Hello Linux Gaming,

I come to you after trying my best to troubleshoot on my own. I am a newcomer to Linux, recent Windows transplant. After 25+ years of Windows I wanted to break out of the Microsoft ecosystem and try something new. I am a gamer and one of the challenges I have been facing is getting my games to run well.

For this post I just want to focus on one issue. After approximately 1 hour of playtime, World of Warcraft Classic will begin experiencing frame stuttering. Relaunching the game client resolves it, but only for an hour. I come to you hat-in-hand to humbly request any assistance you can render. Thanks in advance!

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System Details:

• OS: Fedora Workstation 42 with KDE Plasma Desktop
• CPU: Intel Core i7-14700F
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (12GB VRAM)
• RAM: 32GB DDR4 @ 5200MHz
• Storage: T-Force M.2 NVMe SSD (2TB)
• Steam Version: RPM Fusion (not Flatpak)

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Game Installation:

• Was unable to get Lutris to work. Ran into issues where mouse cursor wouldn't work in game client.
• Was unable to get Bottles to work at all.
• Was able to succeed by using Steam to create a Proton prefix for Blizzard's Battle.Net launcher. Set compatibility to Proton Experimental. After installing Battle.Net into Proton prefix, was able to change Steam pointer from setup.exe to launcher.exe. Then able to install+play WoW.

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Troubleshooting Steps Taken (with Outcomes):

1. Desktop Environment & Compositor:
   • Tested on both KDE Wayland and KDE X11. Issue persists.
   • Note: I have not yet explicitly tested disabling KWin Triple Buffering (KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=0) as a direct next step, but this was a recommendation
2. Power Management:
   • System Power Management in KDE set to "High Performance" (rocket icon).
3. Steam Launch Parameters (for Battle.Net Launcher):
   • Attempted various parameters, including PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1, PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1, DXVK_ASYNC=0, DXVK_MEMORY_LIMIT=XXXX, DXVK_HUD=full. No resolution.
4. Proton Prefix & Caches:
   • Destroyed and recreated the entire Proton prefix for Battle.Net (ensuring zero remnants). No resolution.
   • Manually cleared all relevant DXVK and Steam shader caches. No resolution.
5. NVIDIA Driver & Kernel Module Configuration:
   • Modified /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power.conf to force GPU into max performance:options nvidia NVreg_RegistryDwords="PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PowerMizerMode=0x2; PerfLevelSrc=0x2222"
   • Ran sudo dracut --force to apply changes to initramfs.
   • Confirmed via nvidia-smi that the GPU consistently stays in P0 (highest performance state).
6. Battle.Net Launcher Process:
   • Killed the Battle.net.exe process (and Agent.exe if present) using htop after the game launched. Outcome: No resolution.
7. In-Game / Display Settings:
   • KDE Display Settings: Set to 120Hz.
   • WoW In-Game: Vertical Sync disabled, Max Foreground FPS set to 120.

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Other thoughts:

• I had previously been experimenting with GNOME and if the problem ends up being due to incompatibility with KDE I am happy to swap back to GNOME.
• I am hesitant to try GE-Proton again. I've used "ProtonUp Qt" to add it to Steam/Lutris before while trying to get a few other games to work (Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, and DCS World Steam Edition) and it seemed to introduce system-wide instability. ALL my games would experience the frame stuttering issue, not just WoW. I could be wrongly attributing this to GE-Proton but I would like to save it as a "last resort" so to speak.

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My build specs are:
RTX 3070 8GB
Ryzen 5 5600x
32GB DDR4
512GB NVME M.2 SSD

I am looking forward to:
-Playing games such as Roblox, S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Cyberpunk 2077, etc
-Content Creation (Recording my gameplays, editing and doing art)
-Programming in Python (for my studies)
-(and maybe slight game dev in the future I am not sure)

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Ubuntu isn't the only Linux distribution planning a big change, as Manjaro KDE Plasma also now plans to move to Wayland.

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Hello there, I am Denis, author of the game, if you love old school JRPGs and Zelda in a very story driven game with many playable character then you might like it.

I am happy to share it here as Linux games are always welcome to me and I hope mine will be for you too.

I made the game on Linux Mint and I made some test on Low End PCs running Linux as well and on a a Core duo with 2 gb ram and Nuveao driver It runs perfectly. So it's really toaster friendly and I am very happy about that.

I still remember when I switched from Windows to Linux.. my poor PC was like Yoda walking with the cane.. then when I installed Linux.. Yoda unsheathed his lightsaber and my Pc said "Toss games to me, now you shall !"

