Disclaimer : I'm not jurist, I use a good source from french jurist, customer association and economie.gouv.fr (french gouvernement). This apply only for EU users, for US player , you can check your state law.

Source : https://www.village-justice.com/articles/gamers-vous-etes-des-consommateurs-avez-des-droits

Hi 👋 As the community see, many online games with anticheat working great, it's a proof that it's technically possible to fight cheat and keep Linux compatibility. But some games, like Apex Legends, chose to remove the Linux compatibility without delay. Since 2021, video games (physical and online) are under the EU warranty, named "Garantie légal de conformité" in french. To simplify , during the contract for a online game (from the start of playing to the servers shutdown), editor need to respect some rules, typically if the game working on Linux, he need to keep the compatibility. Only a economical or a technical impossibility can remove this rule. But as you said, anticheat work on Linux, and the game work great before on Linux , it's not a economical or technical issue.

In this case, editor have few option : restore the compatibility, provide compatible material to the player or refund the player to close the contract.

As EU Linux player, you can contact your costumer association to attack legally EA about that if EA support don't answer (typically a refund is enough legally).

For people who don't understand, is like if a car maker change the fuel entry at remote, force to you use only compatible fuel gas station, when the car working on all before. The car maker need to remake the compatibility, provide a adaptator or refund the car.

As I said in title, because lack of similar case, it's still "possibly" , not a sure win, but it's seem logic and cost nothing.

If you are afraid to try that, you can just call your customer association on social network (EU customer association already attack EA for in apps games, because of in game virtual currency), and more important, call your MEP (member of European parliament) for a law change : anticheat windows only create a monopoly, in violation of Digital Market Act, we need a law to force editor of software and games to provide a native version or a version working with a layer compatibility (like proton for Linux gaming, or Rosetta 2 for Mac ARM software) with all operating systems (and all hardware architecture in a second time). EA can **** on few millions Linux player, but not on a 700+ millions customer market 🤓

As a no Apex Legends player , I can't attack EA with my customer association, but I already contacted my MEP.

It's cost nothing, it's warranty nothing but it's your better luck to stop Linux ban wave.

Thanks for reading ❤️

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I noticed a game I was playing was running a little worse than expected, not necessarily lag spikes aside from caching, but just a lower overall fps. When I checked nvidia-smi I noticed my GPU was only getting used about 30%, so next I checked bashtop and like 4 of my CPU cores were at 90%+ in the sections with the lower than expected framerate but the others seemed idle. In the sections that don't lag they are only about 60% usage but Nvidia is either the same or much higher (up to 100%) which is what I want

As a troubleshooting step I wanna see if the CPUs were the bottleneck and enable more cores to run the game if that's possible.

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I have tried using Proton Experimental, 9.0-3, GE 9-18. It boots up but gets stuck and crashes after a while

Gets stuck here

Any ideas? On ubuntu 22.04 LTS

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I have linux zorin on an old Macintosh but any time I install something on Steam it will install for a few minutes then stop with a no connection error. This dose it with wifi and wired. Any way to fix this?

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Hi guys been trying to find a solution to an issue. I bought the game on pc and it runs through rockstar launcher. Downloaded lennys simple trainer and the rdr2 asi loader, I put a DLL over ride command in the launch options for steam but it won’t let the file launch even after adding it as a non steam game. I just get an error message saying launch it through the rockstar launcher. When I launch it through rockstar the mods won’t load, anyone have any solutions?

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Just posting in case anyone has experience with this or ideas on how to fix it. Im running Bazzite (Fedora) on a HTPC with a 7900xt and Dragon Age Veilguard has great performance--until it randomly locks up and occasionally crashes. It was happening more frequently until I turned off the fancy hair settings (the game has incredible hair physics) but it still happens from time to time and has me at a loss. The GPU isn't overheating. Is there a way to clear my shader cache? Does anyone have other suggestions? I'm pretty new to Linux, having only used the Steam Deck and the Linux distribution on my NAS before. Thanks!

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If you're having trouble, try this:

1. The game prefers fast storage, and may crash if it can't access files fast enough. This will likely be fixed by launch and seems to be a problem on Windows too. Install the beta to your home directory or an SSD.

