A new version is out for Sands, my Dune Roguelike, get it for free on itch: https://bararchy.itch.io/sands

This is based on Proton-GE

I'm making this post for anyone that struggles running the EA App in Lutris as I have, especially after an update. When the app tries to update, and fails.

Ive seen one suggestion to back up your save files and reinstall, which is a huge faff.

Change the Executable in Lutris to "EAUpdater" in the same directory as the EALauncher. It'll download, open the EA App, and give you an error to say it failed to de-stage.

Now change the Executable to EADestager, which should be in C:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/EA Desktop/Staging. When you run this, the EA App should open up as normal.

You can now set the executable to EALauncher and have it run as normal next time

Larian Studios recently announced a native Linux build for Baldur's Gate 3. In their FAQ about it, they said:

What’s the difference between the Steam Deck Native and Proton version?

Our Proton version runs on the Steam Deck via the Proton compatibility layer, which requires extra CPU processing power. Running the game natively on the Steam Deck requires less CPU usage and memory consumption overall!

This got me curious because I know Proton is a translation layer for Windows calls on Linux. But I always thought it didn’t really hit hardware performance compared to Windows or a native Linux build.

Are they right about the higher use of CPU/memory on Proton, or not? Thanks.

I've been downloading Baldur's Gate 3 over several days, just got home from work and my download progress had reset to 0%. (I think yesterday it was at 60-80% can't quite remember)
It's quite concerning so i thought i'd look for a solution online. I tried the following solution but had little luck: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/0/3808408328764659949/
I made a backup of what i think had been downloaded from the Downloading folder in Steamapp, but theres only 39GB and i'm pretty sure i made more progress than that.

I clicked "install" and I immediately get a message saying my BG3 is ready to play. So i click "Play" but then it needed to download 30MB followed by another 293MB, followed by a 248MB Steamworks Commons Redistributables download.

I download all that, go back to library, click "Play" and get the following error
"An error occured while launching this game : missing game executable
.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Baldurs Gate 3/Launcher/LariLauncher.exe"

In the games properties, i go to Installed Files and Size of Installation says "0B on /Var/Home", but clicking "Browse..." opens the game folder ".local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Baldurs Gate 3/" and i can see that the game data is there. Verifying integrity of game files says "All 8214 files successfully validated"

So i figured i'll just start from scratch: uninstalled game, click install and same thing happens. It installs instantly, redownloads the 30MB 293MB & 248MB stuff, etc.
So then i try and delete every related to BG3 in the steamapps folder.
Same thing happens.
Restarting Steam has no effect either, it just brings me back to clicking "Install".

Please can anyone help me with this issue? I'm at a complete loss as what to try next. My OS is Bazzite Desktop version (no steam gaming mode, traditional desktop version).

So i tried to move gamea to my second drive and despite it working my main drive doest free up space. in steam storage manager the space just goes from games to non-steam. Same thing when i delete something of the main drive. Has anyone any idea how to fix this ? Disk analyzer doesnt show what or where the missing space is used. feel like im loosing my mind

E.g. Silksong.

With VSync enabled, I have input lag at some points. With VSync off and framerate capped I have bad tearing. With uncapped framerate my PC gets hot and loud which is not really needed for a game like Silksong.

In Windows I can use the AMD Adrenaline software to start the game and force FreeSync through the AMD driver. Can I somehow achieve the same with a Proton flag on linux?

I have adaptive sync set to "always" in my monitor settings, but the framerate still goes up in Silksong

Давно хотел пересесть на линукс с винды но без дискорда и ютуба я не могу да и денег тратить на обходку тоже не особо хочется может кто-то знает альтернативы zapret на линукс?

Hello guys,

I need some advice regarding steam cloud saves. I recently migrated my friends to PC to CachyOS pretty seemlessly. In beforehand we checked that all games have enabled steam cloud and synced every save file. After starting Steam, the save games are not downloaded and are even shown as not existing - but they are shown and are downloadable from store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage. Is there a way to make Steam realize there are indeed save games?

I migrated from Windows about a year ago and had no issues with cloud saves, so I can't really tell what is wrong.

I'm on nix os, ARC B580 GPU, 16 gb of ram and i7-10700, I managed to get working no man sky so other games work,

When I start Detroit it tells me that the GPU is not supported and when I continue anyway it crashes at 80% of shader compilation, tried varois versions of proton and proton GE, I found some posts from more than a half year ago but it didnt seem there to be a solution,

Please help me I don't want to regret this purchase (the GPU )

So... Whatever I play a vram hungry game all background apps crashes, the game start to stutter also there is the dx12 tax, I can't use waydroid and I will swap to a wqhd monitor so the 4gb will be wellcome, the only thing I will miss is the dlss4, it makes really good anti-aliassing, what your guys opinion?

