Has anyone encountered an issue with Steam where the window just blinks and never shows up for real?
My Ubuntu install has gone through multiple LTS releases already. I can't remember when it last worked but Steam did work initially. I don't really use it for gaming since I mainly game on Windows 11. But since gaming on Linux has been better these days,

I just wanted to try gaming on my Ubuntu install however this issue blocks me from doing so. I already tried reinstalling Steam and it's still the same. Perhaps there are other folders or files I should delete? Or maybe my system is just borked because of the many major upgrades? 😅

I still plan to install a gaming distro on another SSD but perhaps I can also try on my existing system until I do so.

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I have amd laptop with Ryzen 6600H, I have tried windows and linux, on windows it doesn't show any error but i think undervolting isn't working. I am trying to lower the temps so the laptop make less noise with same performance.

On Linux I used ryzenadj, which is a cli for controlling the processor

╰─❯ sudo ryzenadj --set-coall=-50 detected compatible ryzen_smu kernel module set_coall is rejected by SMU

This is what i get when i try to set curve optimizer on linux, and on windows I used Universal-x86-Tuning-Utility but when i tested the voltage it didn't took any effect as far i can see.

What I am doing wrong? And do i have to enable it in bios? or is there setting to set optimizer in bios, I checked advanced setting wasn't able to find any

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Only non-RTX original game counts. To get best performance, make sure to run the native version without Proton with -vulkan launch option.

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Currently using Arch Hyprland with fcitx5. Most programs work fine, but I can't type in some native games using SDL. For example in CS2, I can't open steam overlay and type in chat, but I can move fine (wasd) in game.

Also, if I try to open steam overlay with other method (trying to open other users steam profile), it doesn't open overlay but opens it directly on the steam client.

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I dual-booted my PC just to play this game. I’m a Battlefield 4 guy, and since this was marketed as the “spiritual successor” to BF3/BF4, I’ve been comparing everything to BF4 from the moment I loaded in.

From my experience, it feels like they’ve built this game to chase launch hype by making it play more like Call of Duty, hoping to draw in CoD YouTubers. The problem is those creators — and their audiences — have no reason to stick around. CoD already does CoD better, and this approach risks the same post-launch collapse we’ve seen with every Battlefield after 4.

Compared to BF4, a lot of the core Battlefield identity is gone. Tanks don’t feel like tanks anymore, they do little damage, and aren't bulky or commanding. Snipers have shifted from long-range, methodical overwatch to close-range quickscoping. Vehicles like the Little Bird, once a skill-based map-control tool when crewed properly, can now be dropped at any height by a single guy with a Stinger (in BF4, near ground level certain weapons couldn't lock) and the maps just aren't built for a copter to have cover/air to air combat, making helicopters little more than disposable transports or kamikaze runs.

Visually BF6 is better but that detail often works against gameplay. It creates visual clutter, making it harder to spot enemies. Destruction is high, but inconsistent and not modular. Sometimes a rocket barely scratches a wall then a few rockets instantly level a building with no gradual degradation like we had in BF4.

The minimap is stuck in the bottom-left, forcing you to take your eyes off the action to check it. Aim assist is in the game, Classes aren’t locked - anyone can use any weapon - which, in my opinion, weakens the role-based gameplay that gave Battlefield depth. Weapon rates of fire are generally high across the board, supposedly for “realism,” but it just makes them feel less weighty and satisfying. Explosives are weak, one of the ways they're useful in BF4 is clearing impassable corners/creating cover but you can just tank them (weird since TTK for guns is so high)

Lastly coordination, with how quick it is, and how it's pretty much the same playstyle regardless of class I can't really see how it would make a tangible difference. That’s been my experience so far BF6 is a prettier, flashier game that’s stripped out much of the tactical depth, vehicle impact, and class identity that made Battlefield worth playing long after launch.

On the community side, The BF6 subreddit is 95% of the posts are people complaining about the constructive feedback (defending a game that doesn't need to be defended because it is even a purchase yet.) and maybe 5% is actual feedback that isn't downvoted to oblivion.

So no Dual-booting for it is not worth it unless you like CoD which is fine but then why not just wait for the next CoD

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Laptop as an intel arc gpu but when I try to run some games it crashes like space marine 2. But I have no issues in my steam deck. Want other os do you recommend?

