I am new to linux and I am using mint cinnamon 22.1. I am trying to install gamescope to work with the flatpak version of Steam yet no matter how I try to install it, it never seems to work. I can't find a single post having my issue so I assume I am just doing something silly and missing a step.

I do flatpak install gamescope and have tried all the different versions. but when I try gamescope --version it just says gamescope is not found, and if I try to launch a steam game using gamescope as a launch parameter it says gamescope: command not found.

I'd assume it is installed, but it isn't added as a path variable? I tried doing file/path/etc/gamescope --version with various file paths but couldn't get it to work.

I would love some help with this, I was going to ask in linux4noobs but I figure because its more of a gaming question its better suited here.

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Greetings,

I saw that split fiction has HDR support listed under Settings - Graphics. Then I take the oppotunity and ran Split Fiction under gamescope with HDR enabled.

the command for steam "launch option" is:

gamescope -W 3840 -H 2160 --hdr-enabled --fullscreen --adaptive-sync --mangoapp -- env DXVK_HDR=1 %command%

My setup on this:

• 4K HDR VRR monitor PG27UCDM
• AMD Radeon 7900XTX
• Arch Linux (up to date) linuz-zen 6.13.5-zen1-1-zen
• KDE plasma v6.3.2
• gamescope v3.16.1
• in-game graphics options basically maxed out w/ FSR native AA

My result is that in the main menu the game is running around 90 FPS.

Please share your experience and setup with HDR VRR gaming on Linux, and correct me if there's anything wrong, thank you!

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I can't launch Cyberpunk anymore after (I think) a recent Heroic Games Launcher update. I've cleared ~/.config/heroic and the prefixes, but whenever I try to launch the game never launches. Here is the log.

Why is it trying and failing to load "nouveau" when I clearly have the nvidia driver installed??

Launching "Cyberpunk 2077" (gog)

Native? No

Installed in: /run/media/nick/Charlie/Games/Heroic/Cyberpunk 2077

System Info:

CPU: 24x AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor

Memory: 67.05 GB (used: 5.27 GB)

GPUs:

GPU 0:

Name: NVIDIA Corporation AD102 [GeForce RTX 4090]

IDs: D=2684 V=10de SD=13ad SV=196e

Driver: nvidia

OS: CachyOS Linux 6.13.5-2-cachyos (linux)

The current system is not a Steam Deck

We are not running inside a Flatpak container

Software Versions:

Heroic: 2.16.0 Scopper Gaban

Legendary: 0.20.36 Urban Flight (Heroic)

gogdl: 1.1.2

comet: comet 0.2.0

Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli

Game Settings: {

`"autoInstallDxvk": true,` `"autoInstallDxvkNvapi": true,` `"autoInstallVkd3d": true,` `"preferSystemLibs": false,` `"enableEsync": true,` `"enableMsync": false,` `"enableFsync": true,` `"nvidiaPrime": false,` `"enviromentOptions": [],` `"wrapperOptions": [],` `"showFps": false,` `"showMangohud": true,` `"useGameMode": false,` `"battlEyeRuntime": true,` `"eacRuntime": true,` `"language": "",` `"beforeLaunchScriptPath": "",` `"afterLaunchScriptPath": "",` `"verboseLogs": true,` `"wineVersion": {` `"bin": "/home/nick/.config/heroic/tools/proton/GE-Proton-latest/proton",` `"name": "Proton - GE-Proton-latest",` `"type": "proton"` `},` `"winePrefix": "/home/nick/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Cyberpunk 2077",` `"wineCrossoverBottle": ""`

}

Game launched at: Thu Mar 06 2025 09:59:19 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

Winetricks packages:

Launch Command: HEROIC_APP_NAME=1423049311 HEROIC_APP_RUNNER=gog GAMEID=umu-0 HEROIC_APP_SOURCE=gog STORE=gog STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH="/run/media/nick/Charlie/Games/Heroic/Cyberpunk 2077" LD_PRELOAD= STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH=/home/nick/.steam/steam WINEPREFIX="/home/nick/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Cyberpunk 2077" STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/home/nick/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Cyberpunk 2077" PROTONPATH=/home/nick/.config/heroic/tools/proton/GE-Proton-latest WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 DXVK_NVAPI_ALLOW_OTHER_DRIVERS=1 PROTON_EAC_RUNTIME=/home/nick/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/eac_runtime PROTON_BATTLEYE_RUNTIME=/home/nick/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/battleye_runtime STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID=0 SteamAppId=0 SteamGameId="heroic-Cyberpunk 2077" PROTON_LOG_DIR=/home/nick /usr/lib/heroic/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/x64/linux/gogdl launch "/run/media/nick/Charlie/Games/Heroic/Cyberpunk 2077" 1423049311 --no-wine --wrapper "/usr/bin/mangohud --dlsym "/home/nick/.config/heroic/tools/proton/GE-Proton-latest/proton" waitforexitandrun" --platform windows

