I finished Dark Souls and had a great time with it. Naturally I want to move on to Dark Souls 2.

I installed it via Proton as one does. If I go to the Steam Page before hitting launch, I can see that Steam detects the controller with a message "This game should work great with your controller"

I'm using the 8bitdo ultimate wired controller which has served me fantastically well.

However when I launch the game...the controller simply is not being detected.

I am not good at trouble shooting, can someone guide me on what I should do?

I use a Moza R5 and installed the universal-pidff drivers and they simply dont work. I've tested them in Assetto Corsa Evo and Dirt Rally 2.0 and I have no Force Feedback. For testing I've also tried ffbtools and again no Force Feedback. Somehow I haven't foumd anyone saying that the driver doesn't work and I'm becoming frustrated.

I'm running Linux Mint. I hope someone here can help me. I'm more than happy to answer any questions.

so i am very new to Linux, and i have been running pop_os 22.04 for about three weeks now and i wanted to play battlefront 2. I checked protondb and saw that the game runs without much tweaking so i tried running it with GE-Proton 9-27 and GE-Proton 10-1 and the game launches and stars loading but freezes after a short while usually after ea overlay pop-up shows up.

here is a link to the terminal output after launching steam and the game using GE-proton 10-1

https://pastebin.com/5rpL6e60

Is this every time? Can i skip? Wth

Hi, I'm running Arch, I recently swapped from an RTX 3070 to an RX 7800 XT (brand new), it crashes KDE completly & shows artifacts on screen when launching darktide (2nd pic), then sends me back to the log in screen.

1st pic is of FurMark through gputest, are those things artifacts or is it how the test is supposed to look? Full command here:

$ mangohud gputest /fullscreen /width=2560 /height=1440 /test=fur /xtreme_settings / msaa=8 /display_info /display_osi

It has also rebooted my pc randomly a couple of times while playing Warhammer Total War 3, here are my full system specs:

-> Specs:
> CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz (6 Cores, 12 Threads)
> GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
> RAM: 32GB DDR4 3600 MHz (Corsair Vengance RGB Pro)
> Motherboard: TUF Gaming B550-PLUS WiFi II (AM4, ATX)
> PSU: CORSAIR RM850x 850W

Also, the gpu doesn't go above 68C while stress testing.

dmesg log:

[ 0.787096] RAS: Correctable Errors collector initialized.
[ 7.058467] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[ 343.344595] amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
[ 343.344598] amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
[ 355.517989] [drm:amdgpu_mes_reset_legacy_queue [amdgpu]] *ERROR* failed to reset legacy queue
[ 357.666395] [drm:amdgpu_mes_unmap_legacy_queue [amdgpu]] *ERROR* failed to unmap legacy queue
[ 357.916325] [drm:gfx_v11_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* failed to halt cp gfx

I'm also getting this from journalctl:

kwin_scene_opengl: A graphics reset not attributable to the current GL context occurred.

kwin_scene_opengl: 0x2: GL_CONTEXT_LOST in context lost

kwin_wayland_drm: Checking test buffer failed!

Currently I am playing a visual novel called 'Letters from a rainy day', but the in-game video stuck at white screen. I used GE-Proton but the problem is still there, so I know I need to install other components using Protontricks that provide the required codecs. This is my 2nd visual novel on Deck, the first one was also having the same problem, but after installed lavfilters, devenum, and quartz (even though there was error at the end of installation) the video finally can be played.

I've tried those three in current game but the problem is still there. I don't want to skip the video (like other people suggested), I want the video to actually play for best experience.

Slightliest of slightlys I have ever slightly slighted

System Info:
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.14.6-arch1-1
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT

I've tried:

• system update ofc
• various proton versions
• xorg and wayland
• looked at proton logs, didn't find anything, but here it is: https://pastesio.com/steam-2138710log

The game runs flawlessly on Windows. This is the only game this has ever happened in, and I couldn't find someone else with the same problem. So hopefully this is not a hardware problem.

Any Ideas?

I found this guide on r/BG3 but cant get past step 2 because the file is a .exe. im fairly new to this and am unsure on how i can do this, any help would be much appreciated

I just installed fs22 on wine thinking that when it runs horribly, I'm just gonna re install it on proton. But it works so well at max settings, I'm not even gonna bother. If wine is so good, then why do so many people say that you need proton if your gonna game?

