So I've tried playing Need for Speed: High Stakes, Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (failed both), then tried to play game called Airfix Dogfighter. Wasn't able to. Despite installing multiple versions and wine and all that.
Now, I work in it, average linux user (I can close vim), but am I doing something wrong? Or my attention span is too small, I don't know. Anyone shares similar exp?

When i use x2 multiplier fps locks at 30 X3 multipler = 15 fps and so on ... Is like backwards frame gen 🥲

I am running arch I finally achieved single gpu passthrough and got my eye candy customized with hyperland

Please if someone has encountered the same issue on a similar set up please give me sone clarity

The game i am trying to run with lsfgy is World of Warcraft retail using the battlenet launcher from steam

Its a freah install with only a few apps

Timeshift vm-manager (single gpu pass) Brave browser Firefox Discover store (from here only proton tricks)

Good morning everyone, I'm here again. I've installed Linux Mint for ease of use, I've installed my game using every possible version of Proton, including Proton GE, but nothing has worked. If the game is opened then it stays static and my entire laptop freezes without being able to do anything, if for some reason I manage to get it to load up to the menu, it doesn't work, it won't let me start the game, and for some reason, no matter what I do, it doesn't start in full screen.

I don't know if the same thing has happened to anyone, I'll still continue testing Linux Mint all this week since it seems very nice and fast, although I'm discouraged by the fact that RDR2 doesn't work and makes me want to consider going back to Windows despite all its flaws.

I don't know if it helps but I have Wine and Lutris installed, maybe something needs to be configured there, but I haven't found help anywhere. I hope you can help me, thank you very much for reading all this and I hope you have a great day.

So what happened to duck station, the ps1 emulator? I remember it being on the software manager, and now it's not? did they remove it from the repositories? if so, why?

Attempting to run this game on a CachyOS install with Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti and AMD Ryzen 7 5700x

Tinkering steps I have tried so far:

• Checking ProtonDB
• Trying different Proton versions (cachyos-proton, Experimental, GE)
• Installing and re-installing via Lutris, then adding as Non-Steam game
• Verifying file integrity via the launcher
• Setting FPS cap to 60
• Running at minimum settings
• Switching from Vulkan to DirectX12 and back
• Just running the game for a few hours to see if the issue resolves itself eventually (it doesn't)

The issue persists in all of these scenarios. The game runs OOTB on my Bazzite install, so I'm not sure what I'm running into here. Anyone smarter than me wanna take a gander?

I haven't touched any of my games on Lutris for a month or two, and after trying to play them, they all started having different issues. Either, they dont open, or they only display black. I've tried reinstalling these games on Lutris but that hasn't helped with anything. The only things I can think of why this would happen would be either windows defender complaining about the contents when I opened windows once, or a faulty nvidia driver update. I've been banging my head against a wall trying to fix this for a while but can't find a solution, I'd greatly appreciate it if someone found an answer to this.

Specs:

OS: CachyOS

Kernel: Linux 6.17.5-2-cachyos

CPU: Ryzen 7 9800x3D

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 4090

DE: KDE Plamsa 6.5.0

WM: KWin (Wayland)

Logs for the game that doesn't display anything:

Started initial process 7539 from /home/manuel/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-26-x86_64/bin/wine start /unix /mnt/Games/Games/Visual Novels/Dont worry bout it

Start monitoring process.

wineserver: using server-side synchronization.

wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely

[2025-10-27 20:21:12.773] [MANGOHUD] [info] [blacklist.cpp:75] process 'explorer.exe' is blacklisted in MangoHud

[2025-10-27 20:21:12.946] [MANGOHUD] [info] [blacklist.cpp:75] process 'tabtip.exe' is blacklisted in MangoHud

Initial process has exited (return code: 0)

err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

Monitored process exited.

Exit with return code 0

I’m using Manjaro, and the DuckStation package has disappeared from the distro's store (and from the Flathub page). The latest build doesn’t include a Flatpak package either.

Are the developers no longer supporting it? Is there any news about this?

Hey all! I have a desktop computer running the latest version of Bazzite and it's my daily driver for gaming.

When I'm playing a game, I noticed whenever there's a loading screen, my pc seems to work itself pretty hard until it loads the assets; In which case everything settles down and things are quiet again.

I have a 9800X3D CPU, an RX 7900 XTX 24GB GPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2560x1440 Adaptive Sync Monitor 180hz.

Might someone know what could be the issue? Thanks!

I wanna make the full jump to Linux. The only thing keeping me is that I do a bunch of engineering dev on the same PC. What is a good distro that works well for gaming and lets me install everything I typically would on something like Ubuntu or Red Hat?

All games having lagging problem or delay with the keyboard

Hi, im new in linux and im struggling for some weeks now, because the majority of the games on my steam are having lag problems AND delay with the keyboard (example, im click the up arrow key and the character on the game still going, even if i let the arrow go the character still going) I honestly dont know what to do anymore

Settings:

OS: Zorin OS 17.3 x86_64

Kernel: 6.8.0-86-generic

Shell: bash 5.1.16

DE: GNOME 43.9

Terminal: gnome-terminal

CPU: Intel i5-4460 (4) @3.400GHz

GPU: AMD ATI 01:00.0 Device 6617

Memory: 1985MiB / 15931MiB

I have a really bad laptop which I got from school, but I don’t have anything else to game. I heard multiplayer games don’t usually work because of the anti cheat but there has to be a way around it right? Is it worth switching to Linux? And can I still play Minecraft?

When launching one game on linux (I'm on arch btw) by adding it to my steam library as a non-steam game and using proton, it launches but I'm greeted w/ the popup shown in the image. I click the ok button, then when it gets to the main menu it won't respond to any input, the cursor even doesn't show. How do I fix this issue?

It happens in every game. In power wash simulator that sound doesn't start at all for the first minute or so.

Help would be appreciated.

I installed this game two weeks ago, I played it a lot, today trying to open it it gives me this error. I don't understand I haven't changed anything. Any ideas?

On mint, played through the first boss just fine with controller. It then told me I had a cloud error, so I had to switch to running through proton, and now no matter what I do it won't see my controller. Steam sees it, but Hollow knight doesn't. Any ideas?

update turned steam input off per game and now it works? Still don't know why it worked for the first bit though

Anyone else having the same issue?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431300/Sand/

Im thinking of moving from Windows to Linux and my big concern is with gaming, specially VR.

I would like to know your opinion on what's working/stable? distro to use? work arounds?...
I use Oculus quest 2 btw.

Steam Link?
Virtual desktop?
is it worth it?

Please help, Thank you.

Literally as the title says, I'm on latest Nvidia drivers and Ive tried proton-ge and proton experimental but nothing works. Thanks for any help and I'm sorry for mobile formatting <3

I use arch btw

Hi everyone.

I am thinking about buying the 8bitdo ultimate 2c and I like the color options for the switch version better. Do you know if choosing that version would impact my compatibility with my linux pc?

I am running fedora 42 (kde plasma) and had some problems with my old xbox controller and xone (which stopped working and then made my system go into kernel panic when I uninstalled and reinstalled xone), so I am searching for the most plug&play variant possible.

I would be happy if you could share your experience or have recommendations for other controllers.