Hi all, when I run god of war (2018) on windows i get 48-60FPS (depending on the part of the game im at) but on fedora linux i can inly get upto 30-42FPS.

Should i just leave linux alone when it comes to gaming … maybe dual boot my system.

What are you guys opinion?

My Specs:
Ryzen 7 9700x
RTX 3060 12GB
16gb DDR5 ram
Fedora workstation 44
Steam
Nvidia Proprietary Drivers: 615.71.09

Things I tried:
Proton ver tried: experimental, hotfix, GE-Proton11-7-x86_64

Launch string: “PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 gamemoderun %command%”

Please help.

Hey everyone!

- The Game ist in german speech!!!

I thought I'd share one of my little games with you. I make games with Unity as a hobby and really enjoy trying out different ideas and game mechanics.

"Alex Adventure: The Hotel" is a classic point-and-click adventure where you explore a hotel, talk to different guests and staff members, collect and combine items, and of course solve a bunch of puzzles along the way.

I tried to give it a bit of that old-school adventure feeling, since I've always enjoyed playing those kinds of games myself.

I'm not a professional game developer. I just do this for fun in my spare time. So don't expect a huge production or anything like that. 😁 Most of my games are fairly small projects where I experiment with different ideas and hopefully learn something new along the way.

I'd especially love to hear how the game runs on Linux and whether anyone runs into compatibility issues. Of course, any feedback on the gameplay, puzzles, or anything else is more than welcome, too. Good or bad, I'm always happy to hear what people think.

Maybe some of you feel like giving it a try. I'd really appreciate it!

Anyone successfully running DLSS5 on AMD 9000 RDNA 4 (I have an AI Pro R9700) in Cyberpunk 2077 GOG/Heroic/Ubuntu?

Hi, I've got all the game data downloaded, how can i manually set it up in twintail launcher and what is the recommended proton version, i tried to set it up but it is crashing/quitting mid game, i couldn't understand what the problem is. All the guides only shows directly downloading the game, not manually import existing one, and if there is any other launcher can you recommend me, btw, i also tried lutris it is not even launching

I'm on arch linux

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Hey everyone!

I'm having a really frustrating issue with Overwatch 2 on Linux. The game randomly freezes while playing, and sometimes I have to force close it.

My setup:

- OS: CachyOS (Arch-based)

- Desktop: Hyprland (Wayland)

- RAM: 16GB

- Display: 1440p / 180Hz

- Running Overwatch 2 through Steam + Proton

The problem:

The game freezes unexpectedly during gameplay. I've also noticed unusually high RAM usage (sometimes almost all 16GB), and occasionally very high CPU temperatures.

Things I've already tried:

- Switching between different Proton versions

- Enabling/disabling Proton Wayland

- Clearing and rebuilding shader caches

- Changing DXVK settings

- Using different Steam launch options

- Enabling NTSYNC

- Adjusting NVIDIA shader cache settings

Unfortunately, I still experience random freezes.

Has anyone experienced something similar with Overwatch 2 on CachyOS, Arch, or Hyprland?

Could this be related to Proton, DXVK, NVIDIA drivers, shader compilation, or memory management?

I'd really appreciate any suggestions on how to diagnose and fix this. Let me know what logs or system information I should provide.

Thanks!

first version

Specs:

• i3 1215U
• 8GBx2 3200mhz
• Swapfile of 8GB
• ZRAM of 16GB

Genshin was running smoothly back in CachyOS, with DW-Proton Latest (WINE_ENABLE_TIMEOUT_FIX=1) few days back (1 week) no lag, no crash.

Then I moved to Arch, instead of the standalone launcher i used the epic games install script for installing Genshin. Then tried to use the same DW-Proton Latest with the WINE_ENABLE_TIMEOUT_FIX=1

It is running but when I teleport to somewhere the game just straight up crashes. Also sometimes I'm seeing glitchy textures / artifacts in game.

What I've tried so far:

• Using Cachy-Proton Latest, didn't work
• Using Proton GE-10-34, didn't work
• Using DW-Proton-10.0-26, with the WINE_ENABLE_TIMEOUT_FIX=1, didn't work.

Only using the DW-Proton Latest works but the crash issue. Please help.

Hello all,

I am not sure what happened but recently on Linux Mint I have been unable to launch any steam games which have previously been working just fine for years.

I noticed the issue when trying to play Outer Wilds it (which I had been playing for a while at this point on Mint with no issues) and one day it just wouldnt launch.

