Distro is Arch, set up with archinstall, but I had the same issues on Mint so I doubt it's a distro-specific issue. I installed steam through pacman. I haven't really done any tinkering with important system files or anything post-installation.

Most of the games I've tried on Linux work very well, with a few very odd exceptions.

Half-Life 2, Portal 2, and Garry's Mod are all basically nonfunctional. P2 and Gmod will run normally for a while, and then crash randomly, with no error message or warning, just instantly closing. HL2 behaves very strangely, being prone to crashes and unable to load saves or workshop maps.

I try to run it in the terminal and I get an error like "error while loading shared libraries: libmimalloc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" (sometimes the file is different, but the causes are probably the same) which is odd because I can find the file in the game's folder.

I don't think it's a hardware issue, since I've tried it with 3 different GPUs each from different brands (1 integrated and 2 discrete) but I'm running a Ryzen 5 7600 and and Intel Arc B580, and 16 gigs of RAM.

I tried replacing the files, installing various packages, including ones that should help with 32-bit apps, updating my system, making sure my drivers are in order, verifying files, deleting and reinstalling, using all sorts of launch options, monitoring system info while the game is running, nothing works.

Some source games, like TF2 and CS2 work fine, maybe because they're 64 bit? I think the issue might boil down to some weird 32-64 bit incompatibility, but I don't really know. How can I fix this? Does anyone have any idea, or have dealt with this issue before?

I don't know if I'm just stupid and did something very wrong, but how is it that Valve's flagship games are complete nightmares to get working, when they're the ones who made "Linux gaming" into a viable proposition? I'm not the only one with this issue, so how has this not been patched?

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Hi, I don't know if this bug has a solution as I don't really know how to describe it or if it has a name.

What happens it's that in some game, some lightning or ambient effects that should be in the background are on front of everything, making it very hard to see anything in some cases.

It happens to me in Warframe and in Elden Ring Nightreing. In the first there's some lights that just stays on top of everything, it's annoying but not that bad. But in Nightreing there's like a white fog that should be in the background, but it appear on top and makes the game literally unplayable.

I took a screenshot but it didn't save for some reason, will take another tomorrow as I'm writing this from my phone right now.

I have a nvidia 3050 laptop GPU.

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Hi, I have Linux Mint with Wayland and Waydroid.

Games like Free Fire work perfectly, but Call of Duty Mobile won't launch: it just gets stuck on the icon and doesn't go any further.

Does anyone know if COD Mobile is currently compatible with Waydroid or if there's any way to make it work?

Is it because of the anti-cheat or the system verification?

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I have a Lenovo Legion Go 2 that comes with a 7100 mb/s read 1tb ssd, and i wanna get a 2tb upgrade, and i got a deal (which is incredible because of ssd pricing rn) on a wd blue 2tb that has a 5100 mb/s read speed. I wanted to ask if i am going to get significantly less performance on this drive. Thank you!

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Does anyone know how I can download games on Linux and use them with online.fix? I'm a user who switched from Windows to Linux. On Windows, I used Hydra to download games like The Forest, and I could play them just by running it. It's not the same on Linux. Could someone tell me step-by-step what I can do? I need things that actually work because I want to play The Forest with my Windows friends even though I'm on Linux, and I want to know where to download the game and what to do to get it running and working online.

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hi guys, recently i made a similar post but I've spoked in portuguese so... long story, short story, how you've been dealing with the anticheat error? I don't want to make a dual boot only to play chivalry but god... if i cant make it works that will do unfortunately

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Every guide i found was either way too complex or didnt work, so heres something at keeps it simple and GUI

1. Download mod https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly, extract it
2. Install Bottles and Flatseal flatpaks
3. Open flatseal, find bottles, scroll down to filesystem, and enable "All user files"
4. Open Bottles, click 3 dot menu in top right corner, go to preferences > Runners > Proton GE > Install newest version (hit save icon)
5. Go to bottles tab, click plus button in top left corner
6. Create Gaming bottle, name it stalker anomaly
7. In programs section, click add shortcuts, point it at your AnomalyLauncher.exe in mod folder
8. Scroll down to Options > Settings, change runner to latest proton GE version
9. (Optional but very convenient) Close steam, make sure it's not running in background. In bottles next to where you can start AnomalyLauncher, the 3 dot icon, add to steam, now open steam and it will be in your games library

