Hello r/linux_gaming

I built MoleTun, a Hamachi alternative designed for Linux that lets LAN-only games work over the internet without port forwarding or manual network configuration.

It creates a virtual LAN so games behave exactly as if everyone is on the same local network.

Works with popular Linux LAN games and emulators, including:

• Minecraft (Java LAN worlds)
• Factorio
• Terraria
• Stardew Valley (LAN / co-op)
• Project Zomboid
• Valheim (LAN mode)
• OpenTTD
• Old Windows PC games running via Proton with LAN support

Emulation / local multiplayer over LAN:

• PPSSPP (PSP local multiplayer)
• Citron / Switch (Eden/Yuzu) local wireless emulation

Technical details:

• Direct P2P mesh networking for low latency
• Automatic NAT traversal (no port forwarding)
• Relay fallback only if P2P fails
• L3 networking (no L2 broadcast hacks)
• Linux and Windows desktop support
• GUI-first, not CLI-only

I built this because LAN gaming on Linux over the internet is still unnecessarily painful, and most existing tools either don’t support Linux properly or rely entirely on centralized relays.

The goal is simple: make LAN multiplayer work reliably on Linux.

Project page:
https://moletun.com/en

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Hi everyone,
I've been trying to run a cracked game on my Debian system but Wine gives this following error:
"0134:err:d3d:wined3d_swapchain_resize_buffers Something's still holding back buffer 0 (02FFA238)."

Any idea what this supposed to mean?

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DL -> GeneralsGameCode (GZH community patches) active repo.

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I am seriously stoked by Vampire Crawlers that adds to the world of Vampire Survivors with a fast-paced deck-builder from developer poncle.

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Arch, i7 3770k, RX570, noob. When I try to go in lobby with bots in game, game crashes and there is

failed to dlopen "libpangoft2-1.0.so" error=libpangoft2-1.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I already tried -vulkan_disable_steam_shader_cache and delete all cache, it doesn't help.
Arch wiki says: Remove libpango-1.0.so and libpangoft2-1.0.so in GAME/game/bin/linuxsteamrt64, but when I remove them and start the game, it crashes and steam starts to validating and download files again. Is somebody know, what should I do (besides delete dota 2 forever)?

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Tingus Goose has released recently and after being mystified by the demo, I took a look at the full game and I honestly still have no idea what is going on.

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No wonder why my R5 3600 was hitting 95 °C while gaming...

It's sitting comfortably at around 70°C while running OCCT + PBO maxxed out right now.

But why didn't it happen with my graphic card though ? It's the same liquid metal I used.

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Embark Games have been cooking, with ARC Raiders v1.7.0 out now that brings quite a lot to the popular extraction shooter - so time for another run.

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Amazon continue moving further away from making their own games, with them selling off the upcoming March of Giants and the team behind it to Ubisoft.

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This is most likely a simple to answer question but still want to make sure it's safe. Asking because in lutris it says that it requires Lutris wine but I'm using Proton GE

Additional info i forgot

Epic games version of Hell let loose it works on steam but not sure about Epic games version via Lutris

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I am sharing a gaming PC with my household. I set up user accounts for everyone and set up steam such that the library is located in /home/steam for all users, so that we don't have to have multiple installations of the same game if we all want to play it. The directory is group-owned by a user group called steam which all users that use steam are a part of.

I ran into problems trying to run Baldur's Gate 3 from a different user account and figured out that it is due to an issue with Wine that it requires actual ownership of some files within compatdata (777 permissions isn't enough). After some research I decided the best way to do it is to have seperate compatdata folders for each users, but keep the actual games library shared. According to online resources this can be done by setting the environment variable STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH. I set it up such that for each user, the variable is set to $HOME/.steam/compatdata. I verified that the environment variable is set. However, steam seems to ignore this environment variable. Reboots and removing the contents of the existing compatdata directory at /home/steam/steamapps/compatdata didn't help, steam just keeps reinstalling the prefixes to the old compatdata directory.

As a workaround I am just deleting the compatdata contents each time another user wants to play, but this is very tedious. Any idea how to get steam to use the STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH environment variable?

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Riding the wave of more cozy games, developer Dry Cactus (Poly Bridge series) is working on their next game titled Poly Bricks that will come to Linux.

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Plague Inc: Evolved is a game about infecting the world by evolving a deadly global plague, and now there's new ways to play it.

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Hey.

I'm thinking about this switch between Windows 11 and GNU/Linux for gaming.
I was thinking about Pop_OS 24.04.
My main question is about peripherial devices.

I have a few devices like:
1. Meta Quest 3
2. Hori Truck Control System
3. Hotas Warthog
4. Logitech G Saitek Pro pedals

Will they work together under Linux?
I know that Hori has some support on GitHub.

I want to play on VR in War Thunder and ETS2/ATS.
I'm not worried about the rest, because the proton exists.

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