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Any specific CS2 optimizations for Linux?

16 Aug 2025 - 8:22am

Like on Windows you go to Mouse settings turn off Advanced pointer precision, and stuff like that. On Linux, are there any specific optimizations or settings to play CS2 competitively at the optimal level? Wayland or X11 matters? DE Matters? How to get the lowest input latency possible? I am using Arch on KDE Wayland with Nvidia

submitted by /u/Puzzled_Minute_7387
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No option for hardware metrics in the new steam performance overlay.

16 Aug 2025 - 6:33am

I would be interested to see things like gpu and cpu temp. The dropdown in steam only has two options: FPS single value and FPS detail. My gf's win11 version shows a few more options that I don't have. Is this a setting somewhere, or is it just not supported on my system?

OS: Pop!_OS 22.04

cpu: 7800x3d

gpu: 7900xt

MB: msi B650

submitted by /u/CatsAndCapybaras
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Did my duty

16 Aug 2025 - 6:20am

The Finals: A forbidden operating system configuration was detected. Error code TFAV3015

16 Aug 2025 - 5:47am

After The Finals update from yesterday, Linux users (SteamOS/ArchLinux, Ubunto, Cachy OS, and Nobara at least) are getting the following error before being kicked from the game.

A forbidden operating system configuration was detected.

Error code TFAV3015

A ticket has been submitted with Embark Support and hopefully this will be fixed.

submitted by /u/Tactful_Turtle
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CS2 does not launch in full screen anymore

16 Aug 2025 - 5:05am

I'm having issues with CS2 last patch. The game doesn't start in full screen anymore, if I go in the options to set to full screen it "works" but I can't select my ultrawide screen resolution, it only goes up to 2560*1440, my screen is 5120*1440. I tried to set the resolution and -fullscreen option but that didn't help.

I can't seem to get the game launching at all with gamescope.

Anyone has similar issue ?

  • NixOS unstable,
  • gnome 48,
  • mesa git (tried 25.2.0, same issue),
  • kernel 6.16.0 (both from repo and cachy kernel)
  • RX 9070 XT
  • Ryzen 9700X
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Is it true we can get 4k 120hz VRR with this cable?

16 Aug 2025 - 4:33am

I have read people saying yes, others now, some say it needs a sort of downgrade... Any idea? My bran new OLED TV will arrive next week and I would love to play 4k 120hz on it using Bazzite! Windows couch experience keeps being a mess

submitted by /u/Joker28CR
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Mangohud won't work completely on SteamOS in game mode but it does on Desktop Mode

16 Aug 2025 - 2:23am

Hi. Lately I've been trying to get a full custom overlay setup on Mangohud. My custom config only works fully in desktop mode on SteamOS on my Legion Go S. In game mode it just shows my GPU/CPU usage and the FPS and that's it. On desktop mode it shows everything that I setup.

I put this in my launch options

"mangohud %command%"

I'd like to get it to show up in game mode with all my stats so I can record gameplay off the SteamOS recorder.

Thanks

submitted by /u/Eskel5
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GlTron

16 Aug 2025 - 12:40am

Recently discovered all the old school games available for free on linux, and have been playing gltron which seems to be a better version of armagetronad but without any server capabilities :( .

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How do you avoid redundant runtimes?

16 Aug 2025 - 12:28am

Steam and Bottles use separate runtimes based on wine. If I install both, I will have redundant Proton packages installed on my PC because they aren't shared.

I need Steam to install Steam games. But I also have games from other sources, including free games (fan games), and they need Bottles. I use Heroic to download games from Epic and GOG and run them in Bottles.

Half of the games from Epic have compatibility issues, but GOG usually works, including games whose the Epic version doesn't. Maybe the reason is that GOG games are clean and free from DRM. Steam provides a compatibility layer to avoid problems. But games from Epic are tricky and require lucky.

What do you do to play both games from Steam and games from other sources?

submitted by /u/Zaleru
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Has anyone heard anything about if fragpunk will be fixed

16 Aug 2025 - 12:14am

The update that went live over week ago made game stop working on linux it was working fine before this no proton version can get the game to work.

I seen one guy on protondb get it to work with old proton version he said game had issues I tried it the game would launch get to login in screen I get pass there then game will close.

some say its anti cheat I am not sure if this is purposely to keep us out or if this is glitch netease made this game or at least published it they go out their way to support us with rivals so why would fragpunk be any different in less they are this publisher not creator of game

submitted by /u/ben10fan46928
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I wanna install Arch linux but...