Game Log:

[34mProtonFixes[10843] INFO: Running protonfixes[0m

[34mProtonFixes[10843] INFO: Running checks[0m

[34mProtonFixes[10843] INFO: All checks successful[0m

[34mProtonFixes[10843] INFO: Using global defaults for UNKNOWN (0)[0m

[34mProtonFixes[10843] INFO: No global protonfix found for UNKNOWN (0)[0m

fsync: up and running.

[2025-03-06 09:59:22.511] [MANGOHUD] [info] [blacklist.cpp:75] process 'explorer.exe' is blacklisted in MangoHud

[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; no appID found.

Either launch the game from Steam, or put the file steam_appid.txt containing the correct appID in your game folder.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/mangohud/libMangoHud_shim.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/mangohud/libMangoHud_shim.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/$LIB/mangohud/libMangoHud_shim.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

glx: failed to create dri3 screen

failed to load driver: nouveau

Launch command: ['/usr/bin/mangohud', '--dlsym', '/home/nick/.config/heroic/tools/proton/GE-Proton-latest/proton', 'waitforexitandrun', '/run/media/nick/Charlie/Games/Heroic/Cyberpunk 2077/REDprelauncher.exe']

All processes exited

============= End of log =============

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Hi,

My uncle is upgrading in the next few days to a new 9070xt. And as a bonus I get his old powercolor 9600xtxh 16GB as a hand me down. Now he strongly recommends me to threshold the tdp. In Windows he/I know how to do that, but it's a different story for me under Linux.

Currently using: openSUSE TW X470 Aorus board Ryzen 5 Rx 5700xt Mesa drivers

I would like some pointers to how to achieve that.

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I've been playing ow2 on linux for what seems like forever issue free (before it moved to steam). Some months ago it started becoming unreliable. Eventually maybe 3-4 games in I would get insane constant stuttering. I basically just reboot into windows and I play as long as I like.

Behaviour I see:
If I don't move the mouse or press a key then stuttering stops. The moment I add input it will start stuttering again instantly.
I can even replicate this behaviour in a kill cam.
- So if I die and just watch it (screen moves around new things pop in to render) then I get smooth constant frames.
- If I die and I mouse the mouse at all in the kill cam (note my mouse movements do nothing to affect the view as it's first person to the other person moving) I get the same massive stuttering.

I've noted a few people also seem to have issues on protondb. I can't seem to find any reference to a bug existing anywhere. I'd like to follow it.

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Does someone know what kernel version I will need to use the RX 9070 (non xt) with Linux for gaming.

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So when I try to play TF2 black polygons appear on my screen, I have tried Vulkan but the game doesn't even start if i try to use it I need help btw it's an laptop CPU Intel Celeron 1007U 1.50 Ghz(2 of them aperantly) GPU Intel 3rd Gen core processor Graphics controller and runs Linux mint 22.1

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Hello all, I am a recent Linux user and have tried pure gaming distros, but I just don't like KDE it seems. It feels "off" to me. I was immedietly in love with Mint from the moment I launched it. However it has no inherent gaming support. So I went to various search engines, YouTube and Reddit to figure out what to do. For future reference for myself and maybe others I am collating everything in this document. However as a Linux novice there are likely mistakes or contradictions. Some guides say to stick to Flatpak, others say to avoid them. Its very difficult to figure out what's what. So I tried to piece together what makes "sense". I would love to hear some more experienced Linux users opinions on this and any mistakes I made or improvements to the guide. Or maybe there is another guide I simply haven't found? Thank you.

https://codeberg.org/Chaosmeister/LinuxMintGamingSetupGuide

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title, please help and explain to me like im 2 years old

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I’ve been using Linux for about 6-ish years now, but I’ve been away from gaming for quite a while and recently got back into it. I’m not very experienced when it comes to gaming on Linux, so I’m hoping someone can explain the relationship between anti-cheat software and Linux. I’ve read that this can be a tricky issue, and I’ve even seen reports of people getting banned for using Linux. What’s going on there, and how can these problems be mitigated? For those of you who game on Linux, how do you handle this? And which anti-cheat systems are the worst when it comes to Linux compatibility, and why?