2. Try Proton Experimental if it crashes on launch.

3. Disable FSR3 completely if the game is otherwise a blank black void.

4. In graphics settings, once FSR3 is disabled, use TAA, disable motion blur, do not use "highest" textures or in general, go one step lower than whatever is recommended, set volumetrics to "Low" and variable rate shading to performance.

5. VK3D_CONFIG=dxr

On KUbuntu with an AMD 7900GRE, I am now getting 60FPS solid. All other settings are high.

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I've been playing D4 on Steam for months now and mostly no issue. Recently I haven't been able to play the game unless I change the proton version from experimental to 9.0.3 and then if I launch it again I have to change it from 9.0.3 to experimental again for it to run and the repetition continues. I have no idea why, but was curious if anyone could tell me.

I tried running it in the terminal so I could see the error, but Steam and even the terminal crash entirely when I do it. Any way I can run it in another way to get the logs of the crash?

Thanks

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I try to get 60 FPS in Man of Medan but I only get 30-35. This is the first game with this kind of problem on my System. ALL my other games working without problems (e.g.: The Quarry). Turning the graphic settings down makes no difference. My System should run this game without problems. Someone has an idea whats going on with this game?

My System:

RTX2080

i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz

32GB RAM

Debian 12 with KDE Plasma 5.27.5 @ X11

G-Sync Monitor @ 144Hz

• 30 FPS ingame limitier = off
• CPU/GPU is not limited
• KDE Compositor = Off
• Update to recent NVIDIA Drivers
• Tried different Proton and Proton-GE Versions: 7,8,9
• no difference with DirectX11/DirectX12 Version
• no difference with or without starting parameter: mangohud gamemoderun %command%

Sorry for Off-screen records.

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I'm using debian and trying to play some games. The first is Eldenring but it still crashing without error message. This doesn't even go into the menu Can someone help me? I'm using proton experimental.

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I installed steam on parrot os (the latest version 6.2), but when I run it I get this message in the terminal

Steam needs to install these additional packages:

libc6:amd64 libc6:i386 libegl1:amd64 libegl1:i386 libgbm1:amd64 libgbm1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1:amd64 libgl1:i386 steam-libs-amd64:amd64 steam-libs-i386:i386

but when I try to install them in the terminal with either apt or aptitude, I get the following errors

with apt:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that

you requested an impossible situation or, if you are using the unstable distribution, that some necessary

unstable distribution, that some necessary packages have not yet been created or have been removed from “Incoming”.

have been taken out of “Incoming”.

The following information may help resolve the situation:

The following packages have unfulfilled dependencies:

steam-libs:i386 : Depends: libudev1:i386 but will not install.

Recommends: libasound2-plugins:i386 but will not install

Recommends: libnm0:i386 but not installable

Recommend: libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 but it won't install

E: Could not fix the problems, you have retained broken packages.

with aptitude:

Dependencies for the following packages are not satisfied:

steam-libs-i386:i386 : Depends: steam-libs:i386 (>= 1:1.0.0.75+ds-6) but is not installable.

The following actions will resolve these dependencies

Keep the following packages in the current version:

1) steam-libs-i386:i386 [Uninstallable].

What can I do to solve it?

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Hey all, up until recently I've been using Mission Center for all of my app managing needs, it's quite good and does almost everything I need it to... until recently. There's currently a bug with Mission Center that makes it impossible to see a large number of apps that are running on your system (see this related issue). Apparently there's a workaround involving forcing all the apps to run in the correct cgroup... which I am both too stupid and too disinterested in making every single Steam game I own use this workaround. Moreover, it sounded like from the dev's explanation it was a pretty ingrained limitation with how it is currently getting the current running apps, and it could be several months before this is fixed, if it's even able to be fixed.

So I am looking for an alternative, I used to use Ksysguard for this purpose, but it's long since deprecated unfortunately.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, my only requirements are that it has to be actively maintained and have a GUI. If it's a CLI app, I might as well just learn pkill at that rate, which is infinitely less convenient.

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So I currently have my PC loading right into steam Big Picture mode upon boot. But this is a gaming only PC that I have hooked up to my TV. I already have my laptop for my personal and work tasks so I want to dump Windows off the gaming PC.

