Kind of an annoying issue I'm having where all steam games have 2 or 3 audio streams, and thus are listed multiple times in volume control panels. When I go to adjust per application volume, I have to just randomly try one until I get the one that is right. Google was useless. I have tried different proton versions, SDL_AUDIODRIVER, and WAVONLY env variables.

https://imgur.com/a/WhZohhM

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Hey everyone, I made the swap to Linux mint 22 recently and so far for every other game I have been having no issues other than marvel rivals.

When I first install the game I can usually get about 1-2 matches in before it crashes and I get the same error either when attempting to start the game or right as I am about to start a match.

I am currently using the launch options: SteamDeck=1 %command% -PSOCompileMode=1

and using GE-Proton9-27

I have tried installing it into my main harddrive instead but got the same results.

Just want to see if anyone else has had this issue, or knows what I am doing wrong

https://preview.redd.it/0ypd0pi0rhve1.png?width=795&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2bebbe784e4bcdb06329cff3cab40297a935934

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Ludusavi: v0.29.1 released https://playingtux.com/articles/ludusavi-v0291-released?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

Hi everyone, a few months ago I bought a GameSir G7 SE Wired, a good controller that I used on both Windows and Linux, but for a couple of weeks on my Arch Linux laptop I'm having a little problem, sometimes when I unplug it and plug it back in the controller is recognized as a dinput controller and every button doesn't work, the only way to make it work is to reset it manually via usbreset, I can't figure out if it's a bug in the controller that doesn't reset/turn on correctly or a bug in Arch Linux in the new kernel, because for a few months it worked without problems (I tried on Fedora 6.14 and it works without problems), I've already tried using different drivers from xpad like xone (the updated fork) but the problem persists, does anyone have any suggestions? if you have this controller or others from gamesir could you let me know if you're having problems? Thanks.

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I'm trying to play ghost of tsushima on linux (mint) and the trackpad is being used as a mouse so every time i try to use the wind or gesture i end up spinning the camera wildly. I've tried deactivating it in steam, holding a variety of buttons down to turn it off, and nothing is working. i read somewhere about drivers needing to be updated, but i can't find any linux drivers, just some 5 year old threads about someone needing to update linux instead.

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I’m hitting rendering issues with Celeste on Debian 12 with KDE Plasma 5.27.5 and Intel Iris Xe Graphics. The native Linux version has a severe lighting glitch (attachment 1). This wasn’t an issue on my old laptop running Gnome. Forcing Proton Hotfix in Steam improved things significantly, reducing it to a minor lighting glitch (attachment 2).

I tried both switching between Wayland and Plasma (X11) sessions at the SDDM login screen and tweaking KDE's compositor settings (enabled "Allow applications to block compositing," set OpenGL 3.1, disabled VSync) but neither brought improvement.

I suspect a Mesa driver issue or game-specific rendering quirk. Planning to try Mesa backports next, but I’d love to hear your suggestions.

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The game in the picture is just an example of a problem that appears to be Steam-wide on my rig.

System: Archlinux (latest updates/stock kernel), KDE-wayland, AMD hardware. 64 gig Ram (Latest non-beta Steam client, auto-updated to current by Steam.)

For the last little while (couple of months), the UI's app indicator has been silently crashing when attempting to use it to launch games. When I launch within the UI, everything works.

The app indicator LOOKS like a good launch as the UI shows the game starting up from the app indicator launch...Journalctl just shows the game quitting. Logs aren't showing much either.

This isn't a showstopper or anything, but it is annoying. :-)

It almost seems like the app indicator 'launch' isn't using the same launch commands/parameters that the UI is using. That makes zippo sense to me, but hey.

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Im trying to play a game and it seems like my in game mouse position, and my on screen mouse position are not the same. i can move my mouse to the bottom of my screen, or left all the way, its like there is an offset. i have 2 monitors and one is smaller than the other

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Building a new living room PC. It's running Bazzite. I only need a few games on it, one is Zenless Zone Zero. Plenty of ZZZ guides on youtube on how to get it to work but none of them work. I've tried Lutris but it would error and on Heroic installing the game through the Epic store, the game won't launch past first install and launch of the game.

Really wanted to get into Linux but the constant headaches are a real turn off.

Anyone have a proper guide on how to get ZZZ to work? Most of the mentioned guide are dated to 2024 but we'll be nearly half way through 2025.

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When playing certain online games and searching for people to play with in matchmaking, I keep getting lobbies and players from other regions - particularly America which I know is a default for many regional settings. I’m pretty far from America so this is less than ideal. Any idea where wine/proton/games in general might try to grab regional info so I can override it? Of course the games might also just have bunk matchmaking code but I can’t fix that

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I have 2 monitors and would like to be able to actually USE the second one. But these game implemented a cheap fix to preventing the cursor from going off screen when not in a menu, which is to remove your access to any other monitor.

This is really annoying because anytime I want to research shit on interned or respond to discord messages. I have to open my shitty phone, type the password, wait for the old hardware to load anything, wait for the window to refresh, open the app, wait for it to load and repeat this each time I want to do anything. Not mentionning that if I want to go on call I have to find a place to save the game and close it.

I've tried alt-tabbing with no success, the cursor just teleports back on the main screen.

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I'm interested in getting a set up where my steam deck can use my computer like a bluetooth headset. I've done some digging and I see that people have done things like this, but haven't really found how to do it. I've got Pipewire with wireplumber and Bluez on my laptop. Is anyone familiar with configuring Bluez/Pipewire to offer up an audio sink over bluetooth?

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Can anyone confirm that they are running the game on the latest update while forcing Vulkan?

