As the title suggests, everytime i try to run Silent Hill 2 remake on bazzite, the screen only shows a black screen with the game's cursor. Eventually I'll hear the menu sounds and ice even managed to get in game. But for some reason I cant seem to find a solution to the black screen problem. Tried the -dx11 command line method through steam's properties, tried -windowed to get it running in windowed mode but I still run into the same problems. Anybody have a solution to this? This is the 2nd linux distro I've tried to run this game on and the results are the same. Any help is fine. Thank you!

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Ok so since windows 10 support is ending soon, i have been considering just switching over to linux for my home server pc. currently i use an intel 6700 in an old dell optiplex to host my game servers and emby media server. its honestly been great and still has been holding up for what i need it for, but it dont support windows 11 of course. I also am planning on upgrading it with some left over parts from my last gaming build (ryzen 3600+mobo, 64gb ram and rx6600) but im just waiting to grab a new psu and a good cpu cooler, maybe a new case as well as opposed to using the old one i have laying around.

Anyway, due to a recent move and things being tighter then expected, im not gonna be spending any money on extra parts for a while, potentially after windows 10 support ends. So, all this has gotten me thinking again about just throwing linux on it.

HOWEVER, my biggest hesitation is compatibility now and potentially in the future with dedicated server tools. I already know that ACC has no linux support, and the devs have already confirmed that it will never have it because something with their netcode wont allow it (their excuse not mine), and i currently run 3 different servers for that game. Apparently wine also isnt an option. I also see that games like conan exiles also dont support linux for their servers.

Now i dont play conan or any games from that studio, but that did really get me thinking, if i did switch and could get past losing my ACC servers, what else would i be losing now and in the future? I have heard that ams2 also dont support linux, or that its dodgy at best. this also makes me wonder if AC Evo will also not support running servers on linux as well, and who knows howl ong thats going to be before we find out. Ive tried looking for some kind of list, and everywhere i found only lists a couple dozen games max.

i also run or have previously a 7 days server, valheim, enshrouded, insurgency sandstorm, l4d, killing floor etc. so im kind of all over as far as genres. so its not as simple as looking for what i have now because who knows what i might end up with in the future. beamng? RedM? arma reforger? some games that aint out yet? so, for anyone who does run servers on linux, have you ran into anything you cant run? is there far more support for windows or is there just a couple outliers that are the exceptions?

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I've been gaming on Fedora. When playing games using my controller it will inevitably cut out ~10-30 minutes in. I've narrowed down this issue to one of two winedevice.exe processes getting killed or dying. I have a proton log but I don't know how to usefully read it, and when I looked I didn't see anything about winedevice getting killed or crashing. I would send the log if it wasn't ~150 megabytes. Any issues I've been able to find people having with this is some kind of memory leak continuing on after the end of the game and refusing to get killed, not it getting killed too easily. I also can't find information on how to monitor what kills a given process. Any ideas?

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The launcher originally was covered in black bars and we got it fixed but now launching the game does this. Any tips?

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Ok, I see a LOT of comments complaining about secure boot requirements and how it’s a plan by Microsoft to prevent booting other OSes. That’s not what secure boot it, and I think a lot of let advanced users don’t even know what it does besides that you have to turn it off to use linux, so here’s some explanation and corrections.

First of all, you don’t have to turn off secure boot to use Linux, that was sorta true for a while but it’s not today. Second of all, Microsoft did not create secure boot to lock out Linux users, they did it to create a chain of trust from system boot to OS initialization. If the OS can’t trust the UEFI to be secure then its security is completely compromised. Because the only goal is preventing malware from sneaking in, UEFI systems allow you to trust any software you want, they just happen to only ship with Microsoft keys pre-installed. You as the user can enroll your own MOK and sign whatever you want, including your Linux kernel images. Or you can use a shim, which is a layer in front of your boot loader signed by Microsoft keys to load GRUB or whatever. No MS is not trying to kill Linux, they actively sign big Linux distros that they trust not to distribute malware using their keys.

If you have full disk encryption set up you should absolutely have Secure Boot enabled and a UEFI password set, especially if you use TPM LUKS.

Don’t trust me? How about the Debian wiki:

UEFI Secure Boot is not an attempt by Microsoft to lock Linux out of the PC market here; Secure Boot is a security measure to protect against malware during early system boot. Microsoft act as a Certification Authority (CA) for Secure Boot, and they will sign programs on behalf of other trusted organisations so that their programs will also run. There are certain identification requirements that organisations have to meet here, and code has to be audited for safety. But these are not too difficult to achieve. Secure Boot is also not meant to lock users out of controlling their own systems. Users can enroll extra keys into the system, allowing them to sign programs for their own systems. Many Secure Boot-enabled systems also allow users to remove the platform-provided keys altogether, forcing the firmware to only trust user-signed binaries.

https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#What_is_UEFI_Secure_Boot_NOT.3F

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I've been using nvidia-open (4060 120w laptop) for gaming and daily work for 1.5 months and I haven't felt the slightest difference between it and the proprietary one. What do you guys think?

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Distro is Nobara KDE. I'm using the HDMI port because monitor is a TV, it's not a cable problem because the iGPU can output 4K 120Hz with the same cable. Any ideas?

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I'm on Fedora Workstation 42, and have installed most of my gaming stuff via flatpaks. I'm not tech savvy in any way, but I can search for information online. I believe everything was installed correctly, and I keep the entire system updated. I can run the few games I'm interested in, most of them are native Linux, but I've been having issues with Gamescope, MangoHUD and possibly Game mode, which would be quite helpful since my system isn't gamer, but I know it's able to squeeze some performance to play old and indie games.

