Steam just announced that they officially licensed the Windows source code from Microsoft, to help aid in developing Proton. This is huge as the new Proton version, dubbed Proton Lirpa Loof, will bring perfect one-to-one compatibility between Linux and Windows, like WSL but the other way around. Moreover, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that even kernel drivers (like anticheats) would run "exactly the same as on Windows 11" and that all software, whether kernel or user space, would be "unable to distinguish between a Proton Lirpa Loof device and a Windows device". Proton Lirpa Loof marks a complete 180 of the relationship between the two companies -- whether a blessing or a curse remains to be seen.

This is amazing news, but I do fear that this will lead to Proton becoming closed-source, and Steam may be forced to only distribute it to licensed computers. This would explain why they are releasing SteamOS (codename "April Day") on desktop, as it will may be the only official distro that's allowed to run Proton Lirpa Loof, since it contains proprietary Microsoft code that they don't want to be leaked.

Source: https://checkyourcalendar.com/steam-proton-microsoft-partnership-04-01-25

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How do I ensure game settings are saved persistently within Bottles or Lutris on Linux, preventing the need to reconfigure them each time I launch a game?

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Let’s discuss Apple Ai and 16e. This one is a summary

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This is running GOG version on Nintendo Switch with Ubuntu. It works and runs well except one issue - no voices in-game. I see subtitles, every audio cue and effect plays except voices. I replaced openall32.dll file; disabled hardware audio; changes sound packets as well as disabled preload voices in audiosettings.ini, problem still persists. Anyone else having this issue with Psychonauts running through Wine?

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Recently I got a MSI HDR monitor and I am trying to configure HDR to work in steam games with gamescope. To note I have version 24.10 KUbuntu "Plasma 6.1" in Wayland with a Nvidia 5080 GPU using the open source 570 driver.

Last night I installed gamescope with no issues using the following commands:

Install the dependencies:
sudo apt install libbenchmark1.8.3 libdisplay-info2 libevdev-dev libgav1-1 libgudev-1.0-dev libmtdev-dev libseat1 libstb0 libwacom-dev libxcb-ewmh2 libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxmu-headers libyuv0 libx11-xcb-dev libxres-dev libxmu-dev libseat-dev libinput-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-res0-dev libcap-dev wayland-protocols libvulkan-dev libwayland-dev libx11-dev cmake pkg-config meson libxdamage-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxtst-dev libxkbcommon-dev libdrm-dev libpixman-1-dev libdecor-0-dev glslang-tools libbenchmark-dev libsdl2-dev libglm-dev libeis-dev libavif-dev libluajit-5.1-dev

Download the Gamescope repository and all its submodules:
git clone https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope.git --recursive

Enter the newly created 'gamescope' directory:
cd gamescope

Generate the files necessary for the Ninja build system:
meson build/

Using Ninja to compile Gamescope:
ninja -C build/

Installing Gamescope to the system:
meson install -C build/ --skip-subprojects

Then I went into Steam and went to the properties section in CyberPunk 2077 and pasted the following command to try to get HDR to work:

gamemoderun DXVK_HDR=1 gamescope -f -r 360 --hdr-enabled -- %command%

After I hit ok to apply the property settings, I enabled HDR in display settings in KDE Ubuntu.

When I hit play on CyberPunk 2077 it would act like it would start for 5 seconds and then it would stop and go back to "Play" again. This property I put in wouldn't allow the game to even boot...

Where did I go wrong? What is the fix?

I did see in a few websites that vk-hdr-layer-kwin6-git may need to be installed to make this work but somewhere it said that it isn't required because gamescope does not require this layer, as it has support for the frog HDR protocol directly.

Also I saw on another webpage that a text file may need to be configured for HDR to work?

if [ "$XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP" = "gamescope" ] ; then SCREEN_WIDTH=1920 SCREEN_HEIGHT=1080 CONNECTOR=*,eDP-1 CLIENTCMD="steam -gamepadui -pipewire-dmabuf" GAMESCOPECMD="/usr/bin/gamescope --hdr-enabled --hdr-itm-enable \ --hide-cursor-delay 3000 --fade-out-duration 200 --xwayland-count 2 \ -W $SCREEN_WIDTH -H $SCREEN_HEIGHT -O $CONNECTOR" fi

It did say the config file was optional so idk.

