Hi all,

I was pleasantly surprised that the Closed Beta of the Expanse : Osiris Reborn was working straight forward on Linux (270K+ & RTX 5090 UV)

On top the 32:9 ratio is well supported during the cinematics!

No crash during the gameplay!

Linux Setup :
CachyOS
KDE Plasma : 6.6.4
KDE Frameworks : 6.25.0
Qt : 6.11.0
Kernel : 7.0.0-1-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphic platform : Wayland
Proton : CachyOS 10.0-20260409-slr
Nvidia GPU Drivers : 595.58.03 (GPU0)
Intel GPU Drivers : Mesa 26.0.3-arch2.2 (GPU1)

Proton Setup :
Environnent parameters :
-PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1
-PROTON_DLSS_INDICATOR=1
-DXVK_NVAPI_DRS_NGX_DLSS_SR_OVERRIDE_RENDER_PRESET_SELECTION=RENDER_PRESET_M
-MANGOHUD=1
-OBS_VKCAPTURE=1

Capture Software :
OBS Studio
Game Capture - mode
Video Codec : Intel Arrow-Lake S AV1 60mbps
Image interval : 2s

Pops up when I launch the game in Steam. 1080 Ti. As I understand, this card supports DX12 but some shaders might not work. It seems to run it just fine. Has anyone else gotten this pop up before?

like the title says i am NOT the original poster but his account was deleted so im unsure if it will be removed.. but this solution worked for me like a charm!

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"I’m not a Linux pro, I tried this by using forum posts and ChatGPT. Here’s what worked for me:

1. Install OBS normally (sudo apt install obs). The bug persisted.
2. You can now launch OBS from the terminal with this command: __NV_DISABLE_EXPLICIT_SYNC=1 obs
3. But I wanted to make it launchable from the dock. The normal thing to do is apparently to edit the .desktop file at: /home/<user>/.local/share/applications/obs-studio.desktop and add Exec=env __NV_DISABLE_EXPLICIT_SYNC=1 obs to the Exec= line with right-klick and "Open with Text Editor" (you might need to press Ctrl+H to show hidden folders to find .local)

However, I had the strange problem that the.desktop file didn’t exist, so I created it manually. I used these commands with ChatGPTs help:

Create the file: sudo nano /usr/share/applications/com.obsproject.Studio.desktop

Edit the file in terminal (I guess you can also do step 3 here): nano ~/.local/share/applications/obs-studio.desktop

Pasted this into the file (only the Exec= line is modified, rest is left original):

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=OBS Studio
GenericName=Streaming/Recording Software
Comment=Free and Open Source Streaming/Recording Software
Exec=env __NV_DISABLE_EXPLICIT_SYNC=1 obs
Icon=com.obsproject.Studio
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=AudioVideo;Recorder;
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=obs

GenericName[an_ES]=Programa de retransmisión/gravación
Comment[an_ES]=Program de retransmisión/gravación libre y de codigo ubierto
GenericName[ar_SA]=برامج البث / التسجيل
Comment[ar_SA]=برنامج بث / تسجيل مجاني ومفتوح المصدر
GenericName[bn_BD]=স্ট্রিমিং/রেকর্ডিং সফটওয়্যার
Comment[bn_BD]=ফ্রি এবং মুক্ত সোর্স স্ট্রিমিং/রেকর্ডিং সফ্টওয়্যার
GenericName[ca_ES]=Programa de retransmissió/enregistrament
Comment[ca_ES]=Programa de retransmissió/enregistrament de codi lliure i gratuït
GenericName[cs_CZ]=Software pro vysílání a nahrávání
Comment[cs_CZ]=Svobodný software pro vysílání a nahrávání
GenericName[da_DK]=Streaming-/optagelsessoftware
Comment[da_DK]=Gratis og open-source streaming-/optagelsessoftware
GenericName[de_DE]=Streaming-/Aufnahme-Software

Then I made the file executable:chmod +x ~/.local/share/applications/obs-studio.desktop

OBS now appears in "Show Apps" and launches normally, with screen selection working on startup. - OG poster

I'm on CachyOS with a 9070xt. The game has ran since launch. I haven't played in a few days but today i go to boot and i see the initial launch screen, then it crashes. Iv tried different protons, no commands, my commands. Nothing. All the same result. Ive been playing in HDR with

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3dcompiler_47=n;dxgi=n,b" PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 game-performance %command%

I tried switching off HDR as well.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Descargue hoy el genshin con protonDB en mi legion go s y al momento de querer abrirlo desde el launcher no me permite, hace mucho instale el Zenless Zone Zero y me abre sin problemas pero el Genshin no me abre

alguien mas le pasa lo mismo?

