Hey guys, I don't know if any of you ever played Tiny Death Star, but I really liked it.
It has been some time since I played it, and I thought that I wanted to play it again.
I thought about installing an apk of the game, because the official version got taken down.
Sadly I couldn't get it to work on my android phone with Android 16 and I saw that there was also a Version for windows which maybe could run on Linux, or maybe I could run the apk somehow on Linux.
If you have any ideas, please let me know, it would make me really happy to play it again :D

Hello there,
Happy New Year 2026, everyone!

I've encountered this error message in a few games, which appears from time to time in the logs, and even though I've never noticed any consequences, I'm still intrigued.
I'm using an AMD RX 9070 XT GPU, running Fedora 43 KDE.

Is this message worth paying attention to? And if so, what steps can I take to try to fix it?
Thanks in advance.

Hey guys! How are you doing?

I'm gonna install Fedora 43. I have KDE and GNOME versions. But which is gonna be better for gaming? I'm using Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN. It has NVIDIA GeForce MX150. Is flatpak stable on Fedora?

And I appreciate your help.

I'm suffering from time-to-time stuttering in this game and I don't know why. E.g. in the vatican, if I enter a pathway, fps drops to <20fps for a moment, just to revert to > 60fps, even without moving.

Strange thing is, lowering settings and resolution, e.g. from QHD (native) to FHD didn't do much. Performance based instead of quality based upscaling doesn't do much too, so I think it's not my ingame settings (tried to reduce other settings too - raytracing is completely turned off)

I read about it on ProtonDB, and the main things there is to use the "AMD Pro"(?) driver. I'm not savvy enough to install multiple drivers side-by-side. And as a further interesting observation: When the game saves, it doesn't stutter (so it doesn't seem to be my ssd).

Could anyone give me a hint on how to improve this game's performance?

My specs:

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma/Wayland
Ryzen 7 3700X
AMD 9060XT 16GB (Mesa 25.3.1)
32GB RAM
Proton-GE Latest

So guys. What is your experience with intel gpus nowadays when it comes to gaming? How is the driver support? And etc.

Hi,

Looks like Cyberpunk 2077 now crashes on Nvidia - I'm on 580.95.05 drivers and tried a plethora of protons, from latest GE to Hotfix and Experimental, alas all crashing.

Any idea on how to possibly fix this?

Thanks!

Hello, I installed Exult from the AUR via paru. To set up the game files, I need to find the config file, but I don't know where it is. Can someone help me?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/exult-git

GPU: RTX 3060 | Driver Version: 580.95.05

CPU: i5-10400f

RAM: 32Gb DDR4

Monitor: 2560x1440p 320Hz

Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 | 6.14.0-37-generic

Just recently, I went to play GTA V but when it launched it showed a black screen and would get stuck there forever until I force closed it. I just recently installed GTA IV and got enhancement mods and thats when I couldnt play gta 5. It used to work perfectly fine for months up until now.

Heres what I've tried so far:

• Setting GTA V Enhanced launch options: -w 1280 -h 720 and -w 2560 -h 1440
• Uninstalling GTA IV (Seeing if there was a file conflict)
• Verifying GTA V file integrity
• Using launch options: SteamDeck=1 %command%
• Restarting PC and Steam

Sometimes it would launch but even then it would just have a screen ripple effect and my mouse would be laggy. When the game does rarely launch the resolution is correct. (2560x1440p 320Hz)

Proton Logs

Im running an Intel Arc A750, Mesa 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 driver, Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon X11 (CInnamon on Wayland has been tested too), Intel i5-16000K, Kernel 6.14. I opened Titanfall 2 through Steam, using Proton Experimental. When using multiplayer, it typically freezes after 3 minutes, i feel like it may freeze when dying/respawning though im not sure. https://pastebin.com/6dSq1C6e is the link to the logs when opening titanfall 2 through steam

Distro is Arch, set up with archinstall, but I had the same issues on Mint so I doubt it's a distro-specific issue. I installed steam through pacman. I haven't really done any tinkering with important system files or anything post-installation.

Most of the games I've tried on Linux work very well, with a few very odd exceptions.

Half-Life 2, Portal 2, and Garry's Mod are all basically nonfunctional. P2 and Gmod will run normally for a while, and then crash randomly, with no error message or warning, just instantly closing. HL2 behaves very strangely, being prone to crashes and unable to load saves or workshop maps.

I try to run it in the terminal and I get an error like "error while loading shared libraries: libmimalloc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" (sometimes the file is different, but the causes are probably the same) which is odd because I can find the file in the game's folder.

I don't think it's a hardware issue, since I've tried it with 3 different GPUs each from different brands (1 integrated and 2 discrete) but I'm running a Ryzen 5 7600 and and Intel Arc B580, and 16 gigs of RAM.

