Has anyone managed to get Galactic Racer running reliably on Linux? The game keeps freezing my entire laptop after a few minutes, sometimes while still in the menus. I have to force a reboot. Other games work fine.

My setup: MSI Katana GF66 12UE, Intel i5-12450H, RTX 3060 Laptop (6 GB), 16 GB RAM, CachyOS with KDE Plasma Wayland.

What I've tried:

• Proton Hotfix, Experimental, Proton 10, 11.0-2 and Proton-CachyOS.
• NVIDIA 615.78.08 (open modules) and 580.178.04 (proprietary).
• CachyOS kernels 7.2.9 and LTS 6.18.55.
• NVIDIA GSP firmware enabled and disabled.
• Disabling the scx_loader scheduler.
• Low graphics settings, 60 FPS cap, DLSS disabled and borderless fullscreen.
• Steam Overlay disabled and game files verified.
• Different launch parameters, including -windowed, -borderless, resolution commands and VKD3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_NV_raw_access_chains. Some of these prevent the game from launching altogether.

Best result so far:

prime-run game-performance %command%

This lets me launch and play for a few minutes, but the whole system eventually freezes again.

I've checked the kernel and Proton logs. Earlier logs showed NVIDIA GPU memory-mapping errors, but recent freezes have no clear NVIDIA Xid or out-of-memory error.

The October 12 patch hasn't fixed it either.

Has anyone with similar hardware found a workaround?

I can't update Arknights Endfield because the game launcher thinks I have 15.21 GB free. My actual free space is 1.1 TB. I'm guessing it has something to do with the virtual C drive in the proton prefix, but I'm not sure how I can fix it.

As the title says, I'm having trouble running Max Payne 3 on steam.

I've tried a few fixes that haven't worked for me, tried downloading the rockstar launcher through wine but I cannot launch the game from there since I bought it on steam.

If I try to right click and run the 'PlayMaxPayne3.exe' file it just leads to an error screen that says "Please make sure the steam client is running"

Also tried another workaround that involved putting the steamid for the game into the files. That also did not work

Tried Proton Experimental, Hotfix, 11, and proton-GE

Any help would be great! Thanks

using:

Mint 22.3

Kernel version is 7.0.0

RTX 4070

Nobara 44, KDE Plasma. Mega noob.

I created an app that sets up a gaming Linux machine in the "cloud" ish (it is not running on datacenters).The entire pipeline for provisioning runs locally.

What the app does is go to Vast.ai, select a PC, connect to it via SSH, and run a bunch of setup steps and optimizations, including:

• VM/Vast.ai and SSH configuration
• Package management and APT recovery
• Storage, networking, lifecycle, and eBPF agents
• NVIDIA drivers, GPU persistence, and reboot handling
• Sunshine/NVENC configuration
• Audio and microphone setup
• WireGuard, routing, firewall, buffers, and MTU optimization
• Tunnel validation and Moonlight pairing
• App discovery and optional compatibility features
• Parallel execution, precompiled agents, checksums, adaptive polling, resuming interrupted operations, fewer SSH calls, safe cancellation, and diagnostics

you can see the code here https://github.com/FelipeBarrosCode/no_land

Among many other things.

And here's the result:

Cyberpunk 2077 running at Ultra settings, at 3K resolution and 60 FPS, with only 62 ms of latency over a distance of more than 4,000 km. (I'm in Vancouver, and the machine is in Quebec.)

There's a demo of this on my website: https://no-land.net/

The app is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Android, iOS, and VR versions are coming soon!

Yes I do have persiantnce storage across inatnces depending on how the person saves it.

Any questions just respond to the post :)

Zorin OS 17 Driver 580.173.02 GE-Proton-11-6 HP OMEN 16 gaming laptop RTX 3070 TI R7 6800HS 16GB

Happens often and flickering becomes more intense in demanding situation even in cutscenes. It's just so off putting to keep playing

Low with FXAA

Low with TAA

Medium with TAA

Medium with Low Shadow and FXAA

Medium with Low Shadow and TAA

System Specs

• Operating System: Kubuntu 26.04 LTS
• KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.6
• KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0
• Qt Version: 6.10.2
• Kernel Version: 7.0.0-38-generic (64-bit)
• Graphics Platform: Wayland
• Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS w/ Radeon 760M Graphics
• Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (14.9 GiB usable)
• Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 760M Graphics
• Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
• Product Name: Inspiron 14 7445 2-in-1
• System Version: 1.0.0

