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Hi, I was happy to finally get all the games I play working on Linux, but I feel like Project Diablo 2 is lagging. Even Counter-Strike 1.6 seems a bit off. • Are there any settings I should tweak? • Or could this be because I have an NVIDIA Titan X (Maxwell) instead of an AMD GPU?

Games: • Project Diablo 2 (Wine, default install through Lutris) • CS 1.6 (Steam) • World of Warcraft 3.3.5 WotLK (Wine, default install through Lutris)

Specs: • Distro: Bazite 42 • CPU: Ryzen 5800X • GPU: Titan X (Maxwell)

I am getting a new pc and I am thinking of having arch linux but I learned that riot games arent really compatible with linux due to its anti cheat, which sucks as I would like to play 2XKO. Can I just simply just have dual boot to play it? To me it was an obvious yes but while snooping the subreddit I was starting to think otherwise. If I cant dual boot can I just run a VM to play it?

I have 7900xtx,and I have been playing Marvel Rivals for a while, earlier today I decided to turn on Anti-lag, and I got 2 GPU crashes in less than an hour.

This is assuming you're using a recent enough mesa that supports that feature.

I have an Alienware Aurora R14 that I was thinking of wiping completely to switch to Linux. I haven't been on it in a couple months unfortunately, so it probably needs some security updates and a maybe a bios update.

Should I attempt to update my bios first if I decide to make the switch?

How would I go about making steam launch magicloader.exe i know if I get the game to launch through magicloader it will also launch the obse aswell and solve everything. I also need mangohud to run can one of you really smart individuals help me with this please im sorry im really bad at launch commands on steam still.

As I am aware off AMD will with a future update automatically make FSR 3.1 games use FSR 4 instead of having them to update and then let the user toggle it by themselves. Does anyone know if it’s Windows only because of their adrenaline app or is it driver wide and will come to Linux as well?

I have an older saitek cyborg joystick I am trying to get working so I can play dual joystick in StarCitizen through wine on fedora linux. However when it comes to calibrating my joystick, all goes well on the fedora side, using both jscal and jstest , my joystick deadzones are setup and working properly. In wine, I go to the game controller tab to check the DInput devices, under my saitek joystick, the device does not act like it has been calibrated properly. So how do I fix this issue so that my joystick works as currently even though it works in game, I cannot use it due to deadzone issues.

Joystick not properly configured when being detected by wine.

Calibrated joystick

While playing Hogwarts Legacy, my mouse leaves the game from time to time and suddenly I'm on the second monitor clicking in discord.

This is especially annoying when being in the middle of a battle. I tried some stuff without success, so I hope there's maybe a known solution out there!

Information about my system:

• Distro: Fedora 42 with Gnome (Wayland)
• Kernel: 6.15.10-200.fc42.x86_64
• CPU: Ryzen 9 3900x
• GPU: AMD RX 7900 XT
• GPU driver (according to steams system informations): 4.6 (Compatibility Profile)
• Mesa version: 25.1.7 (git-581a4f7e70)
• Steam version (according to steams system informations): 1751405894
• 3 monitors with a resolution of 2560x1440@180hz

Steam is installed via Flathub (software center).

What I tried is using the "gamescope" command in my launch settings, but then my game won't start anymore:

gamescope -f -- %command%

I installed "flatpak-xdg-utils" via dnf:

sudo dnf install flatpak-xdg-utils

The last thing I tried, which sadly didn't help, was this command in the launch settings of Hogwarts Legacy:

flatpak-spawn --host gamescope -f -- flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam

I'm absolutely out of ideas at this point. I appreciate any help possible, thank you in advance!

Hi! I'm trying to get Beat Saber working on CachyOS with a Quest 3s and WiVRn, but I'm running into an issue. The game launches successfully, the connection is stable, and I can even see the initial Beat Saber logo in the headset. However, immediately after the logo, the screen goes black and stays that way. The game doesn't crash, but it stops rendering. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Steam logs:

ERROR [ipc_compositor_get_reference_bounds_rect] ipc_call_compositor_get_reference_bounds_rect failed: XRT_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED [/home/applone/.cache/paru/clone/wivrn-server/src/WiVRn-25.8/build-server/_deps/monado-src/src/xrt/ipc/client/ipc_client_compositor.c:868]

I've been playing CS2 stretched using Gamescope and have no problem pushing 400 frames in game, but I can feel my Gamescope dropping to like 60 while my game stays stable at 400. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

OS: Fedora 42 (Kinoite)

Launch options: gamescope -w 1440 -h 1080 -S stretch -f -r 144.0 --force-grab-cursor --adaptive-sync --immediate-flips -- %command%

Hello all. I am super new to Linux, and I could use a little community input.

Story time:

My old gaming pc died. I was on windows forever since Linux was intimidating. Saw this as an opportunity to make the jump since win 11 turns me off even more than 10 did. Friend of mine gave me his Legion Go, so I'm seeing what I can do on it.

My primary use-case is minecraft, maybe grounded 2 (once they fix it), modding skyrim, and retro gaming. I have already gotten bazzite working, but I am open to suggestions for other gaming distros if there is something less finnicky. Please bear in mind I'm a linux baby. I can follow clear instructions, but I do not know all the ins and outs of getting things up and running.

The retro gaming side of things is fairly covered, but I'd love any suggestions for a cohesive environment to organize and run the games.

Is there a good sourceforge launcher for some general minecraft modding?

The skyrim mod side of things is where I am running into most issues. I got mod organizer 2 running (mostly), but it crashes any time I interact with the mo2 window with the touch screen instead of a mouse. Also, I have yet to get skyrim to successfully launch via mo2.