I tried replacing the files, installing various packages, including ones that should help with 32-bit apps, updating my system, making sure my drivers are in order, verifying files, deleting and reinstalling, using all sorts of launch options, monitoring system info while the game is running, nothing works.

Some source games, like TF2 and CS2 work fine, maybe because they're 64 bit? I think the issue might boil down to some weird 32-64 bit incompatibility, but I don't really know. How can I fix this? Does anyone have any idea, or have dealt with this issue before?

I don't know if I'm just stupid and did something very wrong, but how is it that Valve's flagship games are complete nightmares to get working, when they're the ones who made "Linux gaming" into a viable proposition? I'm not the only one with this issue, so how has this not been patched?

Hi, I don't know if this bug has a solution as I don't really know how to describe it or if it has a name.

What happens it's that in some game, some lightning or ambient effects that should be in the background are on front of everything, making it very hard to see anything in some cases.

It happens to me in Warframe and in Elden Ring Nightreing. In the first there's some lights that just stays on top of everything, it's annoying but not that bad. But in Nightreing there's like a white fog that should be in the background, but it appear on top and makes the game literally unplayable.

I took a screenshot but it didn't save for some reason, will take another tomorrow as I'm writing this from my phone right now.

I have a nvidia 3050 laptop GPU.

Hi, I have Linux Mint with Wayland and Waydroid.

Games like Free Fire work perfectly, but Call of Duty Mobile won't launch: it just gets stuck on the icon and doesn't go any further.

Does anyone know if COD Mobile is currently compatible with Waydroid or if there's any way to make it work?

Is it because of the anti-cheat or the system verification?

I have a Lenovo Legion Go 2 that comes with a 7100 mb/s read 1tb ssd, and i wanna get a 2tb upgrade, and i got a deal (which is incredible because of ssd pricing rn) on a wd blue 2tb that has a 5100 mb/s read speed. I wanted to ask if i am going to get significantly less performance on this drive. Thank you!

Does anyone know how I can download games on Linux and use them with online.fix? I'm a user who switched from Windows to Linux. On Windows, I used Hydra to download games like The Forest, and I could play them just by running it. It's not the same on Linux. Could someone tell me step-by-step what I can do? I need things that actually work because I want to play The Forest with my Windows friends even though I'm on Linux, and I want to know where to download the game and what to do to get it running and working online.

hi guys, recently i made a similar post but I've spoked in portuguese so... long story, short story, how you've been dealing with the anticheat error? I don't want to make a dual boot only to play chivalry but god... if i cant make it works that will do unfortunately

Every guide i found was either way too complex or didnt work, so heres something at keeps it simple and GUI

1. Download mod https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly, extract it
2. Install Bottles and Flatseal flatpaks
3. Open flatseal, find bottles, scroll down to filesystem, and enable "All user files"
4. Open Bottles, click 3 dot menu in top right corner, go to preferences > Runners > Proton GE > Install newest version (hit save icon)
5. Go to bottles tab, click plus button in top left corner
6. Create Gaming bottle, name it stalker anomaly
7. In programs section, click add shortcuts, point it at your AnomalyLauncher.exe in mod folder
8. Scroll down to Options > Settings, change runner to latest proton GE version
9. (Optional but very convenient) Close steam, make sure it's not running in background. In bottles next to where you can start AnomalyLauncher, the 3 dot icon, add to steam, now open steam and it will be in your games library

If you want to additionally install Mod Organizer 2 follow these steps

1. Download Mod.Organizer-x.x.x.7z, it's a portable version of the manager https://github.com/ModOrganizer2/modorganizer/releases
2. Extract it where you want and add it as a non steam game, right click on properties, check 'Force the use of a specific steam play compatility tool' set to proton experimental (Bottles does not work for this as it will fail to detect steam)
3. Point Mod organizer at your AnomalyLauncher

Linux mint keeps breaking cutscenes in games. First it was spiderman 2 where it froze during the saving tombstone from his cell cutscene but the audio kept playing until suddenly the whole cutscene played in a few seconds before returning to normal. In Lego starwars the complete saga as shown above. The cutscene did the same thing. Froze part way though with audio continuing. But it froze completely rather than fast forwarding the cutscene and resuming the game. I have the recommended nvdia drivers for my 3060 and am running proton experimental rn (it auto installed and i just havent changed it yet)

What should I do when support ends in 2028? What will happen to older graphics cards running Linux? And even worse, what will happen to computers when Windows 11 support ends and they no longer meet the requirements to upgrade to Windows 12? For example, I use a very old computer from 2050 with a GTX 10xx series graphics card. I know there's no explanation, but are there any alternatives?