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I've been using Linux for gaming for a couple of months, and this is popping up once or eight times...
My computer has 32 gig, so this really shouldn't be an issue. At this moment, it was in the background doing nothing. Once it crashed, over 20gig is free.

Anyone have a smart fix, or tips on how to solve it other than "download more RAM".

Does anyone know where d3d11-triangle.exe might be, or does anyone have pre-compiled version of it?

In the current state, basically most Competitive Multiplayers don't work on Linux which is a bummer...

The situation itself is impossible to solve because the 5% d*ckheads (cheaters) make it a nightmare for the majority 95%.

Well, what if Linux had an anticheat built right into the kernel? or atleast an official linux-gaming forked kernel? - This kernel is signed by the distro. - If someone tries to tamper with the kernel by loading a module or something it gets permanently tainted. (I can see this not working with Nvidia...) - There could also be inputjacking restrictions to stop AI Based cheats. - Games can require you to have Secure Boot + Untainted Kernel and if you don't then tough luck :) - The kernel anticheat itself could also scan for Abnormal PCIE devices to detect DMA Cheats.

Ofcourse, all this is just hypothetical (i can just cope and hope)

What are y'all's thoughts on it? Can this work? Is it even possible to implement? etc

This is a bit of a stupid question (and a lazy one), but is there a way so I can just double click my exe games and open it up immediately with proton? This already works with wine but it uses wine instead of proton so a lot of games will have errors in them. For anyone wondering what kind of games, these are just like games on itch.io or gamejolt or anything like that. If there is not a solution, I might try to just create a script I guess that does just that. The steam method works but it will just create like a bunch of prefixes which is not needed for a lot of games.

Hello! I'm making my very first video game with a small team of 4. We are developing it on Linux and participating in Steam Next Fest. We had some issues broadcasting first from OBS which I honestly think it's because I messed up the frame rates, but we decided to create a more reliable and repeatable solution!

We've open sourced it, you can find it here https://github.com/vaslabs-ltd/docker-linux-steam-broadcast

It's been 3 days now running smoothly and auto-recovering a few disconnections and broadcast servers shut downs! We even had a 15 minute power cut, but good thing it was running on a laptop and eventually got reconnected! I know other (more managed) solutions exist but I like to DIY and I could avoid the power cut with spinning it on the cloud, but I didn't have time, the fest started on Monday and we were running with this by Tuesday!

Hope you like it, and if you're interested on the game, it's https://store.steampowered.com/app/2660240/CUPRUM2929/ , we'd love your feedback on the demo and support!

Hello! I just got Bazzite the other day and I can't seem to get Left 4 Dead 2 working. I can launch the game just fine but when I try to play singleplayer or try to join my friend, it just freezes on the loading screen and I have to restart to fix it. I have a pretty low-end laptop (intel core i3 6006u with integrated graphics and 4gb ram) but on windows l4d2 works just fine, it's just on linux that does this 🤷🏻‍♀️

So I've applied a few more fixes, and was able to reduce the appimage size with this new gui. And I was able to readd back vortex support! Changelog below in lol:

So, after a while I have decided to readd vortex. There is a popup at the end of the vortex setting that you **MUST** follow, it is fine to make your own folders in replacement of the {game} portion but I have only found vortex to work inside of that folder when adding it via steam and it can basically be setup almost how it is on windows. When you setup vortex it will also automatically apply the nxm handler.

I have added some fixes/dependencies into the appimage for people on kubuntu and mint. Also a few fixes for the heroic finding system as well.

One last thing is that I have created an experimental save symlinker. It will auto populate the prefixes documents folder and put only bethesda games saves there, and it will generate a folder in the MO2 or Vortex folder called "Save Games Folder" and it will show you symlink to each bethesda game. Feedback would be appreciated on this as its a work in progress.

Simple Games Modding has also been added. This will show you prefixes for games and will load the dependencies directly to them, this is if you wanted to load optiscaler, reshade, enb, or a few other things directly into the application itself. This means you wouldn't need to fiddle with launch options for winedlloverides at all. And I'm willing to add other dependencies or other dlls to the list if requested!

One thing I need to work on is logging for the terminal, and the log files to help diagnose any issues.

