My setup:

intel i7 6500u, nvidia gtx 950m, 8gb ram, arch linux, latest kernel and nvidia drivers (580), gnome (wayland), proton ge (latest), steam, gamemode and mangohud

Problem:

I have lags and stuttering in some games. I tried to play in Batman: arkham asylum, batman: arkham city and deus ex: human revolution. I read through protondb, where everyone recommended to use ProtonGE. When i tried to play these games on windows, everything was ok, I didn't have any lags. I tried to use different versions of proton and wine, but nothing helped.

Also, i thought that the problem was the compiling vulkan shaders but: 1) I had this "Processing vulkan shaders" screen in steam 2) After i played an hour with lags, problem didn't disappear.

I can provide some logs if needed, but i don't which. Thanks in advance

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i managed to install steam and EA app, but when i press play it just says "running" for a while and then stops, any help? btw im really bad with computers

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Multiplayer games and sometimes singleplayer games crash when using dx12 but work perfectly fine with dx11. Im playing on a laptop with linux mint (latest version).
My specs:
Linux Mint (latest version)
AMD Ryzen 7735Hs
Nvidia rtx 4060(laptop)
32gb 4800Mhz ram
Latest nvidia driver

So here's the problem:
When running with dx12 games crash after like 1-2 minutes, regardless if i already loaded into a map/playing normally/in menu etc. Ive disabled ray tracing and frame generation. However in dx11 every game works just fine but with worse performance.
Heres what I've tried:
Tried every proton(including experimental/hotfix on steam), tried every ge-proton. Ive already disabled steams shader pre-caching. Running with prime-run %command% returns "command not found" so i cant even try that. I've tried the flags: __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %commadn% but to no avail. Also running glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer" shows "OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon 680M... . Weird thing is when running nvidia-smi on dx12 the game clearly shows up there active and using my dgpu. Also using PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command% doesnt fix the problem regardless of which proton i run it with. Ive already tried a clean installation of my drivers and tried older versions but nothing worked.

I dont know what else to try and some help would be appreciated. Thank you!

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I'm looking to build my first gaming PC and am eyeing an Intel ARC GPU because of their value (no specifics yet). However I am curious if they perform any good at gaming on Linux, compared to Nvidia or AMD. I would love to stray away from Windows, so I need a good Linux GPU.

Does anyone have any recommendations or knowledge about this? Thanks! 😄

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The info shown on the homepage and explore page is severely outdated most of the time. Does anyone else have this problem?

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Don't remember exactly when it started occuring but about 2 months ago I noticed that my game sound dies when playing Dota 2 using the native client. This error does not occur for any other game or application (Proton or native).

After some trouble shooting I've noticed that its when Dota sends notifications to the OS that the sound just dies (Party invite, ready check, Match Found etc.)

After some trouble shooting I think it has to do with how xdg-desktop portal handles these notifications. Why the problem started occurring after two years without me really changing anything is a mystery to me. I dont know how to troubleshoot further. Ive tried googling and reading up on the error messages from my logs but with no luck. Journal output below:

journalctl --user -u xdg-desktop-portal -n 20 -f Nov 14 16:20:08 fedora xdg-desktop-por[33252]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns for pid 42724: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory Nov 14 16:21:15 fedora xdg-desktop-por[33252]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns for pid 42724: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory Nov 14 18:09:56 fedora systemd[32143]: Stopping xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service... Nov 14 18:09:56 fedora systemd[32143]: Stopped xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service. Nov 14 18:10:56 fedora systemd[58761]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service... Nov 14 18:10:56 fedora systemd[58761]: Started xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service. Nov 14 18:11:05 fedora xdg-desktop-por[59017]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns for pid 59668: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory Nov 14 18:11:05 fedora xdg-desktop-por[59017]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns for pid 59668: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory Nov 14 18:18:52 fedora systemd[58761]: Stopping xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service... Nov 14 18:18:53 fedora systemd[58761]: Stopped xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service. Nov 14 18:19:03 fedora systemd[66785]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service... Nov 14 18:19:03 fedora systemd[66785]: Started xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service. Nov 14 18:19:13 fedora xdg-desktop-por[67035]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns for pid 67821: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory Nov 14 18:19:13 fedora xdg-desktop-por[67035]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns for pid 67821: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory Nov 14 18:21:55 fedora systemd[66785]: Stopping xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service... Nov 14 18:21:55 fedora systemd[66785]: Stopped xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service. Nov 14 18:22:42 fedora systemd[74441]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service... Nov 14 18:22:43 fedora systemd[74441]: Started xdg-desktop-portal.service - Portal service. Nov 14 18:22:58 fedora xdg-desktop-por[74672]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns for pid 75455: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory Nov 14 18:22:58 fedora xdg-desktop-por[74672]: Realtime error: Could not get pidns for pid 75455: Could not fstatat ns/pid: Not a directory submitted by /u/rikve916
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saying this while the most popular multiplayer games blacklist linux is crazy

and most people don't care about privacy, so the "invasive Kernel AC" argument is meaningless

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So I've increasingly been streaming my desktop (Fedora) to an HTPC (Bazzite) in my living room for gaming purposes and it is great. I set up Moonlight/Sunshine but... that is always finicky and seems to need some manual config tweaks maybe once a month (presumably when there is an update) and Steam Remote Play feels like it would be a lot more seamless and SHOULD only get better in the next few months.

