Hey guys, I need help figuring out how to solve CS:S not wanting to stretch full screen despite settings already being in it. I have it configured 16:10 aspect ration, native 1920x1200 resolution and fullscreen.

I am running this game on Linux Mint Debian Edition 7.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

i recently made an experiment. first dual boot with Windows 11 and Bazzite. i really like the idea of an open source OS and valve did a really good job for gaming on Linux.

i have a Creative Soundblaster G8. Sound output works fine but my microphone does not work.

spend hours on fixing it and made Chat-GPT and Google Gemini despair with this problem.

i installed OBS and the only thing i got was software h.264 encoding. again, asked both LLMs. Gemini had no idea. Chat-GPT could helped. so i deleted the Flatpak and installed it with (?) ostree and some AMD encoder stuff. Using the VAAPI h.264 encoder leeds to an enormous GPU load.

Because of the Faceit Anti-Cheat (need the Windows kernel) for CS2, i installed CS2 on both systems. playing more competitive -> Windows, just play with friends -> Bazzite.

I use an ultrawide 21:9 monitor (3440x1440)and play CS2 in 16:9 (2560x1440). In Windows everything works fine. i get black bars on left and right side and it just works.

in Bazzite i have to use startoptions with gamescope.

Sometimes my mouse does not be captured, the game is not centred, it starts in windowed mode and my desktop is visable.

so, my last 5 days were some pain in the a**. nothing i tried really worked.

what did i do wrong?

Am I and my expectations the problem, or is it Linux, my set up and the way im playing?

Hi everyone,

On Windows, I get excellent graphics in games by selecting quality options in the Nvidia settings.
On Linux, the default graphics look much worse. it’s not just psychological.

How can I adjust Nvidia quality settings in Linux to improve game visuals?

My GPU: Nvidia 4060 Ti

In this specific GIF I'm overriding winhttp (useful for BepInEx), but Prefixer can do more. The repo is at https://github.com/wojtmic/prefixer

I play horror games and post the videos to youtube. I have migrated over to linux full time and could use a mic that cooperates a little better with linux. Any suggestions? Not too concerned about cost.

Basically im trying to run Minecraft fabric 1.20.1 on KDE arch linux through curseforge, and whenever I start the game, there's no audio, and when I check my audio settings on my PC itself there's nothing in the applications tab... the weird thing is that it works perfectly fine on 1.21.11. Does anyone else have this issue? And if so is there any fixes?

My deadlock for some reason is only running like 10-20 frames, I'm not sure why as a few months ago i could run it fine on windows! So i'm not sure if the game just got way more unoptimized or its something to do with linux or maybe my pc is outdated? cachyos

GeForce 1660 Ti
Amd 3600 6-core

Heyy, I recently bought a ZD-S Legend and have a serious issue with Linux.
To be clear, the controller works perfectly fine but Windows only, then I figured out that Windows always prioritize Xinput to ensure the controller always recognized as Xbox controller.
But when it came to Linux system, Linux won't prioritize anything so I found that the firmware when you plug the controller, it send the Switch controller signal first then the Xinput later which mean when you plug in, the controller work well as Switch mode...but it's only run at 125hz??? my controller can handle more than 500hz c'mon man.
So I've tried to open my Steam (system package version) then I plug my controller so at the first the system recognize it as Switch controller then instantly switch to Xinput mode but everything happen so quickly that Steam when it read the system event, it won't show up any controller.
I just feel this is about the firmware behavior of the controller and can be fixed soon so I have contact support and they confirm that Linux compatibility isn't there yet, gotta wait
Then I tried to seek for support on Discord and I guess I met the guy who work at HQ of ZD-Gaming and he confirm with me again that the controller isn't support Linux yet but they will take my suggestions into careful consideration.
Here's the link of the messages on Discord :

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Recently I've noticed that my Arch system is taking longer to shutdown because its getting stuck waiting for a stop job for User Manager for my UID.

I believe I narrowed down the issue to potentially being Arknights Endfield, anyone got any idea what process could be causing this in relations to Endfield?

With all the new releases regarding game performance on Linux around the corner and recent, I wonder how big the impact over all is going to be.

• Linux Kernel 6.19 (Expected: February 2026) src1, src2, src3
• Mesa 26.0 (RC3 now, Expected: mid-February 2026) src1, src2, src3, src4
• Wine 11.2 (Released: February 7, 2026) src1, src2, src3
• KDE Plasma 6.6 (Expected: February 17, 2026) src1, src2, src3

Also the quality of live and bug fixes regarding VRR and HDR support in both KDE and Gnome.

I just love how so many people work together and get stuff done.

hello everyone idk if this goes in this sub so sorry if im comiting a mistake. the thing is a friend gave me a steam deck ive never used linux before and for now i hate it idk how to do the most basic things but anw in this case ive been getting an error trying to mod CP 2077 with vortex app smt about installing those programs and inserting a command the 2nd problem didnt resolved even when i put the command and the 1st problem gets me this error message when in trying to enter in that thing called protontricks... what can i do?

I guess i need to give more information but idk what can i say :/ i have installed other proton programs and the option to force cyberpunk launch with proton via steam options...

As the title reads, Sober will not run at all and completely breaks down when trying to run it, unless I’m using a vpn. I tried reinstalling sober, Restarting my computer and many other methods and have gotten nowhere with it, I don’t wanna have to turn on my vpn every time just to play Roblox. Any idea what’s going on ?

Hi there, I have download WiRVn and was trying to play dcs world when i got a “out of focus window” text along with the pov being lower than what it should be. does anyone have any tips to help fix this

I installed CachyOS on my ANV15-52, and I'm getting less than half of the FPS I'd usually get on windows. I'm sure games are using my GPU (RTX 5060), and nvtop reports that it's running at 2000+MHz, so I don't understand why it's running so terribly. I've tested with CS2 and Subnautica, they're exclusively using my 5060, and my laptop doesn't seem to get very hot or loud like it usually would, almost as if it's in some kind of battery saving mode, despite being plugged in and setting the power mode to performance in KDE's system settings. I thought maybe it could be because I had set its power mode to be lower, but changing it to turbo in windows and then booting CachyOS again didn't fix it. What can I try to fix the issue?

Was slow when I ran it on Windows, on Linux it makes shaders run so smoothly.

im on CachyOS KDE and i installed vesktop through flatpak. i wanna have my games show up on discord whenever i play but i don't see any setting for it. linux-native games (like beamng) show up actually, but if i play a windows game through bottles, it doesn't show up. what can i do?

alguien a podido jugar delta force en linux? en protondb vi muchos que decian que se podia jugar actualizando la carpeta win64 del anticheat y otros decian que cambiando el anticheat al de strinova, usan ge_proton10-15. pero no ponian links para bajar la carpeta y el anticheat ni nada entonces no se que hacer si alguien los tiene y seria tan amable de pasar el link

I’m running the latest Pop_OS for nvidia, made the switch three days ago. So at first I thought it was just weird correlation and that my internet just happened to die at the exact moment that I tried connecting to a Dota game (running native). But it’s not, trying to connect is what causes the internet to completely disconnect for ~20 seconds even though at no point the system indicates that Wi-Fi was disconnected. I can run the game, browse cosmetics, change settings etc., everything fully online. But whenever I try to connect to a match I just found or spectate a game from the client, my internet dies system wide (not just steam and Dota, everything).