So, let me make this explanation quick:

I am using KDE Plasma 6, I have a GTX 1660 Super. I enabled this setting here to Automatic:

(it was on automatic before)

VRR, at least for me has a lot of really tedious black screen issues in many different games and applications, it causes the entire screen to black out and until I exit a said program that for some reason causes those issues, it will remain as a black screen and will not show any output. This is of course, until I disable the option.

I don't know if it's because my monitor is a Freesync monitor, and not a G-Sync certified one, but either way, I'd like to know if others experienced this kind of thing and/or have found solutions to the problem itself.

Initially i was having a crash report message with no additional infos, then on steam community i found someone with the same error and managed to figure out that deleting CrashReport.exe and CrashReportDll.dll from the folder gave me the actual error `Fatal D3D error (2,E_INVALIDARG, 0x80070057`, which looks more like a Proton error, any idea on how to fix this?

Distro: NixOS

Video card: Nvidia RTX 4060 with nvidia beta drivers (565.57.01)

CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13620H

Proton version: GE-Proton9-16, GE-Proton-8-32, Proton-Experimental

Has anyone migrating from Windows found an alternative that isn't mudfish?

I did try Nord but it lowers my download speed quite substantially from gigabit to 100mbps.

Also for anyone curious how this works or hesitant, as I've seen lots of posts downvoted to high hell.

It reduces my ping by connecting me via the AJC (subsea cable from Australian East Coast to Japan) for example, for a Japanese game server, rather than going through my ISP route connecting across to the other side of Australia (West) then Northern Territory, then Singapore, Then Japan.

This is a massive must have for lots of us in countries that are further from games, as we get lowered response times of upward 50ms, or in my case because I skip half of my country as well as 15 or so other hops, nearly 80ms.

This might not be as applicable if you're in the US obviously, as you guys don't have to jump so far to play on an NA server.

So I switched to linux about 2 weeks ago, first distro I used was Garuda but I have a problem with VAC running Dota there, I switched to Arch (I've followed every tutorial that exist to install Arch and to setup the game) and then this pops up (Image below).

Did I missed a step or two?

I never add -vulkan on my launch options, I cannot check the in-game settings because I cannot log in, I've tried to add -safe_mode and -gl on the launch options but it won't work, I also tried to use the "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compability tool" on Compability option (Selecting proton version) but it kills Dota process before I even get to the black starting screen (Game window).

I've tried another games like Minecraft Java and Sword of Convallaria and it runs just fine without any problem and with even better performance than back when I ran it on windows.

but

I just want to play Dota :')

Error message after trying to launch Dota 2

So... uh... I did something to my Steam Deck, and despite WoW being installed on the SD card still I can no longer launch it, and when I try to launch Battle.net it can only access games on my "main" drive (which is tiny and not where I download anything to)

OS: Arch Linux

DE: KDE Plasma 6.2

Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 24.2.5-arch1.1 for AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT (radeonsi, navi22, LLVM 18.1.8, DRM 3.59
, 6.11.5-zen1-1-zen)

All the drivers are installed:

extra/vulkan-radeon 1:24.2.5-1 [installed]
Open-source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs
multilib/lib32-vulkan-radeon 1:24.2.5-1 [installed]
Open-source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs - 32-bit

aur/vk-hdr-layer-kwin6-git r31.f5f13b7-1 (+6 1.08) (Installed: r33.e173f26-1)
Vulkan Wayland HDR WSI Layer (Xaver Hugl's fork for KWin 6)

I have installed the latest proton-tkg from here: https://github.com/Frogging-Family/wine-tkg-git/actions/workflows/proton-arch-nopackage.yml

I have edited the registry by adding Graphics key with x11,wayland.

Launch option: PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 DXVK=1 DISPLAY= %command%

Ok, I can launch the game, but the HDR can not be enabled.

Does nvidia still not support fullscreen tearing for all applications on kde plasma? I tried KWIN_DRM_NO_AMS=1 but it resulted in a black screen on wayland. Some of my native wayland games still have more input lag than when running them natively in X11. I have adaptive sync off and am running the games at fps higher than my monitors refresh rate but it still feels laggy. It makes me not believe that enable tearing for fullscreen applications is working.

