I'm on Fedora 42 KDE, nvidia gpu. I tried to install steam, but it gives me the following errors:

michal@fedora:~$ steam steam.sh[3845]: Running Steam on fedora 42 64-bit steam.sh[3845]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically setup.sh[3920]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date! steam.sh[3845]: Log already open steam.sh[3845]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied [2025-05-12 21:00:38] Startup - updater built Sep 17 2024 20:02:19 [2025-05-12 21:00:38] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/michal/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt". 05/12 21:00:38 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 05/12 21:00:38 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(3960) crash_20250512210038_2.dmp[3963]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/crash_20250512210038_2.dmp /home/michal/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 906: 3960 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

I have no idea what to do. I tried reinstalling several times, deleting all steam data and doing system updates.

Edit: __GL_CONSTANT_FRAME_RATE_HINT=3 steam fixed this issue.

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Building a new pc and I'm curious about trying out Linux but I play online games with friends mainly R6. should I try dual booting Linux and windows If I do I have a 2tb ssd and a spare 135gb ssd Could I put windows on the 135 and Linux on the 2tb and if I do would I be able to download windows games on my 2tb or will I need to keep them separate 1 ssd for Linux and its programs 1 for windows and its programs?

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So I've been using popOS for almost an year now. Used to play a lot of WoW on it on my previous computer (full AMD build). I eventually had to sell it for personal reasons and was left playing with a gaming laptop (AMD CPU, Nvidia GPU). I am only sharing this because honestly, I played for almost a year non-stop on my previous computer, but now have faced a very recurring problem on the laptop. Here it goes:

- I had battlenet installed through Lutris; at some point, I started getting network errors stating that Battlenet wasn't able to update itself. The tips on the page suggested reinstalling or checking the network connection. After a reinstallation, I was never able to get to battlenet; it just gets that same error when installing the launcher, and states the installation cannot be finished because of that same "network problem".

- I used heroic. Successful for a while; after a day or two, I started getting the same problems: cannot reach the servers and/or update. Reinstallation did not solve.

- Then Steam. Wonderful stuff after each installation. I can ALWAYS play the game for as much as I want when I add the installation .exe as a non-steam game, install the launcher and download WoW; but after that, if I turn off or reboot my PC, I can no longer do it; pressing "Play" on Steam just gives no results, and I've tried using different Proton versions (Experimental, Hotfix, 10.X, 9.x.x, etc).

At this point, I am stuck only being able to play WoW every time I reinstall it. Which, at least for retail, is absolutely impossible to manage because it's a 100gb download.

I appreciate all the help you can provide! Also, is there is some other community or forum I could reach out to for help, please let me know. I am somewhat new to Linux for gaming and was having a pretty great experience, until recently (let's say things started to not work around a month ago, give or take).

Cheers!

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First GTA 5 disappears from my launcher despite being bought and paid for via Epic Games and now this b.s. What is the point anymore?

This is a single player game and they're threatening me with a ban.

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I have recently installed EU4 on Linux Mint via Steam, after playing this weekend for a few hours, i tried to open again today but the game keeps crashing.

I am not using Proton version or any kind of compatibility tool, since its supported natively (as far as I know).

I tried to run via terminal, trying to bypass the launcher but it still failed and it gave me the below message

[S_API] SteamAPI_Init(): Loaded '/home/axe/.steam/debian-installation/linux64/steamclient.so' OK. [S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; no appID found. Either launch the game from Steam, or put the file steam_appid.txt containing the correct appID in your game folder. [S_API FAIL] Tried to access Steam interface SteamUser021 before SteamAPI_Init succeeded. [S_API FAIL] Tried to access Steam interface SteamUtils010 before SteamAPI_Init succeeded. [S_API] SteamAPI_Init(): Loaded '/home/axe/.steam/debian-installation/linux64/steamclient.so' OK. [S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; no appID found. Either launch the game from Steam, or put the file steam_appid.txt containing the correct appID in your game folder. [S_API FAIL] Tried to access Steam interface SteamUtils010 before SteamAPI_Init succeeded. [S_API FAIL] Tried to access Steam interface SteamNetworking006 before SteamAPI_Init succeeded.

Can anyone please help me in order to try and resolve it?

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Has someone else issues with Clair Obscur after the update couple days ago? It just crashes after the logos at the beginning. I had the same issue yesterday, but after switching to Proton 10 Beta it worked.. Today no luck so far. Has anyone an idea what it could be? How would I start to troubleshoot? I'm new to Linux, so excuse my nooblike knowledge :/

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Hi! I'm wondering if anyone by chance has gotten their Elgato HD60s to work on linux mint? I use it to record console games. So I connect it to my console of choice and to my computer to recieve and record the footage. Would this be possible?

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Hey all, with all the new GTA 6 news, my friends and I have been wanting to play GTA Online again. But everytime I load into Online, Battleye kicks me from the lobby. I’ve tried changing the Proton version, I’ve tried using the Proton Battleye compatibility tool on Steam, but it’s just not working. from what I’ve gathered from other threads, there’s nothing we can really do. I’m just curious if anyone’s figured it out and if so, how?

