i switched my desktop to linux at the beginning of summer this year and after finally thinking i got all my issues with drive mounting figure out, it turns out that was never the case. right now it appears to be specific for three main titles: sifu, elden ring, and rivals of aether. the issue is that the cloud saves for these games will not sync no matter what i do. they will very quickly go from 0-100% when i try to retry a sync, but they will never actually sync without erroring out. it also doesnt help that steam isnt giving me any specific error codes or messages, meaning this is pretty much the extent of my knowledge. i initially assumed it was because most of my drives are still NTFS drives mounted with the guide valve had on github, but that doesnt really explain things either since most games still work perfectly fine. any ideas what could be happening?

for a little context, im on the latest manjaro linux.

I have been trying to launch and play the elder scrolls oblivion (2009) GOTY and it keeps failing to launch. I tried multiple proton versions (9.0-4, hotfix, experimental, GE-proton10-17) and keep getting the same results.

I am seeing the same issue with Half Life 2 (proton version), and Steins;Gate. Pretty much all of my other games work fine. I ran steam through the terminal and got this when I tried to launch oblivion, similar results for the other games

fsync: up and running.
WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.
chdir "/home/*/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Oblivion"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/*/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCL
ASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/*/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCL
ASS32): ignored.
Error: powerprofilesctl not found
Game Recording - would start recording game 22330, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 17852 for gameID 22330
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=22330]
Removing process 17852 for gameID 22330

I am unsure how to even diagnose this issue as all of these games are platinum on protondb and I have had no issues so far with any of the other games I tested.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
GPU : AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Kernel: Linux 6.16.8-cachyos1.fc42.x86_64 (tried with native kernel, no difference)

Any help would be appreciated

I really love Linux (especially Hyprland) but I just can't get it to game. I thought maybe it was a hyprland issue so I tried Pop instead since it could still tile when I want but should offer the more stable Gnome for full screen gaming.

No go. There's always an issue. Vulkan always wanting to pre-bake or whatever and taking an hour, bad performance including stuttering and crashes, obscure bugs that take hours to days to fix just so I can use a particular piece of software.

I've never been able to get gaming working on Linux, but I've seen so many posts of people showing off good benchmarks of gaming on Linux. What gives? What's the secret sauce?

So I am on steam deck but it’s Linux so I’m hoping someone can break it down for me, I’m trying to decrypt Pokémon roms, I’ve downloaded cia Unix for decryption but I don’t know how to execute commands, just placing my rom in the folder and starting both dltools( or dhtools I forget lol) and cia Unix and clicking on the icons doesn’t do anything. I know I can just get a flash drive from my windows pc to my steam deck but I figure the deck runs on Linux so I may as well learn how to do it all on just that device.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/4193

Ever since the Show Off update that added a new skin collection and the ability to look at others' loadouts in specator mode, multiple users have reported crashing, including myself. My game seems to only crash during someone or myself shooting a gun. Are there any native Linux players that have not experienced crashes to desktop? Do fixes for the Linux client come out promptly?

pc specs: https://pastebin.com/wkMfCWiT

Sorry about the audio and phone recording. Im not in the mood to record a video, log into reddit, post on my PC when its already on my phone, call me lazy but its quicker this way

I want to select a game that is on my second disk, but Proton 9 and others don't recognize that there is anything stored, it appears as "z". I approved putting it in "start in" but no file is found. I'm using translator, in my language it seems there are no related videos. I'm going to highlight I am in a program (external to Steam) opened with Proton 9 in Steam, I have an extra disk that I store games on, when I open the program it asks me to select a file, but Proton does not recognize that there is something there, but it does recognize that there is a disk. (Let me know if I shouldn't write this in this community)

🖥️ System Details Report 🚀

🍷 Wine Configuration Bottles Flatpak 🎮 Proton GE 10-15 🛠️ Environment Variables: DISPLAY= MANGOHUD=1 🛠️ Hardware Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE 🖳 RAM: 32GB. 🧠 CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 7 5700X (16 threads) 🔥 GPU: AMD Radeon™ RX 7800xt 🎨 Monitor: LG 32UL750-W 32" 3840x2160 (4K) via DisplayPort 🖼️ Storage: 4.5TB (NVMe + SATA SSD) 💾

