So i saw that steam offers some kind of proton version for Easy Anti-Cheat Would it be possible to use something like heroic game launcher to direct fortnite through steam to get the anti cheat proton working?

(Im not a professional with linux so i have no clue how proton or anything works)

Also does epic games dislike linux or why haven't they ported the epic games launcher to linux yet?

Hi. I played Marvel Rivals on Linux Mint like a month ago and it ran flawlessly, but I played it again today after the most recent game update and every minute or so I get 5 fps drops: what I mean by that is that it's running at 170-200 fps, and suddenly the game stops one time, then goes to normal, then stops again, and so on, 5 times in a span 3 seconds. I haven´t actually measured it, but it is extremely consistent. I'm using Proton Experimental, which is what worked for me before.

My PC specs:

Ryzen 5 5600
RX 6800 16GB
DDR4 2 x 16 GB 3600Mhz
1TB SSD

I have applied the following fix already, but it didn´t work: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1iutojb/comment/me2dwa1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

My current pc has the following tech specs:

• CPU - i5-7400, 4 cores, 4 threads (I think), 3.00 GHz
• GPU - GTX 1050Ti
• RAM - 32 GB DDR4 2400MHz
• Storage - 2 TB SATA HDD

Given these tech specs, I have been seriously considering migrating to Linux, but am a little apprehensive, thus this post. I am wanting to play roms from several different consoles. Which emulation front end comes the most recommended? I know of Retroarch, which I am not too fond of because, to me, it seems like once you install it, you're on your own, but if I have to go with it I will. I'm just wanting a few more options besides Retroarch. Thanks in advance for all your help.

From researching, on Steam, you need a program called optiscaler and you put this ~/fgmod/fgmod %command% at launch options to use optiscaler with steam.

But I couldn't find how to use optiscaler with Heroic. I tried asking LLMs like chatgpt but they didn't help me much.

A big playtester asked for a Linux build so I made one for the demo!

You can check it out here.

IGN also covered our launch trailer which was pretty crazy.

What it's supposed to look like

Way too much de-noising (I think it's called de-noising)

Hey, I just picked up Hogwarts legacy as the weekly free game on Epic Games and I'm playing it through the heroic launcher. The game runs great but the only issue I'm having is this weird de-noising effect on everything. I've tried 3 different wine versions ( GE-Proton10.26 & -10.11 & Wine-ge-8.26) no dice. I also tried tweaking in game setting (dlss on/off, image sharpening, anti-aliasing, rtx on/off) to no avail.

I don't even know where to start trouble shooting this.

System specs:

Linux 6.17.9-zen1-1-zen

Arch Linux x86_64

KDE Plasma 6.5.4 (Wayland)

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

NVIDIA RTX 3070

Hi all,

I have a Hori Alpha Fight stick, I'm attempting to get it to recognize within Steam under Linux on my PC. I am running Fedora 42 and when I connect the device I do get a KDE notification that a "USB device Hori Fighting Stick" has been connected.

However when I go into Steam settings, Steam shows no controller detected. Big Picture Mode affects no change with this either.

I know with my Vitrix Gambit Xbox Gamepad I had to install the "Xone" linux kernel driver for Xbox controller support for it to connect, which works fine for that device. I have been searching and have no idea what driver package might be the right one to attempt for the Fight stick however to recognize in Steam.

Again, it seems to be detected by the OS itself, just not within Steam. (Oddly enough) I also tried toggling Steam Input for Generic Controllers to no effect.

Thanks for any input (pun intended) to point me in the right direction!!

The Fight stick is this model: https://www.amazon.com/HORI-PlayStation-Fighting-Stick-Alpha-5/dp/B09RQV4786?th=1

i'll try it and see what happens if nobody here knows and report back

Hello all,

The missing bit in linux gaming, a tuning app with fine-grained controls.

Client-Daemon model that enables remote control.

A classic desktop client, a gamepad first client for couch gaming and handheld devices (with Text To Speech accessibility feature, enabled by default), and a CLI client to allow scripting too, and more...