When I was on Windows I had a game drive SSD that I would keep all my games on, and a C: drive for all my programs. A while back I organized it so my games are a few levels deep (think E:/Archive/Games/SteamLibrary/...), but for some reason when I try to select this folder in Mint, Steam won't run anything and will also 'forget' the drive exists when I restart.

I have done most of the regular toubleshooting steps like reformatting the drive to ext4, and enabled the automount options, but nothing helped. The one thing that seems to work though is moving SteamLibrary to the top level of the mounted drive, but I don't like it this way, is there any way to get steam to work while preserving my file system?

I've only spent 5 mins playing. But the controller feels great to me. I couldn't find a manual only a marketing pdf. So I did some testing with Claude.

The controller uses a LiteEMF chipset (VID 4131 PID 3519) and works great on Linux once you

know the mode combos. Out of the box it connects in keyboard/mouse mode which Steam doesn't

recognize. Tested on Arch Linux kernel 7.0.0, confirmed working in Steam (Proton), Hades 2,

and SuperTuxKart (native SDL2).

---

## Mode Map (2.4GHz dongle)

| Combo | LED | Mode | Notes |

|----------|-------------|--------------------|---------------------------|

| Home + B | solid green | XInput (dongle) | Use this for PC gaming |

| Home + A | solid red | Switch Pro (dongle)| Not useful on Linux |

| Home + X | light blue | Bluetooth pairing | For phone app config only |

| Home + Y | dark blue | PS4/DS4 Bluetooth | Emulates DualShock 4 over BT |

**Important:** The controller has a single wireless pairing slot. After connecting to the phone

app via Bluetooth, you need to re-pair the dongle: hold Home + B then press the small button

on the dongle.

---

## Step 1 — Switch to XInput mode

Hold **Home + B** until the LED turns solid green.

---

## Step 2 — Force xpad to claim it (first time only)

```bash

echo "4131 3519" | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb/drivers/xpad/new_id

```

---

## Step 3 — Make it permanent (udev rule)

```bash

sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/99-xeno-plus.rules << 'EOF'

# LeadJoy Xeno Plus — auto-bind xpad and restore calibration on connect

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="4131", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3519", \

RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 4131 3519 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/xpad/new_id'"

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="js*", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{idVendor}=="4131", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3519", \

RUN+="/usr/sbin/jscal-restore %E{DEVNAME}"

EOF

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

```

---

## Step 4 — Calibrate sticks

```bash

sudo pacman -S joyutils # Arch — adjust for your distro

jscal -c /dev/input/js1

jscal-store /dev/input/js1

```

Note: the controller has hardware-level drift correction in firmware (visible in the iOS/Android

app). The jscal calibration corrects driver-level quantization noise from the 12-bit to 16-bit

axis mapping, not real hardware drift.

---

## Button Map (XInput mode)

| Button # | Control |

|----------|-------------|

| 0 | A |

| 1 | B |

| 2 | X |

| 3 | Y |

| 4 | LB |

| 5 | RB |

| 6 | Back/Select |

| 7 | Start |

| 8 | Home/Guide |

| 9 | L3 |

| 10 | R3 |

Axes: Left stick X/Y (0,1), Left trigger (2), Right stick X/Y (3,4), Right trigger (5),

D-pad X/Y (6,7). Triggers go 0 (unpressed) to 32767 (full press). D-pad reports -1/0/1.

---

## SDL2 gamecontrollerdb entry (native Linux games)

```

03000000314100001935000000010000,LeadJoy Xeno Plus,platform:Linux,a:b0,b:b1,x:b2,y:b3,leftshoulder:b4,rightshoulder:b5,back:b6,start:b7,guide:b8,leftstick:b9,rightstick:b10,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,lefttrigger:+a2,rightx:a3,righty:a4,righttrigger:+a5,dpup:h0.1,dpright:h0.2,dpdown:h0.4,dpleft:h0.8,

```

Tested and working in SuperTuxKart (native SDL2).

---

## Firmware-only buttons (not configurable from Linux)

The following buttons produce no host events and require the LeadJoy iOS/Android app to remap:

- 4 back paddles (R4, R5, L4, L5)

- 2 buttons right of the d-pad

- Middle button above Home (between Back and Start)

- The button on the back resets modes. It doesn't remap back buttons on the controller.

---

## Bluetooth PS4 mode (optional)

Home + Y puts the controller in DS4 emulation mode over Bluetooth (reports as Sony VID 054C

PID 09CC). To use on Linux:

```bash

bluetoothctl trust <MAC>

bluetoothctl bond <MAC>

```

The hid-playstation driver is already in the kernel and should claim it once trusted/bonded.

