So, you've pressed play on The Sims 4 on Steam on Linux, and, annoyingly, you find that the game simply won't load! The game loaded fine yesterday, but now it's not working! You've probably uninstalled and reinstalled the game only to find that the same thing happens again and again over time. You've probably spent …

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Screen Tearing on NVIDIA One of the most annoying things that has bugged me for years while using an NVIDIA graphics card with Linux is the screen tearing which happens while gaming or watching videos. You can see if your current setup suffers from this by viewing the example video below in full screen. If you see …

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Summary Hello my fellow penguins! This guide will show you how to set up a Skyrim modding environment for the original “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” on Linux, using a modified Steam Proton run script. :fire: Please note, that this guide IS NOT for “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition” - it’s for the older “The …

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For those of you who know about the virtual content I love to create, you can no doubt imagine that this game was an instant buy for me. I've played a few games on Steam this week, but this one was probably the most visually and audibly pleasing. It really is a refreshing treat for the senses, and it's one of those …

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UPDATE ⚠ 22/08/2021: This guide is outdated. You no longer need to manually fiddle with this Proton prefix in order to play the game. I have tested this from a bare installation using "Proton 6.3-6" and the game installs and plays fine. I've left this article visible to show the rapid progression of gaming on …

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No GeForce Experience?! Windows gamers will be familiar with "NVIDIA GeForce Experience”, and its ability to allow you to record the last 30 seconds of gameplay as a video file to the hard drive. Annoyingly however, for us Linux gamers, even though NVIDIA supports Linux with its proprietary binary graphics drivers …

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⚠ These problems may have been fixed after this page was written, so be sure to test things fully before you apply these fixes. I moved from “UBUNTU MATE 18.04 LTS” to “MX Linux 18.3 Continuum” about two weeks ago, and I have to say I love it. Although there were little niggles I had to sort out for gaming on this …

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Update (24-06-2020) ⚠ This document is outdated. Lutris will automatically install the necessary compatibility files for you. Therefore, you no longer need to manually download these files as explained in the steps below. I have left this article visible, simply to show the rapid progression of gaming on Linux. The …

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