What distro and tools do you use? I'm on cachyOS and I've tried:
- Twintail launcher: couldn't get it to work, maybe a clean install would fix it but I'm not so sure.
- Lutris + official launcher worked for WuWa and Endfield, but I couldn't use mods on them, plus some games don't run that way at all. I tried to follow a video guide and ended up bricking the ones that were working as well.
- AAGL and THRL, they worked but no modding support. Don't really care about modding HSR so THRL remains an option.
- I could run ZZZ as a non-steam game, but not the ZZMI launcher.

I'm considering a clean start. What setup do you guys have? Is modding even possible? Should I give up and just play normally?

on Windows I can use bloxstrap to allow launching multiple Roblox instances so I can use alts in games, but with Sober is that possible?

so, I downloaded Ubuntu and tried to run any game, couldn't, tried to search what to do, had the suggestions to download and update drivers, saw in the drivers terminal of Ubuntu and nothing showed as available (and I updated and downloaded everything when I was first using the OS). Then I installed steam from outside the appstore built-in the OS, I was able to start terraria, but never got out of loading screen and sometimes it crashed in the loading. I already have proton installed, the games I am testing is terraria and cuphead to see if I can run something here.

I am using ubuntu 24 LTS

edit: my hardware isn't compatible with vulkan and that is making my computer unable to use proton as it should, apparently that was the problem

I finally decided to move to Linux for gaming but I'm encountering a weird issue with the game Path Of Exile.

When I try so use a spell with the input '2', it doesn't work, only works when I do "Shift+2". It works perfectly fine with all the other numbers. I'm lost!

It's an AZERTY keyboard.

on windows you either go NvidiaInspector or Registry Editor (Computer > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > Currentcontrolset > Control > Video > (random numbers folder) > 0000 > New string value named LodAdj and you just change the value from there) but can you somehow do it on linux?

(I'm on AMD / Debian)

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So basically i have 3 problems

1- I can't download anything other than .appimages on my laptop bcs its BIOS is locked and i cant change the OS from LINUX :/

2- Whenever i need to download roblox, i can't, because i either need a BIOS password or a terminal, and both are locked out (it used to be my school laptop, but the school forgot to unlock it when i left)

3- im bad at tech

so can any of u give me steps to download roblox on linux without any of these hassles (.appimage files are optimal)

thanks

Can I keep secure boot on when I boot into windows and just turn it off whenever I want to boot into linux? I want to play a game with kernel level anticheat but I don't know if that will harm my linux instalation in any way.

Hi Everyone

I'm trying to use a 3D Spaceexplorer as joystick in Elite Dangerous.

So for i got it working in freecad with spacenavd, libspnav and spnavcfg. next thing is to make it work ingame.
Guess I should use something like input remapper but I'm not sure and im still pretty new to linux.

I've seen people do it on windows so it must be doable I just cant find any guides.

Any help would be appreciated!

I'm on Nobara btw.

I'm not a Linux newbie (been using Linux for 5+ years) but I have just recently got a gaming laptop with an Nvidia gpu. Obviously before coming here to ask for help I tried running my games myself via lutris using both proton GE (latest) and system wine.

Here are the problems I'm facing: 1. DLSS just straight up doesn't work. It doesn't even show up on the graphics settings menu of my games. 2. Even without DLSS, windows Non-DLSS performance is still much better than Linux Non-DLSS performance. 3. Ray Tracing performance is straight up so bad it's unplayable, obviously this is not the case in windows so I know my hardware isn't at fault.

So far I've tried setting environment variables in lutris and adding dll overrides but none of those worked. I'm confused as to how to run games properly on Linux since I'm a newbie in terms of Linux gaming.

Games I tried running: Marvel's Spider Man Remastered (2018), Tomb Raider (2013) OS: Arch Linux (straight up arch, not any arch based one) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 6gb vram laptop gpu Drivers: nvidia-open

About the drivers, idk if this is the correct package I need to install, and if it's not, please tell me how to install proper drivers for my laptop gpu.

see parent post! thanks in advance

Hi folks. I'm gaming on Fedora 43 KDE. I have a Ryzen 9950X3D and an RTX 5080, so no hardware issues. I've installed the RPM Fusion proprietary drivers and gaming is a breeze, for the most part, other than a few kinks.

One of those is that in Rimworld, if I have certain menus open (specifically architect, wildlife, factions, and ideologions, as well as if I'm on the world map, my game hitches and stutters like it has to buffer every second or two, or like my FPS is tanking.

How can I troubleshoot this? Any suggestions to fix?

On Linux Mint, I have a problem where the 2 and 6 keys don't work when I play WoW. Only when I press the shift key (up arrow) in combination with those two keys does it trigger the correct key. All the other keys work fine. Before Mint, I had Manjaro, and it worked out of the box. Does anyone have any idea how I can solve this minor problem? Thanks in advance for your help.

Quite amazing how far we've come, although the discussions are still surprisingly similar to what we see today lol.

Shout out to u/Chun for starting this community and all the members over the years who brought us to where we are today.

Last but not least, special shoutout to our mod team that selflessly volunteers their time and energy just to keep our community safe and thriving!

As the title says, I cannot run native L4D2 on dGPU and managing its mods is impossible. For some reason, disabling the mods on Add-ons doesn't do anything unlike on Windows. I use -vulkan in Launch Options so the game won't crash and adding __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only %command%__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only %command% wouldn't start the game and even if I remove -vulkan, it doesn't work at all. Playing the Proton version would solve this but it doesn't let me join online lobbies.

Also, why does Enter key not working in this game? It is recognized when binding it but it doesn't work.

I could just play it on Windows since I'm dual booting anyway but I don't want to restart the laptop if I can.

Laptop specs:
i5 13420H
RTX 4050m
16gb RAM (please don't steal my RAM after this)
512gb ssd solely for Fedora 43 KDE

Whenever I play any game that makes my GPU go to 100% utilization, after some amount of time I get NVRM XID errors 13, 109 in journalctl

I have a 50xx nvidia card and I use the most recent version of the nvidia-open drivers, and I’ve tried arch linux and I even tried installing CachyOS just in case they did some patches that would fix this issue, both with wayland.

This causes the entire desktop to freeze up and the only way to get out of it is to spam until I’m able to reach a TTY. I then have to reboot to get back to a usable state.

I’ve already tried a large selection of environment variable configurations, such as forcing dx11, using game scope, downgrading the nvidia drivers, etc. I even locked the GPU clocks to a constant value and while that seemed to save the GPU from freezing the entire system and get rid of the XID errors in journalctl, the game itself still froze. Is there anyone that’s actually gotten a 50 series card to function smoothly on linux?