A new Steam Beta update for Desktop and Steam Deck / SteamOS allows you to add hardware details for reviews and give more Steam Deck Verified feedback.

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Sony State of Play for February 2026 happened last night, and we finally got the Death Stranding 2: On the Beach PC release announcement. Plus various others.

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Hey — does anyone here game on Linux? 👀

I just finished building Retro-Fi, a modular retro gaming setup designed specifically for Linux desktops.

The goal was simple: Clone → Setup → Play.

It gives you a clean Rofi-based launcher for your retro library with: • Favorites system
• Recently played tracking
• Boxart support
• Multi-console support (NES, SNES, GBA, DS, PS2, GameCube, Wii, 3DS, and more)
• Lightweight + keyboard-driven workflow

I built it because most emulator setups on Linux feel scattered or assume you already know everything — this tries to make retro gaming feel organized and actually enjoyable to set up.

It’s fully open source and heavily documented so people can modify or learn from it.

Would love feedback from other Linux users or anyone into emulation setups 👍

GitHub: https://github.com/ethanlabs101/Retro-Fi

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Hi. I'm using recently Linux Mint. My graphic card is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070. I play with Steam and Proton Experimental. Yesterday, I switch from xorg open source driver to NVIDIA-SMI 535.288.01 because two games was lagging as hell and by a quick check up, I see that my CPU was doing all the work.

Since then, the game coded on unity won't even lauch. Other game work fine. When I start a unity game, I get a loading screen then the game crash.

https://preview.redd.it/q0zz5lgys8jg1.png?width=413&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2ca00501162726e01e0383889f517307fd81a8f

The steam game log report that

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/samuel/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/samuel/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/samuel/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/samuel/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

fsync: up and running.

System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Video driver not supported

at Xalia.Sdl.WindowingSystem.Create () [0x0003e] in <f5846fdd7bd24a8b897e22093bdd4005>:0

at Xalia.Sdl.WindowingSystem.get_Instance () [0x00007] in <f5846fdd7bd24a8b897e22093bdd4005>:0

at Xalia.Ui.UiMain..ctor () [0x00027] in <f5846fdd7bd24a8b897e22093bdd4005>:0

at Xalia.MainClass.Init (Xalia.Gudl.GudlStatement[] config) [0x0001b] in <f5846fdd7bd24a8b897e22093bdd4005>:0

pid 5556 != 5555, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

What can I do ?

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so it's been a while since i played any games on linux but whatever game i played was using wayland, i installed fedora 43 last night cuz i was getting stutters in silent hill f and wanted to try linux to see if it's any better

and from what im seeing, it's better and bad at the same time cuz i was getting an smooth 70fps without any frame time spike

but i had one problem ,it DIDN'T feel like 70fps

so i changed to x11 to see if it's better

and it is alot better

way better than windows and better then wayland

but my question is why wayland felt laggy?

i tried messing around in the display setting in the linux it self but it didn't change anything

anyone experienced something like this before?

i feel like indiana jones was the same for me but im not sure it was a long time ago but that game didn't feel smooth too

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Does anyone know what to use to play GO on linux fedora cinnamon

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https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/505101717860253963

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I recently switched to Linux mint since I've had a quite good experience using Linux before. I've mostly used Linux on laptops and I do some gaming every now and then. I realized something and I brought it up once but was shut down and I happened to me again. When I'm gaming with proton but not on steam for example I'm playing my GOG games protons performance is quite shit and the pack-in Ubuntu wine gives better performance. This is not the first time it has happened. Is this a isolated incident or is it a common occurrence?

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I started using Bazzite to get rid of Windows 11 and I'm loving it. I have an RTX 3050, and I used to play Overwatch 2 smoothly with everything on ultra. I downloaded the Battle.net launcher through Faugus, as suggested here the other day, but Overwatch is unplayable. It's freezing a lot. I've already tried enabling "Prefer Maximum Performance," but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Basically i want to quit with Windows and start using linux also for gaming.

i tried bazzite and after 3 days of troubleshooting i can't for the love of god make the external screen working. I am using a lenovo legion laptop.

