After hours of BIOS f*ckery, i have finally managed to re-enable my discrete GPU which is an Nvidia GeForce GT520M. I've downgraded to Debian 11 Bullseye and installed the latest driver (390.157) for this ancient Fermi GPU. It took a while but i've properly set up all Bumblebee stuff too.

$ optirun glxinfo | grep renderer OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 520M/PCIe/SSE2 $

But the glxgears FPS results were kind of disappointing considering the amount of effort i have put into reviving this GPU.

optirun glxgears - ~1600FPS (with nvidia-smi -pm 1) glxgears (using the HD 3000) - ~8000FPS

So is this truly a limitation of these Optimus GPU setups (where the GPU itself isnt connected to the display, but the iGPU is) or did i do something wrong?

this keeps popping up even though i have yad installed, i tried looking up if i could download the specific version it says but i couldnt find it

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i always wanted to play this game's campaign, should i buy it?

The game seems to run pretty perfect for me during gameplay since switching to proton experimental but during cutscenes it freezes and becomes entirely unresponsive. Does anyone know a fix for this?

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⚠️ Error Guide:

Blank page refresh: The code pool is currently empty, but AliExpress will likely restock it later today.

"Sorry, The Coupon Code... Has Been Used Up": The code is 100% dead. Skip it and try a backup code.

From what I'm seeing, this game is RT heavy and not any better with RT off. Were really relying on ray regeneration and RT to smooth this game out and even being an AMD sponsored game, its running better on Nvidia. Will we even see ray regeneration on Linux any time soon? Will it be baked in game? I'm really looking forward to it but having doubts after seeing benchmarks ran. Im using Cachy os with a 9070xt / 7800x3d. What do you think? Anyone else worried?

If you get the winevulkan loader_thunks.c error on Bazzite in Steam running Death Stranding 2, just try changing Proton to 'proton-cachyos-10' using ProtonPlus or any similar tool. For me, it instantly fixed the issue.

If you are planning a big purchase ($150+), the promo codes are your best friend. To ensure you actually get the discount:

Step 1: Find a dummy item (price >$500).

Step 2: Manually apply the $20, $40, or $80 codes below.

Step 3: This "stashes" the code in your account.

Step 4: Swap the dummy item for your actual shopping list.

This prevents the heartbreak of having a full cart but "expired" codes at checkout!

🇺🇸 USA-Only March Promo Codes (Active till Mar 25):

🎟 $3 off $15: USWE3 (20.00%)

🎟 $5 off $30: USWE5 (16.67%)

🎟 $7 off $49: USWE7 (14.29%)

🎟 $17 off $99: USWE17 (17.17%)

🎟 $30 off $159: USWE30 (18.87%)

🎟 $35 off $219: USWE35 (15.98%)

🎟 $50 off $329: USWE50 (15.20%)

🎟 $60 off $429: USWE60 (13.99%)

🎟 $70 off $509: USWE70 (13.75%)

🌍AliExpress March 2026 Global Promo Discount Codes in USD:

🎟 $3 off $15: USWA3G (20.00%)

🎟 $5 off $30: USWA5G (16.67%)

🎟 $7 off $49: USWA7G (14.29%)

🎟 $11 off $79: USWA11G (13.92%)

🎟 $20 off $139: USWA20G (14.39%)

🎟 $30 off $209: USWA30G (14.35%)

🎟 $45 off $319: USWA45G (14.11%)

🎟 $60 off $429: USWA60G (13.99%)

🎟 $70 off $509: USWA70G (13.75%)

Long-term Codes

Valid From Mar 1 to Mar 31, 2026,US ONLY

$2 off $15: U2C3 (13.33%)

$4 off $29: U4C3 (13.79%)

$7 off $49: U7C3 (14.29%)

$9 off $69: U9C3 (13.04%)

$16 off $109: U16C3 (14.68%)

$25 off $169: U25C3 (14.79%）

$35 off $239: U35C3 (14.64%)

$40 off $329: U40C3 (12.16%)

$55 off $459: U55C3 (11.98%）

US back-up for LONG-TERM use (US ONLY)

$3 off $29: USAE3 (10.30%)

$6 off $59: USAE6 (10.20%)

$9 off $89: USAE9 (10.10%)

$16 off $149: USAE16 (10.70%)

$23 off $199: USAE23 (11.60%)

$30 off $269: USAE30 (11.20%)

$40 off $369: USAE40 (10.80%)

$50 off $469: USAE50 (10.70%)

$60 off $599: USAE60 (10.00%)

$70 off $699: USAE70 (10.00%)

⚠️ Error Guide:

Blank page refresh: The code pool is currently empty, but AliExpress will likely restock it later today.

"Sorry, The Coupon Code... Has Been Used Up": The code is 100% dead. Skip it and try a backup code.

Just picked this up, I know it's launch day so there are probably quirks and issues, but I've been getting some serious stutters and was wondering if anyone has been experiencing the same? typically these stutters are occurring when I am moving around, or turning the camera, and the overall performance doesn't seem to line up with my specs.

Nobara Linux KDE v43

NVIDIA 4070 Super

7800x3d

Don't typically have problems with other titles.

Hello Linux gamers, I was wondering if Crimson Desert is compatible with Linux. I've checked protondb.com, but I haven't found any reviews yet. Has anyone here had the opportunity to try the game and can confirm if it runs smoothly?

Fluorine Manager serves as a port of Mod Organizer 2

As the changelog goes,:

With this release Ubuntu based distros now no longer need to install libxcb-cursor, also related to this libfuse3 not found warning has also been fixed for ubuntu based distros.

SLR support has been added, this mainly fixes issues with distros if they don't have 32 bit libs enabled. This also provides better tracking and monitoring for game processes.

Fedora had a missing libicui.so file this is now fixed and should work again on Fedora.

Bazzite Game Mode had issues detecting and running instances when only in game mode, this is now fixed. Thank you to .kexodus in discord for helping test this issue.

Logs are now generated in the /logs folder when you run fluorine, this should make it easier to share issues that come up.

I am trying to install through Faugus Launcher. On Firefox on Garuda Linux when I press the Download button it doesn't do anything. Am I missing something?

Only env variables are proton wayland proton enabale hdr.

In case anyone has issues launching Death Stranding 2 on Linux, I had to add "VKD3D_CONFIG=nodxr" as a launch parameter (so "VKD3D_CONFIG=nodxr %command%" in Steam launch options for the game) to fix this error:

Assertion failed

File: ../src-wine/dlls/winevulkan/loader_thunks_c

Line: 3151

Expression: "!status && "vkCreateComputePipelines""

In case anyone else crashes at startup when compiling shaders.

Bought a controller for Roblox, I use Sober. Sober doesn't see the controller but it does work in different games. Does anyone have a solution?

So steam always recreated this wineprefix every launch, and it always changing the proton version like from GE-Proton onto EM-Proton then DW-Proton and etc. Cleary this isn't game prefix right? because game prefix has AppID.