https://playnix.io/

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Thank you :)

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tldr: Valve's VRAM optimizations made MHWilds, a reason I kept win11 as a secondary boot, work on Linux.

PC's specs:

Ryzen 5 5500

Intel Arc A750

16GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM

Sata SSD windows boot (Win11)

M.2 SSD linux boot (CachyOS)

NTFS HDD for storage

I'm by no means a Linux expert, I just like playing games and tinkering with things to make them run games. Stuff like installing RetroArch on my phone and RetroPie on my Raspberry Pi.

Ever since Win10's EoL on October last year, I've been playing around with Mint Cinnamon on an old Laptop that doesn't meet the reqs for Win11. I liked it, so I ended up dual-booting Mint and Win11 on my home computer.

Before, MHWilds would never work on my Linux boot. It would always crash when loading into the game, after choosing a save file.

Tried many things like changing Proton versions, launch options, changing Intel drivers from i915 to xe, etc. but they never worked. I assumed that it was RAM/VRAM issues and the fact that I'm running Intel's ARC GPU.

It's the reason I kept Windows 11. I Had Issues trying to run games like CP2077, Death Stranding Director's cut, and MHWilds on Linux.

CP2077 worked when switching from Mint to CachyOS (I don't really know what caused it to work). And in Death Stranding, textures wouldn't load, which was fixed a while back with a Proton update.

With Valve's VRAM optimizations (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/s/92U3KU3txi) the last game I play that doesn't work on Linux has finally worked. Made this post just because how happy I am!

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This is an Asus ROG STRIX g15 AE with 32gb of 3200mhz DDR4, a Ryzen 9 5900HX, an RX 6800m with 12gb of VRAM that can draw up to 170w and a beautiful 1440p 99% DCI-P screen that runs at 165hz.

I hate it.

I've bought this laptop in rather desolate condition for 500€ with almost leaking LM, a destroyed display and you can see the keyboard for yourself after having run Linux mint on a ThinkPad for a year, trying to do the same with an NVIDIA legion that I couldn't get to boost because it's apparently tied to a windows-only app and when I saw this thing, I thought all my prayers were answered.

even with the AMD GPU, my experience for the past 4 months was horrible. among other things:

Due to the switching system in the laptop, everything gets passed through the IGPU, which makes Linux drivers (as far as I understand) see the whole thing as one "supergpu" (device name). no matter what I have tried, it refuses to use the dgpu for anything related to OpenGL. everything runs on the IGPU, and the dgpu cannot be directly forced to work. this is somehow even a problem on the dedicated dgpu video output.

LACT does nothing. the dgpu is utterly ignorant of power limits set by it. overclocks apply, but are near useless doe to a number factors discussed below.

the whole laptop is also oblivious as to the existence of its own fans, running them at up to 50% RPM, which leads to horrible overheating. lm_sensors couldn't even detect the fans, let alone control them. this is likely asus' fault as the fans don't even show up in bios.

the GPU cannot be parked, constantly taking at least 10w even in power saving mode.

in Ultrakill in particular, the GPU doesn't boost past 500mhz, no matter the graphics API used. Through mint, Bazzite (yes the correct AMD version for Asus laptops) and regular Fedora, latest mesa including radeonSI and radv nothing made a meaningful difference.

I'm planning to move back to desktop, soo I just want to know if you guys are dealing with anything similar. Gaming laptops are notorious for weird shit, even on windows, with manufacturers' focus, so I imagine they are a nightmare scenario for Linux in general because a lot of the software that's supposed to control them just doesn't exist.

no way in hell am I going back to windows after using KDE for work yo I just want to know if I should forsake gaming completely

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So I installed TMNT 2007 using the link on YouTube, clicked the "add game" button on lutris, and did exactly what I needed to do to install a windows game on Linux

Now, when I selected tmnt 2007 (as seen in screenshot) and clicked "play", I came across this problem.

Please help me fix it

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Hey yall, wanna see if this is possible:

I had a grand ole time figuring out how to start the process, and I finally figured out how. So, I know Sonic 06 is a good ole tomato throwing worthy game, but I wanted to get the Legacy of Solaris mod working on Xenia emulator because I'm going through most of the mainline Sonic games. The only problem I have now, after getting '06 mod manager working and setting all of my file directories, is I get some sort of unhandled exception error. Are there any clear guides or advice for getting the mod manager and emulator working? I got the mod manager to work using proton, so that's no issue. Basically, I set my game exe directory, my xenia exe directory, and my mod folder directory, but after I try to go forward, I get an error there.

