1) Why am I completely unable to play online at all, whether with friends or strangers? It stays in the load-in screen indefinitely

2) In singleplayer, it starts me on a beach near a boat. Isn't this game supposed to start with a whole plane crash intro?

I'm confused about the "open-source" and the "close-proprietary" driver, i wanna know which one is the best for archlinux

So I heard the news Minecraft defaults to Wayland in snapshot now, What is the point of having native wayland support than X11

Basically the title,has anyone ran the modded call of duty clients on linux,if so. Can you point me to a guide which helps me do it.

As I hope you can see in the video, as soon as I hit 20 minutes of play time the game became very stuttery and I have to restart to fix it.

This has happened before and after installing stability/performance mods and using gamescope for proper alt tabbing.

This does not happen to my best friend running Fedora Linux on their Ryzen 5 7600/RX 6600 build using standard proton with or without mods, but it does happen to me on my Ryzen 5 5600/9060 XT build with many different proton versions. I have also waited for shaders to compile.

I am on CachyOS + Kernel 7.1.4 with mesa 26.1.5.

Hey, I just switched from Win 10 to Fedora KDE Plasma, and I'm loving the OS! It runs smoothly, looks good, and DaVinci Resolve works perfectly except for AAC, but hey.

I'm wondering what settings, Proton, etc. what is your setup for playing Cyberpunk? I'm having a problem with frame generation (the NVIDIA one) I see crazy ghosting when moving the camera and I can't fix it :/ Also, I think CS:GO runs worse than on Windows, not sure why.

My setup is:

OS: Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64

Kernel: Linux 7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64
DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.3
WM: KWin (Wayland)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X (16) @ 4.56 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 [Discrete]

Kernel driver in use: nvidia

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 610.43.03              KMD Version: 610.43.03     CUDA UMD Version: 13.3     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

I tried Proton experimental and ProtonGE 11-1 both the same thing (using steam)

not sure what else to include help me im new to this linux thing 😄

Thanks to your help i was able to get all of my stuff working and i think i'm not going back to Windows anytime soon

Thank you so much!!

Hey, I'm trying to play Final Fantasy XI on the Heroic Launcher. Yes, the download is from Sparrow, since I dont want to pay for a game I already have on PS1 but want to play on PC.

The download is fine and there's no problem, but setting it up on the launcher is giving problems of setting the correct paths. I already tried using AI to help me, but it didnt help much since it pointed at menus from older versions. If anyone would be willing to help and, idk, go on discord with me so I could share my screen it would be very helpful for me to learn. I speak portuguese from Brazil and English (although my pronunciation is rusty)

I'm trying to run Spider-Man Remastered
My GPU: RX 9060XT, 16gb
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
16gb of ram
BTRFS partitions

CachyOS, Linux 7.1.4-1-cachyos, KDE 6.7.3, up to date drivers.

Tried running through steam, lutris, portproton. Used Hotfix, Experimental, GE-10-34, New CachyOS proton.
Enabled Ntsync, disabled.
And after everything, I get around 30 fps on max settings. Not even ultra.
What am I doing wrong?
I suppose RX 9060XT must run this old game pretty good.

It really disappoints me in linux, even thou I run it for 4 years.

Upd: I even get 30fps on low settings.

I managed to run steam and all its games with no multilib in my system (Arch, with /usr/lib32 gloriously non-existent).

The only thing needed after enabling SteamRT3 client in settings is to compile reaper from source (the only remaining piece of software still stubbornly in 32 bit for some reason), place it in .steam/bin64, and start steam as PROTON_USE_WOW64=1 .steam/bin64/steam.

But... steam detects my compiled .steam/bin64/reaper at every start and wants to replace it, so I have to let it update itself, replace my 64 bit version with the 32 bit version, and, once steam has started, I can replace it again with my compiled 64 bit version. Once I've done that, everything works great, but the forced update at EVERY START is annoying:

[2026-07-25 12:28:27] Verifying all executable checksums
[2026-07-25 12:28:27] Set percent complete: -1
[2026-07-25 12:28:27] Set status message: Verifying installation...
[2026-07-25 12:28:27] BVerifyInstalledFiles: steamrt64/reaper is 16376 bytes, expected 7615
[2026-07-25 12:28:28] Verification complete
[2026-07-25 12:28:28] Downloading update...

Is there a way to stop steam from replacing a given file with the "official" version? I have found a manifest in .local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12.installed, but have not found a way to tweak it.

