Edit: I switched to Proton Experimental and the game starts again. I also cleared the in-game file cache, so it's downloading the internal files again. I will report back if this fixes the problem permanently or if it dies after one session again.

Hi, I'm running Bazzite and I've installed ZZZ via Lutris. Using the default runner, Wine_GE_8_26.

It has been working perfectly for months, I've got 120 hours listed. But now it crashes instantly on launch.

The interesting thing is, the game recently updated, yes. But after updating I was able to run the game for one session in the new version. It only started crashing after that.

I've tried changing to GE Proton and some of the other runners, but no luck.

Has anyone experienced this? Any advice on how to troubleshoot?

Thanks!

I want to use mangohud on a steam game called brink, but I can't get it to work. Even though it works on other games and I set the launch options on brink to "mangohud %command%". I tried goverlay but have no idea how to make it work. Help

¡Hello! I’ve spent many hours trying to get USB wired VR to work on Linux. Apparently, there’s better compatibility with WiFi connections than with USB. I’ve been trying to configure ALVR, and I’ve used every option in the official guide, but the only thing I’ve managed is a very buggy Wireless connection. It also disconnects intermittently.

I know it’s not a USB issue because the PC detects the device at all times once it’s connected.

My operating system is CachyOS, I use a Meta Quest 3, an AMD 6600 GPU, and a Ryzen 7 5800X.

I’m looking for alternatives from users who play VR on Linux and are more experienced with this, because maybe someone has gone through the same situation and found a viable solution.

I know I could use a wireless VR alternative on Linux, like WiVRn for example, but my WiFi connection is not good enough for VR and loses a lot of data.

It’s a shame that there’s still no official VR support on Linux, since Linux makes much better use of the hardware compared to Windows, which would result in a smoother experience.

For now, I’ll create a Windows partition until I find a Linux alternative.

I run KDE on Arch and 97% of the time it is going great.

however especially when there are notifications / active file transfers i experience either Plasma crashing and recovering. or just hanging Typically only noticed by me seeing the time has stopped.

Is there a good way to figure out what is causing this issue? i can't seem to find any logs for plasma itself?

Specs. kernel 6.17.9-zen

Wayland

Ryzen 5800x

Nvidia 4070TI Super with 580.105.08 open

https://preview.redd.it/bxihfmp77s3g1.png?width=620&format=png&auto=webp&s=89ac0e5f93b9999d786003c474e98bb14b3d8a32

I guess EAC randomly stutters in every video games for Linux so it's ok.

Hiya everyone.

I have a history with Linux, it's been something I use mostly for Dev Work. I actually have recently jumped over to CachyOS from Zorin and busy ricing that up for some personal upskilling/passion projects. Loving it so far considering it's only been 2 weeks.

I have my PC dual booted with Windows which is mainly for gaming. Now I realize this post is probably entirely redundant so I understand getting flack for that. I have 3 SSD's on my PC, 1 x 2TB where I store my games, 1x 1TB for Windows and the other 1x 1TB for Linux. I want to switch over to Linux for gaming so I would most likely be Dual booting to either another CachyOS setup but for gaming or Bazzite (Maybe SteamOS once that's fully released for PC's). My main concerns are:

A. Taking the jump - It seems most of the games I play are supported on Linux, I am however unsure mainly because my girlfriend uses my PC for the Sims 4 which she mods the heck out of. I think the Sims 4 works on Linux but I am unsure about the Modding integration with Linux, she uses The Sims Mod Manager and a quick googly showed it doesnt have a linux version.

B. The usual CachyOS vs Bazzite question. Kinda need something that just works (would customize or rice it a little bit maybe), but for gaming it's usually just PC on, Discord on, game launch, lets roll. Thus Bazzite seems like a good way to go. I have a 4070 Ti Super and a 3440x1440p monitor, I don't frame peak I do have a little bit of anxiety about the jump considering that while I trust linux for my dev work, gaming + having an nvidia gpu maybe cause me some issues?

My solution in mind for me right now: Easiest solution would be to triple boot my system, Windows stays on the 1 TB, Bazzite or Cachy gaming on the 2TB and then my dev focused CachyOS rice.

I would like to be rid of Windows but I do plan on doing some photo and video editing in the future and Affinity doesn't seem to have a Linux port yet, Davinci seems alright on Linux and luckily I use Figma and Canva on web already. I guess the worry is that if I dive in completely and middle finger Windows, I might run into some limitations with some apps that aren't supported (I would guess a VM would be the way here, I just haven't used one before so not sure how reliable it would to go that route).

I worry I haven't actually asked any questions of substance here but maybe a few nudges in the right direction so I fully commit and maybe any insights if anyone has modded games (bonus for the Sims 4) on linux.

just installed pop os like an hour ago with almost no knowledge on Linux, chatgpt has been doing all the work so far, i tested my first game on linux, warthunder, and its for some reason capped at 60fps, my monitor is 280hz its set to that in settings, vsync is off and its on the lowest possible preset. i usually got like 190 fps on windows but now its hard capped and idk how to fix it. i saw a post mentioning smth abt having 2 monitors and if one is a 60hz which one of mine is

I’m having a major issue launching Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on Linux (Nobara 43) with dual Nvidia RTX 3060 GPUs installed. I’m hoping someone can help me diagnose what’s going on, because I’ve tried a lot of different approaches.

Problem summary:
If both GPUs are plugged in, Jedi: Survivor fails to launch through Steam + Proton. EA Desktop briefly starts on GPU 0 (confirmed via watch -n 0.5 nvidia-smi) and then crashes.
If I physically unplug one GPU, the game launches and runs normally.

