Hey everyone, this is my first time posting on Reddit, so sorry if this is a weird format or anything. Anyways, I’m looking to get some sort of handheld console with a max budget of $550, but preferably less than that. I want to get a handheld that runs SteamOS, and I was thinking of getting the OLED Deck, but I kind of want something more powerful. I’m not opposed to buying used. I will also primarily be playing this with a controller in tabletop mode or docked. I’m in a wheelchair, and I’m unable to use it handheld and I basically can only play with a PS5 controller or something similar. $550 is my max budget. I have a PC with a 12600K, 16 GB of DDR4, and an RX 480. I know that’s a huge bottleneck, but I never got around to upgrading my GPU before I left for college, and I didn’t want to bring it with me. I also have a PS5 in my dorm room, and I plan on streaming to the handheld from both my PC and my PS5. I want a handheld, as I want to get back into PC gaming and just gaming in general, and I think a handheld will definitely help me do that. What handheld do you guys think I should get? Battery life isn’t a major concern because I have a 20,000 mAh 65 W power bank that I can use, but I also don’t want the thing to die in like an hour. I mostly play single player bigger budget games and am not super into indies. If my handlend isn't powerful enough I'd just get the game on PS5.

I'm trying to install The Division 2 through Steam but it can't manage to get the proper size of the device. I'm using Debian 13 on /dev/sda and need to install the game at /dev/sdb. At C: the installer shows the proper disk size and available space, but on Z:/mnt/storage it cant figure out the proper available space. How to fix it or gather more information about the real issue?

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Hey, I am on a laptop with an amd igpu and nvidia dgpu, and Victoria 3 insists on running on the igpu regardless of what I do. I've tried prime-run %cmd% and __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia prime-run %cmd% with no luck. Does anyone have any clue how to force the game onto my dgpu?

I have a new Fedora 43 build running Cyberpunk with GE-Proton10-29 that is reporting 120fps but it looks like a slide show whenever I move around.

I have installed Nvidia drivers correctly with akmod-nvidia and am at a loss as to the correct settings etc to get this working.

Here are my machine specs:

CPU: AMD 7950x3D

GPU: Nvidia Rtx 4090

RAM: 64GB DDR5

Anyone have any ideas?

This weekend windows truly made me seriously consider swapping to Linux for gaming. Couldn’t even reset itself without an error and OOBE loop.

My question is has gaming on Linux improved enough to a point where I wouldn’t need to have a windows VM. Or should I consider a windows VM and passing through my GPU?

Specs:

CPU: 9600x

GPU: 7900GRE

32GB DDR5 RAM

1TBx2 SSD

I assume me having a full AMD build would help with the transition to Linux? Games I mostly play are Ubisoft story games (AC, Star Wars and some Crew Motorfest), bit of shooters (I know that Valorant basically won’t work). I do have gamepass as well which I hope will be fine.

Literally any info will be appreciated

Excuse my ignorance, but my understanding is a lot of these anti cheats and a few of the games I play require kernel level anticheat. Ethics aside, I don’t see AAA developers really leaning into Linux anytime in the next few years.

As usual, it’s on the Linux community. Theoretically, is it possible to build the required things within kernel to have these games and anti cheats work? Somewhat like proton / wine does, this kernel would have provisions to allow the anticheat to run, even if it’s fibbing some things.

Hopefully this makes sense. If this WAS possible, I’m sure it would have been done.

Side note,

I like using Linux for 99% of things. Unfortunately there are a handful of games I need windows for. And on top of that windows requires an account reset every time I change my boot order or boot from another disc. I’m so done with this OS.

I'm using Heroic on Arch Linux, and I have the game Baldur's Gate III.

The game opens and runs. I managed to access the options to set everything to minimum, I managed to create my character and watch the opening video, but as soon as the game actually started, it closed. The error reported at the end of the log on link below is: 1726 (in the last lines)

https://logpasta.com/paste/db101602-7714-4f18-8e8f-08a0ec2d29fa

https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/pull/2805

I recently wanted to play a Pokémon fangame called Pokémon Anil, which is made with RPG Maker XP. I used bottles and lutris, but for some reason, the game was very laggy. According to the game's creator, to fix this problem, you have to disable vsync. I disabled vsync, but when I try to restart the game, I get an error.

