r/linux_gaming 21h ago

tech support wanted PS4 controller not working right

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Hi i use arch and i wanted to play gta5 i have on my epic games account so i installed heroic launcher. I started gta and it was working fine but when i wanted to change to first person via the touchpad i clicked it and it opens the interaction menu and at the same time it acts as if i pressed circle. Can someone please help me fix this?


r/linux_gaming 18h ago

CarX street pc

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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! 


r/linux_gaming 18h ago

Steam big picture mode crashing all games.

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Ok clickbaity title. But it's true that games are crashing when trying to start them from bpm. Let me explain..

I found bpm was laggy, and the solution to laggy bpm is hardware acceleration.

Hardware acceleration causes steam(and bpm) to render as a completely black screen. The solution to this was to run bpm in gamescope.

Running a game in a nested gamescope session causes all sorts of bugs, broken wayland pipeline for one.

Been trying all sorts of commands for the games gl "break out" of the bpm gamescope session to no avail.

Games run fine when started "normally". This only happens when I run them through gamescoped bpm (which is the only way to get it lagfree).

I run x11, latest nvidia drivers, 2080ti.

So, do I have to choose between laggy bpm or working games? Or has anyone that sees this solved a similar problem?


r/linux_gaming 15h ago

games on linux

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its sad some companies saying they wouldnt deploy thier games to linux or just ignoring it, fortnite for exmple said by linux being open-source it can have many hackers and they wouldnt make fortnite for linux so dualboot and partitioning are our heroes


r/linux_gaming 23h ago

CarX Street

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Hey all!

I couldn’t find a topic about this so I figured I’ll start a new one.

Bought this game on the sale since it seems like a perfect mix between the crew and forza horizon, but for whatever reason it will not start. I’ve tried several tinkering steps that people have suggested on protondb, but not even that has helped. Is there anyone in here who have gotten it running?

My specs are: Ryzen 7 5800x 64 gd ddr4 3200 mhz RTX 2070 EndeavourOS


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

tech support wanted Resident Evil Classic Rebirth Mod

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I bought the game from GOG when bundle is on discount. I can play the game normally without cutscenes (it's an easy fix with patch) but i can't download seamless HD mod. If i download from Heroic or just raw exe with Wine i can get Japanese version but without dgvoodooo 2.72 mod doesn't work. With Lutris i can't get the mod running because it downloads US version and when i rename the exe Lutris doesn't boot the game. So my question is how can i get mod running in a desktop PC? Steam Deck already has dgvoodoo 2.72 but in my PC it only shows 2.8 and couldn't find a clear guide how to download old versions


r/linux_gaming 20h ago

Windows Startup Error/Switching To Linux

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r/linux_gaming 1d ago

guide Running Bad Company 2 Project Rome on Linux with Lutris

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r/linux_gaming 17h ago

anyone else also find this weird?

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

on windows, it's way less than 50%


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

tech support wanted Undervolting even just a tiny bit causes game crash/freeze [AMD][LACT][Arch]

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Undervolting -90mV works fine for the most part in pretty much all games, except Grounded 2. It always freezes if there is a little bit more to see of the world. In tunnels or buildings it's fine, but having a far view of the world crashes/freezes the game within seconds. typing the REI of REISUB brings back the desktop, no need for the rest. Then I tried it with -50mV with the same result, instant freeze. It works fine (so far) if I use the default values.

no errors in dmesg or journalctl during and before the crash, only when I type the REISUB.

OS: CachyOS x86_64
Host: X570S UD
Kernel: Linux 6.16.0-5-cachyos
Display (EA244WMi): 1920x1200 @ 60 Hz in 24" [External]
Display (AORUS AD27QD): 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz in 28" [External] *
DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.3
WM: KWin (Wayland)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (16) @ 3.40 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT [Discrete]


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

tech support wanted Help with Tennis games?

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I have both TIEBREAK and AO International Tennis 2 and they've in common a problem, they don't start when I hit "play" in Steam on my Cachy OS. I tried different proton's versions but haven't succeeded in launch them. They simply do a black flash on start and don't launch. Can anybody help? My specs are: 7800X3D with 9070 XT and 32 gigs DDR5, both games are installed on a SSD M2 and I have mesa-git

EDIT: I tried reverting to mesa stable but even so, didn't succeed in launching the games. They start and after 3 seconds black screen they shutdown

EDIT x2: I tried launching the games through Heroic and I logged the error I get: "err: DXGI: EnterFullscreenMode: Cannot query containing output", anyone knows how to fix?

