Hey everyone.

I've got CachyOS installed on my PC but have run into issues with trying to get some older titles to launch via Steam.

I have Proton compatibility on and so on, and can run more modern games, but anything that's older (I'm talking older than 2010), I just can't seem to get them to launch or if they do launch, it's unplayable.

I'm guessing I have to use an older version of Proton to get them to run properly or is there something else I need to do?

Thanks in advance

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I've been experiencing a lot of game crashes lately. In games like Palworld and Monster Hunter Wilds, after playing for a while, my screen goes black, logs me out of all sessions, and brings me back to the GNOME login screen. Additionally, in games like Hearthstone, the game simply crashes after some time.

I've been theorizing about the possible causes: whether it's an issue with my Linux distro (Nobara) or my GPU (AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT). I can provide more details if needed, but I wanted to know if anyone else is experiencing the same problem.

6.13.7-200.nobara.fc41.x86_64

OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT (radeonsi, navi22, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.61, 6.13.7-200.nobara.fc41.x86_64)

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https://preview.redd.it/cyilnbmwb6re1.png?width=1663&format=png&auto=webp&s=62e2fb2f8db9d98ad9e8a0eed39708c4cba8dd1b

[Mostly? Solved] I am running CP77 through Heroic (gotten from GOG), with nvidia-offload wrapper command (tried with the environment variables as well, didn't work).

It used to run fine when I was using sync, but I wanted to increase the power efficiency on my laptop, so this is why I am using offload.

I am on NixOS.

Any suggestions on what could be the issue? Drivers are definitely installed, btw, here is what nvidia-smi returns:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 565.77 Driver Version: 565.77 CUDA Version: 12.7 | |-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |=========================================+========================+======================| | 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A | | N/A 86C P3 33W / 80W | 2774MiB / 6144MiB | 41% Default | | | | N/A | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 3111 G ...kx-gnome-shell-47.2/bin/gnome-shell 2MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 126782 C+G ...punk 2077\bin\x64\Cyberpunk2077.exe 2690MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Also, as you can see, my nvidia gpu is most definitely used, so it's not that the nvidia-offload command is ignored or something.

Edit: Ok, I did some more testing and it turns out my dGPU is being used even when I removed the wrapper wtf. Any idea anyone? I thought offload meant it's not used unless you explicitly request it to be used.

Edit2: Figured out why nvidia driver wasn't showing up. Forgor to tick the DXVK-NVAPI checkbox. That makes the driver show up as well as the nvidia graphics settings like dlss and latency stuff. I still have no clue why my dGPU is being used even when I remove nvidia-offload wrapper / env variables / use dedicated gpu option. Sorry if I wasted anyones time since I figured it out by myself anyway though, but if someone knows why my dGPU is used without an explicit request lmk, I am kinda curious.

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Guus im new to linux and i have found ways to play games on linux using steam but i dont know how i can run the file installer of the games...i have the setup files but i dont know how to run the setup.exe of the games

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I'm curious to try it, but i'm not sure how this works.

I know games run in XWayland now. But does the game need to support Wayland to run in wayland mode? Or it's not how it works?

Can i try any game in native wayland? If so how, and if not, why not? What's the deciding factor?

I found this link, is this stull relevant? Is this how you do it?
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1dpmd38/how_to_run_steam_games_on_native_wayland/

I'm not expecting anything out of the experience, i know it'll probably be worse, i'm just curious to try it. See where it's at. :)

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I can successfully launch the game in native Wayland with custom Proton, but one thing always bothers me.

The scale of KDE Plasma on my 4K monitor is 200%, although the game is in full screen mode, it still scales itself to 200%, thus I can only see 1/4 of the image.

Is there anyone who has the same problem?

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I've ben modding games for 2-3 years now, and I've switched my old mac book air to Linux and enjoying Linux, but want to mod Morrowind. (Already got OpenMW working), I just want to download some mods.

However I place the mods into Limo, but they don't load. I open Morrowind, and just the mods don't load in the game. What's going on?

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Would anyone be able to help me get my new 5070 installed? Forgive me if I am not an complete Linux expert. Somethings I still need to learn.

Currently my OS does not detect my card other than as a standard generic graphics card.

Tried updating my drivers to 570 to no avail. Previous attempts to do so only caused my older card to stop working so I might have inadvertently caused some files to be left behind in my attempts to uninstall and reinstall it before hand.

