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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Hello, I wanted to ask for distro recommendations for my APU. I don't have dedicated graphics yet and I didn't see any drivers for Linux on AMD so I had doubts about whether it was going to work well or not. Thank you

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I've been trying out an install of Bazzite with the aim of switching off of Windows. I have 2 monitors and run into an issue with StarCraft 2 where the mouse wont stay confined to the game window.

I have two monitors my main one is an ultrawide running full-screen at 3440x1440. I have to run the game at 2560x1440 since Blizzard doesn't let you run StarCraft at 21:9. The game runs fine however the cursor will happily move through the black bars either side of the game and also onto my other screen.

I've tried setting the confine cursor option in game from smart to on. Battle.net is running through the heroic launcher so I installed the flatpack of Gamescope and enabled force grab cursor but that didn't work either, Tried using the steam runtime option in heroic and even installing it via steam itself just to see if it made any difference

In case its relevant I've tried it with Ge-Proton Latest, GE-Proton10-10 and Proton Experimental.

I know I could unplug the second display but I like having things on my second monitor while I'm gaming.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

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Has anyone else experienced this issue on CarX Street PC?”

I keep getting this error message:
“Unable to connect to game servers. Please try again later.”

I’m running version 1.7.2 and can’t seem to connect no matter what I try. Has anyone else dealt with this before, and do you have any tips or fixes for it?

it stops loading at 28% and goes on to this page..

I’ve already tried restarting the game and my PC, as well as checking my internet connection, but no luck so far.

Any help would be appreciated!

https://preview.redd.it/y9ki3zhu2ogf1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e97c412599a77e8e7c42a0cbe12e83066f2e8eed

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Ok clickbaity title. But it's true that games are crashing when trying to start them from bpm. Let me explain..

I found bpm was laggy, and the solution to laggy bpm is hardware acceleration.

Hardware acceleration causes steam(and bpm) to render as a completely black screen. The solution to this was to run bpm in gamescope.

Running a game in a nested gamescope session causes all sorts of bugs, broken wayland pipeline for one.

Been trying all sorts of commands for the games gl "break out" of the bpm gamescope session to no avail.

Games run fine when started "normally". This only happens when I run them through gamescoped bpm (which is the only way to get it lagfree).

I run x11, latest nvidia drivers, 2080ti.

So, do I have to choose between laggy bpm or working games? Or has anyone that sees this solved a similar problem?

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characters are all invisible, tried to unnistal, restart, disable and able proton and nothing.

using pop os

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