I'm trying to run Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura. I use the Steam version and the uap.

When I switch to Proton 7.0-6, the game starts, but I can't use the mouse. There is no cursor.

The game launcher crashes when I set WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ddraw.dll=n,b" %command% in the launch options.

Thanks

I use CachyOS if that helps.

I recently switched to linux, and I'm trying to copy my GPU settings that I used in Windows. I have 9070xt Steel Legend.

My settings in adrenaline look like THIS, as you can see its just modest VRAM OC, and Power limit decrease.

I've downloaded LACT to copy Adrenaline settings, but I dont know woh to use Power limit.

Adrenaline uses procentage and I'm not sure what specific Watt amout to use in LACT.

What wattage corresponds to -15 Power Limit from adrenaline?

Short intro:
I’m a software dev and regularly maintain Ubuntu servers, so I’ve got some tech knowledge, just not that much Linux desktop experience.

After a few weeks of research (and being completely tired of Windows), I decided to give Bazzite a try today. I chose it because I’ve got an NVIDIA card and wanted to fiddle as little as possible with drivers it seemed like the easiest distro for my use case: gaming only.

Prepared the USB stick, installed it, messed around with Secure Boot (my bad), and everything seemed fine at first.

Booted into Bazzite, went to display settings, set my monitor to 144 Hz, HDR, 1440p (connected via DP)… black screen. Second monitor goes absolutely nuts, showing Matrix-style fragments. Shutdown.

jokes on me. Bazzite remembers the display setup, so now it just crashes on every startup. I end up disabling my main monitor and using the second one, trying to fix it through the terminal.

Seems like the problem is with bandwith of DP, but Windows catches the exact same config to somehow make it work. 120hz, HDR, 1440p should work without a problem.

An hour later I’m still trying to figure out how the hell to delete those display settings, because the GUI doesn’t show disconnected devices.

And that’s exactly what I didn’t want. I wanted a Windows alternative for gaming that mostly works out of the box. I was ready for some driver or compatibility headaches, sure but not being unable to even connect my screen with default settings. That feels like the absolute bare minimum.

So its definitly not like I've mostly read. Maybe linux gaming advances with compatibility on proton etc. But linux (in my case KDE-Desktop here) has still a very large way to go to be a real alternative.

Hi guys! So I made sure that my drivers are actually working, the game is on an ext4 drive too.

So basically I use steam launcher, press on play and it actually launches and shows the symbol of the game. After a while I see a little window titled "Naraka Bladepoint -Unity" and random numbers and letters after; which disappears soon. Right after the game is shown to not get started somehow.

no matter how often I repeat the game is not starting. Anyone got an idea why?

Hello forgive me, i am a complete beginner when it comes to linux.

I was trying to ensure my nvidia drivers were installed and the nouveau was off or disabled but when i rebooted it said i haddnt disabled Nouveau and needed to try the process again - now i am stuck on the Fedora Login terminal page with TTY1 up the top.

Pressing CTRL+ALT+F1-6 doesnt do anything other than change the TTY number. I really have no idea how to get back to my desktop environment.

I was following this guide: https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/ and got to step number: 2.8 where i rebooted and had the Nouveau message appear. Please help!

I also know very little about commands and short hand so i may need thing explained in laymans terms. <3

My monitor is 4k but my gpu isnt powerfull enough to run the game at 4k, normally i would use exclusive fullscreen mode and change the resoloution but the game dosent offer it, changing the resoloutin changes the window size which makes it unplayable as it is very small, does any1 know any way to get around this perhaps a steam command, or a hyprland setting i could use, any help would be much appreciated

Bazzite Linux 42.20251018 has arrived, positioning itself as the next evolution in Linux gaming by integrating smoother performance, advanced display support, and expanded multi-launcher game compatibility across desktops, handhelds, and HTPCs.

I'm experimenting with moving the family gaming desktop from Windows to Linux (trying fedora now). I've been running Fedora on my personal laptop for almost a month now, so I figured with Windows 10 EoL it's a good time to also try for the family.

I just spent hours trying to get steam to access and use the same folder for the library for all the users. I don't need to duplicate the library in everybody's Home folder. So, new folder that every user can access, but user permissions related issues abound, Steam installing game files that aren't inheriting group access, etc. It was a real headache. Hours, google and frustration later, I resorted to ChatGPT. It recommended a custom script/service that would monitor the library folder for new files in realtime and set group permissions. It worked.

So my question is: As a rather new Linux user trying to migrate the family desktop, what don't I know? What possible issues will I come across next, and be honest, is it worth it to migrate right now? Did I just choose the wrong distro, would (e.g. CachyOS, or Bazzite) offer an easier time with a multi-user, single-library environment?

Everyone is clamoring for the Year of the Linux Desktop, but after yesterday I feel like that year is pretty far off unless you're a single-user Linux install.

Hello guys.

