I'm on Kubuntu 25.04 (KDE Plasma 6, Wayland) with a Ryzen 5 7520U and AMD Radeon 610M (integrated GPU), and 5GB usable RAM.

Project Zomboid has a native Linux version, but in my case it's basically unplayable. The game barely loads or becomes extremely unstable.

Surprisingly, when I switch to Proton 9.0-4, the game runs much better and is actually playable, even though I expected the native version to perform best.

On Proton I still get some stutters, but overall it’s stable enough to play. On native Linux it just doesn’t work properly for me.

I don’t really understand why this happens.

Is there any known reason why the native Linux version performs so badly compared to Proton? And is there any way to fix the native version, or is it better to just stick with Proton in this case?

Has anyone experienced something similar?

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I've been trying to run this, but I keep getting this error. Tried installing all C++ redistributable, still same.

On Linux, tried with VM, tried on bottles, same result.

https://vndb.org/v2125

Tbf, might run like that on native Windows too.

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The variables that we add to the game under Launch Options. Sometimes I just need that tiny space to open up like a mini text editor. I Know it stretches in width but still.

And probably the reason it doesn't exist is because these launch options are, for the most part, set it and forget it. But sometimes it's not always the case and when I am fiddling around with environmental options, it gets annoying.

gamemoderun taskset -c 2,4,6,8,10,12 env MANGOHUD_CONFIG="gamemode,fps_limit_method=late,fps_limit=60,display_server,winesync,offset_x=1500,hdr,fsr,font_file=/run/host/local-fonts/w/WorkSans_Medium.ttf,font_size=16,text_outline=0,round_corners=2,background_alpha=0.1,wine_color=deddda,background_color=000000,frametime_color=85cd9c,vram_color=ad64c1,ram_color=c26693,wine_color=deddda,engine_color=bf95b4,text_color=c0bfbc,frame_timing=0,frametime=0,position=top-center,gpu_stats,gpu_core_clock,cpu_temp,cpu_stats,fps_color_change,wine,gpu_color=33d17a,cpu_text=cpu,cpu_color=2e97cb" WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=6:2,4,6,8,10,12 %command%

This is just an example of one game, everything else I use mangojuice.

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The excellent Dome Keeper now has multiplayer, and there's a new content DLC available that brings The Infiltrator and The Beastmaster characters.

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The only reason why i don’t have linux is beacuse of faceit. When faceit on linux?

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So, I am completely new to Linux. Finally had enough of Windows.

I installed Mint with Cinnamon, so it looked like one of the most approachable distros for someone who knows zilch.

Formatted both of my drives while installing. Both are now set up at exFAT.

Installed steam through the software manager that comes with the Mint install

On steam, pointed my default drive to the 2nd drive.

Downloaded a few games. All of them installed, steam installed some version of proton. So far so good.

Anytime I try to start any of the games, I get the "Starting game" popup, and then it disappers and game doesnt launch. For *any* of the games I installed.

One specific case that I fiddled around with - Rimworld - has inside its SteamLibrary/steamapps/commom/RimWorld a script called start_RimWorld_openglfix.sh that actually starts the game. (It also has a notes for linux users where it says openGL sometimes has trouble, and that script could fix it if thats the issue)

This leads me to think that there is something between the steam and the fame files that is getting wonky, but I know absolutely nothing about how to debug stuff on linux to figure out what is breaking. Help please?

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The Portal 2 modding scene is about to explode with the upcoming Beta release of Portal 2: Community Edition, giving you some big new tools.

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Help, I don't have textures. I saw a similar post on Reddit, but as far as I understand, it requires an RX 9000 series. I only have an RX 570, and there's no such bug on Windows.

https://preview.redd.it/r5o4jkrrzxug1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=b210dbacc587ec3f63e16391f682a49629ddfcf9

https://preview.redd.it/k0fhsr3w0yug1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=4768c46153ed0f4bdc9003805bd654c7493921f3

UPD: need new proton and vk3d

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I had to restart the game 3-4x during a recent gaming session! Dips down into the 20's and 30s. I'd expect better than that with FSR upscaling from 720 > 1080p. Unless my expectations are just unreasonable and this is now a potato PC, I think it can do better. One thing that stands out to me is that when I increase the FPS limit, the performance increases, like the ratio of dip is related to the cap. Capping to 60 makes it worse than capping to 120+.

