I don't want to force protons because it gives me worse performance; if there's another solution besides forcing protons, I'd appreciate it.

i recently began wanting to switch to linux because microsoft is getting nosier and nosier and is pushing more and more copilot crap. i tried zorin os but i switched back because i would rarely actually use it. you can dualboot with windows, but since i only use my computer for gaming, i would always boot into windows, defeating the whole purpose of switching to linux. you can run steam on linux, but a) i'm not sure if steam msfs is compatible with linux, b) i highly doubt my flight stick would work, and c) i only own the ms store version. i really would not like to spend another $70 on a half-assed excuse for a game (excuse my french) and i would also like to keep my career mode data.

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Hi everyone, I’m having a frustrating issue with Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered running on Fedora 43 via Heroic Games Launcher.

As soon as the game starts, the camera drifts straight to the sky. I’ve confirmed it’s not a hardware issue (no physical stick drift on other games or devices). My gamepad (Fantech Nova Pro) is being interpreted by the system as a PS4 DualShock 4 controller.

Technical details:

• OS: Fedora 43.
• Launcher: Heroic Games Launcher.
• Game: Spider-Man Remastered.
• Controller: Fantech (detected as PS4/DS4).

The Phenomenon: The camera goes up automatically. Interestingly, when I hold down L2, the camera moves back down, but as soon as I release it, it snaps back to the sky. It seems like the game is mixing up the trigger axis with the right stick vertical axis, or perhaps it's a conflict with the motion sensors/gyroscope being detected.

I've already tried some environment variables like SDL_GAMECONTROLLER_IGNORE_DEVICES without success. Any advice on how to force the game to ignore the gyro/touchpad or correctly map the axes in this setup?

So, today I built my first Linux gaming PC. I already have a relatively modern Windows PC that is plugged into my TV, and I use that for lots of games as well as watching shows.

However, I was recently given a whole bunch of parts, and I've been wanting to have a "desk" PC as well for games like old RTS and CRPG games that really don't work well for couch play on the TV.

The specs of my "new" PC are:

-i5-4690K

-16GB DDR3-1600

-RX 560 4GB

-500GB Samsung 850 Evo

-4K/60Hz monitor

I decided to run Ubuntu because I have been using Debian family distros for years on my laptop and servers so I figured it would be easy. I had originally thought about trying Bazzite but folks in another thread convinced me to just stick with what I knew.

Now I'm not a dipshit - I know that the RX 560 isn't going to be playing most games at 4K, but it works fine for regular home office stuff at 4K and I figured I could just render the games at 1080p (since I'm not really going for graphical fidelity here anyway). I was mostly wanting to play older and less demanding games anyway.

So I got it set up and installed Steam (from the Ubuntu software center so I suppose it's a snap). I didn't install much else that was relevant except for Vulkan-tools as part of my troubleshooting for this problem (and some other random stuff like btop and libreoffice).

The first game I tried to run was Disco Elysium. I know this is a more modern game but it's supposedly not very intensive so I figured it would run fine. This booted up and ran just fine, except that the performance was a bit stuttery. I turned on the Steam performance overlay and noticed that it was using all four gigabytes of my VRAM.

First, I thought that maybe there was an issue with the desktop being rendered at 4K (even though the game was 1080p), so I switched the desktop to 1080p and then this reduced in-game VRAM to around 3.6/4.0GB and it was smoother. But this still seemed very high so I decided to try a few more games.

Next I tried Gunpoint. If you're not familiar, this is a 2D pixel art game with very low system requirements. It ran just fine at 60 fps, but it was still using nearly 3GB of VRAM (at 1080p), which seemed bizarre to me.

Finally, I tried Alan Wake 1 (the original 2010 version, not the remaster). This launched just fine but it gave me a "your system doesn't meet the minimum requirements" message when I booted it up (which definitely isn't true). I forced it to run at 1080p and the lowest settings and when I got in-game it was unplayable with the overlay reporting nearly 6GB of VRAM trying to be used.

