Hey everyone,

Today is a really special day for me: I’ve just launched my first Kickstarter for my game Maseylia: Echoes of the Past, a 3D Metroidvania that many of you here have been supporting and following over the past two years. Your feedback and encouragement have meant a lot along the way. 🙏

👉 Kickstarter – Maseylia: Echoes of the Past

👉 Steam page

Some quick numbers so far:

• 7,500 wishlists on Steam
• 2,000 players tried the demo
• 95% positive feedback

This Kickstarter is a key milestone to help bring the project fully to life and give me the chance to dedicate myself to developing it full time.

👉 How you can help:

• Support the Kickstarter (even $1 makes a big difference for visibility)
• Add the game to your Steam wishlist
• Try the demo and share your feedback to help me keep improving the game

Thank you all so much for your support and attention!

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After I launch Red Dead II from the Steam .deb (Steam Installer version) it shows me this message.

I also tried with custom Protons and stuff like that.

Now it did NOT happen on the Flatpak version, that somehow started to act up today and even after reinstalling several times (and "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade"-ing) it was not able to launch.
So I installed the "Steam Installer" which I think is a .deb package.
Now it shows this error. Any launch options or anything to help?

Sorry if this is a duplicate, however I think this is a little specific

Just deployed CachyOS and had few rough patches.

The first was easily fixable just annoying in that there's no GUI interface for adding drives to fstab or to add a network drive. At least I couldn't find one so I had to command line in all 6 of my drives which was annoying.

Second I have all logitech peripherals and theyre struggling. To start the mouse had about 10x vertical sensitivity compared to horizontal which finally just fixed itself once i installed "Piper" however all the other functionality within piper isnt working for the mouse. LEDs wont change and the macro buttons say theyre one thing in the software but dont actually do that.
Is there a recommended solution for logitech devices; the headset worked out of the box but, I haven't gotten around to the keyboard yet.

Third was actual game issues, I looked up the games I wanted to play on ProtonDB and my main game currently is Space Marine 2, seeing as how it is GOLD and runs on steam deck I figured I'd have no issues.
However even after trying all the recommended proton versions and launch options it still wouldn't launch the only difference I could even find between their set up and mine was they were on a nvidia driver 1 version behind mine so how do i downgrade drivers?
To add to this question, where do you start when a game doesn't work on linux? What are the signs/tells or common issues and solutions what are the obvious checks that say a game has 0 chance or could work?
I did test and run other vulkan games just fine btw.

When i launch cs2, valve screen appears and after like secs or 1 min, the system completely freezes. It either crashes with an error message saying that linux has closed it for unsufficient memory, or whole system just freezes, it doesnt crash and i have to force shutdown with the power button. any ideas how to fix it?

my specs

My steam is from pacman, not from snap or flatpak

Recently started having this problem

All games have a consistent "heartbeat"-like stuttering, while GPU is being under-utilized. GameMode, FPS cap and other performance tricks don't work.

i tested Delta Force, CS2, BeamNG, TF2, HL2 and Splitgate 2 so its not game-specific. I'm lost here, is it hardware or software issue? its also way worse than it looks like in video.

My Specs:

Kernel: 6.16.8-arch3-1 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Mesa: 25.2.3-2

Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i3-10100F CPU @ 3.60GHz

Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7600

output of inxi -Fxz

/proc/interrupts

I bought this thing a couple months ago, and have been struggling with it ever since. According to https://github.com/JacKeTUs/linux-steering-wheels and https://github.com/berarma/new-lg4ff, it should work fine. I've installed the new-lg4ff driver and Oversteer.

It shows up in Oversteer and everything looks proper there, but the pedals' axes are inverted (evtest shows a value of 0 when the pedals are pushed down, and 255 when they're at rest). This means that pretty much every game thinks the throttle is always maxed.

I've tried making a custom mapping in SDL2 Gamepad Mapper, but couldn't figure out where to set "SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG" so that all games (including those run through Proton) would see it. Even if this did work, it's less than ideal as I'd be losing a fair bit of inputs/functionality from the wheel that don't exist on a gamepad... I even looked into the module's sysfs entries but couldn't find anything useful.

Any help with this would be hugely appreciated. As it stands, I'm limited to the small handful of games that let you invert the axis of the pedals in the game settings, and it's a pretty weak selection. :\

Hello, how do I install Hydra on my Linux? I tried to install it via the website and I don't know how to use Snap files or AppImage, much less via the terminal. Someone help me please.

Hello, I am trying to upgrade from my too old Logitech G305. I loved this mouse, especially when I started using it with an AAA Battery (I put an aluminum foil piece in it). It weights around 80g and has the perfect shape for me. So basically I am looking for a mouse just like G305 with some extra buttons.

The mouse should:
- symmetric shape
- lightweight (70g-90g)
- wireless
- gaming performance (atleast 1000hz polling rate, playing FPS)
- atleast 4 programmable extra buttons
BIG BONUS: I would love it if it would have a tilt wheel or a thumb wheel. But only as a bonus.

