In before Rito bans that latest workaround because that's how it is with this company. Just like it happened with old hyperv workaround. Peps need to understand Rito wants to have their rootkit in your box, direct access to your kernel and they won't allow any potential security holes.

A month or two ago or so when I moved to Fedora KDE Plasma from Windows 7, I tried installing the native version of Steam, but it didn't work, so I installed Flatpak. Today I found out both of them apparently work. Obviously the games installed on Flatpak Steam are not installed on the native version.

I tried using goverlay and mangohud to figure out why my games have subpar performance (Got Lenovo Legion Y520 cheap from a friend, that is full of cigarette ash and smells like weed, so I assumed there's a hardware bottleneck), but couldn't get them to work on flatpak Steam. That was the original reason I tried the other Steam icon on my start menu... However, when I actually tried playing Imperator: Rome, the performance was buttery smooth. Like, insanely smooth. 60 FPS with decent graphics and short loading times, vs. 15 - 30 FPS with all the simple graphic mods and lowest settings that took ages to load. I'm now downloading DayZ again, that didn't go past the menu in the flatpak version without freezing.

Why is this? I already removed the flatpak Steam, but I'm just wondering.

There's a new preview update. It's pretty good. There's some minor jank still but it seems pretty complete now. The store page renders now too.

(Glad to see you guys are incapable of being normal for five seconds.)

**System:**

- Distro: Nobara 44 (kernel: 7.2.10-200)

- Desktop: KDE Plasma (Wayland)

- CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D

- GPU: XFX RX 9070 XT (Mesa / RADV)

- RAM: 32 GB DDR4

- Monitor: 3440x1440 @ 144 Hz

- Mesa / Vulkan: Mesa 26.2.5 (latest stable)

- Game installed on a 2TB NVMe (secondary drive, btrfs)

**Game:**

- Control Resonant

- Proton: GE 11-9 (latest)

- Resolution & settings: 3440x1440, FSR Balanced, Ultra, RT Medium

- Launch options: `PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 MANGOHUD=1 gamemoderun %command%`

**Problem:**

I'm getting heavy stuttering when moving the camera in outdoor areas. This doesn't happen indoors. The GPU stays at 99% utilization the entire time (CPU bottleneck ruled out), but power draw drops significantly when I move the camera from my max TDP of 270W down to 210W or lower during the stuttering. The issue completely disappears when I stop moving the character.

I tested the game on Windows (dual boot) and it runs perfectly smooth.

**What I’ve already tried:**

- Different Proton versions (Proton Wayland, CachyOS, Experimental, and older GE versions)

- Gamemode

- Full system/kernel/driver updates

- Disabling any undervolt or TDP limits

- Disabling VRR

- Lowering graphics settings, disabling RT and FSR

- I’ve read about a kernel parameter workaround that can slightly improve performance, but it affects all games and I don’t feel comfortable applying it just for this one

In the video you can see the issue described above.

Thanks in advance 😆

For those who don't know, drag clicking doesn't work on Linux by default. However, there is a way to enable it for distros that use libinput for mouse input (which most do). I have written a concise guide to enable it. If you want to enable drag clicking (especially minecrafters) you can check it out. (pls star)

https://github.com/MeantPlace279/drag-click-linux

Recently reinstalled Cachy and went with Cosmic DE this time. The games that work are working better than ever. However, there is an odd issue with some games where the mouse will be sucked into the top left corner of the game window with the force of a supermassive black hole. Looking into this, it appears that Gamescope can be a potential solution and this works for Warframe. However I cannot get Guild Wars 2 to launch with Gamescope.

I have never used Gamescope before. Is there some configuration I need to do?

Does anyone else game on Cosmic, do you have this problem, and how do you fix it? Do I just need to switch back to KDE, and if so do I need to reinstall the OS or can I install KDE alongside without conflicts?

Is there a solution to this problem? It only happens with the second installment of the game; when I play any other game, it starts up normally, and the Vulkan process does reach 100%, so I can play without any issues.

I've recently gotten a g502 for free but I dont see a good way to manage it's settings on linux. I had to change the settings on my windows laptop before plugging the mouse into my Linux pc

Is there anyone here who uses Simagic hardware on Linux? I currently use all Fanatec gear with the exception of my wheel. The wheel is a Simagic GT Neo connected to my Fanatec base via the qr1 adapter.

While I have been able to get the Simagic software to run via proton, and it does detect the wheel, I cannot get any of the RPM LEDs to work, and changing the lighting pattern also does not work.

If anyone has gotten these to work, I would love a quick rundown. I am considering doing some dev work to get this working (I have a background in Comp Sci), but if there is already a solution that would make my life much easier!

I have a question about controllers in Steam. I have a Flydigi Vader 5 Pro. Steam sees the controller as Generic Xbox controller, and Steam sees all the extra buttons and gyro. The issue that I have is when the controller gets disconnected from Steam (powering off the controller) and reconnecting it back. Steam does not see all the extra buttons and gyro. The only solution that I could do is to exit Steam completely and relaunch it.

Is there an easier way to solve this?

I just want to turn on the controller and game. My workflow is turn on the controller, exit Steam, relaunch Steam then play Steam games.

