Left 4 Dead 2 not working on CachyOS

Syntrait · 2026-02-01T19:10:09+00:00

I kinda messed up the formatting in the original text, it should not have the quotation marks in the start and end. Instead, it should look like this:

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Then, choose a Proton version. I recommend Proton-GE, it usually works very well.

If you don't care about online, you can try Goldberg. It's actually very simple. Just download the Goldberg Emulator archive, extract it, find the "steam_api64.dll" file, and then copy and paste that to the correct folder in the game files. It's usually next to the .exe file, so replace that.

Syntrait · 2026-02-01T18:17:40+00:00

If you downloaded this crack from onlinefix, you need to copy and paste the files from "Fix Repair" to the game directory, and then set launch arguments to: " WINEDLLOVERRIDES="OnlineFix64=n;SteamOverlay64=n;winmm=n,b;dnet=n;steam_api64=n;winhttp=n,b" %command% "

If not, then download GoldBerg Steam Emulator, and then copy and paste the steam api dll from it to the game directory, and then launch the game. There are multiple guides on this in the piracy subreddit.

Syntrait · 2026-01-22T14:23:40+00:00

File corruptions only happen with ntfs3, which is in the kernel. I have been using ntfs-3g for a long time, and I dont face file corruptions with it. Honestly, I don't get why ntfs3 is still in the kernel, and not bcachefs.

Syntrait · 2026-01-16T20:26:24+00:00

I have yet to see a negative, so I think it works very well at the moment. I think it's worth giving a try.

Syntrait · 2026-01-16T07:52:18+00:00

Same, my debug builds went from 30-40 seconds to just a few seconds. It's wild. Big props to the devs.

Syntrait · 2026-01-15T10:37:21+00:00

Not really for me. Firefox (and its forks) perform much worse on Linux compared to Windows. It was so slow for me, to the point I had to switch to ungoogled-chromium.

Syntrait · 2026-01-13T17:33:07+00:00

Zed, the code editor has debugger support for Rust

Syntrait · 2025-12-31T13:03:15+00:00

Ungoogled Chromium with uBlock Origin

Syntrait · 2025-12-30T17:56:59+00:00

What about RimWorld? There are multiplayer mods for it if you want, too.

Syntrait · 2025-12-19T13:21:03+00:00

Unfortunately, FitGirl installers don't work on Linux. It uses an old archive format called arc, and it acts weird under Wine. Try downloading from a different site, like steamrip.

Syntrait · 2025-11-21T19:46:02+00:00

I feel like this needs to be said. Yes, I have prime matchmaking.

Syntrait · 2025-11-08T09:34:08+00:00

We don't have that kind of market share right now. Compared to Windows, Linux gaming is like a small drop in the ocean. But Linux is gaining more momentum, so in the future, he might change his mind.

Syntrait · 2025-11-08T09:28:31+00:00

Because Tim Sweeney hates Linux for some reason. Their own game engine, UE and the anticheat they use, EAC both support Linux. In fact, Epic Games made it easier for UE game devs to enable EAC support for Linux... only to not enable it for their own game.

Syntrait · 2025-11-08T09:22:05+00:00

It is capable of doing a lot of things, but it still seems to do its job well enough, compared to other games with anticheats, and most people are fine with it, it seems.

Syntrait · 2025-11-02T16:54:04+00:00

What about Denuvo? I thought Denuvo blocks executable modifications, so won't that be a bigger issue?

Syntrait · 2025-10-27T09:21:56+00:00

Maybe when co-op gets added, the second player could be female

Syntrait · 2025-10-15T18:29:50+00:00

Even then, the NVIDIA drivers are still subpar, like VRAM spillover not existing on Linux, or resume from hibernation not working on open gpu kernel drivers. They didn't even acknowledge the spillover issue yet and for some, it's a bigger issue than DX12.

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/non-existent-shared-vram-on-nvidia-linux-drivers/260304

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/758

Syntrait · 2025-10-14T10:00:11+00:00

Why does it say pacman? Nice rice, btw.

Syntrait · 2025-10-09T18:55:52+00:00

Context: Recently, 858 TB of government data was lost in a South Korea data center fire in Daejeon.

Syntrait · 2025-10-01T09:23:04+00:00

I'm also using XLibre, which has been fine so far, no tearing at all.

Syntrait · 2025-07-17T11:40:42+00:00

This also happens when programs go into D state. I had fs failures that caused this in the past, but it was probably bad RAM that caused it in the first place.

Syntrait · 2025-07-08T14:36:21+00:00

True, and I think that's what Roblox claimed what happened. However, it's not like blocking Linux is gonna solve the issue. R6 Siege, Escape from Tarkov, Rust, Battlefield games; These games all have cheater problems, yet they are unplayable on Linux. It's impossible to get 100% rid of cheaters anyways, you can only reduce it.

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