They say in the FAQ that other Linuxes are not supported, but even having a native version for the Steam Deck is awesome.

Larian is a great studio, and doing work on a real Linux version is something almost nobody does anymore. When I get back to my gaming rig, I'm going to see if this works on Fedora or not.

Has anyone managed to get the latest versions of the Sims 4 to work, because the EA launcher gives problems

Hi, I just started trying to ditch Windows for linux, and I am having difficulty understanding how linux is using ram/zram/swap.

System context: I have 2x16gb ram and I used archinstall to do the initial setup of my system, by default I got 4GB of zram.

The systems performance is usually pretty stable, but has had a few hiccups, when it froze usually when the swap was full. Usually the system sits around 500MB swap use, unless I have a game open, in which case is usually around 3.6GB of the 4GB total.

Playing solo has not been a problem, but playing the same game in a party, will occasionally crash the game, after that the swap will clear and go back to 500MB used, this is why I assume that is a swap problem, although "assuming" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

In all my use of this system I ever saw the ram usage go above 50%.

So, my questions, as far as I read in the wiki and comments(that hopefully I did not misunderstood) Zram is basically compressed data that would usually be on the disk, but is moved to the ram so that it will be faster to reuse.

1. Why does this freezes the system, when the swap is full, instead of just being slowed cause it need to get the data from the disk?

2. Why does it need to use the swap, instead of ram, when there is plenty of it?

I’m new to Linux, using Zorin OS (Lite). I managed to install the Minecraft Launcher by following instructions online, and the installation went fine. But when I open the launcher I run into these problems:

1. Background image on the launcher does not load, its just gray but other things are fine
2. When I try to sign in with my Microsoft account a separate login window appears but it keeps refreshing itself nonstop
3. Because of this, I can’t log in and can’t start the game.

Has anyone else experienced this? How can I fix it?

System Info:

• Zorin OS Lite, ver.17.3
• Minecraft Launcher, freshly downloanded from official website.

I don't know how to include logs

TL;DR: RTX 3080 power consumption dropped from normal to ~200W almost all time, started as intermittent issue requiring reboots, now almost permanent. PSU failure or something else?

System Specs:

• GPU: RTX 3080
• PSU: Corsair SF750 (bought used, ~2+ years of usage)
• OS: Fedora Linux
• System age: 2 years, issue started recently

The Problem: GPU is severely underperforming with significantly reduced power consumption. What started as an intermittent issue has now become permanent.

Symptoms:

• Power draw capped around 249W (should be 300W+ under load)
• Low FPS in games despite high GPU utilization (97%+)
• Low temperatures (55°C under load, should be 70-80°C+)
• GPU reports P0 performance state but clearly isn't delivering full performance
• All of this would happen after waking up from suspends, no matter what. Only a reboot could fix it at that time, no it rarely works.

Progression of the Issue:

1. Initially: Problem occurred after boot/suspend - single reboot would fix it
2. Then: Required 2+ reboots to resolve
3. Later: Needed to unplug AC power cable and wait before reconnecting
4. Now: Never reaches expected power draw, even after full power cycles

What I've Tested:

• Multiple benchmarks (Unigine, glmark2) - all show reduced power/performance
• nvidia-smi -q -d PERFORMANCE shows P0 state during load

I assume it could be a PSU problem, but why aren't other components affected as well? I haven't noticed any degradation in CPU performance (reaches epected temps and clock speed).

I have searched everywhere and didn't find a closely similar problem. Posting here hoping to find a solution.

5700X3D with 7700XT. Arch + xfce.

Mostly playing wow but also steam games like PoE2, etc.

Kernel 6.6.x LTS works beautifully with all games, great performance and no hiccups whatsoever.

However, anything past that and especially past 6.12.x I get weird micro-stuttering, frame-time spikes and sometimes huge fps drops for about 1-2 secs.

Anyone has any experience with that? What gives?

Hi, my CS2 on Debian 13 suddenly stopped working in fullscreen mode. The game only runs windowed or borderless fullscreen now. Tried toggling settings and adding -fullscreen in launch options, but no luck. Using KDE Plasma. Any quick fixes?

Hi guys, real fast question because I could not find any recent answer. I want to use a controller for playing some games (cult of the lamb for example) and I wanted to ask if I will find many problems by connecting with linux, or it just does not matter (have preference for the Xbox controller, but I don't care that much tbh). Just for reference, I'm on Linux mint and I have a Lenovo LOQ 15arp9.