If I use a vpn and the game shows 200 ping or 400 latency for example is that the ping or latency between me and the game server or between the vpn and the game server since the game server only sees the vpn and doesn't see me therefore leading to showing me inaccurate ping and latency numbers?

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Hey everyone, I'm trying to get Turtle WoW running on my setup, but I keep getting a critical error when launching via Lutris. Here's the error:

This application has encountered a critical error: ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal Exception Program: Z:\home...\WoWFoV.exe (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 0xC0000005 The instruction at "0x00000002" referenced memory at "0x7B01841A". The memory could not be "read". Press OK to terminate the application. My setup: Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 XFCE Hardware: MacBook Air 2015 (Intel Core i5, 4GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 6000) Lutris version: Latest Wine/Proton: Using Wine-GE-8-25

It crashes immediately on launch. Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions for a fix? Thanks! 🐢

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Hello everyone,

I have really interesting case of wtf

game which has platinum status on ProtonDB not only loads forever and crashes on my end it also crashes wineserver and hangs linux kernel and in a weird way at least from my perspective, system stays responsive but no new program can be turned on.

log from moment when game crashed wineserver

https://pastebin.com/j1BuRJw5

tried few versions of proton GE, cachy, EM etc each ends up with same result

system specs

Operating System: PikaOS 4

KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0

Qt Version: 6.8.2

Kernel Version: 6.16.9-pikaos (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics

Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.7 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 6700

Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics

Graphics Processor 3: llvmpipe

I wonder if anyone encountered something similar or have wild guess what this might be

thanks in advance

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My venerable Cougar Attack X3 with Cherry MX Brown switches made it 10 years and last night one of the feet finally broke off, keyboard still works fine but doesn't sit right... thinking it's just time for a new one.

Looking for a full-sized (104+) key gaming keyboard with similar tactical feedback switches (can be quieter, but not louder, and want tactile and similar travel/feedback), dedicated volume/mute keys, and any programmable keys and/or RGB needs to be supported in Linux (OpenSUSE if it matters) or be controllable on device without software (this box doesn't have or need Windows, so the answer can't be to program the keyboard in Windows and just use it in Linux). The Cougar worked fine because everything could be controlled on the keyboard itself. RGB is not necessary but some backlighting that can be turned on/off easily is. Price isn't relevant within reason...

Prior to this I ran a Northgate OmniKey for like 20 years at home. At work I use a RedDragon K556 RGB which is actually ok but doesn't have the tactical feedback.

Any recommendations?

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Team Fortress 2 Classic is an upcoming mod for Valve's shooter that aims to re-imagine the launch era of the original game and you'll be able to try it soon.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I need this fixed I dont want to go back to windows.

In game my mouse feels like it has input lag, mouse acceleration, and it jitters occasionally as well.

I have tried every fix I could find and read, I turned off usb power saving, I switched my mouse accel mode to flat, I disabled vsync in KDEPlasma, I even switched from base linux kernel to linux-zen, nothing is seeming to work.

when I move my mouse on my desktop it feels fine, but in any game it feels like there is input lag and acceleration, and I have any software acceleration in the games turned off.

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Can you help me resolve these cs2 rendering bugs on Linux?

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Steam: Autumn-Sale 2025 has begun https://playingtux.com/articles/steam-autumn-sale-2025-has-begun?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

Hello everyone,

I tried to get The Alters running yesterday but I'm experiencing strange glitches/artifacts. Hard to describe but as soon as I move the courser in the menu, it is as if it freezes the image in a rectangle. Like when you draw a rectangle while pressing left mouse button.

Ingame theres flickering textures like the parachute in the second picture.

Im on Linux Mint and already tried different runners. My graphics card is a RTX 3070, driver version 550.163.01.

I've tried setting graphics to low, disabling all possible options and tried windowed/fullscreen mode but that didn't help.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you.

https://preview.redd.it/cbvb0523ubsf1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ac30ec07e5678ff03280e5e4925a41a2931e116

https://preview.redd.it/gfzr1hi4ubsf1.png?width=1910&format=png&auto=webp&s=e84371c1fbcc2653129545b2213f2807ccc7d05e

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Team FOLON today announced the huge Rabbit & Pork update for the popular Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London. It expands the game in some massive ways.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

TOJIBO is a cute coop platformer where you will need coordination and just a tiny bit of thought to reach the top.

If you would like to participate in playtesting (or just want to follow more closely), you can join the discord. We are looking for playtesters from a variety of countries all over the world to test netcode stability, if you have a unique profile, help would be greatly appreciated!

We've had only few linux testers, and no SteamDeck testers so far. If you are one of those, consider joining the playtest to help us confirm it works for you!

If you are just interested in following along, please consider wishlisting us on Steam!

You can also follow us on Twitter and Bluesky.

Thank you!

