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Wine's Wayland driver just fixed the mouse control issue plaguing FPS games on Linux

…Titled " winewayland: Use wp_pointer_warp_v1 for SetCursorPos when available ," the patch details what was going wrong with FPS games on Wine. FPS games rely on "cursor warping," which allows the…

May 13, 2026 · Simon Batt

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

…The original approach involved making a round-trip RPC call to a dedicated "kernel" process called wineserver every single time a game needed to synchronize between threads. For a game making thousands…

Mar 23, 2026 · Adam Conway

The Witcher 3 Stream This Week Has Players Demanding New DLC

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Blood and Wine, the second and final DLC for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Prior to its release in 2016, CD Projekt Red was very…

May 26, 2026

I'm switching to Linux for gaming — here's why

…Proton is based on Wine, which translates system calls from one OS to another. When the game requests a Windows-only API, Wine translates it to a POSIX API call instead. Wine…

Mar 31, 2026 · Charles Wolfe

Discussions and forums

r/Linux_Gaming · u/WineGunsAndRadio · 1w ago

Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

r/Linux_Gaming · u/Active_Mancano · 2w ago

Why would people ever pirate games? I wonder…

Just bought the game by the way. I’ve tried SEVERAL wine and proton versions. I was told that a PIRATED VERSION, works without issues because these issues even extend to windows too.

r/Linux_Gaming · u/felix_ribeiro · 3w ago

Proton-CachyOS 11 has been released!

https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos/releases/tag/cachyos-11.0-20260428-slr Proton (SLR and Native) Updated to the most recent Proton Experimental release 11.0-20260428 First of all, I would like to thank u/Etaash-m…

r/Linux_Gaming · u/Working-Ad-8501 · 2w ago

Omikuji: a Qt/Rust based game launcher 'cause genuinely why do I need 3 different launchers for my games?

EDIT: since seems people are uncapable of using neurons. No, don't use this if you don't like it or if you don't need it. No, I'm not competing with Lutris, Heroic, any other launcher. I took inspo from them for my own s…

r/Linux_Gaming · u/emanu2021 · 2w ago

D7VK 1.9 is redefining how old PC games are played through Vulkan

This project follows the path of DXVK so all the legacy games running using D7VK can enjoy Vulkan's speed and advanced Direct3D features such as Full Scene Anti-Aliasing emulation which were not available at the time gam…

FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support

…Installation Experience Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old…

Apr 23, 2026

Vim Merges GTK4 Toolkit Support, Co-Authored-By Claude

…NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust…

May 20, 2026

OpenRazer 3.12.1 Enables Two More Razer Devices Under Linux

…OpenRazer 3.12.1 adds support for the Razer Basilisk Mobile gaming mouse. OpenRazer supports the Basilisk Mobile with both its wired and wireless receiver modes. This gaming mouse retails for around…

Apr 3, 2026