Because Windows only anti-cheats are a thing, and in some cases you may want to play those games, PowerTuner is a multi-platform application, so that you don't have to look for something different and learn multiple apps.

The code was made with multi-platform in mind, so should be easy to add support for more platforms.

PowerTuner is fully open source, 4 years of slow development, this is the first public release.

You can find release packages in release repo, pinned in home.

I'm using it in my devices since months, while developing it, but the app quite big, so there may be bugs, take this as a beta app as of now.

This is not in any way a finished app, lot more planned stuff will come in future.

Hope someone will find it useful :)

Thanks for reading!

Looking to finally ditch Windows for good, so I’m looking for a distro. I’m not a complete Linux noob but I’ve only used Ubuntu and Mint previously, and only on secondary devices for very simple tasks. And WSL on my main PC. But this is the first time I’d be relying on a Linux OS for everything.

I need a distro for my main PC that can handle gaming, but also video editing (DaVinci), image editing (Krita), and audio work (I use Ableton currently but would gladly jump over to a decent FOSS alternative), and just general use and file crunching etc. is Bazzite suited for this? If not, is there anything you’d recommend as an alternative?

Hello everyone,

I’m running World of Warcraft on Linux and am having a persistent display issue where WoW keeps switching monitors unexpectedly.

System details:

Distro: Ubuntu 24.04

Desktop session: Wayland

GPU: NVIDIA (RTX 50-series)

Driver: NVIDIA 580

Laptop: Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (AMD)

Displays:

External ultrawide monitor (Secondary, via HDMI/DP)

Built-in laptop display (Primary)

Issue: When launching WoW or switching display modes, the game frequently moves itself from my external monitor (which is set as the secondary display in the OS) to the laptop’s internal screen. This happens even after (I have switched them around and this doesn't address the issue):

Setting the correct monitor in WoW’s graphics settings

Running the game in fullscreen and windowed fullscreen

Rebooting and relaunching the game

The desktop environment itself behaves correctly — only WoW is affected.

What I’ve tried so far:

Switching from Xorg to Wayland (Wayland is more stable overall for me)

Verifying the correct primary display in system settings

Testing fullscreen vs windowed fullscreen

Updating to the latest NVIDIA proprietary driver

Restarting the game and the system multiple times

Additional notes:

The issue does not appear to be a hardware problem (both displays work normally in the BIOS and desktop)

Other games and applications do not exhibit this behavior

The problem seems specific to WoW’s handling of displays under Wayland/NVIDIA and Steam with Proton Experimental for the Battle.net application.

Has anyone else experienced this issue on Linux? If so, are there any known workarounds, launch options, CVars, or config tweaks that help lock WoW to the correct monitor?

Thanks in advance for any help or insight.

NVIDIA GPU, Native game version. I can play the game but I need to have shadow detail turned off.

Anyone has this happend or managed to fix it? I wonder if there are any game breaking crashes later.

Hello everyone, i have installed elamigos repack tlou 2 on my garuda os (arch based) and updated it. Everything works except when reaching 100% gpu usage either the game crashes or gets stuck at 10> fps and unplayable i saw that problem in some post but didn't find a fix for it, so if anyone has a fix id appreciate it very much. Im launching it with steam and with lates proton cachy os. My specs : 12400f 3070ti 8g 32gb 5200mh ddr5 1tb msi nvme

Thanks, ehsan.

I love Steam but prefer to buy from Gog when the option is availible. I also have a lot of free games on Epic.

Is there any way to check compatibility if I'm not using Steam?

inb4: yes I know it needs to be recompiled and I recompiled them.

Problem is that any program, either via Steam+Wine or native, won't use at all vram, and performance is very low, basically nothing works. NVIDIA card doesn't load at all textures to vram, fan is very slow, practically turned off, and generally load is like it wasn't at all used. I have nvidia propertiary drivers installed, this drives me insane currently, because I have no idea how to fix it. It worked before.

Sharing my current system setup after updating to Debian 13.
Running GNOME Terminal with NVIDIA proprietary drivers on a Ryzen 7 + RTX 3090 system.
Everything working smoothly and performance is great so far.