Hey,

I’ve run into a frustrating issue where some Steam games just won’t launch anymore.

Game i tested that don't launch anymore: Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Baldur’s Gate 3...

Game i tested that launch normally: DOOM the Dark Ages, Deep Rock Galactic, Hollow Knight: SilkSong, Resident Evil 4 remake, Monster Hunter World...

There doesn’t seem to be a clear pattern,they aren’t necessarily older or less demanding.

Here’s my setup:

• OS: Fedora 43 with KDE Plasma 6.6.3 on X11
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
• GPU: AMD RX 6700 XT
• RAM: 32 GB DDR4
• Storage: 2 SSD Nvme, one Gen 3 for OS and some games, one Gen 4 for games; the issue occurs regardless of which SSD the game is on
• Drivers: Mesa 25.3.6

Tried Proton Experimental and GE-Proton, but the problematic games still won’t launch

No logs are generated when I try to start these games in /home, and Vulkan seems fine (vulkaninfo shows no errors).

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Hi, I searched the sub for this and a post came up to me with people saying it does via Steam. However, I checked this and the game seems not to be available any longer on Steam.

Is the game no longer playable on Linux?

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pc specs: radeon r9 290 4gb, 32 gb ram, i7-4790

Im asking this because Vulkan doesnt want to install properly on my windows system, and i hear that with linux, you can get a version that works properly for games and emulation, so if i switch, how would linux impact my offline games, online games, modded games, emulation and so on and so forth?

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Duck Side of the Moon looks like a wonderful cozy adventure game about an astronaut duck searching for a new home in a whimsical galaxy.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Originally developed by AQUIRIS (now known as Epic Games Brazil), the retro racer Horizon Chase Turbo is getting delisted from all stores.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

There's been an interview posted that I spotted, asking the Lutris dev to talk about his recent decision to use Claude to develop Lutris. Lots of drama about it a few weeks back, interesting to see his side of things.

For anyone interested (not my article):

https://gardinerbryant.com/mathieu-comandon-explains-his-use-of-ai-in-lutris-development/

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ARC Raiders crashing on Arch Linux after previously working — EAC loads successfully, no useful Proton/game logs, Vulkan stack healthy

I’m on Arch Linux with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, using RADV / Mesa and native Steam (not Flatpak).

Original situation

ARC Raiders worked previously, then stopped launching properly. I originally was experimenting with NTSync, and I confirmed that issue was just a Proton version/config mismatch on my end. After correcting that, ARC Raiders began crashing.

At one point I also suspected MangoHud, because ARC Raiders was crashing when MangoHud was enabled, even though MangoHud worked on other games. But later, even after fully removing MangoHud and clearing related settings, ARC Raiders still crashed.

What I verified / ruled out Steam / Proton / launch config

• Steam install is native, not Flatpak.
• ARC Raiders is configured in Steam to use proton_experimental.
• Steam config for AppID 1808500 confirms that.

• Per-game launch options for ARC Raiders are just:

  text %command%

  so there are no stale custom launch options left for this game.

• I also deleted the game’s Proton prefix multiple times:

  bash rm -rf ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1808500

EAC

EAC appears to load successfully. Relevant behavior from the EAC log:

• settings load correctly
• it contacts Epic successfully
• Wine module mapping starts

• it reports:

  • Easy Anti-Cheat successfully loaded in-game
  • exits with code 0

So EAC does not appear to be the initial failure point.

Vulkan / graphics stack

vulkaninfo --summary works and sees the GPU correctly:

• AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (RADV GFX1201)
• Vulkan instance/device info looks normal

• packages installed:

  • mesa
  • lib32-mesa
  • vulkan-radeon
  • lib32-vulkan-radeon

• amdvlk is not installed

So this does not look like a totally broken Vulkan stack.

Logs

This has been the weirdest part.

