Questions tagged [ubuntu]
Ubuntu is a free operating system that uses the Linux kernel. This tag should be used when the question is specifically about an Ubuntu version of a game, or about gaming on Ubuntu devices, (such as PC and mobile).
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Which Lutris version works best with Star Trek Armada 2
Which Lutris version works best for playing Star Trek Armada 2 on Ubuntu Linux? Don't use the FS Hack, it messed up the display.
I tried 6.4 which crashed sometimes. You also had to press Escape to go ...
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How can I play Galactic Adventures in Ubuntu 12.04?
I have installed Spore and Galactic Adventures in Ubuntu 12.04 using wine-1.4, but when I try to launch Galactic Adventures, the normal game launches. Is there any way to get it to launch with the ...
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path help with Proton and EA Origin on Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu 22.04 and Steam with Proton. I added the EA Origin installer to Steam using Proton Experimental and I am able to play Origin games through it with no issues. However, each time I start ...
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How to transfer savedata from player A to player B on Minecraft Bedrock Server?
I have a Minecraft Bedrock server running on Ubuntu. I just got a new MC account and the old one is no longer accessible. Is there some way to transfer the savedata from my old account to my new one?
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Allow a child to play minecraft multiplayer on Java Edition (Linux)
How can I do the necessary incantations to allow my child to play minecraft?
For Xbox and on non-Java edition there are instructions (follow link). They say to allow the child's account to join clubs, ...
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Crash of Duke Nukem Forever in Ubuntu Steam - Proton experimental - Nvidia RTX 3060
I have an issue. My old laptop died and I bought a new PC with a MAG B550 Tomahawk motherboard, a Ryzen 5 5000 with Radeon and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060.
I installed the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and ...
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Character keeps moving for seconds when I let go of the movement key in Skyrim
I play Skyrim (GOG) on Ubuntu (using Wine and Lutris), and this bug is an ongoing debate that seems to be related to the game itself. I have looked over Steam discussions, and most of the links shared ...
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2nd player control doesn't work in ZNES 1.42 using netplay
Although the question is more technic- and not game-content-related I hope that someone here might help with this issue:
We are 2 players who tried to play a ROM over ZSNES 1.42 on two different ...
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Hearthstone keeps crashing on Lutris on Ubuntu
I just installed Lutris to play Hearthstone on Ubuntu. Battle.net launcher and the game launches, the bar door screen, Hearthstone text, settings and social buttons appear then the game shuts down.
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How do I fix my system crashing randomly when Minecraft chat is opened?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04, I'm having an issue with Minecraft: The chat flashes multiple random colors and crashes my entire system most of the time. This also happens very rarely with held ...
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In-game text not showing up
I recently Installed Counter Strike on Ubuntu 13.10, but some of the text doesn't show up. The menus are fine, but then I have stuff like this:
I'm not running it under Wine or anything. Is this a ...
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How can a Minecraft server be restarted daily and gracefully on an Ubuntu server?
I've got a (modded) Minecraft server running in a tmux session on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. What might be a good way to get it to shut down gracefully and then relaunch daily at, say, 05:00 in the ...
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STEAM unable to find Steam Games on another SSD
So as of writing this STEAM does now show me the Steam Library on a different SSD. I was playing a game on Steam yesterday today for some bizarre reason all my games show the download + install icon. ...
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CSGO: Laggy on Linux
Today I fired up Counter Strike Global Offensive for the first time in almost a year. Great to be back but I'm noticing some lag while playing the game locally with bots only. My system specs seem to ...
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How can I set up an AssaultCube server?
Everything I find when Googling it references a file called "bin_unix". A search of my system indicates I don't have it. Is there any other way to set a server for AssaultCube?
BTW, I'm running ...
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Sound increasing and decreasing randomly in XMoto for Ubuntu 11.04
I have installed the wonderful XMoto game in my Ubuntu 11.04 (2.6.38-8-generic) and when I start the game my sound control became crazy. The sounds decreases and increases randomly. If I close the ...
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How do I set up WINE on Ubuntu so that I can play my Windows games on it?
