Excuse my ignorance, but my understanding is a lot of these anti cheats and a few of the games I play require kernel level anticheat. Ethics aside, I don’t see AAA developers really leaning into Linux anytime in the next few years.

As usual, it’s on the Linux community. Theoretically, is it possible to build the required things within kernel to have these games and anti cheats work? Somewhat like proton / wine does, this kernel would have provisions to allow the anticheat to run, even if it’s fibbing some things.

Hopefully this makes sense. If this WAS possible, I’m sure it would have been done.

Side note,

I like using Linux for 99% of things. Unfortunately there are a handful of games I need windows for. And on top of that windows requires an account reset every time I change my boot order or boot from another disc. I’m so done with this OS.

I'm using Heroic on Arch Linux, and I have the game Baldur's Gate III.

The game opens and runs. I managed to access the options to set everything to minimum, I managed to create my character and watch the opening video, but as soon as the game actually started, it closed. The error reported at the end of the log on link below is: 1726 (in the last lines)

https://logpasta.com/paste/db101602-7714-4f18-8e8f-08a0ec2d29fa

https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/pull/2805

I recently wanted to play a Pokémon fangame called Pokémon Anil, which is made with RPG Maker XP. I used bottles and lutris, but for some reason, the game was very laggy. According to the game's creator, to fix this problem, you have to disable vsync. I disabled vsync, but when I try to restart the game, I get an error.

I'm using Debian 13 XFCE.

I'm just another Windows user who’s getting a bit fed up with the latest moves from the OS.

I’m considering taking on the challenge of using Linux as my daily driver now that gaming is no longer a deal-breaker, but choosing the right distro is already stopping me.

I recently became a parent, so I don’t have a lot of free time, but I’m not new to Linux either—I manage servers and do DevOps work as part of my job.

I know this kind of post is probably very common, but you have to understand that people like me really want to “get it right the first time.” Deep down, I think I could adapt to almost anything, but the fear of missing out really gets to me.

Any recommendations?

I’ve recently switched to Linux Mint 22.3 and I’ve tried gaming on Steam. I don’t game that much but I primarily play Star Wars Battlefront II 2017. After I first installed this game on Linux, it ran great with proton experimental and no tweaks, but then it broke the next day and would not launch.

I tinkered around with it for quite a while, tried protonge, uninstalled and reinstalled game, but had no luck getting it working. I’ve heard EA games are not very Linux friendly so I have parked that problem and will come back to it.

My questions cover troubleshooting games on Linux more broadly:

- What are the first steps you usually take when a game doesn’t launch? At the moment I just blindly switch proton version and follow advice on protondb, but my efforts seem useless.

- At what point do you give up and consider a game “borked”?

Thanks!🙏

should i update my drivers? but it dosent make sense given that the drivers i have are the latest.

im using bazzite

I'm running Assetto Corsa Rally via lutris and it opens just fine but my ps4 controller isn't working with. I usually don't have issues using my controller with games on linux. Anybody know why this is happening? If I try to bind the accelerator to R2 I get the selected device not allowed in this input slot error.

i switched from windows 11 to linux mint.

its easier to install apps i just open the app store and click install . rather than search for an exe and make sure the site is the real one,not a malware site.

also gaming works good. i can run most of my games on steam with proton,like cyberpunk 2077,portal 2,elden ring,and hollow knight.

plus no more your pc needs to update now,while im doing smth important.

(Linux) Game freezes every second respawn in multiplayer only. Anybody got any leads?

Decided to get back into squad after years...mostly because i have nothing else to play haha....

The game boots up and starts perfectly fine, i join a server and then it freezes after dying once on second respawn. It literaly doesnt matter if i die immidiately or after 2 hours. The game freezes only after dying once and spawning the second time. Every time the exactly the same thing happens. Most of the time the gun isnt even fully modeled before it freezes, and after half a minute a window pops up saying "Application hang, closing now"

These errors pop up in logs when the game freezes :

Jan 25 11:18:51 PC1 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: \[gfxhub\] page fault (src\_id:0 ring:24 vmid:4 pasid:32781)

Jan 25 11:18:51 PC1 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: Process GameThread pid 20952 thread vkd3d\_queue pid 21015

Jan 25 11:18:51 PC1 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: in page starting at address 0x0000800011200000 from client 0x1b (UTCL2)

Jan 25 11:18:51 PC1 kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: GCVM\_L2\_PROTECTION\_FAULT\_STATUS:0x00401431

The game works perfectly fine in both the tutorial and shooting range.

