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I've been working on a small nostalgia project and decided to rebuild one of my old favorite CS 1.6 Zombie Mod servers from the mid-2000s — the kind many of us grew up on.

This isn’t the modern type of zombie server with classes, props or RPG-style systems.

I wanted to recreate the panic-style gameplay a lot of us remember from 2006–2009:

•Classic bunnyhop movement — zombies show real skill by chaining jumps, air control and timing to break into survivor camps

•Parachute + air acceleration — experienced zombies can glide, angle and redirect mid-air to reach survivor spots newer players can’t

•Classic knockback behavior — rifles give light push, shotguns deliver strong knockback just like the old servers

•Humans never run out of reserve ammo, but you still have to reload (no endless spray)

•Clean 1–3 weapon menu

•No added soundpacks, no extra visuals, no modern effects — just the oldschool aesthetic with the original Biohazard feel

It’s been a fun “digital archaeology” project — fixing HLDS quirks, compiling old AMXX modules, updating configs, and tuning movement + knockback to feel exactly like the 2006–2009 ZM era.

If anyone played classic zombie servers back then, this might bring back memories.

I'm not sure if posting server details is allowed, so feel free to DM me if you want more info.

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KDE is the better choice for gaming

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Is anyone else having this issue or it just me? When I load up certain games like no man's sky or helldivers 2 for example, it either runs for 5 minutes then crashes, or it crashes the moment I turn on instant replay.

I'm using the overlay mode as well by the way not the default mode.

ASUS ROG Strix G18 G814PH-ES94 Linux Mint (Latest as of March 27 2026)

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My monitor has HDR10, but for some reason, Tetris Effect Connected doesn't seem to detect it at all, even when I have HDR enabled in the KDE display settings.

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I recently switched to a vanilla Arch install over Cachy os as i just prefer to have it as minimal as possible, but installed CachyOS kernel and its repositories. Something i notice is that setting "game-performance" does not work now, games wont launch with it. Do i need to do something else? Different command now? Figured using Cachys kernel ect would bring the same functions. I see a command called gamemoderun, does this do the same thing? I'm seeing that game-performance uses power-profiles-daemon but this isn't even maintained anymore? I just want the solution to my gaming to ensure CPU and everything is the same as before on Official Cachy. Or does this even matter?

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I have a pop_os install that I play most of my games on. It usually works great, but RE9 seems to have some issues. The game always crashes on the title screen with any proton version other than 9.0-4. I'm told the likely culprit is the fact that pop_os is still not officially on the Nvidia 590+ branch of drivers due to System 76 having to rework it a bit before moving to it officially. That's fine for playing the vanilla game, but I'd also like to try out some of the mods I've seen, which don't seem to work with proton 9.0-4. Is there a way I can update pop_os to a newer Nvidia driver that would work with these, or how long would I have to wait for the distro to officially move to 590+?

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Their drivers for hybrid laptops are SO incredibly good, I definitely didn't buy this laptop because it worked really good with dynamic power management a few years ago and new drivers and updates didn't completely break everything :))))))))). This link is propaganda don't believe any of what it says

I can't WAIT to have 3 FPS with DLSS 5 making every frame of my favorite games look like sora slop.

Don't do NVIDIA kids

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Made the switch to manjaro a few days ago, reformatted my games drive to ext4, installed all my games and initially deadlock was working but was downright unplayable, i was averaging 30s with insane dips. After not changing any settings, i tried opening up the game again and it just wouldn't open, tried reinstalling, using a different proton version etc. It wouldn't open.

So I installed CachyOS instead, followed the Game setup guide and it still didn't open, I've tried a lot of things atp, I even tried using ProtonGE but that didn't change anything. I experimented with having shader pre-caching on and off and that didn't change anything.

I thought it was a memory issue because of the lines:

1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 80000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 40000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 20000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 10000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 08000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 04000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 02000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 01000000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 00800000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 00400000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 00200000 1154.840:0130:0134:err:virtual:allocate_virtual_memory out of memory for allocation, base (nil) size 00100000

In the crash log but vm.max_map_count is set to 1048576 in /etc/systemctl.conf & in the process of installing ProtonGE, I confirmed I had all of my drivers 32-bit libraries installed.

I don't know what to do especially since everyone on Deadlock's ProtonDB seems to have the game run perfectly fine out of the box, it's rating went up from Gold to Platinum while I was still troubleshooting this issue, any help would be appreciated.

Laptop Specs

Proton Crash Logs - https://paste.cachyos.org/p/082ac80.log
Nvidia Driver Version - 580.142
Game Launch Commands - PROTON_LOG=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 LD_PRELOAD="" game-performance prime-run %command

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New to Linux Mint kinda guy. Any advice is appreciated. Every time the Pc starts up I have to manually select the drive with all the games downloaded. It also redownloads the Vulkan shaders every time as well. It never did this on Windows

Have you had a similar experience and what solution did you use?