🖥️ Software 🐧 OS: Fedora Linux 42 (Silverblue) Kernel: Linux 6.15.8 🛠️ Desktop Environment: GNOME 48 🖌️ Display Server: Wayland for smooth visuals. 🌟

🎥 Recording Setup 📹 PC: RX6600 + Xeon 2630v4 - EZCAP 324B Software: OBS Studio Flatpak (VAAPI h265 28mb CBR) 🎬 Capture Method: Pipewire ⚡ Resolution: 1440p60. 🎞️

Recently decided to try Linux on a personal computer (had previous experience). Installed Arch Linux, got most of the games working (CS2, War Thunder, Gothic 1,2 and 3, Terraria etc.) but Genshin does not want to collaborate with me. I'm battling for 4th day now, using everything I can (previous posts, GPT, popular fixes) but nothing works for me. Literally everything is up to date as shown in the screenshots.

I think I tried everything:
- Lutris:
- running HoYo launcher with runners: wine-ge-8-26-x86_64, GE-Proton latest/9-27/10-16, UMU-Proton 9.0-4e, Proton 10
- running Genshin.exe with runners: wine-ge-8-26-x86_64, GE-Proton latest/9-27/10-16, UMU-Proton 9.0-4e, Proton 10
- Steam:
- running HoYo launcher with runners: GE-Proton 10-16, UMU-Proton 9.0-4e, Proton 10, Proton 9.0.4/8.0.5/Experimental
- running Genshin.exe with runners: GE-Proton 10-16, UMU-Proton 9.0-4e, Proton 10, Proton 9.0.4/8.0.5/Experimental
- Wine directly
- running HoYo launcher
- running Genshin.exe
- Bottles
- running HoYo Launcher or Genshin.exe with soda or ge-proton

So far nothing worked. The most I could get was by running HoYo Launcher with Lutris using UMU-Proton and I think GE-Proton 9-27 and offline launch, works for about 2 minutes then I get "Server connection lost" and have to relogin just to get another "Server connection lost". Other combinations result either in:
- HoYo Launcher not opening (or black screen)
- HoYo Launcher not starting Genshin up (or just a flash - quickly opening and closing)
- Genshin loading up into login screen, then getting constant "Check network connection" errors

I'm still kinda new into Linux so I might have messed something up, but other games work fine and it seems I'm not the only one to have those problems.

https://preview.redd.it/fokpza80s6rf1.png?width=727&format=png&auto=webp&s=9457e8d2fbe66da40670eda062299cc4d2359f23

https://preview.redd.it/0ptv3a80s6rf1.png?width=740&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b22a6a1925e81a00036a7e09f4da5ac4317902d

I tried Piper/libratbag but it doesn't support the mouse I use (Glorious model I 2), it shows an undetected screen when I launch it.
The onboard profile on my Model I 2 hasn't worked for me, or maybe it doesn't have onboard profiles, not sure.
I already tried a Sway, and Input Remapper, neither do what I actually want, that being binding scroll up/down to a button and remapping more than 2 side buttons.
Ive also tried running Glorious core through wine, but that just left Core broken and non-functional.
Are there alternative mice software that allow the actuation of debounce and liftoff? Ideally with button remapping.

using arch i tested device inputs on steam and everything works but when i play a game nothing works.

I'll go back to linux (when I stop using Windows without dualbooting)... Anyway what I want to know is it really that simple to use non steam games if exe files? Can I play my non steam games that I've added using steams "add non steam games" function or will there be errors somewhere from the games files? Ik there's proton and everything but it's due to wanting to use steam link to play on the TV too far from my pc which is why I'm asking, and I didn't know of steam link until recently but am loving it on windows (11.exe stopped working.stuffed) [Just curious and maybe for the other curious folk that may not know]

https://preview.redd.it/kk8xistrd6rf1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=8509d32b593e310255440ca943179b9dcdf45499

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libSDL2.so SDL_VIDEO_WAYLAND_SCALE_TO_DISPLAY=1 SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=wayland mangohud %command%