If you want to try it there is a nice demo, and if you want to share some thoughts I am here ^^

Denis

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3085800/Fate_of_Fire_Kyvedy_Guardiah/

for a drm-free version there is humble (steam key + drm-free)

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/fate-of-fire-kyvedy-guardiah

or itch io (the drm-free demo is only hosted here, scroll to the bottom of the page to find it)

https://denisjohantales.itch.io/fate-of-fire

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Hi I'm on Ubuntu 24.04.2 lts, on a Lenovo Loq laptop wih Rtx2050 gpu. I also have a windows (dual boot) and i use it for gaming, and Ubuntu for work. So i decided to game on Ubuntu and realized even on simple day to day work my laptop gets super hot. i tried: nvidia-settings But it showed no fan control, Also installed Lact from github (ilya-zlobintsev/LACT) and it said: "no fans detected".

My Nvidia driver version is: 570.133.07

I honestly do not know why, i do have a driver but my fan is not detected?! Any idea what should i do?

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I'm having issues playing with skywalker saga, since I own a dualshock 4 like controller and I have the game on the epic games store, meaning I have to use a wine container to use it (heroic doesn't work on my end for some reason) and can't use the steam controller overlay since steam creates a container of itself when starting windows files and this can't fully start because of it. Do I have to install another steam instance within the container that has the epic games launcher or is there any directinput to xinput converter for linux?

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The game boots fine into the title screen but when I press continue and try to load into the game it loads for a second then freezes, becoming unresponsive and I have to force close it. I’ve had a dig through the proton logs and can’t find anything meaningful, all drivers are installed and up to date. I’ve tried Proton Hotfix, Experimental and v9, all have the same issue. I’m fairly new to this stuff but have managed to get Lies of P working fine.

CPU: Intel i5-9400F
GPU: NVIDIA GTX TITAN X

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Heroic Games Launcher: v2.17.2 released https://playingtux.com/articles/heroic-games-launcher-v2172-released?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

Firstly, I am a casual Linux user coming from Windows that doesn't know much about coding / terminal so please be patient with me.

I am on Linux Mint and attempting to run Rocket League on Heroic Games Launcher which I installed the flatpak of. I did not mess with any of the settings before trying. Here is the error I got:

https://preview.redd.it/7g33uah0b46f1.png?width=328&format=png&auto=webp&s=685aaef3e7522836c7a4959846ee632fad621843

and typed out if the above image isn't easy to read:

"Assertion failed!

Program: C:\windows\system32\steam.exe
File:. ../src-lsteamclient/steamclient_main.c

Line: 375

Expression: '!status'

Press OK to exit the program, or Cancel to start the Wine debugger."

I have no idea what to do and have tried both the OK and Cancel options (which doesn't seem to do much when I look at the terminal app, restarting the computer, and reinstalling the wine manager latest GE-Proton version and the lesser preferred latest Wine-GE-Proton within the game launcher settings. I saw other posts about making edits to something called an umu launcher but the error seemed different and the solution did not have an explanation. Even more posts about another error regarding Nvidia graphic error fix which I don't think applies to this error as the details of the "Expression" line differed.

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I'm new to Linux, My main Sdd is 128gb and most of the games I play are mostly around 30gb+ or more, I tried using Proton GE and Proton GE didn't registered into steam, when i tried changing its compatibility and saw it still uses Steam's Proton. I use Zorin Os

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So. I have spent too much time fixing the issue with my VKB EVO joystick, so I have decided to make a post so people can see more recent solution to this problem.

So, a brief history. I installed MSFS on Linux (NixOS, btw), but couldn't get the MSFS to recognise my VKB EVO joystick. Here is solution that helped me:

1. Switch to Proton 9.0.4, launch the game. Your joystick should now appear as a generic controller (tried both ProtonGE and Experimental (10.06.2025) - both didn't work in my case. Had no joystick in the game at all).

2. Follow the registery edit by u/xatrekak : This post

(People who know where to find all those params in regedit are still wizards to me)

Hope that helps!

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ProtonPlus: Compatibility Tools Manager v0.5.2 released https://playingtux.com/articles/protonplus-compatibility-tools-manager-v052-released?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

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has any one tried Spiderman 2 on linux using B580? is there artifacting or any other issues?

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Seriously, in my whole 20 years using Linux I wouldn't have ever even dreamt of having this kind of compatibility right out of the box with a freshly installed distro.

Using Pop OS and a Lenovo Yoga X1

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