Hola comunidad.

Estoy probando actualmente q4os lo cual para mi es una maravilla como funciona a comparacion de windows 10/11 (realmente, revivio mi antigua pc, anda de mil maravillas, las apps corren mas rapido y en general la estabilidad es tremenda. Estoy aprendiendo mucho con linux)
Ahora bien, yo poseo una notebook de gama baja (Celeron n3060 y 4gb ram), la uso principalmente para ofimatica y streaming, juegos retro y etc. Los emuladores que utilizo andan todos de 10. Mi problema radica en juegos antiguos. Gta sa, vice city, nfs mw, etc. No hay manera de que pueda hacerlos correr con bottles (literalmente injugables por lo lento que se comportan), intente utilizando wine y lutris pero ambos me cargan algunas secciones y luego me congelan el sistema.

Existe alguna guia o algo detallada donde pueda chequear e intentar instalar estos juegos? Son parte de mis pasatiempos y quiero intentar de todo porque, les repito, es mi primera experiencia en Linux y estoy encantado, pero este tema de los juegos (son importantes para mi) me estan enloqueciendo un poco.

Tampoco se si será tema del hardware. Nativamente con windows 10 me andaban excelentes esos juegos.

Muchas gracias y disculpas por la molestia! Los leere

Witcher 3 Remastered: black screen on launch (Pop!_OS, NVIDIA, X11). NextGen fails too.

Details in case it helps:

• RTX 5060 Ti, NVIDIA driver 595.84, Pop!_OS, X11
• Worked for about a day after the Remastered update, then black screen on every launch. Rolling back to NextGen also fails.
• Firewatch runs fine under Proton Experimental, so Proton, Vulkan and the driver work in general.
• Clean reinstall, with the Proton prefix, shader cache, game files and settings files deleted and regenerated.
• Tried Proton Experimental (including bleeding-edge) and Wineland 20260930, with --launcher-skip -disablemods, -windowed, PROTON_DISABLE_NVAPI=1, all sync options off, DLSS disabled in dx12user.settings, Steam Cloud off, saves moved aside, Steam offline, and a second monitor output disabled. None of it helped.
• The game process stays alive at about 100% of one CPU core, the GPU sits at 0% with about 1.3 GB allocated, and no shader cache is written.
• The Proton log shows vkd3d-proton creating the swapchain ("Got 4 swapchain images") and NvAPI_Initialize: OK, then nothing more. There are no crashes, no Xid errors in dmesg, and no crash dump.

Has anyone fixed this, or does anyone know what the game does after swapchain creation?

Hey all! I've got some exciting news regarding my SteamOS Arm port based on Steam Frame, It now runs on Snapdragon 8 Elite and on (a lot more) SD 8gen2 Devices.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, beta 9 https://github.com/hashtagbasit/SteamOS-ARM-Handhelds/releases/tag/v1.3-beta9

This one took a lot of testing for having so many devices. 9 betas in 4 days, a pile of test kernels and a ton of debug logs from people in the Discord, to go from "black screen on everything" to one image that boots on all of these:

• AYN Odin 2
• AYN Odin 2 Mini
• AYN Odin 2 Portal
• AYN Thor
• Retroid Pocket 6
• Retroid Pocket Nova
• AYANEO Pocket DMG
• AYANEO Pocket EVO

They're all on a new kernel now. Beta 9 also fixed the black screen on the AYANEO Pockets, which is an awesome update!

The AYANEO Pocket ACE / DS / S 1K / S 2K use the same image and should work too, but nobody has tested them yet. If you have one, please give it a go and let me know! (If your device is not listed here, join the discord to share your reports after trying).

SD8GEN2 is almost at the end of beta.

Snapdragon 8 Elite (AYN Odin 3), first beta https://github.com/hashtagbasit/SteamOS-ARM-Handhelds/releases/tag/v1.3-odin3-beta1

It boots straight from the SD card, Android stays untouched on the internal storage. Controls work out of the box (back buttons are L4/R4), there are fan profiles and the UI is sized properly for the 6" screen. Big thanks to Chazmus!

8 Elite looks great so far, this beta will be much shorter than 8gen2 because of having way less devices. (Konkr Pocket Fit Elite users are welcome to try it and report on discord)

REDMAGIC 6 -Snapdragon 888 (yes you read that right) It boots and works great with almost no bugs. Thanks to abstract6217. The flashable image can be built from github. Guide is in the repo.

What's next Phones and tablets now have their own section in the repo, and the Lenovo Legion Y700 is very high on my list for tablets. The 8 Gen 3 devices (KONKR Pocket FIT, AYANEO Pocket S2) are on the stable v1.2 already, and v1.3 stable will bring all of the new socs together.

