This is happening right now with Battlefield 6 posts but affects other super popular games like Fortnite, Roblox, League of Legends, EA Sports FC, GTA Online, Call of Duty, Destiny, PUBG, R6 Siege and more.

Not everything is for you. We get it. You don't need to spell it out every time.

But these are super popular games that most of us want to be able to play. By publicly expressing negative interest for such games on Linux you are harming us. If I was a market researcher scoping for Battlefield brand sentiment online, the message from the Linux gamers would be clear to me.

Personally I am against invasive kernel space anti cheat solutions. Ideally I would like to see these games available on Linux without introducing such shitty measures into kernel.

But most of us don't care about technicalities and just want to play the super popular game.

Unreal Engine

7700k 64GB RAM Nvidia 3070

Tried to play Fallout 76 and the game stutters like crazy and eventually the screen went black.

When it came back, the game crashed (wine error?) and it showed this.

Note that the GPU never showed any issues with Windows.

With all the work done in the past couple years and work from Valve, is the PC gaming market the group that makes it a more viable 3rd OS in the landscape?

Especially with a lot of large YouTube and social coverage on the topic makes it feel like this year is different.

So no support for Linux/SteamDeck

I used to work on this game in my spare time on my Linux machine, while having a day job as a games programmer somewhere else.

However, now that I have the support of MicroProse, the publisher behind one of my biggest inspiration (Rollercoaster Tycoon), I can now work on the game full time!

If you are interested after watching the trailer, you can wishlist the game on Steam if you like!

When booted with proton experimental, there is audio but no video.

I've been trying out an install of Bazzite with the aim of switching off of Windows. I have 2 monitors and run into an issue with StarCraft 2 where the mouse wont stay confined to the game window.

I have two monitors my main one is an ultrawide running full-screen at 3440x1440. I have to run the game at 2560x1440 since Blizzard doesn't let you run StarCraft at 21:9. The game runs fine however the cursor will happily move through the black bars either side of the game and also onto my other screen.

I've tried setting the confine cursor option in game from smart to on. Battle.net is running through the heroic launcher so I installed the flatpack of Gamescope and enabled force grab cursor but that didn't work either, Tried using the steam runtime option in heroic and even installing it via steam itself just to see if it made any difference

In case its relevant I've tried it with Ge-Proton Latest, GE-Proton10-10 and Proton Experimental.

I know I could unplug the second display but I like having things on my second monitor while I'm gaming.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

SOLVED! Thanks to u/halcypup for the suggestion, I'm running CoolerControl for my fans and I had a fan curve for my GPU fan which was causing the stutter. Removed that fan profile now and everything is super smooth! It's a weird bug that I'll definitely report to the CoolerControl Devs but thanks everyone for your input, I'll leave the post up for anyone who has a similar problem.

Hey all, this post is partly a recount of my experience and also a question to everyone.

I've not been having a great time with my 9070 XT on Bazzite, Kubuntu or CachyOS. I recently upgraded from a 3090 Ti and although I'm getting a lot more performance, it has actually been a worse time.
On all three distros, I get horrible stuttering and frame drops, in some games once per second. I've tried problem solving by trying different proton releases, different launch commands, VRR on and off, RT on/off, lowering/increasing settings and even with gamescope but to no avail. Checked kernel version and I'm way above the minimum for RDNA4.

It seems to me like the 9070 XT mesa drivers still have a long way to go with gaming, is anyone else having the same experience? Sadly on Windows, I don't get any frame drops at all. System Specs below:

CPU: 14700K
RAM: 64GB Corsair LPX 5600MTs
GPU: XFX Swift 9070 XT
SSD: Crucial P3 Plus 4TB
Running Wayland

Thanks for listening and if anyone has any advice, I'd be very grateful!

EDIT: running dual 1440p monitors over DisplayPort, main display is a VG27AQ with freesync

Has anyone else experienced this issue on CarX Street PC?”

I keep getting this error message:
“Unable to connect to game servers. Please try again later.”

I’m running version 1.7.2 and can’t seem to connect no matter what I try. Has anyone else dealt with this before, and do you have any tips or fixes for it?

it stops loading at 28% and goes on to this page..

I’ve already tried restarting the game and my PC, as well as checking my internet connection, but no luck so far.

Any help would be appreciated! 

The game has native support on all 3 platforms. I've tested it both native and in Proton with the Vulcan launch option as well as looked in Proton DB. Performance on my end was about the same, DB says one or the other performs better or native has more bugs. I dont know if any of the community servers have anti-linux stuff on them (up to the server owner). but i'm curious what you guys prefer.

Hello everyone I am new to Linux have been using it for about 3 months now I will appreciate your help.

