Hi I’m very new to Arch and when I run Cs2 with Proton-GE I can‘t play in any VAC-secured servers (used for competitive play, etc.). I‘ve researched but the only thing I found was telling me to switch to Proton 8.0-4 because its an official Proton Version, that gave me a launcher error though so I‘m not sure what to do now. If anyone knows the answer to this please tell me🙏

Bought new laptop, partitioned mint and bazzite on ssd

Just downloaded Dragon Ball Z Kakarot and I cannot get it working. I get an error saying "Failed to open descriptor file...AT.uproject"

This is a TENOKE version of the game. Does anyone know a fix?

I have been struggling for nearly two weeks to get The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition to launch.
I click play, the Launcher pops up, I click play, and Skyrim creates a black window for 0.5-1 seconds, and then crashes. Exactly one time I was able to briefly hear the Bethesda Splash. I am running the latest CachyOS kernal, Plasma (x11) (though I did try Wayland a few times), and I have tried GE Protons 9.0-10.4, Proton 8-10.1 (including Experimental and Hotfix), and the latest few Cachy-Protons. It crashes the same way each time.
The error directly preceding the crash every single time is err:service:device_notify_proc failed to get event, error 1726, followed by trace:seh:dispatch_exception code=6ba (RPC_S_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE) flags=0 addr=00006FFFFFC0D0C7. I'm not sure if I can attach the entire Proton Log, but if someone points me to decent way to share it, then I will add it.
I've tried using exact string searches on several search engines, and asking for support directly from the CachyOS Discord. All the progress I have made is learning that PROTON_LOG=1 %command% is a thing.
If anyone is able to make sense of this issue, I will be forever in ones debt.

I am currently using Windows but want to switch to Linux once I get a new computer soon. These are the parts I plan on getting. Will these be good enough to run games on a Windows VM or should I try to save more money and get better parts? Also, what distro should I use?

Everytime I played HD2, my PC crashes after a while, sometimes it's 20 min after starting the game, sometimes after an hour. it happens both with proton experimental and proton 9.
I've tried switching to amdvlk and radv V but no fix.

i know it's not hardware because other heavy games don't crash, i have my temps under control and i have a PSU tester that say nothing wrong.

Specs :
OS: Arch Linux x86_64

Host: B550 AORUS ELITE V2

Kernel: 6.14.10-arch1-1

Resolution: 2560x1440

DE: Hyprland

WM: hyprland

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 4.853GHz

GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 7800 XT

Memory: 5900MiB / 48112MiB

edit :
it used to work perfectly before heart of democracy update

I bought Deltarune but my Dualsense isn’t working at all. The lights are on and the touchpad works as a mouse and it works in other games (Euro Truck Simulator 2) but it doesn’t work at all in Deltarune. I tried using Proton 9.04, Proton-GE 10-4, Proton Hotfix, Proton Experimental, but it’s all the same. I tried it with and without steam input but it’s the same. I tried it with USB and Bluetooth, again same. Playing with the keyboard works fine, but I much prefer with controller.

I’m using Void Linux on GNOME with Wayland with an RTX 3070.

I haven’t been able to find any other people having this problem so I am a little confused.

I tried "An Anime Game Launcher" and Heroic with Epic Games. I also tried Lutris but it all doesn`t work and i don`t know why. Even if i download genshin from Lutris for example and install the game from launcher - it can`t start the game. Application just stops in 3 seconds with exit code 0. What am i missing?
Also it started only one time so i don`t know what to do

I just started my linux journey and I have found the install and setup fairly easy (fedora 42 with KDE). But i cant play my games with my current setup : i am using an old but strong GTX 1080 TI OC which I have had for years and which has an annoying tendency to freeze the whole computer after 10 minutes of playing any games (on windows or any OS). This is easily solved on windows using Nivdia control panel debug mode (which sets clocks to factory presets, and solves the conflicts with the drivers or whatever) and I can play for hours without any problems. I CANNOT enable debug mode on linux. It seems i have to edit a xorg.conf file which does not exist on my distro. The nvidia xconfig does not have the option, unlike on windows. Am I stuck until I change to an AMD Gpu ???

FYI I did not overclock the card it came like this out of the box, and using debug mode i have been gaming for 5 years without any issue.

