Other News about gaming on Linux
Still Having Trouble with Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Starting
I hope it's ok for me to make another post about this. My first post hasn't really gotten responses to the more recent progress and I still need help. Here it is
So yeah, basically I'm running arch and trying to play KCD2 but most of the time when I start the game it just won't start. I've tried different Proton versions including GE, I've fully reinstalled Arch, I've tried it both on my encrypted system SSD and another non encrypted SSD, they all use EXT4. I've checked all the hardware, the memory, the CPU and such all pass stress tests, both the SSD's I've tried it on seem to be fine. From monitoring the VRAM and RAM it doesn't look like they're filling up on startup. Other games don't have the same issue.
This is the proton log:
https://paste.rs/0NwT7
KCD2 Bugsplat Log:
Bugsplat Additional Log:
https://paste.rs/dLRxE
Please let me know if anyone knows what might be wrong or how to fix it, if if anyone needs any more information. Thank you
submitted by /u/Oreo4123[link] [comments]
Torn between GPU choice...
Hey guys,
I'm thinking about upgrading my RTX 4070 Ti Super to either RTX 5080 or maybe AMD 9070 XT. In terms of performance, the AMD option is just barely better, though it's half the price of the RTX 5080.
Also I'm running Arch distro, and I wouldn't say that the experience with Nvidia has been smooth. Half the time you can't even use ray tracing because the game crashes. Personally also think that ray/path tracing overall is a feature that costs way too much performance than what it delivers. Half the time the "fake" tracing looks pretty fine, and who spends time gawking at pixels when you have a game to play?
I have a 4K monitor, some games play really well. I get around ~90 fps constant on Pragmata for example on highest settings. Can't run ray tracing, because it crashes the game.
I was thinking that maybe I should ditch the Nvidia card, or rather plug it into my wife's PC to upgrade her RTX 3070 to something better and get myself the AMD option and live with kernel drivers, minor performance upgrade, save money and still enjoy pretty much the same experience.
But I've had bad experience with AMD in the past, where notably I had RX 550 and had to RMA it TWICE. Ditched the card and got a 1070 Ti which lasted me for like 7 years.
Dunno... some sanity check would be nice from others.
submitted by /u/WaffleBrewer[link] [comments]
Looking for playtesters of the Linux build of my game Cosmodrill!
My game currently has a public playtest on Steam. I don't have any experience with linux builds and I'm on Windows myself, so it would help me out a lot to get some Linux testers on board! I just uploaded the first linux build and to be honest I'm completely clueless as to whether you can even start the game at all ^^
Here's the link to the steampage: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3722660/Cosmodrill/
The game was made with Unity by the way. Thanks in advance for your help!
submitted by /u/No_Theme_8101[link] [comments]
Cuando ejecuto Silksong en Heroic Launcher, las cinemáticas de viaje desaparecen.
Pues eso, cuando juego Silksong con este lanzador esas escenas no aparecen. ¿Cuál podrá ser la razón? Es la versión .exe del juego actualizada.
submitted by /u/Terrible-Bad-6648[link] [comments]
hay una forma de jugar juegos de windows en linux con hardware viejo
tengo un i3 2100 con intel hd graphics 2000 y quiero pasar a linux porque windows es muy problematico y me da dificultades para jugar pero tengo una carpeta llena de juegos para windows y vi se pueden poner en linux pero algunos de esos juegos son de vulkan y en windows me van bien pero en linux no creo porque usa vulkan algo asi investigue mi punto es se puede jugar en linux con hd graphics 2000 y que recomiendan que haga
submitted by /u/DryNeighborhood9134[link] [comments]
The "All Things Linux" server got deleted, but there is a new server by the original staff that just got made.
If you aren't aware, ATL or All Things Linux was one of the big discord servers centered around general Linux discussion, and it got deleted by the owner unexpectedly a few days ago. There is a brand new server, Neon Genesis Linux, that got created by most of the original staff. If you want to help rebuild the community, go join over here with the link https://discord.gg/nglinux
submitted by /u/Theodoro43[link] [comments]
Overwatch is crashing at start
Context:
I just downloaded and tried to run overwatch on steam, but it crashes at start, tried with AI but it only says that the problem are packages I already downloaded.
