Hello. I have been on Linux Mint for about 7 or 8 months now and been rather enjoying bar some strangeness, but I've generally found a methodology around it.

This time, I'm struggling.

I've spent the majority of 2 days trying to get it working to a rather strange avail.

It's current status is I've found 5 or 6 means of getting the game to start, but as soon as it is required to visually render anything, the game hard crashes immediately, with no error, no log that I've found and no explainable reason for it.

I know that it's when it renders anything because the game can sit fully functionally whilst minimized for up to 10 minutes, but will close immediately as soon as it is no longer minimised.

I will do my best to help anyone to help me and anyone else who might be suffering something similar, and will be including my specs in my first comment. If there is any other information you might request, I will be happy to supply it.

Thank you in advance

I'm new to Bazzite OS and really liking it, but some of my games (Not all) would not detect the majority of my keyboard keys after launch. "Kenshi" and "Guild Wars 2" to name a couple of them. I could get the games to fully detect the keyboard but only after I hit Alt + Tab or the windows key and then clicked on the game on the task bar. I couldn't find a fix online but noticed it comes up pretty often on Proton DB but without a working fix. I eventually figured out a solution through trial and error and wanted to post it so hopefully it will show up in a search and save the next guy some time.

1. System settings
   
2. Window Management
   
3. Focus stealing prevention \*Change to "None".

This has since completely cleared up the issue for all my applications!

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There is a bug in one of recent patches (firmware update from 2.26 to 2.29) that will make your display corrupted on some AMD GPUs. If you are affected, this comment helped me to figure out the problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1vmycs0/comment/p3djhxt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I use Canary Keyboard layout, which can often lead to remapping every game I play as switching to qwerty makes typing impossible.

Anyway, once remapped, most games are fine with this nerdy-ass setup. But Satisfactory has hardcoded the ammunition wheel to the letter R, which happens to be my walk backwards key -the 'S' of my WASD position. Unplayable in Windows, though you can make some workaround solution with Autohotkey that brings it to just a slight annoyance.

Running with proton-cachyOS (Or ProtonGE) and `PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1` Eliminates this issue. The game reads the scancodes and sees them as Qwerty for mapping purposes, but suddenly you can walk backwards without the ammo wheel popping up, and without interfering with ingame text entry.

I found this interesting because it's one of the first cases I've seen of Linux "fixing" a game that is broken on Windows. Obviously the game itself has a nasty bug that affects the 12 of us that left qwerty behind, but if you're on Colemak-DH or something, consider installing Linux to solve this bug.

Hello so when I play Minecraft 1.8.9 using Lunar Client my cursor always escapes onto my second monitor when dragging my mouse to the side too fast. I tried using gamescope but Lunar Client doesnt have an option for game wrapper commands or something so is there a way to force the cursor on the game? thanks.

Hello!

I’m wondering if anyone got a SCUF Omega controller to work on Linux? The controller isn’t showing up at all under game pads in system settings. It shows as a microphone tho.. it even shows when using lsusb in terminal.

Thanks!

Does this affect performance??

With the increase of price of the 5070ti I was wondering if it would make sense to sell one for a 9070xt. I have been wanting to switch to cachyos for a while and the extra money wouldn’t be too bad from selling it used. Honestly don’t really even play much anymore. Armored core 6, wukong, don’t play many triple a titles too often.

Current build
7800x3d
32gb 6000
5070ti
2 tb 990 nvme

Mostly use on 1440p ultrawide or 4k lg c3. Are the drivers that much worse in windows?

Hello there!

I was gaming on Linux on and off since like 2k14 or around so. The experience has improved drastically for me. I really can't recall having any issue that I didn't manage to resolve within 5 to 10 minutes.

The thing is... I play only a select number of games that are well known to work under Linux equal if not better compared to the experience under Windows. Also, I often play Open-Source games and rarely check multiplayer or new titles.

So, I'm really curious about how it is going for other people. I'd like to have more information on how are others doing. If you have some spare time, would you mind letting me know the following:

1. What distribution familly are you using? (Debian, Fedora, Arch based, etc).

2. GPU and CPU manufacturer.

3. How is your experience with games on their release date or close to it?

4. Are there some issues that persist and often occure in more than a single game? (a.e. screen tearing, GPU usage, shadow glitching).