Now I KNOW FOR A FACT that the original version of Alan Wake 1 should not be unplayable on a 4GB VRAM card because I played it a decade ago on a GTX 970 at high settings and 1080p and I didn't have any VRAM-related issues.

Can anybody clue me in to what's going on here and give me a potential solution? I didn't install any AMD related stuff for the GPU because I was under the impression that the open-source mesa driver should be fine.

Switching distros is a totally valid option if you think that would fix it. I may try Bazzite after all.

Hi everyone, I was wondering what distro would be best to dual boot with a 40 series Nvidia card for gaming. I’m a complete noob to Linux, the only thing I know is some Nvidia cards can have some problems with some Linux distros. Please give your suggestions.

Boa noite, alguém poderia me ajudar a aumentar a velocidade de download da Steam, no Windows 11 chegava até +-350Mb, enquanto no Arch só chega em +-130Mb, eu segui os procedimentos abaixo e consegui chegar em +-230Mb, mas eu gostaria de poder voltar a antiga velocidade de download, se alguém souber como arrumar seria de grande ajuda.

O que eu fiz pra aumentar pra 230Mb:

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• Criar ou editar arquivo de texto: ~/.steam/steam/steam_dev.cfgeHTTP2PlatformLinux 0 u/fDownloadRateImprovementToAddAnotherConnection 1.0
• Baixar dnsmasq
• Adicionar ao arquivo: /etc/dnsmasq.conflisten-address=127.0.0.1 no-resolv port=0 server=1.1.1.1 server=8.8.8.8 server=8.8.4.4
• Adicionar ao arquivo: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf[main] dns=dnsmasq
• Reiniciar a Steam
• Reiniciar os serviços da internetsudo systemctl restart dnsmasq.service sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

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I've been a debian user since 2019, and I don't understand the gaming distro that's been popping up lately. I mean, I can install wine, lutris, and nvidia drivers according to my distros wiki and it runs fine but not 100% error-free for all my games. Could anyone explain to me that this gaming-oriented distro might be better than a more "mainstream" distro? Thanks.

EDIT: Thanks for all the comments! But, I've been wondering that how do they get support if their distro's breaks? Because one single problem can have multiple solutions from different people and each solution might fix the problem but might break something else.

Bought DOOM TDA as a birthday present for me on Steam, and the game doesn't run as good as it runs on Windows. Currently in the low preset I'm getting between 30-40, when on Windows I got double the framerate. I know it might be a little whining from me, but playing an FPS on that framerate is not very optimal. My specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

AMD RADEON RX 6600

24GB DDR4 3200MT

500W PSU

NVME 500GB (game is installed in there)

I've tried some commands that I've seen on ProtonDB, like gamemoderun and trying to change vulkan versions, but I somehow can't install AMDVLK no matter what.

Also, framegen is also broken. IDK why tho.

Switched to Linux after my Windows 11 install decided to shit itself. Been working extremely well and I'm honestly in love. No more microslop!

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Hello penguin people

I switched to Linux recently after being fed up with Windows, is there anything I should know as a primarily singleplayer/indie gamer? Using Bazzite right now. Thanks people

I was playing a Minecraft modpack on CachyOS through the Prism launcher, and after leaving for a little bit, the PC was in sleep/ hibernate. Upon opening up the game again, this very strange x-ray like artifacts or glitches are all over the screen. Went back to normal after closing and reopening the game. Anyone know why this is? A lot of issues occur with hibernation, such as my wifi being completely gone sometimes (wifi card not turning back on?) And is only fixed by unplugging the power to laptop and doing a restart.

Legion 5 laptop, i7 14650hx, rtx 4060

Hey everybody, I just swapped my main OS to ubuntu because I got tired of windows. I did run into a little problem though, with steam games not launching. I've had all the games saved already on windows and I just took those files and added them to steam which caused steam to recognize the games I had installed. Steam ran a few updates and the play button appeared in all green. I tried running detroit become human and even after skipping vulkan shader loading, the game ran (better than on windows might I add). Since then I turned it off and fixed a few mounting issues with my disks (which required a few system reboots).

