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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Issue

PC shuts down when gaming, no idea why, does anyone have ideas on what I can do to understand + resolve the issue? Posting here in case it's a Linux-related issue.

My best guess is that maybe the PSU is faulty, but I'm deeply ignorant on that topic and I don't know how I can verify that.

Video

Video showing problem

Context

Fairly recently, when gaming, things work fine for a while, and then my PC randomly shuts off and I have to hold the power button off to fully shut down, before restarting.

After restarting, everything works fine, until I play a game for a random amount of time, and then it fails again.

Does not happen when not running games.

In the above linked video, the 'pop' heard is from my speakers, which maybe suggests that it's a 'power' related problem? The power-LED on my PC case stays on, but my peripherals all shut down (seen by the lack of a light on my mouse).

Inside the PC, none of the fans are spinning, and the GPU seems off (based on the lack of the light).

Specs OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Host: B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 Kernel: Linux 6.14.2-arch1-1 Display (38GN950): 3840x1600 @ 144 Hz in 38" [External] using DisplayPort WM: i3 (X11) CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 4.85 GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 [Discrete] Memory: 8.82 GiB / 62.69 GiB (14%) Swap: Disabled Disk (/): 706.16 GiB / 915.32 GiB (77%) - ext4 Drivers: nvidia 570.133.07-5 Diagnosis Attempts

• I first thought it was shitty game code in Path of Exile 2, but it also happened in Blue Prince (very low requirements)
• I then thought it was to do with shitty Nvidia drviers after the 50 series release. Downgraded from 570 -> 565 drivers, didn't fix
• I then wondered if it was an X11 vs Wayland thing. Tested on i3 (shown in video), Sway and Hyprland, issue persists
• I then thought it was a 'recent games' thing, but it also happened with Death Stranding which I had played last year on the same machine with no issues
• journalctl and dmesg don't show anything interesting, either during start-up or previous (dead) boot. Happy to share the information if it's helpful though!
• I then thought it might be because the PSU wasn't getting enough power as the GPU ramped up. It was originally plugged in to an extension cable, now it's plugged in to the wall (shown in video), issue still persists

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PSA for all fellow Ubuntu (and flavours) enjoyers!

If you are like me and need overstimulation from Twitch while gaming, consider switching away from Firefox Snap.

Previously I got about 90 FPS in Path of Exile 2 while watching Twitch, with a some annoying micro-stuttering. With no video content on the side I maxed out on my monitor's refresh-rate of 120 fps.
Today I got suspicious and compared a few browsers. Turns out that Twitch in Chrome keeps me on stable 120, with no stuttering. Even better, LibreWolf (FlatPak) also has no performance degradation! Stable 120 fps and proper ad-blocking <3 (of course disabled on twitch to support the people there).

TL;DR
Firefox Snap bad, use Librewolf instead and get 30% more performance for free.

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Hello, Ive recently tried playing last epoch using proton. Gameplay wise its perfect but when I go to new area game has like 30%chance of crashing any ideas, tips welcome. Using very light arch, gpu 2060RTX Cpu i10700k.

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Whenever I run vinegar on my fedora it's really slow, really unusable. Can someone help please?

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I've tried almost all versions of proton on steam and it doesn't even open, it "worked" only one night and still the game closed by itself

I've searched a lot on the internet and no solution helped me and it really doesn't say why

Note: I downloaded mods on it with EA Unlocker

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I'm surprised it automatically picks up any Windows game I play with Proton on Steam. I don't see any Discord Rich Presence setting in Steam either. These games are old too, so they don't have that functionality built-in either. But Vesktop can pick them up. Launching and quitting games work.

[arRPC > ipc] listening at /run/user/1000/discord-ipc-0 [arRPC > websocket] listening on 6463 [arRPC > process] started [arRPC > ipc] new connection! [arRPC > process] detected game! Call of Duty: Black Ops [arRPC > process] lost game! Call of Duty: Black Ops

However, Vesktop isn't able to pick up Linux native games. Is it because these games aren't in Discord's database or because they're Linux native? Does anyone get native games to show up on Vesktop?

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Hey everyone!

I've just released NvimUnity — a plugin and Unity integration that lets you use Neovim as your default code editor in Unity 🎮✨

✅ Features:

• Seamless file opening between Unity and Neovim
• Full .csproj and .sln file generation — no need for Rider or VSCode
• Cross-platform installer for Windows, Linux, and macOS

🔧 Setup is simple and works with your existing Neovim config.
📂 All built around a fast and native Unity editor integration (via IExternalCodeEditor)

👉 GitHub: https://github.com/apyra/nvim-unity

I'm happy to hear feedback, suggestions or ideas to improve it! 🚀

Cheers!

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Canonical has today released Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed "Plucky Puffin", their latest feature upgrade release to one of the most popular Linux distributions. This also includes updates for all the other editions like Kubuntu.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

It downloads the game then goes to validating and then updating files which gets stuck on 0%.

Restarted steam and my pc but the solution doesn't seem that simple because it didn't fix it.

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Here's the new up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for April 17th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. An easy way to build up your gaming collection with these games coming as part of your Amazon Prime subscription.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.