Hi people! So I have gotten steam in my arch installation, but the problem is I have a low RAM laptop (7gb useable). Booting steam client uses about 1.5gb of that ram, and the actual steam game itself with the interfacing layer for proton uses less memory than the client (which is just sitting in the background too lol). As far as I can tell, all of the memory reduction options steam used to have (that I had used for a different arch install back in 2023, where i got the client usage down to like 200-400mb ram), are all gone and no longer working. like disabling the browser, running the old steam ui, etc. Is there anything that is currently functional to reduce the overall ram usage, or is it cooked.

Thanks!

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I've recently built a new PC and as part of that, am switching to Bazzite Linux as a first time user. I'm looking for a way to play HSR, and though I accept there are some risks, am looking to minimize those while having the game actually run.

From my research so far, I shouldn't use a VM of Windows, and I have basically 4 options: Adding the game into Steam and using Proton through that, using Lutris, using the Heroic Games Launcher, or using Honkers Railway. My questions are these: which of these is going to have it run the best, and also which of these is the least sketchy with the ToS?

I've seen conflicting things so far as to which I should use, and appreciate any guidance. Thank you.

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After years of getting comfortable with Linux as a work/productivity environment, I decided to take the plunge late last year and move to Linux as my daily driver/gaming OS. For a few months I was dealing with low framerates in Steam games, until I realized after installing nvtop that when I launch Steam using the "Launch using Integrated Graphics Card" it used my Radeon RX 6600 XT, and when I didn't use that option it was defaulting to my integrated CPU graphics. So now I always launch Steam with the Integrated Graphics option to actually use my card.

Is there an easy fix for this (now minor) annoyance? I'm using deb Steam on Ubuntu 24.04. Is there a configuration file I can change to specify which GPU is integrated? nvtop lists my 6600 XT as Device 0, so does Steam just assume the first device is integrated, and I would need to reverse the order in the OS?

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I have a ~7 years old Samsung laptop (8GB ram, dedicated graphics) running Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon on it since late last year. It has been working normally ever since then, but ever since last month I've been getting a ton of crashes playing games I used to play flawlessly before, ranging from OMORI (which I can't even get past the prologue in) to vanilla Minecraft. The only game that hasn't crashed is Half Life funnily enough. I'd love to be able to fix this, any help is appreciated.

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99% of the things I have setup on Bazzite is working great and awesome! Thank you so much for the killer OS. Steam's Black Myth Wukong is driving me completely crazy and will not run on my Nvidia card. I've been searching for days to no avail.

dpich@oryx9:~$ lspci | grep VGA

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 0c)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA103M [GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)

dpich@oryx9:~$ nvidia-smi

Thu Jun 12 11:33:54 2025

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| NVIDIA-SMI 575.57.08 Driver Version: 575.57.08 CUDA Version: 12.9 |

|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |

| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |

| | | MIG M. |

|=========================================+========================+======================|

| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |

| N/A 44C P8 14W / 130W | 73MiB / 16384MiB | 0% Default |

| | | N/A |

+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

| Processes: |

| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |

| ID ID Usage |

|=========================================================================================|

| 0 N/A N/A 9879 G ...share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 4MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 10305 G ./steamwebhelper 23MiB |

| 0 N/A N/A 10333 C+G ...am/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper 8MiB |

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

dpich@oryx9:~$

I have added the following options which to my understanding is supposed to force it to use GPU1.

PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr gamemoderun mangohud %command%

When it is run, it still is showing up on my Intel card.

Any advice you could give me would be great!

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Hello guys, When I play bg3 with the newest amd mesa drivers. I get some crazy visual bugs on effects mostly spells. I've read that it has to do with the 25.x series of drivers. Sadly a roll back on 23.x didn't fix the issue. Someone had the same issue or has some idea?

Arch amd system using kde and wayland

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Hi all, Not sure if this is the right place. My game was working flawlessly last night through Heroic Launcher with GE Proton 10.4 on Debian 12 Stable (AMD64 system/AMD graphics). I took a break and let the game update to the latest patch and now when I try to launch, it goes straight to an Unreal Engine crash report. I've tried all the other Protons, GE or otherwise, and system-wine. Also tried to force it to run with -D3D11 on some advice from ProtonDB. Anyone else running into issues?

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With visuals closer to the original Fortnite than grittier games like Call of Duty or Battlefield, the new Heroes of Valor is a fresh third-person shooter.

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it shows in my apps that ryujinx is open and when i open all of its tabs i can see it but when i try to see it it dosent appear

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As Valve announced back in April, they've now added accessibility feature support to game pages on Steam pages and filters for searching.

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Hey Everyone, I just want to thank everybody for the feedback and reviews you gave on my last post!

It was our first Linux port of the game, and it went great, on top of that - now I know what things to improve in the future (like avoiding HOME for save etc.). I had no intetntion to make some shady marketing with that post, but people from the comments decided to support as anyways and some of them even brought the game, which was really inspiring!

