Hello,

I got the expansion pack for Diablo 4 on steam this summer sale and have been playing the season for a bit.

Sometimes, I cannot exactly pin point it, the game either completely freezes or goes into a black screen (which is sometimes recoverable). I did play D4 before the addon and it was completely fine - same setup (hardware), but of course different kernel, or drivers..

I am using X11, on the latest 6.16 linux kernel, with a nvidia 3080 using the latest drivers, on an arch based OS (EndeavourOS).

Anyone else has this issue and know what could fix it?

I read on the internet that its something to do with latest DLSS, but I have been trying it without, and with, and even with FSR2 - changing that option didnt seem to change anything.

Thanks!

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Looking for inexpensive gems that are in the summer sale and are high in reply value. Anything released in the last 15 years is fine because I don't keep up with games so I probably missed it. Needs to run natively on Linux via the Steam app.

I'm not really a fan of "management" sims or games like that. Games with lots of story or RPG elements are fine though I'm looking more for platform/action/racing/etc type games than full-blown RPG.

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beat saber ran fine on my laptop when i was using windows, but after switching to linux, its horrid. is this just a skill issue, or is there something im missing?

specs if it matters:
quest 2, RTX 3050, Ryzen 5 6600H, 8gb of ram (yes i know its low, but it ran VR fine on windows)

https://preview.redd.it/nmazvzt0t4bf1.png?width=251&format=png&auto=webp&s=94322cdf2742daa511db517cf9c253d955886575

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This has started happening recently, and so far I have no clue as to why.

I'm running Arch Linux (fully updated) with an AMD 7900X and Radeon 7900XT, using the latest version of Heroic launcher (2.17.2 non-flatpak) and GE-Proton 10.8.

Every time I try to run a game, or run any executable via wine, before it runs, I get a file picker window that opens up. No matter what I pick, or even if I just close it out, the game will continue to load up normally afterward. This has been happening for a few weeks now, so I'm not sure exactly when it started. I'm just getting tired of it is all.

Has anyone seen this before, and hopefully know how to get rid of it.?

https://preview.redd.it/tbla2riqi4bf1.png?width=762&format=png&auto=webp&s=24db39f2c9c24d1612c18ad1925a7b188e156f74

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Specs:

OS: Arch Linux

KERNEL: 6.15.4-arch2-1

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT (radeonsi, navi33, LLVM 20.1.6, DRM 3.63, 6.15.4-arch2-1)

GPU DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 25.1.5-arch1.1 (vulkan-radeon driver, NOT amdvlk)

RAM: 16 GB DDR4

Long story short. I installed the game on my main drive, a Corsair M.2 NVME SSD. I can boot up and get in game. At 1440p and mostly high settings, the game runs at a solid ~100-115 FPS, so long as there are no holographic elements on screen that is.

The first image is an example of how the game should by all means run in most cases. You can see that I'm at 113FPS at 89% GPU usage. As soon as any holographic HUD/UI elements come onto screen, ie. when I zoom into the binocular view and target the waypoint, my GPU usage plummets and the FPS goes with it. This also stacks, meaning the more of these holographic HUD/UI elements are on screen, the worse my usage and FPS become. This is demonstrated by images #2 and 3. This includes waypoints, signs placed by players, tool tips/hints, mission info, etc.

Things I've tried:

Different proton versions. Several proton version all launch and get in game, all have the same GPU usage issue relating to the holographic UI elements.

I've tried with and without Feral gamemode enabled.

I've attempted to limit the amount of CPU cores the game uses (I heard somewhere this game doesn't like more than 12 threads?). I tried taskset -c 0-3 and MangoHud still reported 16 threads in use. WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=8:0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 did seem to work (I also tried this with only 4 cores enabled as I wasn't sure if this command limited threads or physical cores), however the only difference I noticed in performance was that my baseline (the times where my GPU was actually being used) performance was worse with this setting.

I tried setting the argument PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 but this resulted in a failure to launch, and an error message (last picture) complaining that my GPU doesn't support DX12 (worth noting that the GPU shown in this error message, an ATI Radeon 5600, is not my actual GPU, an RX 7600XT, which does in fact support DX12). I have not found a way to get the game to launch in DX11 besides using modified DLLs which I'd rather avoid.

I tried using winecfg via Protontricks to change Windows versions. I tried various versions which either failed to launch complaining about not being above a certain release of Windows 10, or simply resulted in no changes if the game did launch.