Things I expected but did not get

• No useful ~/steam-1808500.log even when trying PROTON_LOG=1
• No meaningful game log in the expected ARC Raiders / Unreal locations
• No useful Proton crash trace

Steam-side logs I did inspect

I checked a lot of Steam logs under ~/.local/share/Steam/logs/.

Most of them were basically noise:

• shader cache activity
• webhelper/UI chatter
• app metadata/cache stuff
• no clear fatal ARC Raiders crash line

One concrete suspicious log clue

The strongest actual clue I found was from the Steam overlay log:

• dlmopen libnvidia-ml.so.1 failed
• Assertion Failed: Failed to load "libnvidia-ml.so.1"

• shortly after that:

  • Detected possibly crashed/killed game, exiting

I am on AMD, so libnvidia-ml.so.1 not existing is expected by itself. The weird part is that the Steam GameOverlay process appears to assert on it.

Troubleshooting already tried MangoHud / overlays / recording

I tried removing or disabling all of this:

• MangoHud disabled
• MangoHud uninstalled
• Goverlay uninstalled
• Steam Overlay disabled
• Steam Game Recording disabled
• no custom launch options left
• no gamescope wrapper in ARC Raiders launch options

Even after all of that, the game still crashes.

Proton / compatibility tool testing

• Confirmed the game is using Proton Experimental
• Not currently using GE-Proton for ARC Raiders
• Deleted compatdata/1808500 repeatedly between tests
• Tried various env var tests, but some of the more aggressive Vulkan-layer disabling tests prevented the game from even reaching EAC, so I do not consider those results reliable

ProtonFixes warning

I saw:

text ProtonFixes WARN: Parent directory "/home/.../.config/protonfixes" does not exist

but ARC Raiders is not set to GE-Proton. Steam config confirms it is on proton_experimental, so this warning appears to be incidental noise, not proof that GE is being used.

Mesa rollback

Because the game used to work, I checked for recent system updates and found this likely regression window:

March 17

• Mesa / RADV / lib32 packages updated to 26.0.2
• kernel updated to 6.19.8

March 22

• Mesa / RADV / lib32 packages updated to 26.0.3
• kernel updated to 6.19.9

I then rolled back:

• mesa
• lib32-mesa
• vulkan-radeon
• lib32-vulkan-radeon

from 26.0.3 back to 26.0.2

Result:

• still crashes

So Mesa 26.0.3 alone does not appear to be the sole cause.

Current best suspects

At this point, the most likely remaining buckets seem to be:

1. kernel regression Specifically Arch kernel change from 6.19.8 -> 6.19.9, since Mesa rollback did not fix it and 6.19.9 included AMDGPU-related changes.

2. Steam client / runtime / overlay-side issue Especially because the strongest concrete clue is the overlay assertion involving libnvidia-ml.so.1.

3. Proton Experimental regression / ARC Raiders-specific Linux regression Since the game worked previously and now does not, despite clean launch options and fresh prefixes.

What I have NOT fully tested yet

• Booting back into 6.19.8 specifically
• Testing under linux-lts
• Thorough A/B between current kernel and older kernel with otherwise same userspace

Short version

ARC Raiders used to work on Arch/AMD. Now it crashes after EAC successfully loads. Vulkan stack looks healthy. Steam config shows it is using Proton Experimental with no stale launch options. Reinstalling the game, removing MangoHud, disabling Steam Overlay/Game Recording, clearing prefixes, and rolling Mesa/RADV back from 26.0.3 to 26.0.2 did not fix it. The most suspicious clue in logs is Steam’s GameOverlay process asserting on missing libnvidia-ml.so.1 before the game is considered crashed. The main remaining suspect is kernel / Steam runtime / Proton regression rather than bad game files or bad launch options.

EDIT: my suspicion is that it has something to do with goverlay (despite uninstalling it) and some config or setting that it created when I was messing around, but I don't know of a way to check this. submitted by /u/THENATHE
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I’ve used Linux as my daily machine before (mostly for coding), so when I built a new gaming PC recently, I always had it in the back of my mind to try Linux gaming at some point.

