I've a whole lot of old games, but they are procured from questionable sources, (old websites, old torrents etc.) and with no modern windows defender to rely on, that for all its flaws would safely filter most of the 20+ year old unwanted surprises, I need a way to safely use the files and play the games.

I've not used virtual machines before, but from what I understand they might not be necessary, instead something like steam does on Linux, where it sections the installations off in their own directories that don't interact with anything else, might be enough for most cases? Or am I wrong about this?

What is the most secure and easiest to setup way to go about such a problem?

PS: I've also seen advice on the net mentioning avoiding storing anything unverified in the home folder in general, but then where do I install things like games I intend to use with WIne or Lutris, for example?

Hey all!

Running God of War through Lutris, Heroic, and Bottles.

1. Game goes to black screen on Lutris before crashing to desktop. Doesnt run at all.
2. Heroic runs it perfectly with what appears to be full performance.
3. Bottles runs it at reduced performance, no idea why.
4. Also, the game uses the desktop resolution as teh base resolution and applies upscaling etc to that, and on my 4k tv, it takes the base resolution as 6044 x 3072 or something, not the 4k it should be. Any help would be highly appreciated.

EDIT: I changed resolution scaling from 125% to 100% and it allowed me to scale from 4k. However, is there any way I can keep my scaling at 125 for the desktop and the game still using 4k as the base resolution?

On my quest to get DSR-Gadget.exe to pair with Dark Souls Remastered so that I can make pvp builds, I Tried a TON of different things with SteamTinkerLaunch coming the closest to working. In case it's important, Gadget is basically cheat engine, it lets you respec your character, teleport to bonefires, and spawn in gear... if I could get it to work. Can anyone with experience with this give me insight on what I need to do to get Gadget to pair with Dark Souls Remastered?

Greetings, fellow Linux gamers. Recently, I patched a buxfix into the official Minecraft.deb package from minecraft.net. With the official package, Debian users often encounter an error about lib-gdk2.0-0. This is due to a missing hyphen between “lib-gdk” and “2.0-0.” After repackaging the .deb installer with that extra hyphen, no errors were encountered and Minecraft installed flawlessly. So, in the spirit of giving, I have added this bugfixed Minecraft.deb to my Git repository for anyone to use on Debian, so you can avoid the hassle of repackaging the installer yourselves.

When I try to load a world the entire system freezes. Audio keeps looping, mouse stops, keyboard is not registering. I can't even switch TTY with ctrl + alt + F1-12. All I can do is hold the power button to force shutdown. I am playing 1.19.2 forge with a couple hundred mods. Stacia 2 Expert to be exact. I tried running the game on both GPUs with or without zink, turning off shaders, using different Java versions, but the result is always the same. I am using the arch package of prism launcher to start the game. All my packages are up to date. Has anyone encountered a similar issue? Any help would be much appriciated :)

Specs:

• Distro: EndeavourOS
• Kernel: Linux 6.16.8-arch3-1
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H (12) @ 3.00 GHz
• GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q [Discrete]
• GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series [Integrated]
• NVIDIA driver: nvidia-open-dkms 580.82.09-1
• RAM: 16GB, 8GB allocated to Java
• DE: KDE Plasma 6
• Wayland with Minecraft running under Xwayland

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Hello, I have a problem when starting the game. Before that, I played it on Steam Deck and it worked (poorly, but it worked) and recently I built myself a PC and decided to launch MHW. On the loading screen, when the coffee texture appears, the game freezes, after which an inscription constantly pops up stating that the game has frozen. I really want to play MHW, since I went through to the final boss (according to my assumptions) of the first story campaign on Steam Deck and I don't understand what the problem might be.
I have tried various startup settings, for example DXVK_ASYNC=1 DXVK_CONFIG="dxvk.enableAsync=true" %command%, but still faced this problem.

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: B650M GAMING WIFI6E
Kernel: Linux 6.16.8-zen3-1-zen
Display: 2560x1440 in 27", 165 Hz
WM: Hyprland 0.51.1
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
Memory: 32 GiB

Every benchmark I find shows that FSR4 quality gives more fps than native, however I'm not getting the same results on Cyberpunk. Thoughts?

Latest ProtonGE 10-17

Launch options: PROTON_LOG=1 DXIL_SPIRV_CONFIG=wmma_rdna3_workaround PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 mangohud game-performance %command% --launcher-skip

I have been looking at putting Bazzite on an old Windows 10 machine that I got free. After doing the research I was set on Bazzite until I did a double check and it seems that my pc isn’t compatible with the necessary Vulkan.

Is this a problem with Ubuntu? I’m wanting to mainly play via Steam and probably WoW.

I have a i5 7400, 24GB Ram and plenty of storage, and a total novice with Linux.

I play on Steam, and I find some games which were playable, are now unplayable because my machine now "doesn't have DirectX12" ... it used to work, but then I did a re-install and now apparently something is missing. (I use Arch BTW)

I have used ProtonDB, and checked everything I can.