I also saw this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1iwfd7y/5080_drivers/ and had attempted to install those drivers but got these results in the console.

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jesse@pop-os:~$ sudo apt-manage add popdev:nvidia-570

Fetching repository information...

Adding the following source:

Pop Development Staging branch

popdev-nvidia-570:

Name: Pop Development Branch nvidia-570

Enabled: yes

Types: deb

URIs: http://apt.pop-os.org/staging/nvidia-570

Suites: jammy

Components: main

Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/popdev-archive-keyring.gpg

Press ENTER to continue adding this source or Ctrl+C to cancel

jesse@pop-os:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Hit:1 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease

Hit:2 http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary jammy InRelease

Hit:3 http://apt.pop-os.org/release jammy InRelease

Ign:4 http://apt.pop-os.org/staging/nvidia-570 jammy InRelease

Hit:5 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu jammy InRelease

Hit:6 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease

Hit:7 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease

Hit:8 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease

Err:9 http://apt.pop-os.org/staging/nvidia-570 jammy Release

404 Not Found [IP: 216.137.45.43 80]

Ign:10 https://releases.warp.dev/linux/deb stable InRelease

Hit:11 https://releases.warp.dev/linux/deb stable Release

Reading package lists... Done

E: The repository 'http://apt.pop-os.org/staging/nvidia-570 jammy Release' does not have a Release file.

N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

jesse@pop-os:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-570-open nvidia-dkms-570

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

nvidia-driver-570-open : Depends: nvidia-dkms-570-open (>= 570.124.04) but it is not installable

Depends: nvidia-kernel-source-570-open (= 570.124.04-1pop1~1741013523~22.04~c11b8fe) but it is not installable

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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cause it freezes and disconnects the monitor on lutris and any other game launcher

also gets this error after installing lutris so i only see 1 wine version to be able to dl

https://pastebin.com/C9PZ3crc

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Howdy - I have a couple of games (specifically BG3 and Diablo 4) that have this issue.

(BG3 runs through steam and i use lutris for D4). I generally use Proton Hotfix or Proton Experimental but I've tried other variations.

The situation is: I'll start the game, play for a bit and then input stops working in the game. The game is running but frozen. If i alt-tab away from the game, the game will start running again. alt-tab back into the game and it freezes.

So for example when this happens i can hit escape then alt-tab (wait a sec) alt-tab back and the escape menu will show up. I can then click on the item i want. alt-tab away (wait) alt-tab back and that click will register.

I can play D4 pretty consistently, but BG3 lasts about 5 minutes before this happens.

Anyone run into this? Most games I play don't have the issue just those 2 so far.

Running: An Dell XPS15 with PopOS 22.04 & nvidia RTX 4060 (Laptop)

Thanks

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Hello just trying to figure out how to get scripthook to work on gta 4 I'm on latest patch I have fusionfix and some others added I just want to get this trainer working but it needs scripthook thanks in advance.

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I reinstalled Linux earlier at the same time that I got a new graphics card, and most things have been working flawlessly. However, in my new Steam install, SteamInput is extremely wonky for some reason: In some cases it works flawlessly, in some cases it doesn't work at all.

I am primarily testing with a wired PS5 controller, but I've tried other loadouts to no avail.

Here are the patterns I've discovered:

- If Steam is launched normally, SteamInput will not work at all within games. Steam will appear to recognize my controller and allow me to use it to navigate Big Picture menus and pick controller layouts, but no input is passed to the game itself.

- If Steam is launched with the `-steamos3` flag, SteamInput will work for most games.

- However, for any game mods (notably Dark Souls Remastest and Elden Ring Seamless Coop) that require you to add a modified .exe of a steam game as a Non-steam game, SteamInput will not work regardless of flags. Sometimes input will work if I don't use gamescope, but these games are wonky without it and it used to work within gamescope before the reinstall.

- connecting the the PS5 to bluetooh will sometimes work, and sometimes not. If it works, it will work for the entire game session.

Things I've attempted to troubleshoot the issue:
- adding the -steamos3 flag to steam. This only solved the issue for most games.
- adding the -e flag to gamescope's launch arguments.
- adding my user to the "input" group.
- making a custom udev rule for Dualsense controllers.

- switching from a Dualsense controller to a Switch Pro Controller.

