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Cannot get a single game working on Linux (feddit.nu)
submitted 10 months ago by MrKurteous@feddit.nu to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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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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[-] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

It could be the proton version, when i started gamming on linux with steam i used the custom proton GE from flatpak and it worked better then any version, nowadays the proton experimental also seems to be working even with more games supporting it but the custom version still has better performance in my machine.

[-] Defaced@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

As others have said use the Pop_OS! Nvidia ISO. Nvidia drivers are just problematic on Linux. There's a good chance your games will just work with that OS. It's also based off Ubuntu, so it has access to the same software repositories.

[-] Lemmyvisitor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

haven't seen anyone else mention it, but league is currently broken on Linux. you can see the status on this page or r/leagueoflinux

https://leagueoflinux.gitlab.io/status/

[-] sodalite@slrpnk.net 0 points 10 months ago

There are still a lot of games that don't work for me, even with Proton on Steam. Lutris has just straight up never worked for anything. Managed to get some going with the Heroic Games launcher, but not all. I think it's either a DirectX problem or something with the drivers. I'm not nearly techie enough to know how to even approach solving the problem, just maybe identifying it. I hope you figure it out so we can all get to playing our favorite games.

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