Thank you 🙏

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So I know steam uses steaminput to emulate DS4's inputs to xinputs. I wonder if there is a way to replicate that for wine games. Any tweak or tips?

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Hello guys like the images shows my games texture look like that low quality but like in the image of my setting in set to ultra RDR2 is just an example for all my games did I do something wrong

I have Rx 6650xt

monitor 180hz

Ryzen 5 7500f

distro arch

using proton GE 10-34

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So I have a windows 11 computer and am looking into moving to linux after getting some experience with steamos,

However I don’t know the first thing about Linux when it comes to actually swapping over. Im thinking if I either build my own system ill make the swap

Im not exactly good with computers but i dont wanna just go to a “windows” version of Linux itself do you guys have any recommendations or any suggestions of say videos i could look into to learn more about this kind of thing. It wont be for some time but i wanna be ready all the same.

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I keep getting this error even after uninstalling and reinstalling both games

i have tried a lot of proton versions; hotfix, experimental and GE [this is the steam version by the way just in case]

Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance

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TLDR:

New to Linux. Switched from Kubuntu 25.10 → 24.04 to try to fix gaming performance, but the issue persists. Games (Death Stranding & Overwatch, shown in video) have inconsistent performance with low GPU usage. It even seems like a CPU bottleneck (RTX 5070 Ti + Ryzen 7 9800X3D), which shouldn’t happen—especially since only the game is running. Using Proton Experimental, GameMode, and latest proprietary drivers. Minecraft runs perfectly.

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Just a heads up—I’m relatively new to Linux. I was previously running Kubuntu 25.10 with Plasma 6, but I recently switched to Kubuntu 24.04 LTS with Plasma 5 to see if it would improve my gaming performance.

Unfortunately, I don’t think the OS version was the issue. My performance is inconsistent: sometimes games run flawlessly, but other times my GPU utilization drops significantly, leading to poor performance. I’m using Proton Experimental, GameMode, and the latest proprietary drivers, so I’m not sure what’s causing the problem.

It also seems like my CPU might be bottlenecking my GPU, which doesn’t make much sense given my setup (RTX 5070 Ti and Ryzen 7 9800X3D), especially since the game is the only thing running. That’s what makes this behavior even more confusing.

What’s odd is that the issue comes and goes, but overall it’s noticeable enough to impact gameplay. I know my system should be delivering much smoother performance.

The video I’m showing in the post is from Death Stranding and Overwatch.

As a side note, Minecraft runs perfectly without any issues.

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I want to do a project to try and find a solution to bypass, to remove the barrier permanently, and I'm going to propose this solution to Valve so they can develop it further and put it in Steam OS. To make games like Battlefield 6 and Fortnite work on Steam OS, can you give me some ideas? Can you help me do this?

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For example: I use Fedora not Rawhide,not branched,Stable. I like this choice,because this distro have stability and new technologies. For me its good because I'm wanted more stable distro than Arch,which I'm prefered. And copr with RPM Fusion also good.

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Hello. So, I'm 99% sure that what I want to do isn't going to be possible, but asking here just in case!

Running cachyos (everything updated) on an old MacBook Air 7,2 with an Intel HD 6000 GPU and, for an old, underpowered laptop, it does a reasonable job playing some old games using Lutris.

For the most part I'm usinglutris-GE-Proton8-26-x86_64 as my wine runner, and I downgrade DXVK to 1.10.3 as this graphics chip doesn't support Vulkan 1.3. To get the best performance I drop the resolution down to 1280x800 and turn on FSR.

I recently tried an OpenGL game with proton-cachyos as the runner, DXVK disabled, and PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 set, and the performance increase was incredible. But, as far as I can see, I can only ever do this with OpenGL games, not DirectX games, because there's no option with proton-cachyos to downgrade the DXVK version to 1.10.3.

I tried manually copying over the DXVK 1.10.3 dlls into my wine prefix and using DLL overrides to try and get proton-cachyos to use them, but no dice. I also tried spoofing proton-cachyos by setting MESA_VK_VERSION_OVERRIDE=1.3 - still no dice. In both cases I get

err: Failed to initialize DXVK. System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Video driver not supported at Xalia.Sdl.WindowingSystem.Create () [0x0003e] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 at Xalia.Sdl.WindowingSystem.get_Instance () [0x00007] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 at Xalia.Ui.UiMain..ctor () [0x00027] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 at Xalia.MainClass.Init (Xalia.Gudl.GudlStatement[] config) [0x0001b] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0

which implies to me that a later version of DXVK is being used.

Is there any way to get Wine 11 with ntsync and DXVK 1.10.3 to play nice?

Thanks.

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