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Resident Evil 4 Remake Ray Tracing Option Greyed Out

30 Dec 2025 - 6:00am

I'm on Nobara 43, but this also happen on Cachyos(Already try that distro). In windows I can change RT option to ON or OFF. I wonder why this happen only on linux? Is there a way to fix this? Because I want to use MAX preset but disable the RT. This RT also normal on Resident Evil 2 Remake even on linux.

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Got an HP T630 (low power thinclient) and want to set it up for emulation. Which free/cheap OS is appropriate?

30 Dec 2025 - 5:09am

Was gifted an HP T630 and wanted to set it up for emulation. I have to flash a new OS onto it, and I read that Linux is best for something like this. Free is best, but cheap is okay too!

Specs are

AMD GX-420GI quad-core APU

8gb ram

128gb ssd

This is my first PC so any help is greatly appreciated.

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Games wont launch on drives mounted in /mnt/

30 Dec 2025 - 5:08am

Decided recently after off and on dabbling in Linux to finally go all in this time. I've experienced a bit more issues this time around than my last though, and I could use some advice.

I had read online that I should mount my second nvme drive, the one I keep my games on, in /var. So I sudo mkdir /var/mnt/*drive name*. Then, I ran sudo chown $USER:USER /var/mnt/*drive name* and steam worked fine there. I was able to run WarThunder natively.

I ensured the drive mount point was correct in KDE partition manager and double checked in /etc/fstab as well.

However, in fauguslauncher, I installed battle.net to play WoW and in the prefix it seems I cannot see my /var/mnt/ folder. Only /var/cache, /var/lib, /var/pressure-vessel, /var/run, and /var/tmp are visible.

Well, that's fine then. A quick google search said I should avoid mounting to /var/ anyway and instead make a directory to mount to in /mnt/ instead. So I copied all of my previous steps and remounted in /mnt/*drive name* and removed the directory in /var/. I am able to see my drive and game in the prefixed battle.net now and play WoW. HOWEVER, despite being able to see my drive and games in steam, I can no longer launch my steam games. I've tried reinstalling them, and while WarThunder will launch with Proton, it crashes soon after. I'd rather run the native build anyway.

Any help?

EDIT: Seems to be a permissions issue. I installed faugus launcher through CachyOS's repo and im unsure how to give it access to the /var/mnt/ directory I made.

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Bazzite doubts!! Help!!

30 Dec 2025 - 4:55am

Can you tell me how long it takes for the USB drive to boot? It's the first time I've ever installed Linux and the screen has been like this for about 10 minutes.

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Is marvel rivals anti cheat kernel level on linux?

30 Dec 2025 - 4:04am

I know that Marvel Rivals uses kernel level anti cheat on Windows but I am curious if it's the same level on Linux.

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I need help setting up a OP1 8k v2

30 Dec 2025 - 3:54am

I'm gonna put my head through a wall I just want the thing to turn on an axis. I've tried installing this: https://github.com/niansa/UnofficialEGGMouseConfig but I keep encountering errors and honestly I don't know what the hell I'm doing. Any help would be appreciated

I'm running Linux Mint btw

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Does Bazzite support SteamVR?

30 Dec 2025 - 3:50am

I’m getting things ready to switch to Linux and it seems that Bazzite is the best distribution for my needs.

I do have a Meta Quest 3s that I plan on using with Steam Link to play some PCVR games. Will that all work as expected on Bazzite or are there any special things I should expect?

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A startling revelation

30 Dec 2025 - 3:06am

While researching for new9er) parts to improve performance, I came to a startling revelation. My current PSU is a little under the recommended rating for my current hardware. I have an i5-7400 CPU, a GTX 1050 Ti, 32 GB DDR4 RAM, and a 2 TB SATA HDD. According to the Newegg pc power supply calculator, the suggested wattage is 392 watts!! Could this be a reason why my PC's gaming performance is a little crappy sometimes, aside from the other hardware I mentioned, even with Linux?

Update: The reason I am researching this is because I am window shopping for parts to improve my PC's performance that do not require a PSU upgrade because my current PC is an Acer Aspire TC-780 from 8 years ago , I don't think finding a replacement PSU is realistically possible, so I am thinking that replacing my SATA HDD (old school spinning magnetic platter hard drive) with a 512 GB NVME M.2 Gen3 (The best generation my mobo supports) SSD will give me a performance gain, or am I wrong?

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Steam will not combine joycons

30 Dec 2025 - 2:38am

So I have been able to connect my joycons to my PC. They always pair with lights lit as 1 & 2 for L & R joycons. I'm running pop OS. I launch steam, have all the settings checked to enable joycon pair combining. No matter what I do, it won't recognize them as one controller. I've restarted my computer and steam for the settings to take effect and nothing. I tried installing dkms-hid-nintendo & joycond but both of those return the error of "unable to locate package" Help?

