Okay, hear me out. I was messing with some retro games and got them working beautifully on Linux-native emulators. But just for fun (and maybe pain), I tried running a Windows VM inside my Linux system, and then installed a Windows-only emulator inside that, and ran an old SNES game. It actually worked… with some hiccups.

Obviously, this makes zero practical sense. But it got me wondering: has anyone else gone full galaxy brain and layered your gaming setups in hilariously inefficient ways just to see if it’s possible? Linux host → Windows VM → Windows-only launcher → emulator → game. Why? No idea. But it was kind of fun.

Anyone else tried something like this, just because you could?

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(not sure which flair to use but this falls under steam as well)

As the title says, Oblivion remastered is not launching. I tried running it through proton experimental, proton 9, proton 8 through steam. It just doesn't launch. I've scoured through ProtonDB and found nothing similar. The game is listed as "Platinum" so I thought it should run without any issue... The play button will switch to "launching.." then after 2 seconds it reverts back to just "Play". No other signs or presentations. It downloaded fine. I am a total noob in regards to linux. I just switched over yesterday, so a lot of the terminology and processes I am still learning. I am running a dual boot with windows 11, where windows is on an NTFS ssd and my linux mint is on another ssd. The ssd with windows has a partition that I've designated as the game storage area.

Some info about my setup:

Linux mint 22.1-ssd1 1TB

Kernel: 6.8.0-60-generic (i dont know how relevant this is, but my shell is bash 5.2.21)

Windows 11 pro-ssd2, 2TB NTFS

2 TB HDD NTFS

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

GPU: AMD 7900xtx

64gb RAM

I grabbed this using inxi command
System:

Host: PC-17 Kernel: 6.8.0-60-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc

v: 13.3.0

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin dm: LightDM

Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

CPU:

Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4

rev: 2 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 96 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 2060 high: 4404 min/max: 545/5050 cores: 1: 545 2: 4404

3: 3560 4: 4401 5: 4111 6: 3523 7: 545 8: 545 9: 545 10: 545 11: 545 12: 545

13: 545 14: 4079 15: 3980 16: 545 bogomips: 134399

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm

Graphics:

Device-1: AMD Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX/7900M]

vendor: XFX RX-79XMERCB9 driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie:

speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1,

Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:744c

Device-2: AMD Raphael vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel

arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none

empty: DP-4,HDMI-A-2,Writeback-2 bus-ID: 19:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e

temp: 38.0 C

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:

loaded: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi

gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96

Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 model: Acer XF273U W2 res: 2560x1440

dpi: 109 diag: 685mm (27")

API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: radeonsi

device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:

drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland

API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa

v: 24.2.8-1ubuntu1~24.04.1 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD

Radeon RX 7900 XTX (radeonsi navi31 LLVM 19.1.1 DRM 3.57

6.8.0-60-generic) device-ID: 1002:744c

Audio:

Device-1: AMD Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:

speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab30

Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio

vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s

lanes: 16 bus-ID: 19:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640

Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI

driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16

bus-ID: 19:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3

API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-60-generic status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse

status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

Please let me know what other info you need :(

Edit: forgot to add some system info

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I've heard in the past one was to add dxvk=async to launch options, which apparently no longer does anything, and it got me wondering if there's anything I should do to improve how it runs games.

(I run it through flatpak due to 32bit libs, as they messed my system up in the past, and I refuse to let them out of the containment. If Steam ever turns to 64bit on Linux, I'd install it directly.)

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The way I understand it,
1. Rufus or Ventoy USB Maker
2. Linux Distro, with Kernel already on it.
3. Put Linux distro on the USB.
4. Boot from USB
5. Install OS
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What I want.
1. Rufus or Ventoy USB Maker
2. Linux Distro, with Kernel already on it.
3. Change Kernel BEFORE I put Linux Distro on USB.
4. Put Linux distro on the USB.
5. Boot from USB
6. Install OS

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The game is The Long Dark, and for the past few years there is a workaround suggested by the developers to make the game run better on Linux, because after an update Linux systems had some performance issues. In my case the game starts to stutter quite badly after ~40 min of gameplay. That happens either with native Linux or Proton-GE.

So I tried the workaround, which is -force-glcore forcing OpenGL as the renderer. Doing this while running the proton-ge version introduces some weird lagging and visual glitches, so I decided to try running the native Linux version, and the game runs much better, with only some weird mouse input, but it's manageable.

The issue is MangoHUD doesn't seem to work anymore. I've read the Github page and there are two recommendations concerning MangoHUD and OpenGL. The first one is DLSYM, so I tried two commands mangohud --dlsym and MANGOHUD_DLSYM=0 also I tried MANGOHUD_DLSYM=1 after reading other sources saying that it needs to be enabled, although it should be enabled by default.