Funny start though — the shop installed a pirated Windows copy 😄
Took me a couple of days to realize something was off. Checked activation and yeah… not legit. Ended up reinstalling Windows myself.

Anyway, my setup:
7800X3D, 16GB DDR5, RTX 5070
ASUS B650M- AYW motherboard (this caused issues later)
AW3225QF — 32" 4K OLED monitor

Windows actually worked great. HDR looked really good, everything felt smooth.
But the 6–7GB RAM usage kept bothering me, and I generally prefer Linux for my dev environment, so I thought I’d give it a shot.

Tried a few distros:

Pop!_OS
No WiFi drivers for my motherboard. Had to use an old USB dongle 😅
Tried HDR (don’t remember exactly how), but couldn’t get it working.

CachyOS
Same story with HDR. Spent some time tweaking, no luck.

Bazzite
Heard good things about HDR support here.
Installation was honestly painful — partitioning was messy, had to fix things with GParted (and yeah… I corrupted my Windows install here :D).
Even after setting it up, HDR just didn’t look right.

At that point I was kinda done.

On Windows I had things like Dolby Vision working properly, and after spending this much on a monitor, I didn’t really want to compromise the experience.

So yeah… went back to Windows.

Linux gaming is definitely better than before, but for my setup it didn’t really work out. I could’ve dealt with getting a different WiFi adapter, but the monitor experience is something I can’t compromise on.

Would love to know if anyone here has actually got HDR working nicely on Linux.

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Valve released a fresh update to the Steam Client Beta, bringing a few useful bug fixes and more work on the new Linux SteamRT3 Beta.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Hello.

I've been thinking about switching to Linux for a few weeks now. The only thing stopping me is the fact that, apparently, Fortnite cannot be played on it. Are there any workarounds? And do they require a lot of resources to work, like storage, RAM, etc? I have a budget gaming laptop and i want to be sure everything will run ok.

Thanks for all the help! :)

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I have seen threads and posts around the internet talking about the new WoW expac having a memory leak that causes people's games to lock up after an hour or two, causing a full restart of the game. I am having a similar issue with that memory leak, but mine is even worse. My game freezes up, causing my entire game to freeze, after only like 15 or 20 minutes. I installed BNet through Lutris, then downloaded WoW through BNet on Lutris. After that I added the WoW exe to Steam as a non-Steam game, and run it with the latest CachyOS and GE Proton versions. I have also tried using both DX11 and DX12 as some have suggested in forum posts or on Reddit.

Has anyone else dealt with this issue, and fixed it to any degree? This is driving me nuts. I'm supposed to be playing with a cute girl right now. I need this fixed immediately lol.

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I am using the ds4drv for connecting the controller wirelessly but the controller has noticeable input lag in all the games I've tried. How can i solve this. Or is there an alternative to ds4drv and by the way i can connect the controller through Bluetooth without ds4drv but it doesn't get recognised by games or steam

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Hi there just come across a bug i had with Whirl and left mouse button on the linux version of Witcher 3.

The bug: Most of time in combat when having the Whirl skill on. Just by pressing on the left mouse button could cause whirl to active and stay active even after having no input from the left mouse button.

I could find no information about this anywhere. I tried changing the proton compatibility version to GE-proton10-34, Cachyos-10.20260320, Proton Experimental and Proton 9.0-4. As well as change to FSYNC over NTSYNC, disable mangohub, use xwayland and then wayland, disable steam input. Nothing worked.

Fix: Changing the keybinding from left mouse button to same other button, i used my mouse side buttons but that's the only fix i could find for it.

if someone knows more about how to fix this issue please let me know and if you need more information. Thanks👍.

System:

Cachyos

KDE Plasma

6.19.10-1-cachyos

RX 9070xt & r5 7600x

Withcer 3 Next-Gen not classic

KBM

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Posting here since I want something I can actually play, I'm thinking the finals is the best multiplayer Linux friendly fps right now, but that's pretty far off.

