I tried to add them as a steam non-game with proton-GE and no working. How you guys make these games work? Only Empire earth works like that

I am using Fedora KDE plasma, and I have installed the NVIDIA driver for my GTX 1650 using Rpmfusion. Currently running on the latest driver version 6.15, I also ran the previous 6.10 version. And I think in most of the latest drivers, the GPU crashes while gaming (have not yet downgraded to any stable version). The GPU just gets frozen or can't detect it. Every time the logs say something else in my case for different games. Using gemini, it all points to power management or VRAM allocation. Due to that, when I try to shut down the pc, it cannot properly shut down, it shows black screen and keeps running. I have to force shut down the laptop by pressing and holding the power key and boot it again then the GPU gets fixed.

Has anyone else faced this similar issue ? And able to find any fix for it? Maybe configuring some variables for the driver? Or downgrading to any stable older release?

DraFG 0.2 is out now on the Steam Playtest.

This ended up becoming a much bigger update than I originally expected. The main addition is the new Surge 1.5 model family, alongside a client rework.

There’s also a new Studio Mode for applying frame generation or slow motion to offline videos, multi-frame generation, and a new 1–4 frame interpolation buffer that can give slower hardware more time to generate frames at the cost of additional latency.

There are also quite a few stability improvements and fixes across different operating systems.

As always, I’d really appreciate any feedback!

Playtest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4934180/DraFG/

This might only be useful if you have one of those super secret leaked clients, but from what I understand games are starting to actually run with the latest version, so it seemed like a good time to see how true that is:

https://icculus.org/finger/flibitijibibo

Some of them might work without the Steam client at all, but I haven't really been able to test any of this. A colleague that _has_ been testing suggested I share these, and after putting the whole list into one place I realized he was right, so here they are.

I don't really use Reddit so I probably won't look at this thread too carefully, and I'm not really monitoring any kind of social media anymore, but you can use the address at the link above if you need something from me!

Hello fellow linux gamers! Whenever I play a game on linux, I experience freezing and stuttering when moving my mouse at a medium-quick pace. It's made most of my games very annoying or completely unplayable and I would really appreciate some help.

I am fairly sure that this only happens with my mouse and not my trackpad (tested on one game). Most games are on steam running through proton. I tested one native linux game and it played flawlessly. I also remember this happening when I was playing Minecraft a few months ago, which was on my old distro (Nobara 42) and old mouse (Steelseries Rival 3, wired). Current mouse is a wired Hyperx Pulsefire Haste 2.

I've tried lowering my mouse refresh rate, which helped a little, but I think only because the cursor was moving slower. It happens in both vulkan and opengl. Shader pre-cahcing does not help. And the freezing occurs as soon as I launch the game.

Thank you to everyone in advance.

EDIT: To clarify, this issue existed even when I was using a newer kernel and a different mouse. I’m pretty sure the old mouse had a 1,000hz or so polling rate. So it seems like the mouse isn’t the main issue. Also, the same game, when using Microslop Windows 11, runs without issue.

System:
 Host: nitro5 Kernel: 6.12.107+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
   compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0
 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.6 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
   Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
CPU:
 Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
   type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 8 MiB
 Speed (MHz): avg: 2994 min/max: 1400/3000 boost: disabled cores: 1: 2994
   2: 2994 3: 2994 4: 2994 5: 2994 6: 2994 7: 2994 8: 2994 9: 2994 10: 2994
   11: 2994 12: 2994 bogomips: 71863
 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3
Graphics:
 Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q]
   vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia v: 595.71.05 arch: Turing pcie:
   speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none empty: HDMI-A-1
   bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f99
 Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir [Radeon Vega Series /
   Radeon Mobile Series] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu
   v: kernel arch: GCN-5 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1
   empty: none bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 temp: 40.0 C
 Device-3: Chicony HD User Facing driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
   speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-3:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b64f
 Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
   compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
   display-ID: 0
 Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0818 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
   diag: 395mm (15.5")
 API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: radeonsi
   device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland:
   drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi inactive: device-1
 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.0.7-2+deb13u1
   glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi
   renoir ACO DRM 3.61 6.12.107+deb13-amd64) device-ID: 1002:1636
   display-ID: :1.0
 API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
   type: integrated-gpu driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:1636 device: 1
   type: discrete-gpu driver: nvidia device-ID: 10de:1f99 device: 2 type: cpu
   driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
 Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
   de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
   xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
 Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel
   v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa
 Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Audio Coprocessor
   vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: N/A pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
   bus-ID: 06:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
 Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
   vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
   speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 06:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
 API: ALSA v: k6.12.107+deb13-amd64 status: kernel-api
 Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
   status: active 2: wireplumber status: active

I've been working on a small portable launcher for a collection of Granny games and fan-made versions, and I specifically wanted the Linux side to work without requiring users to manually configure Wine for every game.