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Linux GPU Control Application LACT: v0.8.1 released https://playingtux.com/articles/linux-gpu-control-application-lact-v081-released?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

As the title suggests, everytime i try to run Silent Hill 2 remake on bazzite, the screen only shows a black screen with the game's cursor. Eventually I'll hear the menu sounds and ice even managed to get in game. But for some reason I cant seem to find a solution to the black screen problem. Tried the -dx11 command line method through steam's properties, tried -windowed to get it running in windowed mode but I still run into the same problems. Anybody have a solution to this? This is the 2nd linux distro I've tried to run this game on and the results are the same. Any help is fine. Thank you!

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Ok so since windows 10 support is ending soon, i have been considering just switching over to linux for my home server pc. currently i use an intel 6700 in an old dell optiplex to host my game servers and emby media server. its honestly been great and still has been holding up for what i need it for, but it dont support windows 11 of course. I also am planning on upgrading it with some left over parts from my last gaming build (ryzen 3600+mobo, 64gb ram and rx6600) but im just waiting to grab a new psu and a good cpu cooler, maybe a new case as well as opposed to using the old one i have laying around.

Anyway, due to a recent move and things being tighter then expected, im not gonna be spending any money on extra parts for a while, potentially after windows 10 support ends. So, all this has gotten me thinking again about just throwing linux on it.

HOWEVER, my biggest hesitation is compatibility now and potentially in the future with dedicated server tools. I already know that ACC has no linux support, and the devs have already confirmed that it will never have it because something with their netcode wont allow it (their excuse not mine), and i currently run 3 different servers for that game. Apparently wine also isnt an option. I also see that games like conan exiles also dont support linux for their servers.

Now i dont play conan or any games from that studio, but that did really get me thinking, if i did switch and could get past losing my ACC servers, what else would i be losing now and in the future? I have heard that ams2 also dont support linux, or that its dodgy at best. this also makes me wonder if AC Evo will also not support running servers on linux as well, and who knows howl ong thats going to be before we find out. Ive tried looking for some kind of list, and everywhere i found only lists a couple dozen games max.

i also run or have previously a 7 days server, valheim, enshrouded, insurgency sandstorm, l4d, killing floor etc. so im kind of all over as far as genres. so its not as simple as looking for what i have now because who knows what i might end up with in the future. beamng? RedM? arma reforger? some games that aint out yet? so, for anyone who does run servers on linux, have you ran into anything you cant run? is there far more support for windows or is there just a couple outliers that are the exceptions?

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I've been gaming on Fedora. When playing games using my controller it will inevitably cut out ~10-30 minutes in. I've narrowed down this issue to one of two winedevice.exe processes getting killed or dying. I have a proton log but I don't know how to usefully read it, and when I looked I didn't see anything about winedevice getting killed or crashing. I would send the log if it wasn't ~150 megabytes. Any issues I've been able to find people having with this is some kind of memory leak continuing on after the end of the game and refusing to get killed, not it getting killed too easily. I also can't find information on how to monitor what kills a given process. Any ideas?

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The launcher originally was covered in black bars and we got it fixed but now launching the game does this. Any tips?

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Ok, I see a LOT of comments complaining about secure boot requirements and how it’s a plan by Microsoft to prevent booting other OSes. That’s not what secure boot it, and I think a lot of let advanced users don’t even know what it does besides that you have to turn it off to use linux, so here’s some explanation and corrections.

First of all, you don’t have to turn off secure boot to use Linux, that was sorta true for a while but it’s not today. Second of all, Microsoft did not create secure boot to lock out Linux users, they did it to create a chain of trust from system boot to OS initialization. If the OS can’t trust the UEFI to be secure then its security is completely compromised. Because the only goal is preventing malware from sneaking in, UEFI systems allow you to trust any software you want, they just happen to only ship with Microsoft keys pre-installed. You as the user can enroll your own MOK and sign whatever you want, including your Linux kernel images. Or you can use a shim, which is a layer in front of your boot loader signed by Microsoft keys to load GRUB or whatever. No MS is not trying to kill Linux, they actively sign big Linux distros that they trust not to distribute malware using their keys.

If you have full disk encryption set up you should absolutely have Secure Boot enabled and a UEFI password set, especially if you use TPM LUKS.

