So i recently found out that factorio have native wayland support, and that made curious on what other games have native wayland support?

Hi,

I think post like this was here at least 1000 times, but why not have it one more time :)

Something about my backgroung.
I am programmer with about decade of experience with programming, out of which about 2-3 years of experience with linux programming, so some config files will not scare me. But I am totally inocent regarding "gaming ready linux distributions".

And this is what I am asking you about.

Games I am playing are: World of Warcraft, Hearts of Iron 4, Europa Universalis 4 (soon also 5), Euro Truck Simulator 2.
Other programs I need for my daily routine are: Brave browser, Discord, VLC.

I am asking you to suggest you to me some good linux distribution oriented on gaming. I recently did see video from JayzyTwoCents (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa8nMiEoti0) - and it looks good, but I want to hear some other experience, because my experience are limited to debian, ubuntu and some fanatically secured undisloced (private repo) linux distro.

And to not forget, I need that distribution to be able smoothy to be dualboot. I still have some programs on windows where there is no good replacement on linux and I can not accept some "less quality stuff". So dualboot is must-have.

As in title am coming back to linux (steam os) becouse of not windows but Armoury crate SE. This asus crap delays my inputs but am not for that here.

Since my most played game recently is working on linux but my game isnt (am bored with it anyway becouse of no offline mode) and its GW2, does any hero shooter with freedom work on linux and isn't "dead" so at least 1k playes on steam.

thx for any advice and i hate acse.

Note : i have rog ally x and i will play only on 15w tdp

I’m playing Hogwarts Legacy on EndeavourOS with the Steam Flatpak version.
Overall the game runs really well, but I’m running into what I think are texture streaming/loading issues.

It’s most noticeable when flying on the broom: as soon as I turn into a direction I haven’t been before, the game stutters for a moment and then continues smoothly. Normally I get a steady 60 FPS with around 70–80% GPU usage.

The game is installed on NVMe (BTRFS across two NVMEs, but I also tested EXT4 with the same result). On the exact same hardware under Windows 11, these “asset streaming” hitches don’t happen.

I’ve tried Proton, Proton Experimental, and Proton GE – same outcome.
Currently my Steam launch options are:
DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="AMD" mangohud %command%
(Without the filter it tries to use the wrong GPU.)

Any idea what else could be causing this?

Hardware:
GPU: RX 7800 XT
CPU: i5-12600K
RAM: 32 GB DDR4

Is it possible to run Minecraft Bedrock on Debian without using the Google Play version? I couldn't do it with Proton

Download the EAappinstaller directly from their website
Cut from your download folder and paste into your folder that already contains the one steam downloaded, usually something like:
/home/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/STAR WARS Battlefront II/__Installer/Origin/redist/internal
Launch SWBF2
EA app should open and let you login
If not, add that .exe file as a non-steam game and launch with proton, login, close the app and try launching SWBF2 again.
Let me know if this works, please

Wishlist now - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3535870/Bayaya/

Bayaya is a folk-tale-inspired, non-violent adventure combining 3D RPG and point-and-click mechanics. Explore a vast, procedurally generated world, take on various tasks, and experience a unique wooden toy aesthetic.

Is there any performance loss in games on Linux if I run them from a Windows NTFS partition? I don’t want to have to reformat to change the file system and reinstall all the games

Just installed Arch and downloaded The Finals. When I launch it, the anti-cheat pops up and then I get this error. Game won't start, IDK what to do. I've tried a bunch of different Proton versions, but no luck.

Battlebit Remastered and CS2 both have issues with my cursor leaving the game and clicking the other monitor, Is there a fix? I tried Gamescope but that tanks my FPS since I am on Nvidia so is there any other possible solutions to lock my cursor to the game? Thank you

When I'm running games by default its hit and miss which games but its 50/50, with power management mode set to performance or balanced makes no diff apparently my GPU (RX 6800) will report its running at half its clock speed 1000-1100Mhz. I've installed Corectrl and setup ranged that are what you would expect from the rx6800 i have. This solved my problem in all but this one game WoW: Mists of Pandaria. When im out in the world, dungeons or bgs i can run max settings, 200fps and the gpu reports what youd expect however when im in a raid specfically 25man and when the boss is pulled not before or after the fight only during the fight the frequency hits sub 100 and constantly yo-yos between 100mhz and 2200mhz, the useage also follows the same trend and the fps hits 5 and its unplayable. i tried different kernals and so far zen1 is the best performance i get. Now when i set corectrl to automatic to goes back to the behaviour of running at 1000-1100Mhz but the effect in the raid is much better, so instead of being 5 fps im more like yo-yoing between 40 and 120fps which is still not great but i can still sort of play for now.

