Hi,
I'm having issues with CS2 on my system and was wondering if anyone else has run into this.
I'm using CachyOS with KDE Wayland, and I have a 3440x1440 ultrawide monitor. I’m trying to play CS2 in 4:3 1280x960 stretched. The resolution works fine and the game does get stretched, but as soon as I’m in-game, my mouse stops working. I can see the cursor, but it doesn’t register any clicks. Keyboard input still works. I’m using the NVIDIA drivers that come preinstalled with CachyOS.

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I did a fresh install of Debian 13 (trixie) yesterday and haven't done any manual configuration for the nvidia drivers (aside from Wayland and KDE compatibility configs from the debian wiki). I wasn't having this issue on Debian 12 but I was on X11 previously.

I should note I get the same issue after my system goes to sleep when running dual monitors, or when I reboot with dual monitors. For sure it's a driver issue but I have no clue on how to go about diagnosing or fixing since, again, this issue wasn't happening before.

Any help is appreciated!

Almost forgot to mention, I've also played Fallout 4 and Beat Saber (via ALVR) today and didn't have this graphical issue.

https://reddit.com/link/1mg7maw/video/ndeq4vk8ppgf1/player

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ptitseb's Expedition 33 arm64 64c 3.3GHz with RTX 4060 @Steam Proton box64 debian 1440 resolution default settings

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ptitseb's Path of Exile on arm64 64c 3.3GHz with RTX 4060 @Steam Proton box64 debian 1440 resolution with default settings

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I have a laptop with Kubuntu 25.04, Intel Alder Lake as integrated card and NVIDIA RTX 4060 Mobile as discrete card. I have not played any games on Steam for a couple of months, and a lot of updates have been installed on my system since (I update once a week). Today, I could not launch Steam via desktop icon, it worked only through the terminal. After digging for some time, I have found out that Steam can be launched only using Intel integrated card, and no games are launching on my NVIDIA card also, which has never been an issue before. Non-Steam games work via card just fine (Minecraft, for example).

I'm kinda new to Linux and suspect that I've had an NVIDIA driver update, and Steam could not keep up to it. Do I just downgrade my NVIDIA diver and which one (I have a lot of NVIDIA stuff installed, and I'm confused). Currently, I have 570.169 driver version as nvidia-smi told me, and I have no idea what previous version I've had before. Thanks in advance!

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Hello!

I just migrated from Ubuntu to EndeavorOS. When trying to open any steam game, either from Steam or through Lustris gives me the same issue: Launching for a few seconds, before immediately closing down. No error message or anything.

I have ran Steam through terminal and this is the result when trying to boot Baldurs Gate 3:

Please help!

wine: failed to open "c:\\windows\\system32\\steam.exe": c0000135 Fossilize INFO: Setting autogroup scheduling. chdir "/run/media/bea/BIG DRIVE (WHEY)/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Baldurs Gate 3/bin" ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/bea/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/bea/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/bea/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/bea/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Game Recording - would start recording game 1086940, but recording for this game is disabled Adding process 40886 for gameID 1086940 ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/bea/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Adding process 40887 for gameID 1086940 Adding process 40888 for gameID 1086940 Adding process 40982 for gameID 1086940 fsync: up and running. Adding process 40983 for gameID 1086940 Adding process 40984 for gameID 1086940 Adding process 40985 for gameID 1086940 Adding process 40988 for gameID 1086940 Adding process 40990 for gameID 1086940 wine: failed to open "c:\\windows\\system32\\steam.exe": c0000135 pid 40986 != 40985, skipping destruction (fork without exec?) Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1086940] Removing process 40990 for gameID 1086940 Removing process 40988 for gameID 1086940 Removing process 40985 for gameID 1086940 Removing process 40984 for gameID 1086940 Removing process 40983 for gameID 1086940 Removing process 40982 for gameID 1086940 Removing process 40888 for gameID 1086940 Removing process 40887 for gameID 1086940 Removing process 40886 for gameID 1086940 submitted by /u/Loganpauls_content
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Hi everyone! I just finished creating a Linux distribution quiz that I wanted to share with the community.

The whole idea was to make something my non-tech-savvy friends could use without getting overwhelmed by dozens of distro options they've never heard of. I focused on distributions that actually make sense for people making their first Linux choice.

If anyone wants to help me optimize the logic of the system further, I would be glad to work with you.

Here is the link: whatsyourlinux.org

(DistroChooser.de falls short of its promise to help Linux beginners by using overly technical language and pushing advanced distributions to newcomers IMO)

P.S. Im not a programmer and I use linux and something like this would have helped a lot when i was searching. IF you have any complaints or if you wanna help feel free to dm me

Edit: Also i was inspired to do this by a youtuber called Switch and Click, in her video talking about how she switched to Fedora!

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I am trying to record a wallhacker on cs2, but the cs2 overlay nor the video recorder don't seem to be working on linux.

I am on fedora 42kde

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its sad some companies saying they wouldnt deploy thier games to linux or just ignoring it, fortnite for exmple said by linux being open-source it can have many hackers and they wouldnt make fortnite for linux so dualboot and partitioning are our heroes

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Okay so I always had a hard time with triggering shader downloads. Last time I triggered the shader cache download but I didn't remember what I did, but now I do. When I turned off the in-game overlay for the game that needs shaders, it triggers the shader downloads. I also changed the proton version, but I doubt this helps trigger the shader downloads. The launch options are not relevant to the download. Can anyone else try this to verify this?

