When I play Genshin, sometimes the game randomly starts stuttering, then it stops after a while. What I've noticed is that this stuttering usually happens when there are a lot of effects happening on the screen. One thing to note is that when I played in Windows, there was no such issue. It only arose when I started playing on Linux.

My CPU is an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and my GPU is an AMD Radeon RX 6600, if that helps.

With Microshaft giving Windows 10 the 12 gauge goodbye, I decided to go with Linux (CachyOS is what have interested me most).

What I wanna know is about games not sold on Steam and GOG, like fangames, mods, indie games on Itch.IO, abandonware gmes like The Punisher, is there something I should watch out for them, or just run them through Lutris/Wine like normal?

Has anybody else lost the "Fullscreen" option in the CS2 video settings? A month ago a friend and I could play the game in fullscreen, but nowadays we can't. He uses Mint, and I'm using Kubuntu. Is this the case for anybody else?

Is there any way (except steam input) for dualsense to work in RDR2? For windows there is a mod but it requires DSX which is not compatible with linux.

I have used Windows since XP. I almost made the switch to Linux a few years ago but decided against it because it seemed like everyone I discussed it with made Linux out to be this big scary thing that I would spend my whole life having to tweak just to possibly play my games.

With Win10 losing support, I thought about it once more as my disdain for MS had hit an all time high. I decided I would enroll in the extended security updates to be able to use 10 for another year but guess what? Gotta create a MS account for that. This was my final straw. I installed Kubuntu and absolutely love it! I managed to get WoW working with ease through proton and so far everything else has worked great too. I haven't had to touch the big scary terminal once yet either. All this to say, I'm really digging Linux and look forward to learning more about it.

Sorry that this is not formatted better as I never really make posts. Thanks for reading!

I made native Linux builds for the big Next Fest update of our demo. It was running quite okay with Proton before, but I could see performance improvements (more stable FPS and less fan noise) on my very old Laptop (Intel i5-4210U, AMD Radeon R7 M260) running Lubuntu 24.04.3 LTS with the native build.
Cloud saves should work too, but I could only test Windows <-> Linux syncing as I'm the only one owning a Linux device in our team.
Link to the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3405540/Tiny_Auto_Knights/
Please tell me if everything works and what could be improved!

Hello everyone!

A quick follow-up to my previous post; thank you so much to everyone who tested our Linux build and confirmed that it runs well! Your feedback really helped us prepare the final release.

Our psychological horror visual novel Livber: Smoke and Mirrors will officially launch in less than two weeks, during Steam Scream Fest at the end of October ^^

We’re a small team of five friends, and seeing your support for our first project means a lot to us. The demo is still free on Steam if you haven’t tried it yet, and we’d love to hear any last feedback before launch.

Once again, thank you for helping us make sure everything runs smoothly on Linux and for being part of our journey <3

I have the Fantech eos pro ii s controller, the controller has an audio jack but linux doesn't seem to detect that, is there a way to make it work? Does anyone have anything?

is it safe? is there a chance for my account to be banned? I've been playing on my wifes laptop but exam season is close so they need it, and im trying to farm on royale high!!!!

Hello, for 2 days am having issues during loogging into play wuthering waves and genshin impact. when I log in even though I have stable internet I can't log intoo the game. I am using bazzite os and using GE Proton 10-20. I have tried most online solutions I found.

Apologies if this is the wrong flare, and if this is the wrong sub.

I've recently switched to Linux Mint Cinnamon, mostly because Microsoft is cutting support for Windows 10 and I've been wanting to try another OS for some time and needed an excuse.

Currently, one of my favourite games is Spore, and I cannot get it to work. On Steam, the game is launching, then running, and stops. No loading screen or anything. I've tried literally every piece of advice on Proton DB: I've tried various Proton versions, changed my Launch options to 'gamemoderun %command%', and pasted that piece of code into Spore's system.reg (Yes, I changed YOUR_USERNAME with my username.)

