Up until today Arc Raiders on CachyOS worked fine. While downloading an update it would say "disk drive error" and stuff about a "download error" then eventually after reinstalling the game multiple times it was able to download the game it just doesn't launch when I press play. I've tried a bunch of different proton versions and verified integrity and such. I'm new to linux as of like a week ago so I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of troubleshooting steps there could be to figure out the exact issue. I just hope the problem rings a bell to someone who can help

I know that Steam Frame is gonna make this waaaaaay better when it comes out, but in the meantime, is there any way to use my Q3 to view flatscreen games in 3D? Any apps that use a theater mode that supports SBS when using both Reshade's effects and emulators like Dolphin and Citra to accomplish this? Or am I stuck with Windows for this until Frame comes out?

Much thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

Is there a Linux gaming distribution with a gaming interface like Bazzite or Playnite, but that uses our own game ISO as a library source instead of launchers like Steam or Epic?

I mean, I have a large game library, with subfolders for each game containing the .iso file for installation. The software would detect each game, and then I'd have a simple "install" button.

When I click it, a background process would launch the setup within the .iso file and install everything needed (Proton, DirectX, etc.), and I'd see the progress displayed as if I were installing a game from Steam.

A distribution like that would be fantastic for creating your own Steam store with games you actually own (purchased from GOG or other sources).

The only ways I've found to install games from an ISO on Linux today are tedious steps with Lutris or Heroic Game Launcher; it's long and not very intuitive, quickly discouraging.

A distribution dedicated to this that would facilitate all this tinkering would be incredible !

Hi,

I've looking for this for quite some time now, and I'm about to do it.

And I've been planning to replay a few games I like, so, why not do it on Linux already?! IKR?!

I've been thinking in going with Bazzite, I've made a test on a VM and ran a couple of games there.

I have a spare SSD, and I there are things I need to do on windows. That's why the quotes.

So, my plan is to re install windows on this spared SSD, and, when everything I need is back running there, I'll install Bazzite on the main SSD.

My PC is a i5 12400F, 4060 ti, 64gb, with windows 11 on it.

Is there anything I should be prepared for before starting the process?

Most of the game I play is offline, between Steam, Epic Games and GOG.

There is Fallout 76, but I don't mind keeping it on the windows installation, because I'm have heard of some BGS bs and false flags, I don't want to risk it.

Feel free to give any advice or recommendations.

And thank you all in advance.

4c 4t i5 6500t on a board that can take 64gb of ddr4. Now the board has 8gb ram, I figure if I added 16gb more, up to a total of 24gb ram, it should last long enough in that state that I really wouldn't need to upgrade RAM again until maybe I get a new board. That won't happen for like a decade, so is it worth it? What do you think. I use emulators and the such, and was considering making it a Steam box, but Intel hardware dose not seem to want to cooperate. Unless I have lost my mind, windoze seems like the only option for it. Please don't say Bazzite, it ran borderline borked. Won't do much but desktop with Holo. Cannot find an emulator that has a wine/proton layer to install windows 98 games. What am I going to do with this thing? I want to make a killer old school gaming box that still uses Debian, but it has to kick ass and party with Intel hardware. Am I doomed to the nightmarish windoze 10, I installed windoze 11 on it and lost my mind by how slow it was. AHH!

Hello!

my build is the following:

7800x3d CPU

9070xt GPU

32GB ddr5 ram

asus tuf b850m plus wifi MoBo

Arch linux with Hyprland and IWD

i have the mediatek 7822 on this board, and i can not for the life of me figure out why it wont use my wifis 5ghz or 6ghz bands like on windows.

do i need a new card or a usb dongle? ethernet is not a option and its gonna be non starter if i get slower internet on linux.

thank you!

I've seen lot's of noise where people claim Linux can run games BETTER than on windows, not as well, but better.
As much as knew at the time, I thought it is scientifically impossible since proton has to make a conversion to run games on Linux where in Windows games run natively, videos like comparing Lenovo Legion Go S steamOS vs Windows, show the result but makes it feel like the process behind it is just "Proton Magic", and makes a ton of noise
I created a thread and many of the answers were great but still got some of that linux magic where people can't explain why is their experience better, the solution I came up with was too big for a answer so I'm creating a new post

Alright, after doing a lot of homework, reading the replies, and doing some research, I could understand what is going on
Just checking off, performance on AMD is way better than Nvidia in Linux, that's a common fact, it wasn't about that, but it's nice to remember