My research:
- CHERRY XTRFY M50: Tried it, very poor build, scroll wheel not really responsive
- Razer DeathAdder V2 X: wanted to order it, but I saw it also uses batteries. I found it annyoing with my G305 so I would prefer without battery use.
-CORSAIR NIGHTSABRE WIRELESS: Should I try it? It is a bit expensive but I would buy it if there are no better options
- Aerox 5 Wireless. Looked good to me and I ordered it. But it does look a bit bulkier on https://www.eloshapes.com/ so I am unsure whether I will like it.

I would love to hear from you guys :)

was fine last night idk what happened now

this problem is only there on asia server for some reason and america server seems to run without any issue

has anyone figured out anything yet? don't say anime game launcher as ill have to download the whole 100gbs over again which i could do but i really dont want to as i have a 30mbps internet connection and it takes a whole day ususally

im on heroic game launcher with GE-proton_latest

The one I have works, but the distance from my pc and the router in a shared home is not. My phone, and laptop have full/nearly full coverage from the router even when next to my PC. My PC averages from from 1 bar to 2 bars connection. Its still pretty decent speed when gaming and some streaming. but I want to switch to a card that has a wider range like my laptop and phone. For reference i'm on the second story. My router is on the first floor near the front door.

I wanted to change the Lod Bias to get lower textures in games, but haven't been able to find anything of this sort for linux.

I'm currently trying out ArmA Reforger on a Linux setup and ran into the problem of almost no hold-keybinds working - as long as a white outline around a key means I should hold it. Inspect weapon, deploy bipod, lean out of a tank hatch - none work except starting an engine, oddly enough.

As it seems, I run it through Proton and haven't made any alterations to it yet.

Has anyone else run into this issue and solved it?

Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.12
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.13
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-84-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 5700
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7B79
System Version: 3.0

Hello Can anyone tell me which Linux operating software to have that can play Metro Series (Metro 2033,Metro Last Light and Metro Exodus) whether in Desktop or in Laptop, in minimum low settings

So I've been playing games on Steam for over the past year and holy damn, I'm so impressed. But it's got me thinking. Linux not only has the potential for modern mainstream gaming but also as a way to save games from becoming lost media.

Just recently I discovered that someone made a port for 3D Pinball: Space Cadet (an old Windows game from the Windows 95 days) as a Flatpak so that this game can continue to be played for future generaitons.

Why stop at Steam? I'd think it be cool to see more projects come around to preserve old abandonware games (kinda like the Ruffle project that is meant to preserve Flash games in order for them to not become lost media).

Happy to say I'm glad I'm gaming on Linux and hope to see what more comes out of it.

Hello Linux gaming community, we are happy to announce that our upcoming game, inspired by Limbo, will be released on Windows and Steam Deck on October 29th. Also, if you want to join our playtesting of the demo, the deadline is October 6th. After that, we will select people to test the full game.

Also, if you want to support us, you can add our game to your wishlist here.

Join our playtest here

Background:

Game: Arma Reforger via Proton GE 10-7, recommended by ProtonDB

OS: Linux Mint 22.2 x86_64
Kernel: 6.14.0-33-generic
DE: Cinnamon 6.4.8
CPU: Intel i5-8400 (6) @ 4.000GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
Memory: 3724MiB / 15908MiB

so basically I am hitting the recommended specs and play a bit below minimum settings and FPS Limiter at 30FPS, still the 1% low seem to dip below 10FPS.

Is there a software that logs as much system sensors as possible so I can fry to figure out where it comes from. I run "MissionCenter" on 2nd Monitor, CPU GPU RAM seem loaded, yet not overwhelmed. It's a riddle and I want to come to a conclusion if I can fix it or has to replace entirely, before Black Friday comes :)

I’ve been thinking a lot about where immutable distros like Bazzite could take Linux gaming. One of the biggest blockers for Linux/Proton is still kernel-level anti-cheat (Valorant, Fortnite, etc). These rely on invasive kernel drivers that don’t work on Linux.

But here’s the thing:

• Bazzite is already immutable and image-based (Fedora Atomic under the hood).
• This means the OS root can be cryptographically signed and verified.
• In theory, that opens the door to a new approach: system attestation.

👉 Instead of anti-cheats needing to install kernel modules, they could just verify:

• “Yes, this machine is running a clean, official Bazzite image.”
• Attestation could be done with signed OS images + TPM/Secure Boot.
• Apps (like games) could even query a simple API to confirm the OS state.

• Unlocks anti-cheat: No kernel drivers needed if the OS itself can prove integrity.
• Better debugging: Every Bazzite image has a known hash → devs and users can reproduce bugs exactly.
• Competitive edge: This is something Windows doesn’t really do yet — it could make Linux more attractive as a trusted gaming platform.

I think Bazzite is in a unique position to pioneer this. SteamOS has similar foundations, but Valve hasn’t gone all the way with attestation. If Bazzite leads here, it could change the conversation about Linux + competitive gaming.

Curious: would you support this direction? Do you think anti-cheat vendors would?