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A little bit of context:

I tried installing the sims normally through steam, but I couldn't get it to install without Electronic arts giving me an error. Then I tried lutris and this and that. I finally got it to work through the fitgirl repacks exe, but now I can't change the language. I created a new drive? L:\ for it and other games. I edited some files, but I don't know if I got the place right. This is the path to the game repository on steam /home/rain89/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/The Sims 4. I tried 2 things:

1. I tried to use the change language exe like it was explained in the instructions(I put it in steam and used proton experimental, same for sims, but it just selected englishnormally and didnothing), but nothing happened, no matter which language I selected. It's still russian.

2. Stupidly, I tried to name the ACTUAL russian language pack the english ones name and vice versa. I'm pretty sure I editied the wrong files. I went here /home/rain89/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/The Sims 4/Language Changer (I undid it just now).

Is my only option to reinstall it? I'm pretty sure I choose english on setup.

My OS is linux mint newest (zena), latest wine that's giving me complications, proton exerimental. My gpu is nvidia rtx 4060(or 50), my cpu is amd ryzen 7something.But I doubt they're that important for this.

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Hi!

I just built a new PC. I'm running Mint 23.3 with Kernel 6.17 and Mesa 25. Also, my components are a Ryzen 7 9800 X3D and a Powercolor Hellhound RX 9070 XT.

I was having trouble redeeming an AMD Rewards promotion code, because the pvt.sh didn't recognized my GPU, even when the system did.

So, after a couple of hours of research, turns out all I had to do was update the PCI data:

sudo update-pciids

and then:

lspci | grep VGA

Guess the RX 9070 XT is still "new" enough to show as default (1002:7550). Thanks to this, the GPU was verified and I was able to redeem Crimson Desert.

Hope this helps someone with the same trouble.

Setting it up was a freakin nightmare though! But I got it!! And it's working pretty freakin good now, lots of people are already playing and I just wanted to spread the word! Take care yall!

Not sure if there was a steam update for the Steam Controller 2 or if it's something on my end, but I'm able to open the overlay / use steam input with HDR + wayland enabled (PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1). Shift + Tab does nothing, but the guide button on my PS5 controller opens the overlay and any changes I make are reflected in game. Can anyone else confirm this is working for them?

I'm on NixOS and Hyprland.

I have ubuntu 24 lts and today i cannot run BG3, it get stuck on the shader loading cache at 63%, have updated stream and deleted the full game and downloaded it again, nothing helps.

Also I cannot open the properties tab for baldurs gate 3, i have worked perfect until now and I have over 400 hours in the game.

Anyone recognize this issue?

I am on latest version of Ubuntu (however id like to switch), I am using proton experimental on native steam. my usb microphone input appears as KT usb audio, I use a razer blackshark headset connected to USB C dongle. discord can detect and use my microphone but games cannot, including deadlock, overwatch 2, kletka, repo, lethal company, and peak

Fixes i've triedd, new dongles, USB a and c dongles, new headphones, trying every input device listed nothing seems to work

thank you in advanced

I recently found a game called different strokes on steam it's a game where you draw images or edit other peoples images thus it needs to load these images. I played it for about 2 hours over 2 days and really liked and was even planning on buying the dlc for it.

Then I go to open it another day and the paintings don't load and I can't log into the game server trough the game.

The games discord has a common issues channel where there was an issue listed similiar to mine about how some ISPs block the website behind the game differentstrokes.xyz . Now I checked in every way I could if I was able to reach the site by opening it in a browser, pinging it, tarcing the ip route and even pinging it from my router. All of these worked just fine.
I tried asking for help through the means provided by them but even the dev is confused as to what is going on.
I tried differnet proton versions. I tried 2 other devices(my steamdeck and a family memberes laptop who also uses linux) which also had the same problem.
I even tried to look at network requests on my computer using wireshark but I'm either not smart enough to understand that or there really was nothing out of the ordinary. I also tried running steam from the terminal but I didn't get any errors in there nor anything else that looked related.
I use arch linux with the zen kernel and the latest proton ge version I am also using the steam version of the game(it's also on itch.io).

I genuienly have no idea what the problem could be anymore as it was working just fine at first the game didn't get updated betwen my playsessions and it can't even be a problem with some update to some part of arch as I got the same problem on my deck. I can only think it has to do with my network but I can reach the website just fine so I have no clue what to try anymore.