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I need help to run a program...

30 Dec 2025 - 2:37am

Hello everyone. As the title says, I need help in order to run a program. It's not spam, I swear. It's an app (actually it's like a mini-simulator) developed by a pilot who to train people, especially training pilots and sim pilots, to get used to the procedures as approaches and takeoff with the Airbus A320. It's a free app, by the way. The thing is that I can't make it run on my system, which is Pop_os 22.04. The app requires Vulkan to run, which I checked and it's installed on my system. So I need to check if it runs to anyone of you, or it's bugged, because the only thing I can see when I try to run is shown at the image.

I leave the Youtube video where I ask the developer if it runs on Linux and his response is the download link. I really appreciate your help in advance. I'm sorry about my english.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt4zutqxgfk

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Which is the best Linux for playing Minecraft and Steam games?

30 Dec 2025 - 2:23am

Minecraft is one of the games I play the most, same for some of steam games, could someone help?

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Is it better to get an AMD GPU for Linux?

30 Dec 2025 - 2:21am

Hello everyone!

I’ve been trying to get into Linux gaming for a while, and this is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I’m currently running a 5070 in my set up, and that almost requires I use Nvidia’s proprietary drivers to get any good performance out of my gpu. I don’t like this much, as I went to Linux to try and break from this corporate control.

I was wondering it would be a bad idea to switch to something like an RX 9070XT? I’m under the impression that the drivers for AMD are open source, and the comparisons on paper between the 5070 and 9070XT seem very similar. I wouldn’t even mind going up a bit to the next best AMD or non Nvidia GPU if there is one.

Thank you for your time!

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I built a super small Minecraft launcher because I couldn't find one I liked (1.4 MB, offline, Rust) - looking for feedback

30 Dec 2025 - 1:17am

A few months ago I started this project because I was looking for a Minecraft launcher that was truly simple and lightweight: fully offline mode (no Microsoft login), support for multiple instances and native Fabric installation, a modern UI, and all in a tiny binary.

I couldn't find anything that quite fit what I wanted, so I decided to build it myself in pure Rust, using Relm4 and libadwaita. The result is RCraft: the static binary is only about 1.4 MB (AppImage).

Current features:

  • 100% offline mode
  • Multiple instance management
  • Native Fabric installation
  • Clean UI with version selector, RAM settings, etc.

Simple demo

I have zero interest in monetizing it or anything like that... I'm just developing it because I think there are people out there (like me a few months ago) looking for something like this: a simple launcher with no extra complications, that just works well and stays lightweight. If someone was searching for exactly this, I hope they find it and it helps them.

The project is still pretty new, so any feedback would help me a ton... What features are missing? Does it work well on your distro? Any ideas for improvements? All comments, positive or negative, are very welcome.

Repo: https://github.com/vdkvdev/rcraft

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How to play Overwatch 2 on Linux with a GTX 1650 Super

30 Dec 2025 - 1:13am

Hello, I was hoping you could help me. I have a PC with a GTX 1650 Super. I particularly like Linux and have been using Debian, and I'd like to know if there's any way to run Overwatch 2 smoothly with my 1650 Super. I've installed different devs, and every time I run the game, I get problems like flickering on the menu screen, out-of-sync audio, and the cursor not moving to the correct position. I play other games without any issues, but Overwatch is practically the only multiplayer game I enjoy, and I haven't been able to leave Windows because it's the only way I can play it without problems. If anyone has the same graphics card and could share some launch parameter settings or knows how to run it without errors, it would be a huge help.

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HDR doesn't work in games on Linux

30 Dec 2025 - 12:21am

Hey everyone, I hope you can help me out. I'm really happy with Linux, everything works excellently except for HDR in games. I'm using Cachyos with Plasma, I can enable HDR in the display preferences and it works, the monitor switches to HDR. However, in games, even though I'm using the Cachy Proton and adding PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 in the launch options for games in Steam, HDR remains disabled inside the games. I've tried with another monitor, both HDMI and DisplayPort, with different Protons, and different configurations, but nothing works. Just to try something, it doesn't work on Fedora either. It works fine on Windows. My GPU is a 7900XTX and the monitor is an AW3425DW.

Can you help me? Thanks in advance.

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Space Marine 2 huge loading times

30 Dec 2025 - 12:16am

Simply put, every time the game has to load something it takes ages, for example, launching it takes about 3-5 minutes, coming back to the battle barge takes 1-2 minutes, it's not the worst issue ever but it really takes out a lot of the joy from playing, also sometimes the frames drop noticeably but I've been used to playing with 15fps for years so it's not really an issue, though I have a feeling they're connected. I'm using Xubuntu and everything is up to date I think since I've moved from windows less than a week ago. if anyone knows what's going on please let me know! Thank you in advance! <3

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