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Portal 2, 1080p High, 60FPS. Avoid "Shader Detail: Very High" for better results

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GTA IV, 720p Medium, 50FPS. This game isn't fully optimized for PC, but it still runs fine for a AAA open-world game.

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Left 4 Dead 2, 1080 High, 50-60FPS. It somehow feels more smooth than other games.

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Dead Space 2, 1080p High, 45-60FPS. 45 FPS over long distances, but still playable and smooth.

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Dota 2, 1080p Low, 60-80FPS. It's a competitive game, so responsibility is crucial. But I had some stuter in this game.

The games run perfectly. The only issue is the stuttering. The temperature also reached a maximum of 24 degrees Celsius. That's great for a used laptop.

I've also tested and finished a few AAA games, like Batman Arkham City and Rise of the Tomb Raider, and they're playable on low settings as well.

OS: CachyOS.

DE: KDE Plasma

Wine v.: Proton-cachyos

Hi. Recently I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon fully onto my HP omen laptop. It’s been running fantastic and all of my games are working fine.

There has been one issue. Me and my friend want to play Call of Duty: Black ops 3. I mention this because, if you know about Black Ops 3 on PC in 2025 you know it’s extremely unsafe to play online without a patch.

I can’t figure out how to install these patches (T7 or BOIII) on Linux. And even if I do, I don’t think i’ll be able to play with my friend on windows who doesn’t own the game in the same way (I’m on steam, he’s not).

I was looking into installing windows again to dual boot, but it doesn’t seem as straight forward. Any advice?

I’m pretty new to all of this, so any help is appreciated.

Switched before to a Proton vesion that uses async & it reduced the stutters a lot.

But following a suggestion on ProtonDB & moving the game files to my old HDD removed all stutters. Anyone knows why this is the case & if this can be replicated with a SSD using some specific launch command?

I've been using Ubuntu to game for a while with no issues now. Recently wanted to get back into spore, I have a legit install on steam so it runs through proton but I wanted to know how possible/difficult it would be to mod. Will I just be better off with the windows dual boot.

I did mount use acetone the image. Then using lutris with wine ge 8 26 x86-64 I tried to install and then I received message on screen Severe "This game must be installed off the CD". Sad thing is I just was able to run the IIIrd game and on installing 4th NFS it killed the 3rd and doesn't work itself. Clumsy english well pardon my obscure syntax.

Really pleased with how well this game runs, and is clearly better than the numbers I was seeing on Windows.

I recorded 794 Avg, and 332 P1 when I wasn't screen capturing (I'm using OBS with CPU based recording and it was using around 8-9%, so it lowered on them on this run, although not enough to matter)

On windows, I usually got around 700 with 285 P1 with a lot of recorded stuttering (from CapFrameX)

Do these differences matter? Probably not, but on Windows the game still felt inconsistent in some rare cases, Here I've not seen a similar case yet.

9800X3D
9070 XT
DDR5 6000mt/s
Bazzite-dx

I would like to start gaming with gyro and consider buying the Dualsense Edge controller. Does everything work under Linux/Proton?

im using Debian 13 with kde plasma and want to change my debounce time specifically on the attack shark x11 with this mouse on its lowest debounce time i get ~14cps on windows ~8cps on linux how can i change that cause i really like linux but if i cant get high cps that kind of ruins it for me!

I have a problem with Steam; when Proton updates, it sometimes causes kernel panic and corrupts any recently downloaded data. I don't know what to do

It might be because I have Proton installed on a separate SSD rather than the one my OS is on, and I'm moving it right now. If you have any other suggestions for fixing it, I would appreciate them.

OS: KDE neon User Edition x86_64
Kernel: 6.14.0-35-generic

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (16) @ 4.665GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

RAM: 32GB

Hey guys,

I am trying to play modded new vegas on my laptop that's running Linux mint. I've tried to get it to work through limo but nothing I've done seemed to work. It says the mods are enabled and installed but when I launch it they don't run. I'm running it through steam but I also have a GOG copy.

Could anyone who uses Limo please provide me a step by step way to install and get fallout NV mods working?

Thank you for your time

I still have my program files steamsapps folder with all my games but steam doesn't even recognize the hard drive it's on despite me mounting to it.

Quiting the game does the same thing

Hey everyone,

I’ve been running The Last of Us Part II Remastered on my system (vanilla Arch Linux, KDE Plasma, AMD 7900GRE, latest Mesa and Vulkan drivers).

The issue I’m seeing is that the game doesn’t seem to compile or load shaders properly — the Textures becoming blurry or smeared during fast mouse movements. It feels like the shaders aren’t being cached or precompiled correctly.

I’ve tried verifying the game files and double-checking my driver versions,switching between Proton versions -cachyos-proton, Proton-GE Proton-EM , but the problem persists.

Has anyone else experienced this issue on Linux with AMD cards? Any tips or tweaks (Proton settings, shader cache clearing, launch options, etc.) that might help?

Thanks in advance!

So I have the game on both my Windows and Fedora KDE drives and I can see FSR4 working on Windows with Adrenaline upgrading it as it's a FSR3.1 game.

I've tried using Proton GE with the PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 command but that doesn't work for this game. It's pretty easy to tell FSR3.1 vs 4 especially when you use something like Performance mode.

I have also tried using Optiscaler which I do for other games as I like to use the extra options XeSS provides but using that causes the game to crash.

Has anyone found a solution to this yet?

Thanks!