https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15433

Vortex

As we move into 2026, Vortex is shifting back to the centre of our development roadmap. While we have spent the last couple of years exploring new territory with the Nexus Mods App, we have decided to consolidate our efforts and bring all that innovation directly into Vortex. Over 1.4 million modders use Vortex every month to mod their games, and we’re committed to improving their modding experience.

Our plans for the year include a steady, iterative modernisation of the Vortex user experience. We’ll be investing in the developer experience, which will allow us to focus on quality-of-life improvements, specifically streamlining navigation, simplifying game management, and introducing more intuitive controls for load orders. You can expect the interface to become cleaner and more responsive as we integrate the design lessons learned from our recent projects. Our goal is to make modding more accessible and reliable without disrupting the workflows that long-time Vortex users have come to rely on.

We’re also committing to supporting Vortex on SteamOS. We’ll be targeting vanilla Steam hardware like the Steam Deck and Steam Machine. We won’t be officially supporting any other configurations, but as Vortex is an open source project community developers will be free to extend support for their preferred Linux distros as they please.

Here’s an early proof of concept (subject to change) of the updated Vortex navigation:

https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/3836/images/24/24-1769081338-743663158.png

"Box64 v0.4.0 (built with Box32) running various games on a Ampere (Arm64) machine.

CPU: Ampere 64Cores at 3.2 GHz

GPU: NVidia RTX4060

OS: Debian Forky

Linux Steam used. Battle net and GoG Windows games run with Wine 10.20 with new WoW64, Heroic is the Arm64 build

List of games showed:

Red Dead Redemption 2 / Steam

Portal: Revolution / Steam

Asphalt Legends / Epic (Heroic)

Just Cause 3 / Steam

Distance / Steam (default Linux 32bits version)

Divide by Sheep / Steam

Rage 2 / Steam

The Talos Principle 2 + DLC / GoG

Beyond a Steel Sky / Steam (default Linux 64bits version)

Revenge of the Titans / Steam

Black Myth: Wukong / Steam

The Battle for Polytopia / Epic (Heroic)

Quake 2 RTX / Steam

Satisfactory / Steam

Dakar Desert Rally / Epic (Heroic)

Viewfinder / Epic (Heroic)

Hearthstone / Battle net

StarCraft / Battle net

And many more are already working..."

Recently switched to Nobara Linux and I am pretty new and fresh. Wanted to play Code Vein, but it doesn‘t start the game. Tried using the WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY thing and still doesn‘t work. Is it because I use 13th gen Intel? Anyone maybe knows how to solve?

I'm on Win 11 and I had a little talk with a friend of mine saying and he quoted, "The second you link with someone who has the service running, battleye will just kick you out."

Is there a workaround or how do we get around this?

The only thing I can really think of is if some super popular software becomes completely windows only without any possibility of running through proton or wine or something. I do see the KLAC problem to be an issue with gamers, but more something that slows adoption not necessarily stopping it.

Do games run better generally speaking? Im new to using Linux? Should I just run proton by default?

So, regarding my previous post, at last, I was successful in my (kinda) complicated way of gaming on Linux.

I've jumped through a moderate amount of hoops, but in the end I was able pass my RTX 3060 into the KVM and also made Looking Glass work properly (took me the longest), so here are my notes:

1. If you want to keep your santiy, DO NOT USE the master branch of Looking Glass as they mention it in the docs, use the "Release/B7" branch (at the moment), otherwise the linux client won't see the windows host application no matter what you do, the master branch is 190 commits ahead of the latest stable release of B7 and the windows host application IS on the latest stable release of B7, you need to match the versions exactly.
2. MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX II does in fact support proper IOMMU grouping, so your GPU will 100% appear in a separate IOMMU group that you can safely pass into the VM as PCIe devices.
3. Nvidia's Error 43 is easily avoidable (in fact, I never ran into it) by just checking "Copy host CPU configuration (host-passthrough)" option under "CPUs" confugration in the KVM (or edit XML config accordingly).
4. Make sure you've configured your ufw properly (or just straight up disabled it), especially If you're on CachyOS, as it blocks all incoming connections by default so KVM's virtual connection just won't work.
5. Still have no clue how to properly acquire rights to the /dev/kvmfr0 file, so I just winged it and chown'ed it to the root, it works so I don't care.
6. Also, you'll probably need an HDMI/DP dummy plug, because Windows won't turn your GPU on until there's a display connected to it (smh).
7. Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 is a CHUNKY BOI, it also requires 6+8 PSU connectors, which I don't have so it only runs on 8 pin connector, still works though, I doubt that it will ever get enough load to require additional power in general, yet I still ordered a new PSU that has enough connectors (probablt could've used an adapter from 6/8 pins to 6+2 x2, but I doubt their quality)

So in the end, ~100 FPS on the half of Ryzen 5 5600X cores and RTX 3060 with DLSS and framegen enabled on max settings, the difference is like ~10 FPS compared to bare windows install, the bottleneck is the CPU, because I give the VM like 3 cores and 6 threads only.

Had to use my 2nd display for RTX 3060 to it turns on, already ordered a dummy hdmi plug

https://preview.redd.it/7bg37x2shxeg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=e72d0dcbd074a5754564003f3d183908637f68db

I started a post on Bungie forums to help vocalize Linux gaming community on why its important to have linux support marathon.

