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Cannot get a single game working on Linux (feddit.nu)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hey all!

So I've been wanting to get into Linux gaming for a while thanks to inspiration from this community, but I've struggled to get it working, and after a final try today I'm starting to lose hope. I haven't gotten a single game working, most of them using Steam and Proton, but I also tried League of Legends through Lutris. I don't know what to try next, other than maybe installing a different Linux operating system and trying again. Anyone with some advice on what I can do, or where I can turn for help? I've searched online as best I can but didn't find anything that seemed relevant.

Some details of what I've tried if anyone is curious: on Steam I tried Trine 4 and Jusant today, previously also Baldur's Gate 3 a few months ago. The games simply don't launch, though for BG3 and LoL at least the launcher starts. Usually no error message, but Trine did for once tell me "GPU error detected" today. I've tried both Proton Experimental and whatever the newest version is at the time, today Proton GE-Proton8-14. Some system details:

Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS RAM: 16GB CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 six-core GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 GPU Driver: Nvidia 545.29.06 (proprietary)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Are you on X11 or Wayland? Steam has crap support for Wayland

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Works fine for me on GNOME, but it could have issues on other desktop environments.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've never had any issues on Hyprland. The Steam Deck also uses Wayland (Gamescope). Not saying there can't be cases where unique bugs happen on Wayland, and maybe there's something else I don't know about, but Steam Wayland support seems to be fine as far as I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wayland plus Nvidia is a recipe for disaster. Steam deck is AMD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Works fine in Wayland here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does Steam even have any support for Wayland? There's maybe one dialogue window that runs under native Wayland, and the rest of the UI uses XWayland. I've been running the few games I played under XWayland and they work just fine on KDE Plasma / Manjaro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

By default, I don't think so, but you can install gamescope and that supports Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Gamescope is just a Wayland compositor. It's like switching from Gnome to Plasma (or Mutter to KWin), I don't think that would matter to Steam.