• fixed video playback in nioh 2

• fixed broken texture regression in older WoW clients (used in private servers) + rockster launcher

• fixed broken video playback regression in some visual novels

• fixed wrong version number in proton script

• protonfix added for ff14 launcher not working with winewayland

• protonfix added for genshin impact non-steam version game open crash

• protonfix added for soulbringer (all versions)

• wine updated to latest bleeding edge

• dxvk updated to latest git

• vkd3d-proton updated to latest git

• em-10/wine-wayland patches updated

HOTFIX:

• fix for Space Engineers launch crash

• fix for Blade & Soul NEO in-game options crash

• wine updated to latest bleeding edge

• dxvk updated to latest git

• vkd3d-proton updated to latest git

• vkd3d updated to latest git

HOTFIX:

• import upstream fix for Killer Instinct crashing after match end

• added fix for Heroes of Newerth Reborn not running after Juvio client closes

• added protonfix for Ghosts n' Goblins Resurrection skill videos not playing

• rebased patches to work with -Werror build option to match upstream proton's build options.

• fixed regression with several games/launchers failing to run due to bad ntdll patch #323 #324 #325 #326 #329

• Added protonfix for Richard Burns Rally (https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/issues/400)

• Added a fix for Persona 5 Strikers that works around Intel CPU crashing

• updated em-10/wine-wayland patches to latest

• updated dxvk to latest git

• updated vkd3d-proton to latest git

• updated wine to latest bleeding edge

I know, stupid AF that I can’t get it to work. For the life of me, I’m not able to play the game on the pc. Of course I can just play in the browser, but I wanted to install it on my Linux machine and fire it up whenever I wanted to. I haven’t tried for a while, but I remember trying a couple of months earlier and there was an app that installed and launched but my controller wouldn’t work with it. I know about super tux, but I wanted Mario. There is only snapcraft app to install called mari0, but I don’t use snaps. Could someone please help me get it installed without going through the whole retro arch thing? Thank you

• wine updated to bleeding edge

• dxvk updated to latest git

• vkd3d-proton updated to latest git

• wine-wayland/em-10 patches updated

• fixed news not loading in black desert online (revert GL/VK patch in em-10)

• hotfix added for blue protocol player count crash (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9218)

• re-added accidentally removed wine writecopy options for battlenet. uplay, ea app

I've been hearing some good things about WinBoat, so I am wondering if anyone has tried to use it with game mod loaders. Like the windows version of Satisfactory Mod Manager (I know there is a linux one that works perfectly and exactly like the windows version but as this is a very popular game maybe someone did it this route) or, the one I am really interested in right now, Raft Mod Loader. Raft Mod Loader page suggests 1. Bottles and less recommended 2. straight wine. I would like to use a single solution for most of my windows carry overs, ie; steam is one stop for ~90% of my games flat and VR, lutris is one stop for 2 non steam games atm, but I am uncovering more as I go.

I also have 2 windows only apps for VR - FPSVR and Desktop+(this is free), obviously they will not want to port their apps to linux for such a small user base. Has anyone tried these in WinBoat?

EDIT: So, yeah. For my needs this is a 20lb sledge hammer putting in a finishing nail

I'm not and never was a fan of Windows 10, i'm moving to Linux Mint when i have time, and i was wondering whether is it possible or not for Linux to play multiplayer games cross platform with Windows using Zero Tier, but it's not possible, is it?

Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).

~~Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.~~

• ~~Garuda (Arch-based)~~
• ~~Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)~~
• ~~Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)~~
• ~~CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)~~
• ~~Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)~~

~~BTW I have an AMD CPU and GPU. Figured I should've mentioned that.~~

HOTFIX:

• removed unnecessary webview2 patch (fixes Forza Horizon 5 login never opening)

• added workaround to allow darkwinter software region version of Girls Frontline 2: Exilium to work

About webview2 patches:

Originally in wine 9 a stub was introduced which fixes/allows webview2 to install properly. This fixed webview2 installation for vermintide 2 as well as the Haoplay version of Girls Frontline 2: Exilium. Unfortunately the Haoplay version requires additional missing functionality in wine to work properly (it currently is still broken), so supplementary webview2 patches were added which were proposed to upstream wine for a merge request (separate from the original stub that was accepted). The additional patches were not accepted, and in addition, broke the login prompt for Forza Horizon 5. Additionally they did not help with getting the Haoplay version of Girls frontline 2: Exilium to work, therefore there is no point in keeping them.