I'm on Fedora 43 with the cachyOS kernal.
Running with a Radeon RX 9070XT and a Ryzen 7 3800XT and 32 Gigs of DDR4 ram.

Any referrals to a good setup guide would be appreciated because I can't find any documentation on it. Otherwise, I'm just going to troubleshoot a bit more before giving up and just playing Project 06.

I'll post a photo of the error later. I tried to replicate it on Windows 11 but it worked fine.......because of course it did. I may try to re-extract the ISO but I wanna see if any of yall have experience with setting this up on Linux.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi! :)

So, long story short, I'm working on a game prototype, and a few people have asked me if it runs on Linux. I've been coding in C++ for many years but always for Windows, Linux is a total mystery to me.

However, since I'm making my own engine (using Vulkan), I thought it would be a good idea to make it portable. I added GLFW as the abstraction layer and built it for Linux using GitHub Actions... and it worked!

I still don't know much about the specifics of all the different distros or what might be broken on Linux within my code, so if you'd like to test my game and tell me if it runs, that would be greatly appreciated.

This is just an early prototype, so don't expect a full game experience yet, but if you want to share ideas about the core design, those would be welcome as well :)

The game can be found here: https://magistairs.itch.io/orbis

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I have a PC and I want games to work like indie games AAA games whatever I want them to just work and not have to like not be able to play a game. I have cause it doesn’t work with the OS and I need Nvidia drivers to not be completely screwed up. Does anybody have like the best distro for that?

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Hallo liebe Community, ich habe meine erste Applikation entwickelt und sie ist nun veröffentlicht!

Es ist eine schöne, exzellent funktionierende Übertaktsoftware für Nvidia-Grafikkarten, speziell für Wayland-only-Systeme.

natürlich Open source und free of charge für jeden zum testen! Ich hoffe sie bereitet euch genauso viel Freude wie mir!

Sollten ihr Fragen, Wünsche und Anregungen haben, bin ich sehr gerne bereit, sie zu berücksichtigen, wenn ich das nächste Mal die App angreife, um vielleicht noch etwas dazu zu bauen.

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Hey guys. I've been playing Q2RTX (via Steam) for months now, and so far it has worked perfectly.

As of today, for some reason, the game launches in a black window with a white bar at the top and nothing else. Sound seems fine and I can hear the menu sounds, but window stays black. I have not upgraded or installed anything new to my system, other that my distro's usual security updates. All other Steam games, ray traced or otherwise, work without any issues.

I have tried:

• delete shader cache
• uninstall the game and removed the game folder from steamapps folder
• reboot steam, reboot PC
• tried the native version, proton-ge version, proton hotfix & experimental, proton 9, but these don't seem to change the outcome

Legacy Q2 works just fine.

Has anybody else experienced this kind of sudden "malfunction" with Q2RTX (on linux) and if so, how did you solve it? I would be grateful for any tips, as this is still my all time favourite game. Thank you for your time.

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Steam flatpak-version

OS: Zorin OS 18
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.17.0-20-generic
DE: GNOME 46.7
Wayland
Nvidia driver version: 580.126.09 (I have tried v. 590 before, but it causes severe "vertex explosion" in games so I had to revert back to 580)

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Hey r/linux_gaming,

I've been working on ProtonShift, an open-source desktop app that puts all the game config stuff you'd normally do in a terminal into one place. If you've ever hand-edited a MangoHud conf, pieced together a Gamescope command from the man page, or dug through Heroic's JSON files to flip Fsync on — this is for you.

What it does

Unified game library — Steam, Heroic (Epic + GOG), and Lutris games in one searchable list. Launch, open install folders, or jump to configs from anywhere.

Visual Gamescope command builder — Pick resolution, FPS limits, FSR upscaling, HDR, and more from dropdowns and toggles. See the generated command live. One click to insert it into your launch options.

Full MangoHud config editor — Toggle metrics by category, set position/font/alpha, configure hotkeys. Supports global config and per-game overrides. Includes presets (Minimal, FPS Only, Standard, Benchmark, Full, etc.).

Launch option presets — One-click toggles for GameMode, MangoHud, NVIDIA dGPU offload, and Proton logging. Presets grey out with hints if the tool isn't installed.

Proton/Wine tool selection — Pick your compatibility layer from a dropdown. Lists all installed versions from compatibilitytools.d, Heroic's tools directories, etc.

Configuration profiles — Save a game's entire setup (launch options, compat tool, env vars, power profile) as a named profile. Restore it later or apply it to a different game.