Now the second recommendation I'm a bit confused. Here's what Github page says:

Some Linux native OpenGL games overrides LD_PRELOAD and stops MangoHud from working. You can sometimes fix this by editing LD_PRELOAD in the start script LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/mangohud/lib/

I tried adding the path to libMangoHud_opengl.so as command in Steam's launch options like this

LD_PRELOAD=/var/lib/flatpak/runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud/x86_64/24.08/active/files/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libMangoHud_opengl.so __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only gamemoderun mangohud MANGOHUD_CONFIG=fps_limit=30 %command% -force-glcore

But MangoHUD still doesn't work. Even tried using different .so files, but nothing changes. I checked /usr/lib/ just to be sure there wasn't a MangoHUD directory there I could use, but since I'm using flatpak MangoHUD there's nothing there.

Software mentioned:

• flatpak Steam 1.0.0.81
• flatpak MangoHUD 0.8.1

Specs:

https://preview.redd.it/wsmrvxsvby2f1.png?width=1047&format=png&auto=webp&s=3dd578bca81e83667c7d37d0311cea964a55ff8c

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Yes, I know some of you may be wanting to say that Intel Iris is not good for gaming and I should upgrade my gpu, and to that I say, I'm not into really heavy gaming, I play some heavy games but they perform quite ok on windows and I can't upgrade my setup rn, so please, don't even bother saying I should upgrade my setup. With that out of the way, My specs are:

I5 1235U Intel iris 80EUs 24gb ram

All the games I played performed better on windows: Metal bringer (from the same dev as samurai bringer), monster hunter world and The citadel. I was playing on CachyOs btw. With MHW on linux I was getting an average of 26-35 fps, on windows I'm getting 30-49 with the exact same settings. Metal bringer performed ok on linux, average of 40-50 in-game and 25-28 fps on the main menu, but on windows I'm getting 59-60 fps in-game and 30 fps in the main menu (for some reason the heaviest part of this game is the main menu). The citadel also performed great, had an average of 30-40 fps on Linux in pretty much all areas and on windows I'm getting 50-60 in average, and when there are too much stuff going on in the screen I got something like 26-30 fps on linux and 30-35 on windows.

I'm really confused rn because I wanted to stay on Linux full time but gaming seems so much better on windows in my case, any advice?

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I am on Arch

java version jdk21-openjdk

java -jar SKlauncher.jar

says - This application cannot run in headless mode.

EDIT: did add -Djava.awt.headless=false, still doesn't run cus I'm in Wayland

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again, only some games break it. Later alligator for example works just fine but when starting vivid stasis for example, my entire audio dies as long as the game is active. Everything is just silent, the browser stops loading video and audio and not even the setting audio test works while the game is open. And after closing, it everything else just works like before again. I alr tried forcing diff proton versions (experimental, hotfix and the latest stable one)

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I have the the game files, which load into english on windows, but when I launch it with lutris, it stays chinese, I can't seem to figure it out. I have a somewhat idea that its an issue with melon loader dlls not loading, but I can't be sure, and don't know how to fix, any troubleshoot helpers would be appreciated

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I know one of you guys has the key to my problem. so instead of sending me to the wiki which makes no sense at all as it barely explains shit. can someone link me to a mod manager that actually works and is simple not this clunky hunk of shit?

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Hello everybody, I recently got my PC to finally work and installed Bazzite because I heard it's good for gaming, but whenever I try to start a game in full screen I just get a black screen for some reason. I already checked if I had a driver installed and the Hardware Probe said yes, and I don't know what else it could be. I use an AMD RADEON RX 7600, so maybe it has something to do with that? Edit: I forgot to add that the games do actually work, as I can hear them as well as see them when I'm alt-tabbed or launching them in windowed mode. Some simpler games like Balatro or Cookie Clicker actually do work while in full screen, but it takes like 5 seconds after starting that I actually see something

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Since CoreCtrl has announced no further updates what's our go to alternative now?

I really wish r/Amd would release an official tool for Linux

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I’ve been on Windows 10 for so long with my GTX 1070 Ti build and finally kicked the bucket and tried Linux.

For the most part, things were good. Very fast desktop performance, better at productivity, it’s like I was using my 2017 rig back in 2017.

But when it came to gaming, even with the latest, closed source nvidia drivers, anything that uses DirectX 12 actually runs WORSE than Windows.

At first I figured I could cope with it, because 1070 Ti is still a beast at 1080p gaming these days and losing 20-30 fps wouldn’t matter much but boy I was wrong.

On games like RDR2, I legit get half the FPS on Windows 10, that’s kind of unacceptable.

Even on older games like Warframe, if I was getting 180fps at 1440p on High settings, now I need to use FSR 2 just to keep up with my windows performance. Same applies for games like Marvel Rivals.

I’m probably gonna get a RTX 2070/2080.

