Rivals is seemingly out of nowhere not working with Proton. It’s telling me that my OS doesn’t support DirectX 12, which makes sense, but it was running fine on linux mint up until today. I’ve tried everything, including older versions of Proton and every trick I’ve come across so far.

As far as I can tell, this is a *wine* issue, but it's also affects *bottles* as well, where the the exe after being ran doesn't for some reason know to look locally where the exe is for extra DLLs. It's only recently started on my system. Was wondering if anyone else was seeing this and if there are any possible fixes.

I have some older posts about this, but nothing recent.

So, I think my drivers are broken? I don't know what this is and why I can't change the graphics drivers but I need this fixed.

Minecraft is the only game I can get working but my fps is 12 to 50 and this is with ONLY performance mods. Windows gets 150-350 fps with the same set of mods. (is the issue obvious?)

I've got nothing on this except that this could be a driver issue but so many versions don't work that I Don't know what's going on!

Specs if needed: R5 3600, 16gb ddr4, RTX 3060, Zorin OS

I've been trying to diagnose and fix this problem for almost a week now. It only happens across three games, which makes it weird. It happens on:

Half-Life 2

Guns N' Boxes

No More Room In Hell

I'm running EndeavourOS with KDE as the DE and Wayland as the WM. I'm launching the games through Steam.

Kernel: Linux 6.12.18

Mesa 25.1.0

I am using custom drivers because I have weird hardware. It's not the drivers that are causing it because I have a friend who has the same hardware as me and can run the games just fine.

The fixes I've tried:

Updated the system using yay

Changing the scaling settings

Using Proton GE

Disabling FPS counter

Disabled Steam overlay

Enabling Steam beta

Tried Proton GE

Tried Proton 9-7

Tried native Linux ports

Checked integrity of the files

Reinstalled the game

Restarted the system

Ran both vkcube and glxgears to check Vulkan and OpenGL are working

Switched to X11

Reinstalled Mesa

I've seen this issue before in this subreddit, but with the menus on Steam, not the games.

There's no error, no crash, and it doesn't freeze it's just a blank black window. There's just nothing.

I've bought a bigbig won gale hall thinking it will be well supported on my gaming distro (bazzite) it come with a 2,4 dongle , can connect on Bluetooth and can be wired. And guess what, none of those options work. Tried on bazzite and chimera os same. Very weird since I connected on my laptop with archlinux and kde ans on the controller option of kde tue controller is recognized. Is there a solution to use it on bazzite ?

So the game launches both on the Deck and a 7530U laptop (Ubuntu 24.10). The desktop is way more powerful than them but the game just refuses to launch, telling me that "The game may not run due to the device's limited graphics card performance" after closing that nothing ever happens.

I tested an RX6600, and RTX 4070. Same issue on both. Tried to add all the code I could find on ProtonDB to launch options, different proton versions (including GE), launching through bottles and Lutris. Nothing.

I'm on driver 570, also tried different drivers but I don't think the problem was ever related to it, as AMD had the same issue. Tried Wayland and X, nothing.

When I made my announcement yesterday, there were a number of very legitimate questions about it, so we have updated the Steam demo so it runs under Linux. Please let me know if you have any troubles running it https://store.steampowered.com/app/2799350/Emperor_of_the_Fading_Suns_Enhanced/

I'm using cachyos and trying to run eduke32. For some reason on wayland I only get sound and no display, but on X11 it works as it should. Is there a way to fix this or does eduke not support wayland, I can't find any information about this.

Hey there, after using linux for several months now, with tears in my eyes, i may have to switch back to windows 10 just because I am tired of dealing with nvidia shenaningans and davinci resolve sucks on linux for my content creation. Do you think the nvidia situation will improve in the future? The amount of stuttering and glitching i experience is getting on my nerves man. I love linux but i just cant deal with it anymore lol. I also hate microsoft so im cooked

This combo works on my live usb, and it’s a fresh install the only other thing I installed was steam, any ideas or suggestions? Kde plasma, the option is enabled on settings keyboard shortcuts.

Hello, long story short: Recently decided to switch to linux, games run... not great. For example this very same benchmark would've given me above 100 fps easily on windows (notice the low setting), and I know I'm the one doing something wrong because I've read people praising how well this game runs on linux
Laptop: Gigabyte AERO 16 XE5
Linux: Mint 22.1 Cinnamon 64 bit

Proton: GE 9 26

✅ Nvidia drivers properly installed through the driver manager
✅ Performance mode selected in power settings
✅ Nvidia performance mode selected in the little nvidia icon on the taskbar

✅ No additional software running in the background

any and all advice will be greatly appreciated, thanks!

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So I've recently started trying out Linux on my gaming PC (went with Zorin OS first since it seemed closer to Windows in feel so my transition over would be a bit easier). I've been enjoying it so far and haven't had a ton of issues.

One of the things I didn't think about though was VR. I have a Valve Index headset that I'm hoping to set up again soon. What are others' experiences with VR on Linux? Is it just as straight forward as it was on Windows and am I overthinking or is there additional hoops I'm going to have to jump through? Appreciate people's input!

Let me explain. I've heard that Nobara, Endevaur, and Garuda are gaming distros. What do they do differently?

I've been using Arch for a couple of years and haven't had any issues with any games, old or new (I have had to make a few tweaks with Wine and Protontricks, but nothing too complicated). I have an RTX 3050 that hasn't given me any driver issues or anything.

My question is, What do these gaming distros do that I could replicate on Arch that would improve my gaming experience?

Thanks for the comments.

I just don't understand why and I can't find a tutorial on the internet to install sac and battleeye on linux.

I run Linux mint and use a wired Xbox controller when playing Fallout 4. I also use proto proton. For last few days anytime I leave my spawn in point from my last save it freaks out. I used my phone to take a pic. The picture plus flashing and flickering.

Hey, I just released my minimalist puzzle game Snakeloop and it has native Linux support and is also compatible with Steam Deck (although it hasn't been marked Verified yet by Steam, it was fully tested on my side).

The game is a puzzle game with a simple concept, it's Snake but your goal is to form a loop by eating your own tail. It features 90 levels with a good variety of mechanics & twists as well as modding support for player-made levels.

Trailer

If that's your kind of game, then you can check out Snakeloop on Steam

I have recently retired my trusty old i5-3570 machine from NAS duty and had an idea to convert it into a multifunction media machine for my living room. The system has 16gb of ram and only the integrated gpu, it is quite dated but I will only be streaming games to it, not running them directly on this machine. Ideally I would like it to be a game streamer via parsec and movie/music streamer through plex. I want it too be as controller friendly as possible. I have considered SteamOS but not sure how usable it is in its current state. What other options do I have? Like the post title states I want to put emphasis on console-like experience and ease of use with an xbox one controller.

I want to use Rockerbacons MO2 for Stalker Anomaly but it seems to be very tailored to Bethesda games only.

Will it work for non-Bethesda games too?