My specs:

-Acer Aspire 3 A315-42-R1B0 (Ryzen 5 3500U,Radeon Vega 8,24GB of RAM and 1TB SSD)

-OS: elementaryOS 8.1 Circe,based upon Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

A TL;DR of what is happening: Bought NFS Heat on Steam's Winter Sale,with the intention of installing either Unite or Evolution mods. I opted for Evolution, then I solved the problem I had with FrostyModManager on my previous post on this sub by running it on normal wine,now game boots to title screen and mods apply correctly.

However I have another hiccup,why does the game doesn't wanna pick up any controller? I tried both my DualShock 3 and DS4 with different cables and on the 3 USBs,but the game only picks up my keyboard. Is it the EA App interfering with Steam Input in some way or the other?

I run Steam Flatpak, and I have the following Proton Experimental arguments set up here:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b"%command% -dataPath ModData/EvoMain PROTON_EAC_RUNTIME=1

I'm not sure what is going on,if someone is kind enough to explain I'll thank them.

In order to try to find a balance between performance and eye candy for any game, I like being able to see the FPS in game. I know not every game has such a built in feature. For games that do not, what is a good app for this? Also, I am guessing that such an app I'll have to start up before the game, am I right? If not, please enlighten me. Thank you.

I'm trying to play arcane anarchy which is on 1.12.2. when i load into the world my controls are completely broken. i have played this modpack in the past on windows without any problems.

modpack

game log
system info bastebin

Game runs great on Windows 11 and this Steam FPS Graph should just be one line unless Frame Gen gets enabled (at least that’s how the Steam overlay works on W11).

I do not have frame Gen enabled but am seeing a green and red line, red line can’t get above 60 FPS while green line gets up to 150 or 160.

Game feels like a stuttery mess. Almost like it can’t figure out if it’s capped at 60 or something. CPU way underutilized as well.

I am on Proton Experimental “Latest and Untested.” I also tried the latest Proton GE and that did not fix it.

I have PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command% in the Steam launch options.

I have Power plan mode on “Performance” instead of “Balanced” at the system level.

VRR is on and refresh rate is set to 280Hz in system settings.

Vsync off in game.

I am very new to Linux but I have had good luck with figuring out most issues except for Runescape.. Is there a way to run Jagex's launcher on Linux, preferably through Faugus? Runelite runs natively, but Jagex and their infinite wisdom requires you to open it via their launcher which is does not support Linux. I downloaded the .exe and I get this error when I try to launch through Faugus.

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Considering moving from RTX 5080 to RX 9070XT because I recently switched from windows to linux.

I installed davinci resolve in vbox but it can't find my gpu. do you know any way to make it detect my gpu or any other way to run davinci resolve? I installed the linux native version but it can't even render a png.

I use a pretty somewhat old Dualshock4 for when I wanna play a game on controller, but I have the issue of the touchpad really annoying me. It functions as a mouse cursor, which can mess up my aim when I'm just trying to play a game with the controller normally. Any way to circumvent this? I tried using steam input but either I'm doing something super wrong or it's not the solution. Will provide extra details if asked to!

About a week ago I installed Cachy OS and I've been trying to get a nice desktop in Hyprland with Caelestia Dots. I also tried installing Rocket League, which is one of my favorite games, but I noticed my FPS seemed limited by the render quality. If I set the render quality to high performance, it went up to 120 FPS but stayed there. I'm using Proton Experimental with the Heroic Launcher. Any help?

I'm using a translator; I speak Spanish, in case you find any spelling mistakes.

OS: CachyOS
KERNEL: 6.18.2-2-cachyos
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 (radeonsi, navi23, LLVM 21.1.6, DRM 3.64, 6.18.2-2-cachyos)
GPU DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 25.3.2-arch1.2
RAM: 16 GB
Display Model: "LG ELECTRONICS LG ULTRAGEAR 180HZ"

Many of you are probably already aware of the Minecraft Bedrock edition workaround by using the Android version of the game. Wouldn't something similar technically work with Fortnite? That game normally isn't playable on Linux due to its anti-cheat, but wouldn't it work using the Android version of the game?

Fortnite isn't available on Mac either since the Apple lawsuits started. But after the game was re-released on iOS in the EU, it has been possible to get the iOS version to run on Macs. Has anyone tried to get the Android build running on Linux?