Ideapad Gaming i3
- 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz
- Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (integrada)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (dedicada)
- 16GB de ram
Software
- SO: Void Linux
- Proton: GE-Proton10-34
Problem/Log:
chdir "/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Overwatch"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 2357570, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 19169 for gameID 2357570
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/clive/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Adding process 19170 for gameID 2357570
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
Adding process 19171 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 19172 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 19253 for gameID 2357570
ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Running protonfixes on "GE-Proton10-34", build at 2026-03-23 03:55:11+00:00.
ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Running checks
ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: All checks successful
ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Using early stage global defaults for "Overwatch®" (2357570)
ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: No early stage global protonfix found for "Overwatch®" (2357570)
ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Running protonfixes on "GE-Proton10-34", build at 2026-03-23 03:55:11+00:00.
ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Running checks
ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: All checks successful
ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: Using main stage global defaults for "Overwatch®" (2357570)
ProtonFixes[19253] INFO: No main stage global protonfix found for "Overwatch®" (2357570)
Adding process 19254 for gameID 2357570
fsync: up and running.
Adding process 19262 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 19263 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 19264 for gameID 2357570
Adding process 19267 for gameID 2357570
pid 19265 != 19264, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=2357570]
Removing process 19267 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 19264 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 19263 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 19262 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 19254 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 19253 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 19172 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 19171 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 19170 for gameID 2357570
Removing process 19169 for gameID 2357570
submitted by /u/MinguaDinja[link] [comments]
GTFO players on linux?
Hello. I'm now prepping to install linux on my laptop(ASUS FX505GT if relevant), and my main game is my main concern. Are there any GTFO players here? What distro do you use, and what would I get into if I were to switch to linux?
submitted by /u/MarA1018[link] [comments]
More retro goodies - Microsoft open sources 86-DOS and PC-DOS
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
FPS drop in Blazing Chrome after Ubuntu 24.04 → 25.04 upgrade and Nvidia 595 driver
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 24.04 to 25.04. A couple of days later, my NVIDIA driver also got updated from 590 to 595. I’ve always been using Wayland, so that hasn’t changed.
Since then, I’m having performance issues with Blazing Chrome. It used to run at a rock‑solid 60 FPS (it’s a simple 2D game with Sega Genesis–style graphics), but now it hovers around 30–45 FPS.
The only way I can get smooth performance is running it in windowed mode at x2. As soon as I switch to x4, FPS drops again.
I don’t think this is a hardware limitation. I’m running an RTX 2060 12 GB, and on the same day I played RIDE 5 at a stable 60 FPS with no issues at all.
The game is running through Proton, using Heroic Game Launcher.
Has anyone seen similar FPS drops after upgrading to Ubuntu 25.04 or the Nvidia 595 driver, especially with Wayland and Proton?
submitted by /u/rmontes1986[link] [comments]
NO-AI FOSS multiplatform game made on Linux: Bionic Blue (First mission available + GitHub link)
My name is Kennedy and I just completed and released the first full playable mission of this free-of-charge open-source game I'm making with Python and pygame-ce.
I present you Bionic Blue 0.13.0!
You can find it here on GitHub: https://github.com/IndieSmiths/bionicblue (the README has instructions to install the game or use it as an standalone program).
For those used to Python tooling, you can install it with pip install --upgrade bionicblue.
I don't use generative AI tools nor code generated by it. I made all the code/systems and the vast majority of the art (except for a few UI icons). SFX, music and font are all free assets. All these external assets are used within the terms of their respective licenses (mostly CC0) and properly credited in the game.
The game's source (not its art) is released to the public domain with the Unlicense.
