gaming on linux I think really is overhyped it’s very buggy every game has its own unique bug running under proton.

Hey!

First time here and maybe there were some similar posts for that I’m sorry.

Would like to ask someone who had experienced transition from windows to linux for gaming (I guess using proton/wine), was that something being frustrating for you or everything you play is running fine/better. (Yes I understand that kernel anti-cheat games will not run)

Thinking about deleting windows in favor of linux because gaming is the only thing that holds me in right now and I hate this

Hello! I wanted to know something that I can't find much of an answer to.

Basically the title, how is gaming on linux with an rx 570? I have this graphics card accompanied by a Ryzen 5 1600af and about 16gb of ram, I would like to know how the performance is in games with this graphics card before choosing which distro to use (I had Bazzite, CachyOs and PIkaOS in mind)

I ask this here because I couldn't find benchmarks on linux with the rx 570 on youtube (Thank you in advance-)

So I play Stellaris with my friends over the network. I'm the only Linux user.

The problem is, when we have our games load, my game takes 3-4 times longer than everybody else. During the game, especially when things get busy toward end game, the game loses sync regularly.

I've gone through the usual troubleshooting - ensuring clean networking (no dropped packets or other problems), plenty of space on my filesystems, nothing is hogging the CPU.

Anybody else have problems running the native Stellaris binaries with Windows peers?

Filesystem is ext4 on an NVMe SSD.

Hi everyone! I just switched to Bazzite on Linux. I'm trying to set up my BG3MM and I've run into an issue with installing, and a lot of the guides I find are a bit tricky to understand.

Can someone possibly help me with setting up BG3MM on Linux? It opens just fine and everything, but the SE isn't staying installed and my mod load order won't stay either. The game seems to launch just fine and mods are installing just fine, but without my load order staying, I can't get into a game. Any help is appreciated!! Thank you

Hello, im about to buy AMD 9060XT i generally play comp games, i have never used linux before but heard that my gpu will be great combo with linux is it actually accurate? or pointless?

Hello, everyone!

After nearly ten months of intensive development with doing a complete rewrite of the application from the ground up with over 2300+ commits...

We are proud to announce that version 0.10.0b is out on Flathub!

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Version 0.10.0b

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It's a big update there and no software is bug free.

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Estou tentando jogar pela Epic Games através do Heroic com GE-Proton 10.28. Já reinstalei o jogo, apaguei os arquivos e tentei a recuperação mas nada do que eu fiz resolveu isto.

Hi all

So, long story short: after a 15 year pc-gaming hiatus I wanted to wean myself off the mega-corpos tiddies and switch to a different, slightly more benevolent mega-corpo: steam.

I just build a "new" PC for that purpose (ryzen 7 5800x, 32gb ddr4, 9060 XT 16GB, Fedora 43 + Gnome).

My main purpose has been and will always be gaming in front of the TV on the couch. I work all day at the desk, so I don't want to stay here for my relaxation.

Anyway. So I got steam and lucked out with a sale for a lot of Assassin's creed games today. That's where the positives ended.

First, I thought I could run my HDMI GPU output through a splitter, so I can switch back and forth between my monitor and my TV. Nope. Fedora (43) or possibly linux generally did not like that. It simply did not recognize the TV when switched to.

Then I figured I will plug them both in at the same time. However, I only have one HDMI, and my monitor is an ultrawide. Apparently, DP is limited to a certain refresh-rate for these resolutions. So I can either enjoy a blurry downscaled resolution or a crisper resolution and a stuttery refresh rate of 30hz. Aces.

Fine. At least the games ought to work, right? RIGHT?

Well, not really. Not matter what I tried in order to use Steams big picture mode on the TV (2nd Monitor), the games would either start on the 1st monitor, OR, better yet, after asking me to sign into Ubisoft connect for the 100'000th time, would open on the TV in a mega-awful resolution that allowed me to count individual pixels. Sounds like an exaggeration, right? But it was so bad that letters were blocks, so I could not navigate anything.

The only way I made it somewhat work was to deactivate the 1st monitor via Gnomes display settings, and then interact exclusively with the game on the TV. Even then, it only worked when I launched it through the normal Steam interface, and not the big mode. On top, the only resolution that fit my TV was awful, and stuttery. Playing at lesser resolution gave super FPS, but also only filled the top quarter of the TV.

