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Hey all I have an HP Envy with Linux Mint installed. Until recently I've been able to play Fallout New Vegas, unmodded, via Steam with no problem in Linux but recently have been running into the attached error which stops the game from launching. The error says "Failed to initialize renderer. Unknown error creating the Gamebryo Renderer", I have a screenshot attached. My Cinnamon Version is 6.0.4, my Linux Kernel is 5.15.0-139-generic, and my graphics card is an Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620.

I've been using Windows forever now. I want to make the switch to Linux (Mint), but after recent research and a couple videos on YouTube, I worry about it's performance in gaming when it comes to Nvidia GPUs. I'm very new to Linux and I want to play more recent titles with an RTX 5080 and the videos I see report very common performance drops with Nvidia's GPUs by around 25%.

Is there something these YouTubers are doing incorrectly? Would I be forced to deal with the significantly hindered performance if I switched to Linux?

Hi does anyone have recommendations for HOTAS's that work well with Elite Dangorous and on Linux?

I installed Linux mint, Wine, PokerStars, played three play money sit n go's over the span of maybe three days, came in second all three times, then today, I awake to this friendly email:

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Regards,

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I can't believe Han Solo is this petty over play money games, that I didn't even win? I came in second. Clearly, I need to upgrade my cheats for play money poker lol...what a bunch of clowns. Only posting because I've seen threads indicating it's alright to play on PokerStars on Linux, and clearly, that is not the case!

My distro is Endeavouros with KDE and Wayland, I'm on a Nvidia RTX 3080 laptop, and have tried both aur git and pacman versions of Gamescope. I have tried running vkcube to test and this is the results I get. Can someone please help me?

gamescope -b -W 1920 -H 1080 -r 60 -- vkcube

[gamescope] [Info] console: gamescope version 3.16.7 (gcc 15.1.1)

No CAP_SYS_NICE, falling back to regular-priority compute and threads.

Performance will be affected.

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Loading scripts from: '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts'

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Loading scripts from: '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope'

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Loading scripts from: '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/common'

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Running script file '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/common/inspect.lua' (id: 0)

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Running script file '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/common/modegen.lua' (id: 1)

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Running script file '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/common/util.lua' (id: 2)

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Loading scripts from: '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/displays'

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Running script file '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/displays/asus.rogally.lcd.lua' (id: 3)

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Running script file '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/displays/deckhd.steamdeck.deckhd-lcd.lua' (id: 4)

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Running script file '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/displays/gpd.win4.lcd.lua' (id: 5)

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Running script file '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/displays/lenovo.legiongo.lcd.lua' (id: 6)

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Running script file '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/displays/lenovo.legiongos.lcd.lua' (id: 7)

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Running script file '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/displays/valve.steamdeck.lcd.lua' (id: 8)

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Running script file '/usr/share/gamescope/scripts/00-gamescope/displays/valve.steamdeck.oled.lua' (id: 9)

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Loading scripts from: '/etc/gamescope/scripts'

[gamescope] [Warn] scriptmgr: Directory '/etc/gamescope/scripts' does not exist

[gamescope] [Info] scriptmgr: Loading scripts from: '/home/excalibur/.config/gamescope/scripts'

[gamescope] [Warn] scriptmgr: Directory '/home/excalibur/.config/gamescope/scripts' does not exist

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: selecting physical device 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU': queue family 2 (general queue family 0)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: physical device supports DRM format modifiers

[gamescope] [Info] wlserver: [backend/headless/backend.c:67] Creating headless backend

[gamescope] [Info] xdg_backend: Seat name: seat0

[gamescope] [Error] vulkan: vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties2 returned zero modifiers for DRM format 0x38344241 (VkResult: 0)

[gamescope] [Error] vulkan: vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties2 returned zero modifiers for DRM format 0x38344258 (VkResult: 0)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: supported DRM formats for sampling usage:

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: AR24 (0x34325241)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: XR24 (0x34325258)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: AB24 (0x34324241)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: XB24 (0x34324258)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: RG16 (0x36314752)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: NV12 (0x3231564E)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: AB4H (0x48344241)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: XB4H (0x48344258)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: AB30 (0x30334241)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: AR30 (0x30335241)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: XR30 (0x30335258)

gamescope: ../src/rendervulkan.cpp:2145: bool CVulkanTexture::BInit(uint32_t, uint32_t, uint32_t, uint32_t, createFlags, wlr_dmabuf_attributes*, uint32_t, uint32_t, CVulkanTexture*, gamescope::OwningRc<gamescope::IBackendFb>): Assertion \modifiers.size() > 0' failed.`

Aborted (core dumped)

I added Skyrim to MO2 manually, but i wonder if this is going to cause some issues down the line with other programs not recognizing it.

Also the SkyrimSE icon is some garbled mess of colors, i'm not sure it's supposed to be like that.

But i've run Steam validation, and it validates correctly...

Should i just leave it like that or should i worry? Because something's definitely not right.

I know that ever since Vanguard was added, league stopped working on linux. Are there any workarounds to get it running though ? I was thinking of just running it on a windows VM inside linux. Thoughts ?

New to linux I just switched to linux about two weeks~ ago. Just wondering or must I run a virtual machine to play lol?

How well does Icarus run on Linux? I'm looking into switching from windows to Linux but I want to know how well Icarus runs on it

Hello, I'm having issues in my CachyOs (Arch Based) when it comes to wireless USB driver installation. I'm following this repo:https://github.com/morrownr/rtl8852bu-20240418. Any idea what it can be the problem??

Hello, I moved to Arch Linux from win 11, and I wanted to play DmC 4 on steam with proton, but this is what I get, how can I fix this issue? (Tried every proton version, nothing to work somehow)

I am trying to figure out what is going on with Dead by Daylight. I have the Steam FPS counter on and it shows it is correctly running at 90 FPS but to my eye I can tell it doesn't look like that FPS if that makes sense. To me, it looks more like 35-45 FPS even though it is locked at 90FPS. I have tried the newest proton version, experimental, and even messed around with all launch options I saw mentioned on Proton DB for this specific game. It was the first game I downloaded to try gaming on Linux.

I noticed the animations/physics are also seemingly in jittery slow motion and I have no clue how to fix this. I want to permanently switch to my current Linux setup but this transition is difficult when I don't know where to look to solve the problem.

If anyone has any clue anything I should do out of the box with Mint that I didn't realize I had to do to prevent this issue, please let me know! I have my refresh rate correctly set at 180Hz using the display options.

System Specs:
- Aorus Elite X570 motherboard
- R7 5700X3D
- 32GB 3600Mhz RAM
- Hellhound RX 7900XT
- 750W PSU
- 1TB NVME SSD from TeamGroup I got free with the GPU which allows me to get away with trying Linux for now
- Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon
- Proton versions tried: Experimental (FPS counter doesn't work with this version but has the same issue), the newest proton version available, and no others due to SteamDB showing these two versions as stable with the game

I'm debating on switching to Linux for my gaming rig. My most played game is overwatch, and blizzard doesn't natively supports Linux. I know I can use wine or bottles to get it to work, but I play competitivly and I'm worried about the extra layer that wine or bottles will add.

Is this rational?

Has anyone tried to run overwatch on Linux. If so what are your results.

I have basically a flagship spec computer, so the hardware is not the problem.

Would love to know peoples experiences so I can finally say goodbye to windows.