i found this post which led to me trying LTS and zen(CPU specific) and zen1 kernals
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1dyhizb/fyi_for_amd_card_owners_the_linux_kernel_is/

but doesnt seem to make a difference in WoW

How im running the game:
battle.net installer added as non steam game and ran and installed the launcher + wow from this
battle.net launcher opens and logs in, i select wow and click play
game runs through proton, same result with Proton 9,10 Experimental and GE

Sys:
 OS Garuda Linux x86_64
├ Kernel Linux 6.16.1-zen1-1-zen
├󰏖 Packages 1844 (pacman)[stable], 6 (flatpak)
└ Shell fish 4.0.2

 DE KDE Plasma 6.4.4
├󰧨 Window Manager KWin (Wayland)
├󰧨 Login Manager sddm 0.21.0 (Wayland)
├󰉼 WM Theme Breeze
├󰉼 Color Themes Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Sweet-Dark [GTK2/3/4]
├󰀻 System Icons Papirus-Dark [Qt], Papirus-Dark [GTK2/3/4]
├ System Fonts Fira Sans (10pt) [Qt], Fira Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
└ Terminal konsole 25.8.0

󰌢 PC Desktop
├󰻠 CPU AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (32) @ 6.28 GHz
├󰍛 GPU AMD Radeon RX 6800 [Discrete]
├󰍛 Vulkan 1.4.311 - radv [Mesa 25.1.7-arch1.1]
└󰍹 Display(s) 2560x1080 @ 200 Hz in 29" [External, HDR]

This guide is for getting FrostyModManager (FMM) to work on Debian-based operating systems, such as Ubuntu, though I'm doing it in Debian 12. We will be applying mods to StarWars Battlefront II (2), though it likely can be applied to other Frostbite games. This guide is not for installing Steam or Downloading the SWBF game. There are plenty of good guides for that, and for installing Linux. READY?

1. Download FrostyModManager.zip https://github.com/CadeEvs/FrostyToolsuite/releases , do not extract yet

2. It appears it's necessary to extract this somewhere within the Home/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/ folder for this to work correctly. I have tested extracting it in multiple locations. I specifically extracted to: home/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/ simply because it's close to folders I'm in regularly and makes it easier to navigate between them when modding.

3. Open Steam, select the menu option Games>Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library>Browse, then point to location of your extracted FMM folder and select FrostyModManager.exe (if after selecting the .exe file you see a file path like: /run/user/1000/doc/... it's not going to work. You must've extracted it somewhere else like the Download, Home, or Documents folder.)

4. FMM should now appear in your game library. (During my testing of this process several times, however, I occasionally experienced a weird glitch where it would add the game to my library but show up as a blank grey box. I had to reboot my system for it to show up, but you might get around this by using your System Monitor to End the steam application, then reopen the program.) If it does show up correctly, right click on it and select Properties. In the Shortcut menu that appears, you should see the file path for the FMM .exe in the TARGET box. If you do not see the path, paste it into the TARGET box (note: depending on how you setup your root file system during the installation of your operating system, this path might also include your operating system user name, like: home/user_name/.var/...), or select Browse and point to the FMM .exe file.

5. With the Shortcut window still open, verify the correct folder path that contains the .exe file is in the START IN box. If not, paste the same path without /FrostyModManager.exe at the end, or Browse and select the folder that contains the .exe file.