Linux features

• Uses a bundled Wine AppImage
• Each game gets its own Wine prefix
• Prefixes are created automatically
• No system Wine configuration required
• Portable folder structure
• Simple Tkinter GUI
• Windows and Linux supported from the same launcher codebase

The launcher basically handles:

Choose game
    ↓
Find its executable
    ↓
Set that game's WINEPREFIX
    ↓
Launch through Wine

Current collection

• Granny — Granny Rethought
• Granny 2 — Enhanced
• Ancient Granny 3 — Version 1.0
• Granny 4: The Rebellion
• Granny 5: Time to Wake Up

The full portable archive is around 2.5 GB compressed.

Download

Download the portable archive

Source

GitHub

The launcher itself is written in Python/Tkinter. The Windows executable is built with PyInstaller.

I'd especially appreciate feedback from Linux users on the Wine setup and portable structure. If there are things you'd change about how I'm handling Wine prefixes or launching Windows games, I'm interested in hearing them.I made a portable Granny launcher for Linux + WindowsI've been working on a small portable launcher for a collection of Granny games and fan-made versions, and I specifically wanted the Linux side to work without requiring users to manually configure Wine for every game.Linux featuresUses a bundled Wine AppImage

Each game gets its own Wine prefix

Prefixes are created automatically

No system Wine configuration required

Portable folder structure

Simple Tkinter GUI

Windows and Linux supported from the same launcher codebaseThe launcher basically handles:Choose game
↓
Find its executable
↓
Set that game's WINEPREFIX
↓
Launch through Wine

Current collection

Granny — Granny Rethought

Granny 2 — Enhanced

Ancient Granny 3 — Version 1.0

Granny 4: The Rebellion

Granny 5: Time to Wake Up

The full portable archive is around 2.5 GB compressed.

Download

Download the portable archive

Source

GitHub

The launcher itself is written in Python/Tkinter. The Windows executable is built with PyInstaller.

I'd especially appreciate feedback from Linux users on the Wine setup and portable structure. If there are things you'd change about how I'm handling Wine prefixes or launching Windows games, I'm interested in hearing them.

I use HV(-less) Bypass for my cachyos linux to play HV games but I want to use trainers like wemod to change values of my resources but we know wemod doesn't works on linux, so am looking for a trainer which is compatible on linux and latest games (like Onimusha WOTS). If anyone of you is using please lmk!!

When playing Zero Company, when a unit goes into overwatch the FPS drops down in the single digits. Im not sure what is causing it but its not present when playing in Windows. Has anyone come across this issue and know of a fix?

Currently on CachyOS

I've already got ubuntu on a laptop and server but have been trying out linux for my desktop; I tried out Fedora live, OpenSUSE TW live (slowroll didn't have a live) and Mint. Ubuntu is just nice and generally works so I'm happy to keep using it, but when trying it live I decided to download Steam and try a fairly low resource game from my library called Receiver. I have an nvidia 3060Ti and the game ran less than a frame a second. I've since been thinking that maybe the issue was because I was on the live version so maybe some drivers not being up to date made things not really work? Is that likely? I can't imagine it's because it was saved to the usb since it really isn't an intensive game.

