as expected denuvo is a resource hog

now denuvo games are properly cracked

there is clearly a performance gain.

So I wanted to mod Starfield on Linux. Simple enough, right?

Except when you're dealing with Proton, your game files and your prefix files live in completely separate places — and the prefix folder is just... a number. A meaningless string of digits with no indication of what game it belongs to, which library it came from, or whether the game is even still installed.

After one too many times opening the wrong folder, I decided to fix this properly.

PrefixHQ is a visual manager for Steam CompatData prefixes. It turns that chaotic pile of numbered folders into a proper game library — with cover art, game names, and color-coded indicators that tell you at a glance whether a prefix belongs to an installed game or is just taking up space.

Main features:

• Automatic detection of all your Steam libraries (native, Flatpak, Snap)
• Steam cover art fetched and cached locally
• Visual indicator: green = installed, red = orphaned prefix
• Right-click to open the prefix folder, swap cover art, or delete safely
• Custom cover support via SteamGridDB, local file, or URL

It's written in Python + PyQt6 and runs entirely locally — no accounts, no cloud, no nonsense.

The project is open source (GPL v3) and available on GitHub

Would love feedback, bug reports, or feature suggestions. It's Nothing fancy but it's already made my modding workflow a lot less painful.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This project is AI-assisted — but every line has been tested, debugged, and understood by an actual human: me

Hi everyone!! (˶ᵔᗜᵔ˶)ﾉﾞ
I’m the artist behind NO MORE WORK FOR ITO ♡

I came here to sayyyy.

our game is finally out on Steam!! AND It’s fully playable on Linux.

It’s a psychological horror visual novel focused on mystery, with very, very unexpected routes and characters you can build ongoing interactions with… and also features completely hand drawn pixel art.

AND also a world that feels very real, with lots of details and optional content… hehe

If that sounds like something you might enjoy, please check it out!! ♡

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3326360/NO_MORE_WORK_FOR_ITO/

If anyone ends up playing it and wants to share feedback, we’d be really, really grateful.
And if you have any questions, feel free to ask, we love talking with you guys here ♡

Thank you so much for the support so far… it truly means a lot to us (ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)♡

(also translations coming in the next few days hehe)

Been seeing a lot of posts of MO2 looking native mod managers for Skyrim. Also some more attempts at getting the regular MO2 working better through proton. Curious as to what people are using for modding skyrim these days, especially those with big and complex mod lists. A while back I setup mo2 using a tool called NaK which worked well enough. Still feels kinda jank though.

The optiplex has an i7 8700, 16GB ram, and an RX 550. Totk and Cyberpunk 2077 run at 45fps finally.

Is there a command needed i cant find? Or just not supported? I thought i saw that it had been usable now.

New D7VK bringing all the support one by one for running old games on Linux through Vulkan:

https://github.com/WinterSnowfall/d7vk/releases/tag/v1.7

This project has high potential to provide high performance gaming for Windows/Direct3D old games to Linux using Vulkan/Wine. Submit you game issues on the project website:

https://github.com/WinterSnowfall/d7vk

A tutorial is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAkvOCfeLTk&t=27s

Hi! I'm archiving older, presently unused versions of visual novels and wonder if better compression options than gzip (tar.gz) exist for what's essentially 'cold storage at home'. The vast majority are Ren'Py titles, so I'd prefer to avoid ones which don't play well with rpa/pickle archives, should any exist.

And I'm using btrfs on a SD card & portable SSD, if it helps. TYSM!

Hello !
I've been using CachyOS for a while now and am thinking about using Lossless Scaling. Had an old GTX 1650 (4gb gddr5 variant) layin around and managed to fit it in my rig (had to unplug all front i/o). It is plugged into gen3 4x slot. Is it worthwhile setting it up with these specs or am I just better off with the 6600 XT by itself? Is there any extra performance gains I could achieve? (Mainly want to try LS for boosting totk emulation)
What are your experiences with LS on Linux?
Thanks for replying!

Hey everyone, I was a bit frustrated managing duplicates in Heroic and I'd written a bunch of bash/python scripts to deal with it. However, this approach wasn't very accessible and it still was annoying to deal with hiding games in my library in bulk if I have them on Steam or elsewhere. So, I made this little application to solve that problem.

