Hello again. I’m just trying to play some Helldivers and every time I open game, it minimized to the panel. I can hear the game audio but when I click on the panel icon, it just minimizes itself again. I’ve tried different proton versions and verified the game files. I’m not really sure what’s causing this issue or how to fix it, as googling it brings up little results. Any suggestions?

I recently made a post about this problem but I didn’t have my facts or info straight so hopefully this phelps when it comes to figuring out a solution.

I have the Ryzen 7 edition of the Surface Laptop 3 & have been messing with Linux for the past month or so but one problem I run into is that certain software, after 20-30 mins or so, will cause my laptop to overheat and have massive performance drops. These programs so far have been PCSX2, SimpleScreenRecorder, VirtualBox, PCem/86Box, VMWare, Flashpoint Launcher (Mutable & Immutable), any time I use Wine (so far I’ve only used Wine to launch SRB2 1.09.4) and any game tested in CrossOver (how good or bad performance initially is doesn’t matter as again the drops happen 10-30 mins later).

I’ve tried Fedora, Mint, Arch with KDE Plasma, Ubuntu & Kubuntu and the same results happen. I’ve installed the linux-surface drivers from GitHub but unfortunately nothing changes and it is worth noting that these distros were booted off an external drive & I have been in performance mode this whole time.

Here are screenshots I took of my temps before & after launching SimpleScreenRecorder. The lowest my laptop gets on idle is 40-42° C but during recording it was in the 80s and for about a second or two went as high as 91°

I had btop, htop & System Monitor to see what else was maxing out my resources but I’m afraid I don’t know what to look for because I didn’t find anything that looked out of place either.

Any suggestions?

It seems like a trend that’s here to stay, more and more software goes with it, people don’t care and install stuff with no questions. Microsoft allows swarms of companies to get kernel mode drivers signed, be it for games or whatever.
Linux refuses to allow it in any form for "trivial" software, labeling it as super dangerous, eventually getting cut off from more and more software.
So how dangerous is it really to the average Windows user? Can things really go wrong? Does it make a difference?
Incidents like Crowdstrike 2024 or Genshin Impact 2022 happen, sure, but it’s not like it affected average users on their regular machines specifically.
I heard some say it’s a “ticking time bomb”, but what’s gonna explode? Are there really worst case scenarios, and how likely are they? Is it just about remotely likely minor inconveniences at most?

Are we inconveniencing ourselves beyond what’s reasonable by avoiding software that requires kernel access?
Is the anti rootkit position an idealistic take, an "in principle it sucks", but most likely nothing will ever happen, and even then it wouldn’t be that bad, or is it really serious business?

Recently, developers of many multiplayer online games have begun to implement so-called anti-cheat programs that do not allow Linux users to play them. Thus, many gamers are forced to use Windows to play their favorite game again and spend time online with their cyber-friends and like-minded gamers. As everyone knows, Windows 11 will not be supported by many "old" devices, and Windows 10 support is about to end, and in order to be able to update, a lot of people will have to simply buy a new computer. Of course, some immediately began to think about switching to a free alternative - Linux, where everything worked until now and you could play fav games. But with the use of anti-cheat solutions, suddenly your favorite game does not work and it turns out that the only solution is Windows. Could it be that Microsoft is deliberately persuading developers to use anti-cheat solutions that blocks Linux users in order not to lose many gamers (and, of course, so that people buy a new Windows)?

I am trying to replace glibc with glibc-eac-bin to get insurgency sandstorm working again.

I found online that you can use ‘yay -S glibc-eac-bin lib32-eac-bin’ and that should work. However, whenever I try this, I get a unresolvable conflict due to conflict with glibc.

I tried removing and replacing glibc with the new one (even in one line) and broke my system twice (fixed it with pacstrap bc glibc didn’t seem to install without it).

How do I install glibc-eac-bin and resolve the conflict and without breaking my system?

When I was on windows I kept pirating games because I didn't want to pay for them or just to see if they are any good, but since I switched to Linux I have to use virtual machines to play those games. Dok u have any sites for this?.

I'm planning to try out Linux. Maybe Arch, initially I had doubts that it was not gonna support most games. However I see wine and proton addresses that for most part. I was almost convinced to switch until I saw YouTube videos of comparisons between Nobara 39 and Nobara 40 with Win 11. The performance hit seems significant, now I'm disheartened to switch.

I would like to try it, but losing like 20-30 fps is not good for me. Should I wait till Nvidia up their drivers for linux ? Will there be any improvements from Nvidia ?

Specs I9 12900k 4080 Super Currently on windows 11 24h2

hey i would ask.does some1 use wurst or meteor on linux and how?(pls give upvote so more ppl see this)

Is anyone else experiencing this during this beta?

