Hello there

Seems like a bug or something of the sort is that when i first boot up my computer and decide to launch CS2 on steam flatpak.. It usually runs but after i exit the game and decide later to come back when i launch the image is stuck on black background with Valve red font logo. And i hear only the first sound from the game and thats it no sounds after that its just stuck.. I cannot even stop the process on steam. I need to sigkill the cs2. Process itself so it stops.. I did some research for this but nothing comes up for the issue.. Mainly i switched to flatpak to solve some issues i was having with Native Steam like the sound cutting out on CS2 in mid match but it seems fixing an issue and bringing another major one.. Anyhelp will be appreciated

My Specifications

Intel Xeon E5-1660-V4

AMD RX 6600 Saphire 8gb

32gb Ram DDR4 2133mhz

2TB SSD Kingston KC3000

680W PSU Gold Rated

Fedora 41 + CatchyOS kernel with enabled Addons

what are the best lightweight android emulators for linux systems? i cant seem to find the linux version of google play games, so what's the go-to for linux users. i just migrated to linux after using windows my whole life so i don't know much. thanks in advance!

Hi there everyone.

I'm running Dragon's Dogma 2 on my laptop successfully with my RTX 4080 mobile card, and with Proton Experimental it seems that I can enable the Frame Gen with no issues.

Something strange happens though: I cannot save. Whenever an automatic or a manual save happens, I can see a circle on the right top corner of the screen spinning forever. After many minutes, I get an error that says something like it was impossible to save.

Library and save files are in a Btrfs file system, mounted on Bluefin (GNOME). I have also tried to run sudo chmod 777 on the save folder, just to be sure, but didn't solve. Game can run fine on Windows, just to double check.

Am I the only one having this kind of potential issue? Is there anything that I can do?
Thanks

Does anyone use CachyOS, or just Arch in general, and have Valheim working? I have tried about a dozen different versions of Proton and every time it crashes right after the main title loading screen.

Anyone have any pointers on getting this game going? I have been able to get every (and there have been many) game to work that I want to play so far except this one for some reason.

Using KDE Plasma latest release with an Nvidia 3060ti GPU. Tried both X11 and Wayland.

Hi folks, I recently picked up a Minisforum UM350 for a HTPC / emulation box / Sunshine client on my 4K tv and installed Linux Mint on it but the performance has been just awful. I mainly wanted to use Dolphin but can't even get 100% speed at native res.

The hardware is a Ryzen 5 3550H with Vega 8 graphics which based on this mini PC guide spreadsheet should be able to run Dolphin upscaled. Aside from Dolphin, I can't even emulate SNES through Retroarch with shaders at full speed. Vulkan seems set up right as far as I can tell and radeontop shows like 80%ish percent GPU utilization when running games.

I'm curious what you would do in this situation where the hardware seems to be severely bottlenecked somewhere. Is there a troubleshooting process? Would you hop distros / try Windows? Am I overestimating the hardware and misunderstanding this CPU?

I also wonder if Cinnamon desktop has something to do with it because Dolphin takes a performance hit when going fullscreen without changing the rednering resolution, which makes no sense.

Hello bois!

As the title says, I tried running Halo MCC on Linux (specifically on Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon) and the CE anniversary works normally and Halo 3 and others work completely fine, but as soon as I try to play Halo 2 Anniversary this happens:

It's just a black screen :/

This is somehow \"fixed\" by disable anti aliasing (makes it look a bit poopy but meh)

This is somehow "fixed" by disable anti aliasing (makes it look a bit poopy but meh)

However, the big problem comes now:

I installed AlphaRing to be able to play split-screen with a friend that is coming over today,

Diabolical

When it's enabled this happens!

Absolutely awful, has anyone experienced this? I heard that people on AMD GPUs are doing okay but currently stuck with a Nvidia GTX 1660 Super so not much luck...

https://preview.redd.it/fhncea3j90be1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=964e24a011e557a12a833f5e78ee7a649e623851

"Classic" Graphics work but I really fancy the Anniversary graphics for 2:

Any ideas? Cheers!

