I installed the game through the physical Windows CD-ROM on Lutris via both a "Windows XP + 3DFX 32-bit", as well as a "Windows 7 64-bit" preset (reinstalled it multiple times). Also tried like six different wine versions, all leading to the same error. I selected shrek-2/drive_c/Program Files/Activision/Shrek 2/System/game.exe as the executable. But the game doesn't manage to launch via Lutris. The only time it ever launches, is when I finish the installation and the Shrek 2 launcher opens up immediately after. When I click on the "Start" prompt, it launches the game and lets me play it, although only at 768p, for which I'll look into a fix later. It plays perfectly fine, outside of the FMVs playing in black screen (I assume I have to install some DLLs). But like I said, once I close the game it won't launch anymore over Lutris until I go through the installation process again. And yk, I'd like to avoid having to keep reinstalling the game to play it. Also tried to just run the game executable directly through the disc, but that also led to nothing. So what am I doing wrong?

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Hey there, has anyone tried to play Rematch's beta? Is there like an anti-cheat or compatibility problems that I need to worry about?

Link to the steam page

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can someone help me i want to run schedule on my pop os (i installed DirectX 11 and drivers)

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Looking to get my wife a used pc and I see this one for $500.

Specs:

Teamgroup 1TB NVME M.2 drive Case - NZXT H510 Elite Motherboard - GIGABYTE X570 AORUS Ultra CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 Ghz8 RAM - Crucial Ballistix RGB 3600 MHz 32GB kit Teamgroup 1TB NVME M.2 drive AsRock 6600xt graphic card Cooler - Noctua NA-HC4 chromax and some noctua fans.

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I had a look at PikaOS, a distro that is not so well known and compared it to Pop!_OS and Windows 11 using the RTX 5080.

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Hey there.

Recently switched to Opensuse + KDE on my i3 12100f, 16 gb ram and arc a770 build, and have for the most part been pretty happy. The only real problem is performance, which is a big one for me since i play a lot of games. Arma reforger, squad and many other games are running really terribly for me. Helldivers 2 and insurgency sandstorm were the only games i could get to run with the same performance as windows.

Im wondering - Is there anything i can do to improve performance? And is there any future for the alchemist cards on linux? If not, i will sadly have to go back to windows, even tho i hate it.

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Fallout: New Vegas (GOG) won’t launch in Heroic Launcher

• First tried pirated version:
  • Installed via Heroic, played for ~1 hour.
  • On restart, game tried to reinstall itself instead of launching.
  • Manually set FalloutNV.exe as executable – didn’t help.
• Bought GOG version – same issue:
  • Game "starts," then Heroic button reverts to "Play" (no error).
  • Tried:
    • Proton (latest)
    • Wine (latest)
    • Steam/Proton launchers – no luck.
• (PC specs in screenshots)
• Full Heroic Log in here : https://0x0.st/8OWO.log

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Ein herzliches Willkommen zu unserem, bislang unglaublichsten, Linux-Gaming Wochenend-Rückblick Nr. 16 im Jahre 2025! Hier listen wir interessante und informative Neuigkeiten aus der Linuxspielewelt auf, die wir zwischen dem 12.04.2025 und dem 19.04.2025 (Redaktionsschluss ca. 16:00 Uhr) zusammengetragen haben.

Woche für Woche tragen für euch meldrian, Nascher, Xilef, Lucki, NoXPhasma und comrad zahlreiche News und Informationen aus der großen, weiten Linux-Gaming-Welt zusammen. Ihr habt Anregungen oder Anmerkungen? Lasst es uns wissen, entweder hier unten in den Kommentaren oder besucht uns im IRC (oder #holarse auf Libera.chat), im Matrix oder im Discord oder quatscht mit uns im Mumble (play.holarse.de, Server-Passwort ist 'holarse')!

Noch direktere News mit, von und über uns findet ihr im Übrigen auf unserem Mastodon im Fediverse-Kanal. Unsere Reviews landen hier und auf unserer Steam-Curator-Seite.