Other than the default install of WINE from the Ubuntu repo, is there anything else I should do in order to run a game?
Should I use something like winetricks or is that unnecessary? I really just ...
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Minecraft on Ubuntu is using 100% of my RAM
I am using Java version on ubuntu 20.04 and have an issue with the RAM usage.
I have tested other Minecraft versions, Java versions, launcher versions, and I've even changed the assigned RAM but the ...
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Is it possible to play DayZ on Ubuntu 20.04?
Hi I just installed non Steam version of DayZ into my Ubuntu 20.04 OS but I can't play it.
I heard that there is a program called Proton that is allowing play games or run programs made for Windows on ...
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Can Minecraft version 1.12 be run under Ubuntu 20.04?
And if so, how? Or what versions of Java/launcher, do I need?
Minor update on why I want to do this (and possibly other people might want to). Basically, I wanted to experiment with the Custom Worlds ...
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Ext4 secondary drive not accepted by Steam on Linux
My computer restarted with Steam open and upon relaunching it none of my games on a secondary internal SSD were recognized. The drive is Ext4 and the relevant line from fstab is
UUID=99d2c67d-cbd0-...
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How do I stop people from changing my name in cube2 sauerbraten?
I was playing cube2 Sauerbraten, when this someone started changing my name to vulgar things and making my guy say similar stuff.
What are they doing, and how can I stop them? I am running ubuntu 21....
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Can I make Dota 2 use a previous version of OpenGL or "enable" support for 3.1?
So I spent what seems like forever downloading Dota 2 to my Ubuntu PC, only to find out that it requires OpenGL 3.1, which my Intel integrated graphics doesn't support.
Can I make Dota 2 use a ...
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Steam won't launch in Windows 10 dual boot with Ubuntu 20.04
I have a laptop with dual boot (Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04). It has been about 2 months that I have been using dual boot. Before I installed Ubuntu 20.04, my Windows 10 had Steam installed. Then I ...
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Minecraft crashes on ubuntu system [closed]
System Specs:
Intel DH55HC
Intel core i3-550 @ 3.2 GHZ
using Java JVM not openjdk.
Minecraft works for a while but then it crashes, so I upgraded to 11.04 and graphcs are all choping and the ...
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Where does the "adminlist.txt" file need to go on Ubuntu?
I have a virtual machine hosted on Microsoft Azure that is running Ubuntu 18.04. I setup a Valheim dedicated server on it using LinuxGSM. According to this guide, you need to create an "...
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PPSSPP games on external HDD Linux/Ubuntu
How to access my PsP games which are located on external HDD by PPSSPP emulator?
I searched all folders that are in /root and found nothing.
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Is there a way I can use Action Replay Powersaves on Ubuntu/Linux?
I'd like to use Action Replay Powersaves, but my computer is running Ubuntu and the official website has only downloads for Windows and Mac.
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Where to put mods after installing mc-installer snap?
I installed Minecraft on Ubuntu 20.04 with sudo snap install mc-installer. I've also downloaded some mod .jar files, but there doesn't seem to be a "mods" folder within the installation – ...
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simulate a Enter key pressed on mouse click (ubuntu)
I am playing cs1.6 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using wine-5.0 (Ubuntu 5.0-3ubuntu1), but I have this weird problem of mouse click in the game, only with pistols and guns, whenever I fast click to shoot after ...
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Minecraft crashing on startup in Ubuntu
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 instead of Windows for various reasons and I installed Minecraft.
When I open it and run version 1.8.9 it crashes almost instantly.
This is the error I get when ...
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Installing Skyrim on a new computer/OS [duplicate]
I'm trying to transfer all my files over from my laptop, which is slow and laggy, to my newer desktop, which is nice and fast. I want to be able to play Skyrim on it. I've been looking into how to ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 Minecraft Low FPS
I changed my OS to Ubuntu after seeing my GPU is working properly.
Minecraft Version 1.8.9 Optifine Installed All low or disabled except fast render, fast math etc.
FPS 40-60 Sometimes Drop To 10 For ...
