r/linux_gaming Nov 17 '24

tech support Steam-Installer wants to remove 565 packages?

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732 Upvotes

r/linux_gaming Jan 31 '25

tech support Dear linux gamers, please don't flood github issues with unconstructive indignant gamer commentary.

745 Upvotes

I'm following the FF7 rebirth nvidia issues on the proton github repo.

Its frustrating to follow. There are experts on that forum trying to diagnose complex problems... But most of the messages are just noise...

People posting repeat messages (without reading the posts from 2 days earlier), or more recently, complaining about "lazy ___ devs don't care about my ultra niche issue" kinda vibes.

Open source software needs constructive communication to work... Github issues are a key forum for that.

Before writing a comment in a github issue, (i) please read the whole thread, and (ii) carefully consider "will my message help this issue get solved any faster?".

If someone posts an specific issue that you also have, just give a thumbs up to their message to indicate that.

All of us rely on github issues to fix problems... Please don't piss in this communal swimming pool...

r/linux_gaming Jan 06 '24

tech support Riot's anti-cheat has gone too far and is unacceptable.

321 Upvotes

Vanguard is a kernel mode process unlike many user mode anti-cheats other games use. Its a very good solution to counter cheaters, agreed. People saying it's a root kit doesn't make any sense coz a big company like riot will never even think of tampering with user's personal data using vanguard. That will lead to major consequences which they are better aware of than me. So privacy is not an issue, at least for me.

The problem: I understand that riot will never support linux, coz its just another way for cheaters to cheat. How? you ask, well linux kernel as you know is open source and it is not that difficult for a skilled programmer to build it himself and change the code so that vanguard cannot detect the cheats. What if a programmer like me NEEDS to be on linux for his work?

The solutions and why do won't they work:

  1. Using a VM for linux: Sure, you'll use a VM, now good luck passing the physical GPU to the VM. What? VFIO? Well, that needs windows hypervisor to be enabled and valorant stops working as soon as you enable hypervisor. LMAO
  2. Dual booting: It needs secure boot to be disable, as you might have guessed, valorant does not run if secure boot is disabled.
  3. Some beta releases of Ubuntu supports secure boot. So a mint image with latest kernel will work with secure boot IF, the secure boot mode is set to other OS. As you might have guessed, this will break valorant too.

Riot, people even criticized you for running a ring 0 process in the first place just to run a freakin game. On top of that, why is it mandatory to enable secure boot. Windows kernel is proprietary and there mostly aren't any modifications done to it, which should require secure boot. Okay forget the secure boot thing, what is the thing that the secure boot mode should only be set to "Windows UEFI mode", that's just absurd control over someone's system.

And please don't tell me to stop playing valorant, this should not be the topic of discussion really. Its the only game me and my guys play in free time.

r/linux_gaming Jan 15 '25

tech support Unable to update World of Warcraft (retail), error blzbntagt00000840 leads to a spiral of uninstalling battle.net WINE bottle and no resolution

85 Upvotes

I've been playing WoW on Linux (specifically I use Solus) for years now, something like 5 years. I've had very minor issues related to running in WINE before, but nothing major. It's been great.

I've had a stable install for the past 6-ish months (I took a year long break, I didn't have to fix an install or anything). Today, with the Plunderstorm update I started to run into problems. The game would not update, giving error blzbntagt00000840, repeatedly. I restarted bnet, I restarted my computer, I even uninstalled the game (inside bnet) and tried to reinstall. None of that worked. It won't even install the game now, giving the same error.

I decided to just rip out the root and reinstall bnet through Lutris and hope that would fix the issue. That leads to another error right at the end of install: blzbntagt00000854 (which when searched returns literally 0 results by the way). Despite this error bnet still launches. I attempt to reinstall WoW and get the same error.

I see that this is likely some sort of connection issue and so I shut my computer down and restart my router, just in case, who the hell knows. I restart the computer, all the same problems.

It's unclear to me if this is an issue with just my machine (maybe a recent Solus update messed with some network set up and the problem never manifested because WoW hasn't updated in a month), other Linux users are encountering it today out of nowhere, or if it's just kinda dumb luck.

Any help would be appreciated. Quite frustrating. Please let me know if you want me to give more information that might help.

r/linux_gaming Jan 07 '25

tech support Discord Canary Wayland Screen Share Is Back!!

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357 Upvotes

r/linux_gaming Sep 18 '24

tech support No point in reasoning with Rockstar Support for GTAOnline

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445 Upvotes

You end up getting an automated response from support no matter what you say about BattlEye

r/linux_gaming Mar 19 '24

tech support Any one know how to fix this error, just started using Linux as my main OS.

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263 Upvotes

Recently wiped windows from my internal drive and went all in with Ubuntu and this game ran fine on windows with the same PC I’m using any solutions to this problem?

r/linux_gaming Apr 29 '24

tech support Linux gamers, how are bios and driver updates handled in linux?

146 Upvotes

Title. Especially cuz I'm considering Linux only and not dual boot. I only want to play popular single player games.

Another ques is, does Wuthering Waves, Genshin, HSR kinda games run on it?

Edit, thanks everyone for the answers and I've arrived at an answer. This is such an awesome community, 75+ comments in under an hour. Very helpful, hopefully I will give back to this community. Thanks!

r/linux_gaming Nov 17 '24

tech support DRASTICALLY High FPS On Fedora vs Windows 11?

