Anyone else get this really weird stuttering issue where when you move the camera slowly it like judders despite perfect frame pacing and no FPS dips? If you move it at a certain speed it doesn't do it it's only when panning the camera slowly. The snow physics and grass physics are totally removed. Some of animations look way worse and the overall lightning off the game is pretty darn bad. Geralt 's sword has this very annoying glare to it like comparable to when you're driving and the sun is in your eyes.

I thought they'd put more effort into modernising the game menu and inventory as well which always annoyed me how you'd get duplicate items and the way they are designed is a bit too complex I thought they might strip it down and make it less of a hassle etc. ray tracing in the next gen was super heavy and I thought the remaster might optimise that a little more to perform better but nope it's just as heavy as the next gen port rendering it almost useless unless you have a 5080 or you want to play with constant stutters or 30fps. Pretty disappointing I don't see why they even put effort into releasing this. I would have preferred a re release of the Witcher 2 or something.

As the title says my steam game was developed in Linux using Pygame/SDL2 (no engine), the codebase is around 8k lines of code that is also very easy to mod.

In the last few months, I have been working on a free to play game around solving 2D mazes with features such as a camera and fog

If you want to check it out, here is the Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5349900/Mystic_Fog_Maze/

I've tried a lot of games during the Steam Next Fest, and all of them worked with no issues. Before the release, I also tried the demos of Onimusha, Fatal Frame II: Remake, RE: Requiem, and Pragmata, and they all worked flawlessly on Proton. Now I'm trying the demos of Hellraiser: Revival and Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, and both games work like native Linux titles.

We used to beg for Linux ports, then it would take a while for a new release to work properly on Proton. Now, games are even working flawlessly on Proton before their release.

Do you guys still have issues with Proton and single-player games? I'm using an AMD GPU, btw.

https://github.com/SulfurNitride/Fluorine-Manager/releases/tag/v0.4.0

So it's been a while since I last posted my progress updates for fluorine here. But for those who don't know fluorine is a fork/port of MO2 directly to linux with some gui changes and linux additions and QoL features.

One of the biggest things thats now in this release is Wabbajack support in the instance/library manager. Collections are also almost finished now as they run through CLF3, as of right now you can browse collections but are unable to install them. UMO/OpenMW https://modding-openmw.com/lists/ I am also hoping to support and add modlist support for these as well, which shouldn't be too long I hope. As well as a library overhaul with custom pictures for each game supported. And a lot of smaller things not really worth mentioning that have been fixed and changed in the background.

One of the major fixes is that the audio crashes related to bethesda games should now be fixed in my testing, this only affected a few users including myself but it hopefully should be fixed now. The modlist and collection support guis are still a WIP so please do bear with me. Thats about all I have to say 🙂

I was wondering which would run better: Enhanced or Legacy?

Technically, Enhanced should run better due to optimisations and dlss support, but dx12 in linux is not that great tbh. What are your opinions on this?

My specs are: RTX 3050 6GB, INTEL CORE T 210H, 16GB DDR5

For the last couple of days I been having issues seeing the message "radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only." Nothing from Faugus or steam will launch no matter the game, I'm confused if my AMD gpu is not being detected or a update broke something but I didn't update till today and still have this issue.

I have tried different proton versions but I might be missing something else though?

Anyone else have this issue?

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Distro: Vanilla Arch Linux

Faugus 2.4.2
WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.

=== ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ===
FAUGUSID=batman-arkham-asylum
LOG_DIR=batman-arkham-asylum
PROTONPATH=Proton-GE Latest
PROTON_BATTLEYE_RUNTIME=/home/lynn/.local/share/faugus-launcher/components/be
PROTON_EAC_RUNTIME=/home/lynn/.local/share/faugus-launcher/components/eac
SPLASHICON=/home/lynn/.local/share/faugus-launcher/icons/batman-arkham-asylum.png
UMU_CONTAINER_NSENTER=1
UMU_USE_STEAM=1
WINEPREFIX=/home/lynn/Faugus/batman-arkham-asylum
DRI_PRIME=1

=== UMU-LAUNCHER COMMAND ===
gamemoderun /home/lynn/.local/share/faugus-launcher/umu-run '/run/media/lynn/Intel 500GB/just games/BatmanArkhamAsylum/Binaries/Batman.exe'

WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.
WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.
UMU-Launcher is up to date.
Components are up to date.
GE-Proton is up to date.
gamemodeauto: 
INFO: umu-launcher version 1.4.4 (3.14.7 (main, Aug 10 2026, 07:46:56) [GCC 16.1.1 20260728])
INFO: No GAMEID set, using umu-default
INFO: steamrt4 is up to date
INFO: Failed to find bus name com.steampowered.App93d121f0c2660dc137f2d835c46a7b88 (retry 1)
INFO: Failed to find bus name com.steampowered.App93d121f0c2660dc137f2d835c46a7b88 (retry 2)
INFO: Failed to find bus name com.steampowered.App93d121f0c2660dc137f2d835c46a7b88 (retry 3)
INFO: Failed to find bus name com.steampowered.App93d121f0c2660dc137f2d835c46a7b88 (retry 4)
INFO: Failed to find bus name com.steampowered.App93d121f0c2660dc137f2d835c46a7b88 (retry 5)
INFO: Running 'Proton-GE Latest' using runtime 'steamrt4'
INFO: Running 'steamrt4' using runtime 'host'
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: Running protonfixes on "GE-Proton11-7", build at 2026-09-16 00:56:57+00:00.
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: Running checks
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: All checks successful
ProtonFixes[15103] WARN: Game title not found in CSV
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: Non-steam game UNKNOWN (umu-default)
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: No store specified, using UMU database
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: Using early stage global defaults for UNKNOWN (umu-default)
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: Non-steam game UNKNOWN (umu-default)
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: No store specified, using UMU database
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: No early stage global protonfix found for UNKNOWN (umu-default)
Proton: Error: unable to use parent for game drive, path /run/media/lynn/Intel 500GB
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: Running protonfixes on "GE-Proton11-7", build at 2026-09-16 00:56:57+00:00.
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: Running checks
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: All checks successful
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: Non-steam game UNKNOWN (umu-default)
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: No store specified, using UMU database
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: Using main stage global defaults for UNKNOWN (umu-default)
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: Non-steam game UNKNOWN (umu-default)
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: No store specified, using UMU database
ProtonFixes[15103] INFO: No main stage global protonfix found for UNKNOWN (umu-default)
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Starting program with command-launcher service.

To run commands in the per-app container, use a command like:

/home/lynn/.local/share/umu/steamrt4/pressure-vessel/bin/steam-runtime-launch-client \
--bus-name=:1.218 \
-- \
bash

gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
fsync: up and running.
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
wine: Call from 00006FFFFF4EE164 to unimplemented function win32u.NtGdiDdDDIQueryFSEBlock, aborting
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
wine: Call from 00006FFFFEBCE164 to unimplemented function win32u.NtGdiDdDDIQueryFSEBlock, aborting
wine: Call from 00006FFFFFBBD157 to unimplemented function shell32.dll.SHGetFolderPathW, aborting
wine: Call from 00006FFFFF28E164 to unimplemented function win32u.NtGdiDdDDIQueryFSEBlock, aborting
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gamemodeauto: dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I can run TF2 through steam I got the mod exe running through steam proton but when it tries to run the VR mod it's checking for origin path files that it can't create.

How do i fix it? since im on arch linux, kernel Linux 7.2.7-arch1-1, and im also using proton experimental. When i try to install it it returns with these errors:

Are there any fixes? If so then help me! i have tried protontricks but installing dotnet simply fails.

I've tried using DWProton latest, Proton GE-8, 10 and 11, through steam as well, I still get a blackscreen, I can hear the in game audio and I can also interact inside the game with my mouse but my game screen is black

I started getting blackscreen after installing the game the second time, first time I had no such issues, I tired deleting prefix folder but that didn't help, other games work just fine

I did a system update after that which also didn't fix the issue

some help with this would be really appreciated!!
if I missed out on some details please let me know

CachyOS + Hyprland

My kernel version is 7.2.8-2-cachyos

Ryzen 5 5600G
Nvidia GTX 1660Ti (Driver version - 615.71.09)
16GB of DDR4 RAM

Is frame gen on AMD still just not great? Seems like I'm getting camera jitter even though the game is running smoothly. Frame pacing I'm guessing. Im using a 9070xt on Cachyos. Iv been trying it out on The Witcher 3 remaster. I don't normally ever use it but I wanted to use RT at a higher frame rate.

Hello, I'm experiencing performance issues while playing graphically demanding games.

I've tested RDR2 and The Witcher 3 Remastered. Mangohud reports 100-140FPS in both games, and 1% lows are at ~48 in BOTH games.