As of now without the supplemental patches FH5 login and the Darkwinter Software version of Girls Frontline 2: Exilium are working. The difference between the Darkwinter Software version and the Haoplay version is only in region coverage. Darkwinter Software covers North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland, while Haoplay covers most European countries and the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

HOTFIX:

• Added missing quotation in build patch script that caused patches to not apply properly (or at all.. oops)

• Added quartz patch to allow clannad opening movie to play (untested) https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/issues/283

• Reverted commits 582a46656d04cbefd4eb60b9eda9d263315377d5 and c771b8b6f01c2f3b1f88cf1ceb0ed8802a79e98a from em-10 to allow Warhammer Darktide launcher to work again (https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/issues/305)

Proton (upstream):

• dxvk updated to latest git

• vkd3d-proton/vkd3d updated to latest git

• wine updated to latest bleeding-edge

• dxvk-nvapi updated to latest git

• proton script game fixes imported from upstream

• vrclient fixes imported from upstream

• wineopenxr fixes imported from upstream

• makefile.in build fixes imported from upstream

Proton(em-10/wine-wayland)

• imported fsr4 fixes/updates from em-10

• imported wine-wayland (and additional) patches from em-10

• imported imported ntsync ubisoft connect fix from em-10

• imported x11 locale enablement patches/files

• fixed issue with Wine-wayland driver causes the game screen to not fit the screen size when size chosen larger than screen size.

Proton(GE):

• enabled wine writecopy option for ea/ubisoft/battlenet launchers

Protonfixes:

• fixed issue with wine mono not getting removed fully (dotnet40+ should install now via winetricks)

• fixed protonfix issue where it would quit instead of trying to create parent directory for config if it doesnt exist.

• reverted a change that made vcrun2022 install instead of vcrun2019, which can lead to some games breaking

• added fix for blue protocol star resonance videos to work

• Fix Battle Engine Aquila overlapping sound

• Company of Heroes 2 and Company of Heroes 3 Mp Desync fix

I think i destroued all enemy structures and units but i see that blu one is still alive. How to find last bit of its life in big map? There is big sea between two big lands and i have no idea where to find it.

All fields expanded, very long screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/steam-hardware-software-survey-linux-september-2025-azOM8GS

Note, the source will change every month. That's why I made a screenshot, so the discussion in this thread makes sense in the future. Source: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit got +3.34% from previously 0%, while Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit lost -2.71%. So the rest of the 0.65% are either new users or upgraders from even older Linux Mint versions. Whatever the reason is, these two entries should have been a single one as Linux Mint 22 with 8.84%.

Also what is the category "Other"? It's almost 20% big, so this is not something to wave over. Bazzite got a good start, hopefully it will grow further. I'm surprised that CachyOS is this popular, much more than Ubuntu and Bazzite.

Just a hotfix/refresh release, updates dxvk and other main components, fixes warframe crash and probably a few others.

I have decided that, simply put, I am very, very tired of my computer acting against me and gaining new problems every day as if they were achievements in a video game, so I’m going to take advantage of my Linux experience with the Steam Deck and Raspberry Pi OS to finally start moving away from Windows!

