so every time i try to launch genshin it keeps kicking me out and opens steam for some random reason any way to fix this? should i use GE proton or is the proton available on steam enough

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Hello, i am trying to play the crew motorfest on arch. I downloaded it from steam, i clicked play but it wont launch. Steam says its running for a few minutes and then it closes.

What i have tried:

Checked the box "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" and selected proton experimental, proton 10.0-3 and proton 9.0-4. All dont work.

I also tried to run some of the .exe files in ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/The Crew Motorfest trough Lutris, with both wine-ge and proton-ge. Both didnt launch.

I have searched online and it seems its running just fine for everyone, what am i missing?

(system specs: R5 3500x, rx580, 16gb ram, latest arch linux with kde plasma and hyprland)

I noticed these strange artifacts while playing today. Is this already known and is there a solution for it? I am using CachyOs with an RTX 4070 Ti and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Resolution ist 4k with DLSS Quality and FrameGen.

AMD Bazzite, 5950X, 7900XT & 32GB, Proton Experimental (bleeding edge).

Sorry for crappy low res photos, trying to play via moonlight from my deck and I cba getting up to my desk.

Tried reinstalling etc but same problem each time. Latest update as well. Have an nvidia GPU in the system but it’s bound to vfio so not sure that’s related.

Anyone had this issue or know a fix? All my other games are running fine.

Hey guys, I don't know if this is the right sub, but I had no iuck in the scrcpy or linux4noobs subs, basically I tried playing MCPE for the first time through scrcpy on Linux, but I encountered an issue where my camera is laggy/choppy and it persists both when I connect through tcpip and a usb cable. Is this really a mouse issue or could this be something with performance/connection or just MCPE at all?

Here are the arguments I used:

'--keyboard uhid --mouse-uhid --max-size=1024'

Any ideas? every answer is appreciated :)

After the CrowdStrike disaster bricked millions of Windows machines in July 2024, Microsoft announced in mid-2025 that they're moving antivirus and security tools out of the kernel as part of their Windows Resiliency Initiative. Their reasoning is simple: kernel-level software is too risky. One bad update can take down entire systems.

And yet, kernel-level anti-cheat keeps spreading. There are now over 330 games using it, and new releases like Battlefield 6 are still shipping with it despite community pushback.

These anti-cheat drivers have the same level of access as your OS. They can read memory, monitor inputs, intercept network traffic, and run from boot to shutdown. They're closed-source, so nobody outside the company can audit what they're doing. If one of them ships a bad update or gets compromised, you're not just losing access to a game; you're potentially handing over your entire system.

For Linux users, the situation is even worse. Most kernel anti-cheat flat out refuses to run under Proton, which means a growing list of games is just off-limits. But the security argument affects everyone, not just us. Windows users are handing over root access to play Fortnite. That should concern people.

Microsoft clearly recognizes this risk for security software. Why are we still expected to accept it for video games?

Has anyone got FiveM to work even without adhesive.dll since 2024? Because the client now wont work on both Windows 7 and 8. I'm a FiveM dev and the only reason I still have Windows installed on my other ssd is because of this.

"A recent benchmark from PC Games Hardware suggests that, at least for some games, Proton has nearly eliminated the performance cost of running Windows code on Linux. AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPU owners uninterested in online games should seriously consider switching to Linux.

The outlet tested 10 games on 10 graphics cards to compare Windows 11 performance with CachyOS, an Arch Linux distro that comes packaged with gaming-specific optimizations. Although Windows remains ahead in most titles, especially on Nvidia graphics cards due to the lack of proper Linux GeForce drivers, Linux achieves some notable victories."

hi folks.

a year ago there was an issue with linux operating system.

back then the operating system were capped with gpu power draw, or ot least there was an issue where it capped the gpu total power draw to around 300 watts ish.

that could be an issue for some gpu users.

i know that linux shows different values as in windows. linux only shows gpu core watts.

but it was clear, that my 7900xtx was not getting enough juice and was somehow capped by the operating system thus giving me lower gpu boost clocks as on windows.
it was very representetive in clock speeds and of course: performance was lower.

so i had to manually do some tweaks and do some commands and install corecontrol to make it ,,somehow" work.

so basically when you have a 7900xtx / 4090 / 5090 or ANY card more than 300 watts it was bottlenecked by the operating system.

i mean getting it to work is okay i guess, but there is no way to tell how much watt only the gpu ,,board" takes cause linux only shows you core watt.

is this issue, or bug, or whatever still an issue in linux?

so some gpus like 5090s or 7900xtx are underperforming.

can someone report on this issue? and maybe like check for watt usage and core clocks on 7900xtx or 5090 cards?
i know its alot to ask, but this is crucial to getting the same performance as on windows.

my 7900xtx was using 270watts core watts and around 30 watts was used by the board itself.
so my 375 watt card was missing 75 watts of power making it a lot slower :/.
it went down with clocks from 2900mhz to 2400 mhz sometimes even 2300 depending on the task.
and thats, a lot of missing performance.

