As the title says, any game that isn't native/using proton just immediately stops after starting. Doesn't even show the pop up for Vulkan shaders. Nothing. I've been having this problem with Arch and Fedora Workstation (both with gnome). I'm honestly at my wits end, I'm not sure what to do. I've never had this issue on any Linux distro before, or if I have had this issue it's as easy as switching to experimental or 9.0 but not even that works. Above is me testing with Ultrakill but every other game leads to the same result.

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I just installed fedora+KDE and noticed my FPS was really bad on CS2. I went on a private match on de_dust2 on windows and linux to test. I added the vulkan launch option on windows to make sure I was testing windows vs Linux and not just dirextx vs vulkan. on Linux I got around 200 FPS average with peaks of 230. on windows I got 400 FPS with peaks of 500. I was running with no up-scaling and low settings. my maximum frame rate was unlimited on both. I have a radeon rx 7900XT and a ryzen 9 5900x with 30 gigs of ddr4 ram.

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Hey everyone,
I'm trying to get HDR working properly on Linux but running into a wall.

• I'm on Kubuntu 25.04 with Plasma 6.3
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4080 with driver version 570
• My monitor supports HDR (shows "HDR: ON" in the OSD), and it's enabled
• Tried both Gamescope and VK_HDR_LAYER, neither seem to make a difference
• Vulkan info doesn't show HDR-related EOTF or ST2084 extensions
• Whenever I launch games through Gamescope with gamescope -- %command%, the game refuses to launch
• Planning to play Cyberpunk 2077, Spider-Man 2, and other HDR-heavy titles

Anyone else managed to get HDR working reliably with this kind of setup? Appreciate any help or working configs. Thanks!

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I've been a long time user of Windows and been gaming since I was a kid and I've never been able to daily drive Linux because of VR and some other music notation programs rarely ever having drivers that are specifically made for them on Linux. I don't really need as many of those programs these days and I'm getting new Hardware today, 9800x3d, 32gb RAM and an x870 mobo along with the 4080 I already had.

Since I have to do a clean install of Windows with the new motherboard anyway I'm wondering if it's worth trying a Linux distro out as my daily driver? I've heard that Proton has gotten a lot better with windows programs and steamvr, but anticheat on games as well as the SteamVR/index drivers weren't so good. I've done some research reading other posts here about it but instead of windows LTSC with debloat software what Linux distro should I try out for a high end rig? Endeavor and Drauger looked pretty good honestly but I would like to spend a bit less time on the terminal and more time actually using the OS.

Thanks in advance!

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I used to play Serious Sam a lot on my Winnie box, but I'm now back where I belong with Mint Mate. I understand there are ways to play it on Mint. I don't have any experience with setting this up, but I found these pages.

https://snapcraft.io/serioussam

https://flathub.org/apps/io.itch.tx00100xt.SeriousSamClassic

But I don't know how to deal with the original winnie version in Linux. That's where I am stuck. Any help would be appreciated. At the moron level would be best.

Captain Quack.

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I would like to fix both of the issues I'm having, but at least getting one to work properly would be amazing. I play in tournaments on PS5(which I don't have) and would keep the HitBox in that mode since there's no drifting problems and I can at least make sure the firmware is working with a current build of the game, or not having mouse drift. I guess either way I have to test on my friends PS5 before an event.

System info:

OS: Linux Mint 22 x86_64 Kernel: 6.8.0-59-generic Uptime: 2 days, 18 hours, 33 mins Packages: 3522 (dpkg), 44 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.2.21 Resolution: 2560x1440, 2560x1440 DE: Xfce 4.18 WM: Xfwm4 WM Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua Theme: Mint-L-Darker-Teal [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3] Icons: Mint-Y-Sand [GTK2], Mint-Y-Yaru [GTK3] Terminal: xfce4-terminal Terminal Font: Liberation Mono 16 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 3.800GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Memory: 5701MiB / 31999MiB

XInput issues: I've had this issue for a while, will try to fix it, deal with it, try again, repeat. I'll try to remember everything I've tried, but it's been over a year dealing with it.