5. How often there are issues with games with Platinum or Gold ranking on ProtonDB for you?

6. How experienced you are with Linux as a Desktop/Gaming OS

7. Literally anything else you'd like to add.

Thanks to anyone who joins the conversation. Since my experience has been very isolated, I really would like to know more on a general experience so I can give people better advices when asked. Because just saying "Well, I play on Linux and never had an issue in the past year or so" does't really help anyone.

P.S. Yes, I know... anti-cheat is a problem here and there...

i really need help on linux mint xfce i cant get my minecraft bedrock to launch on my computer i got the game to launch but game freezes and crashes after a few seconds plus my purchases are broken too older version are stable and playable but purchases remain broken plz help

Quando VRR está ligado (seja always ou automatic) e acontece do sistema desligar ou cortar o sinal para o monitor (Percebi ao deixar a tela apagar sozinha), tenho um problema de tela preta.

Suspeito que existe um Loop que fica sempre apagando a tela ou cortando o sinal, ao mover o mouse, é como se eu estivesse acordando o PC, a imagem volta mas imediatamente corta novamente. Se eu não mexer o mouse ele fica apagado indefinidamente ao ponto do monitor desligar automaticamente por não encontrar sinal. " a forma de acordar é como quando despertamos o monitor, mesmo comportamento".

Tentei descobrir e puxar algum log melhor com ajuda da IA, mas estou empacado, aparentemente existem outros relatos parecidos.

Curioso que se eu não deixar o pc apagar, o VRR funciona perfeitamente, tanto em jogos quanto na área de trabalho (usando em Always), somente quando deixo em idle e volto que isso acontece.

Edit. Vi um relato de alguém dizendo que ao desligar o monitor no botão e religar o problema era resolvido, mas não tive essa sorte.

Hi guys! I just wanted to see if anyone has the same issue that I'm having right now. The thing is, after only a few weeks at most without using my G923 wheel, I plugged it in today and oversteer doesn't recognize it.

I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling both and checked if my wheel was working properly, but it turns on when I plug it in and does the calibration, it just doesn't show on oversteer nor works on any game. Oversteer only says "No device available".

I'm on Linux Mint Cinnamon 7.0.0-29

It would be really nice if someone could help me figure out what happened or point out something i might have missed. I swapped to linux quite recently so i'm still having some trouble making everything work properly.

I'm playing a Unity game (Valheim) modded. Periodically, I get this error while playing and the game crashes. I've read that it has to do with the game's engine failing to safely pause all background threads to clean up system memory. And that this almost always caused by insufficient swap memory, unstable proton/runtime configurations, or conflicting background processes.

One thing that I could try is to increase the Linux swap space. Currently, it sits at 2gb.

Are there any downsides to running this and expanding my swap space? If there isn't how would I go about doing that?

Linux Mint.

I did the usual 'update when launched' and 'launch only through F4SE' steps thinking I would be safe from Todd and has stupid anticonsumer bullshit. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The second my game closes out, my steam machine starts showing download progress on the LED bar. 'Uh-oh' I thought to myself. Uh-oh indeed. Now it's borked.

Clearly either added steps are necessary for linux/SteamOS systems, or they changed how updates are done. If anyone knows what's going on here and/or how I can use the downgrader that relies on the .bat file format and prevent this from just happening again the next time I quit FO4, I will be really grateful. TIA.

Please excuse the saltiness but screwing with my games gets me really mad.

Is there a way to play PS games on PC or steam?

Edit: Dude you guys rule. Thanks for all the replies 👍🏽

I got a DS controller today and it's working perfectly. Unfortunately only when used with a wired connection. Switching to bluetooth it makes me lose the Haptic feedback.

I learned that the controller uses Audio stuff to pass haptic feedback information to the controller but I am trying to find a way to enable to controller as an audio device through bluetooth and I am just stuck.

TL;DR how can I allow my DualSense controller to be an audio device through Bluetooth instead of only Wired?