Enough of the backstory:
I tried running For Honor, and the game wouldn't run. I assumed it was just an issue of ubisoft somehow not being installed (Which it very well might be, and I still think it's the reason behind the game not launching). Basically after hitting "play" steam seems to have tried launching it and then it's as if the game just crashed. Nothing happened on my screen though (besides the steam loading). After a while I gave up on For Honor and tried running Detroit again. Same thing as for honor. I hit "play", steam seems to attempt launching it and then the "play" button just lights up again.

System info:
I am running on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile, 16GB ram, i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz. Also all of this is inside of an MSI gaming laptop (if that helps somehow)

All help is much appreciated, and I thank you in advance for replies.

Hello!
I've recently been trying to get ZZZ set up on my computer for the first time - I'm running Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon, and used the HoYoPlay installer for it through Lutris (my launcher of choice)

Now, the HoYoPlay launcher itself launches fine, and I've managed to download and verify the game through it - the only problem is that upon launching the game, I get a black screen, with some form of error popup, and then a crash to launcher shortly after.

What is seen upon launching the game.

Here is a pastebin link to the log produced by the crash in question.

Any ideas on how I may be able to fix this? If there's any other context or log info I should provide, do let me know. Thank you!

I'm using Fedora. I've looked online and tried various solutions but couldn't find a solution. I'm running the games with PortProton. Maybe the solution can be found here.

O que eu devo fazer?

hope their AC can be bypassed by GE-Proton runner

Previously, I've been able to run vanilla TW:A on the native version with no issues, but trying to add the Dawnless Days mod to the game seems like a difficult task that I've been trying to figure out for days now.

First, I tried using the native version, loading the .pack files directly to the game's data folder (on the Steam version) and adding the appropriate mod commands to the preferences.script.txt file (as shown below)

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That way, the game has loaded, but after a couple of seconds in the main menu the game crashed, seemingly not logging the crash at all (I've tried running steam through console and checking for errors there & tried PROTON_LOG=1 where I also couldn't find any generated log files). For debugging, I also tried reversing the order of mods in preferences.script file, making no difference.

Then, I decided to use Proton instead. With any proton version above 6.3-8, the TW launcher didn't load, throwing errors. The game itself has loaded, but the mods haven't loaded at all. On the internet I found out this specifically might be a compatibility issue which should be solved by changing the proton to 6.3-8, which it did.

After using the 6.3-8 version, I was able to get into the game, but now the problem is that the game crashes mostly when opening or closing the Diplomacy tab (so basically when shifting between the different map modes). This, again, seems to not generate any errors in the logs (as shown below, the last logs documented before the crash in the tdd.log.txt are opening the tactical map mode).

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Using WineD3D (via PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 in the steam command) seemed to fix the issue, but the game suffers huge performance issues with WD3D. I'm running out of other ideas on how to fix the game, so I'd be really grateful for any help on this topic.

System info:

- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 260

- GPU: AMD Radeon 780M (integrated, not used for the game)
Nvidia Geforce RTX 5070 (with nvidia 580 open driver, also tried with nvidia 570 open)

- RAM: 32GB

- Disks: 2 (1 for system, 1 for data including steam games, both in the same format)

- OS: Kubuntu 24.04 LTS with 6.14.0-37-generic kernel

- Display server: Wayland

I currently want to play through Resident Evil Village and it runs smooth, but sometimes it just freezes, especially before cutscenes and for some reason theres still sound. I tried using GE-Proton10-27 instead of Proton Experimental but it didn’t fix it. Then i tried using this Command under Startoption PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 PROTON_NVDEC=0 %command%, but this also didn’t fix it. Then i tried using Gamescope with and without the Proton Commands that i tried, but this also didn’t solve the problem. I currently stuck at the part, where you look around for Rose in Dimitrescu‘s Castle and fight one of the daughters or girls of Dimitrescu. I got past other times it froze by playing a bit on my Steam Deck until it autosaved. I use Bazzite 43 and have a Ryzen 5 5600 and a RTX 5060 TI. Any help would be appreciated!