I have recently have been trying to get Sims 3 on my Linux pc but have struggled as I only own the CD version of the game. I have been following this YouTube tutorial: https://youtu.be/4F5cdbCEqmU?si=bm6rROBBOCP5DOZT but it keeps telling me mid download that I need to insert the cd, which I did do. It also then proceeds to tell me I have the wrong cd or the wrong directory or path. If someone can can guide me on how to do this successfully with a step by step process I would greatly appreciate it.

Ps. The blackout in the directories was my name as I named my laptop my name

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Hi, I recently moved away from Windows and I've been struggling a bit with this issue.

On my Steam Deck I'd use a software called Emudeck to add roms to my steam library, I like having the games on steam since there's the chat feature, steam overlay and whatnot and I really don't mind the clutter.

Emudeck doesn't seem to work well on Linux PC tho, and Steam Rom Manager has not been updated for a while, how can I add roms to my steam library?

thanks in advance

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Thinking about switching to linux but im curious about CS2 performance. I'm using AMD, anyone that can help? Also if I was to switch, which distro would be good for gaming? 🫠

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Hey, I am playing TerraFirmaGreg, a Minecraft modpack with over 200 mods. I constantly run into issues with my game crashing and freezing my entire computer to the point where I have to force a restart by pressing the physical restart button on my machine. I tried tinkering with mods, allocating more and less ram, playing with or without shaders, barely anyhting seems to make a difference and Im sick of it. I checked the logs of Minecraft but they do not have any helpful info on what causes the crashes.

Basically what happens is; I load up the game just fine. I load my world just fine. I get to run around for maybe 2-5 seconds ingame, sometimes more, reaching my set FPS cap of 70 no problem and then, within less than a second, the game freezes and with that my PC. The times it freezes at seem to be completely random, there isnt anything happening ingame that would cause extra stress. Memory and GPU usage, while high (both around 70%), are fine. This really bugs me because I never had this issue on Windows, no one on Windows has any issues like that and my specs really aren't too bad.

I wanted to ask if maybe there are fellow Minecraft modpack players here who have tips. Maybe Linux needs some special JRE? Or maybe JVM arguments could help me? I am playing TerraFirmaGreg 0.9.2 on the Prism Launcher.

I am on Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. My specs are:
AMD Ryzen 7
NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super
16 GB RAM

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I'm having issues getting good up to date info on this topic so I figured someone here might have a good pointer or some personal experience.

I do remember that there was an effort to reverse-engineer the Media Foundation libraries, but that seems to be something that was never finished, opting instead for Valve re-encoding the video files on their end when it comes to Steam releases. I also remember Proton-GE having releases with MF support built-in.

But, whatever version I try (older or newer) I can't seem to get some videos running in a non-Steam game when using Heroic or Lutris. For reference, the game seems to be using the "Cinepak" codec (whatever the devil that is) inside an AVI container. Interestingly, Wine 10 seems to be trying, I actually saw a video frame render before the game crashed on me, I didn't go deeper down the Wine rabbithole (as in, I don't know what exactly caused the crash) at the moment since I got curious as to why Proton-GE is not helping either.

I will note that the game might be using something other than MF, again, didn't dig in too deep, but I do get that test pattern instead of the video in Proton-GE that I only recall seeing when MF was the sticking point.

So, in the interest of both me knowing and hopefully getting something someone else might use into the search results, anyone know what the current status with MF in Proton is? Should it be working but I just found a weird edge case? Is installing MF through Winetricks or a third party script the way (I seem to recall there were some problems with the regular Winetricks install)?

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Since last patch when I hit the "Play" button on Steam nothing launches, it just changes to "Stop" As if the game is running but nothing pop-ups nor the game launches.

Previously I had been playing without problems and I was even bragging to friends how good is to play on Linux with Proton.

I have already tried changing proton versions, adding commands like SteamDeck=1 PSOCompile=1 gamemoderun, etc to no avail.