I normally run with two GPUs because I use them for local AI tasks, so trying to avoid removing a card just to play a game.

What I’ve tried so far:

• Tested multiple Proton versions (Proton Experimental, Proton GE, etc.)
• Set Steam launch options to force the game to use GPU 1:
– CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1
– DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="GeForce RTX 3060"
– VK_DEVICE_SELECT=1
• Tried combinations of PRIME render offload variables
• Confirmed GPU ordering with nvidia-smi -L
• Disabled one GPU at runtime using sysfs:
echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:04:00.0/remove
After doing this, launching the game produces:
“Failed to create OpenGL context for format QSurfaceFormat”
• Only physically unplugging one card allows the game to start

So far, nothing has stopped the game from trying to use GPU 0 before crashing, except unplugging the card entirely. It seems like Proton/EA Desktop is still enumerating both GPUs even when I try hiding one via environment variables.

I’m happy to provide any logs or system details needed.

I’m in the thought process of wanting to make the move to Linux Gaming and need advice because when it comes to Linux I’m a complete noob

I have two PC’s that I use more like a console; my main gaming rig and I have a Itx that is connected to my TV that I stream too

I want to do the migration to Linux but I need somethings to be able to work for me to do the jump for two PC’s or at least alternative solutions that will just work rather than take me a week to solve

My needs:

Aida64 SensorPanel for secondary Monitors; I setup my own panel took ages so the thought of this again is not thrilling me

Razer Synapse for Keyboard Mouse plus Wolverine v3 Controller Synapse has the settings I need for wired 1000 polling

Lossless Scaling Dual GPU setup

Nvidia two GPUs compatibility and Undervolting

Steam/Razer Cortex/Moonlight Remote Play more Steam for my tv itx and Razer for my phone is needed

Hass Agent for Home Assistant automation that I trigger on both PC’s based on their actions/state with Home Assistant

But some of these automations is powershell or schedule task triggers which is fixing all the faults I find with Windows not being very flexible: example Afterburner not setting Undervolt profile because of dual GPUs, SensorPanel not going to the correct screen bootup/streaming disconnect, Audio device not going to the correct device after streaming and disabling lossless scaling on host when streaming to Itx client

All I’ve ever done with Linux is setup VM’s inside Windows for Home Assistant which isn’t really a full dive into Linux and a PiHole adblocker a few weeks ago which is setup and leave it

So any advice would be appreciated for which Linux version or alternative solutions for the apps/devices I need to work

Hello there!

I just bought warhammer40k darktide. Wicked good game that I used to play trough xboxgamepass.

Now that I did my switch to CachyOS I wanted to start punishing heretics again.

Bought the game, install and play. Worked like charm

But then... game crashed and crashed whole system. Had to push that dreaded reset button.

Now Darktide launches but I can only hear the sound from splash screen and intro video but there is no game screen what so ever. I have tried everything I can figure out but it just wont work.
Any ideas here?

Edit: Bought it from Steam fyi.

Linux game not starting The game starts for a second, enough to get the "play" button to change to "stop" on steam, but no window pops up and then after one or 2 seconds it goes back to "play". I've tried using proton 9.4, proton experimental and even proton GE 27, but neither change the issue nd let me play the game. With proton ge it was looking good but then an small unity window pops up that is loading something and the same stuff happens after the loading bar is completed. Please help i feel like i just about tried everything

That gives the Wayland people a few years to fix their problem with nvidia

Every time when you have Steam Update and you are trying to run it it will just straight up do nothing... ZERO FEEDBACK and oh good, how many times people thought that Steam is crashing or something but it is just UPDATING itself silently without any feedback or window or anything.

And the worst thing is that it happens on the first launch and I saw like 10 YouTubers who had experience like:
"Steam doesn't start but after I clicked it 10 times suddenly it launched..."

It is just so annoying. I would love to at least see a window that tells you to wait a little..,

hi, i m using manjaro kde with x11. i bought a game from gog and tried to play it on lutris. Problem is, it doesnt "render" when it starts. the weird thing is it is the only game that does this. I only be able play the game with gamescope which is annoying because my gamescope cant be fullscreened. i tried proton 9, 10, 6, 8 and proton ge. i tried to open it with steam, i tried to open it with different settings. none of them work and it is so weird because it is the only game that does this as i said. i searched about it online and couldnt find anything really works or atleast i couldnt do it. can anyone help me?

First of all, sorry for my English.

So, I need to have two roblox accounts open to farm in one game. But I don't know how to do that. Could someone help me do this with sober?

As the title says. Game boots and shows the Koei Tecmo splash, and then it's just a black screen from there. I've tried various versions of both Proton and GE Proton with no luck. I've tried deleting the intro Team Ninja FMV. I've even tried a pirated copy.

I've seen a handful of posts about this, including one from this subreddit near the collection's release, but no fixes have helped me. Most posts are just completely unrelated.

No issues with Razor's Edge.

If needed: I am on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Drivers are Nvidia and 580-ish, whatever the most recent stable build is on their website. RTX 4070, 9800x3d (I bring these up because I didn't use to have this issue on my old hardware).

I'm not on my PC now, so I'll update these (if need be) when I can pull the specifics from something other than memory.

so basically these sus games that I had already installed on my hard drives only work when I add the exe on steam and force the proton GE on them but I still can't figure out how
but not all games work with this method like silksong straight up gives me a note that I have no licenses and it doesn't work
so I wanted to switch to lutris or heroic given that I'd also have a similar experience to my beloved playnite but they just don't manually work
is there a force proton setting that im missing or is there some problems adding them manually
I can't even update my gpu of 6 years to even think that I can buy some games is there a fix to heroic and/or lutris?