Don’t trust me? How about the Debian wiki:

UEFI Secure Boot is not an attempt by Microsoft to lock Linux out of the PC market here; Secure Boot is a security measure to protect against malware during early system boot. Microsoft act as a Certification Authority (CA) for Secure Boot, and they will sign programs on behalf of other trusted organisations so that their programs will also run. There are certain identification requirements that organisations have to meet here, and code has to be audited for safety. But these are not too difficult to achieve. Secure Boot is also not meant to lock users out of controlling their own systems. Users can enroll extra keys into the system, allowing them to sign programs for their own systems. Many Secure Boot-enabled systems also allow users to remove the platform-provided keys altogether, forcing the firmware to only trust user-signed binaries.

https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#What_is_UEFI_Secure_Boot_NOT.3F

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I've been using nvidia-open (4060 120w laptop) for gaming and daily work for 1.5 months and I haven't felt the slightest difference between it and the proprietary one. What do you guys think?

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Distro is Nobara KDE. I'm using the HDMI port because monitor is a TV, it's not a cable problem because the iGPU can output 4K 120Hz with the same cable. Any ideas?

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I'm on Fedora Workstation 42, and have installed most of my gaming stuff via flatpaks. I'm not tech savvy in any way, but I can search for information online. I believe everything was installed correctly, and I keep the entire system updated. I can run the few games I'm interested in, most of them are native Linux, but I've been having issues with Gamescope, MangoHUD and possibly Game mode, which would be quite helpful since my system isn't gamer, but I know it's able to squeeze some performance to play old and indie games.

The issue with Gamescope might be related to the Geforce 940M. Many issues are reported when trying to use the microcompositor with Nvidia GPUs, although it's supposedly much better now. I simply can't make it work either on Wayland or x11. Both games I tried (The Long Dark and Northgard) won't even launch or totally ignore the launch commands.

MangoHUD works nicely with The Long Dark, so I suppose it's a problem with the other game, Northgard, which is unfornate since this games lacks a frame limiter, which I really need. Still I should say I'm not sure if I missed something setting up MangoHUD, maybe there is a setting or something to make it work with Northgard.

And I suspect Game Mode doesn't work at all. Here's the terminal log:

gamemodeauto:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/tomaz/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

gamemodeauto:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/tomaz/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/tomaz/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Adding process 2568 for gameID 305620

Adding process 2569 for gameID 305620

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

Adding process 2667 for gameID 305620

pid 2671 != 2667, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

pid 2676 != 2667, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

The game still runs nevertheless. I don't know if it's related, but I have Steam Overlay disabled.

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Hello everyone, I am just someone who just wants to play games and enjoy Linux Mint to the fullest. Right now I am having issues setting up the SA Mod Manager for SA2. I have already set up PkR's SADX Mod Installer for Sonic Adventure 1 and had no issues with it, and everything worked beautifully minus audio cracking when playing the audio on my monitor, but it's not a big deal, and I wear headphones to fix the issue. However, whenever I tried to install the SA Mod Manager for SA2, I had no luck. I saw this guide (https://gamebanana.com/tuts/18820) that's fairly recent, thinking I can be able to fix the issue, but whenever I replicated everything in the guide, to my surprise, it didn't work because whenever I tried to run Sonic Adventure 2 on Steam, it immediately closes right after without the mod manager window ever popping up, and I have no idea what the problem could be. If anyone can help solve my issue, it would be much appreciated.

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as the title says i was playing native ets2 it was eating almost all the 8 vram on my gpu but decided to check protonDB and found out that it ran better with proton and it really did now it just sits at 4gb so as reminder don't forget to check protonDB it is really an amazing database

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Currently playing through kingdom hearts final mix for the first time and LOVING it.

But after closing and opening the game last night, 2 black bars have appeared above and below the screen that I just can’t get rid of.

I’ve tried changing the resolution in the game, changing the resolution for the steam deck and changing the individual game preference resolution on steam os.

I've also tried swapping between windowed mode, full screen mode and borderless full screen. Sometimes it seems to work for a little bit but then whenever I close the game goes back to the bars and after about 30 minutes of fiddling with these settings it might go back to no bars???

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated! The small black bars make a big difference on the 7” screen.

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