PROBLEM IS FIXED:
Games now run when installed from within Linux through Steam and the EA App. Everything so far have worked flawlessly. Here's a good mix of what I've tried so far. Hitman 3, 9-Bit Armies, Divine Divinity, Metro 2033 Redux, C&C Tiberian Sun, C&C Red Alert 2
Solution: Pop!_OS and Linux Mint doesn't have a kernel new enough to support the Mesa 25 drivers needed for my 9070XT. These commands in the terminal was the fix for this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Original Post here:
Hi guys, it’s me again.
My issues is that no windows game on Steam will run. With any launch option or proton version (tried about 10). Most just doesn’t open at all. (Click play, nothing happens)
Tried for hours last night and resorted to just throw shit at the wall to see if something would stick for the last hour or so. Exhausted dozens of fixes found on ProtonDB and forums.(I want to try some again after another fresh install though)
Testing Linux on a dual boot system. First I tried Mint and had a pretty bad time due to me messing up the size of one of my partitions(Just made everything a bit more work) later reinstalled but tried POP, which went good and it’s a lot nicer to run now.
Here’s a few I tried a bunch of different troubleshooting on:
Hitman 3 - doesn’t open or artifacts and freeze before getting to the menu (Mint, both from a NTFS and fresh install EXT4 drive) 9 bit armies - doesn’t open at all or crash after splash screen (Pop and fresh install on EXT4 drive) Civilization Beyond Earth - Artfacting and 10fps (Mint and Pop, NTFS drive) Cyberpunk- Doesn’t open (Pop and Mint, NTFS drive AOM: Retold - Doesn’t open (Pop and Mint, NTFS and fresh on EXT4) Ready or Not - Doesn’t open (Pop and Mint, NTFS)
Also tried 5-6 more games old and new. None would open.
One thing I will note is that both installs failed to install GPU drivers properly. But I fixed that with a guide and the console.
Specs: R7 7700 RX 9070 XT 32GB RAM
Any tips on where to start ? I’m gonna start from the bottom with a fresh install of either Mint or Pop tonight. (Or any other Distro, honestly)
Hey friend, looks like you might be spinning your wheels yet.
You have two options to get driver support for the 9070:
Here's a mint thread talking about it, pop os will be the same.
That said, I can't in good conscience recommend the manual route for a Linux newbie, so strongly consider a fedora or arch based distro.
If gaming is your primary use case, the ones with tons of gaming apps and tweaks built in are Bazzite (based on fedora atomic), nobara (based on fedora), and garuda "Dr460nized" gaming (Based on Arch)
I very much do not recommend an arch-based distro for a newbie.
If you need a newer kernel:
But Arch-based distros will break for someone new to Linux. Maybe not in the first month, but probably somewhere in the first year. That's not to say Arch is a bad distro or anything, I used it for several years for both work and play, just that it expects users to know what they're doing, and most new users don't.
I knew that would happen.
FWIW, there are many arch-based distros with a lot of handholding. Heck, garuda has built in btrfs snapshots on update. I believe OP would have an easier time using garuda than setting up all the other things necessary to make other plain rolling release distributions work.
To OP, raw arch is definitely not for newbies. Don't try to install arch to fix your issue.
Honestly, the whole Arch family is problematic because everyone does things a bit differently with different assumptions, so support doesn't exactly transfer. Arch in particular also expects you to do a lot of your own research, and that tends to carry with the various derivatives.
When you're new, you want something mainstream with a ton of users with a variety of configurations so you have a better shot at getting support for the problems you'll run into. You also probably want something recent, especially for gaming since there are a lot of changes to the gaming landscape.
That's why I recommend stable distros with relatively up-to-date packages. My go-to is Debian, and if you need something newer, upgrade to whatever the testing release is (in this case trixie). Fedora is also a great option. I personally use openSUSE Tumbleweed and Aeon (and soon Kalpa), but I don't recommend those distros because they're relatively niche so getting support may be difficult. They rarely break, but new users seem to attract Murphy's Law more than others, hence why I don't recommend it for new users.
As a second or third distro, sure, it's absolutely fantastic. I loved Arch when I used it, and I mostly switched because I wanted to run the same family of distros on my desktop and servers, and I wanted something a bit more stable than Arch for servers. I realize now that what I actually want is a separation between base OS and running services, so I've switched to containerization and am porting to a rolling distro for my servers as well (in this case, MicroOS, coming from Leap). But I definitely do not recommend Arch for new users because it has very few guardrails out of the box for when things go wrong.