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How can I remove the "glowing" feature from objects? It is causing CS:GO to lag
Today when playing Nuke I noticed places such as 'T Roof' and 'vent' being 'shiny':
Before today they didn't look like that. I haven't made any changes to video settings (they are all set to low).
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How to Install Euro Truck Simulator 2 in Ubuntu?
I'm using Ubuntu operating system. I wish to install Euro Truck Simulator 2 for Ubuntu. So I search for that, and I get the .exe file of the trial version from http://www.eurotrucksimulator2.com/...
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Severe system lag spike when running Minecraft server with more than 1 user?
I am trying to figure out what the problem could be with my game server. Currently it only run a Minecraft server but may run more later.
The problem I am experencing is severe system lag spikes when ...
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How to install backup of steam games on Ubuntu
I've got some games installed on native steam for linux. Unfortunately, my system got nuked and I had to reinstall. While I was reinstalling Ubuntu 15.04, I managed to save some of my game folders to ...
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How do I reduce mouse sensitivity in Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries (7KAA)?
On Ubuntu, the mouse sensitivity in Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries (7KAA) is so high that I have great difficulty in pressing the menu buttons. How can I reduce the mouse sensitivity in 7KAA? ...
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Seven Kingdoms I (7KAA) does not play music in Ubuntu
Does anybody know why 7KAA cannot play its music in Ubuntu while it is fine in Windows?
Game website:
http://7kfans.com
Music locations:
/usr/share/7kaa/music
/usr/share/7kaa/music/chinese.wav
/usr/...
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How can I find my PPSSPP saves in Ubuntu?
I am using the "PPSSPP" PSP emulator in Ubuntu but I don't know where the save files are, so I can't create a backup copy.
Does anyone know a method to do so?
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How can I play Starcraft 2 under Ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
Unfortunately, I only have a laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 as operating system. I'd still love to play a round of Starcrft II for sake of old times. I already tried to follow the "walk-through" from this ...
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Valve Basestations 2.0 not properly working with SteamVR
I am trying to setup SteamVR to work on Ubuntu 16.04 with two Valve Basestations 2.0 and a HTC Vive tracker.
What I did so far is to put the two basestations 5 meters apart and looking at each other....
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Minecraft restart bash script won't run init.d/service command
What I intend to do
I'm attempting to make a restart script for my Minecraft server so my friends can use the /restart command in-game because they don't have SSH access to my server to restart ...
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How do you get your Steam games to run on Ubuntu through Wine or something similar?
Ok, I was kind of surprised that this hadn't been asked here before, but maybe it's too technical for this site. You guys decide.
I've heard lots of different stories about setting up Wine on Ubuntu, ...
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Grand Theft Auto V won't load in Steam on Ubuntu 18.10 using Proton 3.16-9beta ERR_GFX_D3D_NOD3D1X_4
I am not able to get Grand Theft Auto V working on my computer. I have searched the internet and tried everything I could find. So here's the details, hopefully someone can help...
I have installed ...
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Cannot connect to my own dedicated Gmod server
I can open the console in Gmod and use the command connect to try to join "localhost", "127.0.0.1", and "{my_ip_address}". However, these all show me a dialog box that says "Connection failed after 4 ...
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How to run Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 in a window with PlayOnLinux and Wine?
Following the instructions from the /r/rct subreddit, I was able to install RCT 2 inside Ubuntu using PlayOnLinux. The only problem is, the game glitches when running in full screen, such as things ...
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Texture packs have no effect in Minecraft on Ubuntu
I'm running Minecrat 1.3.1 on Ubuntu 16.04. I can add .zip files to my texturepack and resourcepack folders, and they show up in-game in the texture pack menu. I can select them and turn them on. But ...
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How do I install the Glide Wrapper on Diablo 2 with PlayOnLinux?
I just installed Diablo 2 via PlayOnLinux in my Netbook and now I would like to know how to make the Glide Wrapper work. I also install 1.14d patch so I can play on BattleNet, but this patch disabled ...
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Correct settings for Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi 3 on PCSX2?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 to play Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 on PCSX2. When I try to play the game, the text gets blurry and the 3D environment fails to render. I think it's only matter of ...
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