None of these attempts made any difference in performance excluding the CPU core limit making things worse. Beyond that, I really don't know what else to try. I've seen some other people mention poor GPU usage, but most of those posts seem to imply that it's consistent. My issue seems to be directly tied to the onscreen holographic HUD/UI elements, which are very common in this game and really can't be avoided. If anyone has any ideas, whether it be a surefire fix or a random spitball hail mary, I'd love to hear it. Thanks in advance.

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Issues with Save Files in Candy & Toys Store Simulator on Linux/Proton

Hi everyone,

I'm playing Candy & Toys Store Simulator via Steam on Linux mint (Lmde6) using Proton, and I've run into a strange issue:

• The game does create save files, located here: ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/3013700/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/OxDevelopers/Candy And Toys Store/OXGAMESSAVE/
• The file (e.g. 'LollyLounge.ox') is visible and has correct permissions (-rw-r--r--), owned by my user.
• BUT: the save does not appear in the in-game load menu, so I can't continue my progress.

What I've tried so far:

• Checked and adjusted file permissions (chmod 644)
• Disabled Steam Cloud
• Switched Proton versions (including Proton Experimental)
• Renamed the save file
• Verified ownership with chown

Has anyone else experienced this issue and found a fix? Are there other Linux users playing this simulator who can share their setup or tips?

Thanks in advance!

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Could anyone tell me which profile would be most compatible with games? I'm installing archlinux

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found this on a discord https://github.com/PancakeTAS/lsfg-vk it’s a work in progress, the more feedback and reporting the better. Let’s get those bug reports and PR in. Here’s a video of someone using it for Eden emulator https://youtu.be/mo91x2undR0

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Other games I've played had nowhere near this large storage size of shaders

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Okay, so I need a distro that can run programs like IntelliJ, PyCharm, and Syncthing as well as it can run Steam and Proton (I intend to play Windows games too).

Someone recommended Arch to me, but it kinda scares me.

Any recommendations?

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It's been a while since my last 1v1 ranked game, and I wanted to tell my opponent that I'm using Hyprland, He got scared and left the match, it didn't even last 30 seconds

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Can you dual boot Windows and Linux and have Steam detect and play games on both operating systems from one drive?

Example: Windows installed on SSD1, Linux installed on SSD2, Steam Library on SSD3. Both Win and Linux play the games installed on SSD3 from the same files.

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I'm using the latest version of the Lutris flatpak and for some reason every new game instance I create automatically has many of it's folders (such as Documents, Downloads, Desktop, etc.) symlinked to my equivalent directories in my real home folder. I don't recall this happening before, and it's happening even though the 'Integrate system files in the prefix' option is off. Strangely there does not appear to be an equivalent setting in the default settings for the Wine runner (as in I can't change what the default setting for that toggle is) but it seems to be off by default so I don't think that's part of the issue here.

Not only do I not want this, it's actively breaking compatibility because I have my lutris flatpak specifically blocked from using any files outside of my games directory(s), so when a game tries to write a save to ~/Documents/Saved Games or something it just fails. And extra-annoyingly, it often fails silently meaning over the past week I've already lost several hours of gameplay from playing various different games I've installed via lutris only to come back and realize none of them actually saved any of my progress because of this 'feature' lutris decided to spring on me.

Am I misunderstanding something or should it not be symlinking like it is?

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I read in the Phoronix summary of the June 2025 Steam survey results

"AMD GPU use also continues to dominate among Linux gamers."

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-June-2025

Michael posted a screencap of some of the Linux GPU table, but did not do any math.

I decided to do the math.

I looked at

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

and expanded the Video Card Description (Linux) field. I made a screen capture of the whole table, had an AI extract the text and make a spreadsheet (because there was no way to copy the columns and paste them into Sheets) I produced this summary table myself. (Not adding up to 100% is probably due to rounding individual entries.)

Steam June 2025 Hardware Survey for Linux GPUs

AMD without the Steam Deck leads, at about 2x Nvidia. But given the amount of Nvidia recommendations in this sub, I was surprised to see Nvidia at 22%.

Even Intel makes a decent showing at 10%.

It would be interesting to know what "other" means.

I think when Michael uses words like "dominate" it's an exaggeration, which makes sense given he runs a Linux site.

I did the same for Windows using

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=windows

Steam June 2025 Hardware Survey for Windows GPUs

I think the Windows results are interesting, if we want to convert Windows gamers to Linux.

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is there a way to play with HDR on and a controller ?

i'm on nobara with an rx 9070
i know i need proton 10 ge and those commands for hdr
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

my only issue is that i want to play with a controller

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