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I'm remotely helping a friend switch from Windows to Bazzite and I'm a crusty, old Linux user who's been around long enough to remember the xorg.conf editing days. I have plenty of knowledge of the advanced stuff and will gladly help my friend when he needs it, but what I don't know is what might be some of the bumps and papercuts he might have to deal with as a new Linux user as my new user experience is older than some college kids these days.

And before anyone brings it up, I know I'll likely have to be his tech support girl for a while. But he's thankfully technical enough that eventually he'll be largely competent instead of reliant on me.

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Preamble:
I'm not super new to Linux, but in spite using Manjaro and Pop!_OS in the past (and touching other distros back in high school) it's never been a daily driver. I simply liked too much art software and multiplayer video games.

With all the changes in the gaming space, and a lot more being done with software compatibility in general like getting Clip Studio Paint to work, I figured it would be a good time to start moving over and had a friend install Arch on my PC last year, because it was one of the few we knew of at the time with a good Secure Boot guide for dual-booting (so I could play my funny games).

I've been trying to play around in Arch again, but it's become very apparent how much manual configuration I have to do, and how the default UX of Arch is not really in favor of visual or novice-to-intermediate users. I knew going in that there would be some friction, but I've become increasingly irritable trying to problem solve all my compatibility and setup issues (and loathe web searching b/c it's just AI slop results).

I've seen that Bazzite and CachyOS are more new-user UX focused with lots of built in game compatibility stuff and are both Secure Boot compatible, and was thinking of one of those or similar might be more comfortable.

Questions:
1: Is it worth switching distros or are there some good QoL adds I can install on Arch to make it feel more friendly to me as a novice-intermediate visual user?

2: How does one even go about changing a Linux distro without breaking Secure Boot for Windows? I've never really touched bootloader configuration and my previous dual-boot experiences were before TPM 2.0 was a thing.

3: I like that I currently have my Windows install separated from the personal files and a lot of the program installs, is there a good guide on how to do something similar with Linux, regardless of if that's installing a new distro or just tweaking my Arch partitions?

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Hello, I've been using linux for a hot minute, well before proton came out, so I used to have to get REAL creative to find games that I could've played back then that wasn't just killing floor (it was kinda rough) but that gave me a love for smaller, indie games.

Typically when people ask for recommendations, you see people recommend the same games over and over again. "I heard Elden Ring was good". "Have you heard of Risk of Rain 2?"

Well I've got a short list of games I've played before and know, at least to me, are very good games with not nearly has much attention. The goal of this list is to showcase games that aren't just fun or enjoyable, but also runs on linux without much issue, if not just out of the box. I've had many games I buy where it just... won't... run... no matter what I do, so I get it. This is also primarily a thread to bring light to smaller developers. For reference, I have multiple handhelds from either GPD, Ayaneo, Lenovo, or of course valve in my house along with my desktop which has a 3090 in it. If I say it runs and it doesn't seem to run on your system, chances are it's probably a (solvable) issue more on your side than the game just not working in general. So let's get started. I am going from highest discount down and I am only listing games with 10,000 or less reviews. You won't see GTA on this list for sure:

The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia -94% off

Ever felt like you can type real well? Really feel confident about it? Well with this game you'll have to take out demons through typing, while also dodging a bullethell. Story is more of a campy funny type of dialogue. I can't type that quickly so I didn't finish. Sorry.

Trailmakers 90% off

I'm going to recommend this with an asterisk, as you will miss a lot of parts and gameplay without the DLCs. That being said, if you're willing to fork over 30 to 60 bucks and LOVE building cars/boats/planes/ships/tanks/mechs/whatever from scratch with the fun jank that comes with this, it's exactly your game. Multiple massive worlds with huge hills, mountains, floating islands, docks. Really just the ultimate sandbox if Kerbal Space Program moved to all vehicle types. Awesome calm soundtrack. I can't say I fully support how they do DLC, but the game is just addicting. Works well on steam deck.

