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so just as an experiment for the Future, i put Steam OS on my laptop

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. Februar 2026 - 05:39

gonna switch to linux completely soon and gonna help my dad do the same

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The Hunt for Gaming on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. Februar 2026 - 05:20

The age old question I'm sure many before have asked: What distro would folks recommend for gaming on Linux?

Some inf to hopefully help with guide:

1) I use an Nvidia graphics, and I'm aware most Distros favor AMD over Nvidia for driver compatibility and overall performance. But it was a free 4090 after fixing/cleaning the burnt socket on the card, and runs perfectly fine on the Quiet BIOS setting. No plans to pickup an AMD card.

2) General specs include an AMD R9 7950X 3D, ASUS TUF RTX 4090, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000MT/s, and two 1TB nvme Gen 4 drives. I don't do overclocking or plan to, I prefer to keep things stock and well cooled where possible.

3) I mainly play Single-Player games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3, Baldur's Gate 3, Horizon: Zero Dawn, God of War, etc. I'm not a competitive/multiplayer gamer, and generally don't play games where Anti-cheats are a huge concern. If I do anything online, it's stuff like Golf with Your Friends, UNO, Peak, or RV There Yet.

4) This is essentially just a gaming PC. I don't do content creation, I don't run suite of applications or monitor a server. Hell, my banking and taxes are either on my phone or my MacBook Pro. If I want anything on this PC, it's Steam, Ubisoft launcher, Epic launcher, and maybe a Office alternative suite.

5) I'd like to lean more on "Plug-in-play", but I am willing to tinker to get things running perfectly. I'm just sick of Windows 11, as I'm sure a lot of people are and I'm ready to make the jump, I think.

Thank you all in advance, and look forward to your thoughts!

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GTA V Enhanced on Pop!_OS

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. Februar 2026 - 04:23

So I've been testing out both GTA Legacy and GTA Enhanced recently, with GE-Proton, and I've found that Enhanced nets me a 15FPS boost - most likely because of the VKD3D support and optimized engine. I'm running Pop!_OS COSMIC on my 2019-era PC with 16GB of DDR4 RAM.

The thing is, the Enhanced version uses a bit more VRAM than the 2015 Legacy version, and seeing as I have a 4GB GPU, it's not ideal.

I was just wondering if turning on the setting "Ignore Suggested Limits" will be beneficial to me, since I simply want less blurry textures. Out of 4096MB of VRAM utilization, as shown in the game, I would be using around 4650MB.

Is this a good idea? In-game, with "Ignore Suggested Limits" turned on, I mostly reach 3.8GiB of video memory usage. It may spike to the complete 4.0GiB at times, but I don't notice any lag and/or stutter, and it climbs back down within around half a minute, so I'm not sure if the usage bar in GTA V is actually accurate at all.

I've never posted here before, so my apologies if this is the wrong place. Thanks in advance!

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Launching games installed with wine

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. Februar 2026 - 03:10

Hello... To those who use GOG games installed with manually created prefixes. How do you organize and launch games? Do you click through the file explorer? Or make desktop launchers? Or start menu items? I've been experimenting with building my own wine prefixes and I think I'm happy with how it works... But with a larger library (100+games), how do YOU launch a game in this scenario? TIA!

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Anyone else having issues updating World of Warcraft in Battle.net?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. Februar 2026 - 02:46

I went to play wow and it said the servers were incompatible so I checked battlenet launcher and it had an update. When i tried to run it, it said to run battle.net as administrator. I checked with file permissions, everything seemed fine. Tried using faugus launcher, all kinds of different protons, no dice. I wiped everything, and reinstalled. As soon as it installed WoW, it had an update and the same issue. Is anyone else seeing thiis? (Im on cachyos, been using protonupge10-32 with no issues on anything else, but ive tried a host of other versions to no avail)

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Playtest 20260222

OpenRA - 22. Februar 2026 - 01:00
The past year has brought several exciting new developments, which we are happy to share today with a new OpenRA playtest!

Rocket League will still be supported after easy anti cheat is added

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. Februar 2026 - 00:43

Finally, we know some of you love to play on Steam Deck and on Linux operating systems through apps like Proton, and this will still be supported with Easy Anti-Cheat on.

Kind of killing bakkesmod but at least not killing Linux support.

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Random black screen in Black Myth Wukong

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 23:43

Hi. Playing this Black Myth Wukong on EndeavourOS,
CPU Ryzen 5600x
GPU RX 9070 xt
No special compatibility layer, Steam choose it itself.

Got perfect 60 FPS on High+ settings without frame gen or upscaling, native 2560 x 1440.

Sometimes I got random black screen about 2-3 secs during boss fights (it seems like they could appear outside of boss battles, because the game mostly about fighting bosses).
Played 6 hours and got 3 black screens.
When getting black screen the game itself continue to work, my inputs are read, and after 2-3 secs all restored and I can play normally.
So, it didn't lead to any lose due to this problem, but it may happen sometimes.

Black screens seems absolutely random, no special effects from bosses, their actions or mine.

It seems like it's driver problem, may be can I check driver logs or something? How can I achieve that?

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Steam on raspberry pi not running games correctly after downloading through Pi-Apps

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 23:37

So i downloaded steam through Pi-Apps on the latest version of raspberry pi os because i wanted to try out a few games on it, but I've yet to get any games to run properly. I tried DOOM 1+2 and it crashes and closes itself every time, I also tried ULTRAKILL but that gives a black screen with a mouse over it. I made sure to turn on proton for both but neither worked. Any tips?

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Open Source Games

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 23:24

I know plenty exist for Linux, but are there any that are actually good quality?

preferably something party/arcade

Can be singleplayer or local coop.

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TES 4 Oblivion Windows CD

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 22:57

Hi i got tes 4 on CD from back in the day. The problem is it says on the Box you need to have Windows. Is there a way to play it on Linux or is it only possible im a Windows Vm? I use Mint btw and can't test it right now (Waiting for my cd drive😅)

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Will the Steam Frame make VR on Linux better?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 22:53

I've recently got a VR Headset and tried to play VR games on Linux (especifically VR Mods of games like GMod VR and such) and it was pretty bad on Linux, even after 3 days of me sitting in my computer for +8 hours trying out tweaks, so now im wondering about something: Will VR on Linux improve with the Frame? I want VR on Linux to work to finally have a reason to delete my Windows partition.

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Weird Unity crash every time I open HSR

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 21. Februar 2026 - 22:08

I used PortProton (which, if I'm not wrong, uses wine) to install the Hoyolive launcher

The launcher itself works well but the game just can't open

I would try to find myself a way to fix this but the error code is not pretty direct with what is implying so I don't even know what is not working

Has anyone had the same problem before? How did you fix it?

I haven't tried opening the game exe file directly with portproton or downloading the game via Epic Games (which I also use PortProton for) but in my mind it shouldn't work BCS I would need to use the same tool that is causing the problem

HSR and HoyoLive are both logically last version and PortProton is 1.7.5

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