So i always wanted to switch to linux since maybe 1-2 years, i think i did in 2024 or 25 for maybe a week i was using mint but because of some incompatibility or maybe some things i was not aware of i switch back to windows.
I mean i heard that the vortex mod manager is going to be supported for linux soon apparently so i guess that's not a problem for long cause i do like to mod my fallout 4 sometimes and it's cool to see that more and more things are supported on linux now.

So know i'm still on windows 11 and i'm thinking of going on the linux side but i want to know multiples things :

- How do i do if i want to be able to do clips all the times ?
Cause now i'm using the nvidia instant replay with the nvidia app, apparently with obs or something like that it's possible ?

- How hard is it to run "legal" games ? cause i sometimes "try" some games to see if i like it yk

- I use a beyerdynamic mmx 200 wireless headset, will i have problems with it or not ?

- can i run the logitech g hub ? cause i sometime use my logitech wheel

- and finally for now i know it's the same questions always but what distro should i use ?
tbh i just want something pretty simple and good for privacy and compatiblity

ive been searching everywhere but i cant seem to find a place to download the native version of grid autosport, i searched everywhere, the only way ive seen people playing it is if theyve alrready bought the game some time ago on steam. I have a HP Envy DV6 with the Nvidia Geforce GT 635M which somehow managed to run the game at 45ish fps on win 11 on medium graphics. If anyyone has a way, please let me know. Thanks

Hi! I’ve been dealing with an issue for a while now. It all started when I tried to create a free online server for Minecraft Java so I could play together with my sister. From that moment on, the game has never launched properly again.

To be honest, I’m not even sure the problem is related to that website, since it doesn’t really make sense to me. As you can see in the video below, when I press Play in the launcher, the game starts and I can hear the menu music, but there’s no actual menu image. All I see (as shown in the video) is a small corner of my entire desktop inside the game window.

I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but the problem persists. I also searched through various sources, even tried asking ChatGPT for help, but none of the solutions worked.

If anyone knows what I can do, I’d be deeply grateful! Has anyone else experienced something like this?

For the past 2 days i have tried and failed to get steamvr to work on linux. I have tried bazzite 43 and ubuntu 24.04, and every time i have gotten 3 errors, 405, 499, 1200. I have an rx 6700 xt and a i11400 with an iGPU, and i tried the steam link app, alvr and wiVRn. None worked. If anyone knows a easy setup where it will just work, or almost just work. i dont care about what distro it is, or desktop enviorment

Basically I need a gaming distro that has switchable X11 and Wayland at loading screen. I wanted to use Nobara when I noticed it's now only Wayland. I hear I can add X11 by Konsole but have been recommended against it. Any distro optimizes for amd gaming that has those at default?

The reason why I need both is because I wanna use Wayland primarily but at times I will need X11 because I wanna write a script that presses A and D to move right or left in a game every 30 or so seconds even when the game is unfocused. Like so I can play smtn else or browse the web while the script holds A for 30 and then D for 30. According to googling this is only possible with X11. Help?

Hello guys. Did somebody try to play Sonic Frontiers on Linux with Nvidia card? It launches and everything works excellent but after finishing the first level the game just freezes dead. My specs:

Rtx 5060 Ti(with nvidia-open-dkms driver)

Ryzen 7 7700X

Arch linux

I've tried different graphics settings, gamemoderun, gamescope multiple proton and proton GE versions and game reinstall but nothing works

This is my 3 months experience on gaming with Linux, honestly I am so impressed by the compatibility of Linux because 5 years back then I only knew that Linux = Ubuntu and some distros for Raspberry Pi however now -and due to gaming OS- I knew tons of OS. Currently I am running CachyOS as it is said that it is the max performance OS for gaming. I know part of the issues I am going to say are hardware related.

CPU: Intel Core-i7 11700H

GPU: RTX 3060 Laptop

Ram: 16GB

What I like:

- very less to no bloat running on the system

- every order every mouse click every close every open feels snappy and instant

- less Ram usage on idle

- less CPU usage on idle = quitter fan noise

- satisfying my developer fantasies

What I don’t like:

- I have to test/tinker to find the best sweet spot for every game which by the end the avg. FPS is lower than Windows

- Modding non-steam is painful

Outcome: I know that part of my gaming performance is hindered by the nvidia GPU and AMD is better supported, also I was testing on Arc Raiders, yet the game is playable as at a descent frame rate (55-80+FPS as I am locking the game to 80FPS). Also I won’t blame Linix for kernel based games like COD and Fortnite because its a dev issue and I know that at some point it will be resolved (steam deck is coming…). One more thing if someone who play modern pirated games just forget it.