Whenever I press R2 on any 360/xinput controller, the mouse will drift up(very rare occasion will it not do this) and have to disconnect my controller to stop it. Plug it back in and it's fine until I press R2 again. This only happens on this machine, not on Steam Deck or Windows 10. Steam running or not and wired/wireless both effected. Going into jstest, the axis reads normal, but after pressing R2 will permanently read as half pressed when not used. I have run calibration on the buttons which will fix it until I plug it back in for the next session, not ideal. Tried different ports, controllers, cables. (If I remember correctly) using an adapter such as the Brooke FGC works fine.

I've tried a few different drivers and forks e.g. xpad_noone, xpad, xone, etc. currently using joystick. un/reinstalled all to test. I have not seen any errors in dmesg or xorg logs so there's no clues where to go. Searching for this issue mostly comes up with stick drift. I am at a loss where to go from here with the lack of any errors anywhere.

HitBox Ultra PS5 mode issues: This only seems to happen with the hitbox. I have three other leverless controllers that have PS5 mode and they work fine using the GP2040-CE chip.

Recognized as connected under lsusb as Bus 007 Device 050: ID 054c:0ce6 Sony Corp. DualSense wireless controller (PS5). In /dev/input/ it's coming up as an event. jstest and Steam (Steam Deck as well) do not recognize anything connected. Controller firmware is up to date and works on Windows 10 and PS5.

dmesg output:

[244026.511319] usb 7-4: Manufacturer: Sony Interactive Entertainment [244026.671573] playstation 0003:054C:0CE6.0013: hidraw10: USB HID v1.11 Gamepad [Sony Interactive Entertainment DualSense Wireless Controller] on usb-0000:0c:00.3-4/input3 [244032.146674] playstation 0003:054C:0CE6.0013: Failed to retrieve feature with reportID 9: -110 [244032.146679] playstation 0003:054C:0CE6.0013: Failed to retrieve DualSense pairing info: -110 [244032.146682] playstation 0003:054C:0CE6.0013: Failed to get MAC address from DualSense [244032.146684] playstation 0003:054C:0CE6.0013: Failed to create dualsense. [244032.146829] playstation: probe of 0003:054C:0CE6.0013 failed with error -110

Any insight would be great. I should have prepared more for this post as I have done a lot trying to fix these, but having a hard time remembering the exact details, config changes, etc.

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got an unopened 5070ti in my hands right now. looking for excuses not to return for the 9070xt.

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The newest fedora 42 update broke cyberpunk2077. Now not only does it launch 3 instances, it also when alt+tabbing doesn't display anything on neither of them. Instead of viewing the closed off instance of the game for 10-20 seconds.

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I have a underground 2 repack downloaded and i extracted it , i tried to run the exe through bottles using proton but every single time i try to i get a "insert disc 2" error. I looked through YouTube and i came to the same solution of adding a "foobar" file i've done so but it does not work.I am running Debian 12 on KDE .

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180 Games tested on Linux. Guess the games while watching the video.

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as seen the the photo below i have managed to get this working on LACT but i prefer corectrl, im using a surface pro 9 with a 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1235U × 12, using Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (ADL GT2), on Arch Linux wayland gnome 48 and the Linux 6.14.2-arch1-1-surface kernel
all i want to do is have a profile that ditects when minecraft dungeons is running and down clock my intergrated gpu so that the laptop does not overheat while still being able to play the game

if corectrl wont work at all for this, i also need help with fixing LACT then, as whenever i start up my laptop it says to run a commad, sudo systemctl enable --now lactd EVERY time, idk what im doing wrong as on my pc i ran this once and it never asked me again, though i have not used LACT in a while as i moved on to corectrl for my desktop

helpppppppppppp

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~140 score increase with (seemingly) perfect stability. OC'd using LACT. This seems like quite a good way to squeeze a couple more fps from a low range gpu, why isn't it talked about more?

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Hello, I'm having trouble configuring my joystick.

I'm running Kubuntu 24.04 and want to set up a Logitech Wingman Strikeforce 3D (yes, I know—it's old...) for use with IL-2 Great Battles. IL-2 is installed via Steam and runs using Proton.

Here's the problem: the joystick is generally recognized by Kubuntu. However, only part of the possible axis movements are registered. For example, when I move the stick from the center all the way to the left, the game controller configuration in Kubuntu only shows about half of the possible range; to the right, about two-thirds. It's similar across all axes of the stick.