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Buenas, hace mucho quiero pasarme de windows a linux. Ya probé 2 distros, linux mint y Pop_OS, la que mejor resultados me dio fue linux mint, pero en lo que es juegos no tengo resultados, no tengo mucha idea, intenté usar lutris, wine y proton fuera de steam, pero nada me da resultado, en la mayoría de los juegos tengo input lag o el juego se freezea. siempre termino volviendo a windows 10, que es el sistema operativo que mejor va en general. no juego juegos muy pesados, me gusta el minecraft, el phasmo y el gta v, pero la version legacy.
Tengo una laptop Dell inspiron 15 3525, tiene 8gb de ram, ryzen 5 5500 y 512gb de almacenamiento. me gusta linux por libertad para personalizar que tengo, ya que me gusta mucho el apartado visual de MAC OS y siempre que uso linux lo personalizo para que se vea así.
la ayuda que quiero es que me recomienden una distro que sea estable para juegos, ya estoy acostumbrado a ubuntu, pero no tengo problema es probar algo nuevo. solamente quiero que me anden bien mis juegos, poder personalizar y que en general el sistema vaya fluido.
agradecería mucho sus recomendaciones 🙏

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Hi, I bought HL Alyx on autism sale. What I should know before asking my friends about VR set?
What hardware works on Linux, and how hard some stuff are to run?
My GPU is GTX 1070
My distro is Bazzite KDE

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Hey everyone, I just launched the demo of my horror visual novel on Steam! The game also has adventure elements in the gameplay, and of course dating sim routes with your chosen girl.

NO MORE WORK FOR ITO takes place in an office after hours. You’re dealing with the stress of overwork, and your mind is kind of… slipping away...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4038260/NO_MORE_WORK_FOR_ITO_Demo/

I really hope you guys enjoy it! The demo is available for Linux on both Steam and Itch.io!

Thanks everyone,

Poética Software HQ

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I have only really used Linux once before, through a virtual machine like a decade ago (Ubuntu), and just generally don't have a lot of experience with it. The level of bloat and bad design in Windows (let's be honest, Windows peaked at XP) has kind of started to reach a breaking point for me, but I am not really sure what to do, as I play a fairly wide range of games, and compatibility is a concern. The fact is, I just don't really know what I am looking at here and am basically totally new at this, so I don't know if I am best off waiting for steam to release their OS, get something else, or just stick with Windows despite the many problems. I run basically all my games through Steam, and other than using the internet, Discord, and occasionally LibreOffice, I don't use my computer for much else. I do have a fairly large number of games, so compatibility is my primary concern. I don't really know what other information I need to provide to make this easier, so I will edit my post if I need to with new information if it's needed.

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GOG are really stretching out the announcements for their 17th anniversary, with a second helping of classic games now in the GOG Preservation Program.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

NVIDIA have launched their latest recommended driver for Linux users with driver version 580.95.05 now available.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I'm trying to help my partner get off of Win10 and they wanted to move to Linux. They're already fairly familiar with it (having run Mint as their primary OS several years ago) and even bought a Linux gaming laptop recently to support the move.

One problem - there is a particular game they want to play (Hidden City) that has foiled most of my attempts at making it work in Linux. The game has both an Android and a Windows version of the game (along with iOS, I suppose, but probably not relevant here). I've had more success with the former than the latter.

It doesn't take much to run - a basic iGPU runs it on a Windows box and mid-ranged phones run it at full speed with no issues on Android. Thing is, my partner has multiple user profiles to run the game with multiple accounts. I haven't been able to figure out how to handle multiple user profiles with any "solution" that can actually run the game.

Under Windows it is a UWP application that is only installable from the Windows Store.

• As far as I can tell, UWP apps like this can't run via Wine/Proton; simple ones can and this isn't simple enough. Plus updating would be a nightmare and the game updates frequently.
• Performance in a Windows VM has been pretty atrocious for the solutions I've tried so far - we're talking sub-10fps for NoVNC-based access and more like 11-12fps for FreeRDP-based solutions. This is pretty common for any UWP application with animations, so I'm not too surprised.
• WinBoat uses FreeRDP, so it performs similarly (not that it wants to launch the game directly anyway - UWP strikes again).

Under Android it is a normal Play store application.

• It can install and run via Waydroid (and it even works at a normal speed!), but Waydroid doesn't have any simple way of switching between user accounts.
  • The best idea I had here was to run a script to shut down the game, move the storage for Android, swap it with another deployment of Waydroid, then boot it back up again; you'd essentially run two different Android installs. That is hella clunky and time consuming to do.
• I briefly tried an Android emulator (whose name I don't remember now - this was several months ago), but that didn't work since this is a Play store application with lots of GooPlay dependencies; you pretty much need full GooPlay store access for the game to even run.

Any ideas for some creative solution that would work without being onerous to maintain? To be clear, the multi-user bit doesn't need to be simultaneous or anything; think like switching what user account you're logged in as on a desktop. I'm happy to put in time/effort but I don't want to spend several hours on this every time the game updates.

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i installed cs2 today and after launching it compiling vulcan shaders freezes on 0% and if i move the mouse the entire pc freezes, if i skip the compilation nothing happens and the same when i move the mouse

cpu: ryzen 5 5500

gpu: radeon rx 6600

mobo: asus tuf gaming b550 wifi II

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I don't know if this is the right thread for this problem, but whatever. I recently installed Arch Linux on my Dell laptop. Everything works flawlessly except for Deltarune and Undertale. I've tried everything, including updating the system, changing 5 Protons, GE Proton, installing Vulkan and Mesa, but none of these things worked. Has anyone had this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it?

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