I downloaded the beta of Monster Hunter Wilds but it's crashing immediately at launch, a crash report tool quickly appears and then closes itself. I tried stable Proton, experimental and GE, same behavior on all of them.

The beta starts in about 24 hours, but I've seen people saying that you can compile the shaders now, so it wasn't supposed to crash.

Any workarounds?

I got my new GPU in and tried to get it to work with my current Debian 12 build, but after trying a lot of different installs the drivers just constantly were shit. I tried the .run files, I tried the 3rd party nvidia repo, but I just don't think I'm cut out to make this shit work without the official Debian packages. Right now they are still on 535 and nvidia-detect was telling me it requires ~555+ and Debian testing is also only on 545. I got them installed but then steam games wouldn't launch, the desktop would be super laggy etc.

I figure when I get the rest of my parts in I will start fresh so are there any good chill distributions to get the required drivers for 4070 installed easily? Might be a WSL angle for the next year or so.

Anyone figure out how to allow Vortex mod manager to deploy mods to respective games? It's able to detect the games but I keep getting "deployment failed" and "no available deployment method" errors.

My game directories and files all have 755 perms and are owned by my user and group.

I really wanna to play something like destiny 2, but I always find warframe or first descendant as alternative, someone has a better choice ?

Hey everyone. I just wanted to sit down and play some TF2 after a long while of not playing it and to my actual surprise, it just doesn’t work. Running it natively either causes my desktop to not respond or the game just crashes outright. And then when I try to get into a game, it tells me I’m in “insecure mode” and I’m not sure how to get out of it. I’ve tried adding -secure to launch options, I’ve tried forcing it to use Steam Linux Runtime, I’ve tried Team Fortress 2 and OpenGL from the launch options, nothing works. The only thing that does seem to work is Proton GE but I still can’t get out of insecure mode. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Context, when I play Stardew Valley with mods (SMAPI) through steam the terminal defaults to xterm, My preferred terminal is kitty. So is their a way to specify what terminal for it to use?

Is this even a Steam issue? When launching a terminal through dolphin without konsole installed it defaulted to xterm, so that made me wonder if I needed to set a system wide default? If so, how would I? I am running Arch Linux, with Hyprland as my WM.

This is specifically with the tearing enabled and compositing turned off. I was just wondering, it seems like X11 is snappier than windows to me but it is impossible to tell without any real test results. Does anyone know of results like this that could be referenced here?

No C++ fans here pls.

I'm looking for a way to ensure extremely low latency on wayland with the new tearing protocol on a native Linux game (Counter Strike 2). My compositor/wm jay supports the tearing protocol at the time of writing this. I refuse to use Kwin or hyprland for Rust reasons. My options according to this piece of wayland explorer documentation are Jay or Weston, I still don't know what Weston does exactly, is it a reference compositor similar to pipewire-media-session? Anyways. I've decided for Jay.

What else needs my setup to ensure full use of the wayland tearing protocol? Recompiling the kernel? Another Proton installation? wine-git that enable wayland? Could I just use it with xwayland for now? I suppose that for CS2, native game, proton doesn't take part on it. Still I have a lot of doubts.

My system: - Fedora Silverblue 41 (I have a testing PC with Fedora Workstation 41) - Rx6600xt GPU - STEAM installed inside toolbox

Guys is the proton ge 7-53 still on heroic? I tried to look for it but the oldest one i could find is the proton ge 7-54

When I click the button it opens the login window and it freezes.

If I open lutris with lutris -d it gives:

ERROR 2024-10-30 23:24:45,709 [jobs.target:33]:Error while completing task <function BaseService.start_reload.<locals>.do_reload at 0x7c4aa73e1870>: <class 'lutris.services.base.AuthTokenExpired'>

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/util/jobs.py", line 31, in target

result = self.function(*args, **kwargs)

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/services/base.py", line 142, in do_reload

self.load()

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/services/egs.py", line 312, in load

raise AuthTokenExpired from ex

I'm on Pop_os 22.04