Thanks for your help !!

I get around 40 to 50 fps but on Windows 10 with the same video settings I get around 135-140 fps I have NVIDIA Geforce 930MX driver version 570.133.07 Linux Mint 22.1 XFCE I tried -vulkan option I tried with opengl I even tried Proton still the same result is there a way to fix this? My theory is that Left 4 Dead 2 using lvmpipe but I don't really know much about it nvidia-smi shows l4d2 so I think it doesn't use llvmpipe

I thought maybe it would be a good idea to make a sticky post that shows peripheral manufacturers that support Linux with there own native software / firmware.

Please add your own peripherals that have a native software stack for Linux and I will update this post with verified Linux support, Please post your own experiences and not here say or what manufactures claim . Maybe something like this can pick up traction and can get some manufacturers into making there own linux software stack, Thats the hope atleast.

.

.

.

.

Verified native Linux support feature parity with Windows

Keyboards

Wooting Keyboards https://wooting.io/

.

.

.

Mice

My mother in law is open to trying out Linux. I figured mint would be good, but what do yall think?

Hi all. The youtube algorithm has ordained me a non-stop flood of Total War Warhammer 2 videos so I want to play again. Unfortunately, I have had no luck in getting it to run properly on linux, the issue being an invisible cursor. The game runs, I skip the 2 logos and 1 cutscene by pressing esc 3 times, and from that point, even if I load a campaign I will have no visible cursor.

There are several ways to run the game: native, steam linux runtime and proton. The native and steam linux runtime types do not even start the game for me (segfault or generic errors) so I am sticking with proton.

Things I've tried:

• Changing resolution.
• Switching from full screen to windowed mode.
• Fiddling with in-game settings UI Scaling and UI resolution.
• Enabling or disabling in-game setting Lock cursor to window.
• Moving the game from one screen to another, then back.
• Disabling my second monitor (and starting the game).
• Switching Directx version from 11 to 12(BETA) and back.
• Disabling KDE compositor.
• Checking integrity of game files in Steam UI.
• Reinstalling the game.
• Wiping entire installation directory.
• Removing all saves (cloud and local).
• Removing the ~/.local/share/feral-interactive, ~/.local/share/Feral Interactive and ~/.local/share/The Creative Assembly folders.
• Switching to pretty much all other proton versions 5.x to 10.x .
• Setting Directx conf and limiting FPS: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1fdndkr/issues_with_total_war_warhammer_3_proton_and/ltonic0/
• Setting gamemoderun: gamemoderun %command%
• Setting gamescope:
  • gamescope --force-grab-cursor -- %command%
  • gamescope -W 2560 -H 1440 -f --force-grab-cursor -- %command%
  • gamescope -W 2560 -H 1440 -f --force-grab-cursor -- gamemoderun %command%
• Setting WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 and KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1 when starting steam
• Setting WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1 gamemoderun %command% when starting the game.

Specs:

• OS: Arch Linux
• WM: KDE plasma
• KERNEL: 6.12.32-1-lts
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
• GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 575.57.08
• RAM: 32 GB

If I can provide other relevant info please ask, thanks!

TLDR: Wyrd Waters is a 2-8 player online multiplayer fantasy naval game. We wanted to make a game where friends didn't get left out so we made it on Mac, Linux, Windows and SteamDeck! :D

It's mythological, tactical and quick/easy to pick up.

Our Demo will be part of Steam NextFest if you want to try a bite-size version!

We're a team of 3 devs that got layed off last year and wanted to make a small, accesible and affordable game (full version will be $1.99). We appreciate any support :)

Hello,

Im a fairly new Linux user, i switched from Win10 to Ultramarine (KDE Plasma Version) a week ago.
First game i wanted to try was Helldivers 2. I love this game and it worked perfectly fine on windows.

I checked ProtonDB, was pretty happy to see its Gold verified. I did 1 Step of tweaking i saw was required by most users: Startoption --use-d3d11

The game starts, i do my settings, but after that, the screen freezes. Weird thing is: if i press W i can hear myself walking around, so its just the graphic that doesnt work.

My system specs:

3200Mhz 16GB DDR4
1TB NVME SSD
Ryzen 7 2700x
GTX 1050ti

Thanks in advance for helping!