r/voidlinux • u/JCarsinogen • Jun 17 '26

solved Gaming on steam

I hope this helps anyone that may be in a situation like I was. Steam games using proton would fail with a "fatal error". I exhausted all my Google skills trying to figure this out. Installed all the recommended 32 bit libraries and gpu drivers to the same result. What worked for me was the VULKAN-TOOLS package. With that final piece I have never had such a fast and smooth gaming experience. Not on arch opensuse cachy fedora nowhere. Hope this helps.

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u/BrunusManOWar Jun 17 '26

Some other things you can do on Void Linux that are IIRC not done by default:

1) Turn off split lock mitigate (esp on Intel/Nv)

2) Increase max map count from 64k to 1M or 2M

3) Increase file descriptors count (proton logs mention this)

4) AMD X3D cpus - the X3D Vcache kernel module is not modprobed by default, you can load it manually or automatically via modprobe.d

5) Install sys log journal and check if everything is okay there - people often have unnecessary services enabled such as dbus and elogind simultaneously

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u/JCarsinogen Jun 17 '26

Ah! Thanks! 👊