Estoy en busca de 2 personas para mi familia, que sean de chile ya que si no estoy mal informado solo se pueden de el país de que uno es.... Gente interesada hablenme al priv o en los comentarios

had no issue whatsoever with the base game and the two Daud DLCs, but the Trials one keeps crashing, no matter what. this is the error i got recently:

https://preview.redd.it/zy48sdmkaxeg1.png?width=326&format=png&auto=webp&s=08ad63b080f4a3ac45e4e93cd7ae756105b3c3e2

tried it with multiple proton versions, and everything.

this error message was with GE10-28

gamemoderun DXVK_FRAME_RATE=120 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR=DP-1 %command% -windowed -nostartupmovies

I'm in Linux mint in the most recent version, using drivers nvidia 535, I followed both a youtube guide and a post on the community claiming the game works with no problem in proton dw14, but I've been the whole morning trying to make it work and it's still failing, the game already had an update so I'm assuming either it broke the launcher or I'm too stupid.

The problem is always the same, it runs the installer once, setups everything but when it tries to open the game's launcher it simply opens a screen and closes it immediately, then the game stops running. But when I simply open the launcher with "wine Launcher.exe" it works!

So far I tried protons ge-latest, ge-28 and dw-14, plus wine ge-latest and wine ge-26

I used steam, lutris and heroic and all 3 failed, what could be the problem here? I have some logs from heroic but I'm new to reddit so Idk how to send them.

this new year i switched to linux and the first thing i did was try my own game and voila, for some reason, it wasnt launching even with proton, so i decided to make it work on linux and here it is, read more here https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3926150/view/639081372685700508?l=english

Finally bought my first gaming PC in 10 years and I never let it boot into Windows. I unpacked it, popped in my bootable USB, and installed Kubuntu 25.10 straight away. Spent all last night installing my Steam library so today I'm ready to go.

Specs are Intel 7 Ultra, 32 GB DDR5, Nvidia 5060 Ti, 2 TB NVME SSD

I did switch to the Nvidia 580 open proprietary driver because it gave me better frames with my card than the regular 580 proprietary driver.

I also switched away from Wayland to X11 because Wayland doesn't want me to control my cursor with my controller by default.

Anyway, very excited for the upcoming weekend!

Valve doesn't give us these numbers directly, but we can use Bayes' Theorem to derive the conditional probability of Linux users given English language for December 2025.

• P(linux) = 3.58%
  
• P(english speaker) = 39.22%
• P(english speaker|linux) = 83.11%

Therefore, p(linux|english speaker) = (83.11 * 3.58) / 39.22 = 7.58%.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

As the title suggests, GTA 4 doesn't wanna run by any means. I'm quite new to linux. And I've been asking help to Gemini. But all the roads lead to trial and error with proton versions and so on.

I've tried everything he told. Tried Proton 7, 8, 9, Experimental. I've tried Proton-GE. I've tried FusionFix. I've reinstalled the game, but nothing seems to work!

I don't understand what is going on really. The 1st time I installed the game, it ran perfectly. Now I can't even open it.

Sometimes the launcher doesn't even open, just stays black/white. Sometimes it just says that it "quit unexpectedly".

Yesterday as I was trying to open it. It would open, I'd hear music, and the menu, but no image, just completely dark.

I've ran out of things to do really.

PS: I'm using Fedora on KDE Plasma. if it helps

Thanks!

Whenever I leave the Endfield launcher running and put my PC to sleep, the window is black when it wakes up. If I close and reopen it, I get the error shown in the screenshot. A system restart fixes this, but it kinda frustrating to have to restart everytime.

I'm using fedora 43 with KDE, mobile GTX 1650, properietary nvidia driver and dwproton 10.0-14-x86_64

https://reddit.com/link/1qjucg3/video/j8aoey2uiweg1/player

For some reason Sober crashes when I launch a game with my NVIDIA GPU.
But it doesn't when it uses my integrated GPU.

Linux gaming is actually great. The CachyOS GUI is super cool compared to Windows and I love the features, especially on the performance side. I rarely drop frames on Arc Raiders now, unlike on Windows where I would feel the drops on certain occasions.

The only downside is the Discord and OBS setup. For OBS, I have to use the Flatpak version because the pacman version feels incomplete. It is like using Windows 10 version but I download the Windows 9 version or something. I also have to make sure I am using X11 instead of Wayland. I am constantly having to ask for help just to fix issues, like the "Lucky Day" error on Discord.

I really hope that some of the Windows apps i use back then on Linux eventually becomes less stressful. I love Linux, but there are times I really miss the "plug and play" feel of Windows. Even newer games on Steam need research before you can play them. i.e., StarRupture, I had to search for a fix, add launch options, and hunt for a specific Proton version just to get it to run.

Without the power of AI, I would have probably dropped this OS because of how long it takes to find ways to fix issues. Even though AI can’t answer everything, the pros are still worth the cons now that I am on Linux.

so, steam naming wineprefix based on it's own id game that can be found at steamdb.

But when i add a non-steam game, it will created a randomize id like that, then how i know wheres the wineprefix that im looking for if the name is just randomize id?

https://c.org/X78LqnT999

For years, League of Legends was perfectly playable on Linux through compatibility layers. That changed with the introduction of Vanguard, which effectively locked Linux users out of the game.
We’ve started a petition asking Riot Games to reconsider their stance and bring League of Legends back to Linux. This isn’t about bypassing anti-cheat it’s about inclusivity, fair access, and acknowledging a rapidly growing player base.

https://c.org/X78LqnT999