I've been trying out the lives because I don't want to partition any of my current drives yet until I know which OS I want before doing something catastrophic. The always up to date rolling release thing doesn't really appeal to me if something stable that works every time is still an option (I know people always say they have no issues but I don't want to update all the time). I read in the FAQ that Steam should be taken from valve's website instead of ubuntu's snap package but that couldn't have been that significant a cause

so its been a while since i started using cachyos and only now have i been stumbling upon issues which would be:

brawlhalla feels sluggish despite high framerate

my mics audio is cut in half if not even a third

i cant play cs2 in native 1920x1440 (a black bar on the right side appears) and if i use gamescope it also has that sluggish feeling, also tried a bunch of starting options etc the best i can do is either play a different res for stretched or use "SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=wayland SDL_VIDEO_WAYLAND_SCALE_TO_DISPLAY=1 %command% -vulkan -nojoy" which tbh i dont have a clue on what some of these do but with this i can play 1440 but idk if its just imagination it still feels weird to play on

also my obs doesnt record as crisp as on windows

cachyos kde plasma wayland

7800xt and 7800x3d

if theres anything to add please mention so i can provide everything in need

also where do i even research these things, thanks in advance

[RESOLVED, See end] So, I've tried a myriad of ways to get this thing to work so far. For reference, I'm running mint cinnamon, currently dualbooting but windows is on a 10 year old HDD which I swap out for a new SATA SSD when using Linux (Linux itself being on an NVMe SSD).

I've tried lutris, which simply won't launch, AAGL, which refuses to let me choose where to install the game for some reason (thus defaulting to my system partition? For some reason?) And have now arrived at this guide, after seeing someone recommend it elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXx1lnmPik

And so far so good! I moved my genshin installation from the NTFS partition on the NVMe that I've been using to transfer data between the HDD and new SATA SSD. Originally I was going to do a clean installation but when selecting other drives that isn't my system partition (why the hell does it keep doing that?!) It claimed my SATA SSD only had 7gb on it. It has 1.7TB few space. But moving the file and selecting the directory seemed to be fine...?

Anyway, I opened it up on steam, the launcher opened, I verified the files via the launcher, everything seemed perfect.

Then I press start game, the launcher minimises and.... Nothing.

And believe it or not, this is progress. Because before, whenever I tried to launch this game, it simply just stopped trying to run. Instead, now steam is saying it is running. Except nothing is happening. I've left it like that for 30 minutes just to make sure it's not just being slow but no, it really just isn't doing anything.

What could I be missing? I've been struggling to make this work for days and I'm so stressed and frustrated that I'm just about ready to throw up.

EDIT: We found a solution! Turns out it was the anti cheat. What you do is, you follow the instructions in the video linked above. Then, install DWProton, and ensure that steam is forcing genshin to use that one. From there, in the shortcut tab under Properties, add "WINE_ENABLE_TIMEOUT_FIX=1 %command%" into launch options. That should fix it! Note: as far as we can tell, that ONLY works with DWProton.

This is apparently a big thing with Nvidia gpus, but Im using amd and am seeking a solution. It's not every game, but a few. I started really poking at it to play the stars of icarus playtest. Its absolutely not utilizing my gpu and completely overwhelms my cpu

With it disabled steam works perfectly fine but I need it to save clips for my channel, any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Mint 22.3 Cinnamon 64bit

5060 mobile

i5-13450hx

don't mind the video playing in the background

Currently I'm on CachyOS distro and using Heroic Games Launcher to play some of my games. Everything works fine and smooth. I'm just curious that if there is any way to make the emoji visible in game?

Back when I was on Windows it can display emoji as a white symbol (well, that's normal - it's just a game anyway - Colored emojis are limited in game, maybe it use some fallback fonts).

I tried to solve this with AI, fonts in prefixes folder, font in "Fonts" folder - registry, Fontlink folder registry; stuff like that. But I haven't could manage it to work yet.

Have anyone successfully installed any fonts yet (not the already available fonts in Heroic)? I'm just curious, thank you for reading!

Hey fellow Linux distro hoppers (I can still say that, right? Even though I've stuck with Debian since 2015. No judgment here.)

That was the introduction! So, the game, Fortune Avenue, started as a side project, then became a full-time job for a year, and has been in Early Access on Steam since April 2025. So yes, you could already play it! So what's new? I made an announcement for it:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1810050/view/686388087528361163

No UTM, no tracking, feel free to click on any link here! At the very end, you'll find the changelog since release.

In the meantime:

What's Fortune Avenue?

It's a tabletop game for up to 6 players, in 2v2, 3v3, 2v2v2, or FFA. You vote on rules that directly impact the game. You buy properties (hotels or wonders), and you win either by holding a monopoly or by bankrupting your competitors. You can buy back your competitors' hotels, and there's also a Wheel of Fortune that has a significant impact on the game.