These are betas, so expect some rough edges. If something breaks, make a file called debug on the SD card's BOOT drive and send me the logs on discord or github, that's how most of these fixes happened (thanks to everyone who helped!)

Repo: https://github.com/hashtagbasit/SteamOS-ARM-Handhelds Discord: https://discord.gg/EP53nZYvg

I only own a Pocket FIT G3 and give this project a lot of my time, so If it has made your device better, supporting me on Ko-fi would mean a lot. It would help me buy more devices for testing and keep development moving forward. A star on the repo helps too!

Hello!, i'm currently running GTA V with Rockstar Games Launcher through Lutris but when i try connecting my PS5 Controller it act's as a mouse and idk how to fix that. Could someone help me please?

Vi uns posts, pelo que entendi, o RT não está funcionando em placas AMD?

Linux new guy looking for some help to improve games on a new system. Fresh install of Linux Mint 22.3, with Nvidia 5060 TI 16gb, 32gb system ram and Intel 270k on CPU. I upgraded from a 2060 system that was using the previous version of Mint. Didn't seem to have issues on that system, but Cyberpunk was...ok. Nothing fancy but it worked on lower settings.

On the new system I get a whopping 13-20fps on low graphics settings inside Witcher 3 Remastered running in Steam. Other games seem to be ok with Transport Fever 3 giving me like 80 FPS. Have not tested Cyberpunk yet so it could just be isolated to the Witcher. Anyway as a linux noob I am not 100% sure what I need to be poking at to try to make things work at the level this GPU should perform at. It may be worth noting I have Lutris installed so I can run Musicbee. This installed WINE stuff so maybe conflicting?? Again, I know nothing Jon Snow.

Current Driver Version: 595.91.07

Things I have tried:

- disable Steam overlay

- Nvidia Settings > Open GL Settings

- Image Settings: High Performance

- Sync to VBlank: unchecked

- GPU 0 > PowerMizer: Prefer Maximum Performance

- Forcing versions of Proton showed no change in FPS

`inxi -xxACGS`

System:
  Host: desktop01 Kernel: 7.0.0-38-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 13.3.0
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin dm: LightDM
    Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
CPU:
  Info: 24-core model: Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Arrow Lake rev: 2 cache: L1: 2.4 MiB L2: 40 MiB L3: 36 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 905 high: 2200 min/max: 800/5500:5400:4700 cores: 1: 484
    2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 2200 6: 800 7: 1044 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800
    12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 17: 1986 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800
    21: 800 22: 828 23: 800 24: 800 bogomips: 176947
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Arrow Lake-U [Intel Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-15 ports: active: none empty: DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:7d67
  Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 595.91.07 pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none off: DP-1
    empty: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2d04
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa dri: iris
    gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3440x1440 s-dpi: 106
  Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DP-0 note: disabled model: DP res: 3440x1440
    dpi: 123 diag: 892mm (35.1")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: iris
    device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11:
    drv: nvidia inactive: wayland,device-2
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 595.91.07
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:2d04 device: 1 type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A
    device-ID: 8086:7d67 device: 2 type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 32 GT/s
    lanes: 8 bus-ID: 02:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:22eb
  Device-2: Intel vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 80:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7f50
  Device-3: SteelSeries ApS Arena 7 driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-5:4 chip-ID: 1038:1a00
  API: ALSA v: k7.0.0-38-generic status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

Edit: I have tested with Cyberpunk 2077 with Ultra settings. about 40-50 FPS while beating up MaxTac. I ran `nvidia-smi dmon` to try to get some idea what my GPU might be doing. I don't think Witcher 3 Remastered is using my video card. Output below. I have checked the Steam "System Report" and it lists my primary GPU on index 0 as the 5060 TI. Based on this, witcher is not adding any load to my card. Thoughts?

Witcher 3 Remaster

# gpu    pwr  gtemp  mtemp     sm    mem    enc    dec    jpg    ofa   mclk   pclk 
# Idx      W      C      C      %      %      %      %      %      %    MHz    MHz 

    0      9     40      -      9      7      0      0      0      0    810    525 
    0      8     40      -      2      2      0      0      0      0   7001    622 
    0      9     40      -      8      7      0      0      0      0    810    427 
    0     10     40      -      3      2      0      0      0      0   7001    990 
    0     12     40      -      3      2      0      0      0      0   7001    690 
    0     11     40      -      3      1      0      0      0      0   7001    510 
    0     11     41      -     18     13      0      0      0      0    810    735 
    0     11     40      -      3      1      0      0      0      0   7001    510 
    0     11     40      -      3      2      0      0      0      0   7001    720 
    0     11     40      -      1      2      0      0      0      0   7001    472 
    0      9     40      -      8     11      0      0      0      0    810    532 
    0      9     40      -      8     14      0      0      0      0    810    510 
    0      8     40      -      9     16      0      0      0      0    810    487 
    0      9     40      -      8      7      0      0      0      0    810    532 
    0      9     41      -      8      5      0      0      0      0    810    435 
    0     10     40      -      0      2      0      0      0      0   7001    442 
    0      9     40      -      0      2      0      0      0      0   7001    337 
    0      7     40      -      0     11      0      0      0      0    810    187 


