Hello fellas,

I have played Star craft for years on Linux, but recently I had to do a reinstall and can't get it to work anymore. All the installation processes I found seem to be outdated.

For example with proton the setup.exe (both for star craft directly and for the blizzard launcher) crashes, Lutris didn't work for me either.

Does someone know a way to make this work?

August 2018 Steam Survey from Wayback Machine

Steam Hardware & Software Survey (archive.org)

Current April 2024 Steam Survey from Steam

Steam Hardware & Software Survey (steampowered.com)

Looking at the Wayback Machine archive for the Steam survey in August 2018, the month that Proton officially launched, the three-way split OS split had macOS at 2.66%, Linux at .49% and Windows at 96.77%. The current April 2024 Steam survey Steam survey has macOS at 1.35%, Linux at 1.90% and Windows at 96.76%

All the growth that Linux has experienced in this survey to date didn't come from Windows, it came for macOS. But as Apple has moved to their own silicone and other things, this drop off in macOS on Steam was more than predictable, it was inevitable. I doubt this means that many macOS gamers just stopped gaming on macs, they went elsewhere for games.

And while the Windows market share has remained stable, Windows gamers have a lot more options for games now than in August 2018, most notably EGS and Game Pass. Neither of these stores existed in August 2018 and no matter how one views them individually, without question they are drawing a decent sized group of Windows gamers away from Steam. Not entirely, but at least some of the time as opposed to none at all when neither of these stores exited.

I believe Linux is likely overrepresented on the Steam survey as Steam is the only officially supported Linux game store and that much of its growth is related to macOS and Windows gamers playing more on other stores and that Linux growth really isn't much at all.

I get it from a Linux gaming fan perspective thinking that advancements with Proton, the Deck and other Linux gaming achievements in last six years, make Linux more attractive to gamers. Windows 11 has its issues, but gaming on it on modern hardware has been very solid. It's flat out much better than Linux is on this kind of stuff. I know things are coming along in this space, especially HDR. But just can't constantly lag in support for the newest stuff if it is to experience real, tangible real growth.

Hello I am playing RDR2 in steam deck using heroic games launcher. I would love to use trainer on single player mode and STL has stopped working for a while now... Cheat deck also doesn't work for this, can someone tell me if there is a way? Thank you...

I downloaded all the necessary files and tried to install it via both Lutris and Heroic, using wine-ge 8.26, wine 9.7, and even proton-9. None of them work. It just throws in the following error:

Does not match Checksum!
Unarc.dll returned an error code: -12
ERROR: file Z:\Games\jc3\temp\01\ui\font\font_debug.gfx failed CRC Check

Any idea as to how I can fix this? I've tried rehashing the torrent, everything showed fine.

I'm using Arch btw, with KDE

P.S. I don't exactly know what flair to give it so I'm assuming "wine/proton" flair should be fine

hey guys,

I hope to share this fix and let more gamers know about it and test it together

it include patches from here amd-drm-issue-2186

if you are using arch-based distributions,

you can now install cachyos-v3/linux-cachyos-rc 6.9.rc6-4

then add following lines in /etc/environment

this work for me ! I haven't found other regressions yet

hope you enjoy !

kwin related : https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/5247

cachyos kernel patch : https://github.com/CachyOS/kernel-patches/commit/796eac6a68c9736b9555b798bcd1deee2e86cb80

I tried to add a steam library to my HDD which is mounted on /mnt/data. when i run steam via the console and look at the logs i get the error that it has permission issues. I have give the steam folder that i want it in all permissions and set it to my user.

