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GTA
Hello, I am on Linux mint, on the protondb site it is indicated that gta5 works but I cannot even install it it says that it is not compatible with anticheat but if I want to install it just for the story it does not want it. Any idea?
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Was Battlefield 4 stuttering issue resolved on Linux?
I am on CachyOS and wondering if the stuttering issue has been resolved?
I see several threads, but some of them are 4 years old, so seeing if Lutris or any other app resolved the stutter in Battlefield 4
Not sure if Steam resolves it now, but I see on Youtube people are saying Steam experiences same issue.
Not sure if there is a fix or certain Proton version that resolves it, as I have no stutter on Windows 11. Before I start downloading the game I would like to know if there is a fix already
Thank you
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Dark Souls III stuttering issue
Hi! So i played Dark Souls III like 3-4 years on Linux without any issue. I have taken a long break from the game, and now i came back to it. Back in the days, i had worse GPU + less RAM, but i never had this issue like now. After 20-30 min playing, the game starts this micro stutter thing, which makes me crazy, because i do a lot of challenge runs, and pvp. I tried Proton-GE with custom launch command like this:
gamemoderun DXVK_ASYNC=1 DXVK_STATE_CACHE=1 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_USE_SECCOMP=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%
gamemoderun PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=0 DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command%
With gamemode or without gamemode, same issue comes back. This happening with normal Steam-Proton without any launch command. I tested other games, non of my other games do this.
The game running fine for a while, then starts doing this, no idea why.
GPU: RX 5600 XT 6GB GDDR6
CPU: Ryzen 3 4100
RAM: 2x16 GB
OS: EndeavourOS
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WINE 10.16 Release Notes "16-bit apps supported in new WoW64 mode."
Does this mean that we will be able to run DOS games in the future? Don't get me wrong, I like DOSBox, but it is always nice to have alternatives where things can be improved.
Maybe one day in the future when WINE runs 99% of all windows programs, then we won't even have a need for DOSBox, it will all be handled by a single consistent program.
That's the hope at any rate.
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Running World of Warcraft on Linux in the Year of our Lord 2025
I had some trouble finding an actual well-articulated guide on how to do this while setting it up on my machine, so here's an attempt at a structured, easy-to-follow guide on the 2 most popular ways to get WoW running on Linux, just in time for Legion Remix.
The Easy WayIf you are lucky, this will work and you will run into zero headache.
- Install BNet via Lutris.
- Follow prompts.
- Log in like normal, install game, etc.
What you may run into is the issue I did, where the BNet login hangs after slowing your entire PC down for 30 seconds and gives a "battle.net.exe is not responding" error. Many guides say to change your compatibility layer in Lutris to a version of Proton. For whatever reason, this did not work for me. So, we get:
The Hard WayAKA "Steam is actually better at what Lutris does somehow". This not only worked for me, but it worked flawlessly.
- Download the BNet installer.
- Add the BNet installer as a non-Steam game.
- Go to "Games" -> "Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library".
- Add the installer.
- Set your compatibility mode to Proton 10.
- Right-click the game in Steam and go to Properties -> Compatibility -> "Force the user of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool".
- Select Proton 10.0-2 (Note: This guide might be dated due to newer Proton releases, probably just pick the newest one, the important thing is we're using Proton and not SLR).
- Run it. Follow the prompts, the usual deal. The UI may appear a little buggy from time to time but it should work fine.
- Install the game as normal.
- NOTE: Once you're done with this step, DO NOT remove the BNet launcher as a non-Steam game. This will delete the BNet files that we've installed and you'll need to start over.
- Locate and make a note of your wow.exe location.
- In case search doesn't work for you, the file structure is usually something like this: /home/(user)/.steam/steamapps/compatdata/(random 8 digit string)/pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft. The easiest way to tell which folder in compatdata it is will be by sorting by Modified and looking at the most recent.
- Return to Steam and follow steps 2 and 3 again, this time using your wow.exe file instead. This includes setting compat mode again.
- Play the game.
A few caveats:
- I haven't experienced any crashes so far, but I've seen reports of them. Treat this like any other game that's definitely not supposed to be running on Linux.
- I haven't tried this, but a cursory Google search tells me that you should be able to can BNet once you're installed, but you'll need to move WoW somewhere else first, otherwise Steam will nuke it when you remove the non-Steam game of the BNet installer.
- Curseforge has an .appimage and a .deb package but I'm not really fucking with it, it's probably safer than it is on Windows but it's not that hard to just download off the website. If you try it and it works, lmk.
- This probably works on Steam Deck, idk. Send me like $800 for a Deck and I'll test it.
- Suck it, Microsoft.
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Secure boot with Linux and Windows for Battlefield 6
So now with the release of Battlefield 6 I spent all the afternoon messing with the BIOS Secure Boot keys and EFIs. I want to share this guide that worked for me:
https://github.com/fumofumoenjoyer/secureboot-grub-arch-artix
I hope is useful for you as well ^
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Please help me with HDR on Arch
RELEVANT INFO:
CPU: R5 3600
GPU RX 7800XT
DRIVERS: Lib32mesa-git, mesa-git (initially tried mesa and lib32mesa)
Proton Versions: ProtonGE 10-17 initially, ProtonGE 10-18 now.
My monitor supports HDR400 and I have successfully used it on Windows 10.
OS: Arch, using KDE Plasma Wayland
Wine Version: 10.16-1
Launch options: --launcher-skip PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1
(p.s: ask and I can provide additional info)
I've been trying to get HDR to work on my Arch install in Cyberpunk and RDR2. The issue I face is that no matter what I seem to do, I always find the HDR option greyed out (cyberpunk) or nonexistent (rdr2). I'm sure it is probably a dumb mistake on my part, but I figured I've wasted enough time so I'd ask people who have actually gotten it working. I have HDR enabled in Plasma settings, the launch options above in steam (no --launcher-skip on rdr2), and I have set steam to force protonge 10-18. If someone could tell me what I'm missing, I would greatly appreciate it. Looking forward to responses/a solution.