Mesa 25.1.0-devel
Proton experimental-bleeding-edge
OS: Nobara Linux 41 (KDE) (Wayland)
CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X
GPU: Intel® Arc™ A750 Graphics (DG2)

Perhaps it has something to do with my GPU as I have seen recent posts of all AMD setups that have running the game recently.

Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

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Hi all!

Just wondering how Dota runs on Linux for you guys?

What distro are you using? If on Nvidia GPU, which drivers are you using?

Any tips in sqeezing the most performance out ?

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Can someone please help me , i installed fall guys via heroics game luncher and clicked the add to steam button but then this shows up , any idea on how to fix it , here is the pic

https://preview.redd.it/uo1e7bwgztxe1.png?width=704&format=png&auto=webp&s=852dd1e0496394e114aceb42c34a7adc2d28f3d0

my system info is : CPU: 12x AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Memory: 16.54 GB (used: 4.85 GB)

GPUs:

GPU 0:

Name: NVIDIA Corporation AD107 [GeForce RTX 4060]

IDs: D=2882 V=10de SD=410b SV=1458

Driver: nvidia

OS: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition) (linux)

The current system is not a Steam Deck

We are running inside a Flatpak container

Software Versions:

Heroic: 2.16.1 Scopper Gaban

Legendary: 0.20.36 Urban Flight (Heroic)

gogdl: 1.1.2

comet: comet 0.2.0

Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli

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Hi, I installed expedition 33 on my Linux, I have actually 4 fps in cutscene and like 15 fps in menu. I don't know why, does anyone have this problem? Can it be because it doesn't run on my graphic card?

Config : AMD 7950x AMD 5700xt 32Go ram Arch Linux with latest AMD drivers Tested on Hyprland (Wayland) and openbox (x11)

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A few days ago I recorded a gameplay session with some friends, but when I tried to export the video to DaVinci Resolve, it wouldn’t play. I’m not sure if the issue is with the video itself or with the program. I ran some tests with different settings and none of them played properly.

For those who don’t know the issue: DaVinci Resolve on Linux doesn’t support H.264, H.265, or AAC codecs, so recording in standard .mp4 format won’t work if you want to edit in DaVinci Resolve. And I don’t want to switch to another editor since I’m already used to this one.

Any advice?

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What distro would you recommend? W11 isn't sustainable for me anymore

I've heard Linux is bannable by EULA, how true is that?

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The prompt belongs to easy-anti cheat.

Im using arch, Hyprland , wayland.

I've been trying for 2 days and have no more ideas what to try.

Here's the log:

fsync: up and running. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. chdir "/home/vlatko/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Lords of the Fallen" ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/vlatko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/vlatko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/vlatko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/vlatko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/vlatko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Game Recording - would start recording game 1501750, but recording for this game is disabled Adding process 35520 for gameID 1501750 Adding process 35521 for gameID 1501750 Adding process 35522 for gameID 1501750 Adding process 35602 for gameID 1501750 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. Adding process 35603 for gameID 1501750 fsync: up and running. Adding process 35604 for gameID 1501750 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. Adding process 35605 for gameID 1501750 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. Adding process 35608 for gameID 1501750 Adding process 35610 for gameID 1501750 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. Adding process 35613 for gameID 1501750 Adding process 35623 for gameID 1501750 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. Adding process 35636 for gameID 1501750 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. Adding process 35642 for gameID 1501750 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. Adding process 35655 for gameID 1501750 Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 1501750 Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: 76561198118449943 [API loaded no] wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. Adding process 35672 for gameID 1501750 <----- line before I close the prompt pid 35606 != 35605, skipping destruction (fork without exec?) Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1501750] Removing process 35672 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35655 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35642 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35636 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35623 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35613 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35610 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35608 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35605 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35604 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35603 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35602 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35522 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35521 for gameID 1501750 Removing process 35520 for gameID 1501750 [2025-04-29 20:17:46] Background update loop checking for update. . . [2025-04-29 20:17:46] Checking for available updates... [2025-04-29 20:17:46] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12 [2025-04-29 20:17:46] Manifest download: send request [2025-04-29 20:17:46] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish [2025-04-29 20:17:46] Manifest download: finished [2025-04-29 20:17:46] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1745876290, installed version 1745876290, existing pending version 0 [2025-04-29 20:17:46] Nothing to do submitted by /u/Red_Dirigible
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I have seen that games don't seem to run when they are installed on an NTFS partition. I am trying to see if that is the case but, since I used gnome disks to autoboot my ntfs drives I have no idea how to edit the /etc/fstab because I see that I am supposed to have something like this:
UUID=38CE9483CE943AD8 /media/gamedisk ntfs uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,user,exec,umask=000 0 0

