Hello! So i am trying to get NFS heat to work on linux, I have previous experience with MintOS, and I gave up with windows when my option to change my default browser, was removed. So i swapped over to Nobara, now onto the issue.

When I try to open protontricks, it is not able to access the proton steamcompat data files in my secondary m.2 drive, it spits an error shown

Drive C: total 16

drwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 May 28 19:07 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 May 28 19:07 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 0 May 28 19:07 Program Files
drwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 May 28 19:07 Program Files (x86)
drwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 0 May 28 19:07 ProgramData
drwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 0 May 28 19:32 openxr
drwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 0 May 28 19:07 users
drwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 0 May 28 19:07 vrclient
drwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 4096 May 28 19:07 windows

Registry info:
/mnt/Sally/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/1222680/pfx/system.reg:#arch=win64
/mnt/Sally/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/1222680/pfx/user.reg:#arch=win64
/mnt/Sally/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/1222680/pfx/userdef.reg:#arch=win64

/home/dingus/.var/app/com.github.Matoking.protontricks/cache/protontricks/proton/Proton 9.0/bin/wine cmd.exe /c echo '%AppData%' returned empty string, error message "steam-runtime-launch-client[287]: W: The --socket option is deprecated. Prefer to use the session bus.

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
wine: '/mnt/Sally/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/1222680/pfx' is not owned by you"

Thanks for the help!

I play this game last week on my main SSD and uninstall for deep cleaning storage, and I want to play this game again but Steam won't allow me to install. I re-turn on the Steam Play compability but only this game on my library doesn't let me install. What should I do?

I've been gaming on Linux for over a year now on Kubuntu and I've been pleasantly surprised by how everything just works. My Nvidia GPU just works, games via Steam using Proton just work, and I can even take a Windows installer of a Windows game and stuff it into Bottles, install it, run it, and it just works.

This experience really makes me wonder what even is the point of a "gaming distro" like Bazzite? Did I get outrageously lucky with my experience? Does installing drivers and prerequisite shit for gaming suck on other distros like a Fedora or Arch which is why a curated distro makes sense? Please discuss and share your experiences.

I’m sure I’m missing something but is steam OS the easiest way to get a Arch Linux setup on a laptop while also making it gaming capable?

So I switched over to Nobara from windows 10 and was trying out different games when I came across this issue in Hogwarts Legacy that I can't seem to resolve.

I have tried Proton Exp, hotfix, GE-10.3, and GE-9.27. I looked through ProtonDB and couldn't find anything related to the issue other then people having lowres textures and low poly models.

Anyone seen this before?

I've been a linux user for about two years now, and since i am building a pc to get back into gaming, i wanna put manjaro in that bitch, but from the threads ive read and videos watched, performance on linux is bad.

I really don't want to go back to windows, but if performance is still like 30% lower than windows, ill have no choice to go back.

So hows performance on manjaro, arch and others looking currently.

I'd really appreciate any feedback you guys have

my TLDR opinion : - it works fine and I advocate for Linux gaming for people who play only steam games and don’t need to go through setups and vms - the performances were good - steam games worked plug and play often - if you want to play different stuff and especially competitive games with anti cheats it’s a lot of work, for each game - really happy with how Linux gaming evolved and the community it was awesome and I had a blast !

Earlier this year I attempted to switch from windows to Linux for gaming.

I play not that many games but they are very different and require a lot of different things, we will come back to that.

I went to bazzite first, it was really nice but I play sim racing, needed to make my wheel force feedback work and everything, it felt doable but the os restrictions were making it a bit too hard so I went over to Nobara

I loved it, many steam games worked out of the box I managed to get my simracing games work, the wheel and everything setup.

But I also play league, competitive shooter games, …

Playing league on Linux is doable, competitive shooters too.

I did make league work but when I wanted to play comp shooters I gave up, everything work and is doable but it’s so much effort when you want to do many different things, I wouldn’t have given up if I only played one kind of game

I’m not the happiest to back to windows but it’s a lot less work for my needs but for many people Linux gaming is viable and I would recommend it for sure !

On Wirusdows for quite sometime there was DLSSTweaker that overwrote the dll of DLSS and allowed to force denoise preset (those A, B, C...K ones) and forcing from what resolution DLSS was scalling the image to native resolution (like forcing 100% resolution meant DLAA in games that didn't offer such option).
Now the only way is through NoVidAI App or NoVidAI Inspector to do so.

I have few games that I play sometimes on Wirusdows and sometimes on Arch Linux (same installation instance, same files) and on Win I enjoy DLAA while on Linux I want to puke at the quality of DLSS (because it uses defaults for which such game was developed).

Is there a way to force such overwrites on Linux as well? I've searched, but either I wrote search prompts wrong or it's not a thing (yet?).

*I call Nvidia as NoVidAI as an insult

Anyone got a solution for that? I have no idea why is it doing that now, it was working just fine till a little ago.

Tried with most recent Proton versions, all of them have the same issue. Both GE and official.

https://preview.redd.it/arafxssial3f1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1623cbb286bfaab06724fd87da5324336ffe8e9

My specs are:
Distro: Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900KF
GPU: GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
RAM: 16 Gb

I just got the DBD PTB and I wanna play, but for some reason, no matter what I can't find a match! I know there are people online, so whats going on??? please help!

im pretty sure elden ring doesnt use this so im worried and this was not listed on the nigthreign page initially

Hello! Now that Epig Games is suing Apple to make Fortnite work on Apple and with it being bad for consumers that there is only one means of payment on their closed system, what stops anyone from suing Epic Because they don't have Linux support?

You could say the same about Xbox and Playstation but now I keep it strange that they do not have support for us who use Linux

This pops up and wont launch the game tried validating files proton hotfix, experimental, and 9.0.4, and reinstalling the game

Review of the Miyoo Flip. They finally gave the link to the GitHub with the custom OS source code.

I need to play a game, that needs to be installed with an exe, and also needs to be played by selecting a game with the web browser which redirects to the app. I can't seem to figure it out, any solutions?

https://preview.redd.it/55v34ui0tk3f1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=b013020beaf13e3e7fbb163741caa4ecffa01c60

My specs are:
Distro: Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900KF
GPU: GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
RAM: 16 Gb

I have already tried moving EAC to the same drive as the game instead of the other drive it was on (this was originally a windows 11 PC but I have since switched it to a dual booting machine just because I'm in college and wanna still be able to use windows just in case theres some piece of proprietary software that I need) nothing has worked though, please help!

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New Features :

Better detection of existing prefixes on system.

Game library backup and restore if upgrade AppImage.

Twitch IGDB is now built in , no individual setup . This is trial to see how many hits we get to the DB , hopefully not too many failures.

Coming Soon,

Emulator support

Better backup support and also adding compressed backups of games to library which auto unpack and repack if file changes detected.

Your suggestions welcome.

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Hello all, first post here and all that.

Long story short, how to install SOF2 from ISO, I have no cd in my computer anymore, but I've stored the 2 disc isos.

I've tried to mount them, I've tried installing from usb sticks, I've tried to copy them in different ways to either a single folder or 2 different folders on the hard drive....no luck.

Always craps out on "insert cd 2"

Any tips?