My game is crashing only when I finish battles.
This also happens on the last boss of Hollow Zero and in all Cleanup stages.
Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone know the reason?

Already tried repairing, cleaning cache, reinstalling, lowering the video settings...

(pop os 24.04; intel i5 11300h; nvidia rtx 3050 mobile 4gb vram; 16gb ram; laptop asus vivobook pro 15 x3500pc)

Running through steam via proton GE 10-32 using the launch options: gamemoderun PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 %command%. but it still happens even without them

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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/39974

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/39991

I wouldn't get too excited over this at all, however you cannot get "traces" for a game unless the game is open and you're actually playing it or running a built in benchmark which is what makes this confusing.

Especially the second graph I uploaded which specifically says "Ubuntu 25.04" and Mesa doesn't have a Windows port. Both Felix(image 1) and Lionel(image 2) have results for Fortnite, Destiny 2, and PUBG, with Lionel doubling down and stating the games were running through Proton when asked about Destiny 2 and PUBG.

Intel also does not offer a cloud gaming service and I doubt they have plans to. If they do have one in the works then this would explain it but this is still incredibly odd. These could just be traces already recorded on Windows being "replayed" through Proton, but why include them if no Linux gamer would benefit from knowing that it's better?

Again, I wouldn't take this as confirmation that those 3 games are coming to Linux, but what do you all think?

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Basically, I can now track metrics that on Windows I wouldn’t even come close to getting.
Things like joules per frame, paged VRAM, and SSD bottlenecks.

One issue that still happens is MangoHUD not being able to capture CPU power usage, but for me it has never worked anyway.
Still, the project is shaping up nicely.

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soy algo nuevo aqui en linux y quiero instalar el minecraft o otros juegos de manera gratis, a diferencia de windows que podia instalar launcher gratis aqui no puedo. si ustedes saben como puedo instalar el minecraft gratis o algun otro juego de forma totalmente gratis le agradeceria si me ayudara. gracias

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I have two different RAM sticks. They don’t go well in XMP so I applied custom voltage 1.35 and speed 3200. Now in console it say it’s 3200, both, but voltage is still displayed as 1.2 even though I set 1.35 and Bios says it’s 1.35 actually.

Is everything okay? ChatGPT says it’s right do it to be displayed as 1.2V in terminal.

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As the title suggests, this is a guide for how to download Fallout Et Tu on Bazzite. I struggled trying to figure it out, until I went to the Bazzite discord, and someone was able to help me. I thought that since I struggled with this, I would post the instruction list I got, to help anyone who has any future problems:

1. Install fallout 2 in steam
2. install fallout 1 in steam
3. extract the mod into fallout 2 folder as instructed in the repo
4. run fallout 2 at least once from steam so the prefix is created
5. run protonticks and select fallout 2
6. select default wineprefix
7. run arbitrary exe and select undat.exe
8. proceed as instructed in the repo
9. open protonplus and install steamtinkerlaunch
10. set fallout 2 compatibility to steamtinkerlaunch
11. open fallout 2 and click main menu in steamtinkerlaunch windows
12. click on game menu button below
13. go to misc option and check custom command
14. change the custom command to Fallout2.exe from the mod
15. scroll way down to wine dll overrides and put ddraw.dll=n,b
16. save and play

When I did this, it worked and I have had no technical issues while playing. This was a life saver after a few weeks of being stuck.

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^^^

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Try out https://github.com/tvyomkesh/poker.git or if you're on a MAC then do "brew tap tvyomkesh/poker; brew install poker;". For other operating systems, just grab the repo, cd into the directory and run ./poker. Python package is coming soon!

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Hello everyone!

About a month ago I bought myself a new Logitech G102 LIGHTSYNC mouse (in case the model matters), configured it in the Piper utility at 800 DPI and 1000 Hz polling rate — that's all I changed. In CS2 I set the in-game sensitivity to 1.42.

The first few days with the new mouse felt great — it was much better than my old one. There was a pleasant sense of "weight" to it, and I could easily place my crosshair precisely on enemy heads.

But after 3 days everything changed: a kind of "lightness" appeared, as if the mouse sensitivity had been increased — even though I hadn't changed anything. Because of this, it became harder to aim at enemy heads and harder to hold my crosshair steady (what I mean is that every micro-movement would throw off my aim, which hadn't happened before). I tried lowering the in-game sensitivity to 0.90, but it didn't help — the "lightness" didn't go away, and the mouse just became even harder to control overall.

I tried looking into this with an AI, but didn't get any useful advice. Maybe someone here has experienced something similar?

My system specs (if relevant):

• CPU: i5-11400F
• GPU: RX 6600
• RAM: DDR4 2×8 GB
• OS: Arch Linux
• Kernel: 6.18.9-1-cachyos-bore
• DE: GNOME 49
• VRR: enabled

My CS2 launch options: __GL_MaxFramesAllowed=1 SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=wayland LD_PRELOAD="" SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE_SCALING=0 MANGOHUD=1 MANGOHUD_CONFIG="gpucoreclock,gpumemclock,cpumhz,gpu_load,gpu_temp,gpu_core_clock,gpu_mem_clock" %command%

Throughout all of this I haven't changed anything — no hardware, no DE changes — only software updates.