But... I am stupid and weird and care about performance/latency even though I am not playing anything remotely twitch shootery and I am also an old with decades of adult beverages to make sure my reflexes are crap. But it is the principle of the matter!

My thinking is to just make a simple Godot "game" and use a high FPS camera to measure the delay between input and output locally and streaming with each solution. But this also feels like something someone else may have already done and I would be genuinely interested in whether different distros/compositors make a meaningful difference. And by "meaningful difference" I of course mean "nothing that matters for like 99.9999999% of the population".

So... is there a writeup or video on something like this?

Thanks

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Hello!
I'm new to ubuntu, downloaded mainly because i noticed the following video (https://youtu.be/uwHttoYK3KE?si=vuObgh\_KrmdtjsMA) which opened my eyes to the ways that linux can help me bypass hardware limitations.
Unfortunatly, i was not able to mimick the process the video does
has anyone tried this and worked with a bought copy of aw2 from epic game store

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my games won't start, i tried other games and, it's still the same.

The game seems to launch but then the button changes and my game will never show up.

pls, help.

I'm using Garuda Linux

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Has anyone managed to get Anno 117 working under the aforementioned conditions?

First some info about my software:

• Ubuntu 24.04.3
• Lutris
• Ubisoft Connect

I know that it's often (read: almost always) easier to use steam, but before I switched to Linux I bought all Anno games directly from Ubisoft and on reflex I did the same with 117, so now I'm stuck with that.
I also can't link my steam and Ubisoft accounts because none of my Ubisoft games will start when started via steam.

So I've got Ubisoft Connect installed via Lutris and that works, I can also start some of my games without any tweaks.
However, no matter what I do, I can't get 117 to start. I always get the following error:

This Product cannot be activated right now, please try again laterThis Product cannot be activated right now, please try again later

I've looked at this post for the demo and tried all the arguments.
Tried applying them in Ubisoft Connect and Lutris, in all the combinations I could think of, but to no avail.
I've switched between all the recent Proton versions and even tried starting 117 not via Ubisoft Connect, but steam and directly out of Lutris.
Steam doesn't work at all and Lutris produces either the same result or a different Error:

Something went wrong when opening your profile. Some features may be unavailable.

If I use Proton Hotfix, and after clicking away the 6 dialogues that this opens I get nothing, just my CPU committing Seppuku.

Oh and yes, I already tried all the alternatives to Lutris, those did not work either.
Thus far, Lutris has gotten me the closest to playing (which is the error message above).

Has anyone any pointers on what to do? I'm out of ideas...

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So I've got this computer I built, out of spare parts, I was originally planning to sell it but I actually wanna try making it a little media center/emulator and game-streaming "console" for my bedroom TV. The problem is, I don't know what OS would be best for ease of use in this case.

It's a pretty low spec PC;

i7 2600

8GB DDR3 RAM

240GB SSD

GTX 750

Old spare parts as I said before.

I'm looking for an OS with controller support, that won't have any issues running Moonlight to stream games from my main PC. I was thinking something like Bazzite, but the GPU in this is too old for Bazzite's desktop only more, much less it's Gaming Mode. Maybe Batocera? I've never managed to get that to work right though, especially steam, so I'm a little hesitant to use it.

Right now, Zorin OS is installed on it with Nouveau drivers, if there's a way to get Zorin to operate with a controller on start up I'd also be willing to mess around and download and configure some stuff to get that to work too.

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I have 2 ultrawides. They work great in pretty much any distro for the desktop. Currently on CachyOS/Arch. GPU is Nvidia RTX 4090

No issues with resolution, orrr refresh rate, orrr HDR, adaptive sync, etc.

It all just works!

UNTIL. I start a game via xwayland.. There are just no 21:9 resolutions listed in games. Only 16:9. 3440x1440 doesn't exist in game as an option to pick from

So any of my games on Steam, I have to force them to run via gamescope in launch options. It's annoying.

This is the one thing keeping me from leaving Windows behind for good. I don't play multiplayer games only singleplayer. So no need for anti cheat. I would be perfectly happy on Linux.

I find it hard to believe no one else has encountered this. I have the same issue on Mint, Fedora, etc. So it seems like a wayland issue anyone with an ultrawide monitor should be experiencing.

Is there a more elegant solution than setting gamescope as a launch option individually for each game on steam?

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So, I have been running Cities Skylines 2 on my steam deck with manjaro for a while now and it worked fine but now after i took a break (like 1-2 months) the game is very laggy even on very low graphics.

For Example: Just to move my cursor from the top of my screen to the bottom I have to lift my mouse and move it to the top of the mousepad.

If anyone asks if i alt tab out of the game the cursor moves fine. I already tried to change my proton version and with some of them the game doesnt even start and with the others it lags.

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I have been trying to install a compatible driver to work on a project I need the gpu for. I have a DELL G15(RTX 4060) and I have tried nvidia-driver-535 as well as nvidia-driver-580(recommended by ubuntu), but both of them crash my laptop. Please provide a solution for this.

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