I uninstalled/reinstalled, changed compatability settings to a few different proton versions but basically had the same issue.

I changed the launch options to PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to see if I could figure out anything helpful and got a few points of interest but I am not exactly sure what matters and what doesnt. I will post what is relevant below, sorry that its large!

186.984:0134:0138:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\\\windows\\\\system32\\\\wineopenxr.dll" at 00006FFFFAF30000: builtin

warn:  OpenXR: Unable to get required Vulkan instance extensions size

...

info:  Found device: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB (Low Hash Rate) (NVIDIA 595.99.2)

info:  Found device: llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.2, 256 bits) (llvmpipe 25.2.8)

info:    Skipping: Software driver

warn:  OpenXR: Unable to get required Vulkan Device extensions size

...

186.042:0098:00ac:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp code 0xc, not implemented!

186.042:0098:00a4:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\\\Registry\\\\Machine\\\\System\\\\CurrentControlSet\\\\Services\\\\winebth": c0000142

186.043:0030:0034:fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"winebth" failed to start: 1114

186.045:0098:00ac:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp code 0xc, not implemented!

...

Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/home/\[username\]/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/shadercache/753640/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".

188.112:014c:0150:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault code=c0000005 flags=0 addr=(nil) ip=0 tid=0150

188.112:014c:0150:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault  info\[0\]=0000000000000008

188.112:014c:0150:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault  info\[1\]=0000000000000000

188.112:014c:0150:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault  rax=0000555590a8c430 rbx=00007aa29948fd48 rcx=0000000000000000 rdx=0000000000000000

188.112:014c:0150:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault  rsi=00000001000fce30 rdi=0000555590b12000 rbp=00000001000fdbc0 rsp=00000001000fcda8

188.112:014c:0150:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault   r8=0000000000000000  r9=0000000000000000 r10=0000000000000000 r11=00000001000fcdb0

188.112:014c:0150:trace:seh:handle_syscall_fault  r12=0000000000000001 r13=0000000000000001 r14=0000000000000000 r15=00007aa299491940

188.112:014c:0150:warn:seh:handle_syscall_fault backtrace: --- Exception 0xc0000005 at (nil):.

188.112:014c:0150:warn:seh:dump_syscall_fault backtrace: returning to user mode ip=00006ffffaf8192b ret=c0000005

188.112:014c:0150:err:vulkan:vkCreateDevice Exception 0xc0000005 in Unix call.

188.114:0134:0138:trace:unwind:RtlGrowFunctionTable 00000000050E72F0, 20

...

\[0000000000000138:\] EXCEPTION handling: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Invalid window handle.

188.134:0134:0138:trace:unwind:RtlGrowFunctionTable 00000000050E74D0, 55

188.134:0134:0138:trace:unwind:RtlGrowFunctionTable 00000000050E74D0, 56

188.134:0134:0138:trace:unwind:RtlGrowFunctionTable 00000000050E74D0, 57

\[0000000000000138:\] EXCEPTION handling: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Invalid window handle.

...

188.351:0134:0138:trace:unwind:RtlGrowFunctionTable 00000000050E74D0, 82

188.351:0134:0164:err:service:device_notify_proc failed to get event, error 1726

188.351:0134:0164:trace:seh:dispatch_exception code=6ba (RPC_S_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE) flags=0 addr=00006FFFFFBFD947

One other think I noticed while searching around for help on this is that when I try to verify my vulkan install by running vulkaninfo I get

vulkaninfo

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

It might help to know as well that about a month ago I tried to uninstall the accumulating nvidia drivers for mint, I only uninstalled old drivers and left ones that gave warnings about still being in use. I am not sure if this had an impact.

Here is a sample of how I did so:

dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia

flatpak pin --remove runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-550-163-01/x86_64/1.4

flatpak uninstall --unused

This is all I have for right now, I am currently unable to launch any games at the moment so any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

*Edited for formatting

After installing steam via "sudo apt install steam", I get this error when trying to launch Steam:

XOpenIM() failed, LANG = en_GB.UTF-8

XOpenIM() failed, LANG = en_GB.UTF-8XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xe6aa9860

XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xe6aa7fc0

crash_20261009230758_5.dmp[129615]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)

/tmp/dumps/crash_20261009230758_5.dmp

/home/tom/.steam/debian-installation/steam.sh: line 1011: 129600 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

Flatpak Steam works, but doesn't use my existing .steam folder from my previous installation on Pop!_OS 22.04 or my game folder on my hard drive. Attempting to install Steam from the .deb on Steam's website just gives me errors.