I'm at a complete loss, this isn't very serious, but Spore is currently my favourite game and it just really sucks to not be able to play it, plus I like playing some slightly older games mostly because I just find them better and my computer most likely cannot handle most of the newer games. If needed: CPU — AMD Ryzen 5 3400G (integrated graphics) GPU — Radeon Vega Graphics ×4 (From CPU)

I'm not sure if this is simply a problem with my specs, or Linux Mint is being problematic and I might need to switch to something else. It also might be good to mention that I don't know a lot of computer things, mostly just the basics so try to explain advice like I'm 5 please.

Thank you!

so ive been wanting to switch to linux for a while now and something thats important to me is to get rdr2 running with mods. however i am currently stuck on trying to make a modloader work to be specific lennys mod loader. ive tried adding it to steam and running it through there and tried with wine but it doesnt work. and ive also seen that other people who modded rdr2 on linux added launch commands. i play the game through the r* games launcher and dont know how to add those. any help would be appreciated

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42

KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0

Qt Version: 6.9.2

Kernel Version: 6.16.10-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics

Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Manufacturer: LENOVO

Product Name: 82GN

System Version: Lenovo Legion 5 17ARH05H

My 4 main issues with gaming on linux. First of all when I play more demanding games on linux my cpu overheats (unlike on windows), when it overheats either the game crashes or the whole os, this is apparent in any distro and I've spent months trying to fix it. Second of all, if I turn off cpu boost it doesn't overheat and the crashes stop, but while playing for example cs2, going from 120 fps to 30 fps isn't quite pleasing. Third of all, this issue isn't mainly for gaming, but my daemon power profiles disappeared after messing around with tlp and I spent over 4 hours trying to get them back but nothing worked. And the final and one of the biggest issues is when playing for example cs2, my system only uses like 20%cpu and 30% gpu.

Any help is appreciated

Exactly as the title says, when I try to use tango, the game instantly freezes and gives vk_error_device_lost error.

It is repeatable, I reconnected to the game and tried do the same and the game froze again

I am using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Intel iris Xe integrated graphics, so there shouldn't be much driver problem.

I have skipped the "loading shaders" part that you see before the game launches.

I am using linux version of the game

Selling my Lenovo y540 i5 9th gen ,16gb ram , 1650 rtx , current using ubuntu but if you want I will install windows

Hi everyone , need a bit help here. on my PC , I5 14400F , 32gb Ram 5600 , Rtx4060 , 650w 80plus silver psu , games have been crashing rather frequently and not just games, in some cases entire system freezes. sometimes I even have to force shut down, cause even restart button won't respond.

So I thought, gotta be hardware issue, stress tested and benchmarked every single piece of hardware, from cpu, to gpu and vram to ram to psu to ssd to cooling. hardware's ok.

Maybe bios, updated firmware, tried different settings, rebar on and off, xmp on and off, c states and aspm on and off , gpu pci link set to pci 4 , pci 3 , etc. no results.

So maybe it's nvidia drivers, tried versions from 550 to recent 580. did not help.

Different proton versions, from 7 to hotfix to GE. Steam launch options to stabilize proton. no help.

So maybe something distro specific, tried bunch of them, from bazzite to nobara, to debian / ubuntu to arch / cachy. nope, did not help.

at the very end, I did something I didn't wanna do, installed windows for testing purposes cause I gotta know at this point , is this hardware or is it OS.

to my utter disappointment on windows everything's fine , well no not everything, it's windows , but no crashes.

So... sorry fpr the long post, I'm still unsure but gotta be linux-nvidia-proton thing.

therefore I wanted to ask, do any of y'all who have nvidia cards, experience anything this severe ?

I knew I should've bought amd card, but I heard linux nvidia driver was doing better lately. well maybe it's not

i've been playing the game for 3 days now. no update has happened to the game or my machine. Today upon logging in, the game will just randomly close; without any explanation. I am playing through steam. Steam is still running, it does not close steam. I've been running it with protonGE 10-17. I was quite literally jsut playing 5 hours ago... and without even turning off my pc i just went to bed and tried to play a bit before work and it's just closing the game with no explanation. Anyone have any idea what is going on here?

Linux Fedora

AMD ryzen 5 7600 X3D

30 gigs ddr5

amd Radeon 5600 XT

EDIT: and yes i did try restarting my PC, as well as verifying game files. No missing files where downloaded. I am about to try switching it to a new hard drive and see if that makes a difference.