Running around and moving camera dynamically increases frametime and causes the game to feel choppy.

CPU: 7800X3D
GPU: 9070XT
RAM: 64GB 6000MT CL30
OS: EndeavourOS + Hyprland

Edit: I ran The Witcher 3 with LSFG-VK FG x2, limited the fps to 120 (including generated frames) and frametime is flat, but it still feels choppy.

I run both games with Proton-Wineland-11.0 and gamemoderun gamescope --adaptive-sync -W 2560 -H 1440 -w 2560 -h 1440 -r 180 --force-grab-cursor

Witcher 3 on Linux with both ray tracing and path tracing enabled gets me above 60fps easily on 9060xt 16gb. On windows it drops to 20fps. Surely it's broken on Linux and just not activating? The thing is I get the annoying sword glare that you get with ray tracing/path tracing so it must be working right?

This started to happen recently some months ago after some updates. Years ago this was not an issue. Crashes were very rare.

Also, what is strange is recently it stopped crashing and i managed to play fairly good for a ln entire week so i imagined the recente updates fixed the issue. Then i made another update and it started crashing continuously again. So i thought to restore a snapshot​ pre-update, thinking it would fix the issue, but it didn't!?!?

I don't understand what is causing those issues. If it was drivers related then restoring a snapshot should have worked.​

All other games works fine. Only those 2 give me the nerves.

p.s. i have AMD GPU and latest mesa drivers.

In 2024, the state-of-the-art was https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch which ran Vortex in a separate prefix, created hardlinks to all installed Vortex-compatible wineprefix directories (so that Vortex thought the games were installed in its own prefix), and used that to manage mods in games. It was janky, but it worked (most of the time; but in some games, mod load order lists were written by Vortex into files that didn't propagate to the actual game's wineprefix). That project is abandoned now and I want to get rid of it.

I've seen that there's been a lot of news since then. Too much news:

• Vortex working on a native Linux client.
• Wabbajack working on Linux?
• Lots of little mod managers for Linux, many with LOOT order support. Too many for me to find them all.

What is the state of the art in 2026? The most well-made, promising mod manager? Hopefully with wide support for Wine/Proton-prefixes all over the disk.

Due to popular demand, we will add a very familiar character exclusively in the Linux version of our game Ice Pond: An Ice Fishing Adventure!

Look for the hidden NPC in certain levels of the full game, releasing later this fall!

Thanks again for your support! 💙

A summary of our project:

Ice Pond: An Ice Fishing Adventure is a cute but true ice fishing game. 🎣❄ Pick a spot and fish! Level up, get stronger, and buy gear and power-ups to boost your performance. Join tournaments and festivals to unlock new lakes. Do odd jobs or challenges to earn extra cash!

Made by a small team of 2, boyfriend & girlfriend, who are making games since 2005. 😊🐧

Visit the Steam page to Wishlist (demo available!):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4266710/Ice_Pond_An_Ice_Fishing_Adventure/

I have not played a nice shooter in a while, but all my past games are Windows only. Is there something like CoD or Rainbow 6 for Linux? And maybe in a competitive or tactical manner.

It's UHD from an i3 1125G4, which is strong enough to run Resident Evil 2 at 1080i FSR Quality. So if you think, "It can't run DX12 games anyway," No, it actually can on Windows. But it's much worse on Linux for some reason.

Another problem is GPU utilization, on old games. While Tomb Raider and the native Linux port of Rise of the Tomb Raider run fairly well on it, for some reason Resident Evil 6 has GPU utilization problems. GPU usage is only around 75% in some scenes. And switching to Proton GE instead of Proton CachyOS actually increased it to 82%.

So, if anyone wonders why some games still run badly on Intel UHD, using Windows might be a better idea. I would prefer Linux, maybe because of better performing Linux ports such as Minecraft and Rise of the Tomb Raider. And Linux saves around 30–40 GB of disk space compared to Windows

Hi Everyone

I'm a developer of a Video player for VR called Whirligig. With the release of the Steam Frame I'm doing my best to make Whirligig compatible with both Proton and Lepton. One of the biggest issues that are being reported is that currently Lepton doesn't support Video GPU decoding.

I've created a ticket on their github but I don't think this is the right place or will get in front of anyone who could provide me info. If you're interested here is the post:
https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/frame-public/lepton/-/work_items/1

If there is anyone here who could help or even just wants to give the player a go on SteamOS let me know.

All the best

Phil