Is Limo a better option than MO2? I tried it, and it appears to be a more stable option outside of a windows environment, but there are a lot of extra steps that seem like a huge pain if one is building a big modlist. Does anyone know of a step-by-step guide for limo? I can't seem to find one. I'm not really keen on digging through a discord, if I can help it.

Any input is appreciated. I'm suddenly feeling a bit overwhelmed with the multiple research projects that this could become.

Using Steam Proton natively (tested with hotfix and experimental), the game ran perfectly.

Using Proton GE, the game started fine, but after a few minutes of gameplay, it started experiencing high frame timing, making it unplayable with lots of enemies.

I want to use Proton GE because it's the only way I can use HDR. I'll use Steam Proton until I can fix it, but I love HDR on my OLED monitor.

I haven't seen the same issue with other games.

System:

Debian SID
Gnome 48 Wayland
Mesa 25.1.7
Kernel 6.12.38
Steam Flatpak
ProtonGE 10.13 Flatpak

Hardware:

CPU AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU AMD RX 7900 XTX
RAM (2x) 32GB 6000MHZ DDR5 CL30
SSD NVM-e Gen4 7.1k Read / 6.8k Write

Variables:

ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1
PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
DXVK_HDR=1
MANGOHUD=1

Ive switched over to Ubuntu, due to hearing its good for beginners and still customisable, but when I download steam, it doesnt open, but its logo still appears but it doesnt open at all. Ive tried from the app launcher and now I have done it with a .deb file, but still doesnt work. How do I fix this? I cant find a solution online. Here are my specs if that means anything.

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I recently installed CachyOS in the hopes of switching over from Windows to Linux and wanted to use my reshade addons such as as RenoDX, I tried with just ReShade by itself installed using just the normal DLL and also using steam tinker launcher, both worked with DLSS disabled in the game (I tried with Yakuza Like a Pirate and Clair Obscur 33). Once I enabled DLSS however the game immediately froze and I had to force close it.
If I disabled ReShade then enabled DLSS the game would function fine, but if I re-enabled ReShade it wouldn't go past the shaders loading screen on either game.
So it seems each works independently but when both are enabled the game will not run no matter what I've tried;
DXVK_RESHADE_DEPTH_CAPTURE=0

EnableShaderInjection=0
ForceVsync=0
NoReloadOnInit=1
Any success from anyone else? Google and all other search engines only come up with people using AMD and ReShade but not a single thing about Nvidia/DLSS and ReShade.

Just some thoughts on the Windows 11/anti-cheat TPM 2.0 fiascos from a person who recently swapped to Linux.

Watching these threads on gaming subreddits of gamers desperately trying to enable compatibility with their old hardware is just rough to see; doubly so because I was in their shoes. Registry edits, fiddling with advanced BIOS and firmware settings, BIOS flashing, advanced powershell scripts to rebuild windows indexes, installing these sketchy bypass tools, and on and on ... just to be able to boot their computer to play the latest game.

Meanwhile I recently swapped to Linux with the same older hardware and know how hard it was to start? I booted up Cachy, double clicked on the steam button, clicked on the 'use proton' setting, and clicked install. I was up and gaming within 10 minutes.

It's made me realize that, for all that I used to hear how "user unfriendly' Linux is to use, just how convoluted it is to do so much on Windows. Much of it you don't even realize it until it's gone. I guess people are just used to Windows that they don't realize how convoluted so much of it actually is? But it is very strange watching a person in one post talking about powershell scripts and making regedits and then in the next say he could never try Linux because it's "too complex" ... where the most complex thing I've had to do on Linux was run sudo pacman -S discord once.

Anyways TL;DR, gaming on Linux (and even just using in a general purpose sense) has been an absolute dream.

i want to start out by saying that I am incredibly grateful to linux devs and this post is in no way me complaining , just looking for advice.

i have an asus ROG flow z13 AI amax 395+ and a lenovo legion pro 7i 5080. I immediately put cachyOS on both and sadly I have had various problems on both. Long story short the problems are somewhat under control on the flow by reverting to the normal arch kernel, because sadly there were regressions on the cachyOS kernel. unfortunately that means I have to give up some hardware perks like being able to use my touchpad with multiple fingers but at least shit works now, but on the 7i my performance is abysmal along with other issues such as speakers not working properly so unfortunately as much as I really don't want to I have to go back to windows.

I want to avoid this problem in the future so in general I want to know what is the rule of thumb for new hardware and linux? How long should I wait generally? I heard that it basically used to be you had to wait a year for ubuntu to support it at all let alone all of the advanced shit like getting max performance, but I was under the impression that it was a lot quicker now. when is the best time to retry or is it generally dependent on the hardware and its popularity?

hello friends, recently switched to Debian, downloaded latest NVIDIA drivers and steam and decided to try CS2, at first it runs OK but as the game continues the game frame dips a lot. If I have discord in the background its even worse. I'm on Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 for compatibility and cant seem to use any other compatibility tool cause it wont let me in to comp. Any advice? Ik my pc could run it but this is just kinda sad.

Linux Mint latest, 32GB RAM, X299 Micro, Cinammon, Intel i-7-9800x, Nvidia 2060 Super

Just got better at Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered on Steam/Proton that uses EA Launcher. I've wanted a racing wheel for the racing games I have but have yet to get one because I'm not sure it'll actually work.

Im gonna use ubuntu only for minecraft is it good and can you provide some advice for making the performance more optimized