I'm currently trying to run Waven on Linux via Steam and Proton. Everything works fine except for one thing... The game seems to miss some frames every second.

My specs : - Intel core i7 13 gen - Nvidia rtx 4070 - Ubuntu 24.04.3 - Niri (a Wayland WM)

What I have tried so far: - run without graphic card enabled (prime) - turn on/off vsync - use PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 launch option - tried several refresh rate (60, 144, 240)

Any help is welcome !!

Okay, this one is weird. Every time I launch MC, regardless of launcher *(I've used Curseforge, Prism, and the MC launcher for linux)* it'll run fine for a bit, and then either the entire system freezes or the application closes (the former has stopped happening lately).

I can even get into a server for a few seconds before the crash every now and again, anyone got any suggestions?

EDIT: Forgot to say that I'm using Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon.

The Qualcomm Adreno 825 GPU is part of the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 SoC in Smartphones and just came out in April 2025. But many vendors already offer it in middle class smartphones.

MediaTek supports this feature in their even more affordable budget SoCs namely the Dimensity 8300 and 8400 SoC in the form of Arm's Mali-G615 or G720 GPU.

Usually Ray Tracing is told to consume lots of energy but this is wrong. If implemented closer to fixed function hardware it is possible efficiently at low watt consumption. Imagination Technologies demonstrated this many yeargs ago way earlier before Nvidia's marketing made RT go mainstream. Imagination Technologies offers licenses for up to level 5 ray tracing in their mobile GPU architectures which can be obtained by GPU vendors worldwide. Those can be combined with Arm and RISC-V CPUs and other ISAs.

Another prominent example of highly efficient ray tracing is the Switch 2, which consumes only 10 watts compared to the Steam Deck's 25 watts.

Surprisingly or unsurprisingly the spread and adoption of new hardware features like these seems to happen way faster in arm based smartphone devices in comparison to desktop PCs.

It would be interesting to see Steam OS or another game focused Linux Distro running on such smartphones and to utilize these kind of features. This surely would depend on many factors like a proper ecosystem, wayland, emulation, translation and other things like porting dxvk, vkd3d, proton and the steam client to arm.

Is this too far stretched or would it be possible?

Hello everyone, im a developer (backend) and I want to help for the linux community. Is there any project more important that needs help or something that is missing in documentation or whatever, I want to help and I have freetime

Im not saying I'm a good developer tho

I have gamesir g4 pro controller and it's working flawlessly on windows with dongle but on linux(i tried on zorin,mint and cachy)it's not working expect but cable.What can i do about it?

https://preview.redd.it/e66suta44m1g1.jpg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbc804315b444561162284ce696d572e29b57939

my set up

I want to do thy gaming on the pc im going to buy shortly and im seeing a lot of people saying i should do the switch cuz it's faster but i also heard i could have problems with multiplayer games and other softwares that can't be installed on Linux so should I switch?

Anybody gave it a shot? There were rumours that they would activate linux support in the anti-cheat for full release. Did someone try it out yet?

System info:
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) x86_64
Host: 82K2 (IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ACH6)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64
DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.6
WM: KWin (X11)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H (12) @ 4.28 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q [Discrete]
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series [Integrated]

nvidia-smi:

https://preview.redd.it/mcend8jmql1g1.png?width=739&format=png&auto=webp&s=e93258a7224df018410932b3d6d903105b84cb1e

the proton log:
https://hastebin.com/share/efuxujiren.ruby

What I've tried so far:
Different proton versions, including latest GE (10-25)
Launching with various options, like WINED3D and -dx11
Tried pretty much anything that https://www.protondb.com/app/1805480 outlined

I can't pinpoint what is wrong in the log, as I searched almost every warn and fixme online.
All other games I own work just fine. I suspected it's something to do with Unreal Engine 4, or Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable, although an UE3 game was running just fine.

Anything else I should test for to get more info? Appreciate any help.

I'm on omarchy, I have acer aspire lite AL15-41 laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 5700U 16GB RAM, AMD integrated Radeon graphics, what games can I run on it? Retro games? Windows games?

I am trying to install Anno1800 on Lutris installed on my kali linux. I installed the setup.exe but after that even when i configure the launcher the game does not start. Ia there any good documentation how to ibstall akd setup everything?

Is there any way that this is possible? I don't want to have to buy the entire game again on Steam, and also probably lose all my data. I quit using Windows 11 since an update completely screwed over my computer, but I was previously using the Xbox app to install Forza 5, since I already owned it on Xbox. Any way to do this?

Hello,

I am fairly new to Linux gaming. Sorry if this a stupid question, but I know no one that could otherwise help me.

While some games start and work very smooth, I recently tried to play "Deep Rock Galactic", which gave me the Error "wine: could not load kernel32.dll, status c000012f" via the console. I tried many Proton versions and running DX11/DX12 but to no avail.
According to "apt update" all packages are up to date.
The game is rated "Platinum" on ProtonDB with many users quoting it to work out of the box.

This is the whole terminal message:

https://pastebin.com/h3gqb7pi

I use Kubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) x86_64, have a recent AMD Graphics card and use Steam/Proton for games. The game is on the Linux ext4 formatted main drive.

ChatGPT told me to start Steam via "STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam" which lead to new errors, me installing some packages via apt, and then other errors but ultimatively i think this is a meaningless sidequest.

I know that there is an app called "winetricks" but I am not sure if it will help me, as I never installed wine but only Steam.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

I game on CachyOS (Linux) with an RTX 4060 OC and I’m getting great performance, but I wanted to know what Windows users are actually getting with the same GPU at 1440p.

Hi guys. I am currently using omarchy and I was playing Dying light (1st part). But then in game I had various issues in input using keyboard , like when I try to sprint using shift+w then it stutters and walk slowly and when we have to hold a key it just don't complete its cycle , I don't know why. First I thought it was my keyboard problem but it was not🥲

Just like the title. I'm using Proton Experimental. Tried every other Proton there is, even ProtonGE.

The game runs flawlessly in windowed mode, the only mode is that it is a small portion of my window. If I try to set it to fullscreen or exclusive fullscreen it freezes. If I try to increase the window size my dragging the corner of the window, it freezes, and funny detail: sometimes it crashes my GPU, so I have to hard restart my PC.

There is no log because there is not a crash, it only freezes forever, stuck in the last frame of the game.

Can someone help me?