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Steam won't launch

vor 1 Stunde 6 Minuten

So I just reinstalled arch and when I went to launch steam it would do nothing so I tried to launch it through the command line and it said the error was that it couldn't locate the nouveau drivers i have the proprietary nvidia drivers 570 installed and have a 3060 if that helps at all

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Kategorien: Other News about gaming on Linux

Opinions on a video about steam's shader precaching i've found

vor 1 Stunde 11 Minuten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ffYldeJaE

I'm fairly new to linux, I've stumbled upon this video which essentially says to add a file called "steam_dev.cfg" in the "/local/share/Steam" folder that allows to select more cores to dedicate to shader precaching and processing so it can be sped up. Question is, is it still useful? Or should I not do it?

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Can't run steam proton games without gamescope

vor 1 Stunde 32 Minuten

Hey. It's been 2-3 years suffering on mac before I got a desktop and went back to linux.
Ran a fresh install, did some tweaks.. and at one point i've ran into a strange situation.

Namely I can't run games.. without gamescope..
Now gamescope is nice when i need hdr etc.. but given i have to setup res for it every time it's quite annoying to use.

Whenever i launch a game with gamescope it works, but when i just want to launch it outside it crashes immedietely.

It must be a recent change as game I've ran before normally goes into even a weirder situation. It launches, and stays launched, but it doesn't show up on my desktop and can't do anything with it.

yesterday I've been setting up steam to launch as from sddm in big picture and gamescope, so i'm suspecting it might have something to do but gonna ask if anyone ran into similar situation ?

I'm running arch, rx 7900 xtx, kde wayland.

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Kategorien: Other News about gaming on Linux

How identify disks and install games correctly?

vor 2 Stunden 36 Minuten

I am new to linux i recently tried Nobara but find very difficult to install new programs and chose or find where they are located or change their location in the memories. I have 2 SSD one primary NVME with the OS installed in a partition and i want to use it for games and one secondary completely empty i want to use for files to download (i created a single btfrs partition in it). I also have one old WD Black from the old windows and a removable WD Element. (Their system is nfts i guess) I do not know how to partition them correctly (If needed) or how to renane them with Letters to recognize them easily? Also when i tried to install something with Wine i had "access denied" message and i used sudo to bypass it but it also download and installed something i do not know what(?). Than after that i had to chose trough Wine were to locate the game to install, and there were multiple Letters but nome of them corresponded to the Secondary SSD i wanted to use for file. Also, i had to open those letters to see internal folds to recognize them because i have no other way to identify them.

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Linux to Linux controller pass through, works on menu but not games

vor 4 Stunden 6 Minuten

Hopefully someone in this sub has encountered this same issue. I'm running OpenSuse Leap 15.6 on all my machines. Have managed to get steam remote play to work and stream just fine. However I can only get my game remote to work in the steam menu. Once I open a game it doesn't pass through.

Oddly I can hold the back button, and change the mode to controller/mouse (I guess thats what its called). And then acts like a mouse which obviously can't play a game with but that does pass through. So super confused what the issue is here.

From the steam menu all the buttons map correctly. Not sure if this is a udev rule issue or if each game needs something specifically set?

Also tried sunshine/moonlight but Sunshine is super flaky, kind works but is a hassle to get running everytime. Same issues with pass through there, but absolutely nothing passes through moonlight: mouse, or controller.

Machine specs:

Both machines running OpenSuse Leap 15.6

Host machine Nvidia 4080

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Kategorien: Other News about gaming on Linux

Vulkan vs DX12 on NVDA

vor 4 Stunden 20 Minuten

Alright so I think this is the right forum to ask. Basically, I'm playing Satisfactory with an AMD CPU and an NVIDIA GPU.

On Windows, I'd consistently get around 60-120 FPS using DX12.

On Linux, it's about the same, but more consistent in the 60-90 range, with some latency issues.

I was kind of like, okay, no big deal, it's still playable and I have a Linux setup I enjoy, so it's all a wash.

Then, I noticed that before runtime, the game pre compiles Vulkan shaders. So I tried forcing the game to use Vulkan, and it was an immediate improvement over even what I was getting in windows.

What gives? Does this entirely come from the pre compiling? Or is this just sort of a lucky tweak that happened to work out?

Is it Proton that determines what and whether to pre-compile? Can it be tweaked further to maybe pre compile shaders for DX12?

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Kategorien: Other News about gaming on Linux

Monster Hunter Wilds no longer working after update.

vor 4 Stunden 36 Minuten

Just recently updated Wilds to the TU1 update and now the game won't even start anymore or will hard crash my system upon startup. Tried Proton GE 9-26 and Experimental but to no avail. Is anybody else having this issue?

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Kategorien: Other News about gaming on Linux

Have you faced this 100% reproducible bug?

vor 4 Stunden 47 Minuten

I have a AMD PC, 6600 XT and Ryzen 7. I am using Arch Linux and have installed steam from pacman and use Radeon.

If I boot my PC and immediately start playing any games it works fine. Take CS2 temperature doesn't hit 70 even after hours of playing it. I get good FPS above 200 for CS2.

If I boot my PC and do anything other than game for some time and then start to play any game even Linux native I get 20-25 FPS. and if I restart my PC then problem is resolved until I stop playing and do other stuff.