6. With the Shortcut window still open, switch to the Compatibility menu option. Check the box for: Force the use..., then select Proton 10 or other newer version from the dropdown menu (might be at the bottom of the list), then close that window

7. PLAY the FMM game you just installed.

8. Upon opening, Select the option Scan for games. You will likely see a message regarding Flatpak. This may apply to you or not. Read this, maybe take a screenshot. I'm running a Flathub version of Steam. I was able to just click OK and things worked. I should note, however, that while searching for months to mod on linux and trying different suggestions, I did end up installing Bottles and Flatseal, but the process I'm sharing here worked even after deleting bottles that I created and after reseting the options in Flatseal for steam. I have not yet tested this process with Bottles or Flatseal uninstalled. I clicked the x to close the scanning dialog box while the scan was still going after just a few seconds, and my game appeared in the list. Your computer might take longer to scan, but if it doesn't find it after 2 minutes, close the scan dialog. If your game isn't showing up at this point, select New and point to the SWBF .exe game file in the .../steamapps/common/ folder. If you only see the C: drive under My Computer, this might be why you would need Flatseal or Bottles to be able to see the drive your game is installed on. I'm not yet covering how to do that in this guide.

9. Once your game shows up in the list, select it. Doing so the first time starts a process that creates multiple files and folders for the game to be modded, like: .../common/FrostyModManager-1190-1-0-6-3-s-1753719610/Mod/starwarsbattlefrontii folder. This folder is where you will extract the individual .fbmod files. Make sure they're not in another folder, but be sure to exit FMM before adding files or it might freeze (which you can open your system monitor and "end" if it does)

10. Once all your desired mods are added into that folder, you can "play" the FMM again to see all your mods. Apply your desired mods, then select Install mods. It typically takes over two minutes for it to do so. When it's complete, it should give a message providing you with a file path like: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winmm=n,b" %command% -dataPath "ModData/Default" (Copy that or type it manually into the LAUNCH OPTIONS found under Properties of the SWBF game in your steam library)

11. Close FMM, Play

Greetings

Next week, the parts for my new ITX rig should be arriving. It is my wish to dual boot Linux and Windows, mainly so i have windows as backup, incase something really isn't working for me on Linux and i really want to make Linux my main system.

Here is the build, so i don't have to list all the specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qtYgMC

First, i'm a bit undecided on the distro. I hope to just install it and have most things just work on the gaming end. I understand that for some games some tuning will be needed, i mean in general.

I'm eyeing Ubuntu or Fedora, to be my main OS. For Windows i might just stick to my Windows 10 Pro. Since i'm doing an all AMD build, what exactly will i need to install myself driver wise? I assume i can just grab this https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/linux-drivers.html for ubuntu but no idea regarding Ryzen Masters.

It's worth noting that i wasn't happy with Bazzite because most help topics online asked to execute command prompts, but bazzite only had a certain selection of commands you could do. I noticed that when i first wanted to install NordVPN and the guide offered a command that just didn't work on bazzite. Would like to have access to those really cool features of linux.

I've seen that Brother has drivers (rpm and deb) for both my printer and scanner, so that is taken care off. My SteelSeries keyboard and Razer mouse only ever use one config, so i don't even need to have access to the software/driver on linux and can leave that on Windows. BUT, if i would want to, is there an open source way to configure my pheriperials? List of stuff and what i'd optionaly like to configure without windows:

Mouse: Razer Naga Hex (Keybinds)

KB: SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL (Keybinds and RapidTrigger settings)

HeadSet: Epos GSX 300 + H6Pro (Sound Profiles)

Now, when i find the Distro i wish to go with, how do i proceed setting up dual boot with windows 10/11? Do i first install my Distro, then with Windows? I plan to have my Distro on the 990 Pro and Windows on the SX8200Pro, with my trusty sata SSD being a universal use drive, like game backups and what not.

Now a bonus question, i have a few heavily modded "japanese" games, that are portable installs. I asume i can just drag em in but have to run the .exe launcher trouch wine?

Thanks for any help offered!

Hey, I am new to this game after Riot forced out Linux users with Vanguard.

I am fiddling with the options and hotkeys and saw that it changed from QWERTZ to QWERTY, only ingame, not when tabbed out while I am typing this.

All I found was a 7 year old post but no fix.

Game runs on Runtime 3.0 Sniper as current versions don't let me play which I think is due to VAC.

Let me know if I have to add more info.

edit: uhm, I think I am stupid, I looked at it again and it displays just fine.

If I want to change keybind and press Z, it displays Y in the "Bind hotkey" windows but as soon as this window is gone, it shows a Z. Sorry.

Hello, recently I encountered this kind of problem with my CachyOS distro and Arc A770, game install with no problems, starts up, everything looks okay but then when first intro cinematic playa, game freezes up and entire system also, can't do anything and have to button reset PC. Anyone know why is that and some solution for that ??