Hi,

I'm semi-new to linux/fedora and I'd like to learn how mesa updates are handled usually. I've read that mesa stable get releases usually every two weeks. A couple weeks ago version 25.3 got announced but fedora still is on 25.2.7. ASFAIK fedora devs usualy wait for a bit before updating becaus of stability, but since I'm a 9070xt user I'd like to see new fetures.

I wonder whats a usual fedora update cadence when it comes to mesa and if its possible to update to stable releases by myself somehow.

Probably a stupid question but it's not explained and when I try to do something with it it just causes my game to crash. Where and how do I use commands that have a -- in a gamescope launcher when the -- apparently ends the command?

I am extremely new to Linux and all this stuff. I used Gamescope to render LotRO in a certain resolution and then stretch it to fill the screen since the game is ancient and has no good internal UI scaling.

Currently I am using: gamescope -w 1440 -h 900 -W 2880 -H 1800 -b -S integer -- %command%

The problem is when scaling LotRO, it breaks the mouse cursor and it is invisible. I had the same issue trying to use Lossless Scaling in Windows to scale the game and it would make the cursor invisible.

I want to use the --cursor command, but not sure where to put it, and when I have tried to use it, it just causes the game to instantly crash on launch. Maybe it needs a different command entirely. Thankfully in Bazzite, swirling the mouse around forces a cursor to show up that I can use to navigate game menues.

I need to leave for work so I am out of attempts, hoping someone can correct my ignorance for when I get home. Thank you!

After reading for a while about which flavor to try, and since gaming is the major thing that I do on this PC, I chose Bazzite.

It's lovely, gorgeous, and runs most everything I need for vanilla gaming, minus some specific tools to control my gamepad (logi G13) and some other little things (like curseforge). And that's where it kind soured on me.

After a good bit of reading and research, I figured out it's mostly the "read-only" filesystem that doesn't allow me to install things the way I was used to in other flavors or systems. Is there a work-around for this? I don't necessarily want to use something else unless the work-around is pretty burdensome. I have tons of games installed on this system and don't want to reinstall everything...but I do understand that's kind of the nature of the beast with Linux - just distro-hopping until you find the one that works best for you.

Any ideas or fixes that I could try? Thanks!

FTR I have intel i9-14900K and a 5070 Ti

Hello there, I've been trying to run some GOG games on Lutris in Windowed mode, and I've been unable to. Mostly the Resident Evil Trilogy and Fallout Tactics, they seem run exclusively in Full Screen.

I've tried using Winecfg to create a virtual desktop, but that won't work, it seems to be deprecated as Wine ignores this option.

If anyone with more Linux experience could help, that'd be much appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using Linux for about a year now. I started with Pop!_OS and eventually switched to Nobara GNOME, which has been my daily driver ever since. My main priority is gaming—mostly older titles or anything that still runs well on my hardware.

I used to have a modern gaming PC, but I gave it to my younger brother. Now I’m using my older build, which is perfectly fine for my needs. My current specs are:

• CPU: Intel i5-4460
• GPU: AMD Radeon R9 380 (I might upgrade to an RX 580 if I find one at a good price, but I'm in no rush.)
• RAM: 16GB DDR3

I’m not looking for sky-high FPS; I just want to enjoy the games that run on this hardware without the OS getting in the way. I mostly play factory builders like Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program, along with titles like RimWorld, The Witcher series, Elder Scrolls, GTA IV/V, and Far Cry 3 & 4.

While I’ve enjoyed Nobara, I’m looking for something more stable. A friend strongly recommends Bazzite because it’s "unbreakable," but I’m hesitant. I want to learn more about Linux and have the freedom to tinker or "get under the hood" if necessary. I don't want the system to feel like it has "child locks" on it.

Because of this, I’m eyeing Fedora (specifically the Cinnamon Spin). However, I’ve also been hearing a lot about CachyOS lately and did some "distro-hopping" research on it. My main concern is whether CachyOS comes with a constant "update tsunami" similar to Nobara, or if it’s more manageable.

What are your experiences with these on older hardware? Would Fedora Cinnamon be a better fit for stability, or is CachyOS worth considering for someone who wants to avoid a chaotic update cycle?

Thanks in advance for your help!

P.S. Happy Birthday Linus Torvalds!

i have several third party xbox controllers and they don't work properly on here versus on windows. they don't have rumble, analog triggers do not show up on my favorite gamepad tester, and there's probably more that i'm forgetting. is there any way to troubleshoot / fix this properly?