Hey guys! Im new to linux, switched over from windows 10 to linux mint about 2 weeks ago, I had so much fun tinkering with everything that I never really tested my proper gaming setup (which is running an hdmi cable to my tv to play steam games on big picture mode from the couch), I only tested just playing on my normal monitor which ran fine, perfectly. until now, when ive finished tinkering, ready to actually play some games, and im realizing that when i setup my tv (tested both as a second and single monitor) it runs terribly, it makes my performance horrible, both in game and out of game. I have pretty good specs, a GTX 4060, Ryzen 5 3600, 16gbs ddr4, etc, etc. Didn't have a single problem with this setup on windows, Ive tried just about everything I could find to try but nothing has made the tv not slow down my pc. please help out if anyone has any suggestions, thanks!

im using arch (btw) and randomly sometimes when i open overwatch and go into a game i get like 30fps with 99% gpu usage, then when i reboot it fixes itself. i have tried restarting my display manager, and mesa but it didnt fix anything. wondering if this is an overwatch issue, proton issue or smth else.
idk if it happens in any other games because i havent rly been playing any other games recently.
anyone else found the same issue?

i have an rx 6650 xt btw.

Hello everyone,

Made a post in the dota thread, making one here to seek support as well, please check this out and help if possible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/s/nUriCJEcMz

Hi, was getting the usual exec permissions error message when trying to make a steam library on a different drive, fucked around, no longer getting that error message, instead I go to tell steam to make a library on my NVME (OS and default library are on a SATA SSD) and it just poofs like my brain right now because it's almost midnight as I'm writing this and I'm sorry this is probably completely incomprehensible I'll edit in the morning to be coherent if someone doesn't understand what I'm saying z.z

Games are often around 30% slower on Nvidia with Linux, now some people don't care. But GPUs are expensive, so just as many people care and spend hundreds of bucks for a few percent more performance.

Personally I fucking hate Microsoft. And would 100% switch to Linux if it was just click on the exe (I don't support Steam or DRM) with no major performance difference for games.

Hey guys, I recently switched from Windows to Linux on my gaming laptop and it's been a headache due to hybrid graphics. I'm currently on Pop_Os and have had 2 common issues across all distros.

1. For some reason, the Steam client always runs on my dGPU, even if I force the iGPU. This raises temperatures and causes the fans to spin more, making noise and wasting energy

2. Fan control in Linux is flawed for some reason. Often, without doing anything, the system starts the fans running faster than normal. The only exception to this is The last one was cachyOs, but it's not viable for me since the hybrid graphics crash for some reason.

Hey guys, I've been experiencing a lot of issues with Nvidia Optimus recently. Basically, if I open another program or minimize the screen of a program or game that renders my Nvidia GPU,The program freezes and I have no choice but to close it or restart my laptop. Does anyone know how to fix it?

• System Lenovo Legion laptop
• CPU: i7-12700H
• GPU: RTX 3070Ti
• RAM: 32GB
• Storage: 1x4TB SSD
• OS: Kubuntu 25.10 (I wanted Plasma 6)
• nVidia Drivers: 580.95.05
• Kernel: 6.17

I have been having shit luck getting any games to work on Linux unless they have native Linux clients. My latest issue has to do with Guild Wars 2.

Doesn't seem to matter what version of Proton I use with Steam, the installer either crashes almost immediately or about the time it hits the "ready to play" point in the download, all of a sudden something starts eating RAM like crazy. The first time I was just letting it run in the background until all of a sudden my system locked up. I look down at the little memory usage widget and it's at 99.9%. I had to force reboot the system.

After that instance, I started watching things as the installer runs, and things start off pretty stable, but then as I said about the time it gets to the "ready to play" mark the amount of RAM used just starts going up quickly. It'll go from maybe 50% utilization (normal baseline) to 70%+ in a couple of minutes. At the same time, the fans on my system start kicking into high gear despite the fact that the game isn't even running, it's just the launcher downloading the game files.

If I use Bottles I can get the installer to stabilize using their built-in settings for that specific launcher, but since I need Steam for the controller support (keyboard and mouse isn't an option for reasons I don't want to get into) in the game, that doesn't really help me much. Skimming the ProtonDB site, I don't really see anything that jumps out at me as being specific to getting the installer to work correctly.

Is there something obvious that I am missing or is this just an effort doomed to fail on Linux?