Hi guys, I'm getting a black screen while running Diablo 4. It was working fine before, but I think an update broke it. I'm running Fedora Linux 41 with Nvidia driver 550.127.05. I ran it using Proton Experimental, but I've tried others with no luck. The game runs, but the screen is black and all you can see is the pointer. Does anyone know a fix?

Specs

• Alienware X14 R2
• 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-13420H × 12
• Nvidia RTX 3050 6GB
• 500GB NVME SSD
• Fedora Linux 41

I've noticed that some AAA games apparently have native support for Mac, which raises an eyebrow for me and makes me seriously wonder if there's actually a considerable player base on that platform. Because, as far as I know (and here I might come off as ignorant), it's not a platform designed for gaming, especially with the hardware it comes equipped with. All these news stories about games losing support on Linux have saddened me a lot and make me wonder why developers release native versions for Mac and not for Linux. Is there a specific reason? I mean, thanks to Valve and the Steam Deck, the Linux gaming user base has grown. So why are we still not being taken into account?

Hi! I play a game called free fire. I have tried various things but couldn't play it on Linux. I once got it running on waydroid but it has no keymapping. I need keymapping to play. Please provide me with a suitable emulator. Any help is highly appreciated.

Hi everyone. I wanted to vent for a moment and draw some conclusions based on the current state of gaming on Linux, in particular the competitive multiplayer factor.

starting from the assumption that I play a lot of time on the PC, I am a manjaro user who has tried many distros and modified various aspects of the operating system.

I believe that all Linux players choose this platform because it is actually more fun to use, there is a greater connection between user and machine and it actually makes the PC more "unique", as well as, of course, all the advantage factors as they can be greater security, customization and respect for privacy.

Now, I'll be clear and concise: Doesn't it just piss you off how all of us are treated by corporations? I mean: Linux has all the potential to become a gaming system equal to or superior to Windows. literally, we are the "different" ones who play here for reasons that are evidently insufficient in the eyes of the companies.

I had about 600 hours on Apex, I've been playing since season 5, I think. and yet, does the way they treated us seem normal to you? are they lazy and therefore cut about 4% of the players due to an anti-chat problem, which in my opinion is unjustified? It's not Linux's fault, and it's not ours either. we are simply helpless.

from the point of view of single players, Linux is easily similar to Windows, in the sense that the support is practically equal to it: Linux is perfect for all those games without antiquity and the performance is, except in rare cases, excellent. yet, the only company willing to move away from windows and deepen support for us is valve.

not to underestimate their commitment, but do you really think we will be able to have compatibility for multiplayer games equal to at least 85% of windows?

do you really think that within a certain number of years we, understood as a community, will be considered a little more by companies?

forgive the outburst. I needed it.

Comment with what you think about this situation...

I've noticed that even if the option under Steam settingsis disabled you can still see it enabled per game if you go into the game properties.

I've noticed some slowdowns after playing a game for a few minutes(roughly 20-30) this might be the culprit.

This is via the Beta Update Steam via flatpak.

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I've installed Apex, tried to login and it says that steam overlay is turned off. Checked steam settings and properties of apex and it's turned on. Steam overlay even works in other games, tried that already. The weirdest part is that i can sometimes see it open the overlay when it launches the EAC and i can controll it for like half a second when it's there. Does someone know how to fix it?

Hey so I'm new to Linux gaming, I used to have windows partition just for playing games, and now am thinking of removing it. is there any good first person shooting game like Apex Legends or Valorant for Linux that runs natively without any emulator things.

Hi, recently i switched to Linux (Ubuntu is the specific OS) and i already found a way to play on Roblox, but i dont seem to be able to run Roblox studio. Wine doesnt work well anymore as i found out, so now im lost.

Hi everyone, need a little assistance. I own both games in the title from gog. What game launcher and wine/proton versions do you have running these games successfully? I can't get passed the menu of the actual game launcher of oblivion or Skyrim, it just shuts down after clicking play. I've attempted lutris, steam and heroic games launcher and different version of wine or proton (apparently not the right one yet). Using pop OS

Howdy. So, like many, many other people I very recently decided to switch to Linux (I have minimal experience) because Windows 10 support is ending relatively soon and because Windows11 is slowly turning into hot spyware garbage. I'm no Linux expert, but I am willing to learn. So first thing I tried was of course how well it would be able to run any 3D Game. On windows I could run most games pretty well, even if not necessarily on Ultra Settings. But here I am, trying to launch a game with polygonal Graphics that I could previously run at 500+FPS and now get 1FPS (even less) in the Start Menu.