For me it happens 100% of time.

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Kategorien: Other News about gaming on Linux

Forza Horizon 5 cant log in

vor 5 Stunden 6 Minuten

Says i cant continue without logging into a profile. Ive tried proton cachyos, experimental, and 9. No luck. I swear the last time i installed cachy this was plug and play..

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TDP adjustments necessary on standard Linux Distros on mobile?

vor 5 Stunden 38 Minuten

I just purchased a OneXPlayer X1 Pro with the AMD Ryzen AI HX 370. I’ve noticed that a lot of handhelds for both windows and Linux (including this one) have TDP settings. I was curious if this would be necessary if I was planning to use this mostly like a laptop.

I know Bazzite (the deck version, idk about the desktop version) and steamOS has TDP controls built in.

I figure this stuff isn’t strictly necessary but can it be installed easily on the desktop versions of Bazzite or on another desktop? Will I have a negative experience if I don’t use it? Like getting 30 minutes of battery watching YouTube?

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The last of us 2 on arch linux - Nvidia GPU

vor 7 Stunden 5 Minuten

First of all, these are my PC specs:

Kernel: Linux 6.13.8-arch1-1
Display (RG241Y): 1920x1080 @ 165 Hz in 24" [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.4
WM: KWin (Wayland)
CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400F (12) @ 4.40 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate [Discrete]
Memory: 10.76 GiB / 15.44 GiB (70%)
Swap: 1.17 GiB / 4.00 GiB (29%)
Disk (/): 640.46 GiB / 914.83 GiB (70%) - ext4

I've been able to bypass the launcher in this game by using the following launch option:

SteamDeck=1 %command%

The issue is that the graphics aren't quite what I expected. If I try to increase the graphics settings, the game not only looks worse but also introduces strange, blocky shadows around objects and characters. The only way to get a playable experience is to run the game with Steam Deck graphics settings.

So, while I can technically play the game, it's stuck on Steam Deck settings, even though my PC should be able to run it on very high without any issues.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

some samples for you:

https://preview.redd.it/c1pkwjjrxpse1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=bbee964cac3045038e9e06b76a8ba27e7c1f51ac

https://preview.redd.it/7jlgoi4txpse1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=16e9899231c8b4fe032a7e5e23faed2f3dd11f79

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Steam Flatpak Crashing with Update

vor 7 Stunden 11 Minuten

Hey hey! So I'm having trouble with the steam flatpak the past week where it will appear to launch but the GUI doesn't appear and then it will crash without notification. I ran it in terminal and found it's crashing midway through an update.

Things I've tried:

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

flatpak update

sudo flatpak repair

I've also uninstalled Steam flatpak and reinstalled it but the same issue is happening. I didn't delete all the data along with it, just an uninstall and re-install.

Here's the output when I launch it in terminal:

flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam

INFO:root:https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki

INFO:root:Will set XDG dirs prefix to /home/ryan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam

DEBUG:root:Checking input devices permissions

INFO:root:Overriding TZ to US/Arizona

steam.sh[2]: Running Steam on org.freedesktop.platform 24.08 64-bit

steam.sh[2]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically

setup.sh[48]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!

steam.sh[2]: Using supervisor /home/ryan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor

steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied

CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] Startup - updater built Mar 11 2025 20:39:15

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/ryan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' '-no-cef-sandbox'

04/03 17:46:42 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps

04/03 17:46:42 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1741737356)/tid(103)

Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/ryan/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 100, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] Checking for update on startup

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] Checking for available updates...

[ 0%] Checking for available updates...

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] Manifest download: send request

[2025-04-03 17:46:42] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Manifest download: finished

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Downloaded new manifest: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1743554648, installed version 1741737356, existing pending version 0

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Package file steamui_websrc_all.zip.vz.560b78e8e55a390ace6a833886235ce11933cf5c_25018649 missing or incorrect size

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Package file public_all.zip.vz.b0e6287d527a52c309c0eff6f5f700e5213281f5_23358344 missing or incorrect size

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Package file bins_ubuntu12.zip.vz.2554d60998df174421270ff3fb3a05388599b9c6_38290041 missing or incorrect size

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Package file bins_sdk_ubuntu12.zip.vz.26c767fb4e99e057a38ed67a1bb6cffcc69e914a_22557808 missing or incorrect size

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Package file bins_codecs_ubuntu12.zip.vz.0d0483782f613b72b4ff3b0a287174e4e950935f_12203072 missing or incorrect size

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Package file bins_misc_ubuntu12.zip.vz.c235c545b91760a72089e9546079e11e826e75c1_18754434 missing or incorrect size

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Package file steam_ubuntu12.zip.vz.8c2641a4969eb247deb0d7944a23a92aa056fc01_3306001 missing or incorrect size

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Package file runtime_scout_ubuntu12.zip.7c0f88c830c844ec425ad3af8e1d4efcfea08884 missing or incorrect size

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Package file runtime_sniper_ubuntu12.zip.0f612d8b1000b722815bbe75f2732aa271d562a7 missing or incorrect size

[2025-04-03 17:46:43] Add pending download: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steamui_websrc_all.zip.vz.560b78e8e55a390ace6a833886235ce11933cf5c_25018649