For some time now, I've been developing my free-to-play game, an RPG/strategy simulator about a Dark Lord/Lady trying to conquer/destroy a fantasy world using intrigue, corruption, dark magic, and brutal military force.

I am planning another major update, focusing primarily on the endgame. Players focused on direct conquest will have new ways to find loot—portals to crazy, Lovecraftian worlds, discovering new lands, and a magical slumber to wait for the rebirth of old enemies/the emergence of new ones (and seeing how the world changes in their absence). For players more interested in the less brutal side of world domination, the options for managing the territories of our empire will be expanded. Will you allow orcs to overrun Dark Elf cities? Will schools focus on training engineers for the army and economy, or on brainwashing them into blind obedience? Furthermore, I'm expanding the Dark Lord's interactions with other characters, including available romances. Of course, new content requires testing, and since, as usual, it's highly non-linear and dependent on player decisions (plus random generation), I can't test every combination myself.

That's why I'm seeking the help of testers. All you need to do is play once—one playthrough lasts about 1.5 hours (as I mentioned, the game is highly non-linear and is meant to be played multiple times, each time revealing a different story) and send me a short report (specifically, indicating if you've spotted any obvious bugs).

Hi everyone, I'm having performance issues with two specific games on Debian. I installed CS2 and Assassin's Creed 2, but both feel like they are capped or stuttering around 60 FPS, even though I'm using a 120-180Hz monitor.

CS2 doesn't feel as smooth as it did on Windows 11; it feels sluggish. The same thing is happening with Assassin's Creed 2. I have already properly installed the Nvidia drivers, and other games like Hades run perfectly, just as they did on Windows.

What can I do to fix this? Any advice on configuration or optimization would be appreciated.

It was just a few days ago I was singing the praises of Linux here on reddit because I tried WoW and it was running WAY better on Linux...

Well, now it won't run at all.

I have been launching Bnet launcher using Faugus launcher just fine, then launching WoW through it just fine. Since yesterday night, WoW now just launches to a white or black screen, I hear the music, never get image. When I alt+F4, it shows the game screen (so it is able to present it), then it closes.

Fixes I've found through Google that aren't working:

• forcing the game to run in windowed mode

• forcing the game to run in d3d11 mode

• launching it through Steam or Lutris

Any advice? Yes I have done a complete reinstall...

Debian Unstable
9700X
9070 XT
32gb DDR5 RAM
installed to NVME

Hi, I'm in the process of switching my Lenovo Legion Go to Linux (CachyOS), and part of making sure it's viable is getting screens to recognize HDMI signal. I have a dock (not a big brand) which works on Windows but not Linux. TV doesn't react at all to the signal.

So, I'd like to know if there's ideally a software means to get that working, or if there's an adapter or worst case another dock that works.

Thanks in advance!

Hey guys, I just got Zorin, and I'm impressed I'd like to add Minecraft, both bedrock and Java, as well as Rocket League. So I get that Java is already natively on Minecraft, so what about Bedrock, where do I download it from? Same with Rocket League. Ik so far to use Steam, I then went and made sure Proton is on, I selected Proton 10.0-3. Is this the right move? How do I install these games?

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When running Tabletop Simulator with the Linux runtime on Wayland the game freezes when trying to open the file dialogue.

This is an annoying issue and when scanning the web a solution is hard to find. However, after one hour of research I found a way to solve this without switching to Proton and since X11 is dead now on several distros, falling back to X11 is not an option anymore.

Modern problems need modern solutions, however, and the trick is to force the app falling back to XWayland instead.

This can be done with Setting the WAYLAND_DISPLAY variable to empty. Just put

env WAYLAND_DISPLAY= %command%

(note the space between = and %command% ) into launch options and suddenly it works. Hopefully someone finds this useful! I leave it here because else I forget it again lol

Hi , i wanted to ask a question to anyone who is playing Rust on linux , are there any servers with decent people playing? I want to download and play the game but the fact that i will not be able to access 99% of the servers scares me a bit.

Hi fellow Linuxes,

it’s been a while I checked and I think Reddit should know the current news then anybody else. Is there something in the making for Anticheat software on Linux?

Only thing holding me back is Battlefield and some other multiplayer FPS games to switch to Linux because, you know it doesn’t work out of the box, others do like StarCitizen or other MMOs.

Do you know that someone is working on that kind of a problem or ist the way still to not buy and play these games?

