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I can’t say I’m surprised… Just confirms that a diploma is just a piece of paper. I know for a fact that I could do this.

And that isn’t in the same sense of seeing a Jackson Pollock painting and thinking “that’s just splattering paint around, I could do that.” Like no, I could 100% do this.

Please tell me that’s not their new logo (talking about the thumbnail)… Atrocious.

Edit: I don’t want to sound like a dick, but this is what graphic designers do? I used to fuck around in Photoshop when I was 22 and make shit that looks better than this:

“Wow did you see the slide where they alternated a photo of a person on a green box, with a black box? And then on the next line, they did the black box first, THEN the photo in a green box. So creative”

“I like when they just put large random numbers on slides”

If you click settings for the game, and go to “compatibility,” you can click the dropdown and choose “Proton Experimental” (or Proton-GE imo). The game will probably need an “update” but it will just take a few seconds.

Maybe it’s your hardware? I recently got a Framework laptop, and Bazzite has a distro image tailored specifically for the hardware, and I think that makes a big difference.

But even still, I ran Arch (well EndeavourOS) on my old Laptop, and it ran the games that the specs could run…

When you launch a game for the first time are you letting it go for a bit (sometimes a minute or two even) while it seems like nothing is happening? This is just for the initial launch, but in my experience, it can seem like it’s not working but if you just let it go it will load. Then every time after that it’s right away.

Also, check your Steam settings re: compiling shaders and uncheck the setting to have them compile while playing. This will compile the shaders before the game launches (a pop-up will show you the % complete), and it prevents stuttering.

Other than that, all I can think is hardware… Or maybe you’re just super unlucky at picking games. I do always check ProtonDB first, so that could be why I’ve had nothing but good experiences.

I have beamng, but the one that plays like Wipeout, and I believe that one works. Though I think I’ve only tried it on my Steam Deck and not on Bazzite. Also, I understand it’s a different game.

Edit: Yeah, looking at protondb it looks like Space Engineers is one people have some issue with. Sometimes you can get it to work using solutions on there, but I guess every now and then you don’t. Hasn’t happened to me yet.

Often times, games that have a native Linux runtime will still play better using proton and the Windows version. So try that with cs2. Only source game I’ve played is HL2 (recently) and i think I might have had to switch to Proton for it to run well, but I forget.

There isn’t really anything wrong to do… The first time you load up a game, it might take a little bit longer, so you might have to let it sit for a minute while Steam says “exit” instead of “play game” (meaning the button you click in Steam to start the game). That’s only the first load, after that, it should load right up.

You might also want to look at you settings for loading shaders (steam settings). I prefer to compile shaders before the game starts so as to avoid stuttering in the first few min, but it can also make it so it takes an additional 30 sec or so to open the game.

Another suggestion I’d have is to get proton-GE. Basically it’s some dude’s custom proton release that usually has better compatibility and often works better than official (if you want to avoid having to download a separate program, try “proton experimental” in your Steam compatibility options).

But getting proton-GE is easy. You have to switch to desktop mode once and use Discover (app store basically) to download “protonupQT” (I believe, this is all from memory so it might be slightly off). You can run that app in desktop mode, or do what I do and go back to game mode and add it as a “non-Steam game”. Now you can update proton-ge without having to go into desktop mode…

Anyway, I’m sure that seems like a lot but it’s really not. Hope it helps.

Edit: I’m just realizing now that your didn’t mean “Counter Strike,” but rather “Cities Skylines”. Yeah, can’t speak to the performance there. Still worth trying Windows version with proton

All of them… Lol. Way too big of a back log.

But I just picked up Tape to Tape and it’s super fun. Giving me vibes of old 16bit hockey games. What else…

I finally got Neon White on PC. Got it way back when it came out on Switch and played a little, but really prefer mouse and keyboard for fps. Very fun game.

Lorn’s Lure is another one I’ve been playing a lot. Amazing game, nothing quite like it.

Was enjoying UFO50, but haven’t picked it up in a couple weeks. Gonna go back to it.

What about you

I meant the:

-force-d3d12

one. Might need to put “%command%” after it, but I’m still not 100% sure what that even means and why its there so I dunno.

Edit: I would also check out the entry for the game on ProtonDB if you haven’t already (sorry if someone else has already told you all this elsewhere in the thread) to see if anyone else has had similar issues: https://www.protondb.com/app/949230

I haven’t played C:S2 yet, so I can’t say personally, but it could just be a poorly optimized game.

Did you try their fix? Often it really is as easy as adding a launch option

I’m running Bazzite, and haven’t had a single issue running a game…

How to know someone hasn’t gamed on Linux in years.

Not like that at all now.

Isn’t it meant to be like “better FS”? So you’re not too far off.

I also play games on this system, so having newer kernel and Mesa versions help.

I guess I’m that guy in this thread constantly bringing up his current distro of choice lol… But have you tried Bazzite? From what I understand it’s basically Kinoite but built with gaming in mind.

If you have, I’d be curious as to what differences there were between it and Kinoite…

I recommend giving Bazzite a try for gaming. I switched to it from Arch (well EOS), and it’s been wonderful.

I loved EndeavourOS, but I’m just not sure bleeding edge is for me. Mostly because I will forget to update for a week, and suddenly there are 500 updates, all with interconnected dependencies and pacman is just like “wtf dude?”

I’m not sure I really gained any benefit from that over using a more stable release. I switched to Bazzite a few months back, and it’s been amazing. Immutable is very interesting, and it’s made for the most stable PC I’ve ever owned.

Highly recommend Bazzite for gamers (or I guess it’s good for multimedia too), or if not, one of the other Fedora-based immutable distros.

I’ve been using Bazzite for a few months now (switched from EndeavourOS, which was great) and it’s been amazing. I’m sold on atomic/immutable. I have never had a PC this stable, including every Windows PC I’ve had.

And it’s perfect for gaming. There are weird little tweaks and settings that I had to do on EOS to get my GPU working correctly, etc., and they all just work out of the box in Bazzite (I did get the iso image made specifically for my laptop, which definitely helps). It’s super impressive actually.

And distrobox (BoxBuddy comes installed) can be used to access the AUR or whatever if I feel the need to. Just fire up an Arch box, and have at it.

OMG I can feel the heat emanating from that photo

You can easily set it up to do this automatically with something like timeshift…

I recently switched to an Atomic distro (Bazzite), and they have made it so easy to rollback to previous commits without any additional software.

I installed Bottles, but was disappointed when it didn’t actually have anything to do with bottles.

If you think every name of every product, etc., is going to be literal… you’re gonna have a tough time in life.

It seems like you would probably prefer baking as it is a much more exact science.