Another website said I need to install gamescope and gamescope-session-steam-git in order to get HDR to work properly in steam. Last night I only installed gamescope and not gamescope-session-steam-git because it was tied to big picture mode which I do not use.

Any ideas to fix this would be appreciated.

Thank you

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Afternoon

I have released a new version of my prefix manager with integrated igdb support
check out https://github.com/CrownParkComputing/wine_prefix_manager

Easy to use , feedback needed for initial setup issues etc .

Thanks

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Hi everyone!

I recently moved to linux mint, I am not new at linux but I am new to linux gaming. Everything is going well so far, but I have a problem with CS2, I am not being able to play 4:3 144hz, when I set it to 4:3 I can only play at 60hz, someone has found a fix for this?

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So I have this computer with 2 user accounts, and it should be able to share games. I have them saved in a shared drive with permissions set up so thats all done, the issue is that when I try to add a game on the second user account, there's no wine installation! Would I need to install wine for all users?

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I built a new Bazzite Box (specifically the bazzite-deck distro) over the weekend, and everything I throw at it seems to work great, except for 1 app: Space Marine 2. If I set the Graphics Quality Preset setting to anything higher than "Medium", I get the following warning:

OUT OF VIDEO MEMORY
Not enough video memory for the selected texture quality setting.

...and then this usually results a hang shortly after, even just poking around in the menus.

The video memory warning makes no sense, as my system has a Radeon 7900 XTX with a 24 GB frame buffer. Other games (like Monster Hunter Wilds) are reporting this correctly. CPU is a 9800X3D, but that shouldn't matter here. 64 GB of DDR5.

I've tried disabling the Steam Overlay, that hasn't helped.

If I move over to Win11, everything seems to work fine.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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Using Mint cinnamon

I can launch the game easily enough. When I start playing in a match everything works fine initially. however after about 5 seconds my PC's fans ramp up increasingly to their full strength at about 20 seconds into loading into a game. 2 or 3 seconds after this my PC hangs and turns itself off.

Launching from steam with "-windowed -noborders" in the launch options, without this the game refuses to launch at all. I've tried running with a steam compatibility tool but it also refuses to launching. Don't know what to do from here haven't seen anything similar looking online.

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Proton:

• updated wine to bleeding edge
• updated dxvk to latest git
• updated vkd3d to latest git
• updated dxvk-nvapi to latest git
• imported build updates from upstream
• updated to latest steam runtime sdk
• import proton updates from upstream (includes fix for spellforce not launching)
• revert gstreamer envvar change that interferes with the proper gstreamer backport we carry (needed to fix ghost wayland window in some games)

Patches:

• remove now upstreamed microsoft flight sim 2024 patch
• remove now upstreamed gta v enhanced patch

Protonfixes:

• fixes added for standalone and egs versions of withering wayves (thanks cybik)
• ubisoft connect fixes added for ghostrecon wildlands and rainbow six siege
• fix added for mojika - truth rears its ugly head (thanks superboo07)
• added epic games registry entry fix for all epic games (thanks commandmc)
• add fix for pkhex (thanks BlueInterlude)
• add save imports fix for monster hunter wilds (thanks froz3n)
• fix: handle issue when empty STORE value provided to umu
• fix added for Elin (thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
• fix added for PowerWash Adventure (thanks sonik2kk)
• fix added to shorten time taken for retrieving game_title in umu

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Set System options
Environment variables:
KEY=XMODIFIERS
VALUE=@im=fcitx

And it should work as intended.

Have a nice day!

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Hello, I'm new to Linux and new here. I would like to know some possible games that I can play on Linux (specific, i use Mint) I only play some gentle games like tank in Nintendo, or Mortal Kombat, Samurai Shodown, or car racing, so would like to discover something similar. Thank you.

