So, I have a portable game on "/absolute/path/to/game/game.exe" when I run

wine "/absolute/path/to/game/game.exe" on "game" DIR it works (like it should), but running the same command on a different DIR (say the "to" DIR) it doesn't work!

I test it with other portable games I have, and they work (even with a bash script) someone knows why this is happening? and how to fix it?

I'm on Fedora 41 and Wine-staging 10.15

Thanks.

Can anyone help me with this 2006scape v3.3 by mige? I’m having an issue where when I put it onto pay to play world everything I do lags by a second like theirs a ping issue?

Since I switched to linux (Nobara), Steam keeps crashing regularly with the "Device memory was nearly full. Steam was using a lot of memory and has been terminated" error message. I never had this problem under Windows. What is the reason for it and how can I fix it? I am on a new pc with 16 gb ram.

So over the holidays I built a PC, choosing an MSI X870E Carbon WiFi as its motherboard. If you're considering buying one or have one this is probably a good read.

. . .

RGB. What a pain.

I installed openRGB using pacman, version 1.0rc2-5. It seemed to succesfully detect my motherboard (visible on the bottom of the program) but then failed to connect and just either crashed or did nothing. Package i2c-tools was installed previously and a kernel module loaded with sudo modprobe i2c-dev so I believe I did that correctly?

I compiled openRGB-git openrgb-git-0.9.1789.gb7230b6-1 from the AUR.

That finally seemed to do the trick and after a while I was able to get my JARGB headers working, but not all of my system's RGB...

Note that the M.2 "carbon" logo and the dragon logo do not appear to be addressable - perhaps some undocumented protocol is used for these?

BEWARE: in short if you want to control RGB using an MSI X870e Carbon Wifi, you might need to compile openRGB from source if you're on another distro that's not bleeding edge, plus, the motherboard's internal LEDs can't be addressed? --

My question: should I ever expect these internal motherboard RGB LEDs to work anytime soon or not? Thank you for reading.

I know the support list has it in there but does it lose any features? I haven't used razer for a few years and that was back on windows so I don't even know if open razer is any good or not?

I've tried everything, from installing nvcuda through protontricks, to using literally every single launch argument I could find. ( DXVK_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_NVIDIA_LIBS=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1) I have an NVIDIA GPU, so why this isn't working is beyond me. I've even installed Proton-GE! Any help would be so, so, SO appreciated. I will answer any questions as fast as possible if needed

EDIT: Before anyone asks, the game recognizes and is using my NVIDIA GPU

Greetings all.

This probably means nothing to the mass of users who already use Linux. But I thought I would just write down my experience and thoughts from jumping into Linux from windows. If it's too wordy I apologise.

I've been mostly on windows since I've been messing with computers when I was a teenager. 25 years ago now. (I feel old)

Had a small play with Linux back then but It never really amounted to much. Gave it a small go ages ago when Valve released a beta test of Team fortress 2 on Linux. I use it often for cloneing systems at work but other than that not much else.

Since Microsoft now want to keep forcing co pilot onto everyone, among other issues I have with Cloud services etc.. And since owning a steam deck I decided to just go for it. Reformatted my main drive on my pc and went for Kubuntu 24.04. As I very much like the clean KDE interface. And needed a Debian based install for some other programmes I use daily. I knew from looking that there are more gaming centric ones but I chose this one.

First thing I will say is I made things a lot more complicated for myself by trying to install the AMD drivers from their site. Was having tons of issues getting them to work, the refresh rate was all wrong. Couldn't change resolution etc. I wasn't aware that most distros seem to come with the MESA drivers inbuilt. (If that's the right term?) Which worked perfect once I realised.

Some hardware/software I have just doesn't want to work as intended. I've got a steel series headset that I can't get the chatmix to work. Though I've seen a post that suggests the next kernel updates may contain more drivers for them in the future.

As for games and such, pretty much a non issue. All of the ones I use and play seem to work flawlessly. A couple needed tweaks to install but otherwise just perfect. Both through Steam and Lutris. Oblivion remastered as an example. I was having tons of issues on Windows with it stuttering and not going past 40fps on 1080p. Now? It runs like butter at 4k. Easily past 60fps. I'm shocked at the performance increase, even with proton in the middle.

