run, the game doesn't freeze by itself, but freezes the moment I alt-tab back into it. Window mode doesn't help.

If I go prime nvidia mode, it no longer freezes and works well, but not using both gpu's is not nice. Does anyone know a way around this, a way to continue using on-demand mode and not having trouble with proton stuff.

The old game is the WoW vanilla client (2004). The one of 2009 (Wotlk) has the same issue.

Thanks everone in advance. Would appriciate any input/personal experience with proton and hybrid gpu.

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I got the mods for it installed and I have to launch the game from the mod manager. When I try to run the game, it does not want to run. I am assume that because this manager is more likely made for windows it trying to look for a exe path. Since linux paths are different. This could be part of the issue. I would like to know what else could be done to possibly make this work. Here is what I have installed

• Wine
• proton
• yakuza kiwami (steam version)
• SinRyu mod manager
• Fedora Distro

What could I be missing here?

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Title says it all. I know battleye does work on LInux it's just a matter of whether or not Linux is enabled for whatever game. Thanks

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So I recently swap over from windows to Kubuntu, and everything was working great for me. However the one thing that I missed was being able to host local games for my friends to play remotely with Oarsec, as the Linux version can only let you join. Now I know that there is the Steam Remote Play Together feature, but the problem with that is that it only works with games that has the Steam Remote Play Tag, and it won't work with games outside of Steam. So is there any other tool that'll let me host a split screen game remotely?

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I know my cpu is quite old but I don’t know how to objectively tell if it is bottlenecking any of my programs or not. Using various task manager clones, no game or program I run bottlenecks my cpu, but I feel like I could be missing something else. My games still run perfectly fine at 60fps (maximum frame rate of my 4K monitor don’t judge plz 🙏😭). Idk it just feels weird that I haven’t upgraded in quite a while but I’ve seen no drop in performance yet.

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Hi everyone,

I’m planning to set up a dual boot system with Linux (probably EndeavourOS) alongside my current Windows install. The idea is to have Windows as a fallback in case something doesn’t work on Linux, but I’d really like to try running as much as possible directly on Linux.

I already have many games (Steam, Epic... ☠️🏴) and some regular Windows apps installed on NTFS partitions. My questions are:

• Can I reuse those existing game installations on Linux via Proton/Wine, or do I need to reinstall everything?
• Is it possible to run them directly from NTFS, or do I really need to copy them to a native Linux filesystem?
• For non-Steam games and general apps, how well does Wine handle using already-installed Windows files from the NTFS drive?

Any advice or experience from others who tried something similar would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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I asked this on r/Steam and my post was autmoatically removed for violating their terms, reviewed by a moderator, then deleted. This is the same question but with a little more added detail. I am thinking noting that I modified the steam.styles configuration file that it was against their rules or something. idk didn't know modifying a config file that has comments inside it to help you better understand some of the color options was a big deal.

I am on KDE Plasma using NixOS with steam installed through NixOS packages, my notifications are set to appear on the top right for plasma. Steam does not detect this and shows notifications on the bottom right.

This is an issue as the bottom right of my screen is where my second monitor is and I am not about to completely reverse my room to move a tiny monitor. (I would need to move my desk, computer, other desk, other computers and steam deck station, subwoofer, speakers, cable management, etc). Steam notifications will show on the second monitor then slide on to the first. This added to the fact that it's not where my notificaitons are supposed to be is extrmely annoying. I do QA work, I would like a break of QA work when I am gaming.

With steam no longer supporting styles, how can I move my notifications to the top right of my screen?

• I checked steam settings, there is still no setting allowing you to change this behavior
• I changed steam.styles, steam detected this and overwrote the file
• I changed steam.styles and set it to read only, steam detected this and scummily renamed the file to steam.styles.old and created a new file
• I changed steam.styles and set the styles folder to read only, steam detected this but was unable to do anything about it. It defaulted and still used the bottom right for notifications

Is there anything else I can do to change this minor setting that should already be a setting within the settings menu?

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When I join a game in war-thunder it gives me a fatal error when I press on yes it closes when I press on no War-thunder resumes playing But I am unable to interact with anything I cant control anything

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Hello everyone!

Hope you are all doing good! You might have seen my previous posts about Linux Gaming as a returning user that tried Linux back in 2015-2016 and failed when gaming was non existent.

I been using Linux Mint for a year now and been having a good experience so far, some minor issues here and there.

However, I saw some distros like Nobara, Bazzite, Garuda and point in case. PikaOS.

I already had my distro hopping phase back in 2015 and now I just want to settle for something good but PikaOS picked my interest...

So! I been having some issues with Linux Mint lately, the ever present audio issues (cracking audio issues during normal desktop usage and also issues with my microphone sometimes sounding weird) my new Redragon IRE pro not working properly (they had no sound or anything) and overall sluggish feeling while playing something so I decided to take a shot at PikaOS KDE version

The installation went okay, nothing to complain and it actually went by extremely quickly now that I think about it, it offered me ways to install Steam, Lutris Heroic games launcher and others right off the bat and media codecs, I'm using Nvidia and it also installed the drivers right off the bat so that worked like a charm too, no complains here.

My complains (that have been fixed, I mean I hope they are) started when I was configuring the system or... KDE.

I set up a custom splash screen (a kitty sleeping or something IIRC) and that's it, but when I logged out and back in, it froze on that screen with no option to move or anything forcing me to force restart my PC twice, not good there..