The issue with Gamescope might be related to the Geforce 940M. Many issues are reported when trying to use the microcompositor with Nvidia GPUs, although it's supposedly much better now. I simply can't make it work either on Wayland or x11. Both games I tried (The Long Dark and Northgard) won't even launch or totally ignore the launch commands.

MangoHUD works nicely with The Long Dark, so I suppose it's a problem with the other game, Northgard, which is unfornate since this games lacks a frame limiter, which I really need. Still I should say I'm not sure if I missed something setting up MangoHUD, maybe there is a setting or something to make it work with Northgard.

And I suspect Game Mode doesn't work at all. Here's the terminal log:

gamemodeauto:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/tomaz/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

gamemodeauto:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/tomaz/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/tomaz/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Adding process 2568 for gameID 305620

Adding process 2569 for gameID 305620

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

Adding process 2667 for gameID 305620

pid 2671 != 2667, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

pid 2676 != 2667, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

The game still runs nevertheless. I don't know if it's related, but I have Steam Overlay disabled.

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Hello everyone, I am just someone who just wants to play games and enjoy Linux Mint to the fullest. Right now I am having issues setting up the SA Mod Manager for SA2. I have already set up PkR's SADX Mod Installer for Sonic Adventure 1 and had no issues with it, and everything worked beautifully minus audio cracking when playing the audio on my monitor, but it's not a big deal, and I wear headphones to fix the issue. However, whenever I tried to install the SA Mod Manager for SA2, I had no luck. I saw this guide (https://gamebanana.com/tuts/18820) that's fairly recent, thinking I can be able to fix the issue, but whenever I replicated everything in the guide, to my surprise, it didn't work because whenever I tried to run Sonic Adventure 2 on Steam, it immediately closes right after without the mod manager window ever popping up, and I have no idea what the problem could be. If anyone can help solve my issue, it would be much appreciated.

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as the title says i was playing native ets2 it was eating almost all the 8 vram on my gpu but decided to check protonDB and found out that it ran better with proton and it really did now it just sits at 4gb so as reminder don't forget to check protonDB it is really an amazing database

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Currently playing through kingdom hearts final mix for the first time and LOVING it.

But after closing and opening the game last night, 2 black bars have appeared above and below the screen that I just can’t get rid of.

I’ve tried changing the resolution in the game, changing the resolution for the steam deck and changing the individual game preference resolution on steam os.

I've also tried swapping between windowed mode, full screen mode and borderless full screen. Sometimes it seems to work for a little bit but then whenever I close the game goes back to the bars and after about 30 minutes of fiddling with these settings it might go back to no bars???

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated! The small black bars make a big difference on the 7” screen.

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I am having an odd issue where I can play online ranked and quick match just fine, I can also play custom lobbies but it fails against certain players. For example Friend 1 I can play with him just fine and friend two matches won't connect so I end up dual booting windows. Any suggestions thanks in advance.

I am running Linux 6.16.0-5-cachyos

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I am a Linux noob, and I'm trying to get World Of Warcraft installed.

So far, I've managed to get Battle.net installed and working, my problem is now how to work out the file locations / paths. When I try to set the download location in Battle.net, it shows some folder locations that have Windows style names and paths (i.e. c:, My computer etc). I can't see anywhere that shows the SSD I want to install it on (it's a separate SSD from the OS).

I have the same issue if I copy over my old Windows install to the games SSD, when I try to tell the installer where the game is, I get the same old Windows style locations and no sign of the games SSD.

The SSD is mounted in the file system (I set it to do that automatically on start up, and it hasn't been unmounted).

Any ideas how I can specify the correct path to my second SSD?

Thanks.

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Hi All

I primarily play games on Linux through Proton, I tend to find that it works really well with only the odd issue for most games that I play. I recently tried playing Nice Day for Fishin' from VLDL, and I really struggled with the timing aspect of it. I ended up purchasing the game on Switch and I didn't have anywhere near the same problems.

Has anyone else encountered this? That in games that require specific timing (think Dark Souls style parry mechanics) where you just can't seem to get it right? Does anyone know if this is just due to extra latency occurring because of Proton acting between your inputs and the game?

I had struggled with Grounded a while ago not being able to parry very well, but I just thought that I sucked on the game. After my experience with Nice Day for Fishin', I feel that it may be something else.

Thanks

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I found a mod manager that supports most of my moddable games. All you need is an API key from your nexus account and you're good to go. Limo has a straight forward UI and supports automatic downloads. My jerry rigged m02 and vortex setup is no longer possible on my OS, so I had to try this

Limo's Flatpak

Limo's GitHub

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As its currently, sadly, not possible to run Battlefield 6 on (Arch) Linux I have installed Windows 10 on a second hard drive. But the next problem is, that Battlefield 6 requires SecureBoot...
Now the question is how I can achieve having secure boot enabled and still being able to boot into arch and into windows using GRUB.
Does anyone have any experience in this?

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My pc crashes when I connect my TV to it (and refuses to boot with my tv connected) but it’s stable if I disconnect some monitors. I assume it’s a bandwidth issue and that Linux might not support DSC and therefor also does not show 480hz as an option in the display settings even though my monitor is 1440p 480hz and does work fine on windows. Is there a way to enable DSC on specifically nobara?

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Valve released a small update to the Steam Beta Client to continue working on the newer Performance Monitor.

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