All in all I'm very happy with my current experience. I get not everything will be as smooth. But if anyone else is looking to make that jump away from Windows, honestly just go for it. And dive in. So far I have yet to find a reason to go back to my Windows install. 90% of what I need just worked. And the remaining took perhaps 1-2 hours of reading and experimenting.

I use MX Linux for home. They have some really great tools and I like the Debian ecosystem. I do know how to use the red hat ecosystem as well.

I also like to play games not necessarily on Steam. Think gog via lutris and roms along with games I purchased over years ago on CD DVD Blu-ray for the purpose of this post.

I also don't want to fiddle too much with anything when I want to play a game. Those days are over for me. Time is infinitely more valuable to me now.

So the question is: Am I going to save a tremendous amount of time in the long run by just dual booting to Nobara when I want to play games?

Sure, the research says one thing or the other although I do enjoy the empirical feedback from my buddies on Reddit and elsewhere. Thanks brodogs.

How can I lower debounce time to 0ms. I have changed it to 0ms on my mouse software but on linux I still cannot double click. I have tried this: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/ku6gth/disable_double_click_preventionlower_debounce_time/giql9b2/ and i worked on my laptop but not on my main computer.

Anyone familiar with the following issue? I installed bazzite on my bc250 It has the modified 3.00 bios but I run into an issue with the gpu temps..

As you can see it thinks the cou is at +104 all the time which makes me think the sensors Arent read correctly. This makes the CPU fan (which is somehow displayed as pump fan) run at full 100%

I used the Smokeless_UMAF universal amd form browser and set the fans to custom and somehow the fans did what they where supposed to do, only ramp up under load. Untill I reboot and the system hang untill I removed the cmos battery briefly.

Now the fans are spinning like crazy again..

Anyone knows what could be wrong?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently debating whether to keep my HP Omen Transcend 14 (Model 1fb1770ng) and switch to cachyos (Linux) full-time, or if I'm forced to stick with Windows due to performance constraints.

The hardware itself is a dream, but on Linux, I'm hitting massive artificial walls that don't exist on Windows.

The Specs: CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 255H GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5060

The Problem: On Windows, the Omen Gaming Hub does its job perfectly. In CPU-heavy titles (CS2, Paradox Grand Strategy games), the CPU happily draws up to 65W and the GPU up to 75W. The performance is great. As soon as I boot into Linux, the BIOS/Embedded Controller (EC) seems to fall back into a "Safe Mode": CPU: Hard cap at 30W (this absolutely kills lategame performance in Paradox titles like EU5) GPU: Seems capped at around 60W. In Windows the GPU goes up to 75W with Dynamic Boost. And the cpu goes up to 65W (when GPU isn't fully utilized.

How do you rate the probability of HP or the Kernel community providing a fix for this in the next 6–12 months (e.g., updates to hp-wmi)?

Does anyone have experience with older Omen models – were such EC limits ever fixed historically, or is HP generally a dead end for Linux power users? I really don't want to keep a device that runs with the handbrake pulled on my preferred OS, but the hardware is exactly what I need.

Thanks for your input!

I noticed many users are struggling with games freezing when entering fullscreen or losing focus (audio continues, video freezes), especially on Nvidia GPUs with Unreal Engine 4 titles (like Hellblade, Tekken 7, etc.).

It seems to be a compositor/driver issue where the GPU stops rendering when it thinks the game has exclusive fullscreen focus.

I solved this on Linux Mint by creating a wrapper script that launches a tiny, invisible 1x1 pixel terminal window and keeps it Always on Top. This tricks the compositor into keeping the pipeline active, preventing the freeze.

I created a GitHub repository with the script and instructions so it's easier to use/update.

👉 You can get the script here: https://github.com/tkaway27/linux-gaming-ghost-fix

Quick Setup:

1. Download ghost_runner.sh from the Release section.
2. Set Steam Launch Options to: /path/to/ghost_runner.sh %command%

It uses standard tools (wmctrl, x11-utils) and cleans up after itself when the game closes. Hope this helps anyone stuck with freezing games!

So uhh sober is trusted right? Like im not gonna get a virus. I am really new to Linux so i really dont know much about it.

I know that on Windows I should obviously pick the 5070 but I’m using Fedora KDE and I really don’t want to go back to Windows :(. The RTX 5070 costs 50$ more, should I still take it or the RX 7800XT?