I also found some issues while restarting and shutting down, tried to see if my Windows and LM partition were still okay and for some reason I got stuck forever in the Plymouth screen with no way out either. Also fixed it by changing the Plymouth theme to another one, that somehow magically fixed it?

Third and still present issue, no matter if I use Wayland or Xorg, for some reason it feels overall sluggish, I felt that on Linux Mint but feels worst here for some reason, like opening apps felt weirdly slow... For reference I have a GTX 1660 and a ryzen 5 CPU 4500 with 16 GB of RAM, I might need some help here with that too :p

But then, what's the good?

For starters my redragon ire pro wireless headset was working finally, I could only hear from the left side but some fiddling around in pavucontrol enabled both sides! Truly a wonder! (Even worked better than on Windows lol!)

The overall experience tho sluggish felt so damn good, I can customize so much, even more than on Linux Mint Cinnamon! Truly surprising!

The gaming experience felt slightly more fluent too! And my audio issues were fixed like 99% (maybe I was crazy but I swore I heard some crackling somewhere in there)

So if you guys are looking for an alternative for Nobara, Garuda, Bazzite or others then PikaOS is a good alternative for you! It's Debian based so that's a plus too here and there.

Cheers!

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I'm pretty new on Linux gaming. I've installed Linux on dual boot with win10. I have some non steam games installed on windows on an ntfs formatted ssd. Can I just play them with lutris by launching their exe files with it or do I need to install them with lutris first? I tried to install a non steam game with lutris on that ssd but lutris said installing on an ntfs formatted drive could complicate things and that I should install the game on a Linux formatted drive. Is it just a warning than I can safely ignore or do I need a separate btrfs/ext4 formatted drive for this?

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I'm looking into building my PC and I'm currently stuck on choosing the gpu. I'm 99% sure the cpu will be an AMD Ryzen™ 9 9950X3D, but I'm not sure if amd would be better than nvidia. The thing is, I’ve struggled a lot with Nvidia on my openSUSE machine, to the point where I’ve developed a habit of fixing it. Every time nvidia-smi doesn’t work, I have about 5 different ways to get it working again. Will it be the same experience with AMD? My machine will run opensuse tumbleweed + kde6 wayland with the main goal for this PC is obviously gaming, but also using blender, unreal and some ai generation.

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Hi, I recently tried playing Clair Obscur in arch and was hoping for good performance (or at least 10~20% FPS hit) because in protondb it's rated platinum. However my performance tanks from stable 110 fps (Epic DLAA 1440p) to 60 fps in Arch. I must be doing something wrong. (GPU is RTX 4080-s)

I've tried a lot of different things, but most yield the same result. Here's what I tried already: - Running it with gamemode (I did confirm that gamemode was running and configured properly) - Used ProtonGE - Tried it with Vulkan and DX12 - Tried re-installing the nvidia drivers

But now I don't know what to do. Here are some things I think you may find helpful: Result of: pacman -Q | grep nvidia lib32-nvidia-utils 575.64-2 linux-firmware-nvidia 20250613.12fe085f-6 nvidia-open 575.64-2 nvidia-settings 575.64-1 nvidia-utils 575.64-1 In /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia-drm.fbdev=1"

In /etc/mkinitcpio.conf: MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm) HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode modconf keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)

In /etc/pacman.d/hooks/nvidia.hook: ``` [Trigger] Operation=Install Operation=Upgrade Operation=Remove Type=Package Target=nvidia Target=linux

Adjust line(6) above to match your driver, e.g. Target=nvidia-470xx-dkms Change line(7) above, if you are not using the regular kernel For example, Target=linux-lts

[Action] Description=Update Nvidia module in initcpio Depends=mkinitcpio When=PostTransaction NeedsTargets Exec=/bin/sh -c 'while read -r trg; do case $trg in linux) exit 0; esac; done; /usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P' ```

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https://preview.redd.it/y0qc6vph2j8f1.jpg?width=2561&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d6a262410f3864ea1f4f13aa34ba2bf8252cc78

I shut closed my laptop while playing GD and came later to this. Not a big issue, it fixes itself by closing and reopening the game, but still curious of why exactly this could be happening. As always, running on NVIDIA dGPU.

Full video

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This issue has only happened to me in the outer worlds and now lies of P, I’ve got no idea why or how it happens, and why it only happens in those games. I’ve updated my drivers thinking that would fix it but alas it still happens

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x GPU: 6600XT OS: Arch, with hyprland

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E ae galera, eu tenho o red dead 2 na epic games e desde de quando comecei a utilizar o linux não consegui faze-lo funcionar. Já utilizei o Heroic game launcher e agora estou tentando pelo bottle, unica dependência que acrescentei foi o vcredist2019, fiz isso quando testei tanto pelo heroic como pelo bottle, ao iniciar o jogo na epic o launcher da rockstar é aberto e após algum tempo carregando ele informa que o jogo não pode ser aberto pois o mesmo já está em execução.

A mensagem da imagem:
A game is running
Red dead 2 Red dead 2 is running. By choosing to exit, Red dead 2 will close and all progress will be lost.

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hi. the title says everthing.. is it possible?
or is the anticheat the problem? (i play pve)

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So, games like Metro 2033 Redux ask for OpenGL 4 to run. I search online and saw the mesa does not implement it. Is there a way to bypass it?

The funny thing is, when I first installed CachyOS, it was working. It then suddenly stopped working.

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