Embr 85% off

If uber was actually a firefighting app. They do not take the setting seriously at all and that's good. Co-op multiplayer highly encouraged. Complete and utter jank in all the good ways. Ignore the story, please. It's awful, but this is a great game to just break with your friends. You can by an RGB Corsair (yes from Corsair) axe that shoots your character forward fast as hell in any direction, and you will probably break your legs abusing it multiple times.

Golden Light 70% off

One of my favorite horror games of all time. One of those games where describing it destroys the experience. The basic premise is hide-and-seek, but reversed. The only way to sniff out monsters who are hiding is my listening to them breath heavily. It will make little sense, and that was the point. There is a story, but you'll have to find it, they won't just give it to you. It will run terribly on handhelds, I think you have to turn off pixelation setting to lower the demand the game has. I love the music but it's very unusual lol.

Cavity Busters 70% off

The binding of isaac but reformatted to be even cruder and based on teeth. instead of tears, you manage teeth and have to retract your teeth before shooting them again. You can slam into enemies and also can wall run. It's much faster paced than tboi, but may not be for all fans.

Sker Ritual 60% off

Used to like Call of Duty Zombies back then? Tired of how the new format of zombies is (or upset it's not on linux), this is just classic cod zombies, down to the "box" and having pack-a-punch. DLC is cosmetic only. Maps and weapons are free. Obviously recommend playing co-op.

Furi 50% off

Oh boy. There isn't really words in the english dictionary to really capture how this game gets you feeling. It's kinda high on the reviewer amounts but I couldn't help it. It's a boss rush game where the only enemies are the bosses and every boss is a new style of fight. Look up the Furi soundtrack or just watch no commentary gameplay of the first boss and decide for yourself. Honestly I would pay for this game just for the soundtrack, but it just so happens the game is really fun too.

Bright Memory: Infinite 50% off

Quick singleplayer made by I think a single dude. Jammed as many mechanics as he could into it. More of a "huh, this is kinda neat" experience more than anything. I guess you can also buy skimpy outfits for your person in the singleplayer fps if that's your thing. I won't judge.

Voidigo 50% This game is criminally underrated. I know it's overwelmingly positive, but I mean I never hear ANYONE talking about it. Smooth animation, great music, theming is amazing. If you like Enter the Gungeon, just buy this. Instead of dodge rolling, you jump over or on enemies. It's a boss hunting game where instead of going to a boss room, you go to disable corrupted shrines. After 2 shrines cleansed, the boss arrives. There are 3 possible bosses for each area and each have a different theme. They theme the level by just mashing all of it together. My favorite thing about the game is late game, instead of a high chance of you becoming overpowered, you start getting asked to exchange items, guns, or hearts for other items or guns. It becomes a case of you determining if something is worth the exchange rather than just picking everything up or just not affording anything. Items can be upgraded and gives you additional rewards on full upgrades encouraging so. I have countless offline hours that steam hasn't counted, but it's definitely in the hundreds. I love this game and wish there was an actual community over it. Oh it has couch co-op.

POST VOID 50% off

If you have even the slightest chance of epilepsy, keep moving. This game will assault your eyes and wish you would ask it to stop. EXTREMELY fast paced. 7k reviews so many of you will probably know about it and I won't talk too much on it but I had to include it for those fps fiends who didn't know.

SPOOKWARE 45% off

Loved Warioware and wish we could go back to the old style? Buy this. Like cute and spooky with a funny story? Buy this. What else do I have to say? Oh there's a chapter that's a cruise ship murder story. There's a lot of love in this game.

SULFUR 42% off

fps dungeon crawler with some lo-fi music in the background. Didn't really land that hard with me, but I know quite a bit of people who have played it, like it so no point in me being a hater. It's not bad and has really, really creative gun designs.

Echo Point Nova 40% off

Makers of Servered Steel. Single player very, very open world fps. If you like fast paced, sliding everywhere, wall riding, ramp flinging, or just plain soaring from momentum while also shooting, buy this. It's overwhelmingly positive for a reason. Raytracing seems to work fine on multiple devices with this too.

