Other News about gaming on Linux
TLOU 2 Freezes if not in a windowed screen
Just like the title. I'm using Proton Experimental. Tried every other Proton there is, even ProtonGE.
The game runs flawlessly in windowed mode, the only mode is that it is a small portion of my window. If I try to set it to fullscreen or exclusive fullscreen it freezes. If I try to increase the window size my dragging the corner of the window, it freezes, and funny detail: sometimes it crashes my GPU, so I have to hard restart my PC.
There is no log because there is not a crash, it only freezes forever, stuck in the last frame of the game.
Can someone help me?
submitted by /u/BigIbuki[link] [comments]
Randomly searched ai in the Software Manager: Found, Flare: Empyrean Campaign
I noticed a new option, "Enable gamescope browser composer", in the Developer section of Steam's settings - anyone know what that's about?
Launch steam with the CLI option -dev and you'll find the section in the Settings menu.
I'm just curious if anyone has any context for what Valve's planning there.
submitted by /u/Zaemz[link] [comments]
Switch to AMD worth it and Nvidia 12VHPWR worries?
I've been playing on Linux, Bazzite, for over two weeks now, and I'm loving it! :D I've heard here and there that Nvidia performs worse compared to an AMD GPU on Linux. Of course, I have no idea if this is the case and 'how much worse' my RTX 4090 is compared to the current top dog from AMD, the RX 9070XT under Linux - or at all..
It sounds, and perhaps is, silly, but is it "worth it" to switch? I have had no problems with my 4090 until now, but I'm a bit worried about Nvidia's brilliant idea of the 12VHPWR cable more and more for some reason. I know the RX 9070XT is no 4K card (which is my resolution on my TV until I purchased a 1440p Monitor) and in that area, AMD has nothing to compete.
Can anyone say anything about this? Or perhaps, has anyone got/bought a Switch and can tell a bit about it?
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Nvidia drivers?
New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road and Windswept - 2025-11-15 Edition
moving steam games seamlessly between devices
sounds like a great feature, install games on removable storage and switch them seamlessly between devices!
going to assume this works with proton too but does it need the same account or would family sharing be ok?
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients - 2025-11-12 Edition
Oh yeah, we should be able to use custom boot vids for the Steam Machine
"For those unaware, if you have a video file in the right resolution and format, SteamOS allows you to use it as a boot screen—it can be anything you choose. And naturally, people have already got to work on boot screens tailored to the upcoming Steam Machine." - PC Gamer
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What are good controllers for gaming on Linux (strictly upstream kernel support)?
I don't want to deal with Xbox's lack of upstream kernel support and side-installing Xone driver, or other similar issues for different vendors. I just want to vote with my wallet for first-class Linux kernel support.
Are there any good wireless controllers, preferably non-bluetooth (2.4GHz dongle is just more reliable), which have support in upstream mainline kernel? I know the new Steam Controller is coming but I don't want to wait for it. And I want controller to work without Steam Input as I do have a bunch of games outside of steam (eg: GOG and EGS through Heroic Game Launcher).
Nicer features like gyro, hall effect thumb sticks, adaptive triggers would be nice. Specifically gyro -- I've never used gyro myself -- is gyro good for Linux gaming ?
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CoreCtrl not letting me control fans or voltage? Ryzen 5 7600X + RX 9070 XT, Linux Mint
Sniper Elite 5 problems with online play
I can't play any of the online modes because AntiCheat doesn't want to work. I have read that people are playing the online modes just fine but I keep hitting this wall. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this.
I can play offline just and the game hasn't crashed on me yet. So it's not a problem with the game per se.
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(Edited) Halo Infinite hanging issue on Proton (CachyOS - Arch)
System Information:
CachyOS x86_64
B550 Aorus Elite AX V2
Linux 6.17.7-5-cachyos
fish 4.2.1
KDE Plasma 6.5.2
KWin (Wayland)
AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT (16) @ 3.77 GHz (4.2GHz)
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT [Discrete]
Issue: Screen freezing followed by black screen, display port disconnects then reconnects, graphics reset notification (only appeared after the first few times I tried fixing this). Steam is either closed or open in the background using only 12-20% cpu usage (likely from the process or EAC not being closed fully).
[I have this posted somewhere else, but I reposted this in this subreddit and someone got snappy about the way I had formatted my post, so this will be the cleanest way I will be posting this, if you don't like that I put my specs or issue first before I get into my explanation then too bad for you I guess, you can disregard this if you don't care about any extra clues that might help with figuring this out.]