Guys, I'm a Windows user and I want to switch to Linux, but I have a weak laptop and that's why every FPS in games is important to me, and on Linux my gaming performance drops. I installed Ubuntu, Fedora, even tried Steam OS, and everywhere the FPS was lower than on Windows. I play Dota and all kinds of story-driven games like Days Gone, but for some reason I feel like I'm doing something wrong, because I have no experience with Linux. Tell me, can I switch to some Linux distribution where I will feel comfortable and be able to do whatever I want? Does anyone have experience with low-end PCs/laptops? Tell me how you feel about Linux. Did your FPS drop or, on the contrary, did it increase?

By the way, I have

i3-1005G1 2 cores 4 threads

Nvidia GeForce MX330 2GB VRAM

8 RAM

Hey guys! I plan to use Bazzite for gaming and was currently wondering what the thoughts are of the community? Prices are in Canadian.

The 9070 XT is currently $929.99. And the 4070Ti is $1089.99.

I might turn on ray-tracing for some stuff, but honestly I just want to play my games natively at Ultra/High with great frames. I don't care about path tracing, I'm impartial to Ray Tracing.

I'm thinking the $150 extra isn't worth it and to stick with the 9070 XT for less of a headache.

This feels like AMD Boost Feature suddenly got enabled globally in all my Steam games (also Faugus), I can't even show it in a screenshot.

I don't remember what happened of if something updated, every game model's edge becomes pixelated when moving, and is back to normal when it's static.

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Distro: Pika OS

Default Proton: GE-Proton Latest (I made sure it's selected)

Do you know any Wayland-compatible play time tracking software?

so valve only maintenance steam for debian distro? another distro (such as fedora with their .rpm) isn't maintenance by valve?

Hi all, I'm currently one foot in - one foot out into switching over to Linux and I'm trying to get my games to run. I'm currently dual booting Fedora 43 (KDE - Plasma 6 on Wayland) and Windows and I'm using an AMD CPU and RX 9070 XT GPU.

Back when I was purely on windows, I had an existing NTFS hard drive dedicated to my games/steam library, so when I installed Fedora, I used a bit of jiggery-pokery to install steam and just get it to point to that hard drive. After some troubleshooting, I got my steam games to launch and play without any obvious issues (so far) without having to redownload anything or reformat the drive.

As for my non-steam games like World of Warcraft, I added my preexisting battle.net launcher to steam as a non steam game, and was once again able to play without issues and for FFXIV, I used discover to download XIV launcher and simply point it to my games hard drive. The only game giving me trouble is Elder Scrolls Online. I know that the game exists on steam, but I bought the game outside of that platform, so I once again, added my existing launcher to steam, and the launcher worked fine, but the game itself did not.

Initially, the game would just crash instantly when I clicked play, but I changed the compatibility settings to launch with GE-Proton 10-28 and that got the game to launch, but stuck on a black screen. I've also tried adding just the eso64.exe client to steam, but that sadly, has the same black screen problem.

I can see ESO's custom cursor, but nothing else. I've found old forum and reddit posts and tried their solutions, but to no avail, such as:
- Trying various versions of proton
- Pressing enter at the black screen
- Adding PROTON_SET_GAME_DRIVE=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command% as a launch option
- Trying to add the game through lutris (this helped somewhat as I was able to hear a single sound effect from the game, but no music or anything like that)
- Through lutris, modifying the usersettings.ini file options to skip the intro movie (SkipPregameVideos, HasPlayedPregameVideo)
- Alt+enter to toggle full screen modes

I've read that storing my games on the NTFS file system is problematic, but it doesn't seem to have stopped any of my other games from working flawlessly, so I wonder if the various things I did to get steam working solved it for my other games and just not ESO? I've also seen that most linux users who appear to have ESO working have bought it through steam and linking their accounts if they initially bought the game outside of steam, but I am reluctant to do that because I'm not 100% I'm going to stick with Linux just yet and I don't want to spend money to buy a game I already own.

If anyone has any advice, I'm all ears, because I'm running out of ideas 😅

I am currently using Bazzite for gaming and am wondering if it'd be worth it for stability / performance gains in DX12 titles to switch from the RTX 4070 by selling it and switch to the RX 9060 XT 16GB?

Will this be worth doing or should I just keep a hold of my 4070 until next few generations of AMD GPU's?