Same story with fedora.

It appears to be nvidia related issue.

Before going back again to windows, which i hate but the second screen works, is there any distro i should try with better support?

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I am trying to play Halo 2 Anniversary with a friend, but it crashes about a minute or so in to launching the campaign. I've tried all combinations of graphics settings I can think of, validated files, reinstalled the game itself. I haven't rolled back drivers or anything to drastic yet but I'm seriously at a loss here

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sorry to make a tech support post.

I'm on... bazzite. sorry if that's cringe-- I was choosing between a handful and it's not even my first linux machine and chose sorta randomly

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I have an nvidia 3060ti and when I launch certain games and crank the graphics up, they might ask for 100% GPU (as seen in system monitor). When this happens, other applications like firefox, discord, etc. get choked out and freeze and need to be restarted. Is this a normal problem to have? Shouldn't there be some default system in place to set "niceness" or "priority" regarding allocating resources like this? Even my desktop itself will freeze on one monitor sometimes.

I found that if I cap my FPS to like 60 instead of 144, then my GPU can run it with headroom to spare and the problem doesn't happen. This feels silly though since I can make 100+ frames consistently for this particular game

Any advice is appreciated! ty

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More of an aesthetic problem, i have 1 PS5 and 1 PS4 controller, that i connect to my laptop. When I used windows, i used DS4Windows to emulate a ps5 controler from my ps4 controller in order to play Split Fiction with my gf and still have PS symbols shown in-game.

I can connect both controllers via bluetooth, and enable Steam Input, this way both controllers actually work completely, but both then use Xbox symbols in-game, and though its not a serious problem, its a bit frustrating for a gf that isnt that well versed into gaming.

So just wondering if anyone has any clue on how this could be fixed.

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On Heroics launcher, Linux native games from GOG don't support cloud syncing, so I just skip the Linux version in order to play across my devices more easily. Besides, I often find the native versions do not run out of the box, and it’s easier to find fixes for Windows versions that run through Proton.

Are there any benefits of running the Linux native versions, though, that I should consider, instead of just blanketly running the Windows versions through Wine?

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The audio somewhat works, but it will cut out at random anywhere between after 10s-10m of playtime

I've tried many many methods to fix it over the months but since I'm not tech savvy I've just been hard-stuck

That said I did figure out a "half-solution" that might hint at what the underlying problem is

Once audio breaks, if I use [PulseAudio Volume Control], then switch between volume options:

Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller Speaker + Headphones

->

Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller HDMI / DisplayPort 1 Output

->

Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controller Speaker + Headphones

This will temporarily fix audio for a while

But the longer the windows game is open, the more often the audio will break. To the point where generally after 20-40 mins of gameplay, audio will break down so badly that the "fix" no longer works

Sometimes when changing between volume options, [PulseAudio Volume Control] even gets a stroke and enters a "reconnecting" state, then redirects itself to the [Output Devices] page

When returning to the [Playback] page, the audio option for the windows game will be gone

...

Opening a windows game also seems to kill the audio of everything else as well as freezing videos, which sucks if I want to listen to something else in the background while playing a game, or just leave the game running in the background while watching videos

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I just recently picked this game up on 50% off from Steam sale. First off it runs great by default on my system. I have a 9070xt and a 7800x3d running Cachy os. I always tend to test the differences in games between W11 and the most recent Linux build i have atm. TLOU while running well, ran a good 20% or so less than its W11 counterpart. As iv seen with other games in RT improvements, Mesa 26.1 has also greatly improved rasterization. TLOU at its ultra preset and native 1440p, now yields the same performance as Adrenaline 26.1. Thats a big gain!

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Necesito ayuda, quiero jugar rainbow six siege en linux [Bazzite osea fedora con esteroides] Pero al parecer no se puede, es eso cierto?

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As the title says I have MangoHUD (.deb version) along with MangoJuice (Flatpak) installed on ubuntu 24 LTS.

When previewing the overlay in MangoJuice the GPU stats are apparent but do not appear in game. Any idea what to do? I have a 3060Ti.

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