I have Linux Mint Cinnamon 22 (ver6.2.9) with the 6.8.0-48-generic Linux Kernel version.

My hardware is an i5-9400f for the CPU and a NVidia GeForce 1660Ti (6GB) as GPU and I have 16GB of RAM. (Display Server is X11)

I have the most recent NVidia Drivers, and I installed all my games on a second HDD Hard Drive (mounted on /mnt/Data) with 2TB. so I really have no idea what the problem might be.

Edit: I really have a suspicion it might be a Vulkan problem but I don't think my GPU is THAT old

So, on the case it's not already been posted a million times already, for those looking for something similar to Apex then there's The Finals. It's EAC but unlike Apex is supported on Proton.

In the few hours I've played so far it's a blast and like Apex it's free to play with cosmetics etc...

Worth a play if you've not already given it a go, maybe I'll come across some of you in game.

Honestly i have no idea where to ask this so i'm asking here since you guys have more knowledge about how Mac/Windows/Linux kernels work than most others gaming communities.

Kernel anti cheats are relatively new for mainstream gaming, there is probably issues about them that we are not aware yet.

But i'm too ignorant about how kernels work for me to know if one of the potential issues can be real.

The issue:

If more proprietary kernel anti cheats start to be create for others game companies, can there be a situation where two prioprietary kernal anti cheat have compatibility issues with each other ?

Cause if that the case, it's will mean you will not be able to install theses games that use the incompatible anti cheat at the same time since their kernel anti cheat to run all the time.

I don't know shit about kernel nor how theses anti cheats manipulate it so i have no idea if this is a real issue or a non issue so i'm asking since it's popped in my mind.

Ofc i'm asking about windows since linux/mac os don't rly have them.

Hi, I am trying to run some games on Fedora 40.

Whenever i play games (using Lutris for FIFA 20, FIFA 23, GTA V) and it opens fullscreen, the screen becomes blank like here.

The app is still running and when I press Super to see all the applications running, suddenly it looks okay.

My hardware is Framework laptop with AMD 7040 series cpu, 32 gb of RAM and 2 tb ssd. I tried reinstalling the games and Lutris, but it seems like a system issue.

Does anybody know, how to fix this? Thanks

I recently switched to linux mint 22. To play helldivers I did the following from a fresh mint 22 install

1. switched from open source drivers (nouveau) to proprietary NVIDIA drivers (currently using driver - 550)
2. Downloaded steam from software manager (warning about 32 bit drivers that i couldn't exit out of, closed terminal and steam worked. . . idk. . .)
3. Went into helldivers properties > compatibility and forced compatibility tool, and set it to Proton 9.0-3
4. Downloaded helldivers 2 and when I launched it said it was preloading "vulcan shaders" which idk what that is, but i let it do its thing (for like an hour) cause I figured it was important.

Once the game launches, the intro sequence plays, and before that last animation can finish, it crashes and exits.
In windows, the game worked fine, my laptop's specs aren't the best, but it can run the game at medium settings just fine. When I launch it now, the intro sequence is quite laggy, must be around 10-15FPS.

Perhaps its that the default graphics settings are too high? But on windows I've had it on maximum while playing, and though I had like 5FPS, it never crashed.
Perhaps it's an issue of compatibility, I'm not too savvy with computers, so any help is appreciated.

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LT and RT of my controller has pressure level function (Axis 5-6) but it just works as boolean (either +32767 or -32767) in Linux (Arch-KDE-Wayland). Why???????

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Hey all, got an odd one, I have a two monitor set up, with one 2k Ultrawide as my offhand, and a more traditional 4k panel as my main monitor, for some reason, I have noticed that there's a weird stuttering whenever I play games in windowed modes, as though I'm getting 15fps while all the performance tracking tells me its a solid 60 (refresh rate of the 4k monitor).

This goes away whenever I set the game to exclusive fullscreen, but there are some games (World of Warcraft and the current Monster Hunter Wilds beta for example) that simply do not offer fullscreen on account of DX12 IIRC.

Does anyone know what's going on or can be tweaked to fix this odd performance? I was hoping to give MHWilds a go during the beta.

EDIT: Oh I am annoyed at myself, tried a couple settings and discovered it's V-sync producing this weird behaviour. Going to leave this post up in case it helps someone else with a similar issue.

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