My favorite gaming distro gets updated

He only stuff that does exite me a bit is KDE 6

So i want to change to Linux SO BAD! I want to learn more about coding and also have an open source OS to personalize and modify all parameters. I love tinkering with gears and bolts. The thing is that i play a ton of videogames from Steam, Xbox gamepass, Epic Games etc etc... I also have a youtube channel so i use OBS and Filmora. I want to know if there's a Linux based OS that has full compatibility with everything like Windows does. I would also love to have one of those gaming OS that has a console-like UI to manage my games but that's just a plus if available.

I am sure many have asked and answered but I download a .exe and try to use "wine [exe file]" and receive the following:

0130:err:ole:CoGetContextToken apartment not initialised

wine: Unhandled exception 0xe0434352 in thread 128 at address 00006FFFFF483F07 (thread 0128), starting debugger...

Thanks in advance for any help and tips

Edit: For context I am trying to play R.E.P.O. with some mods through Overwolf

First time i have it happen. Is it something to worry about?

A new gaming laptop and four months of work later... Rust works!

Laptop specs:

ASUS Rog Zephyrus G16

Intel Core Ultra 9 w/ Integrated Arc Graphics

NVIDIA RTX 4070 Mobile

16GB RAM

1TB SSD

My favorite game Rust can finally be ran on a Windows Kernel Virtual Machine with Qemu. Here is a list of problems that I had that I solved:

1. GPU Passthrough would crash Gnome (3 month problem)
2. Rust would crash in Windows VM every time I tried to load into a server (1 week)
3. No audio (still a problem for now)

This doesn't include time spent learning how to set up a virtual machine in the first place.

I learned that GPU passthrough can sometimes not work or crash my system if Gnome was able to attach itself to the GPU before being bound to VFIO.

One of the workarounds I did for this was doing "sudo systemctl stop gdm," booting into TTY2 and then running "startx," which is runs an older version of Gnome on X11 (I think). Once I did that the system was able to unbind Gnome from my GPU and allow me to start my KVM through Qemu without any crashes. Luckily I only needed to do this on Ubuntu 24.10. When upgrading to the newest version of Ubuntu 25, I also upgraded to Gnome 48 on Wayland and for some reason I have not needed the workaround since because Gnome it runs on my iGPU now automatically, although I am not sure why.

I wish Gnome would have some sort of startup option where I can set the process to run on the iGPU, because if I could then I would not have had so many problems getting this to work.

Rust also crashed a toooon! I fixed this by increasing my PageFile size on Windows, so that way when I ran out of RAM it would use PageFile as backup "RAM," kind of like swap memory on Linux -- and Voila!

You can increase your PageFile size on your Windows VM by hitting the Windows key, going to "Run," typing in "SystemPropertiesAdvanced," and going to PageFile size and increasing it to 16GB. You can follow this guide for more help: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-on-windows-11

I hope I'll get to see more success stories in the future :)

https://preview.redd.it/lpxgz0cfzf1f1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=72262ce0f90d7b1fbb31adf96622220ef2d9bcca

P.S. I am not exaggerating when I say this, but I reinstalled Ubuntu over 20 times until I got this right. I changed so many settings to get this to work I bricked the OS at least twice a week until I finally got it!

https://preview.redd.it/pty20tedzf1f1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=e3ff36460b95b8caa813c789587f85b21db9c01d

How are you guys modding skyrim SE in 2025? I really wanna play this again with mods, last time I did it was in windows in 2017. I think I tried previously but nothing worked for me. If anyone has a straightforward way to mod skyrim SE on linux please let me know. I am using cachyos if that matters.

Here is the guide I used last time, forgot which step i got stuck in https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer. Do i try this again or is there another better way to do this?

I posted earlier about Fallout New Vegas failing to render after months of working without a hitch and I think I've found the root cause of the problem. For some reason the game is pointing to a graphics card that I don't have, as shown below:

https://preview.redd.it/j58t52poxf1f1.png?width=486&format=png&auto=webp&s=062fd1c893a6d28399319d5a3f5caaaef8e4d3fb

My actual graphics card is an Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 that comes built-in with my HP Envy. I suspect this is also messing with some other games that I have installed on my computer. My question is how can I get my system to point to the right graphics card and fix this particular problem?

Using proton ge for this, using a thing called "solario" that lets me play old roblox and I spent the past few hours trying to get it work on linux, but it keeps crashing

Loading screen, a few frames of gameplay, crash

Here is my log file incase anything useful is here

https://www.mediafire.com/file/zls16eb78wbooic/message+(8).txt/file.txt/file)

If anybody knows how I could fix this let me know.

Maybe I could read on some old "roblox on linux" forums from the era