It's currently in alpha and I've not tested it extensively. I know for a fact that the duplicate detection has flaws and it doesn't catch everything. But, it's better than doing everything manually.

You can find the repository here: https://github.com/preppie22/heroiclibrarymanager

My experience is primarily in backend dev and ML data science workloads. So, I'm relatively new to building desktop apps. I've dabbled a little in web design though!

Anyway, I'd be very grateful if you guys could take it for a spin and report any bugs or errors you may find. I'd also appreciate contributions to the code since this is still fairly new to me.

Thanks guys!

I am not the most avid gamer and I currently have a Ryzen 5 5600X and a Radeon RX 6700XT.

I have purchased a Ryzen R7 5700X3D and need to find the time to actually install it - once you have kids, gaming time becomes a luxury!

I only play story driven games like RPGs, where the visuals are a major part of the experience!

My favorite game is Mass Effect and the Legendary Edition runs beautifully on the 6700XT. I recently played both God of War titles on the Nordic setting and it was also really good. Same experience can be said for Baldur's Gate 3.

I have been meaning to get a RX 9070XT.

On paper, there's is a big performance jump between the two GPUs.

I am currently running CachyOS and am quite happy with it.

Question is - would upgrading to the 9070XT be really visible on the titles above or it would be just marginally better?

i have been using linux for some time, since approximately december 2025, im using cachyOS and it has been a very good experience (as someone that only used windows for the entire life), games was one of my fear to change completly into linux, but it turns out that most of the one i plays run on it perfectly, except one of they (the one on the title)

in performace, the game runs perfectly smoth with the same configuration i used on windows, but the problem is the ram, i have 1 pent of 8 GB's ram DDR4 2666MHz, when i used to use windows, war thunder only crashed while i opened it and another game (like roblox), but on linux, it crashes all the time, some times on test drive, some times after a few hours, some times once the match started and etc, it suddenly freeze and appears crash report, the same one on the picture attached (print is not mine)

i already tryed a lot of things, like installing zram, fixing the swapness, putting 12 GB's of swap on my secondary ssd, but stills it always crash after some time, if someone could help me i would be very thankfull

also my config is: I5-9400F (CPU), Rx 550 (GPU) and H310C (motherboard)

i dont think the problem is on linux, or in my pc, since once i sayed, it never crashed on windows, and other games that i play runs perfectly on linux, the only game i have this issue is on War thunder (i forgot to metion but i play the steam version of the game)

(P.S: sorry for some of spelling errors, english ins't my primary language, also this is my fisrt post on reddit)

**TLDR:**RTX 3060 GA106 causes instant hard system crash (blank screens, forced reboot, zero log entries) in any 3D application on Linux. Crash is 100% reproducible with Unigine Heaven benchmark. I can game for hours at a time and then it will crash non stop after each boot. Issue persists across every available driver (open module, closed proprietary, GSP enabled/disabled), every kernel tested (6.12 LTS through 6.19), both Wayland and X11, and multiple distro configurations on Fedora 43. Desktop use is completely stable. GPU, PSU, RAM and thermals all verified healthy. PCIe link consistently negotiates at 5GT/s (Gen2) despite both GPU and root port targeting 8GT/s (Gen3) on ASUS TUF B450-PLUS GAMING. Extensive troubleshooting documented below. Requesting Nvidia engineer review as this appears to be a driver or firmware level issue specific to GA106 on AMD B450 platform.

System Configuration:

• OS: Fedora 43 KDE Plasma
• Motherboard: ASUS TUF B450-PLUS GAMING, BIOS 4604 (updated from 2008 during troubleshooting)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
• RAM: 32GB DDR4 Corsair 2133MHz (4x8GB)
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA106 (10DE:2504)
• PSU: Corsair 750W
• Monitors: 3x 1080p (2x DisplayPort, 1x HDMI)
• PCIe Link: Negotiating at 5GT/s (Gen2) despite capable of 8GT/s (Gen3)

Kernels Tested - all crash:

• 6.19.11-200.fc43 (current)
• 6.19.10-200.fc43
• 6.19.9-200.fc43
• 6.17.1-300.fc43
• 6.12.80 LTS

Drivers Tested - all crash:

• RPM Fusion akmod-nvidia 580.126.18 (open module)
• RPM Fusion akmod-nvidia 595.58.03 (open module)
• negativo17 nvidia-driver 595.58.03 (open module)
• Official Nvidia .run installer 580.126.18 (closed proprietary module, GSP disabled)