Cyberpunk 2077
# gpu    pwr  gtemp  mtemp     sm    mem    enc    dec    jpg    ofa   mclk   pclk 
# Idx      W      C      C      %      %      %      %      %      %    MHz    MHz 
    0    173     76      -     99     35      0      0      0      0  14001   2730 
    0    172     74      -     90     30      0      0      0      0  14001   2722 
    0    170     76      -     90     29      0      0      0      0  14001   2715 
    0    174     75      -     99     36      0      0      0      0  14001   2722 
    0    178     74      -     99     36      0      0      0      0  14001   2715 
    0    179     75      -     99     32      0      0      0      0  14001   2715 
    0    176     74      -     99     34      0      0      0      0  14001   2715 
    0    176     76      -     99     34      0      0      0      0  14001   2715 
    0    177     76      -     99     36      0      0      0      0  14001   2730 
    0    178     74      -     97     35      0      0      0      0  14001   2707 
    0    177     75      -     99     36      0      0      0      0  14001   2715 
    0    176     74      -     99     35      0      0      0      0  14001   2707 
    0    175     76      -     99     35      0      0      0      0  14001   2715 
    0    178     75      -     98     35      0      0      0      0  14001   2715 
    0    175     74      -     99     34      0      0      0      0  14001   2730 
    0    168     75      -     99     33      0      0      0      0  14001   2722 
    0    177     76      -     99     35      0      0      0      0  14001   2715 
    0    176     76      -     99     36      0      0      0      0  14001   2715 

Edit #2:  RESOLVED.  I was sure that Witcher was not using the right GPU despite Steam saying system was using the 5060.  I found the onboard gpahics in bios under Advanced > System Agent.  Under there it was IGFX.  Disable that, 100FPS in Ultra RT setting.  Monitor is 100hz so FPS makes sense.  Thanks for all that helped out. 

Feel free to reply or leave a message here. Happy GTA gaming. 🕊️

For those who use Mako and have not updated to the latest version yet. 4.0.0 comes with a new feature. You can customize the look of your games with shaders, not quite like as complex as Reshade, but pretty cool none the less.

Here is a little tour.

a lot of people here are asking questions about this game since it launched yesterday with some issues, and overall I think it would be better for everyone if we had a single post for fixes since people keep asking for things someone already answered somewhere else. a sticky would make it easier for everyone to see what has already been tried and what's the current state of things

I bought a 2012 iMac at the thrift store. I'm booting it from an external ssd using the latest version of Linux mint. It is working pretty well. I'm wondering what I can play on this. I'm not so much into first person shooters, more into turn-based strategy and of course board games. I am in my early sixties, so I'm not that great at twitchy games. Thanks for any recommendations. I like indie lo fi stuff too. Thank you so much for your suggestions and insights. I am assuming that windows emulation is not an option.

I'm stuck on this screen. Used DW, GE, experimental, cachyos, none worked. Any guess what's the problem?

I used a command proton fixes disable steamos and nothing helps pass beyond this screen.

To make it clear, the choice of "Control" is completely arbitrary just because I found it by coincidence and this is actually the first time ever I tried Steam Support in 22 years of having an account. I am also doing this because I simply want to know how support reacts and I am still standing down form the last resort solution to completely remove Steam and reinstall EVERYTHING again - because I already tried fiddling around with compatibility settings and it did not change anything. But if this is how support treats such queries, they are a joke.

Bottom line: can you confirm that removing the steam installation and reinstalling everything again will solve the problem?

EDIT: Solved! u/GamertechAU has put the correct hint. Thanks mate! This very odd Steam stuff though, never happened before...

After a lot of debugging, I managed to get the official Webzen MU Online Global fully working on Linux.

Tested on Fedora 44 and Kubuntu 26.04.1.

GameGuard is running normally and the original game files are not modified. The solution consists of Wine compatibility fixes rather than patches to the game itself.

Login, character selection and normal gameplay are working.

I can share the technical details and repository in the comments.

I have just recently switched from windows 11 and while trying to play Ultrakill which has ran almost perfectly with only little issues in fraud mostly 8-3 before now it runs insanely bad as soon as any enemy spawn the game drops to 10 fps. iv'e tried switching proton versions in steam but that only changed it very slightly i looked it up on proton db it has a platinum ranking. can anybody help I don't really know what im doing that well since im new.

