I recently purchased The Witcher 2 on sale on GOG to explore gaming outside of steam. The linux version on the game launches without sound and terrible performance, I thought I could be slick and run the windows version through the steam client forcing proton, but it won't even load the launcher. Regular wine opens the launcher but the game gets stuck trying to launch.

Any advice on making either version work?

Hi, this is just a post for anyone who want to run starfield on linux, fedora more specifically.

It works fine with fedora 42/ nvidia driver

What if a distro reversed everything? Lock-down the OS and make it spy on everything. Monitor mouse movement, network devices, peripherals, keystrokes, even take periodic screen shots to capture absolutely everything the PC is doing? Make a system that is not intended for any privacy at all, but instead a system literally designed to 1) detect cheats, 2) play video games-- in that order of priority?

Screencaps and information could be posted to a public site and associated with an ID or a profile. Streamers could link that profile in their twitch/whatever so that the community could actively monitor what they are doing on that device. For privacy, they would need another device.

Reached this point because I am so frustrated about cheats and I only use this particular computer for gaming. So, requiring a snitch that monitors for DMA devices seems like a cool idea.

Hello! I've started experiencing startup crashes for Cyberpunk today, the game was fine around 2 days ago so I want to ask, is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Here are my specs if necessary (the game usually runs well) Ryzen 5 5600X Rx 6800 32GB DDR4 3600Mhz RAM and my OS and Kernel is Arch Linux 6.16.8-2-cachyos

any replay is appreciated, even if just a simple "no" or "yes" whether or not it's just my issue

EDIT: Forgot to mention my proton, it is GE-Proton10-17

As title. I've Been gaming on Linux for around 4 years now and have never used either of these yet I hear them mentioned all the time. I usually just add non steamgame to library, change proton to experimental and boom. Most games just work. Then proton tricks for missing bits some require. However I see a lot of posts about these other ways and feel like I should know at this point. Starting to feel like I've got imposter syndrome

I'm trying to play Far Cry 5 in multiplayer with a friend, but when I launch Far Cry with Lutris, I can't open the Ubisoft Connect shortcut. An explanation or a way to activate it would be helpful, thank you!

Tried different proton versions still persists

I'm on arch and i use hyprland and never had a problem until coming back from a vacation and updating the entire system, I've been getting visual bugs like these when ANY cutscene in the game plays on top of the game itself, i tried to launch the game with different versions of proton and even native, i tried to add other mediaplayers through protontricks and i tried to force the rendering through Launch options in steam (PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%) but nothing is solving it, has anyone experienced the same problem and knows of any solution?

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I was recently gifted a copy of icarus on steam, and on medium the game is absolutely unplayable at 5 fps, not 15, not 25, plain 5 fps. lowering the settings to the max possible, including the vram textures thing to 2000 MB, and FSR performance, i get 25-ish fps.

My computer has 32GB of ram at 3200MT/s and the game is installed on an nvme ssd. SAM is enabled on my motherboard, and i'm using proton experimental(using proton beta and proton hotfix, and the latest proton stable make no difference)

Anyone else with similar hardware experiencing similar behaviour from icarus?

Any idea what's going on?

even with the settings at the lowest possible, VRAM usage exceeds the 8GB of the RX 7600. There's no VRAM usage difference between high settings and lowest possible settings at 9.5GB, using 1.5GB of system memory as part of the video memory pool. restarting the game, restarting the computer, all does nothing to help upon changing settings.

Thank you

edit: this is at 1920x1200 resolution

Hey everyone,
I’ve been trying for days to get Dragon Ball Gekishin Squadra running on Linux Mint through Steam/Proton, but after I hit Play it just stays stuck on the Loading screen forever (it keeps spinning/loading, doesn’t actually freeze).

My setup:

• Linux Mint (latest updates)
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M + Intel HD Graphics 520 (Optimus laptop)
• Vulkan installed, both GPUs detected by vulkaninfo
• Proton 9.0-4 installed

What I’ve already tried (following AI help and online guides):

• Tested multiple Proton versions (including Experimental)
• Launched Steam with __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia steam to force NVIDIA GPU
• Deleted the game’s compatdata folder to rebuild a fresh Proton prefix
• Installed 32-bit Vulkan libraries (libvulkan1:i386, mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386)
• Looked for Proton-GE in Steam but it’s not showing up (probably not installed yet)
• Restarted the game several times and waited longer in case it was shader compilation

Despite all this, the game never goes past the Loading… screen.

Iam sry Ik It`s a Linux community but i was wonderin is it possible to play GoWR on my old GPU using vkd3d-proton on windows 10?

I currently have a Bigbigwon Gale Hall, but unfortunately, I can only use it for control — I have no idea why rumble/vibration doesn't work. I've tried both CachyOS and Bazzite, but it's still hopeless.

I'm considering getting a Flydigi Vader 4 Pro. Will it be fully functional on Linux?