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I'm trying to get Dead by Daylight to work. I'm using nvidia-driver-550 and GE-Proton9-27 as well as the -d11 launch option, but nothing I've tried has worked. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Hello,

I would like to ask what would be the best video card for this setup. 4k resolution @ 160hz.
It wont be use for gaming, but purely for work mostly text. I've tried Nvidia 4050 in Linux mint but it wont work, and it blinks and show blank screen, then blinks again.

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I had just freshly installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS onto my laptop with an NVIDIA 3060 graphics card and an Intel i5-12450H processor and I wanted to change the refresh rate on my monitor, it supports up 180 Hz and it works fine with Windows 10. Whenever I try to set the refresh rate higher than 120 Hz, the monitor turns completely black. I don't have a lot of knowledge about Linux and I don't know which information could help but here's the output of `inxi -SMCGx`:

System:

Host: GAMING-BALLZ-69000 Kernel: 6.11.0-25-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64

compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0

Desktop: GNOME v: 46.0 Distro: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Machine:

Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82SA v: IdeaPad Gaming 3 16IAH7

serial: <superuser required>

Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: No DPK serial: <superuser required>

UEFI: LENOVO v: JMCN48WW(V3.11) date: 09/06/2024

CPU:

Info: 8-core (4-mt/4-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12450H bits: 64

type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake rev: 3 cache: L1: 704 KiB L2: 7 MiB

L3: 12 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 520 high: 790 min/max: 400/4400:3300 cores: 1: 704

2: 400 3: 781 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 775 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400

12: 790 bogomips: 59904

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Graphics:

Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Lenovo driver: i915

v: kernel arch: Gen-12.2 bus-ID: 00:02.0

Device-2: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Lenovo

driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07 arch: Ampere bus-ID: 01:00.0

Device-3: Bison Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB bus-ID: 3-7:5

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:

loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa dri: iris

gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1: 1920x1080

2: 2560x1600~165Hz

API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,nvidia,swrast platforms:

active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland,device-2

API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa

v: 24.2.8-1ubuntu1~24.04.1 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa

Intel Graphics (ADL GT2)

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I’ve been running most games using Proton Experimental. Seems like frame generation stopped working out of the blue with the latest update to it.

There were some games before such as Spider Man 2 where Frame generation and Ray reconstruction would never be shown but most games like AC Shadows and Cyberpunk all worked with frame generation and Cyberpunk also ray reconstruction. Now the option stopped appearing for these games too.

Anyone else seeing this? I’m trying to figure out which component of proton got updated and caused this but can’t pinpoint it since I’m not a software dev unfortunately but do want to help the devs sort this out. Frame Gen is such an important feature especially on Linux where we already get a 30% drop at baseline in performance.

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Since there is a lot of talk about what to recommend to newbies for gaming purposes, what should tech savvy people go for?

I use Linux CLI distros decent amount at work, but most of that is just file managing and hosting, nothing too complicated.

Mint and alike distros are amazing at what they do, but you kinda drop the latest drivers and tech to be able to use a Linux as a home/normal PC. Which is great, but the cons are obvious in terms of what is missing.

So I guess the better question is, what is the best distro in terms of normal and gaming use, excluding difficulty of operating it?

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Hello,
I want to start developing game on Linux (Arch) with C++ and SDL2. I prefere to use VIM rather then the other IDE enviroments. Is there anything that should I know before I start?

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Okay first I am brand new to Linux literally just installed (Mint Cinnamon) yesterday, so I'm figuring this all out as I go.

I installed Steam, and then successfully installed Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 after a few hours of struggling (it kept having corrupt file issues, but I was able to resolve it). Now I've gone to start the game for the first time and it said it can't sync to the cloud, I selected play anyway. Loaded the game and my saved game isn't there. I restarted Steam and now it is synced but there are still no saved games, or saved files. I checked to make sure Cloud saves are enabled both for this game and globally. They are, but still nothing, and it says I have 0 megabytes saved to the cloud.

Is there anything I can do or is this file lost forever?

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Weird issue I’ve had lately, steam seems to crash/close itself while, game will freeze suddenly, and once it closes, steam is already closed/crashed. I can’t seem to find anyone else online having this issue, just wanted to see if it was known at all!

Games crashing so far: Kingdom come Deliverance II Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Titanfall 2 Silent hill 2

OS: Arch Linux KERNEL: 6.14.4-arch1-2 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (radeonsi, navi31, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.61, 6.14.4-arch1-2) GPU DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 25.0.5-arch1.1 RAM: 32 GB

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I want to build a gaming PC. I also love experimenting with Linux, and a question has arisen. What's more stable, Arch or Ubuntu (or any other Ubuntu or Debian-based distro) with kisak-mesa-fresh and the latest kernel, say through Mainline Kernel?

I like the philosophy of Arch and rolling release. But Ubuntu by default aims for stability and convenience. Kisak-mesa-fresh and mainline kernel make it less standard and bring it closer to rolling release in some aspects. Maybe someone is doing something like this.

I know there are Cachy, Bazzite, Garuda, PikaOS, and so on. I've tried them. I'm purely interested in the stability question between these two specific setups.

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so i installed Bazzite on my Ally, everything works: moonlight, controllers, audio and everything except for the audio jack on the controller itself. it's 8bitdo ultikate 3-way xbox controller thing i dunno long name anyway tru as i might audio jack doesn't work. i tried going into pulse audio and alsamixer and it doesn't appear as an audio interface at all. i tried to install xone but according to bazzite it's already installed.

i dunno what to do, please help

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