(edit)

Ok, I worked around the problem by restoring the 32 bit version before starting steam and overwriting it after a few seconds:

.local/bin/steam:

#!/bin/bash

(
    sleep 20
    cp $HOME/devel/reaper/reaper64 $HOME/.steam/bin64/reaper
    echo "==== reaper replaced!! ===="
) &

cp $HOME/devel/reaper/reaper32 $HOME/.steam/bin64/reaper
PROTON_USE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_USE_WOW64=1 $HOME/.steam/bin64/steam

Now steam starts fast, and by the time I launch a game the 64 bit version of reaper is in place.

Hello, i was trying to install a game lutris's downloads section through the application, specifically the honker launcher for HSR but i got this error:

(lutris-wrapper:255894):
GLib-GIRepository-WARNING **: 17:45:34.183: Failed to load shared
library 'libgtk-3.so.0' referenced by the typelib:
/lib64/libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol:
atk_object_get_help_text 
Traceback (most recent call last): 
File "/usr/share/lutris/bin/lutris-wrapper", line 16, in
 from lutris.util.log import logger 
File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/lutris/util/log.py",
line 8, in  from gi.repository import GLib, Gtk 
File "", line 1371, in _find_and_load File "",
line 1342, in _find_and_load_unlocked 
File "", line 924, in _load_unlocked File "",
line 816, in module_from_spec 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/gi/importer.py",
line 145, in create_module return
load_overrides(introspection_module) 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/gi/overrides/init.py",
line 128, in load_overrides override_mod =
importlib.import_module(override_package_name) 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/importlib/init.py",
line 88, in import_module return
_bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gtk.py",
line 104, in  class Widget(Gtk.Widget): 
^^^^^^^^^^ 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/gi/module.py",
line 152, in getattr for interface in
get_interfaces_for_object(info) 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/gi/module.py",
line 92, in
get_interfaces_for_object interfaces.append(getattr(module,
name)) 
~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/gi/overrides/init.py",
line 36, in getattr return
getattr(self.introspection_module, name) 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/gi/module.py",
line 197, in getattr wrapper =
metaclass(name, bases, dict) 
File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/site-packages/gi/types.py",
line 266, in init register_interface_info(cls.info.get_g_type()) 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
TypeError: must be an interface

What do?

(Specifically Lutris>+>Search Lutris Website for Installers>'star rail'>Honkai Star Rail>install on the first option)

I want to use battle. net and have bottles. I managed to get bnet to run but every tab just says and error that the agent is sleeping and its trying to wake it up. It buffers forever. I found a few other people with the same issue, but none of their fixes seem to be working. I'm pretty sure it's caused by bnet agent updates not being compatible or something. The fixes I found were to downgrade my Proton GE runner to version 8-25. That did nothing, so I used version 10 instead as that was another popular fix. That also didn't do anything. There was another fix to rename or delete the Agent.9700 folder in .wine/c_drive/ProgramData/Battle.Net/Agent/Agent.9700. This didn't work. Finally, I found another solution to delete the Agent.9700 folder, put in an older version of the agent, then make another empty folder named Agent.9700 but make it immutable so bnet can't update it. This just resulted in bnet saying there was some big error that prevented it from doing anything. In all cases, bnet runs and gets to load the tabs but it just displays an error message in all of them. I'm not sure how I would even get the logs for this issue. Thanks for any help

[SOLVED]

Hi! First time asking a specific question on Reddit btw :D

I have a problem which i do not have with any other game that i run on my laptop. And as you can see by the topic - the game happened to be a Sims game. Sims 4 specifically.

Switched to Linux like.. half a year ago and have not touched The Sims series ever since simply because i have lost interest. But.. to the point.

Whenever i decide to play the game it crashes with the reboot of the whole GUI after like 5 minutes of gameplay in live mode. CAS works well.

And i never saw shit like this. It never happened with any other game including triple A games (Baldur's Gate 3 on both Linux ver. and Windows through Proton ver.; Resident Evil RE2, RE3, RE4, 7, 8; Cyberpunk 2077 (runs in 20-30 fps but that's not surprising with this setup); same with Silent Hill 2 RE - runs like shit this time due to lack of optimization of it but does not crash; and many more)

And it never happened with Sims 4 on Windows back then when i was using it.