The game runs fine but every couple seconds the game freezes and the GPU usage drops to 0

Temperatures are fine, 65 C on the GPU and 75 C on the CPU

Arch, 7800x3d, 7900 XTX Saphire Nitro, 32 GB ram, SSD

I've tried both proton experiemental and proton bleeding edge with gamemode turned on and off and the problem persists in all of them

After a few minutes I eventually get an error and the game permanently freezes

```
[drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, but soft recovered
```

So the settings I used is

Launch Options:
VKD3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_NV_low_latency2 %command%

Proton Version: Experimental (Bleeding Edge)

My System:
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS KERNEL: 6.8.0-48-generic CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 550.120 RAM: 32 GB

Has anyone succeeded in making it work? The game runs just fine without it but when I turn it on the screen turn black, with the exception of the menus. Just to be clear the game doesn't crash, it works perfectly with the audio running in the background and the frames are being generated because the fps counter still works l, but the actual game isn't displayed

Firstly I want to say I don’t know what I’m doing, but am learning, and if it helps me it might help you. At your own risk. I always thought regedit was more complicated than that… would that I knew this 40 years ago.

1)while installing games it helps to put them into /home/username/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Desktop before running the exe

2) open terminal in the directory and run wine programfile.exe

3)install q4wine and open it Goto default>system>regedit Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER>software>wine Right click wine folder and >new>key Name it Direct3D Right click it New>string value
Use this to make a useGLSL and VideoMemorySize strings.

Firstly I want to say I don’t know what I’m doing, but am learning, and if it helps me it might help you. At your own risk. I always thought regedit was more complicated than that… would that I knew this 40 years ago.

1)while installing games it helps to put them into /home/username/.wine/drive_c/users/username/Desktop before running the exe

2) open terminal in the directory and run wine programfile.exe

3)install q4wine and open it Goto default>system>regedit Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER>software>wine Right click wine folder and >new>key Name it Direct3D Right click it New>string value
Use this to make a useGLSL and VideoMemorySize strings.

I want to input three launch commands for my custom command, but they do not seem to work in steamtinkerlaunch. I want to put SteamDeck=0, -FSRFG and -DLSSFG as launch commands. If I put them into the launch options of steam, it works perfect. If I put them into the custom command arguments part of the game menu in steam in steamtinkerlaunch, it doesnt launch with those arguments. Any help on this would be amazing

Alguem pode me ajudar a instalar o elden ring no linux?

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Relavent info:
Bluefin Stable, fully up to date
RTX 3080, 5700x3D, 32Gbs Ram
Everything running from flatpak (Steam, Proton-GE, Gamescope)
World/Rise run just fine, no issues running other games
Using Proton Experimental on Bleeding Edge beta, gives an error without beta, will not start with GE, will not start with gamescope

Game "runs" just fine but textures are disappearing or artifacting. I've tried DLSS, FSR, nothing. Turned Vsync off and on. High and Low presets (picture is low). Textures high and low. I've seen linux gameplay working just fine but I believe they've all been AMD. Anybody have suggestions on what else I can tinker with?

hello, i switched on my main pc to arch recently, and games runned by proton freezes after some time of playing, i suspect its because of the nvidia GPU, anyone have ideas what possibly causes this problem and how to fix it?

DE: KDE plasma 6.2.2 (problem appears on both wayland and X11)

GPU: RTX 3060

nvidia drivers version: 565.57.01

games where problem appeared:
Baldur's gate III, Dragon Age: Veilguard and deadlock

I'm on Linux Mint 22 6.8.0-48-generic and I'm using ext4 file system

tl;dr: Some games use rather simplistic checks to allow or prevent a game start. This currently affects Dragon Age: The Veilguard for example. A launch option can overcome those. See the details below. This does NOT mean that it will be stable but it will most likely start, which is nice.

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For Nvidia users, one doesn't have to run beta drivers but can simply use the launch option DXVK_NVAPI_DRIVER_VERSION=56070 %command% to spoof the game into thinking that the requirements are met. It only seems to check for the version string after all. "560.70" is what it's looking for.

For Lutris users, that line (without the %command% element) goes into the game config > System Option > Command prefix field.

NOTE: The more out of date your current drivers are, the more you run the risk of crashing the game later on, but you can at least get it started and not fail at the initial driver check. The game references Windows driver versions, the Linux ones don't directly correlate but might work regardless, or don't.

Well, with that launch option, you can check how it does without compromising your other games or apps by installing beta drivers. So far, the latest "new feature" release 560.35.03 seems to work. Nvidia Driver Overview (note: DO NOT install drivers manually unless you know what you are doing!).

Current drivers via ppa: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa This one allows to make use of the "auto" install in Ubuntu and it's flavours while it populates the list of available driver versions with more recent releases than the default repos would provide. Simply install it and see what ubuntu-drivers devices has to offer before and after.