Frage der Woche

• Schenkt ihr euch was zu Ostern? Oder gibts nur Linuxspiele?

Ankündigungen

• Of Life and Land wird am 16.05.2025 vollständig erscheinen (und natürlich Linux weiterhin dabei haben) und eine Menge an Updates mitbringen. Link

Liebes Tagesbuch...

• Veloren hält euch mit der neusten Aufgabe 246 aus "These weeks in Veloren" auf dem Laufenden. Link

Releases

• Synergy ist veröffentlicht worden - allerdings ohne das versprochene und angekündigte Linux-Release. Es scheint in nächster Zeit auch nicht mehr geplant zu sein. Schade! Link

Kommerzielle Spiele: Updates

• AI War 2 5.701 Cleanup Prior To Those Necromancers. Link, Changelog
• Factorio Version 2.0.45 mit verbessertem Klick-und-Zieh-Verhalten. Link
• Fortune Avenue verbessert die Schriftanzeige unter Linux. Link
• Gene Shift Auto v0.93fügt 54 neue Mutationen hinzu. Erinnert sich noch jemand an Mutant Factions? Link
• Imagine Earth Update 1.19 Patch 4 entfernt das Zeitlimit in DLC-Missionen. Link
• Last Epoch leutet die zweite Season ein: Tombs of the Erased. Link
• Northgard packt einen Sack voll mit einem neuen Update und zugehörigen Patches aus. Diese sind zahlreich und folgend aufgelistet:
  • Winds of Fate - Überblick Link und Detailänderungen Link.
  • 17/04/2025. Link
  • 18/04/2025. Link
• Path of Titans stellt den neu erschienenen Deinocheirus TLC vor. Link
• Space Haven feiert sein 20. großes Update mit der letzten Alpha vor dem 1.0-Release! Link
• The Fertile Crescent 1.2 endlich mit Sandboxmodus. Link
• Warside hat das große Release hinter sich und korrigiert nun links und rechts nach
  • Post-Release Day 1 Update. Link
  • Post-Release Day 2 Update. Link
  • Post-Release Day 3 Update. Link
  • Post-Release Day 4 Update. Link
• Wurm Online ist immer noch am Start: 17-April-2025. Link

Kommerzielle Spiele: Beta-/Testversionen

• City Game Studio Patch v1.23.0-rc3. Link
• Foundations 7.60 Public Beta 4 now available. Link

Open Source Gaming

• OpenHV 20250413 liebt sonntägliche Releases ebenso wie Heckenschneiden am Samstag. Link
• OpenTTD 15.0-beta2. Github, Blog
• Thrive Progress Update 04/12/2025. Link
• Unciv
  • 4.16.3. Link
  • 4.16.4. Link
• Unvanquished 0.55.3 kommt mit einem neuem Spielmodus namens "Vampire" hervor. Blog, Github
• Zero-K v1.13.4.1 - Snazzy Plasma. Steam, Forum

Open Source Tools

• Adventure Game Studio v3.6.1 - P10 (3.6.1.32). Link
• Bazzite 42.20250417: Stable (F42.20250417). Link
• Flax Update 1.10.6705. Link
• ludusavi v0.29.1 (2025-04-17). Link
• Minetest Map-Server v4.9.3. Link
• Pipewire 1.4.2. Link

Wine, Proton, SteamPlay, Emulationen

• Azahar 2120.3. Link
• Wine 9.0.1 veröffentlicht. Link

Treiber und Hardware

• Mesa 25.0.4 ist ein Bugfix-Release. Link
• NVIDIA (Open Source Module) 535.247.01. Link
• NVIDIA (Open Source Module) 550.163.01. Link
• NVIDIA (Open Source Module) 570.133.20. Link
• NVIDIA (Open Source Module) 575.51.02. Link

Steam

• Steam Deck SteamOS 3.7.3 Preview: Variable Release Rate. Link

In eigener Sache

• Unser stabiler OpenHV-Server wurde auf das aktuelle Release 20250413 aktualisiert. Gameserver-Status
• Ebenso die TiberianDawn und Red Alert-Varianten von OpenRA.

