Hey everyone,

I’m facing some issues running Total War: Warhammer II on Linux, both on the native version and through Proton, and I wanted to describe my experience in detail to maybe help others or get some advice.

At first, on the native Linux version, I kept getting a Segmentation Fault error. I wasn’t sure how to fix it, so I decided to try running the game via Proton instead.

I’ve faced a similar issue before with Total War: Three Kingdoms . I’m pretty sure it’s called optimus — basically the setup where the display runs through the integrated GPU (AMD in my case), and the dedicated GPU (NVIDIA RTX 3060) kicks in only when needed.

This configuration usually works fine for me on other games through Proton, but here it doesn’t.

When I switched to Proton, the game launched into the Windows launcher, but once I got in-game, I had constant 15–20 FPS, even though the settings claimed I was using the RTX GPU — which clearly wasn’t true. The option to switch GPUs wasn’t available in the settings either.

After spending hours troubleshooting, I went back to the native version and discovered that I could switch between GPUs there. So, I tried launching the game first with the AMD GPU, then closed it, switched back to the RTX, and launched again — and somehow it worked! I was able to play the tutorial and a few turns without crashes.

Performance-wise, it was mostly okay (60 FPS in campaign), though zooming into battles caused drops to around 30 FPS. I’m using VSync since my external monitor is 60 Hz anyway (dual setup with my laptop display).

However, after reading ProtonDB reports, I saw that many people eventually face instability, missing turns, or crashes on the native version, so I wanted to get the Proton version working for stability’s sake.

Unfortunately, every time I try to launch it through Proton now, I get a message:

“Sorry, something went wrong”

Then it redirects me to a Sega support link saying the game couldn’t re-validate my copy. That makes me think it might be related to Denuvo, or some DRM validation issue.

For the record, I bought the game from a legit CD-key website I found through IsThereAnyDeal — not something shady like G2A. The site is officially listed and has worked fine for me in the past.

My setup:

• Laptop: HP Victus 16
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
• Distro: Kubuntu 24.04
• Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.27.12 (Wayland)
• Kernel: 6.14.0-33-generic
• Driver: 580.95.05

Has anyone else faced this kind of issue with the “Sorry, something went wrong” launcher error under Proton?
Could this be related to DRM validation (Denuvo) or the Optimus setup on laptops?

Any ideas or workarounds would be much appreciated.

Edit:
I forgot to mention that I’ve tried launching the game with every possible Proton version — from 7.0 and up, including GloriousEggroll Proton 10-3 — but the issue persists across all of them.

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I recently switched from Windows 10 to CachyOS and everything is great, but for some reason, I'm having a problem recording Geometry Dash with OBS. When I watch the recordings to see how they turned out, the top part of the screen in the recording itself starts to flicker. I've tried many things, changing priorities, recording format, etc., but I still have the same problem and I don't know why it's happening. I would really appreciate any help/recommendations (sorry if my English is very poor, I find it quite difficult and I've had to use a translator).

An example of what happens to me:

https://preview.redd.it/ux1r901gooxf1.png?width=1657&format=png&auto=webp&s=98066c8edb2b723687d71030282f1ea19b02174a

Operating System: CachyOS Linux

KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.0

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0

Qt Version: 6.10.0

Kernel Version: 6.17.5-2-cachyos (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: X11

Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics

Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

Product Name: B550M K

System Version: -CF

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Kingdom: New Lands, Kingdom Two Crowns and more feature in the Kingdom: 10th Anniversary Bundle for you to stock up on some more great games.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

About 1-2x a year I get fed up with ms and their bs and try to switch to Linux but ultimate I run into some issue where I don’t know enough to even google properly, I get anxiety, and then I just fresh install windows.

I’ve learned a ton, and those points I can maneuver around when I need, but I was hoping there was a series of videos or blogs that you would recommend to learn.

For instance, I understand pretty well I think, how drivers interact with windows and how to fix problems when they come up, and how to disable, remove, and install them. I wouldn’t know the first thing about it in Linux, as I have a vague idea that that stuff is in the kernel.

Same thing with how displays/gpus work in windows. But how stuff like mesa, Wayland, gamescope, and proton work is beyond me.

Everything I know about windows I’ve learned over 35 years of experience. I would like to speed that process up a little.

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It's not that I don't like it, in fact KDE was the first DE I ever used when I installed linux many years ago, but I'm honestly tired the KDE look, can you guys help me decide where to go next ? I kinda wanna try hyperland but I don't know if my games will preform the same as in KDE, I play mostly Warframe and PoE2 on arch, and use vscode for work.

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I’m surprised more people don’t notice one of Linux’s biggest strengths, it never stops improving. Every year, it gains new features, better compatibility, more technology, and more polished software. Even when you compare Linux to just one year earlier, there’s always so much progress.

It feels like Linux has already crossed the Rubicon. The days of trying to catch up with Windows/macOS are long gone, that was two or three years ago. Now, it’s simply better, and it keeps getting better.

