I felt burned by Veilguard, and wanted to go back to a classic.

I cannot for the life of me get Dragon Age: Origins to run. The game opens the launcher, but then which I click "play", it just silently closes after idling for a minute or so

I'm on Fedora 41.

Here are my specs:

https://pastebin.com/6anRQnYE

And here is the proton log:

https://pastebin.com/xDdE5ENJ

I have tried the following:

1. Installed PhysX with protontricks
2. Attempted to use the latest Proton GE, Proton Experimental, Proton 5.0-10 (suggested by protondb), Proton 4.9 (suggested my protondb), Proton 8.0-5 (suggested by protondb)
3. Attempted to create my own wine prefix and install physx on that, with the latest wine-staging

4. Tried the following launch command:

   PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 mesa_glthread=true WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3dcompiler_47=n,b; d3d9=n,b" %command%

5. Tried the following launch command:

   PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 RADV_TEX_ANISO=16 %command%PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 RADV_TEX_ANISO=16 %command%

None of the above appears to work. The crash logs are kind of vague -- I'm seeing a divide by zero and few other exceptions. I'm not seeing any missing DLLs or anything, though.

https://preview.redd.it/7l5i7b1kpryd1.png?width=1914&format=png&auto=webp&s=ef87210ccb5cc45506458a8b1be6746171d202c7

I downloaded Heroic Games, but the folder seems to have a limited amount of space. I have more than 500GB for total disk space, but Heroic won't use it for some reason. How can I fix this?

Hello everyone,

I am trying to decide what distro to use on a Notebook that will pretty much only be used to game (will also have Windows on another partition for my gfs studywork, but games will be played on the linux distro) and I kinda feel like it is kinda tough to decide on a linux gaming distro currently. I feel like all specific gaming distros have their downsides and I wonder what you feel like the current state of linux gaming distros is. Is it worth it over running something like Fedora or Arch?

My issues with the current gaming distros are:

• Pop!_OS: Mainly focused on cosmic desktop. Not much development on anything else it feels like. I really like the cosmic, but I feel like it will take month to leave alpha and how good and stable it will be remains to be seen. It is very promising, but lots of uncertainty.
• Bazzite: Seems very new and small community. Also as a immutable distro it works a bit different than other distros, you will always have to find solutions for fedora atomic. It seems to be on the rise and is very promising. I read a lot of good stuff about it, but I am uncertain because immutable linux works a bit different and the small community .
• Nobara: I really like Nobara and I am a huge fan of GloriousEggroll. I am so worried about it being pretty much maintained by one person tho. I mean that can be a good thing, because some guys are maniacs and can just develope incredible stuff pretty much alone (like FastAPI), but it still is a risk. Also my Nobara installation broke like last week, after I pretty much updated it weekly(when in use) and I am kinda turned of by Nobara currently.

I feel like my preferred options would be a Pop!_OS with a stable cosmic desktop that has proven itself in the wild for a few weeks/month or a Nobara with a bigger development community. Or I could even live with Bazzite, if immutable distros were more mainstream and the community was bigger. But I feel like right now there is no optimal choice in the linux gaming distros. So I am contemplating just running Fedora or EndeavourOS?

What do you think? Am I overseeing stuff? What is your opinion on the current state of linux gaming distros?

Hi!

On OpenSuse TW (KDE6 + Wayland) I am running Majesty Gold with Steam. It's a very old game that runs fine in fullscreen mode though it's way lower resolution...

But I cannot solve a few problems:

1 - The gamescope window doesn't respect window rules like forcing "do not window decorations"... though I can manually disable them via context menu

2 - If I use the gamescope parameter "-f" I can force the game to start in fullsceen mode and force it with KDE window rules to span only half of my wide monitor. So forcing the size works but the settings for the position on my screen is completely ignored... ??? (yes, I applied "ignore geometry"...)

3 - Global hotkeys to move windows get ignored by gamescope windows...

4 - Is there a parameter for gamescope to position the gamescope window on screen when I start the game? At the moment I either get a window that is correctly positioned by window rules but has window decorations that connot be removed by the rules or I get a gamescope fullscreen ( -f ) reduced to the desired size but cannot be positioned... I am lost!

Thanks for reading - anyone having the same experience or even a solution?

p.s.: Here's my steam parameter line...

PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 gamescope -w 1280 -h 800 -W 1536 -H 960 -f -F fsr -- %command%

Hey everyone,

I am quite new to linux gaming, I am using EndeavourOS with KDE on Wayland.

While playing RDR2 (steam) I've noticed strange issue:

After an hour or one and a half, I get sudden fps drop spikes. What is even stranger outside of game window, my entire PC gets frozen for a half a second or so. At first I thought about overheating but my temps quite normal.

Next thing I've noticed is that this problem immediately went away once I turned on FSR2 and disabled it again.

May this problem be somehow related to shader cache getting filled up?

If anyone has an idea how to fix that I would be very grateful :)

Thank you in advance!