When I calibrate the stick, the full range of motion is correctly detected in the configuration tool.

However, in the game —IL-2— the stick behaves as if it's not calibrated at all. That means no full deflection in any direction and inconsistent response depending on the direction of movement.

Is there a way to calibrate the stick in Linux other than using jstest-gtk, jscal, or evtest? I've already tried all of those without real success.
Alternatively, is calibration/adjustment possible within IL-2 itself, perhaps via some in-game configuration files?

Thanks in advance!

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Hey everybody,

I have big problems to us any BT gamepad with Mint. I could connect my 8bitdo nes 30 pro an ps4 original controller with BT. But in no app the gamepad is recognized.
I cant figure out, why. When i try to pair the shanwan ps3 clone gamepad, it will need a PIN for connectiong.

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I want to play this game , i already saw plenty of ppl doing it, even with setups close to mine and more or less install and hop in to the game, so it has to work somehow.

I got AMD GPU 6xxxXT and CPU 5xxxX3D Series and EndeavourOS.

I tried several Proton versions, let the game start trou SteamTinkerLauncher and a couple of start options like:

PROTON_LOG=2 steamtinkerlaunch %command% --launcher-skip --intro-skip --skipStartScreen -USEALLAVAILABLECORES

I cant load into the game because it freeze at 54%. ChatGPT told me after i fed him with some logs that its manly because of DX12 and Anticheat.

Here are some examples from the log:

-3690.167:01a0:0274:warn:vkd3d-proton:vkd3d_allocate_device_memory: Memory allocation failed, falling back to system memory. -3690.504:01a0:0344:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"odin" -3690.526:01a0:022c:warn:seh:OutputDebugStringW L"[2025.05.29-14.27.33:408][ 0]LogAnticheat: Error: NvAPI failed to initialize\r\n" -3690.551:01a0:022c:warn:seh:OutputDebugStringW L"[2025.05.29-14.27.33:433][ 0]LogStreaming: Warning: Failed to read file '../../../Engine/Plugins/Runtime/SunPosition/Resources/SunPosition.png' error.\r\n" -3706.806:01a0:01a4:warn:seh:OutputDebugStringA "Shutdown handler: cleanup.\n" 3706.806:01a0:01a4:warn:seh:dispatch_exception "Shutdown handler: cleanup.\n" -3707.300:0030:046c:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"wine_threadpool_worker" pid 74142 != 74141, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

If u need more informations, pls dont hesitate so ask me about it. i'm sure i can provide them.

Pls by the love of god, navigate me trough the debugging. I'm craving to play this game so hard.

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What's the current state of 8bitDO Pro 2 controller support? I was looking into getting some decent controller and 8bitDO Pro 2 looks promising.

Does it work well with Linux? I mostly play games from GOG (native or through Wine). What is needed for controller set up?

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I used the game launcher version Lutris script: https://lutris.net/games/need-for-speed-world/
Which downloads version 2.2.2 and had to update it to 2.2.4.
Used winetricks to install vcrun2022( otherwise the game will crash with missing call in msvcp140.dll)
But once the game launches and if I check task manager, at first it shows it's using 60MB of RAM for 1min after which it just goes to 0 and stays there even after 30mins.

Tried:
Wine 10.8
Proton-GE 9-27
Proton-GE 8-26

Any idea?

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Running Fedora Workstation 42.

While playing Minecraft, my cursor is not locked to the center of my screen. If I am in windowed mode, the cursor will exit the Minecraft window. Additionally, when I open any menu in the game, my cursor is not in the center of the screen where it should be. Help!

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Hello everybody!

I recently started using Linux Mint and started setting up a couple of my favourite games via Lutris, I do not have much experience with setting up games under Linux yet.

When I attempted to install Might and Magic 7 via the GoG Connection function it went through the installation process normally (I used the Wine + GOG option in the selection from the launcher). When I then attempt to boot the game, it doesn't launch and throw me the error box "Some files are missing, Please Reinstall"
I did attempt to reinstall the game then, but it gave me the same error message.

Does anyone have a similar issue or a potential way to fix this? Cheers in advance.

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