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Is GTA Online still blocked on Linux because of Battleye or did R* fix it, I doubt it but wanted to ask.

I use Fedora Linux.
I tested out Discord app, it works fine. Vesktop in the other hand doesn't. When I join vc, with people in it, it gets stuck on "DTLS connecting". I don't why this happens with discord clients only. Tested out with Goofcord but the same issue.

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I've had a few problems with steam in that games wont launch in a variety of ways.

Things I have tried:

Some of the games I could get to launch with installing an alternative (Wine and Vulkan) to Directx11 and using Proton 7 in the compability setting as I saw that DirectX 11 can cause some problems if your pc is too old to launch the current version (or something like that, sorry Im a noob and having some problems translating some of the information into english)

Im not using the app store version

I also tried removing and reinstalling the nvidia drivers

I also saw a video that recommended removing a base file for the game you're trying to launch and then let steam look at the game files to repair the problem (with the idea behind this being that sometimes on ubuntu steam doesnt install games correctly). Also didnt work

Look Outside specifically:

So for Look outside specifically. It has a few different reactions based on what compability setting you're using. Usually it just does the classic of the button on steam changing from launching to running to stopping itself and going back to the green play button.

With proton experimental it at least very briefly opens a small black window before it closes again.

for the older versions of proton it stays launched, and I can see that game.exe is open in the system monitoring. But I cant see it, nothing opens.

Other Information:

I put my system information here in case it has something to do with that. But all of these were games I had no problems with before I changed to ubuntu. The same problems happen with a few games, Look Outside is just especially important to me since its my favourite game and a big update with a bunch of new content just dropped.

A new weird aspect of it is that earlier today I tried removing steam and start completely anew with sudo apt remove steam and it just didnt do anything. its still there I can still use it and launch some of the games as normal. But when I try to remove it via the terminal again it said theres nothing to remove. Weird!

I am only semi familiar with linux. I've played around with it a few times but always got a bit frustrated and went back to Windows and thought I'd try again in a year or so and let things smooth out. Well I had a issue with my Windows 10 gaming pc about a week ago. Knowing Win 10 is no longer supported, I thought Id try linux again. I've had Bazzite, I enjoyed the simplicity, but one day the OS wouldnt boot. Tried booting into OS tree 1 and nothing. Got frustrated and went back to Windows. Now I am trying Ubuntu again. I thought, this is one of the most popular linux distros and is supported pretty well across the board to my knowledge. Ok installed. Wiped Windows 10 completely. Installed steam. Steam overlay is laggy as hell while trying to play a test game of counterstrike 2. Google said probably a driver issue. I dont have a lot of experience with Terminal, I understand it and what it does, I just dont know commands. I tried downloading the drivers from AMD, thinking the package when opened would run a script or something to get what I need. Long story short, still problems. Now as of this morning, I believe I have the right drivers, loaded counterstrike, and still laggy af. Only now, trying to join a game I get kicked to the menu saying your client is not allowed on this server. I literally cant join a game. I love my steam deck, I really want to ditch Windows and go full linux. At least on my main PC. I have another setup basically for peripherals(VR, Sim Driving, etc.) But this has been incredibly frustrating. Does anyone have any tips? A guide? Dummys guide for doing windows like shit on linux? I just want to play some games when I get some free time man. And everytime I try, it just doesnt work.

Hallo,

ich habe gestern Baldur's Gate 3 aus Steam bei mir installiert und ca. 3h ohne irgendwelche Probleme gezockt. Heute wollte ich auch ne Runde spielen und es klappt nicht. Ich habe keine Änderungen zu gestern vorgenommen.

Das Spiel startet, ich höre die Musik, sehe aber kein Bild. Wenn ich durch die geöffneten Fenster (per ALT+TAB) blättere sehe ich in der Vorschau das Bild, auch wenn ich dann auf ein anderes Fenster umschalte sehe ich dahinter im Vollbild das Spiel. Sobald ich es aber in den Vordergrund hole ist nur noch ein schwarzer Schirm zu sehen.

Geändert seit gestern habe ich nichts, keinen Treiber, keine Einstellung. Auffällig, gestern ist das Spiel ohne Launcher direkt aus Steam gestartet, heute kommt zunächst der Launcher. Diesen habe ich mittels Einstellung in Steam wieder weg bekommen, an dem Problem ändert das freilich nichts. Ich habe es auch schon deinstaliert und neu installiert - keine Änderung.

System wäre folgendes:

• Manjaro
• KDE Plasma 6.5.3 / Wayland
• AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
• AMD Radeon RX6700

Was tun? Danke schonmal!

Just downloaded ToS on Ubuntu through Steam. It was on sale and I've wanted to play that game since the gamecube.

I know that this is a port of a port of a ps version, and it has problems.
Indeed, the game stutters when showing the intro video... Setting control rumble to off seems to have really improved but not solved the stutter.

The game's playable, but I've seen that there's a fix for windows users.
I've no idea on how to make it work, but as a linux user I'm used to wrangling.

Is it worth the hassle? If so, how do I make it work?

The December blog is out!

This cannont stand.. I look at that rating and think I'm going have to buy the crapping looking xbox version vs PC and all it's rtx glory now just to get back in, and it's just rage bait looking at it. They just introdced the senerio builder.. and this new dlc bringing michel back.. So frustrating

I'm using Pop! OS 22.04 LTS, and I'm trying to play Civ V via Steam. I've played this game a million times before on other computers, including on Pop! OS. But I've never been able to run it on my new computer without it suddenly deciding to close every now and then -- there is no error message, no warning, the window just suddenly closes and everything is gone.

I've already tried the fixes posted here and here. I've also tried running smaller Civ V games (i.e. smaller maps rather than my preferred 'huge') with no improvement at all.

I'm at my wits end trying to fix this. Civ V is my favourite game and I can't play it for more than ten minutes without it randomly closing on me.

Hello!! I'm playing Hogwarts Legacy from the Heroic Games Launcher and the game doesn't recognize my nvideo card, but it does in the launcher. Does anyone know how I can make the game recognize my Nvidia video card? I use Ubuntu as an operating system

my system according to heroic game

So I have Civ 6 on my Epic Games account and want to play it on Linux. Whats the best way to do that?

I am on Arch.

Hi all. I am using Ubuntu 25.10.

As the mentioned in tile- trying to get the extra buttons (4 back buttons, 2 extra shoulder buttons, and CZ buttons), and the motion sensing to work.

All methods of connecting (dongle, bluetooth, and wired) works without issue. And so does the Xbox's normal key mapping.

Do tell if further information can help. TIA.

So I posted about this previously but with Steam on GNOME on Arch Linux, it takes a full one to three minutes to launch games, which is crazy to me. Originally I thought it was probably the Nvidia GT 1030 that I was using, but I just upgraded to an AMD 7900 XTX and the same exact thing is happening, no difference. "Building shaders" takes almost no time (you can barely see the progress dialog on screen now), so I don't think that's it. There's no output in the logs that's relevant tot his. I gave sample log output here before.

This is a crazy fast computer, 5950x with a WD_BLACK SSD and 64GB of RAM. I see no reason why it should take this long. Is it failing to contact some cloud service or something? What else could i look into?

Finally made the switch, and I'm now using PopOS. I have one major issue I've yet to solve though. I have a 3840x1080 monitor, which is wider than a lot of games natively support. On Windows I had an app called flawless widescreen that could enable full ultra wide aspect ratio for a lot of different games. Is there something similar for Linux? Particularly for Elden Ring and the FF VII remakes