The game is a fresh install of Squad with cache wiped

PC Specs :

Arch Linux + KDE Wayland

i7 12700k

RX 6800 XT

32 gigs RAM

1000 Watt power supply

If anybody has any leads, or has experienced similiar issues be glad to hear about it.

Thanks

I would like to launch my Steam games via Heroic Launcher, as I am not a fan of Steam Big Picture.

This works if I add Steam as a game with the appropriate parameters, but Steam remains open after the game is closed, causing Heroic Launcher to display the “game” as running.

Is there a way to automatically close Steam after closing a game? Alternatively it would be enough if Heroic Launcher did not monitor if Steam is running or not.

Hi everyone, my gaming laptop asus tuf f15 fx506hc run arch kde plasma on cachyos (ci5 + rtx 3050). I have thermld and PPD. My temp while gaming playing old titles like Bioshock is kinda high and sometimes spikes the cpu temp range 78 ~ 85 and over that. i think i get way less temp on windows. I check fans while gaming 3000 rpm (the laptop raised with stand ). Should i replace PPD to Tlp or is there is a way to undervolt of raise fans profile or something. Thanks in advance

So i always wanted to switch to linux since maybe 1-2 years, i think i did in 2024 or 25 for maybe a week i was using mint but because of some incompatibility or maybe some things i was not aware of i switch back to windows.
I mean i heard that the vortex mod manager is going to be supported for linux soon apparently so i guess that's not a problem for long cause i do like to mod my fallout 4 sometimes and it's cool to see that more and more things are supported on linux now.

So know i'm still on windows 11 and i'm thinking of going on the linux side but i want to know multiples things :

- How do i do if i want to be able to do clips all the times ?
Cause now i'm using the nvidia instant replay with the nvidia app, apparently with obs or something like that it's possible ?

- How hard is it to run "legal" games ? cause i sometimes "try" some games to see if i like it yk

- I use a beyerdynamic mmx 200 wireless headset, will i have problems with it or not ?

- can i run the logitech g hub ? cause i sometime use my logitech wheel

- and finally for now i know it's the same questions always but what distro should i use ?
tbh i just want something pretty simple and good for privacy and compatiblity

ive been searching everywhere but i cant seem to find a place to download the native version of grid autosport, i searched everywhere, the only way ive seen people playing it is if theyve alrready bought the game some time ago on steam. I have a HP Envy DV6 with the Nvidia Geforce GT 635M which somehow managed to run the game at 45ish fps on win 11 on medium graphics. If anyyone has a way, please let me know. Thanks

Hi! I’ve been dealing with an issue for a while now. It all started when I tried to create a free online server for Minecraft Java so I could play together with my sister. From that moment on, the game has never launched properly again.

To be honest, I’m not even sure the problem is related to that website, since it doesn’t really make sense to me. As you can see in the video below, when I press Play in the launcher, the game starts and I can hear the menu music, but there’s no actual menu image. All I see (as shown in the video) is a small corner of my entire desktop inside the game window.

I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but the problem persists. I also searched through various sources, even tried asking ChatGPT for help, but none of the solutions worked.

If anyone knows what I can do, I’d be deeply grateful! Has anyone else experienced something like this?

For the past 2 days i have tried and failed to get steamvr to work on linux. I have tried bazzite 43 and ubuntu 24.04, and every time i have gotten 3 errors, 405, 499, 1200. I have an rx 6700 xt and a i11400 with an iGPU, and i tried the steam link app, alvr and wiVRn. None worked. If anyone knows a easy setup where it will just work, or almost just work. i dont care about what distro it is, or desktop enviorment

Basically I need a gaming distro that has switchable X11 and Wayland at loading screen. I wanted to use Nobara when I noticed it's now only Wayland. I hear I can add X11 by Konsole but have been recommended against it. Any distro optimizes for amd gaming that has those at default?

The reason why I need both is because I wanna use Wayland primarily but at times I will need X11 because I wanna write a script that presses A and D to move right or left in a game every 30 or so seconds even when the game is unfocused. Like so I can play smtn else or browse the web while the script holds A for 30 and then D for 30. According to googling this is only possible with X11. Help?

Hello guys. Did somebody try to play Sonic Frontiers on Linux with Nvidia card? It launches and everything works excellent but after finishing the first level the game just freezes dead. My specs:

Rtx 5060 Ti(with nvidia-open-dkms driver)

Ryzen 7 7700X

Arch linux

I've tried different graphics settings, gamemoderun, gamescope multiple proton and proton GE versions and game reinstall but nothing works