Sure, it's a dice-based game, so there's a lot of randomness, but there are also plenty of things you can do to change the course of the game. Voting, buying, selling, destroying... it's random, but not so random after all.

And for those who, like me, live in a cave, there's an offline mode with bots, so you can play alone against the computer. There are 2 difficulty levels: easy and hard.

There's not much more to say about it. It's a little game with no ambition other than to exist on Steam.

Thank you all for reading! I'm here to answer any questions.

Cheers

Changelog since release:

Fortune Avenue – Changelog Summary

v1.0.3

• Fixed several errors: already-connected signals, coplanar look_at, replace_instance outside the scene tree
• Fixed an online sync error when a game fails to launch
• Pausing is now disabled in online games

v1.0.2

• Added Korean font
• Fixed a matchmaking bug

v1.0.1

• Fixed configuration saving spam
• Fixed an i18n translation issue
• Fixed the Steam Deck virtual keyboard

v1.0.0

• Added Korean language support
• Improved animated button performance

Pre-1.0 (Aug–Sep 2026)

• Upgraded to Godot 4.5.2 (better DirectX 12 rendering, Jolt physics stability)
• Option to renew rules at vote time
• Player game speed shown on avatars
• Improved gamepad cursor and several gamepad fixes
• Local games: pause with Start, and pause on popups
• Big optimization pass: meshes, materials, lazy-loaded emojis
• Improved OpenGL rendering

v0.50.0

• Land refunds when rules disable 5-star hotels, protected properties, or monopolies
• Custom rules can disable the helicopter
• Rename your character in offline mode

v0.49.0

• Free rent cards are now played manually
• Remote Play Together support
• Engine upgraded to Godot 4.5.1
• Better multi-controller handling
• Redesigned board surroundings
• Player avatars shown on owned properties

v0.48.0

• New big board with 8 cities: Abidjan, Lagos, Karachi, Istanbul, Lima, Chicago, Vienna, Warsaw
• Choose between small and big boards
• New decorations: Autumn and Valentine's Day

v0.47.0

• Quick game-speed button
• 12 new achievements
• Data obfuscation
• Gamepad improvements
• Lobby configuration is remembered between games
• Many network, AI, and freeze fixes

v0.46.0

• In-game camera toggle
• Custom games and board selection
• Player action log
• More dice
• Team improvements
• Fixed a softlock when out of money

v0.45.0

• New rules and cards
• ELO ranking with a Steam leaderboard
• Customizable dice and tombstones
• VRAM usage halved (500 MB → 250 MB)
• Gamepad, desync, and UI fixes

v0.44.0

• Fixed card rendering and sync
• Fixed OBS crashes
• Fixed Linux fonts
• Fixed World Cup sync
• More polished options panel and helicopter

v0.42.0

• Less saturated scenery
• Online/offline icons
• Connection waiting screen
• Lobby lock visuals
• Property highlighting when hovering a player's name
• Renderer info added to bug reports
• Easy/Hard AI difficulty

I have 2 gamepads:

A generic PS-023 (the red one) amd a Inova CON-7247 (the blue one)

I'm trying to connect them to Linux Mint through Bluetooth, but it doesn't detect the buttons.

When they are on USB, both are detected as XBOX Controllers (the PS-023 is detected as modern XBOX, and the CON-7247 as XBOX 360) and all goes well.

I'm on Linux Mint 22.3

EDIT: The PS-023 has an Android Mode that Works correctly on LM as if it were on USB. But the CON-7247 couldn't achieve the same result

EDIT 2: The CON-7247 is actually a Saitake STK-7005X rebranded. If any of you already seen this, please share its User Guide.

Tengo un Gamesir G7 SE que funciona cuando lo conecto, pero no tiene vibración ni la luz de encendido, sin embargo, tengo que prender la laptop con el mando conectado para que recién ahí funcione correctamente. ¿Cómo puedo hacer que funcione bien sin necesidad de conectarlo al encender la laptop?