I'm also on patreon, GitHub Sponsors and other similar sites, in case you are interested in helping fund this kind of work (creation and maintenance of free open-source games/apps, including the Nodezator node editor, a generalist Python node editor).
submitted by /u/KennedyRichard[link] [comments]
Minecraft
Ik wondering if it's possible to get Minecraft bedrock online as I've played bedrock on Linux before but never the online version
submitted by /u/Dazzling_Design6106[link] [comments]
deadlock wont launch with vulkan (i think)
Hello I'm still relatively new to linux mint and I got deadlock running awhile ago with some troubleshooting with the help of AI and now i accidentally installed an update on my driver (dont remember what) and it wont launch anymore, I tried reinstalling everything, steam, deadlock and drivers, rolled it back to nvidia 535, reinstalled vulkan stuff and it still wont work,
currently this is the error message I get trying to launch it with proton expiremental
"Unhandled exception in Xalia:
System.ApplicationException: No displays available
at Xalia.Sdl.SdlSynchronizationContext.Init (SDL3.SDL+SDL_InitFlags flags) [0x00046] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0
at Xalia.MainClass.Main (System.String[] argv) [0x0002b] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.ApplicationException: No displays available
at Xalia.Sdl.SdlSynchronizationContext.Init (SDL3.SDL+SDL_InitFlags flags) [0x00046] in <295968b5ae854da3893289dcfbfe889f>:0
pid 13753 != 13752, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1422450]"
weirdly i got the game to run on Opengl rather than Vulkan but it looks very buggy with many artifacts, and if I switch to proton 9.0-4 it launches for abit then shutdowns by itself
I've tried all the avenues with Chatgpt to troubleshoot and fix this problem but it seems it has no data regarding this problem and just goes on a loop reinstalling stuff
submitted by /u/Im_Dough[link] [comments]
It’s time to organize: Launching the "Stop Killing Linux Gaming" Discord
Hi everyone.
We’re tired of seeing games that run perfectly on Proton get nuked by kernel-level anti-cheats that serve no purpose other than platform locking. Following the momentum of the "Stop Killing Games" campaign, I’m launching a dedicated hub to coordinate our efforts: Stop Killing Linux Gaming.
We aren't just here to complain. We are here to:
- Coordinate targeted email campaigns to studios that refuse to "flip the switch" on EAC/BattlEye.
- Document evidence of arbitrary blocking for consumer rights complaints (especially in the EU).
- Advocate for server-side AI anti-cheat that doesn't require a Microsoft-signed rootkit.
If you’re tired of your hardware being a hostage to Windows, come join us. We need researchers, writers, and gamers who are ready to take action.
Join the movement: Stop Killing Linux Gaming
submitted by /u/LordM8YT[link] [comments]
Cache arrives in Counter-Strike 2 while Valve continue working on ANIMGRAPH 2
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
DGPU performance worse than IGPU
My dgpu gives 30-40 fps on the more visually intensive parts of the game, but igpu gives stable 60 fps. How is that possible? Here are my specs:
With dgpu only the game is on it, there is enough VRAM (no GTT used)
submitted by /u/Hi_K0_Ni[link] [comments]
Neverness to Everness Working on DW-Proton 10-25
I don't get any errors. Game works perfectly fine.
Using DW-Proton 10-25 using Lutris. Launched the Game using Launcher
submitted by /u/PolarMeowz[link] [comments]
NVIDIA 580.159.03 driver released for Linux with some essential fixes
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
obs-kmscap - zero-copy screen capture plugin for OBS
obs-kmscap is a display server-agnostic zero-copy screen capture plugin for Linux, which works by directly exporting OpenGL textures from the framebuffer using native system calls, in favor of double-copy XSHM capture, which is incredibly slow. Depending on your system, it might be potentially more performant than even Wayland Pipewire capture. The idea started from w23's project, which does something very similar in concept, but hasn't received updates or support in years.
I am currently trying to test the plugin on a larger scale, and I would highly appreciate it if anyone tried it for themselves and gave me feedback. I am also curious about NVIDIA support, as I don't have an NVIDIA graphics card myself, but seeing as newer drivers have better DRM/KMS support (with nvidia-drm.modeset=1 as a kernel boot parameter) it makes me curious.
The project can be found here.
submitted by /u/thepoke32[link] [comments]