• wine updated to latest bleeding-edge

• dxvk updated to latest git

• vkd3d-proton updated to latest git

• vkd3d updated to latest git

• dxvk-nvapi updated to latest git

• proton build updated to use latest sdk (steam runtime)

• protonfixes: fix added for ue4ss mod for stellar blade

• added patch to workaround star citizen "unsupported os" popup

• etaash (em-10/wine-wayland) patches updated and rebased

Nothing major this release, just the regular updating + rebasing ontop of upstream.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nu/post/13990007

The International 2025

Streams

EN: Twitch 1 | Twitch 2 | Twitch 3 | Twitch 4 | YouTube

We might not have a ton of Linux native e-sport games but DOTA2 is still going strong and the TI Main Event is a lot of fun to watch!

Part 2: https://www.lttlabs.com/blog/2025/06/30/is-2025-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-part-ii

LTT Fourm discussion as well https://linustechtips.com/topic/1616595-lttlabs-article-is-2025-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-part-i-ii/

They approached this from a noob perspective and the benchmarks seemed pretty rough. The blog has an overall positive tone on linux which is nice even though it got murdered in performance.

I'd like to see a follow up with optimizations, get some of the linux community involved to help setup an optimized linux test bench to go toe to toe with their "golden image" windows 11 benchmark setup.

They benchmarked a few distros against each other and it was very samey which I expected, the real difference is between the drivers/kernel and desktop environment since most distros come very light in terms of installed software.

Part 2: https://www.lttlabs.com/blog/2025/06/30/is-2025-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-part-ii

LTT Fourm discussion as well https://linustechtips.com/topic/1616595-lttlabs-article-is-2025-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-part-i-ii/

They approached this from a noob perspective and the benchmarks seemed pretty rough. The blog has an overall positive tone on linux which is nice even though it got murdered in performance.

I'd like to see a follow up with optimizations, get some of the linux community involved to help setup an optimized linux test bench to go toe to toe with their "golden image" windows 11 benchmark setup.

They benchmarked a few distros against each other and it was very samey which I expected, the real difference is between the drivers/kernel and desktop environment since most distros come very light in terms of installed software.

• fixed opening hang in crosscode

• fixed video playback in fable: the lost chapters

• fixed launch crash regression in Age of Empires 4
• fixed UE4SS mod failure regression in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
• fixed Impetus Repository menu video playback crash in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
• fixed Black Desert settings not saving regression
• fixed menu and mouse focus regression in Dead by Daylight with wine-wayland
• fixed wine-wayland crashes in Warhammer 40k: Darktide
• fixed lost mouse focus in Teardown with wine-wayland
• fixed broken menus in Outer-wilds with wine-wayland
• fixed mouse click crash in Halo:MCC with wine-wayland
• fixed broken raw input in Overkill withn wine-wayland
• fixed system mouse cursor shape crash in wine-wayland in multiple games -- fixes P-Organ crash in Lies of P
• fixed WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR not being respected withn wine-wayland
• fixed controller input in Dragon Age Inquisition (NOTE: YOU HAVE TO GO IN-GAME AND CHANGE CONTROLS FROM M+K TO CONTROLLER)
• fixed video playback intro crash in Assassin's Creed Syndicate
• fixed video playback in Life Makover
• fixed video playback in Ark: Survival Evolved
• removed no longer required cursor force grab protonfix for helldivers 2
• add protonfix for Two Worlds: Epic Edition
• add protonfix for GOG Two Worlds: Epic Edition
• add protonfix for ubisoft assassins creed syndicate
• fixed github actions release build not providing .tar.zst file.

I recently made the switch to Linux Mint with a partition on my laptop. For work, it has been quite nice, but gaming has been incredibly difficult. I only managed to get one game to run seemingly without issue, which was Factorio, but any other game, Linux native or otherwise, has been an absolute headache to play, if it even runs at all. I'm using Proton and Protondb, but nothing seems to really work. While I'm willing to put in some work to get my games to run, I don't know how to figure out what is wrong and what I need to do to fix them. So, how do I go about fixing this sort of stuff? My method of trying every single version of Proton with various recommended settings/commands from Protondb has not yielded anything beneficial. Additionally, searching the web with errors has also not yielded any meaningful results. For now, my solution is to switch back to windows if I want to play anything other than Factorio. Thanks for the help.