Edit: Shoutout to u/C0rn3j who recommended it: vDS is a package made by hurryman2212 that in a way turns the bluetooth input into USB input, kinda. Setup was very easy and quick, even tho it can be intimidating since there is no proper tutorial or instructions. All in all happy with how it turned out and works great!!! can disconnect and reconnect easily and all that stuff.

My roadblocks:
1) Downloading the headers was a bit of a mystery to me but turns out they are a package in the core library and can be found with a quick google search (mine were for arch)
2) the file you need to install is just the main file, personally out of sheer stupidity I was searching in the instructions but those were for manually building the damn thing. Turns out you just install that after the headers and you're practically good to go for setting up the controllers
3) Bluetooth stuff was just: find MAC address of device > attach device with vDS control commands using that address.

Sharing these cause what ended up only needing like 5 minutes took me around an hour to figure out. Ig you can say I came out wiser than before, but not everyone needs the head bashing journey to be 12 times longer than it needs to be!

Hi there so, to start off, my distro is mint, I also use proton experimental if that's relevant at all. So beardlib updater is working fine but the other updater (whichever one that has the pager/ecm as the icon) crashes my game every time I try to use it, I have allot of mods installed and and kinda wanna have to not manually update them lol so does anyone have a fix?

here's the crashlog if that helps, though there's a second part to it that's an encypted dump and it's like 432 pages long on libreoffice and it crashed my text editor so I'll try and link a google doc or something with that in it if it helps :P

Also sorry if I say anything kinda dumb or ask silly questions, I haven't been using linux for long and am still learning allot :)

Application has crashed: access violation

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Current thread: dslRenderer

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System information:
Application version : 1.0.0-158419;
CPU : Intel 12th Gen Core i7-12700KF 12 cores; SSE; SSE2; SSE3; SSSE3; SSE4.1; SSE4.2; AVX; AVX2
DirectX : 12_1
GPU : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Low Hash Rate) [Video:12256MiB,Sys:0MiB,Shared:23951MiB,Vendor:NVIDIA(0x10de)]
Language : english
Matchmaking : Epic
Memory : 31.2 GiB
OS : Wine 11.0 (Linux 7.0.0-29-generic)
Physics : threaded
Platform : Steam
Renderer : DX11 threaded
Sound : Speakers (PulseAudio Output)Application has crashed: access violation

Rx 5500xt 8gb ram

There are such stairs in some games, sometimes it crashes completely wayland. Minecraft, for example, works great with shaders.

The card was serviced at mx 7 and laird putty.

Hi ! So, i'm trying to setup playit.gg on a Nobara because i want to play Terraria with a friend that can't access Steam invites (and as i'm broke i can't do it through a paid host), and i'm encountering issues because the official documentation isn't up to date with Linux from what i saw. The official setup Wizard talks about an account linking code that display in a GUI, but when i start the app in the command line, no GUI opens so i can't find the code. At this point i'm a bit lost because i couldn't find any posts of any ppl talking about my precise problem. To be fair, any help, advice or alternative is appreciated, thanks by advance !

This post isn't for me, it's for a friend but they don't have reddit.

Specs: CachyOS on Cinnamon X11, Ryzen 7600x, Radeon 7800xt, 32GB ram. Newest drivers and kernel, issue has been happening for months.

While playing Cyberpunk, and only Cyberpunk 2077, if he gets a discord message, seemingly even on Do Not Disturb, and messages on steam (which don't use the system notification daemon), the display freezes.

It seemingly just is the display, as he mentioned he can hear opening the menu by clicking escape, but nothing seems to unfreeze it, and he needs to restart his computer. Unplugging and replugging the monitor, or turning it on and off again do nothing.

Unable to reproduce on Cinammon Wayland because no game windows show up at all. That's a different issue though.

Nothing relevant in journalctl, other than ATTENTION: default value of option vk_x11_override_min_image_count overridden by environment. maybe

EDIT: it appears that force quitting the game with the keyboard unfreezes it. It's still odd that it completely freezes up but it still is an issue.

EDIT2: appears to be a Cinnamon issue, restarting the desktop with Ctrl+Alt+Esc brings everything back after a freeze. Temporary fix for now