Are there unfair comparisons? yes but it's much deeper than I thought
Some people mentioned windows is bad because of bloatware. Yes, but if you are going to make an effort to install something like arch linux please at least open task manager to turn off auto initialization to make it fair, mentioning that boot times on windows takes 50 seconds, means that are some real problems in there

Starting from the biggest unfair comparisons, it actually comes from people doing on mobile hardware like Lenovo Legion Go S, and people spreading like it's an universal truth, it isn't
Proton on Linux has an amazing feature: instead of like Windows where the CPU needs to constantly be compiling shaders, steam has servers with those shaders pre-compiled, so you don't need to waste CPU power and it comes with the game download, it's from this that comes the 1% low, that many of you mentioned in the comments,

Why does this matter?
Mobile hardware tend to limit power supply to the CPU - GPU for battery management and simply not having a power supply
That creates a problem, now in Windows the CPU needs to compile shaders constantly in new areas, but the CPU doesn't have as much power as a dedicated machine, so a problem that would be little noticeable, only a casual stutter/1% low, becomes a GIGANTIC problem in Windows mobile machines

Coming back to dedicated machines
There are some other advantages, where games CAN run as well or sometimes a little bit better than windows, Vulkan DXVK, is an amazing thing, DirectX11 was created in 2009 with a focus on single core CPU, but even on recent games it still is being used, and many of the "Benchmark Games" like Witcher 3 uses DX11, Bethesda games uses it too, so as mentioned by some in the comments, modding can become a hard task, From software games like Dark Souls, and a great part of even Elden ring.

So why is Vukan DXVK amazing?
it converts this process so instead of using a single core, it uses multi-core, so the performance gains are HUGE, to be comparable even though you need to convert instructions from windows games to linux, where you lose performance

Windows updates are more than once mentioned, it shouldn't really be a problem, there are ways to circumvent this, and it's more annoying than anything else, constantly having to update arch linux for example is just as annoying, but it is more fun. Before I forget, as mentioned in the comments, linux distros focused on stability will have lower performance simply because it uses older solutions for stability.

TLDR:

Mobile hardware is way better on linux simply because of power limitations, it is not an universal truth

Steam compiled shaders cache, is an amazing solution and solves a lot of stutter/1%low

Proton loses some of the performance compared to windows since it needs to convert the instructions
5~15% worse than Windows

DX11 is converted by Vulkan from single core to multi-core, huge gains
10~20% better than Windows, so it can regain some of the perfomance lost

it's important to mention that these can vary, a game can have clear instructions and be easily be converted as mentioned in the comments by u/Oerthling , so it gains tons of performance, or a game can be really well tuned for single core cpu so it doesn't gain much from DXVK for example

Proton does have a translation overhead, it needs to convert Windows system calls and DirectX instructions into Linux equivalents (via Wine, DXVK (dx11), and vkd3d(dx12)).

Windows itself has a lot of API and driver overhead, especially with DirectX 11 and older titles. In many games, the inefficiency of Windows’ graphics pipeline is worse than Proton’s translation cost.

So even though Proton theoretically loses some performance, it often ends up matching Windows due to Linux’s lighter drivers, Vulkan backend, and massive shader pre-caching system.

I think that's pretty much the answer I was looking for, thank you all!

Hi, although I'm not new to Linux, I'm pretty new to Linux gaming. Recently getting started with Bazzite on PC and also Steam Deck.

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around game use cases that have more than one exe:

- Modded games where you use a launcher or mod manager (eg. Unity Mod Manager)

- Games that come with their own launcher. (eg. Trails in the Sky FC, GOG version.)

It doesn't help that there's also Lutris and Heroic that do their own custom things that aren't really clear.

Is there any direct and simple way I can do something like this? :

- Directly create a Proton/Wine environment for a game. (Prefix?)

- Install the game into the environment.

- Install or copy all the mod files, launchers, etc into the environment.

- Run any of the exe files in the environment, and have it all work together as expected like in Windows.

Is there any documentation out there that explains how Proton/Wine works at a deeper level? (For users, I mean. Not the nitty gritty of how the emulation works etc.)

Thanks!

I am at a loss to my issue, and so I turn to the interwebs for a solution. Google has yielded nothing, and all my tinkering has left me with more questions than answers.