What do i need to change in the permissions to fix the issue.

permissions:

https://preview.redd.it/7ld1qxshxlyc1.png?width=395&format=png&auto=webp&s=7d32030059ed2e25bcf5e5d99c657f8f80c6ae18

https://preview.redd.it/yfg2rxfdxlyc1.png?width=450&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0cd9ad1f754e2c3ed50631a98da721cb1979e16

steam error:

Couldn't write /.steam_exec_test.sh: Permission denied

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/5/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2812/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/clion/274/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/2264/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/16574/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/16928/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/clion/275/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/2182/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/core22/1122/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/cura-slicer/160/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/cura-slicer/162/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/datagrip/193/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/datagrip/194/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/198/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/figma-linux/189/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-34-1804/93/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/hello-world/29/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-38-2004/143/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1535/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/morgen/102/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/phpstorm/387/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/morgen/104/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/phpstorm/390/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /var/lib/snapd/snap/whatsdesk/28/.steam_exec_test.sh: Read-only file system

Couldn't write /.snapshots/.steam_exec_test.sh: Permission denied

Couldn't write /var/log/.steam_exec_test.sh: Permission denied

Couldn't write /var/cache/pacman/pkg/.steam_exec_test.sh: Permission denied

sh: line 1: /mnt/data/.steam_exec_test.sh: Permission denied

Failed system("/mnt/data/.steam_exec_test.sh") in execute test: 32256

Couldn't write /boot/.steam_exec_test.sh: Permission denied

sh: line 1: /mnt/data/steam/.steam_exec_test.sh: Permission denied

Failed system("/mnt/data/steam/.steam_exec_test.sh") in execute test: 32256

Listen, Riot decided to kick us out. They are guided by the fact that there are few of us. Only 800. But this is not so, there are at least a couple of dozen of us. And besides everything, we have friends who play on Windows. And among them, for sure, there are those for whom it is more important to play WITH US, and not specifically in the League of Legends. What if someone who can gather an audience declares this? “We are leaving, and our friends are leaving with us in solidarity.”

Who wants to read the entire “flight of thought” of riot, look for the developer diaries for their anti-cheat Trojan

earlier like 6 months ago it was quite easy to use roblox on linux now i am not able to install it my distro is linux lite

Posting here because I can't find help anywhere and I really want to ditch Windows Currently using tumbleweed

I am having issues with my GC-WBAX1200 aka AMD WIFI 6E RZ608 with bluethooth has wifi works fine . The only it detects and works with is my phone and bluethooth headphones

it cant see , My bluethooth keyboard and the mouse , my xbox controllers , my stadia controlller and switch pro controller

What i tried :

Fedora Doc for bluethooth issues
-Arch Wiki
-Googling for hours
-Other Distros ( Arco linux , Garuda ) in Live enviroment and installs ( tried nobara for a while and mint )
-VM with windows to pair there and pray it works
-Nobara Discord
- Reinstall

Controllers work fine with cable and have drivers for the xbox ones that support bluetooth installed . it works fine in windows , logistically it doesn't work for me if have to use a cable

Has anyone else have Sker Ritual crashing when playing online with other people? It runs fine solo, but online it will eventually freeze and crashing with some kind of loading popup thing.

Looking around, it may be due to a kernel regression in the 6.8.9 kernel.

I am a bit at a loss here.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS freshly intalled.

wired connection says its getting the full gigabit.

Firefox reports it can see and use the full gigabit

Steam hangsout at 100mbit for some reason

i am sure this is a config somewhere that i have to alter but i am unsure why it would even be setup this way to begin.

Granted i used the store thingy to grab steam so that might have been a wrong move?

Thank you for your time

the title explains everything, shit so annoying, just trying to enjoy the game when this shit happens its usually ocassionally, but the time it does happen its a major inconvience as im typically having fun by that time, i've tried using proton ge, proton, proton experiemental but then joining and server just says to remove add ons despite not having any, am i just fucked here? its clear that valve aint going to do anything, anybody know how to fix this?

Has any of you experienced poor performance in BG3 since a few days ago? Run some updates on my Fedora 40 Gnome x11, with Rtx 3080 and suddenly it lags a bit while playing

I've been experiencing this issue for about a week. Would really appreciate any guidance on troubleshooting steps. Would love to either solve the issue, or file an issue in the right place(s).

Overwatch 2 begins to stutter after about 90 minutes of gameplay (specific time varies). Once the stuttering has begun, each keyboard input freezes the game for ~50ms, making the game practically unplayable. The game does not crash, but will not relaunch properly after closing.

