For Windows I remember there being an app that is supposed to "optimize" game performance and update GPU driver. Is this app necessary at all for Bazzite, or any Linux distro at all?

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Taking a slower approach with inspiration taken from the likes of Aliens, the Doom II conversion named Siren looks really awesome for retro FPS fans.

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Sometimes after a bit, steam will grey out the install/play button and says to install it. But, like, after restarting steam, it will go back to normal and let me play the game. It only happens to windows-only clients so I'm assuming it like... thinks that wine/proton has stopped working so it won't let me start those games.

Why does it only happen to games that can only be run with WINE/Proton? What is causing it to grey out/go back to the install button when I know the game is installed? Why is the problem temporarily fixed by restarting steam? It doesn't make much sense to me.

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Inspired by British and Irish folklore, Hungry Horrors is a deck-builder with an unusual purpose - to have you feed the monsters to keep them away.

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I picked up Star Wars Outlaws on sale through Steam. While the game plays after disabling raytracing, Ubisoft Connect (which is required) takes several minutes to start. I've done some research and tried disabling IPv6, adding WINEDLLOVERRIDES="libglesv2=d" %command% to the game command properties, using Lutris instead to use Ubisoft, installed Ubisoft Connect directly via Wine... nothing I do speeds up the process. Does anyone have ideas how to get it to load faster? I'm on Fedora but have also tried Kubuntu. Also, I have an nVidia RTX 5060.

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I know it's not a Linux specific problem, but on windows it's solution is fairly easy which depends on Gameinput service, on Linux I can't download it because wine doesn't support it or something.

I'll be thankful if anyone can help me

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Hello, I've been trying to run Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on my PC but after some time playing my whole OS crashes and the screen gets visual artifacts making me have to force shutdown it. It happened on Kubuntu 25.10 and now I switched to Fedora 43 and I still have the problem, in both I had the latest Steam official package (no flatpak or snap) and I've tried using the other proton versions + GE proton + gamemoderun and im tired of this issue

My PC specs: Gpu AMD RX 7600 Cpu AMD RYZEN 5 5600 Ram 16gb DDR4

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I own RDR2 on Rockstar launcher, I installed the launcher using lutris and then installed the game. The game runs fine as is but when I try to enable HDR using the following env variables:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1

The game does not launch and it says error with authentication (check the screenshot)
Any other game that I try with those variables works just fine.

System info:
OS: CachyOS
CPU: Ryzen 5 7600x
GPU: Radeon 7800xt
DE: KDE(wayland)
Mesa: Mesa 25.2.6 (git-3f12436d80)
Proton: proton-cachyos

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I added hogwarts legacy to my library when it went free on epic.Im running cachyos on my ASUS TUF F15(core i5 11400h,rtx 3050 4gb,8gb ram)laptop.Im running it though heroic games launcher and the game doesn't use gpu at all.

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Guys, I'm trying to play Helldivers 2 on my laptop with an Intel Core Ultra 5 135H, but the game is producing an unreal amount of artifacts, even though the fps is quite playable (see attached screenshot). The problem is present in both the legacy and slim versions of the game. The GPU is working fine, I've been testing it for a long time.

The system is running the latest version of Debian 13 with kernel 6.12 and xorg.

Please advise what the problem might be and how to solve it. Thanks!

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Hi all,

I am a beginner-to-intermediate linux user. I am running linux on a bunch of machines, including a few Zorin, a steam deck, and a bazzite gaming machine.

One machine that gives me trouble is an old dell desktop tower with 40 GB of Ram and a 1050ti. It is running Zorin OS 17.3 at the moment. The machine works great, other than gaming performance is poor on it, even relative to what would be expected for a 1050ti. I'm sure its related to my video card/drivers. Some advice on how to proceed would be appreciated.

1. What video driver to I want for a 10 series? The proprietary driver seems to support only 16 series and newer.

2. Is there a distro that has better built in support for the 1050 ti that I should consider switching to?

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Everywhere I go people look down upon Debian when it comes to performance. I ate that propaganda until I acutally tried to game with Debian, I have it on my server so I know my way around.

I started using linux this year and I've still been hopping, mainly searching and tinkering with Arch, Fedora and Debian. I don't consider Arch anymore but Fedora and Debian are still on the table.

I installed minimal Debian and put KDE Plasma on top of it, and got kernel, firmware and Mesa from backports for the Stable variant and well, now the performance is Toe-to-Toe with Fedora. Numbers were about 5% better on Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark with Debian.

So...what am I missing? Is it all just a big misunderstanding?

Yes, I am picking newer software for my Debian to get it to run like Fedora and Arch but isn't that kinda it? Does it matter that everything else in your system is "old"?

I'm still on the edge to update to Sid but we'll see.

EDIT: Oh yeah, hardware. CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x GPU: AMD 9070 XT RAM: DDR4 32GB 3600MHZ

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I used to be a Lutris only type of fellow, but sadly it seems the project has been abandoned; or paused for right now.

To that end, with GOG's winter sale, Breath of Fire IV looks interesting (I'm in the mood for a JRPG). I'm just wondering how well it will work in Linux via Heroic.

Does anyone have any experience?

Thanks

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Linux Mint 22.3 is set to be the next long-term supported release and a Beta is now here you can test, with a surprising amount of new features.

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Luxman Moonlit Market is a strategic tile-placement roguelike with Balatro-inspired power-up management according to the developer, and it looks quite fun!

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You read the title. I don't know how to get this mf to run and I'm going insane as theirs no step by step guide. Please help.

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Widelands continues to grow as a great free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, with a brand new holiday release out now.

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