I recently decided to dual boot Windows and Linux (on different disks) because of the end of support for Windows 10. I kept my Windows installation mainly to play games that require kernel access for their anti-cheat systems. My specs are an AMD Ryzen 5 1400, 16 GB of 3000 MHz RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce 1050 Ti. I’ve tried Bazzite, then Nobara, and now Pop!_OS, looking for a stable Linux distro that would let me play more demanding games like Overwatch 2 and CS2.

For some reason, those games use way more resources when compared to Windows, especially CPU, which stays at 80-90%, while GPU usage sits between 7-40%. On Windows, the CPU usage is around 30%. I’ve tried a bunch of things: running different Proton versions (including Proton Experimental and GE-Proton), testing multiple launch options from ProtonDB, but with no success. I verified that Vulkan detects my 1050 Ti, forced the NVIDIA ICD, installed the 32-bit Vulkan and NVIDIA libraries and enabled GameMode. This improved performance slightly, but the games are still not really playable, hovering around 30-40 FPS. On Windows, I get around 120–140 FPS. Does anyone have suggestions for what I might be missing? I’ve already tried reinstalling NVIDIA drivers and related packages. I’m also pretty new to Linux, it’s my first time trying to use it as my daily OS.

I'd really like to move to Linux, but the performance I'm getting in most games is making me want to go back to Windows completely.

I'm considering wiping my nvme SSD for a fresh Windows install to play BF6. I always been a huge BF fan since BFBC2 and I have this urge to play it. I considered dual booting on another SSD but I'm super confuse about the steps to enable secure boot with Arch (according to the wiki, there's a chance it can even brick my GPU?!?). I've never been a fan of dual booting anyway. Surely I can't be the only one having this internal conflict?

Hello, I’ve been running native steam on Ubuntu with relatively no issues for quite some time now. Suddenly, I can’t run any of my games with browsers or really any apps open without the game freezing and crashing on open or crashing when I tab out if I get it to open. I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue or if anyone could help me figure it out/point me in the right direction?

I just installed it from steam, pc with Rx 6600, Ryzen 5600 system with archlinux on it.

It's almost unplayable, takes a long time to even start and go to first menu(2 minutes or more). Then again about 2 minutes or more delay to load the game. All this time huge fps drops, most time is 0-4 fps. Then in game as soon as I move or turn the camera(without move) drops fps to 0-5 again, cpu/gpu load drops to 5-15%. Without moving fps is 120 or more and gpu load rises 50-70% and cpu about the same. Same behaviour and in cut scenes.

I tried proton/proton experimental/ proton-GE 10.18, which didn't make any difference. Also tried low/med/high presets and native/fsr2/fsr3/ frame generation on/off, but nothing helps. Only with fsr and fg I get higher fps generally, but only if no moving, otherwise same as above.

Also those parameters:

MANGOHUD=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv %command% -dx12 -nosplash -nolauncher

but without them no change or even worse. Any help?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LAVD-Scheduler-Linux-Gaming

Hey, I'm using Nobara Linux and I own Civilization VI on the Epic Games Store (I bought it before switching to Linux).
The game actually starts fine, but when I reach the screen where I have to click "Continue", nothing happens, it just doesn’t respond.

Here’s what I’ve already tried:

• Editing the resolution manually
• Switching to windowed mode
• Trying to skip the screen using some workaround commands (none of them worked)

I also tried launching Civ 6 through Steam and Lutris, but in both cases the game crashes instantly.
Almost every other Epic Games title works perfectly for me.

Thanks in advance for any help!

To get the haptic feedback to work do the following things:

- Use GE Custom Proton (I use proton-ge 10.20): https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

- Plug in your controller. This works only plugged in and NOT via Bluetooth

- Set the Audio-Compatibility-Output Mode to Traditional. Spatial will prevent haptics from working.

I did not need the Udev rules described in older docs: https://github.com/Mutcholoko/Haptic-Feedback-Linux But they did not prevent it from working. So if there are other games that need those, you can keep them in place.

My setup:

Arch linux

Kernel: 6.17.3-arch2-1

Do they work?

I was planning on buying games on GOG more often but i do care a good bit about achievements. If they dont work ill have to reconsider.

Anyone have experience with achievement hunting through Heroic?

i saw so many people especially in arab countries after microsoft ended support for windows 10 switched to linux and quit linux so fast because they didn't know how to play most of there games so i made a basic guide to help people and make the arab linux community bigger

Heya.

Just a quick question, would this command run the way I think it will run?

PROTON_LOG=1 OBS_VKCAPTURE=1 mangohud gamemoderun %command%

I assume PROTON_LOG and OBS_VKCAPTURE just set the environment variables for the "current" session, and are not "modifiers" to mangohud, but manoghud and gamemoderun is a different story; does it matter whether mangohud or gamemoderun is called first? My intuition says it does, but I don't know how to verify which one is the correct one.