I've found a workaround for Elden Ring Seamless by turning off SteamInput entirely (in both the non-steam game entry and the official one), using Proton-GE-9-26, and adding the "PROTON_PREFER_SDL=1" flag to the launch options. However, this does not work with Dark Souls Remastest.

What can I do to find a solution, or at least diagnose the issue?

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Decided to throw Ubuntu 24.10 on an external drive and tell Steam in Ubuntu where my CS2 install was and went from there in a live environment. From the main menu the game was significantly smoother than my main install.

The only difference was that Ubuntu uses older packages and doesn't have zram enabled in the live environment, and for reference my specs are a Ryzen 7 2700x, RX 590 and 16gb of ram.

I don't have genuine performance numbers aside from just eyeing the steam FPS counter and CS2's built in FPS counter, but Fedora(41 using the KDE spin) usually gets about 120 FPS max in a deathmatch with real players and only really hits about 110 average while Ubuntu can hit 180 and Ubuntu overall stays closer to my display's refresh rate of 144. Any guesses as to why this is? Mine is just that ZRAM has been fucking with me and many others this whole time and right after I post this I'm going to turn off ZRAM in Fedora then boot into CS2.

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Rivals performs great, but since an update about a month ago it has crashed randomly when loading in and entering the character selection screen, and it also very infrequently freezes mid-match. Would appreciate any suggestions for potential fixes! Still dual booting windows, but if I can resolve this I might fully switch.

Edit: Imgur link to screenshot of the crash (forgot to include)

https://imgur.com/a/FOioYTN

PC info here:

GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060

CPU: Intel i7-12700k

RAM: 16gb

OS: POP_OS (Always current stable release)

Proton: Using Proton GE. I've tried versions 9-20, 25, and 26

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So I fully switched to linux like 3 or 4 years ago now. All my games kind of just worked. I loved it.

Put a game in lutris, run it, you're in. Didn't work? Tweak some settings and you're in.
Put a game in steam. It works.

Nowadays I have so many issues that I haven't been able to do any type of gaming on linux. I've tried ubuntu, debian, pop, arch, endeavour, and cachy. Not sure what happened but, lutris is kind of just broken now? I tried a fresh install of all of those OS. Some i tried multiple times in a row. Almost never does a game just work anymore.

Currently im on Ubuntu 24.04.2. I switched back because surely everything works best on ubuntu out of the box. Nope! Download lutris and try to grab battle.net and no dice.It takes 10 minutes to start getting the Arial font then hangs until it silently exits. Many games are like this now.

Im not even in the mood to try other games right now. It is infuriating me. This is the same story of the last 8 fresh OS installs I tried. Put a game in lutris and it works like 30% of the time now. Some of them like battle.net games just dont work anymore. I hate steam but of course resort to trying something in that. Works sometimes. Sometimes it doesnt.

I always assumed I broke something but I have now learned, that is not the case. I would like to stay on linux. I despise windows. I kind of can't now though seeing as I can't even play games that used to be perfect on linux.

What the hell happened?

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Hello everyone, I'm building a new PC and planning to daily drive Linux for gaming and programming. I'm torn between the 7900 XTX and the 9070 XT and could use some input from Linux gamers. I also spent quite a bit of time playing VR titles such as VRChat and Beat Saber.

Radeon 9070 XT

• Pros:
  • FSR4 for upscaling, which looks promising for the future.
  • Better ray tracing performance.
  • Improved encoders for streaming (I dabble in streaming sometimes).
  • Lower power consumption compared to the 7900 XTX.
• Cons:
  • Linux driver support is still maturing, and I’m reading it’ll likely take ~6 months to reach the same performance as windows
  • Only 16GB of VRAM.

Radeon 7900 XTX

• Pros:
  • A little faster overall, especially at 4K.
  • Linux drivers are very mature—practically plug-and-play at this point.
  • A massive 24GB of VRAM. (usual for VR titles)
• Cons:
  • $200 more expensive than the 9070 XT.
  • It’s technically last-gen, which feels weird considering I want this build to last a while.
  • Higher power draw.

Big Questions:

1. For a Linux-first gaming rig, how much does the maturity of the drivers really matter? Should I wait it out for the 9070 XT’s drivers to improve, or would the polished experience of the 7900 XTX be worth the extra cost?

2. Is 16GB of VRAM enough for VRChat if I’m not loading a ton of avatars? Will I regret not going for 24GB?

3. How much do ray tracing and FSR4 matter if I plan to stick to Linux for the foreseeable future?

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