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I feel like I've tried just about everything, but source games just are not functional for me on Linux. First it was performance issues which were fixed by just forcing vulkan, but now I still have no controller input or steam overlay in any source game. Anything not in the source engine works fine, my controller configuration screen in steam is normal and detects everything fine.

Any ideas of what I could be missing?

Edit: I'm on arch BTW, and yes everything is up to date and I'm using the open kernel drivers as recommended for newer Nvidia gpus.

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before restarting

after restarting

The game runs smooth until suddenly it drops and keeps like what you have seen after rebooting the game runs as normal this problem i face with ets 2 and cod ww2 and those the are the all games that i play

so the solution is to use the normal proprietary drivers. weird NVIDIA drivers or i understand open kernel NVIDIA driver wrong because it was working normally with fedora 41 and Linux mint

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Hey guys, I am gonna start using my first linux distro by duel booting along with windows just for now. I have an all amd gaming laptop so I just assumed something like bezzite might be best in my case as i am thinking of getting a tv and currently repairing/modding a controller, for console like gaming, I was asking chatgpt and it kept saying that Nobara will still have the best performance for my amd setup so now i am just confused?

And its gonna be mainly for gaming but i would like to do simple pc task like office apps and web browsing and basic video editing

Can anyone help me out here thanksss.

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See previous post about it (probably most people who have it missed it). Basically mapping of "home" button in Wine with xinput looks bugged.

I reported this bug to Wine, but wanted to confirm it's not just me with this issue.

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Hi everyone,

I recently got a 9060 XT and, while it’s working fine, I’m not having the best experience with performance while in home streaming.

I’m using Tumbleweed and I came from a Nvidia 1660 Super so I had to install some things to make sure I was using hardware encoding and HVEC but, now that it’s working, the performance while playing isn’t great. I lose around 10 to 15 FPS and the stream seems to be even below that frame rate. With my 1660 Super the performance while streaming was pretty much the same.

Is this because of how new the card is and some improvements can be expected? I’m using Mesa 25.0 btw

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Am dual booting hyprland & windows and steam is refusing to add the library from windows ,is it possible or not?

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It seems that Monster Hunter Wilds hates linux players and won't let them play online with crossplay enabled. The issue is that turning off crossplay gets you near 0 lobbies when searching or when you SOS to have people join.

Is there any way to circumvent this? I haven't ran into another game that has this issue (then again I haven't tried very many online games on Linux so far). This also isn't a home network issue as it's always worked for 100 hours on Win11.

Setup Details

• CachyOS 6.15.1-5-cachyos (64-bit)
• proton-cachyos Version: 1:10.0.20250605-1

Troubleshooting steps

• Used VPN
• Turned off firewall (in KDE)
• Other proton versions (Experimental/GE)

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I have a few-years-old Acer Predator PH315-53, with an integrated GPU (Intel UHD Graphics) and a dedicated GPU (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile). I installed Bazzite on it a few days ago to give Linux gaming a chance. I soon noticed that my external screen is blank with just my cursor showing and having the monitor plugged in also causes crazy input lag. Both in Gnome and KDE versions. Also my games didn't seem to use my dedicated GPU.

I decided to switch to NixOS, since I've had it on my laptop for a month or two, and it gives me more room to tinker with different settings. I created my gaming configuration based on Vimjoyer's NixOS gaming video and checking NixOS wiki's Nvidia page. Now I have the exactly same problems as on Bazzite. I've used three long days reading through threads about similar issues, but not a single one has worked.

Here are my gaming-specific configurations with some failed solutions commented out. My main configuration is very close to the default NixOS 25.05 configuration.

hardware.graphics = { enable = true; enable32Bit = true; }; services.xserver.videoDrivers = ["nvidia"]; # Failed fixes for external screen being blank # boot.kernelParams = ["nvidia-drm.modeset=1"]; # boot.kernelParams = ["i915.force_probe=46a6"]; # boot.extraModprobeConfig = '' # options bbswitch load_state=-1 unload_state=1 nvidia-drm # ''; # boot.kernelParams = ["module_blacklist=i915"]; # boot.extraModulePackages = [config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidia_x11]; # boot.initrd.kernelModules = ["nvidia" "nvidia-drm" "nvidia-modeset"]; # boot = { # initrd.kernelModules = ["nvidia" "i915" "nvidia_modeset" "nvidia_uvm" "nvidia_drm"]; # # extraModulePackages = [ config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidia_x11 ]; # kernelParams = ["nvidia-drm.fbdev=1"]; # }; # services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.wayland = false; hardware.nvidia = { package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.latest; open = true; modesetting.enable = true; prime = { sync.enable = true; intelBusId = "PCI:0:2:0"; # Integrated GPU nvidiaBusId = "PCI:1:0:0"; # Dedicated GPU }; nvidiaSettings = true; powerManagement = { enable = false; finegrained = false; }; # nvidiaPersistenced = true; # forceFullCompositionPipeline = true; };

I think that the drivers are at least in use, since nvidia-smi prints out correctly (I think) (formatting was weird so here is a screenshot):

Processing img lgxa37xdqy5f1...