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System:
 Host: kbox Kernel: 7.0.0-38-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
   v: 15.2.0
 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.6.6 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
   Distro: Kubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) base: Ubuntu
CPU:
 Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS w/ Radeon 760M Graphics bits: 64
   type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4 rev: 2 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 6 MiB L3: 16 MiB
 Speed (MHz): avg: 3625 min/max: 406/4972 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3625
   2: 3625 3: 3625 4: 3625 5: 3625 6: 3625 7: 3625 8: 3625 9: 3625 10: 3625
   11: 3625 12: 3625 bogomips: 83842
 Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
   ssse3 svm
Graphics:
 Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] HawkPoint1 vendor: Dell
   driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
   active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6,
   Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1900 temp: 41.0 C
 Device-2: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_FHD driver: uvcvideo type: USB
   rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 0bda:5583
 Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.10 compositor: kwin_wayland
   driver: gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
 Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: BenQ GW2760HL res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82
   diag: 686mm (27")
 Monitor-2: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0a2a res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 161
   diag: 356mm (14")
 API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
   gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
   drv: radeonsi
 API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.0.8-1ubuntu0.3
   glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon 760M Graphics (radeonsi
   phoenix ACO DRM 3.64 7.0.0-38-generic) device-ID: 1002:1900
   display-ID: :0.0
 API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
   driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:1900 device: 1 type: cpu
   driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
 Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
   de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: corectrl wl: wayland-info
   x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

I've changed every setting I can possibly think of to change including some through the in game console and steam launch options. But the problem persists. It's most noticeable with the steel framed window floors, all the straight lines look jagged and have a weird flicker (see attached videos).

I've tried using Proton hotfixes, experimental and GE with no changes. Really not sure where to go from here. I've tried posting to r/SatisfactoryGame and the official QA site, but haven't gotten anything useful as of yet. I can provide more logs upon request, just not sure which logs would be useful since it's a graphical problem.

Greetings,

All of you owning and using an AMD GPU of the RDNA3 generation, if you've been experiencing an unusual amount of crashes when gaming lately (since a few weeks or days depending on your update cycle) and are on a rolling release distribution, please check that your AMDGPU Linux Firmware package is not one released after the 20260622 version.

If it is, and you are experiencing a worrying amount of crashes in graphics-intensive applications (usually games, most likely using Raytracing, often UE5 - 1 or more per hour), then you may be a victim of:

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/work_items/5711

Upstream has reverted some code but at the present, but it's not shipped in any release yet.

In addition to the symptoms above, this appears to particularly hit higher end of RDNA3 like the 7900XTX or the 7800XT (maybe less frequently, the less powerful the hardware).

It is particularly marked by kernel module logs like: * Illegal opcode in command stream After the crashes/GPU Resets.

The only currently known mitigation is to downgrade to 20260622 with your distro's preferred package manager, using an archived package.

Users of rolling releases distros are of course particularly exposed.

I can see at least:

• Arch Linux and derivatives (Cachy OS / Manjaro / etc.)
• Debian Sid Unstable
• Fedora 44

Shipping the latest and impacted 20260916 firmware at the moment.

I went circles ad hours into the night over 2 days before finding this, raving around Proton, VKD3D, Mesa builds and such...

Save your time and sanity.

I created a web app to see, search and check all the games (which are connected to Lutris) I have easily.
My main issue was when I go to purchase some game but I don;t remember if I already own it because of the multiple platforms we have nowadays. And there was no easy way to just search if I already own it.
I basically built : a local browser interface for Linux users who already connect their accounts through Lutris, with edition-aware ownership checks.
And yes, I used AI (codex) to make it.

Give it a try
Github link: https://github.com/ShivWad/lutris-web

How to stop Steam from downloading shader caches everytime I launch Steam?

Thanks :)

Acabo de instalar CachyOS, ya que no tengo nada que me mantenga en Windows. La única razón por la cual no cambiaba de sistema operativo era el Valorant, pero con las últimas actualizaciones que han estado saliendo se me ha hecho prácticamente imposible jugar, inclusive tirando varias veces pantalla azul. Después de recibir un baneo de 3 meses por abandonar una competitiva a causa de un pantallazo azul, decidí abandonar el Valorant y me cambié a Linux. Ahora tengo amigos satanizando Linux xd y que es lo peor que pude haber hecho... (literalmente le estoy dando una segunda oportunidad hasta que empiece a armar mi PC).

Ya tengo experiencia usando Linux, así que no me siento frustrado y hay un montón de tutoriales. ¿Qué recomiendan para nuevos usuarios?

it happens only when i start ANY game, already tryied diffetent protons, like GE, wineland, experimental, even proton-cahyos (im in zorinOS, idk, maybe some magic happens)

can someone help me?

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The water appears pixelated when using mods to restore it to its original state on PlayStation 2.