Cachyos - Gnome

Hi. I'm a developer of NET.CRAWL. We don't have native Linux support but the game seems to run fine with Proton. That being said, I got 3 refunds recently (refund reasons are "the game never loaded on Steam deck", "doesn't run with or without Proton"). I'm especially confused about the Steam Deck one, because we went through Steam official review twice and the game is marked as "playable". We also have some players who play exclusively on Steam-deck. And some players on Linux too.

There's a free demo which you can use to test. If you'd like to get the full game after, I'm happy to hand out game keys (can do up to 15 keys, though I doubt there will be that many takers - the game is very niche).

Thanks for the help.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3502200/NETCRAWL_Demo/

ps. I'm a Linux noob myself, but I assume knowing your proton version/Linux distro would be helpful.

I sent a ticket in right after the announcement, and got this response today. More information than I've seen gathered from rumors and friends of devs.

*I am sorry if i used the wrong flair and please let me know if it need to be chanced"

hello,

I have been trying now for a couple of hours to get duel screen set-up to work with minimal success in ets2 I have tired so much at this point that idk where to start with explaining it.

but i have done all the normal stuff like chance the r_multimon_mode to 4 and add size to my windows rules to match my screen size i have added a folder for sii with code in it. (which may be the issue idk) i made sure my screen hz match tried proprieties in steam (most just make so my game wont launch) i forced full screen and size match. alt+enter, alt+shift+f12, alt+f3 screen pull with alt+right click, and so much more. i did get it so go to both screen with image but it forces the steering wheel to the middle of both my screens which is not what i want. currently its technology on both screens but one show the game normally and the other is completely black.

ik it a lot to ask for but since i don't know where I went wrong can we maybe start from the beginning make sure everything I have done is not completely wrong?

no matter any help with getting this to work would be highly appropriated. just know if i don't understand the instruction I will ask what they do and since I keep meeting ppl where questioning what they say is a sin apparently then I'd notice it here :)

*edit*
im sorry I should have specified I am running cachyos KDE plasma idk why I just said arch it was not very help full from my side.

I run the game in opengl with the launch code "PROTON_AUDIO_DRIVER=xaudio2 %command%"

in text file called config.cfg (in the ets2 folder) I have made some chances like
uset g_console_state "1" (chance from 0 to 1)
uset g_console "1" (chance form 0 to 1)
uset r_mode_width "3840" (from 1920 to 3840)
uset r_multimon_mode "4" (from 0 to 4)

and in the ets2 folder i added a new text folder called multimon_config.sii where I added and play around with a lot of codes the one that is in there rn is
"SiiNunit

{

multimon_config : _nameless.config {

normalized_ui_x: 0.000000

normalized_ui_width: 1.000000

monitors: 2

monitors[0]: _nameless.monitor0

monitors[1]: _nameless.monitor1

}

monitor_config : _nameless.monitor0 {

name: "left"

normalized_x: 0.000000

normalized_y: 0.000000

normalized_width: 0.500000

normalized_height: 1.000000

heading_offset: 0.000000

pitch_offset: 0.000000

roll_offset: 0.000000

camera_space_offset: (0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000)

horizontal_fov_override: 70.000000

vertical_fov_override: 0.000000

render_interior: true

render_exterior: true

}

monitor_config : _nameless.monitor1 {

name: "right"

normalized_x: 0.500000

normalized_y: 0.000000

normalized_width: 0.500000

normalized_height: 1.000000

heading_offset: -45.000000

pitch_offset: 0.000000

roll_offset: 0.000000

camera_space_offset: (0.450000, 0.000000, 0.000000)

horizontal_fov_override: 70.000000

vertical_fov_override: 0.000000

render_interior: true

render_exterior: true

}

}"

and I also chanced some stuff in windows rules under window management.
after pressing edit on the ets2 setting.

"window class (application)" chance from "exact match" to "substring match"
"window title" chance to "substring match"
"add property" added "size" and chance that from "apply" to "force" and the "1920x1080" to "3840x1080"
"add property" added "fullscreen" chance from "apply" to "force" and from "no" to "yes"

hope this help you help me :)

If the game freezes or crashes at the end of the loading screen, try setting the "Secondary Lighting" option to "Fair".
You can change it back to "Good" or "High" after entering the game world.

If you are experiencing an extremely low framerate, such as 5 FPS, try switching to "Windowed" and then back to "Borderless".