When launching the game via steam it loads to a black screen with the halo infinite cursor and that's it. New to Linux, wondering if anyone had ideas. The game doesn't crash, it just isn't usable. It also doesn't load the menus after a decent amount of time.

Hey, everyone.

I was using Linux before, mainly Garuda and then I was distro-hopping as most people do. I love Linux Mint overall, but now that Wayland is on the rise, I am thinking which distro is good for daily driver and gaming overall. I am still a beginner in things, but I know that Wayland is more focused on recently and that X11 is starting to be discontinued by many distros.

I thank you all for any comments or suggestions you may have.

Recently I decided to update Wine from the last stable 9.0 to what I thought was the latest stable 10.0.

While things worked fine for most games The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (the original one, not the remaster) has a strange bug with audio when any fight starts.

The launcher, menu and even ambience music play normally but the battle audio just loops after half a second of starting, causing the fight to be backed by a single musical note repeating.

It's made extra strange as all music tracks are the same format.

This issue wasn't present with the previous stable Wine build and with gstreamer installed as advised on the UESP Wiki.

I also disabled Hardware audio in the ini file but that made no change.

I even checked Fallout 3 and New Vegas and that issue isn't present. I have no idea if a codec was removed, changed or made incompatible with what Oblivion uses.

For reference I'm currently using Mint 21.3 XFCE.

Anyone got any idea on what I should do?

On the steam page it says It supports Ubuntu 20 and later? I have a doubt does it work fine on other linux distros like mint, catchyos , arch, debian and many more ??

Hey, I was wondering what settings u guys use to make best quality with lowest GB
made a instant replay of 1 min with in game res + 60 fps and 25bit rate and the video was 2gb file size
what settings u use and recommend Thanks

My system specs are an RTX 3080, Intel i5-13600KF, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SN850X SSD.

I am on Linux Mint 22.1, Kernel 6.8.0-62, although I have tried 6.11.0-26. My disk useage is only 13%.

On Steam, I am using Proton 9.0-4, but have tried several other versions in the past, and at the time of writing this, trying to run the game with GE-Proton10-4 results in Ubisoft Connect telling me "Unable to start the game -- this product cannot be activated right now, please try again later". This is another issue in itself.

ACO takes NO LESS than 15 minutes to launch each time I press the play button on Steam --- I have timed this several times.

I have disabled Ubisoft Connect and Steam overlays, as well as removed the intro videos so that when it launches, it goes straight to the start menu. There is no difference.

If anyone smarter than me knows what's going on, any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have bounced between Windows and Linux and macOS several times over the years.

Between Linux I have used several distros and several versions of the same distro.

I have decided to try out the latest Ubuntu Desktop after having primarily used EndeavourOS (Arch based) for a while.

Several people have asked whether the LTS is better for daily use and games, or if the latest version is recommended.

From what I gather across both Canonical’s own docs as well as the consensus of redditors here:

The difference between LTS and Latest is not stability. Its change.

Work/Enterprise environments or people using a machine for professional tasks or student use may prefer an LTS release as it doesn’t change all that much. And you get natural support for five years from release date, with Ubuntu Pro letting you get even more years of security updates past that.

This means that if you get the current LTS which is 24.04, you can skip 26.04 and wait for a whole year after 28.04 to update. Or you can stay on 24.04 and still get security updates through Ubuntu Pro ESM.

This also means that companies using 18.04 are still technically able to get security updates, and those using 20.04 are still good as well.

Why would you be on such an old version???

Because change can break things.

In an enterprise or production environment you don’t want massive updates changing so much that your software stops working. Backports of security patches and drivers and a few tweaks and enhancements here and there is fine but major versions can be detrimental to some environments.

So does that mean the latest point-to-point releases are unstable? No!

I would say that ALL daily users should be on the latest release. You get nine months of updates yet new versions come out every six. You can wait three months to let a new version cool off before upgrading.

Every two years of upgrading you’ll land on an LTS that acts as a milestone for tons of changes. You can stay there and get continued support or jump to the latest release again.

LTS is for enterprise more than daily users. And while LTS gets HWE Stack for drivers and kernels, what’s the issue with using the latest version? You’ll get even more features and the support for the latest games, apps, drivers, and settings.

I fully expect people to argue against this, and I welcome that. I want everyone’s opinion here. I just don’t understand people assuming Canonical’s six month versions are unstable or risky. That’s not how they work. They aren’t betas. They aren’t early dev builds of the next LTS. They are stable.

There’s no reason a company can’t upgrade every six months, but what if the developer of the app they use is lazy and doesn’t update for the new version of Ubuntu?