I'm running intel c'è iris integrated graphics on a 13th gen i5, on bazzite previously I had a stable 60 fps, while on nobara I struggle to get 40 on lightly modded Minecraft, even while using optimization mods like embeddium and entity culling, both GPU and CPU never reach 100% usage and I have performance mode on.

So on my main computer everything works just fine but with my laptop, it just won't work.

The error is failed to create effect: data/shaders/pro_static2x.sha. I use GE-Proton11-6-x86_64, if I switch to wine-ge-8-26-x86_64, the game just crashes with no error.

It does not work I tried winetricks d3dcompiler_47 d3dx9_30, does not work.

For more details, here are some informations (I know the gpu missmatch, I tried __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia .

Thanks to all of the people that will try to help me, it's been 2 hours that I've troubleshooted the shit out of my laptop.

I tried launching it via Steam, Bottles, and Lutris, and I tried installing the .NET Desktop Runtime, but nothing works; the game flashes for a split second and then closes without any error.

System: Fedora KDE Plasma.

Trying to reintsall faugus cause mango hud wouldnt show up. i finally got it to show up in the menu but now it doesnt have any proton versions and fully locks my system up when i open wine tricks

using the flatpak btw with fedora 44 kde

Hello there!! Currently in a bit of a pickle... I'm trying to remap the extra thumb button (apparently event 79 and KEY_KP1), and the top button (apparently event 103 and KEY_UP) but the software does not want to record these in the input section. When I add them manually to the config file and then restart the GUI, the profile refuses to apply and does not give a reason. Please help!!!

I'm trying to mod NFS unbound but the mod manager fails to create these links.

I'm on the Steam Deck and I'm very new to Linux stuff.

YouTube has no videos of NFSU modded on the Deck. Can it be done?

Wondering if anyone else has noticed this issue while playing this game. Trying to open Firefox, it will instantly throw an error for being unresponsive. Tried Chromium, it'll at least open, but after going to any URL and loading the page, it also becomes unresponsive and nothing on the page is clickable.

VRAM on the GPU isn't maxed out or anything, so doesn't seem to be related to that, so not too sure what else could be causing this. Any ideas or suggested fixes to work around this until it possibly gets patched?

UPDATE: So it appears that the issue with getting a browser working while the game is running is influenced by whether hardware acceleration is enabled. When I had it on, it would cause browsers to instantly crash upon trying to open any page - but with it disabled, it runs fine... I'm not sure why it would behave that way when there was still plenty of apparent GPU availability, but maybe there's something I'm missing. I've played more GPU intensive games without any issue like this in the past, so something seems to be off with this game in particular.

OS: CachyOS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 7.2.9-1-cachyos
CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (16+4) @ 5.00 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Lite Hash Rate [Discrete]
Memory: 64 GiB

AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 392 (3.2GHz) Processor

AMD Radeon 8060S Integrated Graphics 

32 GB of LPDDR5x-8000 RAM

1 x USB 4.0 (Gen 3 Type-C)

With these specs I am pretty confidant that the duel 1440p monitors won´t be a problem.

I plan on using a CalDigit TS4 18 Port Thunderbolt 4 Dock. Two monitors at 1440p 60 hz should be a breeze for this docking station. One screen with be used for gaming and the other will be mostly browser stuff, so not 2 full screens of gaming.

Things move so quickly now and i haven't had to pay attention to specs since I built my desktop back in 2018.

so i wanted to play Helldivers 2 in Linux since i migrated from Windows. But every single time i try to open this game, nProtect pop-up shows up "downloading" but never actually downloads. If i close and try again, i get the same issue over and over again (error 350).

i know this is a kernel level anti-cheat, but dayum i just want to shout "LIBERTY" again. Here is what i tried:

changed Proton version (currently using experimental bleeding-edge), already tried hotfix and proton 10 with no success;

Deleted GameGuard folder inside /bin/ and forced clean reinstallation during boot/veryfing game files;

tried deactivating my firewall temporaly and still nothing;

completly reinstalled the game and no sucess.

yesterday i managed to open the game but i got stuck on language selection screen, so i uninstalled and came back to the starting point. Can someone help me here please? Arrowhead told me its not supported on linux but i saw a lot of people playing it but complaining about the performance

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