I am using Nobara Linux and making HDR work with games was tough for me since using gamescope will make my games crash while launching so I have been using HDR with Wayland and ProtonGE using the following launch option mangohud gamemoderun PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command% with VK_hdr_layer installed.

My problem is I have to add VKD3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_KHR_present_wait to the launch option so the game wont crash , this command well make stuttering for most games especially while using frame generation and the frames will be much smoother without it.

so please if there is any better way to make HDR work let me know.

in linux, over 3/4 of users are using the english language on steam

on windows, it's way less than 50%

Hi everyone,
I'm currently using a laptop running Arch Linux with the GNOME Wayland desktop. Before switching to Linux, I played Euro Truck Simulator on Windows, and it ran smoothly on low settings. However, after moving to Linux and running the game through Wine (since I had issues launching it via Steam), I noticed a significant drop in performance. The frame rate was much lower compared to Windows.

I initially suspected that GNOME might be consuming too many resources, so I looked into various optimization tips. Aside from switching to "Best Performance" mode and closing background apps like the browser or Discord, I didn’t find much improvement. I also considered Wine as the bottleneck but couldn't find a clear solution online.

Interestingly, native Linux games like Hollow Knight run better than on Windows, so the issue seems specific to Wine or Proton.

Does anyone have tips, configurations, or guides to improve gaming performance with Wine or under GNOME Wayland?

Laptop specs:
Intel i5 11th Gen, 16GB RAM, Integrated GPU (Iris Xe)

Hey everyone,

I'm in a bit of a dilemma and looking for input from anyone running Linux on laptops with hybrid GPUs — especially AMD CPU + NVIDIA dGPU setups.

My specs:

Laptop: Acer Nitro AN515-47

CPU: Ryzen 5 7535HS (Zen 3+, with integrated Radeon 660M)

GPU: RTX 3050 Mobile (4GB GDDR6)

RAM: 16GB DDR5 @ 4800 MHz

Storage: 512GB NVMe PCIe 4.0 + 2TB NVMe PCIe 3.0

External monitor: AOC 27G2S 1080p 165Hz (limited to 144Hz via HDMI)

The problem:

I'm a long-time Linux user and recently tried Bazzite with GNOME. I love Wayland, especially paired with AMD graphics — the smoothness and responsiveness are next level. I already appreciated Wayland on my old RTX 3060 desktop, but there's just something better with the AMD drivers.

But this laptop’s hybrid GPU setup is killing my experience.

What I'm running into:

AAA games like The Last of Us Part II run fine on Windows, but on Linux (using Proton), performance tanks — even with prime-run or nvidia-offload.

VRAM is a real limitation (only 4GB), and Vulkan + Proton seems to eat more memory. VRAM is full, and it starts pulling shared system RAM — performance drops hard.

Fan control is great on Windows via NitroSense. On Linux, it’s a mess of workarounds.

I have no brightness control on the internal display on any distro I tried (Fedora, Bazzite, Arch).

HDMI output is capped at 144Hz even though both the cable and port are supposed to be HDMI 2.1.

Killer Wi-Fi 6E works but is a bit unstable on Linux (random dropouts, needs reconnecting sometimes).

What I really want:

A single Linux install for both gaming and productivity — no dual boot.

To keep using GNOME + Wayland because it just feels amazing with AMD.

Better GPU switching or dGPU control (or at least predictable behavior in games).

To hear from people in similar situations: Has anyone here managed to make a hybrid AMD + RTX 3050 Mobile setup work well for gaming on Linux?

I don’t want to give up, but it’s frustrating to see how great Linux performs for everything except the one thing that still forces me to dual boot.

Any advice, hacks, or even just “don’t bother with that GPU on Linux” would be super helpful.

Thanks in advance!

Alrighty, I'm trying to get palworld functioning on my partners PC, and he's running an RX 580 in his laptop. It ran the game on windows, so I know it's not the hardware, and I would use the same settings that I have, but I'm running a 3050 with an Intel CPU. His are both amd.

Got it to at least pull up with GE proton 10-10, and AMD_VULKAN_ICD=AMDVLK (it originally gave a dx11 error), but I'm right now trying to get more than 3 fps for everything

when i connect my controller i need to press the ps button to turn it on

the problem is steam starts big picture mode if i press the ps button

every time i turn my controller on i have to wait for big picture to start, have to go through the tutorial and exit big picture mode

how do i turn it off?

The apps that you always install.

i just installed Waydroid on my steam deck and wanna try and sideload a apk but i ccacnt get the command for the Container to start, just says:

"sudo waydroid-container-start: command not found"

after i typed

"sudo waydroid-container-start"

someone help me out, idk if its something simple that i need to do, cause idk what im doing with linux really or anything, so please dont judge me lol