My big issue is Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga (my daughter loves it, and misses it)

Can you point me in the right direction? Please?

Help me choose a good distribution so I don't have a headache and that hplip works. Maybe I play CS too, but that doesn't matter. I want to find a good and easy distribution for those coming from Windows

У меня мало фпс в режимах под 30-50, ещё шрифст пиксельный не возможно смотреть, кто нибудь сможет мне это помочь?
arch KDE на нём сижу

With Microsoft steping away from uwp, how far are we from running gamepass on linux with new games that doesn't use uwp?

The only way to run games is to `export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json` then launch steam through the terminal.
What is weird is that on Plasma 6 I have absolutely no issues.

When I run CS:GO, it says it fails to execute vulkan.

Is it a known issue?

I do not see why plasma 6 works well but nothing works on Gnome 49.. :/

Thank!

Been daily driving linux for the past two years, had some problems here and there but they were all resolvable or at least explainable in some way. On this one however, i'm completely lost.

Diabotical works fine on wayland (sway/hyprland), but on x11 (i3/dwm) there's one particular issue that i don't even know how to debug. Whenever i'm getting hit by shaft, the game jerks for a moment. As far as i can tell, it doesn't happen in any other situation, though it's only noticeable because of the high firerate of the shaft. The attached video was recorded at 120fps and slowed down to 25%, first clip is x11, second one is wayland. The jittering isn't just visible on the recording, it's what i also see on my screen. My FPS is also stable, my frametime graph could not be any flatter. And ignore my horrible tracking skills.

Given that Diabotical is the only game that behaves this way i started by adjusting its settings. exclusive fullscreen/borderless fullscreen/flip fullscreen, multithreaded input on/off, video_true_fullscreen 0/1. It's all the same.

Proton-cachyos, proton-ge, ntsync on/off, also all the same.

How can it be that a display protocol causes a problem in a specific situation in a specific game? i would understand if the game would jerk/jitter for the majority of the time or even randomly, but just when i get hit by shaft? only on x11? how?

9070xt (mesa-git 25.3.0 git-12e36c8871)

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Arch linux with cachyos repos

Tearing and scanout enabled for the wayland compositors

Explanation as to why i'm still using Xorg: It just works for me.

I know it sounds dumb, but this is the only problem Xorg ever caused me. Hyprland 0.51 broke tearing/scanout (can't have both enabled at the same time), sway enables and disables direct scanout every frame of a screenshare stream, resulting in horrible stutters.

I'll happily provide other necessary information.

Posting this for posterity because this troubled me for weeks.

tl;dr check that you don't have zoom in the accessibility settings turned on.

I've been getting back into gaming after a year hiatus and I've been experiencing crashes in Cyberpunk 2077. Despite my machine being fairly strong for CP2077, i5-13600K 5ghz, 4070TI, 64gb ram, I thought that maybe it was a VRAM issue as the 4070TI only has 12gb. I had some ultra HQ textures, LOD and whatnot so through a lot of troubleshooting I worked down to a vanilla install with graphics, resolution, everything at the lowest quality which I know should work with my system as I had beat the game before with HQ graphics setting and nothing had really changed other than game patches, but it was still crashing, reliably triggered during the montage scene right after you meet Jackie, but even skipping it would crash the game at some point soon after.

I don't know what made me think of it, but I remembered had turned on zoom in accessibility settings, at 1:1 scaling so it doesn't change anything visually but it is a workaround in Gnome/Wayland to get my mouse would show up in screencasts as I do a lot of them for demo'ing features and tutorials for work. I turned it off, et voilà, crashing disappeared, I've been working on layering back in my mods and so far no crashes.

when playing hell let loose, if i sit on the server browser for long especially when in a queue the game will crash, as well as crash the kde desktop along with it.

Desktop restarts but any apps that are installed and ran from a flatpack instead of a rpm file are crashed along with it. If I have discord actively open and not closed to the task bar, I have to relogin to discord as well.

Along with these bizarre effect from the crash, it also crashes the power management services. The services don't restart when kde restarts, and requires me to restart my pc to fix the issue.

My specs:

Operating System: Bazzite 42

KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0

Qt Version: 6.9.2

Kernel Version: 6.16.4-108.bazzite.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 24 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900K

Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.1 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Graphics Processor 2: Intel® UHD Graphics 770

Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.

Product Name: MS-7D25

System Version: 2.0

I play borderless 1920x1080

Everything in ultra except for textures.

RTX 4060 with Ryzen 7 and more than enough memory. How do i fix it?

I tried playing borderlands 2 with heroic (having the egs version) I used winetricks to install physx but it doesn't work. But since I did it I have a leak in video memory and the game crash around 2h of playtime. I thought physx was supported on Linux and with the recently open source and deprecation of 32bit support of new gpu i thought it had worked that went into it