I even started deleting my shaders daily to see if that would resolve things but still no luck. I'm on Linux Mint. Has anyone been able to resolve Rivals from freezing?

I ditched Windows completely on Boxing Day for Linux (PopOS) Having no prior experience with Linux in any shape or form I am really enjoying it. For the most part everything just works with minimal input from me. I have 2 problems I can't seem to figure out and have been looking for solutions so I figured I would put it out there and see if any of you guys have had either of these problems.

PC - Asus Crossahair 670E Hero AM5, 7800x3d, 32 GB 6000 Ram (2x16) 3090 GPU, PopOS

#1 5.1 Audio - I have 5.1 speakers hooked to my onboard sound Card (Audio Codec ALC4082) through speaker jacks and when I run the speaker test for all the channels it all works but in any game or media all I get it 2 channel audio. I checked all the levels and whatnot in Alsamixer through the terminal and it seems fine. 5.1 worked fine in Windows 10.

#2 I'm using OpenRGB to control the lighting in my PC and even though I have all Corsair stuff it actually controls it pretty well. Upon installing it and loading it for the first time it went through it's scan and kicked back this message...

Some internal devices may not be detected

One or more I2C or SMBus interfaces failed to initialize.

RGB DRAM modules, some motherboard onboard RGB lighting and RGB Graphics Cards will not be available without I2C or SMBus.

How to fix this:

On linux, this is usually because the I2C-dev module is not loaded. You must load the i2c-dev module along with the correct I2C driver for your motherboard. This is usually i2c-piix4 for AMD systems and i2c-i801 for Intel systems.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated as I am a noob to Linux and am just learning my way around the terminal and what. Other than these couple issues, good riddance to Windows.

I'm a small streamer and i'd like to get some extra performance out of games I play, I'm not the most familiar with linux, I used to use mint when I had a PC on life support. I intend to install mint onto a secondary drive. how good is linux with OBS? can i expect a performance boost over windows 10?
and will I have to reinstall steam games specifically for linux? or can i just import it from my main drive?

https://youtu.be/z5p-NMLGNB0?si=8uK8zUjB7UrxkOoh

Ingame stats show network jitter at 120ms sometimes, I don't have those issues on windows. Internet connection is more than fine, low latency and high bandwidth. I never really could get cs2 to work fine under my system. Any help?

Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon
kernel 6.8.0-51
Intel i7-12700kf
RTX 4060 560.35.03
32GB ram

Not fully sure if this tag fits btw

So I use Linux Mint 22, recently updated. The G64 addon is a Garry's Mod addon that lets you play as Mario with accurate Super Mario 64 controls based on actual source code and using an actual ROM (provided by player) for assets. I'm on the x86-64 branch of Gmod with GModCEFCodecFix. The G64 addon page says "Please note that you will have to install the G64 binary module / libsm64, be on the 64-bit branch of Gmod, and that this will only work on Windows at the moment.", but I'm not just gonna use Wine/Proton or switch to a different branch unless there's no other options.

So I've bought a second license of FH5 for my son an I to play together (we were sharing the first through steam family). Spent 1 h and a half trying to figure this out... His steam account is linked to his xbox account same for me and we are friends on both platform. He is on windows and I am on Arch. I tried the phone thing and through the browser but seems like it works only if you bought the game through gamepass or the xbox store. I tried installing the xbox app through Lutris but cannot even log in and I doubt it would work ?

How can I achieve this ? When he invite me to his convoy I don't see it anywhere and I just can't invite him.

New to Linux and Helldivers. Can't get the mouse to lock to the game. Running 6700xt on EndeavorOS. Also my Sennheiser Bluetooth headphones work, except for the mic. Any idea if there are settings that I need to change for that?

this is the screen where it doesnt continue

i reallly dont know what to do, and i cant find anything about it online.

thanks in advance