Doesnt work for me

Posted Dec 9, 2025 20:14 UTC (Tue) by hisdad (guest, #5375)
Parent article: Bazzite: a gem for Linux gamers

I installled it to my 2018 vintage XPS15 (Nvidia).
Complete failure with my Steam games. Fallout 4, Skyrim, Oblivion, dont load.
Gave up, gone back to windows.

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Doesnt work for me

Posted Dec 9, 2025 20:56 UTC (Tue) by brunowolff (guest, #71160) [Link] (11 responses)

That's odd because Steam runs on linux. I don't like Steam for my own use, but I appreciate that Valve has funded a lot of development that ends up in wine. I run some GOG games under Fedora and things work pretty well. I play a fair amount of HOMM3 and SOASER. HOMM3 has occasional crashes on one machine, that I expect are tied to that hardware in some manner. Otherwise things work really well. Other GOG games I have, seem to mostly work, but I rarely end up playing them. I don't play any massively multiplayer games, where cheating is a real problem. So I don't have experience on whether any anti-cheat stuff works.

Doesnt work for me

Posted Dec 9, 2025 21:10 UTC (Tue) by hisdad (guest, #5375) [Link] (3 responses)

I know there was a version release recently. In a few months I'll have more time, so I'll try again..
I would sure like it to work...
--Dad

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Posted Dec 9, 2025 21:14 UTC (Tue) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link] (2 responses)

I wonder how long it's been since you tried it? I don't have all the games you mentioned, but I did just fire up Skyrim (Elder Scrolls V) and it works fine. But you have a different hardware setup so it's hard to say whether things would be better now for you.

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Posted Dec 9, 2025 22:17 UTC (Tue) by jkingweb (subscriber, #113039) [Link] (1 responses)

Proton I think still has to be explicitly enabled if one wants to play Windows games; maybe that's where the confusion lies?

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Posted Dec 10, 2025 13:41 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I don't think so, I'm running Bazzite on an 10yo ASUS G20CB with nVidia GTX980 and Steam games just install and run with zero fiddling, Steam automatically installs and uses the right runtime/proton for the game, although I think you can change which version is used in the launcher shortcut for the game in steam. To the OPs point I installed Fallout 4 last night and played for an hour with no issues, ultra settings, buttery smooth, as easy as a console.

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Posted Dec 10, 2025 4:22 UTC (Wed) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link] (2 responses)

> I don't play any massively multiplayer games, where cheating is a real problem. So I don't have experience on whether any anti-cheat stuff works.

As a rule of thumb, recent online multiplayer games do not run on any platform other than Windows. This is because they want to install kernel drivers and suchlike to prevent cheating, and no amount of Wine-like chicanery will ever enable that to work. You would at least need a full userspace implementation of the NT kernel, and more realistically a hypervisor or VM. But I imagine that some of them also want to talk to the TPM etc. and will refuse to run in a non-ring-0 configuration.

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Posted Dec 10, 2025 4:25 UTC (Wed) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link]

I should also note for the record that many *older* multiplayer games are totally fine on Linux. Some of them are even Steam Deck verified. It's mostly just the hypercompetitive Fortnite knockoffs that do the whole Windows-only kernel-level anticheat thing.

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Posted Dec 10, 2025 10:18 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

At the moment, "requires Secure Boot on Windows" is a good proxy for "will not run on any other platform". Those are the games that have anti-cheat that is likely to be problematic on Linux, for now.

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Posted Dec 11, 2025 12:50 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (3 responses)

> I run some GOG games under Fedora and things work pretty well.

GOG is a bit different. It's no longer calls itself “Good Old Games”, but it still cares, very much, about 10+ years old games. Steam… doesn't exactly break these on purpose, but it just doesn't spend time patching these.

Fallout 3 was broken for years on Steam, while GOG version worked fine… and that's on Windows, not Linux!

I think recently Valve started becoming more and more serious about Linux… and that made Steam games work better on Windows, too (wouldn't be surprised to find out that Fallout 3 works now, again). But that's relatively recent change.

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Posted Feb 1, 2026 15:51 UTC (Sun) by BigErn (guest, #182115) [Link] (2 responses)

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/not-being-able-t...

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Posted Feb 1, 2026 17:27 UTC (Sun) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (1 responses)

This comment looks more recent https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/473#issuecomme... have you looked to see if ujust has the recipe you need to set up openrazer?

Doesnt work for me

Posted Feb 1, 2026 19:08 UTC (Sun) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I tried this myself as I'm running Bazzite on my home computers. The installer succeeded but the openrazer daemon didn't start up `journalctl --user --unit openrazer-daemon --follow` with an error about a missing `plugdev` group. I added the group https://www.reddit.com/r/Bazzite/comments/1kppxef/comment... and restarted, that fixed the issue with daemon startup and Razer Genie successfully started up. I don't have a Razer device which is supported by openrazer (my Razer Lachesis is too old) so I can't confirm whether the daemon has access to the right USB devices to make changes. The `ujust` recipe is either missing a step to add the group or the openrazer-daemon package is missing config for /usr/lib/sysusers.d to ensure the group is created.

Figuring out who created the ujust recipe to set up openrazer might spark the conversation to see if you can update the recipe to work better on your system, this whole thing is a collaborative effort.

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Posted Dec 10, 2025 5:09 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I guess you didn't win the Linux-compatibility hardware lottery, it sucks that nvidia compatibility is so poor with your laptop chip, there's a reason why the Valve Steam first-party hardware is all AMD/ATI graphics.

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Posted Dec 10, 2025 7:32 UTC (Wed) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link]

From what I understand - Proton and steam works best with AMD GPU's. It is more difficult getting Nvidia GPU's to play nice.

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Posted Dec 10, 2025 13:37 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

I think that might be from the time period when Nvidia PCI IDs were all different with respect to which chipset features were actually there, and the complete list was only ever in the official drivers and not possible to determine by probing. I made a bug report in that era about graphics on my laptop not working properly after suspend/resume, and the fix was a line in a table that said my exact PCI ID had one of something, rather than two like other devices with the same product name. There's a good chance that reporting that your PCI ID doesn't work and giving them the debugging output they ask for would lead to the line in the table that gets your particular hardware working, too.