Hi it's been 3months since I switched to Mint. I like it very much but now I have a dilema where a friend want to play on a FiveM server for GTA 5.

I know this session may me going on for 2-3 months.

My problem is that I can't find any useful info of FiveM and linux. Many users said it's not compatible or cannot me downloaded with wine.

Many forums where it is asked the OP is not given a clear answer.

So my idea now is to implement dual booting with and use windows. Are there any alternative options?

I installed Bazzite for the heck of it as a secondary OS, then I reassessed everything I need windows for. I deleted most everything from my windows drive except Arc Raiders and some VR games and shrinking my windows partitition to give it to my Linux. I have only messed around in this OS for a few minutes last night and planned to toy around with it but I feel like most everything I do could be done within Linux now, the sooner I just make the switch the less stress it would be. I'm swapping Bazzite to my main boot with W10 as a second boot option. I installed linux on my PC about 20 years ago to mess with and I've had it on my Steam deck, so that's part of what helped the transition, getting used to the bash commands, getting used to the annoying parts. But once you've got things set up, there's really not that much to fiddle with.

In the past I've been too intimidated from using Linux as a main OS. In my experience it's a nightmare getting help for niche things or having stuff that only has instructions for a different build, but I think that with everything being less reliant on terminal now most of the things I need, I can grab on a flatpack store. LLM can help me figure out the shit that doesn't make sense if Linux community are rude (they are lol). Most of the hardware has just been plug and play though I so I feel pretty confident I can jump through the occasional config or install rabbit hole since most of that stuff isn't necessary unless I'm tinkering/tweaking.

Hopefully everything goes smooth!

So I saw someone mention it on a thread, but I wanted to put a post here to tell yall everything I installed to get this software to work on Linux.

Note: This can only edit your profile settings. If you’re using a retro R8 mouse like me, as far as I can tell, it can’t update the firmware. On controllers, I heard something about changing boot settings or something. Maybe it’s possible to fix on controllers.

1: Install the ISO

Virtual box needs an operating system file to make the VM. For this I used the 32 bit “Tiny10” which is just a 32 bit version of windows 10 with only the bare necessities to get windows to run. There’s no Microsoft edge, no default apps, nothing but file explorer, CMD, and other basic stuff like that. It being so basic and a 32 bit version makes it run fairly fast without having to allocate it much, and also keeps the file size small.

2: Install VirtualBox (if you haven’t already)

3: Install VirtualBox expansion

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Why? We need it for USB pass though.

4: Make the VM

I don’t really have the time or energy to teach yall how to make a VM when there’s YouTube. Generally though, you just press the green plus button in the top left and give it all the information it asks for.

5: Add your user to the VirtualBoxusers

This is a different command on different distributions. I’ll put the Fedora command below, but if you use Arch, Ubuntu, etc. you’ll have to google it. This is USUALLY necessary for the next step to work.

sudo usermod -aG vboxusers your_username

6: Setup USB pass through

Make sure your mouse or controller is plugged in for this part (If you’re doing this for your mouse, make sure it’s Bluetooth connected after this step is completed until I tell you to plug it in again). Click on your new VM, and click the edit button. Click on USB, select USB 2.0 or 3.0 (this will be greyed out if your VM is running). Then, click on the button that looks like a blue usb with a green plus. This should bring up a menu with everything you have plugged into an available USB port, including your mouse or controller you’re doing this for. Select the device you want to use, hit save, and now that’s good. Make sure to unplug your mouse and use Bluetooth mode now that you’re done with this step. (ONLY APPLIES TO RETRO R8 MOUSE!)

7: Start the VM and set up windows.

8: Once your in, if you decided to install a more advanced version of windows, just download the 8BitDo ultimate 2 app off of edge. If you followed my advice, you have to do one last piece of setup. Don’t worry, just takes a second. See the options on the top left to top middle, under one of them, (I think input or devices) is a button that says “Insert Guest Additions” or something like that. Press it. Then in the VM in the files app, you’ll see a new drive. Once you’re in there, run the guest additions EXE file. Afterwards, just select “restart now”. Once it boots back up, under input I think, there’s an option to turn on file dropping or something. Just set it to bidirectional, and you can drag and drop the 8bitdo app from your actual computer’s file app into the VM.

9: Plug in your mouse or controller, run the app, and edit your settings to your heart’s content!