So OpenGL software on my computer runs at about 20-22 FPS. I installed Stellarium and thats the FPS I'm getting. But on WIndows I get 50+. I had tried the same with the Linux version of KSP long ago and it ran at about the same 18-20 FPS. But running the Windoes version of KSP with Wine gives performance on par with Windows. I have a hunch it't due to OpenGL. If I remember correctly, I once did try forcing opengl for KSP on WIndows and got the 18-20 FPS as on Linux, but forcing opengl for Stellarium ran the same.

OpenGL vendor string: AMD

OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon R4 Graphics (radeonsi, stoney, ACO, DRM 3.61, 6.14.0-15-generic)

OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.0.3-1ubuntu2

OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50

OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)

OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL core profile extensions:

OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.0.3-1ubuntu2

OpenGL shading language version string: 4.50

OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL extensions:

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.0.3-1ubuntu2

OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

OpenGL ES profile extensions:

Literally what it says in the title. Does Vanguard detect VMs and is it even allowed to play League via one?

TL:DR New to Linux. Want to play starcraft 2. Can't get battle.net to launch. Tried everything on the internet I could find. Help please.

Hey all. I'm new to the whole Linux OS system and have been messing around with it on an old PC and probably spent 3 hours yesterday trying to load battle.net. I have scoured the internet and tried just about every work around I could find but I keep getting different errors trying to load the battle.net launcher.exe. I just want to play starcraft 2 lol. I tried with this first https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-battle-net-on-ubuntu-22-04-linux-desktop.

Then I tried loading it through Lutris. With this I'll get almost done with the installation then it will freeze and I get a force close or wait option causing me to lose my installation progress.

I tried using bottles and this installation will actually finish but then I get a blizzard error saying the application encountered and unexpected error.

Lastly I tried loading it through Steam as a non steam game and this one sounds like it's loading but then does nothing.

I've literally tried every work around I could find on reddit and YouTube. I followed the wine dependencies and driver installation from here https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/Battle.Net.md. Although I'll admit that seemed a little over my head so I just copied and pasted. And for the graphics drivers I'm not sure if mine even needs it or is compatible. I have some really old Raedon card.

Any help for this noob would be greatly appreciated. I really like how Linux runs on this old PC and like learning new stuff but this is driving me crazy.

A couple months back I wanted to try my hand at sharing my drives between my windows / linux dual boot and run my already-existing windows games through proton and a native NTFS driver so that I can just have one copy of my games which I can use either in windows natively, or within linux using the power of proton, whatever I fancy in that moment.

I am a software engineer by trade so I am pretty comfortable around the terminal and such, but I couldn't find any documentation on making this system perfect. A few guides, even some officially from steam exist showing how to do this. But I found the performance to be subpar.

It's even more complicated in my case as I have 2x 2tb NVME ssd's that are joined via a windows software raid 0 (yeah yeah, I know, but I aint re-downloading 4tb of games) and ofc since these are windows drives with windows games, the drive is formatted in NTFS. I already have some knowledge of rebuilding raid arrays, so I built the array using mdadm and tried using the ntfs driver as most guides suggest. But the read/write performance was abysmal.

That was until I read about the new ntfs3 driver, which was very recently included in the linux kernel by default!

A lot of scary warnings about it being an experimental driver, but I have had exactly 0 issues. I routinely play games that I installed in windows this way, Mortal Kombat 1 and Marvel Rivals are my go to, but even huge modern titles like elden ring (and even the seamless co-op mod works!) and the performance is sometimes better than in windows, or at least identical.

There is no trickery here, the ntfs3 driver allows linux to natively communicate with the drive in the same way windows would, I even have my C drive mounting my desktop, documents, videos etc. folders to the same places in my home directory.

I have been heavily using this system for a few months now (I run every game like this now) with not a single issue.

There are some "gotchas" during the setup and configuration that you have to look out for, but would a fully written guide with all instructions written and explained for the layman be useful here?

I am very impressed with how well this works and just wondering if this is worthwhile to throw together something for others to follow along?

I just installed Debian 12 on my Asus Rog Ally and it runs fine on it but the only screen it will display on is the portable screen that the Asus Rog Ally comes with and will not even recognize my 2nd external display via HDMI or Display port from the dock when I open the Display Settings. I can only see the 1st default display as an option (the Rog Ally portable touchscreen). Oddly enough I never had this problem when I installed Kali Linux on it before. What should I do?

hello everyone

i switched to linux mint yesterday and i noticed that when i download games on steam i'm getting half my ethernet speed cuz on windows i was getting around 50 MB/s now on linux i'm getting like 28 MB/s so is there a way to fix this problem?