15 Aug 2025 - 10:18pm

I'm bad with programming and even dont understand how to setup stuff.

A few games I like and stuff I won't be able to play (Roblox, and League specifically), since they ended support, but to be honest Roblox isn't all that after the allegations, if there was a way to bypass league and play it somehow I would install linux a long time ago..

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Help with installing PunkBuster for Battlefield 4

15 Aug 2025 - 9:11pm

I'm trying to get BF4 running properly using this guide, but when I try to update PunkBuster with protontricks-launch --appid 1238860 ./pbsetup.exe it freezes at checking for updates or downloading pdsecsv.htm.

The console is full of messages like these:

013c:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 013c:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083E5B0, 10002, 000000000192F8A0: stub 013c:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 013c:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 013c:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083FF40, 10002, 000000000192F8A0: stub 013c:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 013c:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"Button" 013c:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 013c:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000082DD00, 10002, 000000000192F8A0: stub 013c:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 013c:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 013c:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083E5B0, 10002, 000000000192F8A0: stub 013c:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769"

I'm using Debian Sid, Proton Experimental in Steam.

submitted by /u/Kikimora-Bolotnaya
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Playing (already installed) GOG games from linux

15 Aug 2025 - 9:06pm

hi there i have a G drive (on another disk) with many gog games installed already on it if i delete windows, is there a way to play these games?

submitted by /u/MCDNYL
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How well does halo MCC work on Linux Mint?

15 Aug 2025 - 8:58pm

Ok so I'm thinking of switching to Linux Mint and honestly if I can just completely biting the bullet and deleting Windows. However, I play a lot of MCC, which I know has kernel anticheat and all that sadly.

That being said, I know people have gotten it to run on Linux, but according to ProtonDB the results are kind of mixed on it working or not. So what's this subreddit's opinion?

At the very least if I could just get it to run with mods(that maybe also allow multiplayer) that'd be alright and I could just play regular multiplayer on xbox maybe(though I know campaign crossplay isn't much of a thing.)

So what i'm really wondering is if downloading easy anticheat is mandatory to install the game or if I can choose not to install it to play with mods?

But if I do need to use the kernel driver or decide to, how well does it work, and how easy is it to run on Linux Mint?

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If you have your DX11 or DX12 games not launching anymore, the reason is probably protontricks via flatpak

15 Aug 2025 - 8:36pm

I had this problem today :

Every game i tried to play on my fully updated Tumbleweed 6.16 - 580.76 system would yell at me for basically not knowing my video card.

  • Everything shows my GPU is working. nvidia-smi, glxinfo, vulkan-info, kernel logs showing that the driver is loading correctly, GPU decoding on streams and media working
  • Everything is showing that the GPU is not the issue
  • But i noticed for a while that flatpak is keeping outdated versions of the nvidia drivers around. I thought no ill of it, but just took note during updates.

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  • World of Warcraft claiming that “Your 3D Accelerator card is not supported by World of Warcraft”. It was solved by adding VKD3D_CONFIG=nodxr
  • Elder Scrolls Online .. while being played for 10 hours the days prior .. was claiming my video card doesn't support the DirectX 10 version required.
  • Overwatch 2 would crash instantly when launched
  • Stalcraft X .. a purely OpenGL game .. would run normally

The problem was that :

  • The flatpak version of Protontricks keeps every previously installed NVidia driver in flatpak hostage and because of that doesn't allow the automated flatpak removal of those old driver interfaces once you install new nvidia drivers
  • Flatpak would naturally uninstall old drivers when your system drivers update, but for some reason Protontricks keeps every single nvidia driver on your system as a dependency.

The core problem :

Apparently flatpak with over 13 versions of the nvidia driver installed, will choose at random which version to use and will stall out your main system driver so much, that steam games launched via GE-Proton ( or any proton version .. i clean tested like 50 ) can't even get a hold of your graphics card anymore, because of random shit happening in flatpak.

I used Chatterino2, Missioncenter and ProtonPlus to replicate this behaviour.

Solution

  • "flatpak list"
  • Manually uninstall all those old nvidia drivers via "flatpak uninstall"
  • Reboot

And then you good to go.

submitted by /u/KsiaN
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