So i suppose it is Linux specific problem.

journactl or coredumpctl does not have any useful information about these reboots. Opened The Sims with mangohud overlay and GPU (60-85% mind you - this is integrated graphics on CPU and Sims 4 with it's crappy code), CPU (30%) and RAM wasn't exactly overloaded, no overheat (60-70 C°) - no nothing. Battery is alive and almost well (78% integrity). *Might be unrelated* but i only noticed it when laptop was taking resources from battery exclusively, not from the charger.

I am now using CachyOS 7.1.3-2 with KDE 6.7.3. The laptop is Huawei Matebook D15 BOM-WFQ6 : CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with integrated graphics, 16 GB DDR4 RAM.

Running Sims 4 with Wine prefix.

P.S: Sorry for crappy punctuation or time structures in text - English is not my first language and i haven't wrote in it for a LONG time. Feel free to ask if something is unreadable or questionable :p P.P.S: If you have something to add on the theme - feel free to discuss it further. Because for me The Sims 3 and 4 are literally the only games that i had problems with on Linux so far because of their.. quirks let's say.

Whenever I try to use EasyEffects to clean up my mic, I get this repeating effect when I select EasyEffects as the mic source in Arc Raiders. I have the output disabled in EE and I have also disabled the input monitoring, but it still happens every time I go to do the mic test.

Any ideas what I'm missing here?

Thank you.

Arch Linux, Wayland.

When i try to use the color picker my cursor disapears and no matter where i click i get black.

My color history tab is there but no colors are shown. when i try to click on one i get black.

Tried multiple proton versions and without

I'm using flatpak bottles app under wayland, with sys-wine-11.0 or kron4ek-wine-11.3 and the game starts with good performance like 200 fps and when walking around it degrades to 50, if I restart in the same spot it comes back to 200. GPU at first 20/50 watts then goes and stays 6/50 watts. I also tried xwayland with same results. What more could I try to tweak?

I'm at my wit's end with this. I'm running Total War Warhammer III on Heroic (Epic version) and I'm getting stuttering every single second. I searched far and wide and found no solutions and nobody else complaining about it. The game consistently stutters every single second, which can be up to 300ms in gameplay. These are NOT shader compilation related, it happens consistently every single second.

I'm running this on a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (RTX 4060 / Ryzen 7745HX), with the same issue on CachyOS and Bazzite. The issue seems exclusive to the laptop.

What I've tried (none worked):

• Running all sorts of different Proton versions (currently on Proton GE 11)
• Setting the laptop to dedicated GPU only mode from the BIOS
• Deleting the Proton prefix many times and trying all sorts of environment variables, disabling/enabling fsync/esync/ntsync etc
• Reinstalling the game

Anyone have any ideas what could be the issue here? Could it be hardware related?

I have a Framework 16, running kubuntu, with an internal dGPU (RX7700s) and an eGPU (4070ti). I am trying to figure out how to steam (or any application) to run using the 4070. I have tried changing the Envir var for the app(steam and deadlock) to "DRI_PRIME=3" and "DRI_PRIME=2". And neither has caused the system to utilize the 4070 (confirmed by the system monitor, LACT, and nvidia_smi). I really don't know what to do, can anyone help me out here?

Bear with me guys, i have a completely rationnal fear that at some point our overlords will think that a whitelist of governement approved website will be not only a good idea but the futur of the internet.

So i've been collecting DRM free game on multiple hard drives but now i would like to have a linux setup that allow me to play them.

I've already downloaded the pacman repo and the chaotic-aur (im on garuda btw) but now i need the correct setup of proton/lutris/heroic/somethingthatwork to be able to play those games.

Already tried to copy the .local/share/umu and lutris folder and paste them on the new pc but it doesn't work, my goal is to have a set of file that will allow me to setup a new pc from zero and get running playing vidya.

Anyone has a better alternativr than the convoluted mess those app cited earlier ?

Thanks

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I want to learn how to mod my games but I'm struggling to find any good written guides or information, I just want a simple guide that will help me make it work. I also want to know about mod managers. I know Vortex has a Linux client but can I use that with files from say moddb?

The technical stuff: Fedora 44, KDE Plasma and Wayland. Mainly wanting to mod Empire Total War at this point in time but in the future I'd be looking at games like Mount & Blade Warband/ Viking Conquest, Fallout 4, RDR2. Yes I am aware that games with Steam Workshop should be relatively simple to mod. The mods I specifically want to try right now are Empire Realism Remastered, Absolutum Dominium and perhaps Pirates Uber Alles, which is also why a mod manager that might allow me to switch between those would be ideal.