While I have this in fstab:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/3E1CDC4B1CDC0037 /mnt/winmaindisk auto nosuid, nodev, nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

/dev/disk/by-uuid/AEAC7364AC73264D /mnt/workdrive auto x-gvfs-show 0 0

How should I edit it? And can I use Gnome Disks instead of the command line? (I know it might be easier that way, just couldn't find any way to change this other than digging around in fstab and not everyone might be comfortable with doing that right away)

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There's nothing I want more than to just nuke windows and go full Linux.. I've tried it but it didn't work out, why? Well because I like playing star citizen, and getting that game to work on Linux is a pain in the a$$, additionally, I use tobii eye tracker 5 which doesn't work with linux.. but oh boy if it did, I'd switch immediately..

So if anyone knows of a distro great for gaming (specifically Star Citizen) that supports tobii eye tracker 5.. (and hosas), please let me know..

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I'm trying to bring down power usage in idle with this card, but it is not effective on Linux. I enabled ASPM in UEFI, and after configuring power saving in Windows, I can see ~10W drop in idle. However I can't reproduce this in Linux. After some digging I found that I should change /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy parameter. I changed it to powersave, I did that via kernel cmd line parameter, just to be sure that it is enabled early. And I can confirm that after boot it is set:

~ cat /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy default performance [powersave] powersupersave

But power draw didn't change and is still at ~38W when idling. If I try to enable powersupersave I lose display, and later I found following error in journal:

Apr 29 19:21:42 kad-pc kernel: pcieport 0000:07:01.0: Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible Apr 29 19:21:42 kad-pc kernel: pcieport 0000:07:04.0: Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible

Does anyone know, what else could I try?

~ uname -a Linux kad-pc 6.14.0-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 26 Mar 2025 07:48:57 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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After I just turn on my pc to play some games I saw that steam was completely black. Buttons and everything works its just not being renderd. Other stuff also suddenly broke like some window animations. Do anyone know what happend?

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So to get the questions out of the way.
I've tried every version of Proton, my temps are all fine, as of right now only game I have this issue on is Overwatch 2.

Here's my hardware

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 7700 XT (12 GB VRAM)
RAM: 32 GB DDR4 (running at 2933 MHz)

Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING

I got the display stats on in Overwatch 2, at first the game seems to play fine but then I see VRam spike up to max and it feels like I'm playing through powerpoint, at least the frames are consistent just really low, feels like around 10.
Overwatch is on the same drive as Steam, I'm not using the flatpack version of Steam.

Any way to fix this?
Prefer not to have to restart my game after 1 or 2 matches..

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I'm using ps4linux thats why the old kermel. I need for this to work cuz my ultimate 1 that works via bluetooth just broke. Advance thanks.

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Hi, i'm new to Linux, i'm using Mint. I installed Steam today and none of my games were running, apparently its because they were in my second SSD, i have 1 M.2 Nvme where i keep the OS and programs, and 1 SATA where i keep my games and some other stuff, but the games only run if they're installed in my M.2. Why? Also why does the system treat the SATA SSD as an external drive?

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