I've been getting into gaming recently, mostly emulation w/ RetroArch and given my system things have been going smooth:

Lenovo P3 ThinkStation Tiny Gen 1 * i5-13500T + iGPU (14 core / 20 thread) * AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 (older workstation level dGPU - 4GB) * 32GB DDR5 4800 * 4k 3840 x 2160 monitor (IPS) but it maxes out at 60hz * Arch Linux (latest... UKI i think)

I've installed Steam, new account - by no means am I a serious gamer - and I just want to test how much my machine can handle

I've bought an older game "The Takeover", honestly, it just looks like a badass beat 'em up game, looks fun

Seems like my system can handle it, fan picks up, 100% of my dGPU in use but I think I expected that - I think this GPU is just under the recommended spec for the game

So I'm trying to understand if there's some easy way to... use this game as a baseline to identify how much I can push my system... though as I type this out now I'm thinking that I'm just gonna have to make my best educated guess given each game's min system requirements

Just curious if there's some other helpful tooling I can run, i've got Steams system metrics display enabled while playing, I can run btop in a separate window, not sure if i find that useful yet

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I’ve been contemplating switching to Linux for a while, but one of the big things holding me back was gaming and its complications.

I’ve heard the new Proton 11 beta allows Linux to natively read the coding language used for games, however, and I’ve been wondering if anyone could tell me how well it runs, or if any specific games have been having complications still.

One of my biggest concerns is how well Escape from Tarkov works on the new distro, but any insight on how things are running would be greatly beneficial in my decision.

Thank you in advance.

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I installed Linux Mint a week ago on a drive I wasn’t using to dual boot as lifelong windows user, the OS is very snappy, easy to use and configure, I love where I have it so far. I even have a custom grub bootloader skin, I had to use the terminal a bit to get some things working out the box (AirPods 4 dual boot pairing, Tailscale, samba, rdp) but it was a lot easier than I thought, being used to cmd and powershell, and I got everything up and running how I’d use it in Windows, minus some small tools like gpuz or Logitech mouse configuration software

I got my Minecraft Java/mods and configs up and running with no problem, even though my PC isn’t bad where it’s at (32GB DDR4, 5600, 3080) I was pleased to find that not only does it run noticeably faster on Mint, but it also runs faster with shaders too, chunks loads faster, is generally just way more responsive than it ever is on Windows. I have no need to keep Minecraft on on windows anymore, and I’ll probably be slowly migrating things to Linux exclusively over time. I’m still tethered to windows because my creative work flow is still engrained in windows filesystem for FL Studio + vst3 directories, and they have better out of the box support and run faster on bare metal windows, but if things keep going where they are I’m totally okay with ditching windows entirely as I’m not attached to it. The whole OS, with a game open, and several tabs in the background takes 7GB of ram, where windows easily would’ve been double that 😭

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I tried to use creamlinux but after i used that game after loading kick me from it.

Maybe someone know what to do in this situation?

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Okay, so this is going to require context.

Recently, I became interested in the fan game "Sonic World DX". It's a Sonic fan game developed in the "Blitz3D" engine.

When I first downloaded it, it kept giving me a memory access violation just when opening it. Then I found out that on both Windows and Linux, the game requires dgVoodoo 2 to function properly on AMD GPU systems due to the necessary driver functions being deprecated. (I'm very thankful that PCGamingWiki has the latest Linux-compatible version of dgVoodoo2 archived. Because the official downloads of those versions were taken down, and apparently the creator of dgVoodoo 2 is pretty anti-Linux)

Anyway, so I got that set up, and the game launched fine through Proton after being added as a non-Steam game.

But now, whenever I complete a level and attempt to go back to the main menu, 100% of the time, it gives me a memory access violation error. It doesn't seem to give me any real information regarding it, so I'm kind of left in the dark.

Now, I realize it's pretty far-fetched that I'm going to get an answer here, as I'm asking about an obscure Sonic fan game that needs to be run with dgVoodoo 2 of all things, but crazier things have happened, so I figured it's worth a shot, right?

I did actually try to solve the issue with ChatGPT's guidance (yes, yes, I know: "Ew, AI" but it's actually been pretty useful with various in-game problems like this with other things) but it became clear to me that it started running around in circles after the first few fix attempts, so I don't think I'm going to get anywhere new with that.

Anyway, sorry for the wall of text. I'll post my specs now.

OS: Debian 13 KDE

GPU: RX6600

CPU: i7-1700 @4.9GHz

RAM: 16GB

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

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For those who don't know him, Nate Gentile is one of the most famous Spanish-language YouTube channels about technology, and he's switching to Cachy!

He talks about what Linux is like and what programs he had to change to make the switch.

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For some days I've been trying to mod Persona 3 Reload via Reloaded-II mod manager. By using the official documentation from the developer, I installed an Reloaded-II instance for P3R via Protontricks, and I installed Visual C++ and .NET SDK 9.0 on my game's prefix. I've also deployed the ASI Loader into my game's folder and put this command under launch options: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winmm=n,b" %command%. I am also using Proton-GE, since the recommended version of Proton of Valve doesn't install the required dependencies for me, at least.

However, when I click play, nothing happens. Steam says that the game is running but no window pops up. I've tried another guide (https://gamebanana.com/tuts/17166) but didn't work to me as well, as it says that the Steam API could not be found.

Additionally, other Persona games are working just fine.

Has anyone got these problems as well? I think I've runned out of options here. Thanks in advance.

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Hey r/linux_gaming,

I recently got an ASUS ROG Strix G18 (Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, RTX 5070 Ti 12GB, 32GB DDR5) and I want to set up Linux alongside Windows 11.