Notes: as a dev I was comparing installing MySQL server and MySQL workbench on both Windows and CachyOS, on windows things were simple with few clicks however on Linux I learned that Arch based linux favors MarinaDB over the official MySQL server, I learned how to install from the AUR and also the power of using docker.

Hi all,

I've been trying to use xbox cloud gaming on my laptop (I'm on linux mint mate if that matters to anyone) via firefox (I've also tried chrome but that didn't help in any way) but for some reason when i try and use my controller my X button triggers Y and Y triggers X along with both triggers entirely not working. despite the triggers not working, the website detects there is pressing down on the triggers but there is no reaction on the controller displayed on the screen (I can give a picture of what I mean if you're confused.) I know it's not a controller issue or even an issue with linux itself because any local controller tester I use it works perfectly fine, it's exclusively on web browsers. I've been researching anything about this for weeks trying to work it out or find a program that could potentially fix it, even tried writing a custom script in order to get it to work but nothing has worked. Is there something obvious I am missing? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

I know I am 4 years late to this discussion lol, but I am having insane micro stutters in Elden ring. I am on Mint, with a RX 6650XT and i3-13100F, 16gb ddr4. The game runs at 60fps with barely any dips (confirmed both by mangohud and steam overlay), but it genuinely feels almost unplayable due to micro stutters on ANY graphics settings. I tried both Steam and Lutris with different proton versions (including GE), I tried switching the force power option to high, and I am using gamemoderun. The only thing that actually helps is lsfg-vk (lossless scaling), which makes my game run capped at 100fps (monitor is 100hz), but introduces latency, which is why I would rather fix it and play it at 60fps native. Pls help! Thanks!

The game can be ran with DW Proton, which bypasses ACE, have there been any known ban cases yet?

When I'm in an actual match, the game crashes within the first minute or so. The lobby and launcher are fine but after that I crash. I'm on Ubuntu 25.1, with an RX 5700xt + Ryzen 7 5700x3d, 32gb ddr4 ram.

Edit - using SteamDeck=1 %command% worked, alongside Proton 10.0-3
Now my game has an issue with my mouse going to another monitor.

Edit 2 - After installing gamescope and using SteamDeck=1 gamescope -f -W 2560 -H 1440 --force-grab-cursor -- %command% the game runs at around 120-ish fps, with no issues with the mouse. Keeping the post up just in case someone needs assistance.

I recently downloaded Linux to an old office PC (2012 Lenovo) for the express purpose of playing Fallout 3 through steam. I am not very familiar with Linux or computers, but I managed to get the game to start after much googling (downloading xlive.dll). Problem is now, once I press ‘new game’, the game immediately crashes.

I have no idea how to fix this. I’ve wanted to play one of my favorite games of all time for over 10 years, but compatibility issues has made this impossible. Can anyone explain to me how I can get this game to work in the dumbest way possible?

Why is this needed? There are two big issues at hand as of this date post.

• Only fullscreen allows the game to play nice with high refresh rates and otherwise that fullscreen crashes upon alt tabing or mouse focusing on other windows/programs. (and old fallout mods that allow fullscreen like borderless windowed are poorly made in not allow high refresh rates and do not work with current FOSE and related anyway)
• Multimonitor setups with scaling under Wayland cause huge issues with game window scaling and resolution. I am using Arch, KDE, and Wayland with Proton Experimental.

Anniversary Patcher required for Fallout Script Extender (use the beta version) to work right now btw. One in game hit ~ (top left above tab on most keyboards) and type GetFOSEVersion to test if FOSE is working. should return 1 otherwise if it says a bunch of garble and 'command "GetFOSEVersion" not found' something is wrong with FOSE.

Make sure both fallout.ini and FalloutPrefs.ini have bFull Screen=1 to not contradict the Gamescope -f option for fullscreen. and of course in FalloutPrefs.ini iSize W= and iSize H= set to your monitor resolution. also remember bInvalidateOlderFiles=1 in both for mods to work. iFPSClamp=0 and and any other fps management configs or mods should be checked. vsync can be on or off for me.