The newer NVidia driver exposes NVIDIA Full, Lite, FP Full and FP Lite color pipelines, but none was selected in the 6.8 beta 2 I inspected. This doesn't conclusively establish why KWin isn't using direct scanout, but it confirms that the capabilities are exposed by the driver.

From what I understand, Plasma 6.8 includes changes intended to enable direct scanout in more HDR scenarios by offloading color processing to the GPU's display hardware.

I was hoping this would finally resolve the issue, but at least on my NVIDIA setup, HDR still forces KWin to composite fullscreen games.

Has anyone managed to get HDR + direct scanout working on NVIDIA with Plasma 6.8?

Is there another limitation preventing it, or is this something that still needs fixing in KWin or NVIDIA's driver?

I'd be interested to hear whether anyone has managed to get both working simultaneously.

Distro: CachyOS

KDE Plasma: 6.8 Beta 2 (6.7.91)

Kernel: 7.2.9-cachyos

GPU: RTX 4080

NVIDIA driver: 615.78.08

Display: LG 45GX950A, 5120×2160 @ 165 Hz

Connection: HDMI 2.1

Session: Wayland

I’ve been working on Ika (/ee-kah/, named after the Japanese word for cuttlefish), an Android VM platform based on Google’s Cuttlefish and CrosVM, running custom LineageOS 23.2 (Android 16) desktop builds. It works with x86-64 and Apple Silicon system on Xorg or Wayland.

If you’ve ever tried running Android apps or games on Linux using NVIDIA hardware, you’ve probably had a hard time with GPU acceleration that falls back to software rendering (SwiftShader). Proprietary NVIDIA drivers often complicate buffer allocation or kernel module dependencies on host systems.

Ika runs Android inside a KVM virtual machine and host graphics are passed into the hypervisor layer via gfxstream / virtio-gpu. This means hardware acceleration (OpenGL ES & Vulkan) works natively on NVIDIA GPUs out of the box alongside Mesa-based and Apple Silicon drivers.

Key Features for NVIDIA / Linux Users:

• Native NVIDIA GPU Passthrough: Works seamlessly with proprietary NVIDIA host drivers via gfxstream virtio-gpu pipelines—no buffer allocation errors or SwiftShader fallback.
• Desktop-First and Multi-Window Experience: Launch a full Android 16 desktop session in the virtual console, or run multiple Android apps in windowed mode on your Linux desktop.
• Desktop & Gaming Input Passthrough: HID passthrough for physical gamepads, mice, and keyboards, plus a "Play with Touch Input" mode for touch-only mobile games.
• Webcam Support: ika start --camera passes your host webcam to Android as its front camera via virtio-media. It works with USB webcams and the built-in FaceTime camera on Apple Silicon (Asahi) and Intel Macs, is auto-detected or selectable (--camera=video2), and is available to any Android app.
• No Host Kernel Modifications: Doesn't require out-of-tree kernel modules like binder on your host Linux system.
• Prebuilt Binary Packages: Direct installer support for Arch Linux, Fedora 44, Debian 13, and Ubuntu 26.04.
• Source Builder: Build framework allows you to compile Cuttlefish and the entire LineageOS ROM from source with MindTheGapps, microG, or a fully de-Googled configuration with a simple command like./ika-build --mtg

Requirements: Computer with x86-64 or Apple Silicon CPU. Recommend a minimum of 8GB RAM to run Ika, or 16GB RAM to build your own ROM with ika-build.

GitHub Project Page: https://github.com/DesktopECHO/ika

Feedback on performance across different card generations or game compatibility is appreciated.

i posted this on the windrose sub and am reposting here in case someone can help

I tried Ubuntu but faced multiple issues with my preferred suite of games(as below)

Satisfactory
Celeste
Minecraft(Java, typically with mods like Create)
Forza Horizon 4
Destiny
Operation Harsh Doorstop
Trackmania
Coal LLC
Rocket League
Valorant(v rarely played)

Having tried Windows via Bootcamp, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Mint, I have not found a comfortable medium between it just working and it not needing a whole boatload of ram in the background.

I do use MacOS on the side but it’s the smaller of the two boot OSs as such.

I would love your input on which OS is reliable whilst not being ONLY gaming focused(looking at bazzite and steamOS) as I do tend to use it as a media centre and for a bit of work when I don’t have my work laptop on hand.

The specs of my specific machine:

i9 9980HK
32GB DDR4
500GB SSD
Radeon Pro 560X

I read about Gopher64, RMG and Retro Arch.

Has anyone ever gotten it to work? I keep getting this weird error where it says the application is already running when I'm trying to install it.