If you want to additionally install Mod Organizer 2 follow these steps

1. Download Mod.Organizer-x.x.x.7z, it's a portable version of the manager https://github.com/ModOrganizer2/modorganizer/releases
2. Extract it where you want and add it as a non steam game, right click on properties, check 'Force the use of a specific steam play compatility tool' set to proton experimental (Bottles does not work for this as it will fail to detect steam)
3. Point Mod organizer at your AnomalyLauncher

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Linux mint keeps breaking cutscenes in games. First it was spiderman 2 where it froze during the saving tombstone from his cell cutscene but the audio kept playing until suddenly the whole cutscene played in a few seconds before returning to normal. In Lego starwars the complete saga as shown above. The cutscene did the same thing. Froze part way though with audio continuing. But it froze completely rather than fast forwarding the cutscene and resuming the game. I have the recommended nvdia drivers for my 3060 and am running proton experimental rn (it auto installed and i just havent changed it yet)

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What should I do when support ends in 2028? What will happen to older graphics cards running Linux? And even worse, what will happen to computers when Windows 11 support ends and they no longer meet the requirements to upgrade to Windows 12? For example, I use a very old computer from 2050 with a GTX 10xx series graphics card. I know there's no explanation, but are there any alternatives?

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Just started playing witcher 3 for the first time and I have the decky framegen patch command setup in the launch options.

With that I can select dlss as anti aliasing and dlss frame generation. When I do select dlss frame generation however the image constantly bounces and it's unplayable. Prior to using the decky framegen command I had the proton fsr4 upgrade command (like I had for ghost of tsushima) but in the game I was still only seeing fsr2 and no frame generation option.

Any advice?

I am on bazzite running on a 9070xt

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I didn't see these messages before that I remember.

Now I am getting flooded with these messages:

kernel: x86/split lock detection: #DB: CHTTPClientThre/38096 took a bus_lock trap at address: 0x5689c584

About 8 or so every 30-60 seconds.

I am on Arch Linux, running Steam through multilib. I tried turning on beta build, but it is no different.

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I have tried running Zenless Zone Zero on Steam, Twintail Launcher & Heroic Launcher with Proton Experimental / GE-Proton Latest and no matter what, the game keeps freezing after just a few minutes.
I genuinely don't know what's causing this issue.

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I'm having lots of fun exploring this, I'm not concerned just wanting to learn more.

How are all these "community" runtimes and binaries like Wine and Proton-GE vetted to be from legit sources?

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Because Linux supports FSR 4 on RDNA 2 without using a modified driver.

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I have loq 4050 r5 is it a good idea to install gaming distro on it l like Linux but i won't lose performance and how to make performance equal to windows and how is the battery life on laptop and is there any driver issues?

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https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

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I'm currently with Windows 10 IoT LTSC for gaming, because my last experience on Linux wasn't good, but maybe I just set up it wrong or chose a bad distro for gaming, also, it was a few time ago, it probably improved since the last time.

I just don't want to loose performance, as far as I know, Nvidia isn't as good as AMD on Linux. And I can't afford new hardware.

These are my specs: - GPU: GTX 1650 Mobile (for laptops) - CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics, 3201 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s) - RAM: 16GB - Storage: SSD M2

My question is: would I get at least the same performance as W10 IoT LTSC on Linux? Considering I'm using a very light version of Windows plus debloating script to remove any extra crap.

I couldn't find any good comparative video Windows vs Linux on YouTube, most of them show Linux doing generally better but most cases only for AMD. A few other videos I saw Nvidia showed even 10-20% less performance on Linux.

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I installed ES-DE from their official page, and the AppImage doesn't seem to work, even with RetroArch installed the file doesn't anything at all. Do you have any suggestion or do you know any fix for this issue?

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