I decided to move my Skyrim SE setup to Linux to finally flip the bird to Microsoft. I am on Fedora 42 with KDE as my environment. Installation of everything looked go so far, but the moment I ran SkyrimSE, my framerate JUST IN THE MAIN MENU was an abysmal 20fps with frametimes at 40ms minimum. (These results brought to you in part by MangoHUD)

There is no way in Oblivion this could be a hardware issue, since I'm running a Ryzen 9 9950X *(Not X3D, if that helps)* a Radeon RX 7900XTX, 128GB of RAM (Yes, I know it's overkill, but I use Blender also, so...) and more than enough room on the NVMe SSD I'm installing on. I'm talking 2+TB of space. To further the fact that hardware isn't to blame, CPU AND GPU usage was operating at almost 0% I am fully aware that the 9950X has an iGPU built-in, but even *that* isn't being utilized, according to MangoHUD and Steam's overlay. I've tried switching Proton versions, disabling Vsync in the .ini files, and this is a purely vanilla experience, at least for starters before I push down the line to modding, so I am dealing with no ENBs, no SKSE, just Skyrim that is so vanilla it's not even squeezed out of the bean yet. Despite every proton command I tried and every trick I saw on the interwebs, I was still never reaching above 30fps.

Now here's the really fugged part: I've had the game long enough that I have Legendary Edition. Out of morbid curiosity, I installed that on the same drive and tinkered with nothing just to see what would happen. To my surprise and complete bewilderment, the framerate was right where it was supposed to be with frame times that actually made sense.

Being at a complete loss as to how to fix this, I am pleading for an answer from anyone who has greater Linux knowledge than myself.

Mainly bugfixes it seems

Guys, in any game I test, this happens at some point: the game simply freezes, and I have to turn off the PC and turn it back on. There have been days when it didn't happen and I could play normally, but just when I thought the problem was gone, it happens again. Note: Vulkan games also have this problem.

I believe that after the 580 driver update, these random freezes started occurring. I was using Cachyos and then also Fedora 43, which is my current system, and I had this problem with both. I didn't make any modifications to these systems besides the recommended ones; on Fedora, I installed the driver from the store. I tested on Windows 11 to try to identify if the problem was with my hardware, but I didn't have any problems there.

What I've already tested:

- Disabling Steam's recording system

- Running games with Vulkan

Is anyone else having problems or knows anything I could try?

Sorry if I didn't explain it well, I'm still a Linux noob hahaha

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Hi. Ill try keep this brief.

I used linux like 14 years ago. i distro hopped like mad (i enjoyed it) but I ended back on windows.
I now want to ditch windows but I dont have the life in me to distro hop and faff about.

recommend me an OS based on the following criterion please:
*looks nice.
*runs nvidia RTX 2060 well.
*I only play Counter Strike 2
*maybe run MS office
*vivaldi browser
*I need a file sync software like sync back free/free file sync.
*easy to install apps for a noob like me.

I was thinking:
*Nobara
*Bazzite

or recommend me something different

Thank you for your time and efforts

I have a persona 4 game that I open with steam, it usually works pretty well, except for the videos scenes, but today the game just doesn't works anymore. its the same proton version, someone know what can be?

When launching steam version of gta iv i get this error from rockstar games launcher.

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i tried launching it from lutris but it was the exactly the same issue.

i tried using proton experimental and 9.0-4, with proton GE it wouldn't even run.

Running on:

Cachy OS (6.17.7-3)

DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.2 (Wayland)

So, after reading some comments under my last post, it seems like keeping steam os is the better choice, but how can i restore my save data? Some games are pretty old or can be found for pretty cheap on code resellers, so the issue is definitely not getting back my games, I’ll just buy most of them. But how about my save data?

I’m coming from an Xbox, so the only way i could buy digital games is via the Microsoft store. Theoretically, if I: -install a secondary windows partition on the steam machine via external drive, -set up windows there with all my games -back up the save data with Xbox play anywhere -back up the locally downloaded save data on the Linux/steamOS partition -then steamOS should save my save files in the cloud. I will manage to successfully restore my save data.

This is all a Theory (A LINUX THEORY) but it should work… if any of you have a better idea on how to save my files, I would really appreciate it, thanks!

- RTX 4070

- 5800x3D

- 32 GB Ram

I've tried several different distros, looked and tried different solutions such as disabling c-states and lowering my ram hz. It can happen 1 minute in, or two hours in. When opening dolphin or playing a video game. I want to give up so bad, but I want a HTPC so bad. I don't know what to do. I tried a year ago as well, making reddit posts and posting crash logs that were almost impossible to obtain as my system constantly froze to no help. I have absolutely ZERO issues in Windows 11.