Recently discovered all the old school games available for free on linux, and have been playing gltron which seems to be a better version of armagetronad but without any server capabilities :( .

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Steam and Bottles use separate runtimes based on wine. If I install both, I will have redundant Proton packages installed on my PC because they aren't shared.

I need Steam to install Steam games. But I also have games from other sources, including free games (fan games), and they need Bottles. I use Heroic to download games from Epic and GOG and run them in Bottles.

Half of the games from Epic have compatibility issues, but GOG usually works, including games whose the Epic version doesn't. Maybe the reason is that GOG games are clean and free from DRM. Steam provides a compatibility layer to avoid problems. But games from Epic are tricky and require lucky.

What do you do to play both games from Steam and games from other sources?

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The update that went live over week ago made game stop working on linux it was working fine before this no proton version can get the game to work.

I seen one guy on protondb get it to work with old proton version he said game had issues I tried it the game would launch get to login in screen I get pass there then game will close.

some say its anti cheat I am not sure if this is purposely to keep us out or if this is glitch netease made this game or at least published it they go out their way to support us with rivals so why would fragpunk be any different in less they are this publisher not creator of game

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I'm bad with programming and even dont understand how to setup stuff.

A few games I like and stuff I won't be able to play (Roblox, and League specifically), since they ended support, but to be honest Roblox isn't all that after the allegations, if there was a way to bypass league and play it somehow I would install linux a long time ago..

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I'm trying to get BF4 running properly using this guide, but when I try to update PunkBuster with protontricks-launch --appid 1238860 ./pbsetup.exe it freezes at checking for updates or downloading pdsecsv.htm.

The console is full of messages like these:

013c:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 013c:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083E5B0, 10002, 000000000192F8A0: stub 013c:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 013c:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 013c:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083FF40, 10002, 000000000192F8A0: stub 013c:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 013c:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"Button" 013c:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 013c:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000082DD00, 10002, 000000000192F8A0: stub 013c:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 013c:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 013c:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083E5B0, 10002, 000000000192F8A0: stub 013c:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769"

I'm using Debian Sid, Proton Experimental in Steam.

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hi there i have a G drive (on another disk) with many gog games installed already on it if i delete windows, is there a way to play these games?

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Ok so I'm thinking of switching to Linux Mint and honestly if I can just completely biting the bullet and deleting Windows. However, I play a lot of MCC, which I know has kernel anticheat and all that sadly.

That being said, I know people have gotten it to run on Linux, but according to ProtonDB the results are kind of mixed on it working or not. So what's this subreddit's opinion?

At the very least if I could just get it to run with mods(that maybe also allow multiplayer) that'd be alright and I could just play regular multiplayer on xbox maybe(though I know campaign crossplay isn't much of a thing.)

So what i'm really wondering is if downloading easy anticheat is mandatory to install the game or if I can choose not to install it to play with mods?

But if I do need to use the kernel driver or decide to, how well does it work, and how easy is it to run on Linux Mint?

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I had this problem today :

Every game i tried to play on my fully updated Tumbleweed 6.16 - 580.76 system would yell at me for basically not knowing my video card.

• Everything shows my GPU is working. nvidia-smi, glxinfo, vulkan-info, kernel logs showing that the driver is loading correctly, GPU decoding on streams and media working
• Everything is showing that the GPU is not the issue
• But i noticed for a while that flatpak is keeping outdated versions of the nvidia drivers around. I thought no ill of it, but just took note during updates.

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• World of Warcraft claiming that “Your 3D Accelerator card is not supported by World of Warcraft”. It was solved by adding VKD3D_CONFIG=nodxr
• Elder Scrolls Online .. while being played for 10 hours the days prior .. was claiming my video card doesn't support the DirectX 10 version required.
• Overwatch 2 would crash instantly when launched
• Stalcraft X .. a purely OpenGL game .. would run normally

The problem was that :

• The flatpak version of Protontricks keeps every previously installed NVidia driver in flatpak hostage and because of that doesn't allow the automated flatpak removal of those old driver interfaces once you install new nvidia drivers
• Flatpak would naturally uninstall old drivers when your system drivers update, but for some reason Protontricks keeps every single nvidia driver on your system as a dependency.