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in linux, over 3/4 of users are using the english language on steam

on windows, it's way less than 50%

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Hi everyone,
I'm currently using a laptop running Arch Linux with the GNOME Wayland desktop. Before switching to Linux, I played Euro Truck Simulator on Windows, and it ran smoothly on low settings. However, after moving to Linux and running the game through Wine (since I had issues launching it via Steam), I noticed a significant drop in performance. The frame rate was much lower compared to Windows.

I initially suspected that GNOME might be consuming too many resources, so I looked into various optimization tips. Aside from switching to "Best Performance" mode and closing background apps like the browser or Discord, I didn’t find much improvement. I also considered Wine as the bottleneck but couldn't find a clear solution online.

Interestingly, native Linux games like Hollow Knight run better than on Windows, so the issue seems specific to Wine or Proton.

Does anyone have tips, configurations, or guides to improve gaming performance with Wine or under GNOME Wayland?

Laptop specs:
Intel i5 11th Gen, 16GB RAM, Integrated GPU (Iris Xe)

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Hey everyone,

I'm in a bit of a dilemma and looking for input from anyone running Linux on laptops with hybrid GPUs — especially AMD CPU + NVIDIA dGPU setups.

My specs:

Laptop: Acer Nitro AN515-47

CPU: Ryzen 5 7535HS (Zen 3+, with integrated Radeon 660M)

GPU: RTX 3050 Mobile (4GB GDDR6)

RAM: 16GB DDR5 @ 4800 MHz

Storage: 512GB NVMe PCIe 4.0 + 2TB NVMe PCIe 3.0

External monitor: AOC 27G2S 1080p 165Hz (limited to 144Hz via HDMI)

The problem:

I'm a long-time Linux user and recently tried Bazzite with GNOME. I love Wayland, especially paired with AMD graphics — the smoothness and responsiveness are next level. I already appreciated Wayland on my old RTX 3060 desktop, but there's just something better with the AMD drivers.

But this laptop’s hybrid GPU setup is killing my experience.

What I'm running into:

AAA games like The Last of Us Part II run fine on Windows, but on Linux (using Proton), performance tanks — even with prime-run or nvidia-offload.

VRAM is a real limitation (only 4GB), and Vulkan + Proton seems to eat more memory. VRAM is full, and it starts pulling shared system RAM — performance drops hard.

Fan control is great on Windows via NitroSense. On Linux, it’s a mess of workarounds.

I have no brightness control on the internal display on any distro I tried (Fedora, Bazzite, Arch).

HDMI output is capped at 144Hz even though both the cable and port are supposed to be HDMI 2.1.

Killer Wi-Fi 6E works but is a bit unstable on Linux (random dropouts, needs reconnecting sometimes).

What I really want:

A single Linux install for both gaming and productivity — no dual boot.

To keep using GNOME + Wayland because it just feels amazing with AMD.

Better GPU switching or dGPU control (or at least predictable behavior in games).

To hear from people in similar situations: Has anyone here managed to make a hybrid AMD + RTX 3050 Mobile setup work well for gaming on Linux?

I don’t want to give up, but it’s frustrating to see how great Linux performs for everything except the one thing that still forces me to dual boot.

Any advice, hacks, or even just “don’t bother with that GPU on Linux” would be super helpful.

Thanks in advance!

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Alrighty, I'm trying to get palworld functioning on my partners PC, and he's running an RX 580 in his laptop. It ran the game on windows, so I know it's not the hardware, and I would use the same settings that I have, but I'm running a 3050 with an Intel CPU. His are both amd.

Got it to at least pull up with GE proton 10-10, and AMD_VULKAN_ICD=AMDVLK (it originally gave a dx11 error), but I'm right now trying to get more than 3 fps for everything

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when i connect my controller i need to press the ps button to turn it on

the problem is steam starts big picture mode if i press the ps button

every time i turn my controller on i have to wait for big picture to start, have to go through the tutorial and exit big picture mode

how do i turn it off?

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When booted with proton experimental, there is audio but no video.

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The apps that you always install.

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i just installed Waydroid on my steam deck and wanna try and sideload a apk but i ccacnt get the command for the Container to start, just says:

"sudo waydroid-container-start: command not found"

after i typed

"sudo waydroid-container-start"

someone help me out, idk if its something simple that i need to do, cause idk what im doing with linux really or anything, so please dont judge me lol

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As topic says, changed pc, wanted to try linux on my old one to see how it is. I do apologize for the age old question about the distro, but I'm not trying to find the best/ultimate/flavor of the month distro for gaming, just the one for me :D and I did read a lot regarding this and got me just more confused.

I'm pretty familiar with linux, been using it for years, except never anything with a DE. Most of my experience is on Debian based stuff (ubuntu server mainly, some debian).

PC is AMD cpu and Nvidia GPU.

Some generic preferences (not dealbreakers):

• I like gnome remote desktop (the one in the more recent version were you can just remote in).
• Nvidia drivers lol.
• I'd prefer something that gets the new toys fast, it's not a server I don't care about perfect stability if it means I'm stuck on year old version of things (looking at you Debian) - big distros over smaller ones if the difference isn't that huge
• I really want Windows but that runs on linux, and I don't mean the GUI, I don't mind that being different. I mean that I want to touch the cli as little as possible and use the GUI for all settings, customizations, installations, updates, everything. And no GUIs out of the 90s looking like GIMP if possible :D
• I prefer vaguely Debian based stuff ver Fedora based (but really really vaguely), I just don't want to get bogged in something too burdernsome or different so no Arch, Nox, "go compile Gentoo" stuff.

I was honestly thinking of YOLO-ing Ubuntu Gnome but I thought I'd ask first :D

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