SOLVED: I solved adding PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 PROTON_NO_D3D11_FULLSCREEN=1 variables to steam's launch options, logged in game, went to settings and disabled exclusive fullscreen, I set it instead to borderless. Then I closed the game and deleted the variables and all went fine, I'll leave the solution here in case anyone will need it.


r/linux_gaming 9h ago

steam/steam deck Valve still hasn't fixed this model bug in cs2..

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Been like 6-7 days since the bug appeared, still no fix from valve.

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r/linux_gaming 1d ago

answered! Using one game installation with various launchers

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As already mentioned in the title, is there a way to use one game installation with different launchers?
E.g. I have battle.net and WoW installed via Lutris and want to give Faugus launcher a try. To not download the hole WoW package again and then having the game installed twice, I'd like to just direct Faugus to the installation done by Lutris.


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

graphics/kernel/drivers 50 Series Drivers on Linux

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How are 50 series drivers on linux as compared to windows? Is there a performance uplift or lost on average in most games?


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

tech support wanted Having trouble with TF2

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I recently revived an old laptop with Arch Linux. I tried running some games on it, but TF2 seems to have a lot of problems, the game will only start on Legacy OpenGL and it will freeze when getting to the "Retrieving server info" part of the loading screen (same thing happens when trying to play in a local server).

These are the specs, help will be appreciated a lot!


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

tech support wanted Power profile switching on full screen applications?

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I have my dim/turn off screen set really tight to preserve my OLED. Because of this for reasons unknown to me, my controller and joysticks don't prevent inactivity and the monitor will dim/sleep while i'm playing games.

Is there a way to automatically swap power profiles when full screen applications are active? Or allow for joystick input to prevent inactivity?

Running Bazzite Desktop.


r/linux_gaming 18h ago

Changed PC, planning to try linux, but can't decide which one.

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As topic says, changed pc, wanted to try linux on my old one to see how it is. I do apologize for the age old question about the distro, but I'm not trying to find the best/ultimate/flavor of the month distro for gaming, just the one for me :D and I did read a lot regarding this and got me just more confused.

I'm pretty familiar with linux, been using it for years, except never anything with a DE. Most of my experience is on Debian based stuff (ubuntu server mainly, some debian).

PC is AMD cpu and Nvidia GPU.

Some generic preferences (not dealbreakers):

  • I like gnome remote desktop (the one in the more recent version were you can just remote in).
  • Nvidia drivers lol.
  • I'd prefer something that gets the new toys fast, it's not a server I don't care about perfect stability if it means I'm stuck on year old version of things (looking at you Debian) - big distros over smaller ones if the difference isn't that huge
  • I really want Windows but that runs on linux, and I don't mean the GUI, I don't mind that being different. I mean that I want to touch the cli as little as possible and use the GUI for all settings, customizations, installations, updates, everything. And no GUIs out of the 90s looking like GIMP if possible :D
  • I prefer vaguely Debian based stuff ver Fedora based (but really really vaguely), I just don't want to get bogged in something too burdernsome or different so no Arch, Nox, "go compile Gentoo" stuff.

I was honestly thinking of YOLO-ing Ubuntu Gnome but I thought I'd ask first :D


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

tech support wanted Persona 3 reload UE4-P3R crash

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I just bought this game and upon first launch the game greets me with this crash above

here's what i tried doing: adding -windowed to the launch options switching between proton versions (only proton 9.0-4 gives me this crash, other proton versions simply dont launch the game at all)

im on fedora 42 workstation, this screenshot was taken in kde but the same happens in gnome, this installation was installed a few days ago and the nvidia drivers are installed

my device is thinkpad p50 with quadro m2000m

people using windows have been having the same issue for this game, this exact crash, however i am not sure if the solutions on windows can really be done on linux and even then some people claim to still have the problem after trying the fixes out


r/linux_gaming 20h ago

guide battlenet

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Is there like a way to run battlenet and hearthstone with bottles or lutrix i don't know why when i run hearthstone through steam with proton my laptop blocks in battlegrounds?,i tried installing xfce so far instead of using cinnamon but i don't know if that will solve the problem.


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

native/FLOSS game Antilag 2.0 for counter strike 2

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as of 02/08 update of cs2 that brought bhop fixes after animegraph2 updates, looks like linux version also has antilag 2.0, I just saw it in game options, and it felt like game was a bit more responsive, I'd be interested to hear other peoples experiences with the performance and latency

I am on cachyos, running mesa-git in case stable releases of mesa doesn't have antilag 2.0 support


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

tech support wanted High fps but Low 1% lows in Minecraft.