I have Steam games but I also have some cracked steam games that are no longer sold on Steam. I want to be able to able to still play those games and maybe some emulators on another OS. Would Chimera be good for that?

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Hello again. I’m just trying to play some Helldivers and every time I open game, it minimized to the panel. I can hear the game audio but when I click on the panel icon, it just minimizes itself again. I’ve tried different proton versions and verified the game files. I’m not really sure what’s causing this issue or how to fix it, as googling it brings up little results. Any suggestions?

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I recently made a post about this problem but I didn’t have my facts or info straight so hopefully this phelps when it comes to figuring out a solution.

I have the Ryzen 7 edition of the Surface Laptop 3 & have been messing with Linux for the past month or so but one problem I run into is that certain software, after 20-30 mins or so, will cause my laptop to overheat and have massive performance drops. These programs so far have been PCSX2, SimpleScreenRecorder, VirtualBox, PCem/86Box, VMWare, Flashpoint Launcher (Mutable & Immutable), any time I use Wine (so far I’ve only used Wine to launch SRB2 1.09.4) and any game tested in CrossOver (how good or bad performance initially is doesn’t matter as again the drops happen 10-30 mins later).

I’ve tried Fedora, Mint, Arch with KDE Plasma, Ubuntu & Kubuntu and the same results happen. I’ve installed the linux-surface drivers from GitHub but unfortunately nothing changes and it is worth noting that these distros were booted off an external drive & I have been in performance mode this whole time.

Here are screenshots I took of my temps before & after launching SimpleScreenRecorder. The lowest my laptop gets on idle is 40-42° C but during recording it was in the 80s and for about a second or two went as high as 91°

I had btop, htop & System Monitor to see what else was maxing out my resources but I’m afraid I don’t know what to look for because I didn’t find anything that looked out of place either.

Any suggestions?

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It seems like a trend that’s here to stay, more and more software goes with it, people don’t care and install stuff with no questions. Microsoft allows swarms of companies to get kernel mode drivers signed, be it for games or whatever.
Linux refuses to allow it in any form for "trivial" software, labeling it as super dangerous, eventually getting cut off from more and more software.
So how dangerous is it really to the average Windows user? Can things really go wrong? Does it make a difference?
Incidents like Crowdstrike 2024 or Genshin Impact 2022 happen, sure, but it’s not like it affected average users on their regular machines specifically.
I heard some say it’s a “ticking time bomb”, but what’s gonna explode? Are there really worst case scenarios, and how likely are they? Is it just about remotely likely minor inconveniences at most?

Are we inconveniencing ourselves beyond what’s reasonable by avoiding software that requires kernel access?
Is the anti rootkit position an idealistic take, an "in principle it sucks", but most likely nothing will ever happen, and even then it wouldn’t be that bad, or is it really serious business?

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Recently, developers of many multiplayer online games have begun to implement so-called anti-cheat programs that do not allow Linux users to play them. Thus, many gamers are forced to use Windows to play their favorite game again and spend time online with their cyber-friends and like-minded gamers. As everyone knows, Windows 11 will not be supported by many "old" devices, and Windows 10 support is about to end, and in order to be able to update, a lot of people will have to simply buy a new computer. Of course, some immediately began to think about switching to a free alternative - Linux, where everything worked until now and you could play fav games. But with the use of anti-cheat solutions, suddenly your favorite game does not work and it turns out that the only solution is Windows. Could it be that Microsoft is deliberately persuading developers to use anti-cheat solutions that blocks Linux users in order not to lose many gamers (and, of course, so that people buy a new Windows)?

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If you're in need of something to game on Linux this weekend, why not try out the open-world survival game DayZ. The game is also going through a player surge thanks to a new expansion release.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I am trying to replace glibc with glibc-eac-bin to get insurgency sandstorm working again.

I found online that you can use ‘yay -S glibc-eac-bin lib32-eac-bin’ and that should work. However, whenever I try this, I get a unresolvable conflict due to conflict with glibc.

I tried removing and replacing glibc with the new one (even in one line) and broke my system twice (fixed it with pacstrap bc glibc didn’t seem to install without it).

How do I install glibc-eac-bin and resolve the conflict and without breaking my system?

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