From the kernel to desktop environments like KDE and GNOME, from gaming compatibility to tools like Wine, Wayland, OBS, Krita, GIMP, DaVinci Resolve, Blender, Audacity, LibreOffice, Firefox, Inkscape, GNU, Godot, and even GPU drivers from AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel. Everything just keeps advancing.

There hasn’t been a single year when Linux stood still. Linux is just insane now.

At this point, there are only a few things left to iron out or implement and they’re already being worked on.

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Source: AMDVLK open-source project is discontinued

Brief. - AMD is focusing on a single codebase that benefits from the entire open-source community. - AMD GPU users should replace lib32-amdvlk with lib32-vulkan-radeon.

Discussion. - Do you think the community needs more "unified" forces like these?

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Turnbound looks like it could be a really good one, a PvP inventory management auto-battler that does things quite differently to others in the genre.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Hello, so I'm gonna be getting an AMD GPU around Christmas time I hope I can ask here what are the steps on Linux to uninstall my 3060 drivers so that way I can install the AMD drivers for the 9070 I'm getting

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I recently installed Ubuntu 24.04 on my 12-year-old laptop to try out Linux and see if it improves performance. I’m not very experienced with Linux.

I want to connect to a Minecraft server hosted on my Windows 11 PC. Both machines have the same Minecraft version. My laptop is on Wi-Fi, and my PC is on a wired connection.

When I enter the server IP and port in Minecraft, the server appears, but joining gives me an “Invalid Session (restart the game and the launcher)” error. Restarting doesn’t help...

A few months ago there was windows 10 on my laptop, and it worked perfectly, even with forge and 1 mod.

Another mentionable thing is that I have only one original minecraft account, so I used Tlauncher on my laptop (it worked when there was windows 10 on it). I tried using Tlauncher on both, but same error.

I also allowed java.exe to bypass firewall.

Does anyone know how to fix the Invalid Session error/get LAN servers working between Windows and Linux?

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Hi, I'm having an issue with Entropy Zero 2 on Bazzite where all menus work fine but I am unable to start a new game or start from a chapter, loading from an autosave that I created when I was still on windows works but starting new just gives me a black screen, I looked at protonDB and tried multiple proton versions and nothing has helped. Thanks in advance

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TLDR : set KWIN_USE_OVERLAYS=1 as env var and restart if you have Plasma 6.5

Since most of us have a stream / video on the second monitor while gaming, KDE 6.5 brought a nice new feature.

It basically makes it much more efficient where in certain scenarios the GPU doesn't even have to work anymore. Even with HD decoding enabled.

Which obv. does wonders for Laptops, but also works great in GPU limited games. For me personally on a NVidia desktop the difference is very noticable in GPU limited games and since i have a power counter thingy in my wall plug i can see that i save about 5-10% power when having a game running on my main monitor that maxes the GPU with a hardware accelerated video playing on my second monitor.

Would highly recommend trying it out.

• Basic article on Phoronix

• In depth article by the person who made it

• How to set it up via systemd ( restart was required for me to make it work )

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Hi. I have an Gamesir T4 Cyclone Pro gamepad, and it's work fine with my pc and cachyos, but it works only in android mode with dongle, and xinput not switching, whatever i do. FF in android mode doesn't work, and i think there is input lag. What should i do with this problem?

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So I'm one month in for trying to fix this single issue. Only Dark Souls III does this, non of my other Fromsoft games or other games does it. After playing 10-20 minutes or teleporting between bonfires, the game start this micro stuttering. I tried every single thing in the book, here is what i tried so far:

Every single possible launch command, like:

LD_PRELOAD="" %command%

gamemoderun DXVK_ASYNC=1 DXVK_STATE_CACHE=1 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_USE_SECCOMP=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%

gamemoderun RADV_PERFTEST=nosam RADV_DEBUG=nobinning,zerovram,nocache %command% -ignorepipelinecache -cpuLoadRebalancing -USEALLAVAILABLECORES

combinations between those, nothing solved it.

Tried every single steam proton version and proton-ge version between proton-ge 8 and 10 combined with launch commands, nothing

Tried turning off mangohud or disable vsync with mangohud, nothing.

Tried enabling steam pre-cache shaders, nothing

Replace my gaming SSD with a brand new, nothing

Tried different distros like Mint (Xorg) with XFCE without compositor, or CachyOS (Wayland), Bazzite, nothing

Tried making dxvk.conf file in the game root folder with commands, nothing

Tried different kernels like Liquorix, nothing

Tried turning off steam overlay, nothing

Tried DS3DebugFPS mod, nothing

Tried other stutter fix mods, nothing

Every single combination from above, nothing

I have 2,8k hour in this game, i know every single "stutter point" in the game, like before the Dragonslayer Armour boss fight, when you leave the castle from the stone gate, the game loads the area, and you get a little stutter, i don't talk about those Fromsoft game specific stutters. I know Fromsoft games has stutters, but not like these.

Last thing what i did, i tried the game on Win 10, and it was running buttery smooth for hours, no micro stuttering after 10-20 minutes of game play, that's why i know this is a Linux specific issue.

I have ungodly amount of hours in this game, played on Linux back in the day, i know it runs perfectly fine. I taken a long break from the game, now this issue is there, it was not like this in the past. What can i do to run this game like back then? I feel so tired from fixing this issue in my free time, one month spent on nothing, please help.

My config:

RX 5600 XT 6GB

Ryzen 3 4100

2X16GB RAM

1920x1080 60Hz monitor

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Hello everyone, I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop (specs: Intel Core i7, RTX 4050M), and I've noticed a significant drop in performance. For example, in Red Dead Redemption 2, l used to get a stable 80 FPS on high settings, but now the game is unplayable (around 5 FPS). I'm also experiencing major FPS drops in less demanding games. l've installed the latest drivers for my graphics card and tried running games through Proton's compatibility mode, but nothing has helped. What could be the issue? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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I use Debian and want to stick with software I can download from the native software manager. I personally prefer .deb packages over flatpak, so PCSXR is available as a .deb there but Duckstation isn't (Flatpak only). Duckstation seems to be the more accurate emulator and I prefer accuracy. Do anyone have experience with PCSXR?

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So here's the issue. I've had terrible experience with Fedora 42, I just needed a fresh OS that is going to come with preinstalled apps and not hinder my singleplayer gaming experience with boring wine dependencies and other obscure things I wasn't really familiar with.

I am a huge witcher1 fan. I've invested about 800hours into that game and proton experimental or older versions on steam dont seem to work at all. I've tried downloading redistributable packages via steam because that's what was recommended by a proton db guide but the packages are abscent from the steam client, i cannot find them at all.

Another thing that bugs me are drivers for my bloody mouse which comes with .exe drivers for tactile button tweaks and led tweaks. Essentially I get to tinker with the response time and other metrics.

And third, when I installed language packages and set up the keyboard input settings, (even tho english is computers primary option) some games like manking divided instead of using english text just displays a random letter combination on cyrillic. I tried looking for a solution and it seems that the problem lied in missing windows font package. So then I tried using the kernel to install random gibberish i needed, but it didnt work. When you hover over a gun to grab instead of displaying [press E to pick up] it says something nonsensical of serbian cyrillic.

If i het those three things sorted out by some other fedora based distro like nobara or something(i heard nobara is great for this) then I wont look back...

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Tried configuring xone with arch linux for couch gaming, but it just wouldnt work. Is there another arch based distro or otherwise that supports this dongle out of the box? P.S i prefer arch based because i looove hyprland

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Nope, that's not a picture. The devs of Winboat have made a tutorial on how you can get single GPU acceleration. It took me a little bit but I love how I can just press one key and windows loads and I can use the professional apps that require GPU acceleration. Right now the performance is like 25% which is better than nothing. In my opinion it's way better than messing with scripts and having black screens most of the time for single GPU passthrough. I hope one day it's possible to play games like this.

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My system:

• Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti
• AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
• 16Gb RAM DDR4 3200MHz
• MAG B550M BAZOOKA
• Arch Linux 6.17.5-arch1-1
• Hyprland 0.51.1
• Proprietary nvidia drivers 580.95.05

• Steam with Proton 9.0-4

  So when I just upgraded to the recent nvidia drivers I started experiencing system freezes that force me to force restart my machine which isn't very nice because sometimes I also need to discharge residual power because the VGA light turns on sometimes when I force restart, it happened to me sometimes in older drivers which I do not remember but only with one game (Deep Rock Galactic) but now it happened to me with multiple games, either I get a freeze while the game is starting or when the game opens and runs for a few seconds to minutes, whole system freeze with sound still playing for a few seconds, can't even switch to tty. I checked journalctl -b -1 and I found this:

Oct 26 15:52:42 desktop kernel: NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:2b:00: GPU-564c2946-3a72-9529-b293-f3362c35caed

Oct 26 15:52:42 desktop kernel: NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:2b:00): 79, pid=38030, name=UnityGfxDeviceW, GPU has fallen off the bus.

Oct 26 15:52:42 desktop steam[12526]: NVENC - Submitting frame for encoding failed: 20

Oct 26 15:52:42 desktop kernel: NVRM: GPU 0000:2b:00.0: GPU has fallen off the bus.

Oct 26 15:52:42 desktop kernel: NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:2b:00): 154, GPU recovery action changed from 0x0 (None) to 0x2 (Node Reboot Required)

Oct 26 15:52:42 desktop kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c67d:0:0:0x0000000f

Oct 26 15:52:55 desktop kernel: WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 37488 at nvidia/nv.c:5081 nvidia_dev_put+0xa4/0xb0 [nvidia]

I think these are the most relevant errors and I still have the logs of that boot saved in case, I tried the same games in Windows and they work just fine, are there any specific drivers I need for my GPU to work flawlessly? I've read around that nvidia-dkms 566.36 are good but I can't find them in the archive

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