I am asking this because I cannot do any tests without buying another copy because the game is family shared through Steam. For context: I want to play Age of Empires II: DE on LAN. One player will use a Win11 laptop. Mint 22.2 is installed on the second laptop (laptop is low-end). I barely managed to make that game work and I have no idea how it will react to a multiplayer game. What should I know about LAN and what should I do for possible issues while testing the server.

I have a gaming potato (HP EliteDesk G4 Twr EVGA GTX970SSC) that I have some interesting benchmark data for.

I've seen it referenced elsewhere, but with 535 on this old card I get about a 50% increase in framerate on 1080p EXTREME (lol) settings running Unigine Superposition. My Extreme results in driver 580 are roughly 10fps and my system pulls 189W during most of the benchmark. Using 535 as shown in the screenshot yields much better results and my system pulls 240W during the whole benchmark. Medium and Low are "very playable" coming in at 60+ fps on this gaming potato.

I'd like to see some other results running similar (old AF) hardware with other OS's (yes, even Windows) Cachy or Bazzite, etc. I run Mint 22.2 and the rest of the hw is in the screenshot.

EDIT: I have this card

https://www.xtremerigs.net/2015/03/26/evga-geforce-gtx-970-ssc-acx-2-0-review/19/

Hey all, is it possible to play msfs2024 and gw2 on linux? Want to switch but only if I can play these games. Also I use a thrustmaster controller for the flightsim. Thx in advance

I hate windows and don't wanna use windows. How is gaming on Linux with an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU? I have a 4070 super and an i7-12700kf.

I did some research and saw that Roblox was playable on wine then I did some more digging and saw they disabled support renabled then disabled support again is there a way to get Roblox to work on Linux without emulation because I want it to run the PC version and not the mobile version

Hi, I recently switch to an AMD GPU. Which got me thinking of switching to using Linux (especially Debian) for my gaming computer. For context i'm studying IT, so I already use a bit of Linux in my everyday life :
I use a Debian13 on my laptop. (which is used mainly for torrenting, text editing, browsing).
I tinker with some servers running Debian/Debian based distros.

I really like Debian and it's philosophy, but it is also why I am questioning using Debian as a "Gaming Distro".

After researching on this sub and other forums I have a few question :
I have seen that Debian isn't as performing as other distros such as Arch due to it's update philosphy, what type of under-perfomance are we looking at ? Game crashing, or just worse performance.

If anyone is using debian for gaming, could you share your experience, did you feel like back porting some softwares and drivers is something to consider that conclude to actually better performance ?

Also, if I end up dual booting Linux and Windows, could I install games on steam and be able to access them on both OS if I use a dedicated SSD for it ?

For context, I'm on CachyOs - 5700x and RX 7900XT, the game runs fine, I recently switched from basic mangohud to the more complex preset of goverlay and I noticed it constantly shows this Power Throttling.

I'm just using the CET mod as my starting mod, yet I'm still having problems. I manually dropped the bin folder in my game directory. I also toggled on Proton 9.0-4 in my Steam properties tab so my game could actually launch. I also currently have WINEDLLOVERRIDES=“winmm,version=n,b” %command% in my launch. Yet I'm currently seeing this error that reads "unable to load cyber engine tweaks.asi. Error 998".

I use Linux, with the distro being Bazzite (an offshoot of Fedora).

For those who had this issue before, how do I address it?

Hi everyone,

im having an issue with Minecraft on Fedora 43 Workstation and im hoping someone here has encountered it and know how to fix it.

Whenever i try to join any server like Pvphub, Donut SMP and more, i get:

You were kicked: Timed out Kicked for exceeding packet rate limit.

I also tried to disable all optimization mods but the problem keeps happening.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Leaving aside the benchmark results that show better average and minimum fps in favor of Bpfland over LAVD, has anyone who uses/used LAVD noticed any improvements in terms of latency?

my switch pro controller work on a real switch, andorid, but not linux or windows
on linux i can see the pro controller when trying to connect with bluetooth but i cant connect it always fails
on windows i cant see the controller at all

(just saying whats happening on windows to cover my bases i dont care if it works on windows or not as i dont need a controller over there)

ive tried joycond and it didnt change anything

please help as this is my only controller i have left and i dont want to buy another one

I have an old laptop like it was made like 3 years before windows 11 came out and now with windows ai features it can't handle anything not even Roblox and it's taking up 90 of cpu with out anything open so for longevity because I am saving for a pre built PC tower I need to swap to Linux and I dont have any idea which one I should switch to it must also be able to run the new games anti cheat software so I can play them because I will also change the pre built operating system to the Linux operating system

Hey, I'm trying to play Cities Skylines (the first one) on my Debian PC. A Linux native version of the game is available, but I need the Windows version for full compatibility with some mods and easier access to the DLCs.

Is there a way to do that ?

Anyone know what to do from here? I tried everything I can think of, I'm gonna try and remake my flash drive next but don't know if it will work, anyone know what I can do if that doesn't work? Trying to install bazzite btw

Hello,

I'm searching for the cheapest option to build a living room gaming PC with Bazzite/Steam OS and like some of you here I found out about the AMD BC-250. The thing is, it was very cheap 1 or 2 months ago but now that some known youtubers talked about it the price is now at least x2. As of now, the cheapest I can buy would be 130€ (so approx $150), and I'm debating if it's worth it.

On one hand it's painful to know that it was like 70€ 2 months ago but on the other hand, even at 130 I can't find anything close in terms of performance AND size. That said it has quite a lot of small downsides like idle power, ssd speed, GDDR6, no GPU video decode/encode that combined makes it questionable.

So the question is, what would be the maximum price you'd pay for a BC-250?

Change my mind

Half-Life 2 AND Garry's mod do this. I have all files except for the executables, tried proton and it didn't work HELP ME (please)