I've used Linux before on a desktop (EndeavourOS, Pop!_OS, Manjaro) but always ran into driver issues — audio bugs, peripheral problems, general instability. That machine had an AMD GPU so things were simpler. Now I have an Nvidia card which I know can be tricky.

My goals:

Gaming (Steam, Heroic for Epic/GOG)

Daily driving (browser, Discord/Vesktop, Spotify, OBS)

Learning — eventually want to get into Docker, sysadmin stuff

Cool desktop customization (interested in Hyprland / tiling WMs)

My concerns:

RTX 5070 Ti support — is it even stable yet on Linux?

Wayland vs X11 with Nvidia on a new card

Which distro base handles this best right now? Arch, Fedora, something else?

I've heard CachyOS gets mentioned for gaming laptops. Is that a good call or overkill/unstable for a daily driver?

Any experience with this gen of hardware appreciated 🙏

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I use CachyOS. I’m huge fan of Ubisoft games and I just hate lutris - had so many issues with it in Bazzite.

Can I just buy one on Steam and play?

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Help ASAP pleasw, newbiw here, why its like this

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As someone who have gamed in both windows and linux, I have to say linux gaming has improved alot.

I was on cachy os and Nobara and Fedora and all the games work perfectly with tge protons. However anti cheat games and EA games still have issues and some emulation services like google play for PC for example the recent pc game and mobile game NTE which was recently released doesn't support Linux system. And its not in steam currently.

Yes there are bottles to run the windows games and apps but they are not native. And performance isn't really great.

Therefore all in all, Windows is still the default for gaming, no tinkering neeeded, no hassle, its plug and play. However linux will become the next default for gaming in the next 5 yrs or so once the whole anti cheat thing get sorted out and more developers supporting linux.

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I've been trying to run sourcemods on linux and never really thought to ask until now. I have hl2 set to the pre-anniversary release and on hotfix, source sdk 2007 and 2013 set to hotfix, both of the hl2 episodes set to hotfix and my mod set to hotfix but even then, when i boot it up, I get a message saying that gameinfo.txt cant be found in the mod's folder.

I tried deleting gameinfo.txt which led to the mod losing its icon and changing its title in my library, so it is reading gameinfo.txt, but even after trying with another mod the same issue pops up. I'm really at my wits end now, I've tried linking the mod's folder to steamapps, steamapps/common and even tried linking gameinfo.txt to those places, but it still can't read it.

From what I've been able to find, this problem seems pretty niche and none of the videos i can find on youtube really cover it. Has anyone solved this before?

https://preview.redd.it/ta56fdrhdjzg1.png?width=1109&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c3b7d68841fdfe92f2d04182bfda5e887b5e667

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Running Bazzite on a PC setup as a living room gaming machine (bazzite-deck:stable, Proton Experimental 20260428). NFS Heat and Burnout Paradise both stopped working in Gaming Mode at some point -- I can't pin down exactly when but they were definitely working before.

What happens: launch the game from Gaming Mode, EA app opens fine, then throws a "game failed to launch" error. If you try to relaunch from within the EA app it says the game is already running. Switch to desktop mode and launch from Steam and both games work perfectly.

I've tried pretty much everything:

- Proton Experimental, GE 10-34, Proton 10, Proton 11 Beta

- Wiping and rebuilding the prefix fresh

- vcrun2022 via protontricks

- Every launch option combo I could find (PROTON_NO_ESYNC, PROTON_NO_FSYNC, WINEDLLOVERRIDES, EALaunchEAApp=0, SteamDeck=0)

- ujust fix-reset-steam

- OS rollback to an older Bazzite build

- Restored a working prefix from my Steam Deck where the games still launch fine in Gaming Mode -- same result on the PC

The Proton log shows the launch going through the `link2ea://` URI handler and then a COM marshal error and a fork-without-exec at termination, which suggests the EA app is receiving the launch but can't spawn the game process inside gamescope.

Building a fresh prefix from a Gaming Mode launch then immediately switching to desktop and launching works first try every time, so it's definitely something specific to the gamescope environment.

Anyone hit this recently or found a fix? Considering trying the EA app as a non-Steam shortcut to bypass the link2ea handoff entirely but not sure if that's worth the hassle.

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Euro Truck Simulator 2: huge update 1.59 released https://playingtux.com/articles/euro-truck-simulator-2-huge-update-159-released?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

Guys how do you feel about GTA 6 coming and us being unable to play its online part? I’m sure it will be something huge.

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I'm building a new pc this week. I got a 5070ti with a ryzen 7 9800x3d. Is there any thing I need to have in mind if I wanna run Nobara? Bdw I used to use ubuntu on my last pc.

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VKD3D-Proton is an incredibly important project for ensuring Direct3D 12 games run well on Linux / SteamOS using Vulkan, with a big new release up.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Long time user of Windows, both professionally and for gaming. Always defaulted to using Windows because it was the most convenient for my productivity needs and games "just worked."

Over time, I became really tired of Microsoft's bullshit. I still have to use it at work but the sluggish performance, ad spam, lack of customization, and ridiculous update frequency drove me insane -- to the point that I didn't even really want to play games anymore because using the OS was too annoying.

I have an IT/software dev background so I looked into distros that would suit my needs and stumbled upon Arch. The install process didn't look that intimidating - just a sequence of commands, basically - so I gave it a whirl on my main machine. Proceeded to instantly love the performance and spent hours customizing KDE before I even touched Steam.

Big ups to everyone on this subreddit for their guides and recommendations. Even if Windows miraculously improves, which it probably won't, I have no reason to ever go back. Arch is by far the best experience I've had with a desktop OS ever.

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