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I'll keep this short, I'm so tempted to go to Linux but I'm currently half way through FF7 Remake on Windows with a cloud save. Will I lose this on Linux? Secondly on all AMD how is Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, most of ProtonDB is Nvidia which I knew had issues but I heard rumours AMD was pretty flawless?

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I have tried reinstalling steam through the package manager and flatpak and switched between different drivers but nothing works, and from what i have seen every dragon engine game crashes also

here is the log:

https://filebin.net/ba97kgw44qojbmrz

or if that link doesnt work:

https://pastebin.com/qn3b4TER

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Hello -- there have been a number of posts about high CPU usage for HD2, but I haven't found anything authoritative. From what I can tell, my game is CPU-bound. Changing graphical settings has almost no effect on FPS for me. The only setting which made a big difference was "render difference," which the game specifically calls out as a CPU-related setup.

My setup: - Normal Fedora 41 with nothing really special modified

• Using "gamemode"

• launch options are "gamemoderun %command% -USEALLAVAILABLECORES --use-d3d11 -force-vulkan"

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3500 (6) @ 4.12 GHz

• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 [Discrete]

• 16 GiB RAM

I'm struggling to hold 30 FPS, and obviously FPS gets worse as there are more enemies on screen. The game is playable, but from reading other people's experiences, I'm wondering if I should have an easier time running this. Is there anything else I can be doing? Or, is my system just not strong enough to run this full speed?

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Hi, today i updated the finals to the latest patch and it's not booting anymore, i'm running CachyOs.

Tried with GE, experimental, experimental bleeding edge, cachyos and cachyos-slr.

With GE and experimental this error doesn't even popup it just hangs and closes.

Is someone else experiencing this?

https://preview.redd.it/2tk7enoz12ne1.png?width=1587&format=png&auto=webp&s=95df370631674c6a591543e318ea258a110906de

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Body

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Hello, I have Msi Claw and I want install bazzite os or chimera os, but I wonder that is legall in Germany law. I know that Linux is open source but bazitte and chimera have special big picture mode from valve and I wonder didn't broken copyright law in Germany? In this country is big punishment for copyright, someone use this from Germany and can answer this?

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(Sorry if it's the wrong flair, didn't really know which one to choose. Would "emulation" be a better one?)

Hey guys, I know this question has [sort of] been asked before, and I'm sorry if it's annoying, but I couldn't finmd any information on this specific problem. People always talk about the normal game (Battle Royale). However, I have a particular use case. I don't play BR at all. The only game I play is a custom map, Miner Tycoon. Most of the time, I'm just afking it while hitting some specific goal.

My question is: Does the anti-cheat also affect custom maps (even if I'm playing in a private lobby)? I don't care about performance or being able to play online with other people, but I'd like to be able to have the map farming for me while I'm working on my thesis, which is done in Linux, and I don't want to have to use WSL for it since I'm trying to move to Linux "full-time".

My idea was to have a VM running it, even if on integrated graphics, since I don't need a lot of GPU power for what I wanna do anyway. I'm using arch (btw) if that is important information.

I considered using Amazon Luna, but unfortunately, it's not supported in Portugal, and I'd rather not mess with VPNs and stuff like that, at least not right now. GeForce Now might also be an option, but I'm unsure if it would be a good replacement due to the 1-hour session limit. But if VMs don't work, then I might need to go with that.

Another solution would be to setup my old phone as a purely farming machine, and just let it afk at the charger, but I'd also like to avoid that for obvious reasons.

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I've been using Ubuntu for about 2 years now and have a rtx3060 that was fine for a while using the 535 drivers and eventually it recommended to update to the 550 drivers, which I had issues with before but since it recommended it and I tried it things have been fine.

Now for a while I haven't even thought of any new updates as the update manager has kept the drivers up to date and the 550 drivers are still the recommended for the 3060 but I am curious if I should update to the 570 drivers since on nivida's driver site recommends the 570 now but my updater still recommends the 550 drivers. The only reason I am wondering if I should update them is because wilds has come out and I can get it to run well enough with my current drivers on the 3060 and a 5800x, but I don't want to mess around too much if I don't have to.

I am well aware that the game is a mess with performance across PC in general regardless of OS and even beefy builds have issues but, should I just keep things simple since everything works right now (I can get it to run using fsr and framegen but it doesn't look like graphically actually needs those to run dlss apparently does not work and I use a launch option to hide nivida compatibility for the game), or should I look for the latest stable and give it a shot? I know using the updater is simple enough but I'd like to keep things as simple as possible and only look into updating when I actually need to rather then going for the newest thing simply because it's new.

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hey there, I installed arch and installed lutris for my epic games library. But after "verifying update it doesn't run, help?

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