Hey, Sort of new to linux, so sorry if this is a stupid or already well discussed question, but, security concerns aside, would it be possible to implement support into the linux kernel?

additionally, if it WAS possible/feasible to implement, what effects could it have on the linux gaming space in general? would we see more developers openly accept linux as a platform, or would they still be too stuck in their ways to change?

if not possible, what's so different about the Linux kernel?

thanks to everyone who answers, and again sorry if this is a stupid question.

So building a new PC for gaming.

I have two nvme coming soon.

A pcie gen 4 500g and a pcie gen 3 1T.

How should I setup the drives? Should I install in raid 0? Should I put the OS on gen 4 or 3? How about / vs /home? Should I pool the drives but that or raid 0 would lower the speed to gen 3 I think. What is the optimal way to set things? Where would my Minecraft install go ( for my son )? Where should steam point to?

File system will have to be ext4 because the distro will be Endless OS ( it’s a gaming system for the kids )

Thanks!!

Me and my friend finally decided we had enough of windows 11 and it’s bullshit and plan to switch to Linux when windows 10 loses support. I’m doing the research for both of our builds (I’ll update the post with specs later)

For distros I’m considering between Mint, Pop!_os, and Endevour

I know most of my library is Linux friendly, Here are the things I want to make compatible with my build at least:

Bluetooth (I know they probably all do but with the problems of had with win 11 I want to be sure)

VR compatibility

Quest 2+air link compatibility

Modding compatibility specifically for Fallout, Cyberpunk, Doom 2, and red dead. Preferably be able to use vortex

Some YouTube downloader

The apps for tuning and customizing my keyboard and mouse like razer synapse, Logitech, and Corsair

I’m not entirely sure where to start looking for that or other necessary stuff for a Linux build

I'm running Spiritfarer using Wine. The DS4 controller is connected, but only the touchpad works (for moving the cursor)

After upgrading from 550 to the 560 drivers, the laptop fans runs more often and harder during idle. Any explanation for this and any way to adjust it?

Has anyone come across a DP 2.1 UHBR13.5 to HDMI 2.1 adapter in the wild? This would be great for Linux users, since we could push high resolutions/refresh rates over HDMI without needing Display Stream Compression (DSC). VRR support would be a bonus, but not essential.

Google searches have been useless as usual nowadays – mostly turning up older DP 1.4 adapters or unrelated products.

As we know, EA dropped linux support for apex. Yes, fuck them, but i see this as opportunity to show (even if you never played the game) by write review about it. It is harder to make statement and begging for support for games that was never supported, but here is opportunity to show people how many of us are playing games on this os. And we are not irrelevant. We have 300k users here, this would be massive impact for all games seeing that in stats of any game.

Tldr - write review on steam about linux ban in apex legends to show how many of us are here.

So first, I played my Steam games on Linux Mint. My controller simply just worked flawlessly on my games.

But then I changed my distro to Zorin OS coz I like the visual of it. The Steam itself could detect my controller, but when I launched my games my controller wasn't doing anything.

What's missing? What I should fix?

Trying to troubleshoot an odd issue... I have NFS Heat and it runs perfectly after I install the game, using Proton Experimental, and can be closed and started again, so long as I don't log off the user profile or shut down my system.

Once I do that, the launch sequence is different, with a small black box appearing momentarily after vulkan shaders step, and then it doesn't launch and goes back to offering me the "Play" button.

I figure this might have to do with the EA app launcher, but that seems to be alright, since it is keeping me logged in, even when I am uninstalling and reinstalling the game. I got the EA app running in bottles and it recognized two versions running and worked only after I closed the manual version in bottles.

I'm hoping that if I can figure out why it runs reliably after a fresh install I can find a shortcut to downloading 30gb+ by deleting a folder or files. I tried all of the tricks on the protondb site that people have with launching but nothing changed the situation. I've also tried running 8, 7, and 5, but no change.

Any ideas?

Running 22.04.05 and can provide more technical details if necessary.

I dont know anything about this, i just restarted my steam deck and its not booting anymore, is my steam deck done for😭😭 pls helppp meee.

I was an on and off Apex Legends player up until they removed support. I get that there are plenty of games that don't need kernel level anticheat, but I do enjoy playing competitive shooters. I'm wondering what the easiest path is to enable that

Currently I have a Linux box with a fairly beefy GPU that I really only use for gaming. I'd like to be able to run games without having to restart my machine. I'm thinking that maybe I should get a second, wimpy GPU and boot linux into that, and then play all of my games in a VM with VFIO passthrough on my existing GPU

Is this a reasonable strategy? Do anticheat engines accept VMs?

As fractional scaling under XWayland in GNOME43.9 (zorin17 based on ub22.04), on my 14’’ 1080p laptop works really bad, I could just embrace the deblurred 100% scaling X11 apps, but not blurry 125% stuffs. Is there a way to just disable scaling for XWayland, or use some randr tricks to force it run under 1080p?

Or should I just move to ub24.10 for GNOME47? But it may be a lot time for re-producing the current setup.

Thanks a lot.

hello.. recently my computer desk crashed and i can`t use it by now, then i back to old laptop, but that lap can be formated to linux sistem.. thne i am testing if someprograms can work with that by now... Then i tested second life version for linyx, but not can`t installed.. I was reading that not many version and need some libraries 32 bits ( my version is 64)... i use manjaro