Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share that PUPAI is now officially available on Steam for Linux.

The biggest challenge was making everything behave nicely with the API across platforms, but after a lot of testing, tweaking, and swearing at logs, we finally got it running smoothly.

Hi @ all, I have a really weird problem that I'm unable to fix.

Before everything: Installed Cyberpunk 2077 (Steam; CachyOS; 9070 XT), everything worked fine. Game was sharp, no graphical glitches, and I could choose FSR4 in the InGame-Options.

Then, I did something stupid, out of curiosity: I used Goverlay to activate Optiscaler, and used the Start-Parameter /home/user/fgmod/fgmod %command% on Cyberpunk.

Since then, all Texts and the HUD is blurry. No Problem I thought, I simply remove the Start-Parameter... I did it, but Optiscaler was still here, INS-Key opened it. Okay no problem I thought, I manually remove the whole Game-Folder (.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Cyberpunk 2077/) and reinstalled/redownloaded the Game through Steam... Okay, Optiscaler is gone now, but the Problems somehow still exist. Wtf?

Since then, I can only activate FSR4 if I use the Start-Parameter PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 . But this is the least of my problems: The whole Game is now blurry, nearly unplayable so:

https://imgur.com/q7NU2PT - "Blurry Menu"-Screenshot with MangoHUD for comparison.

And there are Glitches everywhere now:

https://imgur.com/SilI07Y

https://imgur.com/1z5fY7S

https://imgur.com/Ksc9uiV

It doesn't matter what Settings or Preset I choose, it doesn't look any better than that.

Pardon my words, but wtf is going on there? The Game did run perfectly for the last 2-3 Days without Problems, but after activating Optiscale through Goverlay, I can't get rid of this.

Other Games (like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) don't suffer from that Problem, but I never used OptiScaler on that either. It seems that Optiscaler had installed itself somewhere else, where it caused these Problems (and would explain why even FSR4 is gone without the Proton-Start-Parameter).

To be honest, I'm on the verge of remove my local Linuxuser, create a totally new one to redownload everything from Steam, and never dare to use the "Optiscaler"-Tab on Goverlay ever again.

My Start-Parameter on Cyberpunk looks actually like this:

KWIN_DISABLE_TONEMAPPING=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 DXVK_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 MANGOHUD=1 gamemoderun %command% --launcher-skip -skipStartScreen

Would appretiate any help, I really run out of ideas^^.

Is there a way to remap keyboard keys to other keys in Steam? Maybe with proton env vars? The game I'm playing uses arrow keys for input and doesn't have any key remapping settings in it, but I would like to use WASD instead.

So i've been trying to get stretch res for dead by daylight but even tho i've tried many launch options and even tried x11 but nothing seems to work. I would appreciate any help thank you!

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share my experience with Arc Raiders since updating to Fedora 43 KDE and see if anyone else has run into similar issues. For about 180 hours, everything was running perfectly on Fedora 42 KDE—not a single crash or performance hitch. Out of the box. But as soon as I upgraded to 43, things went downhill.

Initially, I noticed a significant drop in performance, which was frustrating enough, but then the game stopped launching altogether! It would show the Arc Raiders window, but all I got was a white screen.

I’ve tried a ton of fixes: different Proton versions, various launch commands, reinstalling drivers, downgrading Mesa drivers, switching between Flatpak and non-Flatpak Steam, and even verifying game files, start Steam from the terminal. Despite all this, I eventually reverted back to Fedora 42 KDE, and to my dismay, the issue persisted—even after completely wiping my disk for a fresh install.

The only workaround I found was using the launch command -dx11, but it comes with its own set of problems: the game seems to set weird resolutions that don’t match my monitor, it fails to recognize my Intel GPU, and therefore, I can’t use Intel XeSS like I could before. Performance has been plagued by microstuttering and lower FPS.

At this point, I’ve switched to Windows (Dual boot) because I’m at a loss for solutions. Has anyone else encountered similar issues with Arc Raiders on Linux/Fedora? It was running so smoothly before, and now I feel completely stuck. Any tips or experiences would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

For everyone who thought HDR on XLibre was impossible… surprise.
We officially have a working HDR demo on XLibre, running through MPV, and it’s already pushing real HDR10 output. This is the first time XLibre has ever shown true HDR through an actual pipeline instead of theory or mockups.

Demo branch is here:
https://github.com/cepelinas9000/xserver/tree/wip/x11hdr

This is huge for the XLibre project. It proves the core idea:
you don’t need a compositor‑heavy Wayland stack to get real HDR.
The kernel already exposes the right color primitives, Vulkan can carry metadata, and a display server that actually uses them can deliver the goods.