• Stuttering behavior begins after about 90 minutes of gameplay. Running the game idle does not induce the issue. Running the game with stuff happening (e.g. workshop benchmark code with a bunch of bots doing stuff) does not induce the issue.

• Only key presses passed into the game cause a stutter. If the game window is not focused, key presses do not cause stutter. Binding a mouse click to one of my keyboard keys does not cause a stutter. Using a different keyboard did not impact the behavior. Toggle keys like caps lock, scroll lock, or num lock do not cause stutter.

• The stuttering is preceded by about 90 seconds of 100% GPU utilization (vs. normal 70%), then the stuttering begins, and the high GPU utilization continues for about 60 more seconds before returning to normal.

• Spamming keyboard inputs to create stutter reduces GPU utilization to ~45%.

• Perhaps unrelated: Attempting to relaunch the game after the stuttering has begun often (but not always) causes Pipewire-pulse to crash with error messages like ...pipewire-pulse[3158]: mod.protocol-pulse: client 0x55c51ba0a350 [Overwatch.exe]: ERROR command:-1 (invalid) tag:19 error:25 (Input/output error). One message for each playback and recording device an application is using (e.g. two messages for OBS, one for Firefox).

• dmesg:
  

[68747.505891] umip_printk: 8911 callbacks suppressed [68747.505895] umip: Overwatch.exe[17645] ip:1408636aa sp:11d2b0: SIDT instruction cannot be used by applications. [68747.505899] umip: Overwatch.exe[17645] ip:1408636aa sp:11d2b0: For now, expensive software emulation returns the result. [68747.521093] umip: Overwatch.exe[17645] ip:1408636aa sp:11d120: SIDT instruction cannot be used by applications. [68747.521101] umip: Overwatch.exe[17645] ip:1408636aa sp:11d120: For now, expensive software emulation returns the result. [68747.524442] umip: Overwatch.exe[17645] ip:1408636aa sp:11cd90: SIDT instruction cannot be used by applications.

• tail steam-2357570.log | grep warn:

68699.271:0124:0128:warn:seh:dispatch_exception backtrace: --- Exception 0x80000004. 68699.271:0124:0128:warn:seh:dispatch_exception EXCEPTION_SINGLE_STEP exception (code=80000004) raised 68699.271:0124:0128:warn:seh:virtual_unwind backtrace: 00000001409057BE: L"Overwatch.exe" + 00000000009057BE.

• Kernel 6.8.7-300.fc40.x86_64
• Fedora 40 (GNOME), Wayland
• AMD Ryzen 5700X + Radeon 7900 XTX.
  
• Proton 9.0-1, DXVK 2.3-51, Gamescope 3.14.2-1.fc40

Hi guys, I recently bought Mass Effect LE on Steam, but I can't play it at all.

I tried all the suggestions on protondb like switching to proton 7.0-6, experimental or GE, but I can't get past the EA screen. I know that EA sometimes breaks compatibility with proton on a whim, so is there any way I can get past the EA launcher?

I read other people's posts who have the same problem, but nobody seems to have a clear solution.

Thank you all in advance.

Hello, I'm trying to get the dualshock 4 touchpad to input directly into the emulated DS touchscreen instead of functioning as a desktop mouse. Is there any way of doing this?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently trying to get FFXIV working on Ubuntu 22.04 using the Snap version of Steam. My FFXIV account is also using a Steam Service Account, and it seems that the FFXIVLauncher Flatpak will not detect my Steam account when Steam is installed as a Snap.

Currently I'm attempting to run the game just purely from Steam, and have tried various different Proton versions, including the latest 3 GE-Proton versions. When clicking on Play in the official launcher, I get the following error:

https://preview.redd.it/u2jn4vk9gjyc1.png?width=860&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ba2f63402bbcda03ca05d5e1da17a6f9b5b131a

I've been trying to research this, and come up with some solutions, but I'm coming up blank on this one. Any advice, support etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou!