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Did anybody try Arc Raiders on AMD hardware

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 03:42

I bought the game earlier this week and have been hooked. However, on game launch you get an error saying the current version of AMD graphics for windows has known issues and they recommend downgrading to a specific version number. Since we are running the game through a translation layer, I ignore it and have been playing with mostly no issues in 25 hours of gameplay. But the game has given me some issues. It glitches at times and has crashed once and I lost all my equipment and loot. I was wondering if anyone is running into the same issues. I am running arch on an AMD 5900X and 9070xt.

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Any good clients for playing Minecraft without internet access

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 02:19

Please see the title. I often don't have access to the internet and am unable to launch Minecraft when I don't have access to the internet.

I've tried prism launcher but it seems to have an active (but ignored) bug that causes it to fail https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher/issues/2514

Are there any good alternatives that you'd recommend?

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audio stuck

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 01:56

I recently switched to Linux Mint and wanted to play Quaver. I opened it through Steam and the audio is stuck, as if it's distorted or not working properly. Any solutions?

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possible to play CoD WaW or Black Ops through lutris on steam deck?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 01:50

I'm going on a trip soon and would love to play zombies but the games are a buggy mess on xenia and rpcs3. Is it possible through lutris on the steam deck? If so, how would I go about installing the updates/map packs? Much appreciated

submitted by /u/Sneijder4BallondOr
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deltarune laggy under proton.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 01:26

deltarune has been very laggey under proton on my pc. I know my pc can run deltarune because it works under windows.

im using an intel core i5 540m with integrated graphics. I dont think my pc has opengl 3.0 so maybe that could be a problem.

any way to fix the lag?

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Finally made the switch, thank you to everyone here and in Linux communities everywhere.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 01:17

I, a 51M have been using UNIX and Linux for just over 30 years (at work) AS/400, AIX, Solaris and of course Red Hat and Debian. Have had (do have) numerous Linux systems at home. But gaming was always tricky. I do a LOT of gaming and that time is often playing games with one or more of my children (range of ages from 12 to 30 lol). Trying to get x y or z game working used to be a right pain in the wotsit.

I had used Wine many years ago (even back in 2004 when Gentoo was king :D) but in recent years, the push from Gabe Newell to get Proton running almost all steam games and the launch of the Steam Deck has pushed things to a whole new level.

So, here I am, sat on my favourite operating system GNU/Linux (Debian 13 specifically) with Minecraft, Terraria, PEAK, GTA IV, DBD, Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring. Basically every game I've tried. Working flawlessly, in fact BG3 and Elden Ring seem to be working better.

I have no adverts, no strange games being installed (Candy Crush!), no random uploads/downloads of data. In fact, I'm using less CPU and far lass ram and the system is performing better.

Thank you for reading, I will try and also use my years of *nix knowledge to help others going forward :)

A happy Redditor/Dad/Gamer

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VM Gaming Help - Garuda Host Win11 Guest

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 01:13

I'm running garuda linux, fully updated. I've got a Ryzen 5 7600x, RTX 3070 TI, 32GB of DDR5.

My RTX is fully passed through to my VM under Single GPU passthrough. 3DMark reports as expected with my GPU in the VM, Outer Worlds runs fine at ~100FPS in 1440p. Call of Duty Black Ops 6 worked fine one day, but the next day (after zero changes to anything), performance suddenly tanked. I just want to make sure my XML file is good and that it's (hopefully) not XML related. I have tried both with and without CPU pinning.

Just for added confirmation, my drivers are up to date. GPU usage is around ~20-30% with in CoD but at normal levels (~90%) while playing other games.

EDIT: This is Cross-posted to r/VFIO

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domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <tpm model='tpm-tis'> <backend type='passthrough'> <device path='/dev/tpm0'/> </backend> </tpm> <graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='no' listen='0.0.0.0'> <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/> </graphics> <sound model='ich9'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1b' function='0x0'/> </sound> <audio id='1' type='none'/> <video> <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1a' function='0x0'/> </video> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x06' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x6e' slot='0x00' function='0x3'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x07' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'> <source> <vendor id='0x1038'/> <product id='0x1630'/> </source> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='3'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'> <source> <vendor id='0x046d'/> <product id='0xc08b'/> </source> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='4'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'> <source> <vendor id='0x1038'/> <product id='0x1632'/> </source> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='5'/> </hostdev> <watchdog model='itco' action='reset'/> <memballoon model='none'/> </devices> <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-netdev'/> <qemu:arg value='user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp::1445-:445,hostfwd=tcp::1139-:139'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='e1000,netdev=net0'/> </qemu:commandline> </domain> submitted by /u/Tactical_Pupper
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Dual Boot Question

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 00:51

So, Im a broke boy, so im making what I have work. I currently have Windows 11 on my 500GB SSD (old school not a M.2) and im looking to dual boot Mint on my 1TB M.2 SSD.

My question is, if I need the space for a game that I will be running under Windows, and I install it onto my SSD that has Linux partitioned on it - will that cause complications?

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Lan party style audio & communication?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 00:33

I have two Fedora computers in my house on the same LAN. The games my kids play don't all support voice. Some are in Steam while other are standalone. They both have headphones with microphones. They want to be able to chat using using the headphone, but listen to their own audio. Is there an app that does that?

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Animations running way too fast, even with low FPS limit (Salammbo: Battle for Carthage)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 00:25

I'm running the Steam version with dgVoodoo and dinputto8 on latest GE-Proton (also tried official Proton down to 5).

When I limit FPS to below 30, animations are skipped entirely in pause menus and the inventory bar.

OS: Arch Linux
KERNEL: 6.17.7-3-cachyos
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 580.105.08
RAM: 64 GB

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Games don't work on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. November 2025 - 00:25

I can't run games on Linux. No matter what I do, I can't run games through Steam. I've tried different distributions like Mint, Ubuntu, Nobara, CachyOS, and Arch, as well as different graphical environments like Cinnamon, GNOME, and KDE. I've also tried different versions of drivers (open-source and newer versions), different versions of Proton, different launch methods (Vulcan, Dx11, OpenGL), and using gamemod and various commands, but nothing seems to work. I tried different games: Valheim, Peak, Subnautica, Dying Light, but I always ended up with a laggy game (the screen would freeze and the sound would cut out) and then I would see a black screen. Please help me!!!

System requirements: Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 0 @ 3.20Ghz Video card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 RAM: 16Gb DDR3

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So any 3d game that I try to play the frames just drop

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. November 2025 - 23:48

From monster hunter rise to even games that you think that should run smoothly such as this game called Motorslice (good demo btw people should check it out the also that's the game show in the picture) I've fiddled with the GPU power setting and set my bios to Asus optimize and I'm still unable to get good frames and god help me If I want to record a game that chugs it even further. If anyone a can find a remedy for it that'll be great or link me toward someone who already solved the issue at hand

My Specs are Amd Ryzen 5 5600x

Nvidia RTX 3060

and I'm running bazzite on a samsung ssd 2.5

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Game launchers are all bad, there is no easy way to have an unified launcher

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. November 2025 - 23:24

Lutris, Heroic, Faugus, Portproton, Bottles, it's like they are purposefully keeping features exclusive to one launcher so that you're forced to use them all.

  1. Steam library looks bad, I'm talking about the desktop view (not big picture), it doesn't track play time of non-steam games and there is no proper interface for changing env variables, writing them or copy-pasting them into the Properties tab is not a neat solution, it's just annoying having to repeat it for all games, all other launchers have button toggles to enable Mangohud, gamescope etc.

  2. Lutris, PERFECT interface and suits all my needs to have neat library all in one place. But it's not updated anymore and game launchers such as EA Play, Battle net, etc. are all broken

  3. Faugus, PERFECT interface but it doesn't sync the Steam library like Lutris does therefore it doesn't suit my needs to have all my library in one launcher

  4. Bottles, awful interface, it has a lot of options plus the exclusive DPI scaling feature which is perfect for my 4k display but the GUI is awful for having an unified library, creating bottles for each non-steam game is also pretty annoying

  5. Portproton, awful interface, it works perfectly but it looks bad (no Banners option like all other launchers) and it doesn't sync the game library with Steam

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Made the switch. Good bye windows hello Linux!

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. November 2025 - 23:02

On windows I actually downloaded a virus because I was an idiot! Bad jdownloader link. Anyways after panicking for a while with my windows install I decided to nuke it. I just installed Fedora and I am loving it. Downloading my games right now as I type this. Cant wait! Heroicgameslauncher looks like its amazing. Cant wait to give it a go! I didnt know linux was this simple!

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