Explanation: To start off, my temps are normal, and my clock speeds don't go over a certain GHz/MHz, so it's not an issue where it spikes my clocks and causes the hang, but what I noticed when I was using mangohud is that specifically my cpu wattage instantly drops to 0.0. Other than that, there is no other displayed information when it comes to usage/temps, everything is normal there. I did however find out with looking into my journal deeper, that it might be related to my clocks (although this issue is not able to be replicated on Windows), so the only other issue is either proton or RADV, so the person that did recommend me to see if it was a ring error, I looked deeper and found that to be confirmed true. Although, I have updated my kernel, mesa graphics driver, and amdgpu firmware with cachyos and the Cachy-Update package. I can only think it could be tied to my clock speeds, as I mentioned my gpu has a factory overclock, and my cpu has its max cpu ghz possible, so it's always running a boosted clock at 4.2-4.3 GHz. If it has to do with overclocking, which I know is a known issue with Halo Infinite, generally doesn't like overclocking and will crash at any chance it gets, but with the ring issue also having an illegal opcode error AND "gfx_0.0.0 timeout" suggests my drivers as well as my hardware. On top of that, "vkd3d_queue" which can also be a possibility tied to proton, if anyone wants me to post the entire log I will post it in the comment requesting it. Currently I have tried everything else and to not mess with anything other than launch commands so far but to no avail, if anyone has any knowledge of an actual fix, and maybe just outright call me an idiot, because I generally feel too lazy to actually downgrade drivers for one game. This turned more into a rant than a general explanation but hopefully it helps!
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Thinking about switching to Linux for gaming and a few other things.
Let me start by saying I'm not new to Linux, I have used it way back with red hat, fedora, mandrake, Ubuntu and decided I liked Ubuntu the best. It's the gaming part I never thought would be possible.
First what distro would you recommend I should use that's more geared towards gaming? 2nd, I might get some hate but I'm a controller player, I either use an Xbox elite 2 or a PS5 dual sense controller. Would it be simple as plugging them in or do I need to install anything to get them to work? Lastly is there a PS5 remote play app for Linux? Thanks in advance
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Switching
I have used Linux (Mint back in 2019 on an old laptop) before and really enjoyed it. I have a gaming PC and it seems most of my games per the proton page are gold or better. I am leery about swapping my gaming laptop to a linux gaming distro and am wondering about everyone's experience with gaming on linux.
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Whole PC freezes when moving mouse while gaming.
As the title implies and the video shows which i videoed instead of screen recorded because the video captured would be very weirdly normal, no lag or anything. the video on the right monitor was to show the whole pc freezing instead of just the game lagging.
This happens for all my games, minecraft as an example to show not steam specific.
However, for some reason the pc does not have the same issues when being played on the second monitor (Old Vizio E320i-B2 2014 TV). Which begs the question. Why does it freeze my whole pc if its my monitor.
Anyone have ideas on how to fix this?
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No Man's Sky regularly freezes up my entire computer to where I have to reboot it using the power button - No solution seems to work long term
My specs:
Kubuntu 24.04 (Ubuntu with KDE Plasma)
NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super
AMD Ryzen 7
16 GB RAM
Hey y'all
I am having an issue with No Man's Sky and No Man's Sky ONLY where the game would freeze up, I would get stuttering audio and this would essentially lock my computer for 10 minutes or so until the game finally crashes and I regain control over my system. During that time period, nothing works, neither Alt+ F4, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Esc nor can I open the terminal.
The timing of these freezes seems completely random - I have played for four continuous hours before just fine some times but some times the game froze on the initial loading screen from the main menu.
This does not happen with any other game. I have asked people in No Man's Sky specific communities and no one could replicate that issue. Nor does any comment on ProtonDB mention crashes like these.
So far I have tried:
- Checking ProtonDB for recommended Steam launch options and Proton versions
- Using GE Proton
- Using any of the built-in Protons including Experimental
- Using Feral Game Mode (and enabling it in Steam launch settings)
- Tinkering with my video game settings
- One user suggested the issue might lie with NVIDIA's DLAA anti-aliasing and they got better results with DLSS. My game lasted longer on DLSS but it still crashes
- Another suggested a difference between Borderless Fullscreen and just Fullscreen but it still crashes with both
- Changing the memory allocated to the game through Steam's launch options - both a limit to 8 GB and a dynamic memory allocation yielded no long term fix
- Using xWayland rather than x11. It seems better for a bit but after a while the crashes return. Curiously, I had the same experience once I returned to using x11 from Wayland
- Ubuntu 24.04 and Wayland seemingly don't get along and there is no fixing that
- Checked that everything was up to date. All apps, NVIDIA drivers, GE Proton, No Man's Sky, Steam
This leads me to believe it might be some kind of memory leak - especially since crashes occur quickly when entering areas with a lot of complex geometry (i.e. the Space Anomaly, a multiplayer hub). But I am not confident in that diagnosis at all.
Any ideas?
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Steam Keeps Losing My Packages and Crashing my System on Linux Mint
Every now and then when I'm playing a game on Steam, anything really, it will crash my system and require a hard restart. It will freeze, blink off the monitor, and come back on and remain frozen. Input and output audio will still work. Every time it happens, I get a similar error to what is below. What can I do to fix this?
The package providing /home/torchead/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Counter-Strike could not be found.
The package providing /home/torchead/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam could not be found.
If you want to generate a stack trace for this crash report, please reinstall it.
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Bazzite or nobara
Hey everyone. I know I already posted. But I wanted to know. Both work great out of the box. But I just wanna game and scroll the web on Linux plus using blender. Which would be best?
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