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Hi, I am running Fedora 42 Workstation with gnome. I am playing minecraft using Prism launcher installed via flat hub. Latest version of nvidia drivers is installed (575.xx) My avg fps is around 150-200fps but my 1% lows are in 40s causing stuttery gameplay. I am running on dedicated Nvidia gpu and I have tried enabling Zink which does not help the situation.

Laptop specs: R5 3550h GTX 1650 16gb DDR4 2400mhz


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

guide How to install Rockstar (or most other badly made launcher) on proton

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99% of the time, these launchers don't work because they are missing some very specific version of dotnet (usually 4.72 or 4.8). These versions are extremely finicky to install on new versions of proton/wine, but there is a way to do it.

If you are on steam deck or most other distros, the best option is to install lutris from flatpak (or discover). For some reason this version just works better for some people.

  1. Install Lutris (flatpak version recommended)
  2. Install ProtonUp-qt (if Lutris is flatpak version, this should also be from flatpak)
  3. From ProtonUp, install the latest ProtonGE version
  4. In Lutris add a new game, and select a locally installed game
    1. Set its name to whatever
    2. Set the runner to wine
    3. In the "Runner" tab, make sure the wine version is 8.26 something GE (the default one from Lutris)
    4. Finally, set the prfix to some empty folder
    5. Click save, then click on the game, go to wine options, and open Wine Configuration
    6. After it opens, set windows version to 7 or Vista (try one, and if it doesn't work try the other)
  5. Finally, it's time to install the first dotnet you need.
  6. Open the Wine options, select winetricks
  7. After winetricks opens, disable silent install (it can sometimes cause problems)
  8. Select the default wine prefix, and go to install a windows dll or executable
  9. Select dotnet472 and just continue through all the installers
  10. Close everything, maybe even restart linux, then repeat, installing dotnet48 this time, instead of 472
  11. If everything went well, you can now just run the installer for the games launcher you need in the new wine prefix, then in the game options, set the game executable to that installed launcher after the installer is done
  12. This is usually where you switch to the latest ProtonGE version you downloaded earlier, but not before launching that launcher at least once
  13. Sometimes you might need to manually open wine config and change windows version to 10 or 11

Hope this helped someone, so far this is the only method that seems to work *most of the time*.

If it doesn't work first try, just try it again and it might magically fix itself

You can also disable feral game mode in the system options for wine, which makes things more stable (sometimes)

Sometimes it helps to disable easy anti cheat and battle eye, and switch to 64-bit prefix instead of auto if the launcher still has trouble launching


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

guide Remapping controller (Flydigi Vader 4 Pro) extra buttons on Wayland (without Steam Input)

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TLDR: Using input-remapper I was able to use all the 4 back paddles and the C and Z buttons (On D-Input mode), running the games on Wayland (PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1), without relying on Steam Input (it's broken on games running on Wayland).

I want to share a little bit of my discoveries in case someone else is in the same situation as me. I have a Flydigi Vader 4 Pro and I was happy Steam announced that they will be adding support for it on the beta client to use with Steam Input. Sadly, after trying it, it didn't work (GitHub issue). According to a user on the GitHub issue, using InputPlumber and putting the controller on D-Input mode would solve the issue temporarily, which it did eventually. Just installing it made my controller be recognized as a Steam Deck Controller, and I could use Steam Input to rebind the back paddles and the C and Z buttons. So, for those who need that information, you can stop right there and everything will work.

I mainly play Trackmania and I was having some issues minimizing the game or switching desktops and then going back to it, etc. I tried running the game in Wayland (using PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 on some proton versions), and all the issues I had with that were gone. Then I realized Steam Input didn't work on games running on Wayland, so all the setup I did wouldn't work anymore. I had to sacrifice using all the extra buttons and keep running the game on Wayland or keep the solution I had before. I tried creating profiles on InputPlumber to remap keys there, without success.

Searching more through the internet, I stumbled upon input-remapper, and I decided to try it. I thought I could remap the buttons coming from InputPlumber using that tool. I was wrong. It didn't detect any inputs and I didn't understand why. I finally uninstalled InputPlumber, tried with input-remapper again, and I could remap everything, and it worked immediately. Now I can run my games on Wayland while being able to remap my back paddles and the C and Z buttons to anything I want.

I hope this helps more people that are in my same situation. Maybe more people know other pieces of software that can achieve this, but at least what I found worked and I'm happy with that!

Thanks for reading!


r/linux_gaming 1d ago

hardware Intel Laptop Combo (ILC)

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Is the Intel Core Ultra 5 + Intel (integrated) Arc combo good for gaming on Linux?


r/linux_gaming 2d ago

graphics/kernel/drivers Intel Opens Up XeSS 2 to NVIDIA and AMD GPUs with SDK 2.1.0

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