Alright. So what am I missing? What am I doing wrong? I guess gaming on linux is better than ever, but not yet good enough to work seamlessly on a TV?
Are there better setups to pursue? What can I try?

Please, send help! I am frustrated after spending so much money, dreaming of cheap games and freeing myself from subscriptions. But this is not sustainable for me, as the effort to start a game way outweighs the joy I get for 1h per night :(

Hi all.

After launching Elden Ring Nightrein, a pop-up appears saying that it was unable to connect to the server. I feel like I've tried every trick people mention online, from starting the game with Steam in offline mode to disabling IPv6 on the entire system. Most notably, I found extremely few Linux-specific posts mentioning similar problems, and not a single one with a proposed solution, as the game seems to just work pretty much out of the box on a variety of setups.

Has anyone faced similar issues?

System specs (as reported by fastfetch):

• OS: Arch Linux x86_64
• Kernel: Linux 6.18.5-arch1-1
• CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF (32) @ 4.40 GHz
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti [Discrete]
• Memory: 31.15 GiB

Steam setup for the game:

• Proton version: GE-Proton10-28
• Launch command: STEAM_RUNTIME=1 gamemoderun mangohud %command%

Not entirely sure what else I could send that would be useful, please do let me know if you have an inkling of what might be going on! Thank you in advance.

I've been wanting to switch to Linux for a while now, but that held me back were some games that i couldn't be able to play anymore, and some performance issue. I know that those companies sucks but i think that at least for now I'll make a dual boot with a debloated w11 for some games, and Linux as my main OS where i can still play other games.

So my question is, what's the best distro to start for a beginner and a gamer? I saw some recommendations for Nobara or CachyOS for gaming, or even Bazzite, but I'm still not sure which one to choose or if there are better options for my hardware.

I have an NVIDIA GeForce 3060 as a Gpu and a Ryzen 5 5600x as a CPU, if that would have any impact on the choice of the distro.

I'm playing my Steam copy of Street Fighter 6 on my Ubuntu Noble system, using obviously the Proton Experimental compatibility tool. I've played the entire World Tour mode, but during the final fights I noticed I was having a bit too much difficulties compared to the AI-Driven fighters to enter the Master Techniques or whatever they're called. The ones that in modern controls and on an X-Box-type controller require you to input the Y, B and direction arrow at the same time. I went to the training mode via menu and I noticed that yeah, when the game doesn't have to generate a new battle background from every encounter you have in the maps of World Tour, I struggle way less with Masters and also with the Supers. It's a difficulty from the game to combine the inputs from the D-Pad and the action buttons, apparently.

I'm now installing the game on my Steam Deck to see if it repeats with a Linux OS tailored for gaming. In the meanwhile, did something similar happen to you?

I got from the boyfriend of my friend some „trash“ parts (he considered them useless), I got two nvme enclosures, a webcam and a 1060GTX with 6gb vram for 20€. Also a free old pc, where the im planing to replace the power supply and case so that I can install the gpu into (I haven‘t looked at the cpu yet but is an amd that I know for windows 8).

I wanted to make the pc ready for a friend who doesn‘t has a pc but I wanted him to finally be able to play steam games (he only has a PlayStation) and see our discord stream :p.

I thought that with a Linux distribution that is arch based, beginner friendly and power efficient like Bazzite or cachyos, and with NVIDIA drivers installed on it, that it would run most games with normal to low settings fine (I also told him that).

But would that still be a possibility when NVIDIA stops the support?

Tuxanci is first tux shooter. In the absolute beginning it was inspired by a well-known Czech game Bulanci. in 2008-2010 it got abandoned and now in 2026 I am now reviving the game!

Pls help. Sis wants to play Hogwarts Legacy on zorin os, gtx 1050 4gb, she has nvidia prime and nvidia-smi works and all. its just that hogwarts legacy is extremely stubborn

well, this is the problem:
so i installed the cracked version of South Park: The Fractured But Whole to play using Wine
when i start it with Q4Wine it says that the program started fine, but it never shows a window
i tried ejecuting it via terminal, and with Steam and Heroic with proton GE but nothing
also tried using winedbg but it don't show anything.
and yeah, saw that post in this same subreddit from years ago about the game, but it didn't help.