In general, this is a hardcore immersive playthrough where, by your own choice, you play any game while roleplaying and simulating realistic character movements—only traveling on foot, using realistic vehicle controls, incorporating sleep, food, etc. Missions are completed as realistically as possible with the entire interface and music turned off.

It’s hard to name specific examples since most games can be played this way, but my favorites where it works best are RDR, Mafia, TLOU, GTA, KCD, Cyberpunk, and Witcher. This isn’t a genre-specific term since almost any game can be played like this.

Some possible names: “Hardcore Realism Run” “Immersive Playthrough” “Roleplay Run”

As the title says, I used to play it and windows and i've gotten pretty far, and i don't really wanna repeat it on linux, the problem is that i know the save file is in the MGR folder within the documents folder, yet it does not exist at all in the proton prefix, but somehow the game is reading the file for the new game i started, where the hell is it pulling it from??

I've tried lutris and heroic using the latest proton-ge and UMU. I extract my copy of the game to a folder and point them to the .exe. I also installed directx and visualc++ in them. I've read online it might require PhysX. I downloaded the installer for PhysX but don't know how to install it in the Mass Effect prefix. Does anyone know how to do that with any of the wine frontends like those I mentioned?

Anyone got Mass Effect LE working on linux?

Seems to not work on stable, and only on Discord-Canary. Can anyone confirm this? it's odd, and its happening to me,

I realize that family share does not work when logging in on different ubisoft accounts, but whenever I launch the game, ubisoft pops up without any option to log out. Tried to use adding UbisoftConnect.exe as a non steam game, but it didn't work, any possible ideas, or any information anyone needs if they want to help.

While playing The Burton Equation from the Ubuntu Store Steam (was a bit lazy, ok) almost all games worked fine, then I installed the Burton Equation using Proton Hotfix, the game runs fine for most of the time, yet the CC looks like the picture attached, What could be the problem? I'm using an Intel i7-7700HQ, 16 GB of RAM and Mesa 24.2.8-1ubuntu1~24.04.1. I already checked the fonts and confirmed all the fonts listed by the .res file of the game are in the prefix folders. And when I get a log the only mention of fonts is the err:font:alloc_font_handle out of realized font handles.

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So I am trying to run sh2 remake but it would crash immediately after displaying the start banner.

I believe it's a Nvidia driver issue because, when I have installed the game on another system which uses and intel integrated GPU it launched without crashing..

I also tried various Proton versions (exp.; 9; 8 and 7) and various lunch options listed on protondb (including switching to dx11) but it didn't work.

The error reported in the proton log:

X error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

I never run in this error before. All other games run perfectly.

I am running kubuntu 24.04.2 lts with the kernel 6.8.0-55-generic (with xorg)

With an Nvidia 4070 and the driver 550.120

Ram is 32 GB

Note: the system with the intel GPU runs a munch older version of kubuntu (23.04 lts iirc and also users xorg) and has 32 GB of ram.

I have long noticed that many people need an answer to this question. Almost every day a new post is created where this question is asked once again. Then I will also ask: why? Why do you ask other people about this if you cannot decide for yourself? Are you looking for support? Or maybe you just need to be convinced to switch to Linux? If so, what's the point? In a couple of weeks you'll install Windows again and forget about Linux until the next "attack". If you can't decide whether you need Linux on your computer or not, how can the community know about it? An operating system is something you will have to deal with every day. It doesn't matter if you play or work. Approaching your own comfort, while working on a computer, by asking someone else's opinion is at the very least disrespect for yourself. If you are so interested in Linux, then install it and see for yourself. No need to ask.

Games which Linux could need for more switchers or in a huge amount.

Hey guys, Battlefield 4 is for sale on steam for R$ 9,95 today, and I’m considering buying it. Though I heard that some of these EA games haven't been working on multiplayer mode on Linux for a while now because of low-level anti-cheat. Does anyone know if BF4 still runs fine in multiplayer on Arch Linux in 2025?

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Hello, I've installed game with lutris with "Install a Windows game from .exe" it hasn't apeared in lutris, so then I used "Add locally installed game" and now it runs with wine, but without sound. i've tried to change between ALSA/Pulse but nothing works.

System:

Kernel: 6.8.0-55-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 with: polybar vt: 7 dm:

1: GDM3 v: 46.2 2: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Audio:

Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8

Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_pci_acp6x v: kernel

Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:

API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-55-generic status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active

2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

Actually, I haven't really dived into linux, so i will be happy with detailed answer

Thinking about migrating from nvidia open driver to nvk, mainly because I want to fully use wayland and games with xwayland + nvidia flickers like hell. Does nvk present these issues? What is the performance loss currently for using nvk driver?

I really want to abort from Windows but i realize that i'll be missing out on some games like Valorant, thus i'm tempted on buying a 2nd SSD and just dual booting my PC so...
Questions:

1. I know this is going to be specific, is there a easily customizeable rolling distro thats highly light weight and easy to use, most of my gaming and regular work will be on this distro so I really want to have the perfect choice if I'm going to be living with this for a while
   1. I'm Okay with something complex as long as it ain't like... arch linux lol
2. I have a seperate 1TB drive that i can format, will this drive be accessible from both operating systems or only 1
3. Should I just ditch dual booting, bite the bullet, and fully switch to linux, i'm still on Windows 10 and i really don't want to update but i know i'll have to

Apologies if i'm sounding rude or ranty, this is how I speak lol

Edit:
I do have some basic experience using openSUSE since i've used it to run minecraft servers before, so i'm thinking of choosing that.

I realized that my GPU was reporting 0w of power consumption in Mangohud. I tought it was a Mangohud issue, but even in nvtop or nvidia-smi it shows a 0w consumption, so I guess its not a mangohud issue.

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I had a similar issue with my cpu , but it was fixed installing zenpower, is there any fix for that issue with my GPU?

SO: CachyOS

Kernel:6.13.7-3-cachyos (64-bit)

KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3

GPU: Nvidia RTX 4060

Drivers: nvidia-open

im on endeavourOS kde wayland session using an rtx 4070, if it matters. im on steam runtime, cs2 native wont launch at all, forcing proton does but vac wont let me play on servers unfortunately. i dont remember this being a problem before, i've played this many moons ago without issue. when i attempt to launch, the terminal says this

tried looking online for fixes and didnt see anybody post anything helpful to my case, maybe someone can make sense of this?

As title states, having issues loading this game. I've tried Steam. I got it to install, but EA doesn't launch when I play the tittle. I added the EA app as a Non-Steam game and that downloaded and installed just fine but still would not load the game

Lutris.
Nothing either with this. I've read posts after posts and I can't seem to figure it out. I can run the EA app and it can see my games downloaded, but can't edit/play. I can see the game on the Steam "Runners" but I don't understand "installing" The game since it just seems to create a shortcut for steam to open the game.

I am very new to linux, I only started this month.

Kernel 6.12, Driver 570.86. I believe this will represent the level of visuals and workload that GTA 6 will demand.