I'm using Debian 13 XFCE.

I'm just another Windows user who’s getting a bit fed up with the latest moves from the OS.

I’m considering taking on the challenge of using Linux as my daily driver now that gaming is no longer a deal-breaker, but choosing the right distro is already stopping me.

I recently became a parent, so I don’t have a lot of free time, but I’m not new to Linux either—I manage servers and do DevOps work as part of my job.

I know this kind of post is probably very common, but you have to understand that people like me really want to “get it right the first time.” Deep down, I think I could adapt to almost anything, but the fear of missing out really gets to me.

Any recommendations?

I’ve recently switched to Linux Mint 22.3 and I’ve tried gaming on Steam. I don’t game that much but I primarily play Star Wars Battlefront II 2017. After I first installed this game on Linux, it ran great with proton experimental and no tweaks, but then it broke the next day and would not launch.

I tinkered around with it for quite a while, tried protonge, uninstalled and reinstalled game, but had no luck getting it working. I’ve heard EA games are not very Linux friendly so I have parked that problem and will come back to it.

My questions cover troubleshooting games on Linux more broadly:

- What are the first steps you usually take when a game doesn’t launch? At the moment I just blindly switch proton version and follow advice on protondb, but my efforts seem useless.

- At what point do you give up and consider a game “borked”?

Thanks!🙏

should i update my drivers? but it dosent make sense given that the drivers i have are the latest.

im using bazzite

I'm running Assetto Corsa Rally via lutris and it opens just fine but my ps4 controller isn't working with. I usually don't have issues using my controller with games on linux. Anybody know why this is happening? If I try to bind the accelerator to R2 I get the selected device not allowed in this input slot error.

i switched from windows 11 to linux mint.

its easier to install apps i just open the app store and click install . rather than search for an exe and make sure the site is the real one,not a malware site.

also gaming works good. i can run most of my games on steam with proton,like cyberpunk 2077,portal 2,elden ring,and hollow knight.

plus no more your pc needs to update now,while im doing smth important.

(Linux) Game freezes every second respawn in multiplayer only. Anybody got any leads?

Decided to get back into squad after years...mostly because i have nothing else to play haha....

The game boots up and starts perfectly fine, i join a server and then it freezes after dying once on second respawn. It literaly doesnt matter if i die immidiately or after 2 hours. The game freezes only after dying once and spawning the second time. Every time the exactly the same thing happens. Most of the time the gun isnt even fully modeled before it freezes, and after half a minute a window pops up saying "Application hang, closing now"

These errors pop up in logs when the game freezes :

Jan 25 11:18:51 PC1 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: \[gfxhub\] page fault (src\_id:0 ring:24 vmid:4 pasid:32781)

Jan 25 11:18:51 PC1 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Process GameThread pid 20952 thread vkd3d\_queue pid 21015

Jan 25 11:18:51 PC1 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: in page starting at address 0x0000800011200000 from client 0x1b (UTCL2)

Jan 25 11:18:51 PC1 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: GCVM\_L2\_PROTECTION\_FAULT\_STATUS:0x00401431

The game works perfectly fine in both the tutorial and shooting range.

The game is a fresh install of Squad with cache wiped

PC Specs :

Arch Linux + KDE Wayland

i7 12700k

RX 6800 XT

32 gigs RAM

1000 Watt power supply

If anybody has any leads, or has experienced similiar issues be glad to hear about it.

Thanks

I would like to launch my Steam games via Heroic Launcher, as I am not a fan of Steam Big Picture.

This works if I add Steam as a game with the appropriate parameters, but Steam remains open after the game is closed, causing Heroic Launcher to display the “game” as running.

Is there a way to automatically close Steam after closing a game? Alternatively it would be enough if Heroic Launcher did not monitor if Steam is running or not.