It's a Unity based game so I was hoping if not this one, someone else might have advice from any issues on similar games.

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 4700G
Memory: 32GB of DDR4 RAM
GPU: Sapphire RX 060 (flashed to RX 6600 BIOS) 8GB
Displays: 3x27" Samsung 1080p @ 100Hz
1TB M.2 NVME / 2x1TB Evo SSD RAID-0
OS: CachyOS w/ Deck Mode Option (KDE/Wayland when in Desktop Mode)
Kernel: 6.19.10-1-cachyos #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

Reached out via email to the devs and got no response. Reached out via Discord and got a lackluster "oh it's Linux? IDK"

Sorry then im not sure about linux, is it still bad with low traffic and view distance settings?

Steam Launch Options(Desktop Mode, no Gamescope currently:
DXVK_ASYNC=1 mangohud obs-vkcapture %command%

Also wondering if this could be a DXVK vs wined3d issue.

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How long before Amazon Luna goes the way of Google Stadia? Amazon announced some big changes for their cloud gaming service.

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hello everyone, I have been looking for OCR real time software for video games for some time.

On Windows, there is lunar, MORT and others but I try to run them with bootles sand with really good results (the software launches but does not work)

So I would like to know if you know any?

Thank you

(sorry for the mistakes but English is not my language)

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Love indie games? The Triple-i Initiative Showcase happened recently (while I was on holiday) and there were some truly incredible announcements.

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Hi guys,

I use arch and load battle net through lutris (but I’m having the same issue with bottles)

When I open battle net via lutris the wee login window opens briefly, then logo is broken, then it turns white. Meaning I can’t login. It worked fine until last week so I suspect a new update to arch broke it (classic)

Does anyone have any tips?

Thanks in advance

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Funcom are finally dealing with some of the wider issues in the MMO Dune: Awakening, which includes expanded self-hosting support and more focus on PvE.

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Cave Story+ is a true classic and the developers have given the PC release an absolutely massive upgrade with tons new for the game including 2-player.

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Warzone 2100 is an excellent classic real-time strategy (RTS) game that continues living on thanks to the open source community, with a huge new release out.

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Hey guys,

Just did the jump from Windows 11 to Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3. I chose Mint because I heard it was a good starting point for beginners, stable, and it's similar to Windows... but I'm having trouble with Steam. I downloaded it through Steam's official page, like one would do on Windows. It automatically downloaded a .deb package instead of an .exe, so I figured it'd be fine. I managed to log in, but whenever it tries to open my library, it just keeps flicking in and out of my screen. So I've been troubleshooting.

• Installed it in three different ways (Steam's official download page, Mint's "Software Manager", and apt). Same issue.
• Tried the advice listed here (basically making sure kernel and mesa versions were "new enough", and "upgrading the amdgpu linux-firmware". Then I installed Steam with apt, and ran "steam" on the command line. This fixed the problem, but opening Steam by pressing the "Super" button, typing steam, then pressing "return" leads to the same issue.
• I don't want to have to use the terminal to open Steam

After some reading, turns out my GPU might be too new for Mint, so I'd like to try a new distro. I'm sure I can probably fix it with some tinkering, but since I nuked my Windows install, I just want something that works right now.

So, my use case is, I mostly game on my PC, but I also do school work, some coding on VSCode, and some writing. I need to use a CAC scanner for some Army/DoD websites, but I don't know how receptive Linux is towards stuff like that. I also want to learn how to use the terminal effectively, and to eventually be proficient at using Linux, so I don't want an OS that will "baby it down," per se. I see people saying that Bazzite is "immutable". Idk what that means for me, but if it won't allow me to tinker with my system down the line, or it just turns my PC into a glorified Steam Deck or Steam Big Picture type deal, I'd rather not use that. But I also see a lot of people talking about Bazzite, Nobara, CachyOS, and Fedora.

What do you guys recommend? I don't want to be like a beta tester for new updates, but it seems that "stable" OSs are not something that would work well with my PC. My specs are 7700x, 9060xt 16gb, 32GB DDR5, on an Omen 27qs monitor running at 144hz instead of 240hz.

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