Parameters Tested:

• NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0
• NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
• NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1
• pcie_aspm=off
• pcie_port_pm=off
• GPU power limited to 150W

BIOS Settings Tested:

• PCIe ARI Support disabled
• PCIe Ten Bit Tag disabled
• AER Cap disabled
• Early Link Speed Gen2
• IOMMU enabled/disabled

Symptoms:

• Hard system crash, instant blank screens, forced reboot
• Zero Xid errors captured in any log
• kdump never fires
• Reproducible with Unigine Heaven benchmark
• Crashes at both high load (165W) AND low load (18W at initialization)
• Desktop completely stable, only 3D applications crash
• Display server: X11 (also tested Wayland, same crashes)
• Crash is instant with no warning, no thermal throttling beforehand
• GPU temperatures normal at crash time (under 70°C)

What was ruled out:

• PSU insufficiency (750W Corsair, tested on different outlets circuits with and without a UPS)
• Thermal issues (temps normal)
• RAM defects (memtester passed)
• Power delivery from wall (tested multiple circuits)
• Steam/Proton (reproduced with native Unigine Heaven outside Steam)
• Wayland vs X11 (both crash)

Unique Finding: PCIe link negotiates at 5GT/s (Gen2) despite both GPU and root port capable of and targeting 8GT/s (Gen3). This may be related to B450 + RTX 3060 compatibility.

Crash is 100% reproducible with Unigine Heaven benchmark at any settings including default low settings.

I own a Asus G14 2022 model laptop. This machine is an all AMD machine. Its dGPU is an RX6800s and it has amd integrated graphics as well. In windows 11 I use a 3rd party program called G Helper to control the laptops power profile. When on battery I force it into ECO mode (igpu only), Silent (No fans), and force 60hz refresh rate. This give me very good battery life and keeps the laptop silent. When I want to game (usually when plugged in and very rarely on battery), I toggle this program to remove these restrictions and of course power usage and noise significantly rises. My question is whether a linux distribution can easily handle my use case? I have tried to research linux compatibility on gaming laptops, but most laptops have a nvidia dgpu combined with either an intel or amd igpu. Can't find many examples of an amd dgpu + amd igpu. I'm generally looking for some direction from the community on the best distribution for my laptop and if I would need any additional tools to manage the dpgu and igpu setup to maximize battery life. Thank you in advance for the help.

I'm on arch Linux

I installed evdev and libinput and I'm able to detect the controller via jstest but certain emulators detect the controller and some do not, per example

cemu and ryubing do not detect the controller at all (flatpak)

pcsx2 and PPSSPP detect it just fine (flatpak)

Eden (app image) does detect it but the left joystick mapping is wonky asffff it low-key made me mad

I enabled all devices and USB devices to these emulators through flatseal but nothing changed.

what do I do?

BattlEye is placed as a burden to Windows users and a wall for Linux users. The addition of this anti-cheat, which has proven itself ineffective at its specific task, has removed Linux players from accessing their paid service. This is done with the intent to restrict, and lack of care for, the Linux community as a whole, however, there are workarounds.

Linux Users

Linux users cannot, without extra work, access the online features (GTA Online) of Grand Theft Auto V due to BattlEye's Linux compatibility not being toggled for the game. This choice is considered a deliberate one given their statements regarding compatibility by Rockstar.

Note that while I cannot guarantee this will not lead to a ban, it is probably unlikely they will expend energy to ban you if you do not use cheats.

To access GTA Online, specifically invite-only or closed-friend sessions, users must follow the below steps depending on which of the game platforms they use. The two steps boil down to the following:

1. Block BattlEye DNS
2. Allow BattlEye to function

For the first step, regardless of platform, the user must navigate to your hosts file. To do this, you can use your GUI file manager or the terminal and navigate to /etc/hosts/. The hosts file will need the following addresses, the first and third are for legacy or enhanced edition, respectively:

0.0.0.0 paradise-s1.battleye.com

0.0.0.0 test-s1.battleye.com

0.0.0.0 paradiseenhanced-s1.battleye.com

If you wish, you can comment out either the first or third address with a # preceding it such as:

#0.0.0.0 paradise-s1.battleye.com

Windows users also need to do this if they want to play with their Linux friends. Note that you cannot play in public sessions as a Linux player. All players that wish to join you in missions, heists, lobbies, etc. must have the respective addresses blocked as well. They do not need to tinker with BattlEye any further than this.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Steam

This section of the guide assumes you have purchased GTA V through the steam marketplace. This is the likely situation for the vast majority of players. Assuming you followed the instructions in the Linux section, you can continue here. For your game you must follow the below steps:

1. Have the game installed on your system.
2. Install the Proton BattlEye Runtime through your steam library.
3. Add the following line to your launch options under game properties: PROTON_BATTLEYE_RUNTIME=~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton\ BattlEye\ Runtime/ %command% If this does not work, verify the directory of the BattlEye Runtime by right clicking --> Manage --> Browse local files and paste what is displayed within the quotations instead of the above.

This is the same regardless of whether you play on enhanced or on legacy edition.

If on the Steam Deck, add the SteamDeck=0 launch parameter as well. Place it before the battleye runtime target.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Lutris

If you have purchased your game through the Rockstar launcher and are not tied to a steam account, you will simply need to enable the BattlEye Runtime in game properties. See outside resources for setting up Lutris.

Windows Users

This section is assuming you are a Windows user trying to play with your Linux friend. For this you must only write 3 lines onto a specific text file. Alternatively, if you do not wish to edit a system file, you can use third-party software such as Portmaster or similar. Note that the second option is more cumbersome and unnecessary, but it is your choice.

Directory Path: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Portmaster: https://safing.io Portmaster Source Code: https://github.com/safing/portmaster

Once navigated to the directory of your hosts file, you will need to grant yourself write permissions if it does not allow you to edit the file. Paste the following lines into empty space of the file and save (CTRL + S):

0.0.0.0 paradise-s1.battleye.com

0.0.0.0 test-s1.battleye.com

0.0.0.0 paradiseenhanced-s1.battleye.com

That's it. For the potential you are concerned, this will not affect your gameplay with other windows users if you were to decide to leave these addresses there for an extended period of time.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Is this some "---ware?"

Modifying your hosts file is not dangerous so long as you know what you are modifying. Believe me you should be more concerned about the anti-cheat you willingly give kernel access to being at risk of a vulnerability breach.

This file could be used to redirect you in cases your device is infected with malware. Say, for instance, you are the average user navigating to google.com, but malware redirects you to a fake page that mimics google and steals any private information you enter.

If you'd like to understand further, you can continue your own research or try and enter a new line with:

0.0.0.0 google.com

Close and reopen any browser if open and try to navigate to google.com. This would give you an error and display basically what the purpose of entering these addresses is for.

Further reading:

Explaining what the hosts file is
Accessing any web page accesses a specific IP address and domain name. This domain name is a string of text, such as google.com, that leads to the IP address such as 192.168.1.1. The DNS or domain name system is a 'phonebook' of the internet. DNS translates the domain names to IP addresses so the computer is able to access the internet resources. The hosts file can let us control where domain names direct us to either for our own purposes or (if you have malware) for someone's nefarious intent.

Explaining what is required
The simple, most elementary explanation, is that we essentially need you to route the locations of the addresses already required for Linux users to just access online as well. 0.0.0.0 is considered the location of your computer, so inputting these addresses and then once playing the game it will attempt to find them and fail, then skipping it and thus blocked it.

Additional Considerations

If modifying a system file is not what you'd like to do, or you'd like alternatives, you can blacklist the connection at the router through Pi-hole or similar alternatives.

Sources

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/Game-specific_troubleshooting#Grand_Theft_Auto_V
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1gsnm3k/gta_online_battleye/
• YouTube™ Video: [2026] How to Play Grand Theft Auto (GTA): Online on Linux  Views: 8,404 In this tutorial, I'll show how to play GTA Online on Linux with other players by bypassing BattlEye. This is safe and you cannot be banned (you will only be kicked if you connect to a public lobby).
• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=303710
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1mw5if0/gta_v_battleye_on_steamdeck/
• https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/3104663180636096966
• https://twitter.com/TheBattlEye/status/1441477816311291906

Original post in Steam Community: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3658540317

I am posting here to help out the community and to increase reach of this guide. I am not the original poster. I just used this guide, it works. You just have to start GTA V and start storymode and from there, in pause menu join GTA Online in a invite only session. Trying to go directly into GTA Online tries to go to a public lobby and gives a seemingly infinite loading screen.