Holarse Services / Dedicated Server

Wir stellen für folgende Spiele einen oder mehrere Gameserver über unseren Server play.holarse.de und dem Server-Passwort holarse zur Verfügung. Den Status und die Version der Spielserver könnt ihr über unser Dashboard einsehen.

Spiel Port Anmerkung 7 Days To Die 26900 ARK: Survival Evolved 7777 TheIsland/PVE ECO 3000 Factorio 34197 Neue Karte mit Space Age DLC Minecraft 25565 Whitelist-Only, Karte Voxelibre (ehem. MineClone 2) 30009 Whitelist-Only, Karte (im Incognito-Mode öffnen wg. TLS) OpenRA (Tiberian Dawn) 1237 Release OpenRA (Red Alert) 1236 Release OpenHV 1234 stable Version OpenHV 1235 neueste (Vorab-)Version Stendhal Valheim 2456 Linux-Streamer und Linux-Gaming-Youtuber

• As Reiter spielt ausschließlich unter Linux sowohl Open Source, nette Indietitel aber auch Windows-Spiele unter Proton. Youtube-Link
• Corben78, VR-, Sci-fi- oder Horrorspiele unter Linux. Twitch-Link
• derhass bezeichnet sich - paradoxerweise - selbst nicht als Streamer, streamt aber ab und an! Hauptsächlich Overload Multiplayer. Aber immer Linux. Twitch-Link
• GTuxTV spielt gerne neue Titel und bedient sich allem, was Wine und Proton aber auch nativ zu bieten hat. Youtube-Link
• hatniX zockt an 5 Abenden in der Woche (Mi - Mo) stets zur Prime Time bis spät in die Nacht nativ oder via wine Spiele unter Linux und bezieht seinen "hatclan" per Chat mit ein. Was gespielt wird findet sich stets gepflegt im aktuellen Streamplan (hatnix.net-Link).
• Nerdgrrrl, Linuxgamerin mit Schwäche für Zombies. Twitch-Link
• Open Source Games stellt hauptsächlich, wie der Name schon vermuten lässt, Open Source Spiele vor. Youtube-Link
• opensource_gaming: Nicht zwingend Linux-Only aber dafür Open Source. Zu sehen auf Twitch-Link.
• Z-Ray Entertainment spielt alles unter Linux, was nicht bei drei auf den virtuellen Bäumen ist. Twitch-Link

Schönes Wochenende

Das war's wieder einmal von uns, viel Spaß beim Linuxgaming in der kommenden Woche und bis zum nächsten Drückblick.

Euer Holarse-Team

Multimedia

I dual booted windows and added Bazzite 42 in another partition. Playing Dota2 on windows, I have a stable high fps, but in this OS I am only limited to 60 - 70 fps even after I maxed out the fps limit in dota2 settings and console. Any suggestion on how to fix?

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im having an issue in games where i get frequent lagspikes. The game just completely freezes for half a second or so around every 20 seconds, timing seems to be pretty random. The issue has persisted over month or two and multiple updates.

it's happened in team fortress 2 (linux native game) and yakuza games ( newest pirate yakuza and yakuza 0 ). However GTA 5 enhanced didn't have such an issue, played it on bottles with rockstar launcher.

specs:

arch linux

KDE plasma 6.3.4

kernel 6.14.2 zen

wayland

ryzen 9 5900x

4gb ram

rx 7800xt

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genshin won't run right now, and for so many tries of changing the wine (and modified wine) version it won't run on my system, but yesterday it runs well, i have no idea what's causing it. whenever i launch the game it just returns back to hoyoplay launcher. i don't have any wine crashes so far, or doesn't have anything to screenshot. what i can only describe was it quitting immediately after a few moments, without showing a blink that it's running.

i have linux-zen installed and i'm running on arch linux.

idk if that's the right flair, but anyways.