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Hey,

i have a problem. I installed Lutris. It works fine for Steam, GOG, Humblebundle (With Firefox Login fix) but i cant get amazon Prime Gaming to work. I log in eith email, PW and OTP. I get an error message. Google couldnt help until now. Do anybody have a solution for this?

https://preview.redd.it/k9h7a863vx2f1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=9769aa188065c4c38f1978c5546f501589a3b96e

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i currently have windows and debian, and would like to switch the platform i am playing cyberpunk, and i have its file which i can happily just copy/paste without losing data... but how do i run it in linux? i have nvidia gpu, got drivers installed... already but gout games, how to switch, do i just go and run exe files directly? last time i tried it opened in vscode or something

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after a few attempts that went wrong with distros like Mint, Pop_OS, Nobara, and Arch for a multitude of reasons (lack of/funky VRR support with some DEs like GNOME or Cinnamon, too many apps I don't need), I managed to get a fully functional Arch installation oriented towards my gaming needs and any of the general tasks I run, it's not perfect but I can live with the flaws and I've enjoyed the DIY nature of Arch, some of the issues I've run into for example would be Gamescope exhibiting inconsistent frametimes, and Ghost of Tsushima working but without the Legends mode portion, I have heard someone say that there were reports of people getting it up and running but I haven't which kinda bums me out, and the loss of games like Fortnite, Black Ops 6 and GTAO sucks too but I'm about to dualboot soon so it shouldn't be an issue for the few odd cases, Linux has been a LOT more stable than Windows on my 7800 XT which is an instant plus and a good reason to keep using it, I also underestimated the Arch Wiki a LOT because once I started to actually read and make an effort to understand what I'm reading, it was insanely helpful.

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Hey,

I recently got an RX 9070 XT and while it works fine for graphics and compute, I can't get any fan speed / PWM info on Linux (Garuda, Arch-based, KDE).

I find that my GPU fans are spinning quite fast even though they don’t really need to (the temperature is only around 38°C), which led me to try monitoring the fan speeds and temperatures but it turns out I don’t have access to either the controller or the actual fan speed (0 RPM).

Here’s what I’ve got:

• amdgpu module is loaded.
• sensors shows the card, but most values are just N/A:amdgpu-pci-0300 Adapter: PCI adapter fan1: N/A edge: N/A
• /sys/class/drm/card1/device/hwmon/hwmon4/ :
  • fan1_input, pwm1 → empty
  • pwm1_enable → doesn’t exist

CoreCtrl sees the card, but doesn’t show any fan speed control either.

From dmesg, it looks like firmware is loading fine:

[drm] Loading DMUB firmware via PSP: version=0x05002000

Also worth noting:
lspci shows both iGPU and dGPU:

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: AMD Navi 48 [RX 9070/9070 XT] 7b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: AMD Raphael

Running kernel: 6.12.29-1-lts, I'm on KDE Wayland, Garuda Linux (Arch-based)

Has anyone with an RX 9070 XT or similar card gotten hwmon/fan/temps working under Linux?

Do I need to wait for a newer kernel or special patch? Maybe try some setting or something?

Would love to hear from anyone with a similar setup who got it working 🙏

Thanks!

sensors amdgpu-pci-0300 Adapter: PCI adapter vddgfx: 700.00 mV fan1: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM, max = 5000 RPM) edge: +35.0°C (crit = +110.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C) (emerg = +115.0°C) junction: +37.0°C (crit = +110.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C) (emerg = +115.0°C) mem: +38.0°C (crit = +108.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C) (emerg = +113.0°C) PPT: 54.00 W (cap = 330.00 W) pwm1: 0% sclk: 2 GHz mclk: 1 GHz spd5118-i2c-1-51 Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter port 0 at 0b00 temp1: +34.0°C (low = +0.0°C, high = +55.0°C) (crit low = +0.0°C, crit = +85.0°C) nvme-pci-0400 Adapter: PCI adapter Composite: +40.9°C (low = -5.2°C, high = +89.8°C) (crit = +93.8°C) amdgpu-pci-7b00 Adapter: PCI adapter vddgfx: 1.02 V vddnb: 1.30 V edge: +40.0°C PPT: 40.14 W sclk: 600 MHz spd5118-i2c-1-53 Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter port 0 at 0b00 temp1: +32.8°C (low = +0.0°C, high = +55.0°C) (crit low = +0.0°C, crit = +85.0°C) k10temp-pci-00c3 Adapter: PCI adapter Tctl: +45.9°C Tccd1: +40.9°C submitted by /u/Koiut
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brand new to Bazzite sorry if i'm stupid

Just set up a pc with an amd graphics card and fresh Bazzite installation as a graduation gift to myself. I'm very familiar with the Steam Deck and it's software as I used it through university, so I thought Bazzite would be a nice transition.

Wanted to play through Doom 2016 and Eternal before the Dark Ages, but I keep running into an issue with both where I just get a Black screen interrupting everything. With 2016 I can't even load into a game, but with Eternal it happens every 7-10 seconds and lasts about the same amount of time. Anyone have a similar issue? or know a fix?

If I need to include any info like specs or logs pls lmk like I said im new

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Any advice to squeeze the most performance out of my system? any recommended launch options? system settings? etc? im open to all ideas. with a 7800xt im getting around 40 - 80 fps on the new super earth missions. any help would be amazing :D

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