Any help here pretty frustrating and it's saying it's on there.

Wolfenstein Youngblood was among the first games that got Ray Tracing support, back in 2019.

Problem is that it's a Vulkan game so RT got implemented with early custom Nvidia Vulkan RT extensions and the game to my knowledge was never later updated to use standard vendor agnostic Vulkan RT extensions. So RT still works on Nvidia RTX GPUs but nothing else.

Is there a workaround to make RT work on this game under Mesa/RADV?

Changelog:

Fixed THE FINALS freezing after a few minutes of gameplay after a recent game update. (previously in Proton Hotfix)

Fixed Xalia not being able to fully progress through prerequesite installation in MultiVersus using only the controller.

Fixed Space Engineers crashing on a steam deck after changing controller setting with a fresh Proton prefix.

Fixed screen darkening in e-Racer.

Fixed gamepads randomly stopping working on some setups.

Enabled Xalia for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 so the prerequisite installation can be completed using controllers.

Fixed Proton 10 regressions:

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD setting launcher renders correctly again.

I got a 4K monitor and ended up jumping back to windows for the frame gen. Has driver level frame gen been added yet?

Its probably better for me if the answer is no, but I'm just starting to use Mint and saw on steam that there was Proton BattleEye Runtime and EasyAntiCheat, would I not be able to play Destiny 2 or is Bungie still being annoying?

When i press play, it loads the game and then the button turns into "play" again, the game window doesnt appear at all and it just repeats whenever i press play again, yes steam play is enabled for all titles, i also tried disabling it and enabling compatibility for each game manually, still the same problem, i used flatpak steam from discover, and switched to the latest debian package, still the same issue, everything is updated as well as my drivers (nvidia 570) (used "sudo ubuntu-drivers install nvidia:570" to install them), ive been trying multiple games and none work

I'm on kubuntu 25.04 specs are 4070 and i7 13700 if it helps

new to linux so sorry if its an obvious fix

I was going from Steam Deck to my main rig on FFXVI, and I saved properly and everything. Exited the game and went to my main rig. After compiling shaders, my saves were gone. I went back to my Steam Deck, saves are also gone. Is it possible to get back these files ? I lost a lot of hours. Is this even a Linux issue or Steam Cloud fucking up

Support for multiplayer games and other ip's are simply not linux native to begin with. I hate to say it but linux will surely just be stuck with proton compatibility layers and devs are just not interested in making native titles. No matter how many commercial catastrophes microsoft makes with windows such as the recall feature or the copilot or software bloat which impacts performance, people would just stay silent on these issues..

Wdyt, will this change if more popular influencers speak out on this issue?

I THINK it's something related to the window being inactive, but that's not the case (?). When the mouse is over the game I get the triple or quadruple amount of FPS (the results I should get with my specs), I just noticed it this morning when I got The Last of Us Part 2 as a gift (that also happens on TLOU Part 1).

Ultra settings, 20-25FPS max when in fullscreen, unless I interact with the mouse on top of the window, or open the menu/show the panel. Same settings, 100FPS in windowed mode. I'm considering on testing Sway again as the fullscreen state for games on tiling WMs works differently from a normal DE, but where the hell should I start debugging it?

You can expect everything normal from my system, swap enabled, fsync and limits configured, stable KDE and kernel, etc..

My specs:
OS: Gentoo Linux
Kernel: 6.12.25-gentoo-dist (already tried to build other kernels, same issue)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
GPU: AMD RX 6600XT
MEM: 32GB
STORAGE: 1TB M.2 NVME, 1TB WD HDD, 4TB Seagate
SCREENS: 1080p 60hz, 1080p 100Hz

Trying to install GTA trilogy, and when I try to run it, I keep getting the "Path not found" and “Unable to install prerequisites, please try reinstalling the game” error. I’ve searched around, and I found that this issue sometimes happens with GTA 5 as well, and the fix for that is to run it as an administrator. However, I’m on a steamdeck, so I can’t run it as an admin.

Any known fixes?

So i picked an xbox controller 3 years ago the one with out the screen capture/share button...do you guys update the firmware? how do you do it without a pc? thank you!

Basically the title, what short or long term impact do you guys see?

Do you think big companies that have once refused to support Linux will do it now?

What benefit or problems do you see with that much artentiont directed to Linux?

I haven't seen much change/movement other than during the first 1 or 2 days and that's it.

Let me know Bois!

Cheers!