Both GPUs are also shown with fastfetch and even with mangohud in-game, but the dedicated GPU is always at 0%.

Some people are saying that Wayland might be the problem, but I can't even run the Gnome on Xorg –option in the login menu, since it just reloads the login page after logging in. Might be that it can't detect the GPU's. Xrandr shows no providers (if that means anything as I'm using wayland):

➜ ~ xrandr --listproviders Providers: number : 0

Disabling wayland or the integrated in the config just shows a black screen after boot. In my BIOS' advanced options, it doesn't show the option to just use the dedicated GPU, even if I press the magic ctrl+s shortcut for hidden options. I guess that's just in PredatorSense nowdays, which is just for Windows.

Hoping to get Helldivers 2 to work some day, but it crashes at startup, saying my graphics card doesn't support directx 12. I get it to start with these launch options I got from protondb reviews, but I get like 8 fps and it shows just the Intel GPU in the settings.

DXVK_CONFIG="d3d11.maxFeatureLevel = 12_1" mangohud %command% --use-d3d11 -force-vulkan –USEALLAVAILABLECORES

I have a feeling that the blank external monitor and GPU missing in games stem from the same problem. Been looking at this issue for so long that I could forget to mention something. Might add those later as edits. Any help would be very much appreciated, since I don't know what to do anymore. Thanks for reading!

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I’m trying to build myself a little custom tool that will help me work through my backlog. The idea is this python script. Will run once a week and pick three random games that are locally installed either through steam directly or lutirs or steam rom manager.

It then starts a one week countdown before three new games are selected. The idea is to sort of simulate a video rental experience.

I’d like to have the script somehow tag these games into their own collection. That way I could use tab master to put it front and center when I open steam.

I’m able to parse my srm library and installed steam games, pull artwork, etc no problem. But when it comes to importing them into steam as a collection, no dice.

I know SRM can do this when I import new roms. There’s a setting in the parser to tag each game and steam will create collections based on those tags. Does anyone know how that works? when I’ve tried to directly edit the files in steam that seem associated with this, they are overwritten the next time I open the app and no custom collections are created.

Also, let me know if this is the wrong place to be posting this . Thanks!

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Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone here has managed to get Valorant running on Linux. I know Riot uses Vanguard, which has a kernel-level anti cheat, and that’s usually a dealbreaker for Linux.

Is there any way around it? Or has anyone heard about future support?

I’d love to eventually ditch Windows completely, but Valorant is one of the only things holding me back. Any insight or personal experience would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

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Hey everyone, just wanted to ask for some advice — I’m looking for a Linux distro that’s good for gaming, mainly stuff like Valorant (if that’s even possible on Linux?).

I’ve got Linux Mint on my laptop, which I use occasionally, but I’m not super deep into the World of Linux (willing to Learn). Now I’m thinking about setting something up on my gaming PC, because Windows is getting worse every minute...but I’m not sure which distro to go for.

Looking for something that’s stable, not too buggy, and works well with gaming stuff in general. I’m open to any suggestions

Thanks in advance

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Battlenet is being stubborn today, throwing various errors without opening. I’m just wondering if it’s my system playing up, or if they’ve updated something it’s not just me.

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Sorry if this is a newby or stupid question but I'm new to Linux. I'm using Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon 6.4.8. I followed the build instructions on the github and was able to get all the files on my system, but I'm not sure what to do next or, if I am done, I am not sure how to open it. Could anyone help?

Thanks. And let me know if any other info is needed.

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Like Logitech, Corsair, etc. I'm tired of dealing with work arounds.

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A celebration of upcoming games big and small and everything in between. Steam Next Fest for June 2025 is now live.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Playing Lies of P: Overture on CachyOS using the Minisforum AI X1 Pro (Ryzen 9 HX 370 + Radeon 890M).

🔹 1080p
🔹 FSR: Quality, Medium preset, High textures
🔹 FPS capped at 60 for stable frame pacing
🔹 Recorded via GPU Screen Recorder (AV1)

Honestly, it runs fine — nothing major to report. Locked 60FPS feels smooth and consistent on this hardware. Really nice to see these games working well on Linux and integrated graphics.

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i Hate Bedrock Edition & Would Rather Play an Outdated Version of Java or Legacy Console Edition than the Newest Buggy Release of Bedrock, so i Consider no Bedrock Edition on Linux a Good thing

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