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)

  • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    132·
    11 months ago

    Imo distro doesn’t matter very much. Your best bet is to try either Lutris or Bottles in order to manage your games easier. Then you just need to install dependencies and the games should work. If not, try other wine versions, proton, proton-ge etc

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
      61·
      11 months ago

      Imo distro doesn’t matter very much.

      Except that they’re on Ubuntu 22.04. which is totally ancient at this point

      • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        Oh, didnt realize they were running something as old as the LTS release? How will he ever make it work?? If only there was a way to update software…

        • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, start adding PPAs or installing software from source. That’s much more likely to make things work for a beginner

          • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            Or he could just update to the latest version if its that big a deal? Why would he go through the whole PPA shit when it takes very little effort to get an updated version of Ubuntu on a flash drive to reinstall

            • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
              21·
              11 months ago

              I’m confused what your argument is. That the ancient LTS version isn’t a problem because he an just wipe and reinstall a new version?

              • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                11·
                11 months ago

                Why is it a problem? Its very easy to install a new distro (which i still do not see as being necessary). Why are you acting like he needs to be on the absolute latest software? Bet it fixes exactly none of the issues hes been facing

                • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
                  11·
                  11 months ago

                  Because

                  1. these types of issues are often related to drivers and kernel bugs. So being on an ancient version that has ancient versions of the kernel and drivers is just stupid
                  2. unless he has a staging server that he has set up to test the distro upgrades, it does absolutely no service to choose a non-rolling release distro
                  • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    1·
                    11 months ago

                    1. He has ancient hardware also isn’t 22.04 from within the last year and a half?

                    2. Why does it matter to the average gamer? I bet it makes no real world difference whether you’re on 23.1 or 22.04 unless you absolutely need the latest software