Any ideas as to what the hell is going on here are aprriciated.

I open Vinegar, it loads, but when it gets to "checking for updates," it closes. How do I fix this?

hello. i have a dell latitude 3310 with 8th gen intel i3 8145U, 16gb ddr4 ram, 256gb ssd. i currently have it running ubuntu and it plays war thunder the same a switch does fortnite. lowest possible settings btw, could anyone please help me out with somehow squeezing more performance out of it? i'm not smart enough to use arch

Steam allows adding custom launch options for Steam Games: what are the best flags to add for optimal performance and best QoL?

Been trying to find a solution to get the standalone .exe Shazbot Mod Manager to run on Linux (for Total War Warhammer III using Proton).

https://github.com/Shazbot/WH3-Mod-Manager

I have tried ProtonTricks, which was suggested in another older reddit post but without luck, after selecting what game to run the mod manager with in protontricks nothing happens
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1mmkh59/what_are_the_methods_to_make_nonlinux_mod_manager/

I moved on to trying Steam Tinker Launch using info from this very helpful video, however the example given was to install an exe rather than run a standalone, and having tweaked it I still cant get the exe to run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnAG1LLBH1Q

I have also tried adding it as a not steam game with proton experimental to try and get it just to run (even if it can't launch TWW3 after) but this also does nothing.

Last step that I have not yet tried was going to be bottles, but before I try I wanted to ask if anyone had managed to get this working.

I am running Mint.

I am aware of the CA's own mod manager which has improved, but can't save profiles and a few other features that I liked on Shazbot's MM

Not sure if this is an impossible task, or I am missing something really simple.

Any advice or tips would be welcome.

The issue is that after updating Conan Exiles to the Enhanced version, it crashes every time I open it, no matter what Proton version is using.

Fortunately, there's a workaround for that. Simply install vcrun2022 using Protontricks:

protontricks 440900 vcrun2022

And just hit next when it displays, like any Windows installation.

It works for me now.

check it out its open source: https://github.com/kaezrr/steamer and not vibe coded.

I made this for myself and decided to share it for others to use as they see fit.

I play a lot of non-steam games and got pretty tired of lutris and herioc games launcher causing issues. Steam actually works perfect for non steam games nowadays, many games I couldnt boot on lutris and heroic just ended up working fine when added as a non-steam game.

But I also kinda wanted it too look good, so I just took the opportunity to make a quick rust tool that automates adding icons, headers, logos and all for your non-steam shortcuts. It works pretty well, and could easily be extended to work with regular steam games if people want to.

there might exist a better tool but well I am a programmer and it seemed like a good programming exercise (no LLMs used, other than to reverse engineer steams proprietary VDF format).

Cheers

In the loading screens, or the pause menu, or when opening the map I get a stable max capped FPS of 120
In the main menu, or in game I get a max of 20-40
I have tried proton experimental, 10, 9, hotfix, and GE 10

I can't seem to get anything to work with this although on protonDB it's platinum and says this game runs fine on linux

Persona 3 Reload runs perfectly fine with no issues

CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics Arch Linux (64 bit) Kernel Name: Linux Kernel Version: 6.19.14-zen1-1-zen (but issue persist on normal linux)
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2
16GB RAM

Using Hyprland but issue also persists on XFCE4

Game runs a lot better on my windows installation

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I’ve been using Arch Linux as my primary OS for a long time now, but I still keep Windows around mainly for gaming.

I mostly play story-driven, realistic, open-world, and simulation games (for example: Assetto Corsa, FPV Logic, etc. etc.), and I’d really like to avoid switching to Windows every time I want to play. So far I’ve tried Lutris Wine Proton stuff, but compatibility has been pretty hit-or-miss, and a lot of games just don’t run properly.

I haven’t tried Steam yet, but I’ve heard mixed things—especially about NVIDIA GPUs not working as well on Linux for gaming.

**My setup:**

Laptop: Dell G15 5530, CPU: i5-13450

GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3050 6GB

RAM: 16GB DDR5

Storage: 512GB SSD

Any suggestions or experiences would be really helpful.

Proton cachyos has far more updates and has newer proton versions/fixes.