Barony 35% off

Ah, barony. This game probably has the highest hours of this list from me. Dungeon crawler that can run on a moldy toaster strudel. If you find me a device that doesn't run this at full frames, I'll call you a liar. I know it's the highest number of reviews out of the list but STILL not enough people talk about it. Doesn't matter how much you may already talk about it, you don't talk about it enough. In case you don't fully understand why I think this game deserves so much praise, why not try it yourself. It's literally open source. just compile it and play yourself. Love the sountrack, love how deep it is mechanically, the graphics, the possible characters, everything.

BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT 31% off

Based on the trope back then when modders would make mods where the game is just a complete mess, but in this case it's just how the game is. Bone stock. Pretty dang hard. Got a laff outta me.

God Damn The Garden 30% off

Hard to really explain what the heck goes on in this game, but it is satisfying to play. Really gives off the vibes that you got from older games when things made much less sense, and gameplay was the forefront. Pretty short.

Mortal Sin 25% off

First person medieval melee combo central. A genre you really don't see. Admittedly janky but satisfying when you do get the hang of things. You can customize the color palette to a wide range of ugliness. It used to be the default, but I noticed after an update they made "realistic" the default now, which kinda upset me to learn. Piccolo stans where you at.

Fida Puti Samurai 25% off

I'll be honest I think the sale for this one should be higher, it's a good "pick up for a few minutes" game, but I recommend it as it's pretty good for a single person making it. There's a wall that chases you so you have to run to the end of the level while shooting what you see. It's pretty straight forward.

GUNTOUCHABLES 20% off

Top-down co-op zombie shooter. Apparently was just a passion project. They gave out free copies when it came out but it seems like it didn't really stick. Gameplay actually is a bit fun. They've been actively patching and adding to it, so it's not like it's a dead product. Much more preferred as multiplayer co-op.

Mycopunk 20% off

Really fun co-op in and extract shooter based as you being a company owned robot whose only purpose is doing objectives for said company in an active hostile mushroom infested planet. That doesn't sound too intimidating, but some of the enemies kill you exceptionally quickly in the higher difficulties.

Jackal 20% off

Hotline miami reformatted with its own twist. 3D instead of 2D and the protagonist talks a lot compared to not at all. The good news though is he's funny to listen to. You will die a lot.

HOLE 20% off

Single player "indoor" battle royale- ladies and gentlemen we have our first iffy to run game. For some reason, by default, this game runs with ray tracing on. It's obviously hell on anything that isn't powerful. There are guides to turn it off. I have had very mixed results with that, so I honestly either recommend this only for Nvidia desktop users or people willing to refund, as on my handhelds it typically crashed very easily without raytracing, but bone stock ran without issue on my desktop. The game is fun though. Leans into the gun realism.

Brutal Orchestra 20% off

Man I played this game enough to buy a shirt for it lol. Take the gritty atmosphere of the binding of isaac and apply it to a turned based rpg. amplify the christian (well catholic really) themes 4 fold. Actions are based on a pigment system, your main source of said pigment is the different colored blood of all your enemies. This game is difficult. It is the type of game where you have more fun thinking about playing than playing it, but there was a time when I just couldn't stop booting it up no matter how many times I got curb stomped. Overwhelmingly postive for a reason. If you see the store images and like it, then you'll like it. Soundtrack is lit.

ODDCORE 15% off

An overwhelmingly positive game with only 650 reviews is bananas lol. Someone took the trope of backrooms and oddly creepy areas, and turned it into an actually fun roguelite. It's in very early beta, but as of now it's honestly still a ton of fun. At the least I would look into wishlisting it.

Darkenstein 3D free

Congrats, modern Wolfenstein but completely free. What else is there to say.

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so this acid trip happens in lobby and in game i tried proton hotfix and experimental with selecting (default) and (dxvk) options nothing works

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