Introduction and some backstory for context (skip for the issue if you don't find it necessary and wants to help)
Hey, I am trying to make my brother switch to linux and I chose him Linux Mint since is a friendly distribuition for newbies. Almost everything he needs should run just fine with the exception of MH Wilds, he always plays it when he has free time and this is the only thing keeping him on Windows.

Everybody knows MH Wilds is poorly optimized since its launch, thats the reason its considered Silver in ProtonDB.

I am not an expert in Linux myself so please take it into consideration when answering (have made the switch for about 2 months and I have been using Fedora).

The issue itself, PC specs and attemps made

PC Specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3060

16 GB RAM

So basically the game launches and crashes at the end of the "Optimizing Game Data" screen.

I have managed to get past this screen once or twice but it showed CAPCOMs logo then it crashed, I was using Proton Experimental and only the arguments to run REFramework, but after this I was not able to do it again, then I tried:

• ProtonDB tricks (various arguments like "gamemoderun" "VK3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_NV_low_latency2" and "PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=1"
• Installing REFramework
• This guide

It is also worth mentioning that I am familiar with debugging but I have not tried it yet in any proton/wine games.

I appreciate any help :)

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I have an RTX 3060 12GB VRam and want to switch to an AMD Radeon, but I have no idea what hardware is similar to my RTX. Can anyone help me?

My configuration is:
ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS
AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900X × 24
64 GB RAM DD4
RTX 3060 12 GB VRam
OS: Ubuntu 25.04

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when there is about a quarter left before the download of driver through .run file complete , my pc just frezzes and i cant do anything about this. The Drive Manager says that i dont need to update drivers , but in reality all the games that was running decent on windows 10 before like Silksong start lagging, and some didnt even start like signalis. My gpu is gt 730 and im using linux mint.

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SuperTuxKart: Version 1.5 released https://playingtux.com/articles/supertuxkart-version-15-released?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

Hi, just installed Linux Mint Cinnamon for the first time, moving from Windows 10. I tried to get Warband working yesterday, and validated my steam files 3 times to fix some texture glitches, which seemed to work perfectly, no fuss there. But my constant issue has been the mouse cursor. Ingame it's supposed to look like a spear tip, but it's just been the default mouse, and I really don't know how to fix it or if I even can. It's not a huge deal, but it's driving me crazy. Any help would be appreciated.

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EdenSpark seemed like a pretty exciting announcement for game developers and the open source community, until you read about the AI generation involved.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

It doesn't look like much with some of the simplest pixel art around but Coal LLC is a like a black hole that freezes your life when you hit play.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

since windows 10 era came to an end, I'm no way going back to windows 11. however I have been wondering if my laptop can handle gaming on it using linux. since I mostly play marvel rivals, cod.. etc. I did some YouTube search and I found that cachyOS is the best option right now, I have tried nobaraOS before and didn't go well, cuz I have a low bud laptop. with Ryzen 5 3550H cpu and gtx 1650 4gb vram gpu and 16gb of ram. (asus tuf fx505dt). anyone have same specs tried it before?

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For context, I’m not new to Linux; I’ve had a secondary laptop with some distro or another on it for as far back as I can remember. However, I’ve never used that for gaming beyond games downloaded from the package manager/software center.

I’ve always used windows for my gaming rig because of easier compatibility. But with windows getting worse and worse as time progresses, and Steam games and compatibility working better with Linux as time goes on, I’ve been heavily considering making the switch.

What I’m worried about is the issues people are reporting with direct x 12 and other various nvidia related issues. The alleged 10-30% performance hit with nvidia is kind of off putting.

I mostly play single player games, most of which tend to not be very taxing. Though, I am fond of some AAA big releases, like Cyberpunk, the new Oblivion, FromSoft games, and so on. I usually kind of avoid single player games that use kernel level anti-cheat on principle, but sometimes make the exception if the game looks really good.

Also, is there an alternative to MSI Afterburner for Linux? Also, processor is a 7800x3d.

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Per title. Me and wife share the same PC (Kubuntu 25.04), we each have our own user account but share drives, with the SteamLibrary folder accessible to both users and mounted individually for each. All of a sudden, Steam won't even launch games when I try to launch from my end, but on hers they launch normally.
For example, Deadlock opens and closes. Running steam through the console I get:

steam.sh[8036]: Running Steam on ubuntu 25.04 64-bit
steam.sh[8036]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[8167]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[8036]: Log already open
steam.sh[8036]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Startup - updater built Oct 3 2025 02:26:15
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened'
10/20 09:55:51 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
10/20 09:55:51 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1759461205)/tid(8232)
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Process started with command-line: '/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-child-update-ui' '-child-update-ui-socket' '8' '-srt-logger-opened'
10/20 09:55:51 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Using update UI: console
10/20 09:55:51 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(8234)
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Create window
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 400, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Verifying installation...
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Verifying file sizes only
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Set percent complete: 0
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Set percent complete: -1
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Set status message: Verifying installation...
[----] Verifying installation...
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] Destroy window

Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/logs

[2025-10-20 09:55:51] ProcessNextMessage: socket disconnected
[2025-10-20 09:55:51] No more messages are expected - exiting
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xee0f6370
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xee0f4cc0
10/20 09:55:52 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
10/20 09:55:52 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamsysinfo)/version(1759461205)/tid(8242)
Running query: 1 - GpuTopology
Response: gpu_topology {
gpus {
id: 1
name: "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080"
vram_size_bytes: 8847884288
driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_NvidiaProprietary
driver_version_major: 580
driver_version_minor: 82
driver_version_patch: 9
luid: 0
}
gpus {
id: 2
name: "Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2)"
vram_size_bytes: 8327811072
driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_MesaIntel
driver_version_major: 25
driver_version_minor: 0
driver_version_patch: 7
luid: 0
}
gpus {
id: 3
name: "llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.2, 256 bits)"
vram_size_bytes: 3221225472
driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_MesaLLVMPipe
driver_version_major: 0
driver_version_minor: 0
driver_version_patch: 1
luid: 0
}
default_gpu_id: 1
}

Exit code: 0
Saving response to: /tmp/steamCogiBe - 161 bytes
steamwebhelper.sh[8247]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point
steamwebhelper.sh[8247]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 8340
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
exec ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=8232 -buildid=1759461205 -steamid=0 -logdir=/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=0 -steamunivers
e=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 -use_xcomposite_workaround --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --disa
ble-gpu-compositing --disable-gpu --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --disable-component-update --disable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,BlockPr
omptsIfIgnoredOften,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC
/usr/share/themes/Breeze-Dark/gtk-2.0/widgets/entry:70: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
/usr/share/themes/Breeze-Dark/gtk-2.0/widgets/styles:36: error: invalid string constant "combobox_entry", expected valid string constant
pressure-vessel-wrap[8555]: E: openat(.ref): Permission denied
Desktop state changed: desktop: { pos: 0, 0 size: 4566,1080 } primary: { pos: 1280, 0 size: 1920,1080 }
Caching cursor image for , size 32x32, serial 89, cache size = 0
pressure-vessel-wrap[8590]: E: openat(.ref): Permission denied
pressure-vessel-wrap[8642]: E: openat(.ref): Permission denied
Fossilize INFO: Setting autogroup scheduling.
reaping pid: 8233 -- sh
chdir "/mnt/sandisk/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Deadlock"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 1422450, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 8741 for gameID 1422450
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/alphys/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pressure-vessel-wrap[8743]: E: openat(.ref): Permission denied
Adding process 8742 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 8743 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 8744 for gameID 1422450
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1422450]
Removing process 8744 for gameID 1422450
Removing process 8743 for gameID 1422450
Removing process 8742 for gameID 1422450
Removing process 8741 for gameID 1422450
^CSteam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 8340 exited
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 8765
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
[2025-10-20 09:56:32] Shutdown

This probably has to do with permissions, so if anyone has experience with that it would be extremely helpful. If anyone has a more elegant solution for permission issues, we've been doing a recursive chown every time Steam throws an error, but this time it didn't work, lel.

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Someone know a good replecemente for Mudfish on Linux?

I want to change the OS from my desktop from Windows to Linux (Fedora distro) but I almost don't find any information about others programs aside Mudfish.

I tried to use mudfish both on Windows and Steam deck but have problems with the interface configuration cause is not friendly as Exitlag/NoPing and is in Russian :v

Just more information, the game I play is Final Fantasy XIV, from South America is essential to me use a program like Noping/Exitlag to do high end content.

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So i have had this problem since i switched to linux. Sometimes my audio cuts off completely on only dota 2 and sometimes cs2. It does not happen every time i play but when it happens i have to restart my game to get the audio back. I have googled for any solution but haven't found one that works. have antone had the same problem. My distro is fedora kde plasma.

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With the latest update I can't get the launcher for TW: Warhammer 3 to work right, it's just showing up as a blank box. I can launch the game after the launcher times out, but I can't enable the mod I want since I can't get to the mods section of the launcher.

I've tried:

• Deleting the Launcher folder in my AppData

• Reverifying the game files

• Reinstalling

• Trying Proton Experimental, Proton Beta, Proton-Ge 10-20 and 10-15

The issue persists. Adding any launch commands that I've found on ProtonDB just cause the game not to launch at all. I'm kind of at a loss now. Hoping someone else here has any thoughts?

Using EndeavorOS with AMD 7700 with an AMD 6800xt

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I see plenty of posts and benchmarks highlighting the performance shortcomings in DX12 games vs Windows, but I wonder - how do Nvidia cards perform in DX11? Do we see the same 15% performance gap vs Windows or is it roughly on par?

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One missed here on GamingOnLinux from earlier in the month, the classic comedy point and click adventure game Splittown had a full complete release.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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Could be interesting… but something about the message included reads like it’s from an AI bot

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