So my desktop is running PopOS and I have a media center/VR machine in my living room running windows 10. I figure the easiest way to play windows games on my desktop is to stream from my living room PC. Trying multiple games, they all seem to stream audio fine, And my cursor turns to the in game cursor, but I don't get any video; the screen remains black.

So first, I just want to make sure this should be a valid way to run windows games on my linux machine. 2nd, any troubleshooting ideas would be welcome.

desktop PC: up to date PopOS; 13900k, 7900xtx, 2x32gb ram

living room pc: win 10, 5800x3d, rtx 3080, 2x16gb ram

When I play Runescape through the steam client I always get a black bar beneath the game window, but it goes away whenever I play in full screen. I'm using Proton Experimental, on Linux Mint 21.1 and it seems to persist regardless of Proton selection.

This doesn't occur when I use 3rd party clients.

How do I keep the window size to be only the game size?

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I would like to switch my desktop to Wayland, but I can't figure out how. I would be able to install it, but I can't get the screen sharing feature to work. Has anyone found a way to do it.

how do i fix this? OS: Ubuntu 24.04 Runner: Lutris

Hi guys so I'm trying to find out whats causing this game to sometimes pause mid game and load in assets, I've also noticed that it has pretty severe pop in

I've tried Proton 8, experimental and newest GE, I've also tried it on a EXT4 NVME and BTRFS NVME both gen4 so loading speed should not be a issue

I'm running a 9700X + 7900XT @ 4K with latest EndeavourOS

I have a simple audio task that is required to get audio from my docked Nintendo switch which uses my secondary monitor with HDMI.

The way I set it up in windows was simple I just had to connect the jack audio in the switch to the line in port at the back of my computer. Then all I had to do is go in the line in device properties and enable audio listening.

In Linux, I can't seem to be able to get it to work at all. And I've even tried the alsamix command in the terminal and unmute the line in. Still didn't work.

There seems to be no graphical option to enable "Listen" with the line in option from the gnome control panel in Ubuntu.

Does anyone have a clue how I could make this work at all? I feel like line in audio is a fairly simple task and there doesn't seem to be an intuitive way to enable it in Linux.

Hello all,
after all the years, i am not playing anything which would require windows so i decided to switch and see how it goes. I have couple questions tho.

Right now i installed fedora 41 with i3. X11 does not support HDR however so probably going to switch to hyprland to be on wayland (in upcoming days, need to read the documentation first). Running proprietary nvidia drivers, audio is fixed (missing alsa-firmware package) after a lot of tinkering.
What would you guys think is better, fresh system with hyprland or keep i3 as fall back just in case (wayland may not be the most stable thing still)?

Teamspeak - we use it for larger raids because organization is better. When people talk, system lowers volume of other things tho. I know how to fix this on Windows but here i'm a bit clueless.

Thanks all for your time

Sorry in advance if this post is a waste of time.

Basically, I'm considering switching to Linux as my new OS for my main desktop PC but I'm also looking to improve my gameplay experience.

I don't use my computer for work so I have no issues using a gaming os as my daily driver. However, I admittedly am not as hardcore a gamer as I am a consumer of digital media in general. While I do play something at least everyday or so, most of my time on my pc is either watching YouTube or listening to music.

Should I use a gaming distro or just go with something like Ubuntu or Mint and add plugins as needed?

Also, the games I play are Zenless Zone Zero, Nine Sols, and the occasional StarCraft 2, if that matters.

Hello everyone,

i read that a lot of people had issues with enabled GSP firmware in the past especially when using KDE Plasma on the wayland protocol.

From what i've seen nvidia started to recommend the nvidia open module driver including the nvidia open dkms dependecies starting with 560+. These drivers force the use of GSP firmware since you can not disable them with these drivers. Arch also recommends the installation of these in the official arch wiki.

Can you guys share your experience with nvidia open 565 especially with the KDE desktop environment on the wayland protocol. Do you still encounter any issues. I assume we are good now since nvidia recommends it and even arch wiki tells you to install these.

Kind regards

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I play ubi*oft games on Linux for quite some time, and I never had problem like this. Do someone know fix?

Kernel: 6.11.9 DE: Plasma 6.2.3 WM: kwin CPU: Intel i7-9700 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU Driver: 565.57.01 NVML Version: 12.565.57.01 Session type: Wayland Wine version: 9.20 Dxvk: 2.5

For some reason, Genshin isn't capturing any keyboard input. I have tried to use a X11 session think it would fix it, tried setting up proton, tried the third party launcher with no avail. This is the only game in my library that is behaving like this. Can anyone suggest solutions?

Hey everyone, after a long day at work, I’m looking for some game recommendations to play on Ubuntu. What are your go-to games to relax or unwind? Open to any genre—let me know your favorites!

Note: my laptop is extremely powerful, it can run any game.

I have two very similar rigs.

Both are the same Asus Motherboard. One has a 6700k GPU and the other has a 6500. Ram is similar, same brand.

The big difference between these system is the GPUs and how they're connected.

The i7 rig is a 980ti driving a monitor using display port. The i5 rig is a 1070ti driving a TV via HDMI.

I use endevouros os on both, so in theory they should be updated in a similar fashion.

The 980ti rig outright refuses to run specific games that the 1070ti rig has no issues with.

An example is the Steam Version of Sonic Mania.

I can't understand why one will and the other won't. The i7 rig is very choosey, where's the i5 rig and my steam deck, within reason, seems to support everything I try. I cant understand it.

Any thoughts?

Is Maxwell a known issue for Linux gaming compared to Pascale? Would using open source drivers rather than proprietary solve?

Thanks

Does the game work on Linux? The reports I’ve read are conflicting. Are we anti cheat yet says it’s broken, while on ProtonDB it has a Gold rating. So does it work?