It’s early just MPV video playback for now, but it’s the first concrete step toward full HDR surfaces, game‑ready scanout, and eventually dynamic metadata (yes, including Dolby Vision discussions).

If you want to follow the development or jump into the conversation, the discussion is happening here:
https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/251#discussioncomment-15577145

XLibre is about to make Linux HDR real. This is the spark.

I'm trying to play It Takes Two with a friend, who is in a Discord call with me. Whenever I start the Steam Remote Play Together session, it streams ALL of the audio from my PC, not just the game. This makes it so that the guest is able to hear themselves talk on discord, as well as my spotify and other unrelated applications. Remote play has worked flawlessly before on a different PC, so I'm not sure what's so special about mine.

Has anyone else had this issue? After hours of searching, I could only find one support thread mentioning the problem, with no solution.

Specs

OS: CachyOS

Kernel Version: Linux 6.18.6-2-cachyos

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

RAM: 32 GB

WM: Wayland

DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.5

arch linux on gnome

first i downloaded it from flatpak like any sane person would, gave me this (no content)

then i downloaded from the aur, gave me the same shit

anyone else having this?

Is there any kind of alternative to parsec or is there a app that allows you to host parsec on linux. Its something i only learned about recently so i dont know what my optios on this are

*fine

I have two 2tb NVMEs in my system. I’m planning to switch to using mainly Linux, but I want to dual boot, so I can still play games that aren’t compatible. Since I’ve read Windows tends not to play well with other operating systems installed on the same drive, I’m putting it on its own, but I also feel like giving it the whole 2tb is a waste. Can I partition half of that drive for Linux storage without Windows causing any issues?

I just spent some time dealing with a problem, finally got it fixed and thought I'd share in case other people have the issue. The problem hit me playing ME:Legendary, but it appears to have been a problem with the wonderful and totally important "EADesktop" app, so the bug may impact other EA Games.

For reference: I'm on Nobara, fully patched.

What happened: I've been playing through Mass Effect again because I love it, until suddenly yesterday it just stopped working. I'd launch the game in Steam and the EAdesktop app would start to load, then crash. And I could NOT get it to work again
I did all the usual - verified game files, nuked and rebuilt the prefix, tried different Proton compatibility versions, etc. I just could not get EADesktop to work. Even when starting with a fresh prefix and therefore clean install of EADesktop.

My theory:
So the issue appears to be from a recent EADesktop update that was being a pain - even after a fresh prefix, when I went into the compatdata folder I'd see two versions of EADesktop in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts. Neither worked. So the game install files would install the first version, then it would download and apply the updated version, which then dies a horrible death (notably the EABackgroundService.exe process just keeps crashing)

What finally fixed it:
1. Backup your Saves. They're lurking in your compatdata folder (in /home/username/.local/Share/Steam/steamapps in my case) under steamapps/compatdata/1328670/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/BioWare.
The "1328670" is for Mass Effect Legendary Edition. if you're trying to fix a different EA game, you'll need to use it's prefix ID.

1. Delete the entire prefix folder - in my case, I deleted "1328670"

2. In Steam, hit "Play" to start the first-time install. When it launches the EADesktop Installer - CANCEL.

3. Stop the game in Steam. You should now have a new prefix folder created, but without EADesktop installed.

4. Download the latest EADesktop installer from their website.

5. Install this latest version cleanly inside the Prefix. In my case, I just used ProtonTricks to open Explorer.exe (after selecting the game and then the default prefix for it). Once in Explorer I browsed to the download (tucked in my Z:\home\username\Downloads folder) and ran it that way. It then did a clean and non-shit install of the new version, which launched cleanly and shows my game already installed.

6. Quit the EADesktop app. Restore your saved games back into the prefix folder.

7. Reboot on general principle, and because for me it fixed a weird video issue on first launch

8. You should now be able to once again cleanly just hit "Play" in Steam and have the game open as normal and get back to playing.

Hopefully this helps someone else who's discovered their EA game just stopped working.
I wouldn't be surprised if it fixes it in Windows as well (completely removing all EAdesktop installs, caches, files, etc and a fresh install of the latest version before trying to launch from steam)

Hello, everyone!

We are proud to announce that a tiny patch version 0.10.2b is out on Flathub!

Depending on your app-store it might be a while until you see the correct text.

Patch Notes

Review the complete set of changes and improvements in the patch notes:

Version 0.10.2b

Hello, I am a pretty big noob to linux and I am having so much trouble with literally one single program.

It is a runescape private server called RSC Evolution. On two separate computers I am working on, one with Mint, one with Manjaro, the game will install fine, run fine, and then after a random amount of time just crash.

I am unsure how to get the specific log for each app, if I am able to, in order to verify what happened.

I would really like to fix this, and play my stupid little game, if possible. Thanks.