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Hi all, when playing some games, black bars appearing on top and bottom of my screen (2560x1600). I tried to launch the game with gamescope using -W 2560 -H 1600 and -w 2560 -h 1600 (and applying both of them at the same time) but it didnt work, game used to display correctly before, so it is happening randomly i guess. Anyone else experiencing this and found a solution?
System info:
- intel igpu & nvidia dgpu (hybrid laptop)
- niri window manager, (tried --backend wayland option with gamescope but didnt work)
- archlinux 6.12, nvidia driver version: 580.95.05, gamescope: 3.16.17

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I'm a dwm user and Ive heard that it is a bit more specific when it comes to workspaces.

But that's basically all I know. Also for some games just switching the proton version fixes the issue.

But for genshin it doesn't seem to work that way. The in game cursor is kept if that means anything.

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If you were interested in Cronos: The New Dawn but weren't sold on picking it up yet, you can now try the demo that's recently released.

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While only two episodes are currently live with the rest to follow soon, Dispatch from former Telltale Games veterans has arrived.

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Okay, so I've been playing animal crossing new horizons just fine on bazzite, then I wanted to put other save files to play, and now I get a message as if the virtual switch no longer wants to accept these new files (or the original files) as healthy and tells me they're damaged and I have to start over.

The crazy thing is that these files work just fine on the same emulator on windows...

I have tried different emulators as well but no luck, I want to be able to play this game on bazzite because I have it on a handheld.

The specs: system - bazzite 43 ; using emudeck with ryujinx (1.3.3)/Eden(0.0.3) ; switch firmware: 19.0.1 also tried (20.3.0 and 20.5.0) ; animal crossing update: 2.0.8 ; Device: Lenovo Legion Go 1

This is the message I get on linux (wich menas save file is corrupted but it's a lie) (I CANNOT play any of the files, nor the original file or the new file).

This is the message I get in windows wich means that the system detected the file, is healthy and It will link that save file to my profile, then you are allowed to launch the game, and game launches and is playable (I can play both the original file and the new file).

The thing is that I get the erros once the game is launched... It's weird

So I'm going crazy over this... On linux is just not working properly and I don't know how to fix it...

Someone that understands linux better please help!! I Don't want windows in my handheld :(((((

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Trying to stream from my PC running Cachy OS to other devices. Primarily I want to stream to my Android handheld but I'm having the same issue when trying to stream to other PCs running Linux or Windows as well. Steam loads on the client device and I can navigate through the store and library but if I open the side menu or launch a game the screen on the client device goes black. I've still got audio and controls working through the client device I just can't get video. I've included a screenshot of my remote play settings on my host PC but I don't know what other info is relevant so feel free to ask. I tried googling the issue but I'm not seeing anything that seems like it's exactly the same problem as I'm having or if so I just didn't understand what they were saying to do to fix it.

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I have an r7 260x that i need for outputting 15khz signals to a crt. I believe (although im not 100% sure) that i need to be on radeon drivers and not amdgpu to output 15khz signals. The issue is that on the radeon drivers vulkan doesn't work and opengl is at 4.5 and im not sure if it can be updated.
im on debian 13

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Specs :
GPU : AMD RX 6700 XT 16G
CPU : Ryzen 5 7600X
MB : MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk Wifi
SSD : Samsung EVO 990 2Tb

I've had Fedora Workstation and Windows 11 in dual boot for years. Tried running games in Fedora using Lutris (World of Warcraft, Path of Exile). Ran mostly fine (low quality text-to-speech in Weak Auras was annoying though). A bit lost in the gaming ecosystem of Linux (Lutris, gamescope, proton, the different launchers...)
I also do some occasional dev work on the same machine (Java, Python).

I want to setup a clean install, not sure which distro to pick : CachyOS, Nobara, Fedora...
I've thought about Bazzite but the immutability turned me off

Please help me decide, any advice is welcome

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Hello there!

Like many others I have migrated from Windows to Linux in the last few weeks (mint Cinnamon in my case) and so far, I'm enjoying very much the changes done, but I come to you with a question.

I'm using Steam and using Proton for games and it is creating some sort of Windows filesystem structure, in my case in '/mnt/driveE/Steam Games/SteamApps/compatdata/gameID/pfx/drive_c'

I'm wondering if it's possible to configure Proton to create that filesystem just once for all games instead of one time for every game that is installed. It's ok if it needs to expand in some place with each game.

I understand that Windows games are a bit of a mess in that sense and they all have their saved games in different places.

Anyway, thanks for all the support you all give the Linux newbies like me.

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I want to get an XFX Quick 6700XT 12 GB graphics card and switch over from Windows to Linux (I do not trust Windows 11). Will this be a good setup for gaming and graphic design (Marvel Rivals, Warframe, Infinity Nikki, Brawlhalla, Outlast, Photoshop Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Blender, etc)

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Hello, So im kind of a newbie and i switched from windows to debian pikaos. Im using proton-ge-10, and when i launch a game on steam its not launching. it just "Playing" and after couple seconds it turned back to play

Started initial process 88236 from /usr/bin/steam steam://rungameid/1066890 Start monitoring process. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Monitored process exited. Initial process has exited (return code: 0) All processes have quit Exit with return code 0 submitted by /u/ExtensionPhoto7354
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I tried running Slime Rancher 2 on Bottles with the latest ge-proton runner, but it doesn't work and that's what the thing says

I just switched from windows to linux today and i know nothing about programming or anything like that, i got steam working and setup my programms, then i started trying to get my games running, i managed to get them working on lutris, but the FPS is very low, less than 30 fps, while on windows i had no problems with fps, so i thought of trying the game on bottles and it didn't work

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Combining elements of Slay the Spire and Luck be a Landlord, the roguelike deck-builder Roulette Hero is out now and it will likely spin your hours away.

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So this was already posted here but it barely gained any traction so I think it would be good to give more attention to this. lib32-libdrm got an update that breaks 32 bit Proton games causing crashes.

The "solution" is to downgrade the package:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-libdrm-2.4.125-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Now, I would love to report this bug to the package maintainers but I literally can't. Account registrations are disabled on the website, so the bug can't be reported, so that's cool. If anyone already has an account though, please report it:

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/lib32-libdrm/-/issues

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Well, mostly the title says it all. I'm sick and tired of Windows and its BS. I already have a work machine that uses Windows and I would like to move the gamedev/gaming environment to Linux.
I have a 9700X and 64GBs of DDR5 memory, so I'm not worried about performance.
What worries me is the RTX 3080 I attached to it five years ago. I've read a lot about Nvidia performance on Linux, but I'd like to know if an older card has had its issues ironed out over the years or if I'd still need to swap to an AMD card.
For the record, what I do most is:

• Unity
• The Critically Acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV Online (you know the rest)
• Unreal Engine
• Blender
• Monster Hunter World and Wilds
• Rocket League
• Tetris Effect Connected
• Metric tons of indies and non-demanding games I'm not really that worried about but still

I also know that some games, like Destiny 2, won't get any Linux support and I don't care about them.

So, as both dev and gamer, what can I expect from my 3080 on Linux? I also don't care very much about Linux distros as I'll end up customizing everything anyway (I've used Linux before and indeed my local server runs it, so I'm not afraid of the terminal)

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OCCT is a popular tool for stress-testing and benchmarking your system that recently had a Linux release, and now as of the latest update it should work better.

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From Lion Shield who created the rather great Kingdoms & Castles, their next game Nova Roma has been confirmed for Early Access release on January 22, 2026.

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