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Possibly run Linux on R7 370x?
I love old hardware I’m thinking of making a retro gaming computer with a core 2 quad and a R7 370x, I know it stupid, but I just like old hardware
So is it possible to play games with R7 370x with Linux?
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How should I go about running PC Roblox on a Chromebook (Qualcom Snapdragon CPU) if linux + Grapejuice/Wine don’t work?
things i figured out (im not very good with this stuff so bare with me):
- Installed box64 successfully, but Wine gives me: "/usr/lib/wine/wine: Exec format error." (i don't think thisll work)
Tried to install Wine and Grapejuice, but both hit architecture issues- Grapejuice won’t run at all due to missing x86 support under ARM (i think?)
i don't have a pc i could stream it from (everything in my household is laptops)
all the cloud services i could use either don't have roblox (GeForce) or cost like $16 a month (boosteroid)
I know ARM-based Chromebooks aren’t ideal for this, but has anyone figured out a working solution?-- or if theres any other ways ive missed that you know of that work for this purpose help would be greatly appreciated!!
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Input Macros on Linux for gaming. Any Solutions?
On Windows I use the logitech app to set per game macros on my mouse. It works aside from being bloatware. I haven't found a similar solution under linux. I'm using Plasma + Wayland and I'm aware of Wayland's security constraints and the various workarounds the community has come up with with using uevent to read/inject input.
I'll use Warframe as an example since it has excellent Linux compatibility. The game requires players to press ctrl+space to "bulletjump". This key combination is just so awkward to press repeatedly while holding any of the standard movement keys. So I made a macro using the logitech app where if I press left on my mouse wheel it does a bulletjump. I'm looking to replicate similar functionality under Linux.
The usual culprits I've seen are ydotool, which I can't figure out how to bind to a key (and I don't think it'd work anyways) and input-remapper. I find the input-remapper UI to just be confusing as hell and it doesn't seem to work for what I'm trying to do anyways. It seems to require a specific keycode to "bind" to while the press on the mouse wheel just seems to return an integer according to wev.
Are there any other suggestions out there? Am I just missing something? I'd prefer to keep the binding on the mouse but I suppose absolute worse case I could use the keyboard + input-remapper.
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how to get better fps
yo i wanna ask if how can i get a better fps on lutris playing spider-man miles morales and silent hill f i used proton GE latest but i still got lower fps and fps drop into 10 but when i play on other game like marvel vs capcom infinite and nba2k23 i got 60fps consistent its smooth. it is the game it self or i just need to do something i cant find any solution to my problem thanks
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Really need help guys! I don't know WTH is going on? I installed 2 different Linux and they are all doing the same thing!
So I've been using POP OS for a while, gaming through Lutris, wine and so on. Then all of a sudden, installers run but can't upack the files when the installation starts. I got some errors with a number 11 looked it up nothing. I decided to format and install linux for gaming so I went with Nobara, same thing with Lutris and Bottles. So I installed on a partition Garuda and same thing with both Lutris and Bottles, installer runs but can't unpack? I can't find anything online about this. They both have access to the files location, there is plent of space, everything is up to date? I tried different games, ones I know worked before, the files are correct. Any know what it could be?
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War Thunder crashing on Ground AB
Whenever I try to go into a ground arcade battle as soon as I hit to battle (on the spawn screen, not in the hangar) I get the error messages in the pictures or WT just closes. It works every once in a while, but rarely. How can it be fixed?
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Steam related wine processes write and read like crazy when opening steam until it's closed
Hi, I've noticed that each time I open steam for any reason it executes some programs from wine like d3ddriverquery64.exe and it uses like 140mbs per second on writing to the disk and also a lot of reading, this slows my comptuter and doesn't stop until I close steam, is there a reason this needs to write so aggressively to my disk?
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How friendly is Linux to Pirate games?
Greetings to all, I am from Venezuela and financially I am a bit bad to buy official games and I have to resort to these means to be able to play, I want to change to Linux and I want to know how friendly it is with Pirates games? (Crack, dll, etc...)
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After years of trying, I've finally escaped the grasp of Microsoft with Bazzite.
I tried Linux one more time after having many negative experiences; Now I daily drive it instead of Windows 11
Hey there, a couple of weeks ago my OS viewpoint got flipped. I'd had a few negative experiences with Linux before on other PCs, (gaming performance was shit) and all of them were negative. I thought that all of the hype around Linux was smoke and mirrors..
Until I tried to install Kubuntu on my laptop. I thought to myself, "One more try. If I can't game, I'm done with Linux." And you know what? I installed steam, installed my favourite low performance game to test (People Playground, because it's fun), and hit play. I waited for it to start, and it.. actually performed well! I tried more games, all of which worked. I installed more programs, customized the desktop to my liking, learned a little of terminal, and then I thought..
"Why not just get rid of Windows? I can do everything I'd want on Linux.." And so I did. And now I'm rid of the bloat and resource-hoggery of Windows. Please, if you haven't switched to Linux already, just do it. It'll be the best computer decision you'll ever make. So that's my story about my switch to Linux.
Also, switching to Linux fixed a issue with my computer, as on Windows the touchpad didn't work, while on Kubuntu it works fine!
TL:DR: Had many negative experiences with Linux, tried it one more time on main laptop, everything works, fixed touchpad, switched to Linux forever.
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Mod Orgniser 2
I'm trying to mod New Vegas with MO2 and need to know what the best way to use MO2 is. I've heard of winboat and someone clamed to run it thru steam. Does anyone know the best method to use?
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