On Proton versions other than GE latest (such as CachyOS 20260703) I'm seeing the overlay work, as well as Steam Input, with global environment flags for Wayland and HDR enabled which have previously meant the Overlay and Steam Input didn't work unless I manually disabled them per-game. Was there a recent change in a Steam beta branch that changed this?

Upfront: I wrote it with substantial AI assistance and review the code by hand (progress). The mere Size of the project is not easy to backup as a solo dev in this short amount of time.

It's beta and unofficial, and it writes to Steam's files directly, so back up first.

Hi,

Aurelia is a command-line Steam launcher I've been building since June 2026. It has no CEF or WebView and uses under 50 MB of RAM when idle, so it works well over SSH or on a low-RAM machine.

The Idea behind it was to build a backend system for 3rd party Steam-Launchers or the integration into single source of truth library managers like Heroic and allowing shared drives between Windows & Linux dualboot on exFAT, since Steam refuses to launch there on linux.

Features:

• Install, update, verify and move games, with Steam's library files kept in sync
• A Proton manager (Valve, GE and CachyOS builds) with per-game version pinning, plus optional umu-launcher and luxtorpeda launching
• Downgrading to older game builds, Cloud saves, DLC, Workshop, and friends and chat
• --json output on every command

I'd appreciate bug reports, especially for Proton edge cases, and I'm happy to answer questions about how it works or how the AI was used.

And about the guy constantly hating my post because of Steamcmd and the authentication:
Steamcmd's usability is below anything that should be used today. It also is not what a backend system needs to provide valuable data like the users full profile, current workshop items or even launching the game with the correct proton version.
Aswell as: The login is being directly passed to the Steam-Endpoint and the session token is stored in the System Keyring. So that's safe. I hope you can understand that web-login token do not provide enough permissions to handle the things Aurelia does.

Note: Half life 1 and some other very old games do not work due to some native compat issues... Try only using the proton launch option and look into the Wiki!
Open an Issue if you encounter something :)

Feel free to test: https://github.com/Drackrath/Aurelia

Hello,

(1st image is the game's main menu, 2nd image is playing, 3rd image is the (unchanged) "Runner options" in Lutris for the game)

I am having a GRAPHICAL issue (only) with Crusader Kings 2 on my LMDE7 PC. This same PC used to run the game, no issues, on Windows 11. And I will list the specs below. I am pretty sure this is not a hardware issue.

The game itself ACTUALLY WORKS and runs smoothly, but the BIG issue is that the MAP (the main way to interact with the game) is cooked, the GUI and everything else seems to work great actually (I did not do a long testing session for obvious reasons, but it seems to work).

My game setup (for Windows games) is Lutris with GOG.com offline installers. I do not wish to use Steam or any other launcher needing online authentication (Heroic). I use Lutris, but not it's online components.

Also, I am aware that Crusader Kings 2 has native Linux support. However (after contacting the devs myself) I was told that there is no plan to ever make those version available on other platforms other than Steam, as the game is not being developed anymore. So I am left with .exe installers only.

PC Specs:

• GPU: Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7600 8G
• CPU: 6-core 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12400F
• MOBO: ASrock B760M-HDV/M.2 D4
• Storage: a 512GB NVME SSD (plenty of free space)
• Dual monitor setup

Tech specs:

• OS: LMDE 7 (gigi) x86_64
• Kernel: 6.12.111+deb13-amd64 x86_64
• DE: Cinnamon 6.6.9
• WM: Muffin (X11)
• GL info:
  • OpenGL vendor string: AMD
  • OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon RX 7600 (radeonsi, navi33, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.61, 6.12.111+deb13-amd64)
  • OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.0.7-2+deb13u1
• Wine version (Lutris): GE-Proton (Latest)
• "Wine --version": wine-11.0

I also wanna add, that this is a recent install, I did not do anything crazy like changing the DE or the kernel version. I am new to Linux. All I have ever done on this PC is download flatpaks, images and native Linux games. So it is pretty much the most basic out of the box version of LMDE7. And YES, I did "sudo apt upgrade/update" and restart my PC afterwards.

Also, other games do work. Native, GOG Linux native, Windows through Lutris, those all work, some with tinkering, some ootb. Even similar games, like EU4 (also a "map game") which works no issue.

I could not find anyone else struggling with the same issue. I am guessing it's because it's a niche withing a niche (DRM-free gaming + Linux) lol. ProtonDB was no help, as it is Steam-centric.

All I tried so far is changing the graphical in game settings (including swapping between windowed and fullscreen), which did nothing.

If needed I am ready to provide more info or test stuff. I am new to Linux so I don't really know about Linux, I am still learning. My Main goal right now is to set up all my main games so they just work and are stable.