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Slay the spire busted (PopOS Cosmic)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 23:47

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Not sure if anyone else has had this. It worked afaik before cosmic update. I've tried the following settings:

Proton Experimental (This): Mod Launcher works
Proton Hotfix: Same
Steam Linux Runtime: Loads but mod manager crashes.

I've tried switching X11 compatibility between "Optimize for Gaming" and "Max Compatibility", and switching Fullscreen/Borderless. Going fullscreen in Proton causes it to crash on boot.

Not sure why this is even an issue, I know STS is easily compatible on my deck.

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Certain Hytale menus fail to re-center cursor.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 22:51

Hello! As stated, certain menus in Hytale, such as the radial Z menu, will fail to re-center the cursor around 50% of the time. It happens exclusively in fullscreen, as I haven't been able to reproduce that in windowed mode. Other menus, such as the inventory screen, appear to work perfectly and will consistently re-center the cursor, no matter what.

I'm on Arch Linux, running KDE Wayland. Hytale is running from flatpak (with wayland). My system:

  • AMD Ryzen 7 5800x3d
  • AMD Radeon 7800xt
  • Mesa 25.3.3

I've tried to force it into borderless mode, the kwin window rule either failed me or it didn't work if the window renders on the top level. As far as configurations, my setup is pretty bog standard, I haven't exported any fancy variables. Cruising on whatever gets auto picked up/set by SDDM.

https://reddit.com/link/1qd0m10/video/6tffzwbtyddg1/player

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Need help figuring out Magic the Gathering Shandalar running .cv error

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 22:08

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As the title suggests, I am trying to run Magic the Gathering Shandalar through Lutris and Wine programs when I run into this error message. The game has issues with the text glitching out and causing issues. Also, when I am in-game when I click to move somewhere my character doesn't stop moving in that direction.

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I am on PopOS version 22.04 LTS x86_64, using a Dell Inc. 0M6C7G (Aoo) computer. My Kernel is 6.17.9-76061709-generic. My shell is bash 5.1.16 . My CPU is an Intel i9-10900F (20) @ 5.200GHz and my GPU is a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER.

The version of Lutris I am using is 0.5.19, and for running options I have tried both Ge-Proton (Latest) and wine-ge-8-26-x86_64. The Lutris I am using is I believe a flatpak.

Here is a log for the game when running the Wine version
https://pastes.io/started-in

As far as I can tell, this is Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers Version 3.0 from January 14th 1998. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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RGB Beleuchtung

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 21:47

Hi zusammen, wie setzt ihr denn das Thema RGB unter Linux (Bazzite) um? Ich hab das Thema, dass ich nur ganz rudimentär mit OpenRGB die LEDs meiner Hardware beeinflussen kann. EIN/AUS / Farbe / Helligkeit - keine Effekte.

Red Devil 9070xt Artic Freezer 3 Pro Corsair RAM MSI Mainboard usw… hab also verschiedene Hersteller

(Windows ist keine Option, da bin ich gerade weg von)

Danke vorab!

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Do I really need the launcher?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 21:27

I know that Epic Games on a weekly basis offers games for free. if i were to scoop one up for myself, would I still need to install the Epic Games launcher just to play the game(s) I purchased from the Epic Store?

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Trouble with new version of Goverlay

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 21:23

I'm running Cachyos and Hyprland with a 9800x3d and a 9700xt. I have the new Goverlay with optiscaler setup. I used that to add optiscaler to Final Fantasy VII Rebirth so I could use FSR4 with it. However, even though I don't have the auto enable turned on in goverlay, and I didn't add the fgmod argument to Steam for Horizon Zero Dawn, it is still activating Optiscaler in that game,when I don't want to use it. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this or how to disable it on games I don't want to use it on?

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Steam stopped functioning after swapping drivers

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 21:17

Distro:mint

Desktop eviroment:KDE

GPU: Nvidia 3080

to fix my computers response top hdmi monitors (it wouldnt recognize that it had an hdmi port it was a whole debacle) i swapped my laptops drivers to the open source so it would use the monitor, but steam suddenly stopped being able to boot. it started throwing up this error in discover.

W: GPG error: https://repo.steampowered.com/steam stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F24AEA9FB05498B7 NO_PUBKEY 84706F31879D59CB

E: The repository 'https://repo.steampowered.com/steam stable InRelease' is not signed.

