im on debian, steam overlay is disabled and im on proton 9(i also tried experimental, didnt work) but when i press play on steam the rockstar thing shows up then an error shows up. the same exact thing happened with red dead redemption 2 but it worked the 2nd or 3rd time after i swapped to proton 9 and no steam overlay. i dont know whats going on.

and yes i know if i wanted to play aaa games i prob shouldnt be using linux but my brother wont change it so im stuck like this.

EDIT: now the error says that gta v enhanced is already running(but it isnt) and to close the window to exit gta v enhanced

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I recently reinstalled windows on my pc, but I found out that when I install games on linux I get around 100mb/s and on windows it stutters from 40mb/s to 8mb/s to 0mb/s back to 40 again. is there a reason for this???

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The file /home/deck/Games/battlenet/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net Launcher.exe could not be found

Can someone help me find a solution?

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I have been trying to get HDR working with some steam games through gamescope and honestly I don't know what else to do. I am aware this is pretty new tech so it may just not work at all, but there seems to be some people that are able to get it working.

In lots of the posts I see there is some version of this launch option for steam and tinkering around with it, I can't get it to work.

gamescope -e -f -r 120 -W 2560 -H 1440 --hdr-enabled -- %command%

Has anyone else gotten Helldivers or any other game working with HDR on linux?

I use KDE fedora 41, and I'm not super familiar with gamescope, it doesnt appear to have a GUI, and I'm decent with a terminal but I'm still kinda new.

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Hi all. I'm one of those who decided to try out Linux after Pewdiepie made that video. That Windows candy crush part really hit it for me.

So I installed dual-boot CachyOS. It's amazing, other than a tiny bluetooth constantly disconnecting my earbuds bug. However, the big issue is the performance.

I got all the latest drivers per CachyOS and did the improvements on the wiki. Everything seems to be the latest stuff, and I even tried out BORE. FPS is still just kinda meh.

I'm on Nvidia RTX 4070 laptop, and I'm aware that the nvidia drivers are pretty shitty, but is it really this bad? On Oblivion Remastered on Windows I can run it no issues with 70+ FPS on medium-high. On CachyOS I barely scrape by on 30 FPS.

Noita which is DX11 also runs slower, which theoretically should run just as well as Windows as it's not Dx12 which has the -20% nvidia tax.

Am I doing something wrong? I'm pretty new, only tried Linux once before like a decade ago and uninstalled it because no games worked. I kind of expected a tiny bump, maybe 10% more FPS due to how much less bloat cachyOS has and due to its optimizations, or at least equal if not max -10% on Dx12 like Oblivion. But cutting my FPS in half is really killing Linux for me, even though it's incredible for how shitty Windows is for everything other than FPS. The Finals also runs worse, where I lose around 60ish stable FPS versus Windows.

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

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Hi everyone, I bought a license for dead space 2 from steam, but the game doesn't start, not even changing runners. Can someone help me thanks

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For about a week I've been struggling to find a solution for my audio problems while gaming on linux.I have two screens connected to my PC (one via DP, other one via HDMI) and every single time I open a game it would play sound for a few seconds (sometimes minutes), but then it will just go silent, then it will play again and the cycle repeats with random time passed in between stages.

But I suffer no more, and since I haven't found a post with a solution to this problem, here's mine.

If you experinece the same problem with nvidia GPU on linux (sound cuts off randomly), try locking your GPU mem clock to a fixed value, because according to

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/audio-pass-through-via-hdmi-often-interrupted/270808/4

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/2375

this is the only solution at the moment. So to try it out: find which clock speed does your gpu support:

nvidia-smi --query-supported-clocks=memory --format=csv

it will output all memory clocks supported by your GPU, pick any (i prefer highest one) and execute:

nvidia-smi --lock-memory-clocks=YOUR_MEMCLOCK_CHOICE

replace YOUR_MEMCLOCK_CHOICE with the value you got from the first command.

Then test if it solved your problem. If it did - congratulations!

I am using nixos so I have created a one-shot systemd service that runs on boot and sets memclock speed for my gpu and I don't remember having sound problems since then.

In case any of you use NixOS as well, here's that systemd service (if you're not using NixOS it's pretty easy to create same thing by hand)

systemd.services.nvidia-lock-memclk = { description = "Lock NVIDIA memory clock to prevent HDMI audio drop‑outs"; after = [ "nvidia-persistenced.service" "display-manager.service" ]; wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ]; serviceConfig = { Type = "oneshot"; ExecStart = "${config.hardware.nvidia.package.bin}/bin/nvidia-smi --lock-memory-clocks=${toString gpuMemClk}"; }; }; submitted by /u/shoker444
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I run a heavily modded 1.12.2 version of Minecraft (modpack is home made) and it's always kinda had rough performance on Linux compared to Windows on the same machine. One of the issues in the past was that my setup didn't work well with X11 (dual monitors, different refresh rates) and I was advised to upgrade to Wayland to resolve a lot of performance issues.