Environment variable manager — Manage global gaming env vars via ~/.config/environment.d/. Built-in presets for Proton NVIDIA/AMD optimizations, DXVK tuning, shader cache, Wayland compat, and more.

Game save backup & restore — Auto-detects saves in Proton prefixes and Steam userdata. Backup to timestamped ZIPs, restore with one click.

Built-in fixes database — Known fixes matched by App ID. Each fix can add env vars, launch args, or both. One-click apply.

Protontricks integration — Open the GUI or quick-run common verbs (vcrun2022, dotnet48, d3dx9, corefonts) without leaving the app.

System dashboard — GPU info + temps, VRAM usage, power profile switching (supports system76-power and powerprofilesctl), display detection, controller mapping.

Stack

Electron + Next.js + React 19 frontend, Python FastAPI backend. The Electron app spawns the Python server and talks to it over localhost.

Install

Available as AppImage, .deb, .rpm, and Flatpak from the Releases page. Requires Python 3.12+.

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/I4cTime/protonshift
• License: AGPL-3.0

Would love feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas. What tools/configs would you want to see added?

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I use Baazite and im new to linux gaming, i made de switch few months back and i installed GTA V Encanced today, but when i try to launch it, it plays fine but the game thinks W is D and so on, every key is messed and cant play it. i tried Proton Exprimental and Proton 9. Didnt Help.

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A Tiny Garden is a small farming game. Farm and harvest while watching your favourite youtube videos or while working and it runs natively on Linux

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3165880/A\_Tiny\_Garden/

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Hello so I am going to be buying a vr head set for my computer and I wanted some recommendations. Firstly mmi plan to only use it with my gentoo desktop with a amd 7900 xtx. I also don't play a lot of games that require movement mainly stuff like beat sabber Tetris effect and subnatica.

For Linux from what I can tell the only real option is the big screen beyond 2, I'm kinda hesitant on it due to the limited resolution/refresh rate from the bandwidth bottleneck.

Hardware requirements

Oled screens

Comfrable

2 USB c ports or 3.5 mm out

Outside in tracking

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coming from linux mint on an asus zenbook 14 2020 ux425ia_um425ia and i just ordered this Laptop.

and I plan on installing the distro on a separate old Kingston 500gb ssd which has mint now on the empty ssd slot (im okay with starting from scratch while switching distros).

im looking into distros like cachy os and im worried about driver support with 50 series gpu.

im a casual user - daily use as a good alternative to win11

but im hoping to build my beginning homelab setup so considering all this is cachy os a good choice for me or do I look for alternatives.

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Just so you guys know, i cant even think of how the hell someone pays 2k for this piece of death, but here it is the machine.

• (CPU): Intel Pentium Gold G5400 @ 3.70 GHz.
• (GPU): AMD Radeon RX 570 Series.
• Mother-Board: H310M M.2 2.0.
• RAM: 8 GB.

if u guys have any recomendation of configuration, plz let me know.

and yes this is my gaming pc for now, i will buy a true one after but for now, its what i have.

oh, and i use endervourOS with KDE!

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I added script hook v and menyoo to my files but it's just not working. I dries adding the override launch option it still doesnt work. help

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-- TEXT VERSION -- Extracted from video
METHOD 1 :
Right click OBS make sure you’re running on the Nvidia GPU

METHOD 2 :
Enter Additional Driver or Driver Manager
Make sure you aren’t using the Nouveau driver. Or using an old Nvidia driver

METHOD 3 :
obsproject.com Download the DEB version from the website. The app store version is usually more outdated.
Enter Terminal
" sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio " Run Add Apt Repo as Super User and add the OBS PPA link.
" sudo apt update " Refresh the package.
" sudo apt install obs-studio " Run APT as Super User then the Install option to install OBS.

METHOD 4 : This one is for distros that don't ask to disable Secure Boot by default.
Restart your PC
Press your PC's keybind that opens BIOS. HP uses ESC or F10
Disable Secure Boot... Nvidia sometimes don't like Secure Boot for some reason. Making apps not use the GPU.

METHOD 5 : I don't recommend this on Mint right now. Nvidia GPUs don't work on flatpaks on Mint for some reason.
Enter the app store
Download the flatpak version of OBS
Enter Flatseal
Find OBS Studio
Remember to enable GPU Acceleration perms

METHOD 6:
Enter OBS Studio
Settings / Output / Recording
Video Encoder - Software (x264)... This makes OBS stop using Nvidia’s encoder.

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