Hi, I’ve had my steamdeck about 8 months, and had been playing Pokemon on Citra. for some reason the games were grayed out in the directory, and as I wanted to patch Pokemon Y to Wilting Y, I decided to delete the emulator and reinstall it.

Now the shaders don’t load and the emulator freezes, with no games starting. I’ve installed Azahar and the same happens. The same happens when I try to run it through the emulation station.

Does anybody have any ideas for what I’ve done wrong or broken for this to happen?

I am currently using AccuMarine Linux, and after using “Discover” to install the proprietary drivers, I have version 580.119.02. Is that correct? In my previous installation of Cachy, version 590 was downloaded...

I'm completely new to linux, been using it for a few weeks now, and wanted to play Cyberpunk again. But i cannot for the life of me get mods working.

Completely fresh installs straight off Nexusmods, and it's telling me they're outdated??

I'm getting these three errors when i start the game:

"Unable to load cyber_engine_tweaks.asi. Error: 998"

"No access to memory location
S:\common\Cyberpunk 2077\red4ext\RED4ecxxt.dll
RED4ext could not be loaded."

"Compilation error
REDScript compilatiomn has failed.
This error has been caused by mods listen below:
-EquipmentEx
One or more of the errors found has a known solution.
Here are the recommended steps:
-Install ArchiveXL 1.21.0 or higher
-Install Codeware 1.15.0 or higher
The game will start but no scripts will take effect.
If you need more information, consult the logs."

I'm genuinely at a dead end, my linux expert buddy doesn't know what to do, and i'm no good at all.

I am a newbie Linux gamer and I used to have Linux Mint (Which is Ubuntu based I believe?) on my 1050ti card. Other than Minecraft it worked horribly and nearly double as worse than Windows 10 did. I figured it's because I used an old nvidia gpu. Now I have a Vega 56 and an I5-10400f and I want to try again after rage quiting windows once more. Yes I want to game on it. I looked around the subreddjt and everyone is recommending Bazzite or Endeavour or Catchy or even Nobara but nobody is mentioning anything Ubuntu based. Why? From what research has told me Ubuntu has the widest range of supported software in their appstore thingy and kbuntu also exists with it's Discover app so I figured it would be awesome for a newbie gamer. So is Ubuntu really that bad that nobody is even recommending it?

Hey fellow linux users I am thinking of switching from windows 11 to linux mint but my concern is that would I be able to play fps games like counter strike , warzone and any other fps games on linux mint ?

Edit- I am not familiar with linux so I am not familiar with a lot of phrases or words.

With the recent news of the work being done to fully support old GCN chips in the AMDGPU driver, I decided to dust off an old HD 7750 that I used back in the day. To my surprise, it managed to run this native Vulkan game notably faster than I could ever get it to do on Windows, scoring 12% higher in the inbuilt benchmark once I got past the hurdle of making everything fit within the measly 1GB memory capacity.

And I must say, The Talos Principle still holds up. I couldn't have asked for a better showcase of this piece of antiquity in action. Shoutout to Timur Kristóf for breathing life and making this come true.

Yesterday i downloaded Bazzite as my main OS. Yeah, it's hard to use, but I'm ok for that.

But I've got some issues and some of them may not get solved as of now:

1. First and the main problem is that using Proton will cause a performance loss when redirecting from DX12. It's not something that can be fixed now, and this is the main reason I wanna switch back. I'm using a NVIDIA GPU, and the loss is visible compared to Windows. I consider that I'll be playing a lot of games that natively only support DirectX and this disturbs me.
2. Stuff related to NVIDIA is really hard to configure. Firstly it's that i can't find a method to set my screen color depth to 10 bits for my HDR to work better. Secondly it's that i can't set up the latest framegen version by swapping dlss (Only tried doing that in The Finals so far, tells me to turn on HAGS.). There is no NVIDIA App, no control panel, nothing (aside nvidia settings panel which has almost nothing in it) that could help me configure the settings i want.

I think i was too hasty when deciding to install Bazzite... It seems to be too unfinished to me right now. While the second point is tolerable, the first one seems to be really obstructing...

Seems the Nvidia driver borked on a bunch of these, falling back to NVK on some systems and even llvmpipe/lavapipe on one. Poor 1080 Ti, so many eggs...