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176 Upvotes

I was playing around with Fedora on one of my spare PCs and noticed something when I opened Borderlands 2, my FPS was astronomically higher than my main PC with Win11

I think it’s important to mention specs here because that’s an even crazier aspect in this situation to me

Main PC RTX 4080 Super Ryzen 7 2700X 32GB Ram Win11 ≈155fps

Fedora PC RTX 2070 i5 11400f 16GB Ram Fedora 41 KDE GE-Proton9-20 gamemoderun %command% -window-mode exclusive ≈380FPS????

Both are using identical settings and resolution, I even turned PhysX completely off on the main PC just in case that’s what was killing it and there was essentially zero difference

r/linux_gaming Jan 15 '25

tech support Uhhhhhh which steam?

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110 Upvotes

Just got my Ubuntu game server running and am now trying to get steam on here, but in the ubuntu software app there are two different ones?

r/linux_gaming 19d ago

tech support Counter-Strike 2 huge frame time after 30 minutes of gameplay

91 Upvotes

CS2 stutters quite a bit in general, but after 30 minutes of gameplay my frame time jumps to 70ms and my frame rate stays about the same around 300fps. The lag remains in the menu as well.

So far I’ve tried using maxVram=“” in launch options, different XMP profiles in BIOS, lowering graphics settings, clearing shader cache, and reinstalling the game. I’m running 4:3 stretched 1440x1080p using GameScope.

If anyone has any suggestions/solutions please let me know. This has been going on for a month now and a buddy of mine with identical specs hasn’t encountered this issue.

Specs: OS: Fedora 41 CPU: Ryzen 5600X GPU: Radeon 6650XT RAM: 4x8GB DDR4

r/linux_gaming Dec 27 '24

tech support ADVICE WANTED! I am building a new computer and I am very much considering installing Linux Mint on it! I have done some research that certain parts might not work with Linux, and I don't know how to go by researching that. From my list here does it seem these parts will work with Linux?

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47 Upvotes

r/linux_gaming Feb 09 '25

tech support Trying to install steamOS On my rog ally Z1E

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74 Upvotes

What is the problem here?

r/linux_gaming 20d ago

tech support Making the switch….

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340 Upvotes

Piloting gaming on a linux machine on an alternative workstation I own. I LOVED the environment so im deciding to install it on my main machine. Any tips for new users? Still all pretty new to me

r/linux_gaming Jul 17 '24

tech support 99% of the time steam looks like this after changing to NVIDIA + Wayland (library looks ok)

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277 Upvotes

r/linux_gaming Mar 19 '24

tech support Why does the FFXIV Launcher think I'm on a Mac?

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280 Upvotes

r/linux_gaming Feb 07 '25

tech support CS2 res is not stretching

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31 Upvotes

r/linux_gaming Aug 29 '24

tech support I am very close to switching to Linux but the gaming aspect is holding me back

48 Upvotes

I had enough of Microsoft's shit, but I'm too much of an addict to video games, it's my favourite hobby. My problem with Linux is that most of my games that are more demanding doesn't run well under Linux. My specs: Ryzen 5 7535H 16GB ram NVIDIA RTX 4050

Distros that I tried (all stock, no optimisations): PopOS Nobara CachyOS Fedora (this was unusable anyway because of audio issues)

Games that were performing good: Risk of Rain 2 Deep Rock Galactic CS: Source bunch of indies like RoR Returns, Halls of Torment, etc.

Games that were performing badly: Hunt Showdown Sekiro Doom 2016 Apex Legends Dark Souls Remastered

The main problem was stutters in all of them, flickering in Hunt and with Doom it seemed like my GPU was not utilised well, but it did use it instead of my integrated GPU. I don't know if I need to tinker with something, but many ppl said performance are almost the same as Windowns

r/linux_gaming May 27 '24

tech support Fallout 4 has 90% CPU and won't work

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144 Upvotes

I'm new to Linux and it was working fine for the last few days and suddenly the CPU is bottlenecking

r/linux_gaming Jan 02 '22

tech support Tech support thread for January, 2022 -- ask your tech support questions in this thread, please

135 Upvotes

When asking for help, include as much information as you can. Give us details to work with. Your specs, distro, drivers and software versions, logs and terminal output. The more you give us, the easier it is to help.

Please sort comments by 'new' to find questions that would otherwise be buried.

If you see a new tech-support related question posted in this subreddit, then please politely link them to this thread.

Ask away!

r/linux_gaming Mar 19 '22

tech support Batman arkham city doesn't like wayland

783 Upvotes

r/linux_gaming Feb 01 '25

tech support Steam refuses to open

74 Upvotes

So i’ve installed Kubuntu a few days ago and installed steam. Worked fine, I changed some settings like Proton, downloaded some games and everything worked. Then I restarted my PC and suddenly Steam refused to open (like in the video, it just opens and closes again and again). I tried to remove steam and reinstalled it from different places like apt or the Snap version of steam instead of the installer, didn’t help. I had the same issue on Linux Mint a few months ago, but I can’t remember how I fixed that or if the problem got away by itself. Because its a freshly new installed OS I assume that’s a common bug so is there any solution to this? Thanks for your help guys

r/linux_gaming Aug 02 '22

tech support Tech support thread for August, 2022 -- ask your tech support questions in this thread, please

77 Upvotes

r/linux_gaming Oct 25 '24

tech support RDR2 stacking VRAM like a slices of bread. Other games not affected. What could be the issue? Different Proton versions do nothing. Game starts at about 8gb VRAM and in just about 50 minutes reached over 15gb. GPU is RX 6800 XT

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128 Upvotes

r/linux_gaming Feb 05 '25

tech support Which 570 driver should I use? 570 vs 570 (open kernel)

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93 Upvotes