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Hello,

I basically got the same problem in Cyberpunk 2077 as this person on the Gaming on linux Discord, whom I will quote here for context:

Does anyone know why performance would regress in cyberpunk after a system package upgrade? even in the menus, it can only reach 80-85 fps. in gameplay it's worse, only 50-60 and it drops further at times, used to be 90+ frequently over 100 i don't have any frame limit settings set, i've tried the LD_PRELOAD="" env var that is being thrown around a lot, i've tried downgrading to kernel 6.6-lts, same awful performance currently on kernel 6.13.2, mesa 24.3.4, proton 9.0-4 (but i don't think it's a proton issue, ge-proton9-23 was working fine previously but now has the same performance issue) i checked gpu clocks to see if that was the issue, my gpu clocks are perfectly fine. the framerate stays the same even if i set the graphics quality to the absolute lowest, res to the lowest and use fsr2 ultra performance

My performance in this game's benchmark went from ~90fps to ~60fps out of seemingly nowhere. For comparison on W10 I hit ~95fps on the exact same settings. Graphics settings are basically these at 1440p.

My system specs: https://termbin.com/0vwq

GE-Proton9-26

Things I tried:

• reset ingame config, played around with SMT (my settings from before and after the regression did not change at all, but at least I tried)
• searching discords, reddits and search engines for solutions (only basically found three people in total having this issue, all without solution provided, so I assume it is pretty rare. Even protondb.com does not give a hint)
• timeshift back to a time where I knew the game was still running well based on a benchmark I saved from 26.03.24. I don't remember exactly when it happened, but I only played Cyberpunk on my PC.

Game start parameters (disables faulty steam recording library from loading among other things):

LD_PRELOAD="" VK_LOADER_LAYERS_ENABLE=VK_LAYER_MANGOHUD_overlay_x86_64 %COMMAND% --launcher-skip -skipStartScreen

System temps are all within expected ranges.

GPU load is lower than before, used to be nearly 100%, now it is more like 50-60% at best. Every other game is fine, only Cyberpunk is affected.

I also have sound crackling issues regularly in every game and in desktop applications when CPU usage is high, but maybe I save that for another post if I don't manage to resolve it with pipewire tweaks somehow (why are the default buffer settings so aggressive?).

Thanks in advance for your help, because this is the straw which basically made me go back to W10 for gaming. (This is not the first issue I ran into, the last month has been a ton of trouble shooting to make games still run worse compared to windows).

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Hello, here is a 2-minute questionnaire that could greatly help us with a study on socialization in digital spaces. Thanks in advance !

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Recently installed a new 9800x3d and noticed that mangohud displays my cpu temp as 0c. Looked at sensors and my cpu does not show up. Tried running a sensors-detect and it did not detect anything.

I removed some most of my dkms modules and recompiled the kernel but lm-sensors still does not show my cpu

anyone know why this would be?

sensors

gigabyte_wmi-virtual-0

Adapter: Virtual device

temp1: +39.0°C

temp2: +61.0°C

temp3: +48.0°C

temp4: +45.0°C

temp5: +58.0°C

nvme-pci-1000

Adapter: PCI adapter

Composite: +55.9°C (low = -0.1°C, high = +76.8°C)

(crit = +78.8°C)

ERROR: Can't get value of subfeature temp3_min: I/O error

ERROR: Can't get value of subfeature temp3_max: I/O error

Sensor 2: +75.8°C (low = +0.0°C, high = +0.0°C)

acpitz-acpi-0

Adapter: ACPI interface

temp1: +16.8°C

r8169_0_900:00-mdio-0

Adapter: MDIO adapter

temp1: +70.5°C (high = +120.0°C)

amdgpu-pci-0300

Adapter: PCI adapter

vddgfx: 850.00 mV

fan1: 779 RPM (min = 0 RPM, max = 3300 RPM)

edge: +58.0°C (crit = +100.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)

(emerg = +105.0°C)

junction: +64.0°C (crit = +110.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)

(emerg = +115.0°C)

mem: +60.0°C (crit = +100.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)

(emerg = +105.0°C)

PPT: 115.00 W (cap = 272.00 W)

nvme-pci-0400

Adapter: PCI adapter

Composite: +50.9°C (low = -273.1°C, high = +81.8°C)

(crit = +84.8°C)

Sensor 1: +50.9°C (low = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)

Sensor 2: +54.9°C (low = -273.1°C, high = +65261.8°C)

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