Hi all!

Asides from my AMD gpu, my desktop comes with an integrated gpu.

Now here is there fun starts. In most linux distros steam works fine and Steam boots up fine and chooses the correct gpu to run things, to my knowledge at least.

But in Debian based distros, for some reason I cannot pinpoint, Steam starts opening and closing repeatedly unless I modify the config to force to use the dedicated gpu, or I just deactivate my integrated gpu in the BIOS.

Right now I'm on Arch to avoid the issue, but if sometime in the future I wanted to migrate to something Debian based, is there any cons to having your integrated gpu deactivated?

In the past some linux users have told me to just keep my integrated gpu deactivated because they always cause trouble, but I was hoping to get a better picture.

Thank you!

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Currently using tray icons reloaded and it's pretty awful. 9/10 times clicking the discord logo doesn't actually open discord. The other 8 times it opens the pop-up inside my game and then lets me open discord. Is there one that doesn't suck? Or should I just go back to Plasma? Because this is kinda grinding my gears now.

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For years I've been trying Wayland on and off with dozens of distros. All of them were unresponsive buggy horrible messes. I finally found somebody with similar issues. For context, I'm on a gaming laptop. The solution was to turn integrated graphics off in the bios. Snap. Night and day.

I play a lot of The Finals and I swear it runs even better on Linux now, except this issue that's been here for a year. The threads for The Finals add and add over time, eventually grinding gameplay to a halt.

So, happy I've got a functioning desktop now but still can't play the finals. :(

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I've read about the Hex Code Hack to disable EAC in Trials Rising so that it works on Linux. Has anyone tried this? If so, were you able to play online? I’d like to play this game with my brother in private sessions, but since I'm using Linux, I’d need to use this Hex Hack to disable EAC. However, this might result in a ban.

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I'm trying to Run Far Cry: New Dawn on Steam and it says Uplay instalation not found, I've tried to install it through Lutris and through Protontricks, nothing seems to work, I also can't find any tutorial on how to run games from Ubi on Steam on Linux...

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I recently installed Bazzite on my GPD Win 2. I previously used Manjaro but wanted to try Bazzite after hearing good things about it.

I especially wanted to try out the gamescope session like the steam deck uses, hoping it could boost my performance a little and improve the handheld pc workflow when compared to running big picture off a desktop session.

However, I find gamescope session runs significantly worse than when running on a bazzite wayland desktop session, like -20 fps worse.

Entering big picture mode from desktop steam runs buttery smooth, and running a game via gamescope using the command line from desktop steam runs smooth too. The issues only occur when using the gamescope-session.

I understand the GPD Win 2 is an older piece of tech, but shouldn’t the gamescope session run at least on par with a desktop session?

Is there any tweaks I can do to fix this?

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I am not talking about lagging from computer not being able to handle games. Even with lowest graphics settings there are very serious lags but it seems after changing graphicd settings to other values couple of times, I am able to run game on highest graphics settings with good performance without having basically a slideshow.

Can you fix this or is it a expected behaviour? I have encountered such problem 3 times after installing gamen from flatpak steam and running it with proton 9.

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fragpunk crash after launch i try to use proton-gt 9.25 , 9.26 , 9.27 but it still crash

os cachy os kde

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Hey ya'll, first time posting. I'm having issues trying to get this game to run.

I run LMDE 6 with updated mesa drivers so I can play the latest games. My setup has worked pretty flawlessly for my 3 years of using this distro, it being able to run my entire Steam / GOG library via Proton, up until trying to run this particular game.

The game is able to launch in Heroic and run through the splash screens, but after about 5 seconds, the error in the image occurs. I have tried different Proton versions via ProtonUpQt, different kernels (backport stock 6.12.12 from Debian and 6.14 liquorix), and even used my old GPU (6700 XT, current one is a 7800 XT) but it does not get past this screen.

It all results in the same error. Is it an issue with the game itself, or perhaps something else? I can try to provide additional info if needed. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Wine C++ Runtime Library

Assertion Failed!

Program:
Z:\home\USER\Games\Heroic\STALKER2\Stalker2\Binaries\Win64\Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe
File: ../src-wine/dlls/winevulkan/loader_thunks.c
Line: 2775

Expression: "!status && "vkCreateComputePipelines""

Press OK to exit the program, or Cancel to start the Wine Debugger

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Hello guys,

I have been on and off linux. Everytime, the games compatibility put me back on the windows track. I'm using Windows 11, it's fine but it does not make me happy. There is always a warm fuzzy feeling to use linux.

I have a steam deck and I like using arch but my favorite flavor is LinuxMint. I have a few questions though.

1- Is the proton compatibility layer available for other linux flavor? Is the gaming experience the same?

2- I have steamOS and all things related to gaming on a different nvme drive. WIndows is on another. Could I just reinstall linux on linux mint and point where my files are? Would there be any issues if the drive is of course formatted in NTFS?

3- What will I lose? I'm using teams for work in the cloud anyway and I am mainly playing offline games and some multiplayer like age of empire 2 definitive edition, space marine 2 and darktide. Are there some titles that are a no go? For single player games that have launcher that don't play well with Linux, I could always sail the high seas...

Thanks in advance!

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Im building a new PC and i used linux before but not with a Gaming envriroment.
what Linux is easy for driver updates regarding nvidia gpus and Amd cpus?
and not so important but also neat if it has it: easy for gaming (built in wine support maybe) and easy proton usage

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Hiii. Soo i need help. Since i switched to arch Linux had a few issues i fixed and all was good but one thing i cant seem to fix is that my games keep crashing. Tried a lot to fix this but idk how. My system is up to date soo is everything i use. And the crashes only happen when i alt tab to switch the music or video i am listening to. The crashes happened during or after i alt tab back to the game. And this wasnt a problem before when i was on windows 10. My pc isnt that great but it gets the job done and now it seems that linux just shuts down the app (game) that uses the most vram. I have a nvida 1030 GT 🥲. All the stuff on the web tells me to disable compositor in the settings but i dont have it at all in the display settings. There is no compositor in it soo i tried the shortcut on keyboard to disable it and nothing happened as well in the console. Plz halp me this is a really annoying issues cuz i frequently need to alt tab and this makes it impossible.

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Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of the latest Mesa 25.0.4 stable bug-fix release, and we're also closing in on the next feature release with Mesa 25.1 seeing a first release candidate for testing.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

With the hashtag that is actually part of the name, #DRIVE Rally has properly launched out of Early Access with the 1.0 release now available. It arrives with Native Linux support and it's Steam Deck Verified.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Building on top of the latest Fedora 42 release, Bazzite 42 is out now for this increasingly popular SteamOS-like option to put on your handhelds, desktops and more.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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I've just checked Marvels Rival don't work anymore and neither Apex legends, or gta online or COD.

So what online games we still have that work on Linux (I use Arch BTW).

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