I now have Kubuntu 25.04 running Wayland, with updated Nvidia drivers, and while that has helped performance in a lot of games, I'm still seeing on average 10-20 less FPS in Minecraft than my Windows partition on the same device.

Here is my system information:

https://preview.redd.it/w86c3q7ixsze1.png?width=523&format=png&auto=webp&s=acef5d7de71ca9c6094108f5b245f24c39cad92f

Modlist is here

I'm running the modpack on Prism on Linux, though I was running CurseForge on Windows. Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated!

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When fullscreening in Wayland on MC Versions that use Java 8 (1.8.9), It crashes. Since I don't want to change to X11 since it also heavily breaks for me, and I don't have any clue for any other solution, I would like to find a way to run the instance under Xwayland but only for this instance. Using Arch Linux with the nvidia-open drivers (not nouveau).

P.S.: It's not OptiFine's fault, since this happens even on a fresh instance without OptiFine

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Hello!

I am new to linux and installed mint a few weeks ago. I wanted to try my G29 which has worked flawlessly on Windows on linux and couldn't seem to connect it. I read that it needs to be switched to PS3 mode, but it seems to be stuck on the PS4 mode according to the terminal when I do lsusb even though the switch is on PS3. I assume the switch is broken. My question is: Is there any way to change the mode digitally, and if that isn't the case, is there any way to make PS4 mode work on linux?

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I have 9070xt gpu, and the only thing that scares me, (apart from HDMI and HDMI forums shenanigans), is that ray tracing performance is like 40% worse than on windows (at least last time I read about it here). Has there been any advance in the performance since then (with MESA)?

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Another strong case for Linux as gaming platform in 2025

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Hi,

Sorry my allegedly noob questions, Im only into Linux gaming since 3 Days.

Background:
Reason for switching to Linux is the preassure to abandon Windows 10 (support end soon) and because Windows 11 is an absolute noGo from a privacy standpoint.
So we bought AMD 9950x, 64G RAM, RTX 5070 with 12G VRAM and choose Kubuntu 24.04 LTS (Because it looks way more like windows as ubuntu).

Installing the Graphic card was a bit tricky, because chatbots dont know the „You need to use the ...-open driver for 50xx series“… btw: How should anyone know this? What ist the official way to know this and get such informations? Nvidia page only tells the 570 Driver should work with 5070 – but no word that it is only working with nvidia-driver-570-open?

Anyway… so we installed Steam (easy)… Battlnet in Steam using Proton Hotfix (not quite that easy).

But then in Diablo 4 things start to get frustrating.
Performance is on the level of our 2015 Windows Gaming PCs with 10 Year old hardware.

And after 10 Minutes of playing, the game hit the 12 GB VRAM and it starts with some textures disappearing. Then after short the game freezes.
You can prevent this, by setting Textures to low so you don't hit the 12G VRAM so fast… But then the game looks worse than 10 Year old hardware with less FPS :(.

I found some posts stating that the „-open“ Driver don't support VRAM swapping, so it is to be expected to crash when hitting the VRAM limit. Is this true? Where is this official source?

And most important – how to fix this?
Will there be a better driver in the future?
Will the „without open“ driver also support 5070 soon?
Will the „without open“ driver don't crash when VRAM get low?

Currently we are a little frustrated and „fearful“ we did it wrong going to linux gaming. Or is it just the „Brand new Graphics card – give it a few weeks“ problem and our choice was right?

Any advice? Any tips how I can gather such informations myself?

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Hello, so I recently switched to linux mint after my microsoft account got hacked (fuck microsoft like actually) and the change has been good. But I'm struggling to install reshade on the sims 4. I managed it with the sims 3 somehow but I will link the methods I tried below. Also please be nice I am well aware I'm not a pro when it comes to linux.

1. So I tried this one https://github.com/kevinlekiller/reshade-steam-proton and once I copy in the script to the terminal and provide the correct game path it says done but then asks me to run the game with the environment variable: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3dcompiler_47=n;dxgi=n,b". So I assume this is supposed to go into advanced launch options under ts4 on the EA app but when I attempt this it says 'The commands you entered contain an invalid character', so I'm assuming this is what's stopping reshade from running.

2. I also tried this https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/b2hi3g/reshade_working_in_wine_43/ which did not work

help would be greatly appreciated I've been stuck trying to get it to work for days </3

https://preview.redd.it/4j3bffpzvrze1.png?width=1054&format=png&auto=webp&s=1dfbe78fdd842068be30c22f58b496b45e6d7637

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here is my cpu - intel i7-8550u ;

in fedora , after a 3-4 hrs of use it would just decrease it to 400 mhz ; (specifically in games)

i could not fix it no matter what , i had to switch back to mint, so if anyone has any idea why it was happening do tell me

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