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We can now run Games that support HDR, We have a browser that supports HDR and we have a Video player that supports HDR.

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After a recent update the HoYoPlay launcher crashes shortly after it has started up.
With the default Wine used in lutris the launcher boots up and shorty after there is an error in the logs.
DXVAVDA fatal error: could not LoadLibrary: msvproc.dll: Module not found.

A few seconds after that the launcher closes with exit code 0.

With all proton versions the launcher either never opens and exists immediately with exit code 0 or the launcher opens but stays black (Proton-GE-27)

Do you encounter similar issues ?
And maybe someone has a fix?

What i tried:

I tried to reinstall the game and installing some media foundation related stuff manually but it did not work.
Installing an old launcher does not work because the update is enforced.
I also tried a third party launcher but my libc version seems to be to low, Pop OS 22.04 libc is on version 2.35 currently.

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The computer used to run fine before, but recently all games started running at very low FPS, and CPU usage is always at 100%. I switched back to Windows to test the same games and the performance was good there, i mean by bad peforemance that the game is runing bettwen 1 to 15 fps while in wondows run above 60 i tried diffrent driver and still the same i tried the property driver and the open source one no diff

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I have already posted this. Now I have upgraded the system to 24.10. but the specs are the same. I have just upgraded the kernel to 6.11 and the Nvidia driver to 560. The game still crashes immediately and I get the same error. I have tried running the game on Wayland and it lunches but I get a black screen.

Note: the issue could still be the Nvidia driver, and I don't have any way of knowing that until I don't upgrade to 25.04 and I install the 570 driver. But the fact that works on Wayland makes me suspicious

If someone has the same issue or it's willing to help me, please DM me

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Hello Reddit! When i try to put shaders on Steampunk [LPS] i got weird graphical issues with create mod. /flywheel backend off Solves the issue but it reduced my fps. I want to know if there is something else that i can try. I run minecraft with the graphic card (Nvidia driver version: 550.120 on xubuntu minimal).

https://www.modpackindex.com/modpack/64555/steampunk-lps

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so the system requirements for spider man 2 in steam is:

• MINIMUM:
• • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10/11 (version 1909 or higher)
  • Processor: Intel Core i3-8100 or AMD Ryzen 3 3100
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
  • Storage: 140 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: SSD Required

• RECOMMENDED:

• • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10/11 (version 1909 or higher)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 5700
  • Storage: 140 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: SSD Required

I have,

• AMD Ryzen 7 5000 series
• Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050 (mobile version)
• 8 GB RAM ## i know it's not enough but it shouldn't be that much problem right?

i use proton ge 9.27 and yet i get no more then 20 fps in 1080p.
i use arch linux with hyprland wayland wm but i also tried it with x11 but it's the same...
what should i do?

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Hi, I upgraded yesterday. It's being working fantastically for me. But I'm curious to know if the sense that I have of the micro-stuttering being decimated, in the games I tested so far, is just the "honeymoon effect" or, other people are experiencing it as well.

My system:

• R7 5700X3D
• 4070 Super (nvidia 570.133.07)
• "I use Ubuntu (25.04), BTW. Don't moan about it." Cit.
• REBAR on
• Samsung SSD 870 EVO 4TB
• Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB

Games tested:

• Cyberpunk 2077 (GE-Proton 9-27, --launcher-skip, 970 EVO).
• Crysis 3 Remasterd (GE-Proton 9-26, gamescope -W 3840 -H 2160 -r 144 -f -e --, 870 EVO)
• Ratchet and Clank Rift a Part (Proton Experimental, no launch options, 970 EVO)
• Death Stranding Director's Cut (GE-Proton 9-21, no launch options, 870 EVO)

Cheers.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, the disk IO seems faster to me as well. The games are loading "PS5's fast". Storage configuration added.

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