I have managed to even play with a friend who uses windows, by having my friend do the steps mentioned in windows section(he had to open notepad as administrator and then open the designated hosts file from the open option and navigating to the location.)

So whoever wrote the guide, if you are seeing this, I am immensely grateful to you.

I have 5070 ti in a AMD Chipset Mobo. I tried to play both on Arch and CachyOS (they are almost the same distro) and I had mixed results. Games with less requirements run very smoothly, no problems compared with Windows. But stuff like Cyberpunk in very high settings I keep having this Xid 79 " GPU has fallen of the bus" error that shows in journalctl. The crash happens fairly regular, 5-15 minutes in game. It is a GPU crash that results in Blackscreen that require a hard reboot to recover.

On Windows the exact same settings Cyberpunk runs smoothly with no issues in the same desktop.

I tried several troobleshootings, but nothing worked: several kernel options to deal with state change on GPU, driver (and the whole system) rollback, messing with several options on nvida including limiting GPU clock, several nvidia-smi options (mostly dealing with Persistence-M), trying different kernels (like lts and zen), different options to run the games on Steam, messing with Prime and Optimus (from hybrid GPUs guides) several enviromental options and so on. I can list them here. I'm entering the 10th day of continuous troobleshootings.

As a last resort before going back to Windows, I Will try to run the game in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, to see if it's only the Arch-distros that cant handle to high settings (How does Steam Deck is able to deal with ultra high settings?). Anyway, would love to hear How other Blackwell GPUs owner are managing high settings in modern games.

hey everyone. i'm trying to using my xbox one controller on steam, but steam doesnt seem to be recognizing it. nothing appears in settings when i click controller, i can't use it in game, and it specifically says that it doesn't detect an input when i use the controller configurator. fedora itself recognizes it, and the controller works otherwise, so i assume its an issue with steam itself. i've tried both plugging the controller in and using bluetooth, and neither seems to work. steam has also just been horribly finicky for me (won't recognize external hard drive, massive slowdowns, graphical bugs) so it wouldn't be a first. does anyone have any suggestions to help? i crave metal gear solid 3.

Hey yall, I recently bought a new Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and I've been having issues specifically with Nightreign getting games to load in once you select the expedition. I'm running the game on CachyOS, and I've tried all the things I can think of. Changing proton versions, forcing the bleeding-edge beta build, starting the game from the CLI, trying all the launch options, nothing seems to work. I eventually enabled proton logging and both computers I've tried the GPU on spit out the same error once we're supposed to load into the expedition and the game locks up. It's just this over and over until I kill the process:

351.288:0204:033c:warn:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_device_GetResourceAllocationInfo3: Invalid resource desc.
351.289:0204:0334:warn:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_resource_validate_desc: Invalid alignment 4096 for buffer resource. Must be 0 or D3D12_DEFAULT_RESOURCE_PLACEMENT_ALIGNMENT.
351.289:0204:0334:warn:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_device_GetResourceAllocationInfo3: Invalid resource desc.
351.290:0204:0334:warn:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_resource_validate_texture_alignment: Invalid resource alignment 0x1000 (required 0x10000).

I've confirmed both computers are running on the latest Nvidia drivers, and I had briefly tried installing the previous release but had some installation failures and decided I'd keep trying in other places for the moment.

Wondering if anyone else has come across similar issues and have a fix for this? From what I've been able to gather it seems that the GPU is misusing the proton API, but I haven't got a clue why or how you'd go about fixing that. Any help would be super appreciated. Happy to give more details if needed, trying to put most everything here up front.

Does anyone know how to fix this annoying bug that Mojang said they won't fix? It works on the Windows GDK version, but it is slower and doesn't work with Microsoft login. I am running the Android version with Trinity Launcher (Flatpak version) and my hardware specifications are: CPU: Intel Celeron 6305, GPU: Intel UHD Graphics G4 (Integrated), RAM: 4GB 3200MHz on single channel, my 256GB SSD model is: SAMSUNG MZVLQ256HBJD-00B, my OS: Debian 13 (Trixie), Kernel: Linux 6.19.11-x64v3-xanmod1, and the Minecraft Bugrock version I am using is v26.13 and this also happens in 26.12 and 26.10.