---

## Result

Shows up as "Generic X-Box pad" in Steam. Steam Input enables automatically. Works in all

Proton games and native Linux SDL2 games out of the box.

The OLED display currently only shows the LeadJoy logo — firmware updates may add battery

level, profile display etc.

I entered the world of Linux looking for something different from Windows — after all, I have a very good PC and the effect of bloatware wasn’t noticeable at all. However, on Linux, specifically on CachyOS, I came across an incredible surprise:

Games literally look better than on Windows. It’s amazing how a compatibility layer manages to achieve a better visual result than on the platform it was originally designed for. But that’s how it is.

I’ve tested several games; without a doubt the clearest example I came across was Dirt Rally 2.0, a game that on Windows only gives you the option of using the horrible TAA and putting up with all the blurriness, or turning it off and having jagged edges on every scenario. On CachyOS with TAA off it looks incredible — incomparably better than on Windows. Btw, I’m using an NVIDIA 5000 series graphics card.

But my question is: what’s the reason? What is there specifically in the emulation layer that achieves visually superior results with the same settings? I find it amazing, even more so being a newcomer to all this.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I must have accumulated almost 200 hours in Divinity 2. It had been a long time since I last played it, and yesterday I got nostalgic.

When I tried to open it, either the game didn't open (proton-cachyos 10.0.20260409-1, Ge-Proton 10-34, wine-ge 8-32, umu-launcher 1.4.0) or if it does open, after the initial menu, it doesn't load my saved game or simply doesn't create a new game, it just stays on the loading screen forever and ever.

I've already tried several versions of Proton (including old versions like ge-proton 9.0.4, etc.), using Heroic Game Launcher. I tried the version of GOG. I've already changed the graphics settings to the minimum possible, in windowed mode, in fake fullscreen mode...

I don't know what else to do. Has anyone else experienced this?

My specs:

CachyOS ( linux-cachyos 7.0.0-1)

KDE Plasma (6.6.4-1.1)

Ryzen 7 3700X

Nvidia 2700 Super

I see people asking simple and logical questions and then you see every no lifer (i will not say anything else because i will get banned, with those ...) just insulting them and downvoting them. Now, i understand why Linus Torvalds is so Toxic torwads those people, god knows what he has seen with such people in the Linux community, i hope all people like you will leave the Linux community and do something else because right now many people want to come to Linux and you are here to make them leave and switch to back to Windows.

I currently have a MSI 4090 SUPRIM X in my build - running bazzite.

I’m unimpressed with NVIDIA’s drivers on Linux. I did see rumours they’d been recruiting more Linux devs, so that might be changing, but at the moment they’re a bit shit.

I can sell it for roughly £1.9k, I bought it for £1.7k. I can buy a AMD 7900 XTX for £700.

Would I be silly to do this? I run 5120x1440, so fairly high res, and play fairly heavy games - with path tracing and ray tracing etc (when it works on Linux…). I also run local LLMs via Ollama, but I think I should be able to do that with AMD too.

Thoughts? How silly am I being? Any advantages and disadvantages I’ve missed?

It's Platinum on ProtonDB, a game I always wanted to play.

But getting the game to run on 60FPS has been harder than playing the game itself. I spent 13 hours in game on Steam trying with different Launch Options, tried on Hyprland, KDE with X11 and Wayland. Tried changing the settings of Nvidia on X11. Tried downgrading my Nvidia Driver. Tried with Gamescope, always with gamemoderun, tried Proton Experimental and GEProton. It does not launch with Proton 9.0-4 for some reason for me. When I alt + tab and see the terminal with 'nvidia-smi' on watch mode, I see it on 60FPS on mangohud, so no idea what's happening here. But out of a sudden it drops to 15 FPS and it does not get back to 60. It shows as 60 FPS only when I alt + tab, but obviously cannot play while seeing the terminal.

Normally it runs for 60FPS por a couple of min and then drop it again back to 15 FPS.

Has anyone else experienced the same? I am happy for any insights on how to get it running.

If the game does not run on 60 FPS it's barely impossible to play. I know I meet all the minimum requirements.

Thanks!

Here are my specs:

OS: EndeavourOS Linux x86_64
Host: Z370 HD3P
Kernel: 6.18.20-1-lts
Packages: 1598 (pacman), 6 (flatpak)
Shell: /usr/bin/zsh 5.9
Resolution: 2560x1440
DE: Plasma 6.6.3
WM: kwin
CPU: Intel i7-8700 (12) @ 4.600GHz [34.0°on]
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate
Memory: 7768MiB / 32009MiB (24%)