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I've been replaying the Mass Effect trilogy the last few weeks, went to launch my game today, and got a launch loop I've experienced once before, where the game will launch, sometimes bring up the "preparing game..." screen, briefly actually begins running, and then stops. For the record, I own the Legendary Edition on Steam, and I operate on Manjaro.
Last time, some combination of deleting the Steam app id folder, restarting steam, launching the game again, going back into the newly created app id folder and launching the EADesktop.exe to login fixed the issue and I could play normally. Now, when I go to try and do that same thing, I wind up in an update loop, as the EA app tries to go from 13.616... to 13.646... Has anyone else had this problem before, and if so, how did you fix it?

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Long-time Windows user here. I recently made the jump to Linux gaming and I have to say – I'm genuinely shocked by how capable Linux is compared to Windows, and how limited Windows feels in retrospect. I started on Bazzite, which was a great introduction, but I quickly hit walls because of its atomic/immutable nature. Things like installing custom kernel drivers were basically impossible. So I switched to CachyOS with KDE Plasma and haven't looked back.

Here's what I dealt with in just the first few days:

My motherboard's fan controller chip (nct6687) wasn't being loaded by the kernel. I had to figure out the exact module name, blacklist a conflicting module, and configure DKMS to load it permanently at boot.

USB audio adapter issues where ALSA was muted at the system level and PipeWire wasn't routing audio correctly.

Bluetooth headphones conflicting with USB audio devices depending on plug-in order.

LibreOffice ignoring display scaling on Wayland – fixed with a one-line workaround in custom .desktop files.

Setting up custom fan curves with CoolerControl.

Writing my own Fish shell scripts for package management across pacman, paru (AUR), and Flatpak.

If something doesn't work on Windows, you either wait for uodates or just accept it. On Linux, you fix it yourself. On CachyOS I was able to load custom kernel modules, blacklist conflicting drivers, write udev rules that automatically fix audio when I plug in a device, and customize literally everything. Windows is basically a black box that treats you like you can't be trusted with your own hardware.

And gaming? Proton has made this a complete non-issue. Almost everything runs perfectly, sometimes better than on Windows thanks to Vulkan.

I want to be honest – I'm a complete Linux noob. What made this transition actually manageable was using AI (Claude) as a companion throughout the process. Instead of spending hours on forums trying to piece together solutions, I could describe my exact problem and work through it step by step. It's not that Linux is harder than Windows – it's that Linux gives you MORE to work with. And with AI helping you understand what you're doing, the learning curve is much more approachable than it used to be.

TL;DR Switched from Windows to CachyOS, dealt with things that would have been impossible on Windows, had an absolute blast learning everything along the way, and I'm never going back. Anyone on the fence – just do it.

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Would transitions like this make you, as a player, want to find out more about what happened? Or is it just confusing?

(Obligatory self promotion: the demo for Deluge: Raintime is featured in NEXT Fest this week. It's available on Linux and Steam Deck. Please play it.)

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I want to play Geometry Dash, but i'm being capped to 60hz by my compositor, and disabling it doesnt seem to help. Can I get gamescope on mint as a linux noob or should I just switch to bazzite?

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Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing annoying black flickering while playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on my Arch Linux setup. The flicker is more noticeable when FPS are lower and seems to stabilize when I get closer to my monitor's 180Hz limit.

Crucial detail: When I record the gameplay using Steam's built-in recorder, the flickering does not show up in the video. The recording looks perfect, which leads me to believe it's a display/sync issue rather than a rendering bug.

My Specs:

• OS: Arch Linux
• Kernel: 6.18.9-zen1-2-zen
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
• Mesa: 1:25.3.5-1
• DE: Plasma 6.6.0 (Wayland)
• Proton: 10.0-3
• Monitor: ASUS TUF IPS 180Hz (Connected via DisplayPort)

What I've already tried (with no success):

• Disabling Adaptive Sync (VRR) in KDE settings.
• Use different versions of Proton-GE.
• Launch options: RADV_DEBUG=noasynccs, AMD_DEBUG=nongg, KWIN_DRM_NO_DIRECT_SCANOUT=1.
• Lowering refresh rate to 144Hz.

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I can open bazzite from the USB drive but when I try to download it to hard drive it won't open, secure boot isnt active so I have no idea what could be wrong

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Hi,

I was playing RE2 (remake) and randomly crashed in one location, thought nothing of it, restarted the game and just went back there again, but it happend again and again.

I tried disabling raytracing, HDR, restarting the PC, updating everything, but nothing seems to work.

I'm playing on Steam (not flatpak), tried on Proton Experimental, Proton 10 and Proton 9, neither worked.

When the crash happens, my game freezes, every app freezes, apps in the background crash, and after a few seconds my screen turns black for 2-3 seconds and then everything goes back to normal, except the game is no longer running, and I get a few notifications from KDE about all the apps crashing.

Didn't have a single problem while playing RE2 previously, just when I got to this single location (sewers, Bottom Waterway), and every time it crashes it's +-5 meters in the exact same location, no problems anywhere else.

System info

Distro - Fedora 43 (KDE Plasma)

Kernel - Linux 6.18.12-200.fc43.x86_64

CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

GPU - AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

GPU Driver - amdgpu

Wayland

Mesa version - 25.3.5

Proton logs - https://pastebin.com/RnpM87sj

inxi -xxACGS - https://pastebin.com/6pmTqB7T

Every time it crashed with these same errors no matter what settings I tried so far

Tried running steam in terminal, got no valuable info

(only this: XIO: fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server ":0" after 280 requests (279 known processed) with 0 events remaining.)

Tried as many things as I could think of or find online and probably crashed 10+ times so far, I'd be extremely thankful if someone knows, thanks in advance.

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