If you use a rolling release distro like Arch, you’re always on the latest bleeding edge anyway! And everyone loves using those for daily driving and games.

The Steam Deck is on arch!!!! Valve has their own repo and stages it pretty heavily but still! It’s your computer and you can update to the bleeding edge at any time if you want to.

TL;DR Gamers and daily users should be fine with the latest Ubuntu release. It is not unstable. LTS releases are meant for enterprise scenarios where major changes can potentially break 3rd party software the company uses. Is it “safer” to use LTS for your daily game machine? Sure. But it is necessary? No. You lose out on more than you gain because you’re not relying on production software made by lazy devs who don’t update their code.

Side note. AskUbuntu forums don’t even allow anyone to ask an opinion based question like “is X.04 stable yet?” Because all publicly released versions are considered stable. Every software will have bugs here and there but that’s why we keep updating. If you want instability, manually get the latest betas and nightly builds.

I was casually watching this guy today and to my surprise he blurts this piece of gem out. Tf is this guy on about? When was there a Linux build of Rainbow Six Siege? When did Ubisoft bin it stating that people were cheating? WHAT??? This is how Linux == Cheaters stereotype propagate

I have this weird problem with Expedition 33 on my Windows installation, where playing over bluetooth "eats" inputs, and it's especially bad for timing events like parrying and dodging. When I connect it with USB, it plays slightly better, but I have to use DS4Windows, and also increase the deadzones for my analogs because the right stick jitters to the left side.

I want to switch to Linux and do the same fix. Basically, something similar with what DS4Windows does:

1. Use HidHide to hide the device as Sony Wireless Controller
2. Enable DS4Windows and make the system recognize it only as an Xbox controller

Is this possible? I plan on using an arch derivate, like Endeavour or Cachy (I haven't decided yet).

Hey, I’ve recently been trying to replay RDR2 on my Steam Deck in docked mode. I’m using a 1080p monitor and I’ve been trying to find some good settings to run the game at a consistent 30fps while not turning the game into an eyesore. If any of you reading could recommend some settings, optimisation mods or guides about this topic it would be greatly appreciated. Just to be clear, I’d like to retain at least some visual fidelity.

Some extra information that will probably be important is that I’m running the Decky Loader and CryoUtilities 2.0. I haven’t done any overclocking.

Thanks and I look forward to any responses!

My system is running an NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super, amongst other things I've heard don't agree with Linux, (*cough* lianli fans & aio (if anyone has answer for this aswlel I would love them)).

ANYWAY, Due to the problems I've heard regarding NVIDIA, is making the switch to linux from windows worth it?

I don't only play games on my rig, which is another reason why I want to switch to linux, but If I'm making the change I'd rather not have to dual boot.

I've looked through ProtonDB and know the games I play work, atleast the majority and thats fine for me, it's just the NVIDIA situation im curious about.

I wish I was in a position to be able to switch to an AMD card, but until thats possible, should I?

Hi everyone.

I just started playing THW3 v.6.1.2(pirate) just want to try out Linux gaming, but there is this strange bug that I could not fix, where sometime in first campaign the game screen suddenly bounces off like that dvd logo.

I tried running it from Lutris wine version (wine-ge-8-26). Still the same result

CPU: Intel i3 10105f

RAM: 16gb (8gbx2)

GPU: RX 6600

M.2: 250GB formatted to ext4 (partitioned from 1Tb)

OS: EndeavourOS (dualboot)

Kernel: 6.15.2-arch1-1

DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.0

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Hello! I am trying to launch Half-Life 2 via steam, but it crashes.

I start steam via terminal, launch Half-Life 2 and steam window just disappears, showing "Out of memory" error in terminal output.

Terminal screenshot

8 Gb RAM

Debian

Steam installed via steam-installer (apt)

I tried reinstalling steam (with removing ~/.steam/ directory), checking Half-Life 2 file integrity, but it did not help.

However, POSTAL 2 starts without any problems.

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that our game Skull Horde now has a demo live on Steam. Skull Horde is made in Defold, it has a native Linux build available and runs great on Steam Deck.

Skull Horde is an auto battler dungeon crawler where you play as a flying skull necromancer. It's all about combining squad recruitment and loot to create overpowered builds. You can check out the demo here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3199360/Skull_Horde/

Howdy folks, I hope everyone is doing well.

I’ve just made the move to Nobara and am trying to figure out how to set up ultrawide (3440x1440) for games like Fallout: New Vegas. If there is anything I can get via flatpack or the package manager that would be great.

Any help would be much appreciated. :)