If installed correctly FOSE should work even if you bypass the Launcher which is needed due to the sudden res and position change between launcher and game causing issues. Bypass it in terms of steam launch by changing the name of Fallout3Launcher.exe in any way just remember what is what and make backups before tbh. then change the name of Fallout3.exe to Fallout3Launcher.exe

Steam launch command: PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 DXVK_HUD=fps gamescope -W [monitor pixel width] -H [monitor pixel height] -r [monitor refresh rate] -f --expose-wayland --force-grab-cursor -- %command%

You can use terminal instead if you want but some reformatting of the launch command required.PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 and --expose-wayland may not be needed. --force-grab-cursor was needed otherwise alt tabbing would loose and not allow a return of mouse focus in game which is an issue related to multimonitor setups I think. DXVK_HUD=fps just shows your current fps top right. Use to confirm high refresh rate function. Gamescope is what allows the game to not be messed up in terms of resolution and scaling in multimonitor setups with display scaling under Wayland.

I just turned on my computer like I do every day. Ran apt update and apt upgrade and then went to launch Steam. When I try to launch it from the shortcut on my taskbar and from the Software Manager, nothing happens. Using the terminal shows me what's on the screenshot. Any ideas?

I tried deleting it and then installing it again, to no avail (even removed the .steam folder entirely after uninstall)

Software Manager also shows a broken icon?

https://preview.redd.it/vkmx7zmtnmfg1.png?width=796&format=png&auto=webp&s=2710cd30d0f1e498de4dd9c6d80ebe3896c84c1e

https://preview.redd.it/eorjzfjulmfg1.png?width=1010&format=png&auto=webp&s=9053318b1ec8fe50846fe96661b7a5856d5dafd0

OS: Ubuntu Budgie 25.10
CPU: Ryzen 9 7950X
GPU: RX 7900XT
RAM: 32GB

EA launcher installed through Lutris refuses to connect to the app.

https://preview.redd.it/9tezm2nh8mfg1.png?width=470&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b70a75814669a7c64f194206f594b5bf497ee92

It is always doing this, no matter what runner I do, no matter what program I use (I've reinstalled this launcher through Lutris, Bottles, and Heroic probably 30 times by now).

I've tried a variety of runners including wine, proton, and GE proton. When running it on Wine it gives a black screen do to some Gstreamer issue. But I see a consistent warning that is this through all the runners:

https://preview.redd.it/c7oa4e4o9mfg1.png?width=624&format=png&auto=webp&s=d55a9f45204a1b1227ca27fdf912d749f7b92fa4

I've been fiddling with this for the past 3 hours, at this point I'm just tired. If I let the "Connecting to the EA App" sit long enough, it says it's failed to connect to background services and let's me try to manually update but ofc that doesn't work or do anything and according to every service ever, it's up to date.

My girlfriend loves playing The Sims, and makes little houses that we can live in, but does not like the EA App.

I installed Arch (btw) with her, and found this thread, which linked to The Sims steam community; I managed to get The Sims working through Steam, and I'd recommend that you just search 'Linux' on the Steam discussion board to see what is the most up-to-date thing in future.

I installed protontricks and then went to

"/home/<user>/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1222670/pfx/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/EA Desktop/" inside there were two numbered folders, I ran the EADesktop.exe app with proton tricks from the lower numbered one which updated and fixed the issue

I then ran protontricks-launch EADesktop.exe within one of the numbered folders, but this didn't let me update, and EA App eventually gave me an error about the "staging failing".

I used a file manager like lf or ranger (but genuinely anything will do ofc, but this just allows you to look down into directories easier without going through them all) which helped me find that there was another EA folder that had been created that had a EAStaging.exe or something like that inside it afterwards, and I ran that with protontricks-launch

I'm guessing what happened afterwards is that it moved the update with the numbers or whatever into the main EA folder up a level, and so the ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1222670/pfx/drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/EA Desktop directory just had within it:

• EA Desktop
• VC

From there, you can go into the second EA Desktop directory (with all the .dll files in it, not the vc_redist) and then run protontricks-launch EADesktop.exe and you should be able to login just fine. From there, you can use Steam to launch The Sims as usual.

If the staging thing doesn't make the directory correctly, I reckon you should just be able copy the files in the highest (or maybe lowest) numbered update up a level after making a new folder called EA Desktop, which should do the work of the EA Staging.exe

Cheers to everyone in the reddit and steam threads, and have fun with The Sims! :)