I've been tearing my hair off this afternoon trying to understand why I'm crashing when forcing Vulkan. I do have alternatives to play, but I just wanted to troubleshoot this for the sake of it.

I'm on Arch, I went through all the Vulkan troubleshooting guides I could find. I'm not seeing anything remarkable on the proton crash logs.

This is the specific error I get:

[Physics::Module] Initialized MultithreadedJobDispatcher with {0} workers.

Initialize engine version: 2021.3.42f1 (f1197811e8ce)

[Subsystems] Discovering subsystems at path Z:/home/joao/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Last Epoch/Last Epoch_Data/UnitySubsystems

Forcing GfxDevice: Vulkan

Forced GfxDevice 'Vulkan' was not built from editor, shaders will not be available

InitializeEngineGraphics failed

PlayerInitEngineGraphics: InitializeEngineGraphics failed

I'm not looking for help fixing as much as I'm wondering if by any chance this is an issue with the game instead of with my system. Could anyone help test that?

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Since I installed endeavouros yesterday in-game lighting has been blocky. It has happened in all of the games I have tried, using multiple different proton versions and graphic settings, on both X11 and wayland. I was not having this issue on other distros.

Attaching an image for a visual reference of what I am talking about (the light bulbs over “SINNER’S”).

Specs
CPU: 7700x
GPU: 7800xt
MB: MSI Pro B650-S
Kernel: 6.14.2-arch1-1
Mesa driver: 25.0.3-1

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With wayland, I experience some heavy memory leaks when using KDE, this happened under kubuntu 24.10 and now 25.04 which sits at KDE 6.3.4.

The memory leaks happens in Xwayland if I'm running KDE on the nvidia card (via configuring export KWIN_DRM_DEVICES=/dev/dri/card1:/dev/dri/card0 in the login scripts) or in kwin_wayland if running on the intel igpu. The leaks makes the affected process use up all the remaining available RAM over time (say a couple of hours) until the entire system dies, I've spotted the processes using 40+GB of ram, and the problem is clearly related to external monitors.

When the leak happens on kwin_wayland because I'm running KDE on the igpu, at least unplugging and replugging the screens seems to make it remember it has to clean up the memory. Sadly this isn't a good option due to this other nvidia bug. Running KDE on the gpu makes Xwayland take the hit, and at least in this case I can individually kill it without restarting the whole session, but after Xwayland restarts, several things end up working poorly, like focus on Discord and no title for windows like steam. It's not great either.

Been having this for so long that that I'm desperate to see if maybe someone knows a fix (my internet-foo clearly isn't good enough).

Edit, forgot to mention I'm on nvidia driver 570.133.07

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My OS is Linux Mint, I can connect the controller via Bluetooth and it picks up fine, but Steam input will not recognize that there is a controller connected, but when I connect the controller via USB it picks up immediately.

somewhere, something is going wrong and I don't know why. If any of you have any suggestions why this is happening, please let me know.

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in case you couldn't see it says Fate/stay night[Realta Nua] -Fate-???????????????????

i followed this guide and followed ALL the instructions. this is the 5th time and im gonna crash out give up at this rate

so uh if anyone knows how to fix... then pls tell me

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I first posted about this two years ago, here. But basically, what happens is that when I plug in an 8bitdo controller, it will disconnect and reconnect every 5 seconds until I open the KDE Game Controller settings panel or Steam. This has happened with multiple 8bitdo controllers that can toggle between DInput / XInput / Nintendo Switch input modes (I have 3 of these: the Pro+, the Pro 2 Wired Controller, and the Ultimate 2.4GHz Controller).

I finally found a solution to this issue - sort of.

Following the comments on this Github issue, it appears to be an issue with powertop being aggressive about power on this device. Because the solution was not elaborated on (a common problem in discussing esoteric Linux issues), I had to devise the steps myself and am sharing them here because I want my knowledge to help others solve similar problems.

1. Open the terminal and go sudo powertop - This opens the PowerTOP CLI tool.
2. Press Tab to switch to Tunables
3. Look for a listing that says Autosuspend for USB device 8BitDo <model> [8BitDo] (Mine was Autosuspend for USB device 8BitDo Pro 2 Wired Controller [8Bitdo])
   1. This did not show up for me at first; you may have to open and close PowerTOP a few times for it to appear.
4. Select the listing and press Enter to change this from "Bad" to "Good"
5. Press Escape to exit PowerTOP - will take a few seconds to close but then you'll be back to your prompt

Modern games will recognize this as a Xbox 360 controller, but for older games you'll have to edit the controller settings either in-game or enable Steam Input and modify the controller layout.

The glaring problem to this solution is that it only works until you log out of your Linux session or reboot your computer. Then the issue comes right back, because changes you make in powertop are not written anywhere and can't persist as a result. And because powertop --auto-tune sets the controller entry to Bad, the recommendations I've seen to create a systemd service to run this command will not work for this issue.

The good thing about powertop is that when you tune a device, it gives you a readout of the syntax it used to tune the device. Mine is echo 'auto' > '/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-4/power/control';. The bad thing is, I haven't seen a clear and concise way to store this and make it a boot variable - I'm familiar with Linux, but not quite to an expert level of skill. I've been looking into this for most of the day, but I have not found a good way to implement this.

I think I'm done messing with this, because the DualSense I've been using for the last 2 years just works. It's a shame, but for me this isn't worth any further hassle, so I'm going to sell my 8bitdo controllers. If someone wants to take this and make it a permanent solution, have at it.

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I'm new to linux and i wanted to use the nvidia control panel, but its missing some options. Anyone got a fix?

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How can I use my iGPU and dGPU at the same time on one game so I can get like 20 extra fps in BeamNG.Drive and also my Laptop is nVIDIA Optimus Enabled so yeah.

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