In terms of our stats, Linux doesn't reach other platforms in sales, but it doesn't matter, we will continue to make updates, and they will be released in parallel. As a small developer, sometimes even a few comments is enough to make your day, and I really value them!

In the post I mentioned earlier, I stated that we will try to release our next game alongside other platforms, and not as an update but simultaneously. So promise made, promise kept, our next release will launch on Linux from day one! I hope everything will go well, and we will have enough power to cover support for all the players.

If you would like to check out the game, it's called Spectacular Team: Assemble. It's a goofy, physic-based brawler but with progression, challenges and lot's of character building variety. We are just starting to activly spread the world about it and I hope by the time it will be released, game will be really polished and joyfull experience.

If you're interested in this type of games and like what you see, wishlist us, it's not that they will make the game popular, but it will help. Also if you have time and would like to have an access to a closed beta test that will start soon, just drop me a line in Discord

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I am struggling to get Warframe to work well enough to even get into the launcher. I have tried every version of proton I can get my hands on and the most recent GE versions as well. I have tried every launch argument on Protondb and have tried reinstalling as well. I also have updated and upgraded my system to make sure everything was up to date. If anyone has recommendations I greatly would appreciate it. Specs: Kubuntu 24.04 LTS Amd Ryzen 5 3600x Nvidea RTX 2070 Super 32 GB of ram

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I'm on fedora with gnome right now, but I'm wondering about making the switch to some other distro for my daily driver and I could really use your collective wisdom. I'm a programmer by trade, so a solid development environment is key, but I also love to unwind with some gaming.

My main hang-up is that I really value a polished, modern, and premium-looking interface. Think sleek animations, consistent theming, and an overall aesthetically pleasing experience. I've seen some amazing setups out there and I'm hoping to achieve something similar.

Another important detail: I'm rocking an Nvidia GPU. I know Nvidia + Linux can sometimes be a bit of a dance, so I'm looking for a distro that handles Nvidia drivers well and offers a relatively smooth experience.

So, for those of you who juggle both programming and gaming on Linux, what distribution do you use and why?

Specifically, I'm interested in: * Which distro do you find offers the best balance of a robust development environment and solid gaming performance (especially with Nvidia)? * Which desktop environments (KDE Plasma, GNOME, Pantheon, etc.) do you think offer the most "premium" and polished look and feel out of the box, or with minimal tweaking? * Any tips or tricks for getting Nvidia drivers set up smoothly on your recommended distro? * Are there any specific distros you'd recommend avoiding given my preferences? I'm open to anything from beginner-friendly options to something a bit more involved if the payoff in aesthetics and functionality is worth it.

Thanks in advance for your insights and recommendations!

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Hi, I like my games being playable completely offline, thus I have put bwrap --unshare-net --dev-bind / / as a command prefix in lutris. Now, when I set ge-proton as wine version, games just won't start with the debug log message [...] [umu.umu_run:808] DEBUG: Connecting to '1.1.1.1'... [umu.umu_run:831] DEBUG: Network is unreachable [...] Why does Proton keep trying to connect to 1.1.1.1 and else won't start at all?

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I have battle.net installed via steam by adding non-steam game and installing with proton-GE10-4

Everything has been fine for quite a while. All of a sudden I've started to have sound issues.

When I first launch the game sound seems to be fine, but after a minute or so the sound completely stops.

If I check pw-top I see that alsa_output.pci-0000_13_00.6.analog-stereo + world of warcraft W/Q column and B/Q column go to ??? and then the alsa_output.pci-0000_13_00.6.analog-stereo keeps disappearing and reappearing on the list rapidly and sometimes the sound comes back and gets really choppy other times it does not come back at all.

I have an AMD Family 17h/19h/1ah HD audio controller. I have already tried disabling sleep for the audio device via adding:

options snd_hda_intel power_save=0

options snd_hda_intel power_save_controller=N

to /etc/modprobe.d/disable-audio-powersave.conf

This doesn't seem to help.

This happens on both Fedora and Arch Linux.

I am currently running Arch Linux with Pipewire and Wireplumber.

I have no idea where to even start to troubleshoot this. If there are logs or something I can provide to help let me know.

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Tried to download wow, first through wine, then through lutris and finally bottles and my sys is now bricked can't get past the login screen without it being broken. Love Linux but holy fuck do I hate Linux

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Hey all, has anyone encountered this problem? All of a sudden the whole game freezes for 5-10 seconds, and it happens out of nowhere. Maybe 3-5 times per match. Very annoying, I have tried most of the proton versions , including GE. Alot of different launch options, lowered the graphics, nothing helps. It did this with my 6600 xt too and the same problem with my 9060 xt. Ryzen 5 3600 is my cpu and 16 gb ddr 4 ram

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We're getting a full modern POSTAL 2 remake with POSTAL 2 Redux being announced today.

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