I bought an HTC Vive years ago and am trying to get it to run for the first time since switching to Ubuntu. I've seen a bunch of conflicting sources, some saying that SteamVR is enough to run it out of the box and others listing a bunch of complicated steps to get it to run. I'm no slouch when it comes to tech stuff, but it's all a bit overwhelming.

The PC clearly detects the headset on some level because the open windows change size for some reason when I plug it in. SteamVR says that I need a particular driver installed but doesn't elaborate. I tried installing Envision on the advice of the Linux VR Adventures wiki but it requires Monado and I can't work out how to get that installed.

I would really appreciate any advice here, I feel like I'm out of my depth.

no matter what i do the fps stays locked and yes before anyone says anything vsync is off and fps is set at unlimited, the only time the fps change is when i take it out of full screen ( the fps stays the same in border less too )
distro: cachyos
de: niri
quickshell: serpantinum

I've been able to run UE games such as Marvel Rivals + Dragonwilds with no issue using Steam ever since the Proton Hotfix Steam patch in June. Randomly as of 4 days ago (around 10/14/26 5:00 UTC) after an update, it has crashed every single time I've run it after a certain period of time.

What ends up happening is that the graphics freeze but the audio still continues. Using Shift + Tab to bring up the Steam Overlay I can almost always cause the game to get past the first freeze, but on the second freeze the game stays frozen until it crashes. UE process crashes first, and then Proton. These freezes almost always occur to the same triggers, but not every time when these triggers pop up will it cause a freeze. This usually occurs after about 15-30min, but the longest period of time I was able to run one of these games was 42 minutes.

Triggers:
Map opening in Dragonwilds
Loading splash art screen in Rivals
Chat opening in Rivals
Card selection in the Infinity War mode in Rivals

Things I've tried:
Uninstalling + Reinstalling Marvel Rivals
Switching between Proton Hotfix, Experimental, and Stable
Uninstalling Proton Hotfix + Experimental + reinstalling them
Clearing caches
Using bare minimum settings
Making sure my system is up to date
Disabling Screen Tearing

I'm able to run other applications using Proton on Steam without issue, it's just UE games.

EDIT: Disable Steam overlay. Fixes the issue entirely.

I was looking at MMO mice as I've picked up Aion 2 and i have been enjoying it a lot... however, I don't want to be doing finger gymnastics just to hit all my skills, so I've been looking at "MMO mice" I've found a good deal on an asus ROG Spatha X however I've seen mixed reviews on compatibility and mapping the side buttons within linux, I was hoping somebody out there has experience with this mouse on linux and could shed some light on how well it works. I have also been looking at the Razer naga v3 pro but that mouse cost almost 3x the ROG Spatha X which is hard to justify. If you have any other recommendations I'd be happy to hear them, personally I want a mouse with at least 12 buttons, and I like having a wireless mouse with a charging dock.

I don't know why it is not working . I've used fedora and cachyos and this game was working before. I use lutris to run games.

So it works great when it's plugged in. The Controler was updated on pc. It connects to the Bluetooth fine, but steam can't then see it.

I've tried to connect manually through the terminals Bluetooth controls.

It says its connected. I installed the steam device thong.

Honestly I'm wondering if it would be easier to connect with a dongle rather then through Bluetooth, but I don't know which one to buy. If someone could point me in the right direction if appreciate it.

Whichever one of these is the least work. I just wanna play games im sick of messing around trying to get basic stuff to work if it costs me $20 to get a dongle and that's easier then whatever nonsense please tell me that. I really just wanna play my games.

The game itself can run, and i know it for sure, but it Requires the EA launcher and that always just fails to install...
Using Northstar i can skip EA i think, however then i would play on Northstar servers.

Is there a way to either use normal servers thru the Northstar launcher, or just skip the EA launcher on the normal steam install?

Cheers! I built my PC a year ago and am now getting weird flickers and checkerboards across my screen. I was about to send my monitor back to acer thinking it was it due to some testing and hopeful denial. But using a TV it finally did the same shit. Did some more testing, doesn't show up on my switch 2 at all. So its unfortunately the something with the GPU, but whether that's drivers or hardware I have no idea.

It started a while ago when I updated my drivers to the latest Kisak Mesa Fresh, I chalked it up to the games being poorly optimized again. Lately its gotten so bad to were it appears outside of games on my desktop. I can legit open steam and have it look like it was on a LSD trip. I have tried uninstalling the drivers with

sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa

But they're still occurring despite better performance in games ironically.

I have no idea what to do, frankly

My distro of choice is Kubuntu with KDE

OS: Kubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) x86_64
 Host: A620AI WiFi
 Kernel: Linux 7.0.0-38-generic
Uptime: 20 mins
Packages: 3227 (dpkg), 46 (flatpak-system), 16 (flatpak-user), 30 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.3.9
Display (KG251Q X3): 1920x1080 in 24", 120 Hz [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.6
WM: KWin (Wayland)
Terminal: konsole 25.12.3
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (12) @ 5.46 GHz
GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT [Discrete]
GPU 2: AMD Raphael [Integrated]
Memory: 5.05 GiB / 61.89 GiB (8%)
Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)

Edit: The artifacts do not appear in screenshots.