The core problem :

Apparently flatpak with over 13 versions of the nvidia driver installed, will choose at random which version to use and will stall out your main system driver so much, that steam games launched via GE-Proton ( or any proton version .. i clean tested like 50 ) can't even get a hold of your graphics card anymore, because of random shit happening in flatpak.

I used Chatterino2, Missioncenter and ProtonPlus to replicate this behaviour.

Solution

• "flatpak list"
• Manually uninstall all those old nvidia drivers via "flatpak uninstall"
• Reboot

And then you good to go.

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Sys Info:
OS: Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon
Linux Kernel: 6.14.0.27-generic
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor × 8
GPU: RTX 5070 TI
GPU Driver: 575.64.03

I am also using an 8Bitdo Ultimate 2C Controller w/ a dongle connection.

When opening configuration controller settings for any game that doesn't fully support controllers, I cannot open the config menu. I can however open it for a game like Disco Elysium, which has full support. When I attempt to open it on PAC-MAN WORLD: RE-PAC it stays blank.

https://preview.redd.it/lk551x3688jf1.png?width=1545&format=png&auto=webp&s=7fe5e6166787af8d565fcc1be8a5c04d6abe94d3

What I've tried so far:
- Clearing site cache and cookies
- Installing controller drivers
- Uninstalling steam and reinstalling
- Editing controller config files.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Note: I have the controller.txt and the controller.ui.txt

Some From Controller UI when opening the page:

[2025-08-15 14:45:11] OnFocusWindowChanged to window type: k_nGameIDControllerConfigs_ClientUI, AppID 769 [2025-08-15 14:45:11] Loaded Config for Last Resort Path for App ID 769, Controller 0: /home/kurt/.steam/debian-installation//controller_base/basicui_gamepad.vdf [2025-08-15 14:45:12] Configurator Load Failed: workshop://2711474511 [2025-08-15 14:45:12] Edit+Resolve: Failed to load config [2025-08-15 14:45:12] Configurator Load Failed: workshop://2711474511 [2025-08-15 14:45:13] OnFocusWindowChanged to window type: k_nGameIDControllerConfigs_Desktop, AppID 413080 [2025-08-15 14:45:13] Loaded Config for Local Selection Path for App ID 413080, Controller 0: /home/kurt/.steam/debian-installation//controller_base/templates/controller_generic_gamepad_joystick.vdf submitted by /u/KaelusKRS1
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Hi, Checked on proton DB and it works. I have Mint on Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 3 with Nvidia quadro 2000-max q and i9-10885H (dual booting, 1 ssd 1tb for windows, and 1 ssd 1 tb for linux), 64GB RAM.

And it works only in windowed (minimized) view. What can be the cause?

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so it goes like this

open game it opens in windowed

set it to fullscreen

close game

open again

windowed again

is this a linux problem does someone have this too?

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Hi, I'm new to Linux, specifically using Ubuntu. The first game I installed was fragpunk, and I used GE-proton9-25 with the launch options "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 %command%". It's the only game I'm playing and I wouldn't want to go back to Windows just because I can't play it, any way to fix this?. If you need more information, let me know. I want to do everything possible to make it work.

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Hey everyone, I have an old MSI GL75 9SD gaming laptop (i7-9750H, GTX 1660 Ti). Back when I bought it, it was amazing on Windows 10 — I could run AAA games smoothly.

Now, after 3+ years, I’ve upgraded to Windows 11 and my FPS has dropped a lot. Even games that used to run great now stutter or have lower performance. I’ve already done the usual things — updated drivers, cleaned dust, repasted — but it still feels slower.

I’m wondering if switching to Linux could help improve my gaming FPS. I’ve heard that distros like Pop!_OS or Nobara can be good for gaming, but I’m not sure if they would actually give me better performance than Windows 11.

Has anyone here made a similar switch? Did Linux actually help with gaming FPS on older laptops, or should I just go back to Windows 10 instead?

Thanks in advance!

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Is my shit too old or am I dumb for doing something wrong?

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I am running Ollama on Bazzite Linux with Gnome, it should fully utilize my gpu entirely but for some reason the clock speed is lower that its maximum and also the utilization % is low as well. My gpu is an RTX 4070 and I am running the latest drivers, what can I do to fix it?

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