W: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

W: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

E: https://repo.steampowered.com/steam stable InRelease is not (yet) available (The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F24AEA9FB05498B7 NO_PUBKEY 84706F31879D59CB)

i tried reinstalling steam several times but it just keeps doing this.

https://reddit.com/link/1qcy5nd/video/kvyj690yhddg1/player

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Why does one of my games only black screen when it's on a drive that isn't my main drive where fedora is installed

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 21:09

started fedora linux last night, am kinda new to linux still, for whatever reason the game bomb rush cyberfunk will only be a black screen when i try booting it from the 2nd ssd i have that i use for games.. but when i move the game to the main ssd that has the OS.... it just works.... why and how can i fix this (using fedora linux with KDE plasma)

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Did new Nvidia drivers permanently break my graphics card?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 20:46

EDIT: I'll give the person who helps me permanently solve this a $50 gift card or whatever of equivalent value. I'm fairly confident I'm going to end up spending over 1k on a AMD replacement at this point anyway.

CPU: AMD 5600X

Mboard: Gigabyte X570 Gaming S

GPU: Geforce 3090

Distro: Arch

I've been battling this issue since mid December. Around the 14th, I updated. I hadn't updated for a couple weeks ish. After booting, I started getting severe lag spikes when opening graphical applications (eg Firefox/Steam) and after ~8 seconds it would sometimes stabilise. Gaming was not possible, with frequent periodic stuttering.

I managed to fix it by reverting all the drivers back to 580.95.05. Eventually I had to update, but I haven't been able to fix the issue. I tried all of the things. I've been gaming on Linux for 10+ years so I'm not a noob at all. I can not fix it. I can't even get it to work again rolling back the drivers.

The suspicion is it's my graphics card dying BUT before updating I was gaming fine, even in VR for hours at a time, and had absolutely zero problems until the update to latest.

To eliminate ALL factors, I ran EndeavourOS live, which has the latest Nvidia drivers packaged with it. Issue exists there. So it's not my OS, config, drivers, or anything. I've also installed Mint and Endeavour, same thing. Updated my mboard BIOS.

And now I can't get it working again by rolling back the drivers. It can't be faulty hardware, because it was fine, even under heavy VR loads, until I updated.

In desperation, I asked ChatGPT. It's.. surprisingly better than it used to be. I had one success; running these commands reduced the lag time to stabilise after opening Firefox:

sudo nvidia-smi -pm 1 sudo nvidia-smi -lgc 210,210

ChatGPT is convinced that there is some setting in the GPU firmware itself, that was changed by the new drivers, that is causing the issue (like load or thermal management). But the old drivers aren't changing this back at all, and therefore the GPU is stuck like this.

I don't have a windows to test, but I might try that. Ew.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is my card mysteriously broken?

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What am i missing?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 20:16

Hello, im new to Linux and im trying to install something thats not on steam for the first time.

I tried using the standard promt flatpak install and drag the file in. However when i do this i get the first error message. When i choose the package installer to try and install it trough that i get the second error message.

Am i missing a program that isnt standard on Mint 22.2?

CPU: quad core Intel Core i7-7700K (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 800/800/4500 MHz

Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic x86_64 Up: 52m Mem: 6.59/31.3 GiB (21.1%)

Storage: 4.12 TiB (15.5% used) Procs: 342 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.34

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Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is out now and supported until 2029

Gaming on Linux - 14. Januar 2026 - 19:58
The popular Linux Mint has a big new stable version available with Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" supported up until 2029 as it's a long-term support release.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Issues with Tropico 6 (El-presidente edition) on proton. (Specifically GE-wine 8.26)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 19:46

Okay so im running the game through lutris via ge-wine 8.26 on a normal wine64 wineprefix. (My OS is MX-linux so anything relevant to that and debian-trixie will be relevant here)

Mostly everything works except literally the MAIN mechanic, building: When i go to build anything, the roads and buildings just wont appear and i cannot place anything down, rendering the game quite literally unplayable in the most hilariously frustrating way possible.

Am i just simply doing something wrong here? Am i the only one who has encountered this bug? i am willing to provide my specs, relevant information, neofetch, screenshots, and even footage if need be. ( i only have -dx11 arguement active for lutris.)

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PSA: If you miss DSR/VSR from windows, but find the supersampling in gamescope lacking

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 19:44

try injecting a gaussian blur shader using vkbasalt or reshade into the game you're running through gamescope. I have been experimenting with this and i have been getting excellent results. This gets that nice similar soft super-sampled look that you can get with VSR and DSR

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Mangohud on Hytale

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 19:09

Title kinda explains mostly everything, I've tried using Flatlseal to add environment variables to the hytale launcher and that didn't do anything. I also made sure I had the mangohud flatpack extension and it still doesn't show up at all in hytale. any suggestions?

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MCPE launcher issues

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 14. Januar 2026 - 18:46

Hi I'm trying to setup a PC for my wife and I'm using bazzite as the distro

My issue is that when I log into Google using the MCPE launcher flatpak, after I put in my password there is a popup that says "sorry something went wrong please try again" and a button that says "restart". On top of this I tried to manually put in the oauth_token and user_id but couldnt find any in the cookies for the Google login site it wants me to use. And when I log into that site it also has the same sorry message.

Any info on this at all would be greatly appreciated

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