Hi guys so I am getting my feet wet with different linux flavours, but I heard about something to make gaming easier on linux one is proton by steam and wine. So my question is wine, I heard it took a lot of system resources is that true for 2025? Then the other question is which distro is easier to setup for gaming because I get a lot of errors with Ubuntu desktop?

Hi guys, I've newly made the switch to Bazzite on my PC so I'm a bit of a Linux noob, though I know my way about a terminal.

I use colemak by default as my keyboard layout, but often switch to qwerty, usually due to games not having support for colemak and/or no keybinding customisation. However, when playing DRG:Survivor it does not seem to take switching layouts into account and acts as if I'm stuck on colemak. Has anyone had this issue before and found a fix?

On ProtonDB I see people posting tweaks they've made to Proton, but I'm honestly not sure how they're achieving this, nor how they can know what to try - I don't even know if my issue is a Proton issue which is why I've not flaired it as such.

Please feel free to ask me for useful/needed details as I don't really know what might be useful.

Thank you very much in advance to any who try to help me out!

What is the best way to run World of Tanks on CachyOS?

I have weak gaming hardware:

Ryzen 2200G with iGPU.

But since I haven't been an intense gamer for about 10 years, this setup was enough for me to play a few games of WOT per week.

I want to use the SD client, so the Steam version is out of the question. In addition, I need to be able to install Aslain MOD.

Now I have installed the launcher and the game through Lutris with wine-ge-8.26-x86_64 set.

Unfortunately, despite setting everything to low and 40-70 FPS, it can freeze every few seconds.

I tried switching to newer versions of GE-Proton and proton-cachyos, but the game crashes after loading the garage.

I will add that there were no such freezes on Windows, so the hardware was probably fine.

I was trying to get expedition 33 working on my PC, and it runs great, but for whatever reason I cannot get the character voice lines to play at a proper volume. I'm running on Fedora 43 KDE, and 9070xt, with an HDMI cord connected to my TV, proton version 9.

Anyone have a similar issue with this game? If so, what settings did you pick to fix it?

Hi, I recently got linux mint and Was Wondering how to get Roblox on linux, but it dosent have an offical port and wine and its alternatives are blocked And I heared about sober, is it safe or is there open-source alternatives ?

Display Manager:Wayland

WM:Hyprland

Distro:Arch

GPU:RTX 3060

Launch Options: mangohud gamemoderun gamescope -w 1920 -h 1080 -r 144 -O dp-1 -- %command%

I launch some of my games on gamescope, because some of them act weird under hyprland. And only the ones that i launch with gamescope have this problem. I've played Overwatch 2 with this setup and didn't have anything like this. The first 30 minutes or so is really smooth. 144 fps stable. But after that, in a matter of a second this happens. And whenever i move my mouse or press any keys the FPS goes down form 144 to 85-70.

Hi, I'm thinking about buying Arc Raiders. Checked on protondb to see whether it works on Linux. Says that it's platinum, and I've read people recommend it for Linux gaming. However, on the steam store it displays a kernel level anticheat banner. Shouldn't it make it unplayable on Linux?

So guys.. I am new to cachyos (linux distros with nvidia support in general.. have used ubuntu as a fun daily driver without games)

System specs :

CPU : i5 13500HX
GPU : RTX 4050 mobile
Distro : CachyOS
Driver Version: 580.105.08

I am running the game via steam.. (Tried proton 10-25, proton-cachyos-10.0-20251107)

As the title says, the game always runs in integrated GPU and not in my dedicated GPU.. (Evident from my nvidia-smi not showing the process of wuwa)

The issue is with wuwa only for now as other games are running in dGPU

My Launch Option : STEAMDECK=1 __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 %command% (tried with -dx11 flag as well)

lmk if any other details are wanted...

Hay just got Linux last night and my games are launching into a black screen with sound
9070 xt , 7800x3d Kubuntu 25.10

I was very happy that HDR games were finally working in Gnome (Fedora 43, Gnome 49, screen settings HDR on, Steam, Gamescope with special start command) – but when I wanted to start a game today -> no HDR. Some update between three weeks ago and today broke HDR.

The launch command that has worked so far:
LD_PRELOAD="" DXVK_HDR=1 gamescope -w 3840 -h 2160 -W 3840 -H 2160 -b -f -r 120.0 --hdr-enabled --force-grab-cursor -- %command%

Gamescope version:

gamescope --version

[gamescope] [Info] console: gamescope version (gcc 15.2.1)

As far as I can see under --help, nothing has changed in the Gamescope-commands – but I suspect that an update has been installed here. Unfortunately, I don't have the version number from when it was still working. But it could also be that Gnome or something else has broken Gamescope here.

Does anyone have any ideas?

UPDATE:
Solved with downgrading gamescope from 3.16.17-2.fc43 back to 3.16.15-1.fc43
sudo dnf downgrade gamescope
So the problem is gamescope.
I think this would not be a permanent fix, but maybe that helps and maybe they will fix this...

I gave up Windows and now 100% Linux using Bazzite. So far every game I want to play works with very little issue except Fortnite.

So, I was wondering if there is a popular battle royale game that works decent on Linux with a solid player base that could fill the BR void I now have.

Hello! I'm 3 months into CachyOS, and genuinely could not wrap my head around why this is happening. I'm running WuWa on Steam, and all my other games run on dGPU just fine but for some reason WuWa just does not want to use it recently.

Even by forcing the use of dGPU through both the launch options and the AsusMuxDgpu profile on supergfxctl, it just black screens and nvidia-smi does not show the game using the dGPU. It was working perfectly the last time I opened it (which was two weeks ago). For the AsusMuxDgpu method specifically, I can hear audio and can click on the login screen, there is just no rendering from my graphics card and neither does nvidia-smi say the process is using it.

I rolled back my NVIDIA drivers to 580.76.05, and switched to the LTS kernel and still couldn't get it to work. I've tested different Proton versions too (Experimental, CachyOS SLR, CachyOS Native, GE Proton versions, and rolled back CachyOS Proton versions from when it was still working) and none of it work too.

Specs (laptop):

Distro: CachyOS 6.17.8-2 (have tested 6.12.58-2 from LTS kernel)

CPU: Intel Core i5 12500H

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

Did someone manage to use downloaded graphics in FM26 on Ubuntu? I have steam installed using snap, and FM path is ~/snap/steam/common/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 26. So my full path for graphics is following ~/snap/steam/common/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Football Manager 26/shared/data

And inside I have kits and logos subfolders, none of that loaded when I enter the game after restart.