Look up how to enable and make use of the Proton options. This is how you get WINOS games working in Linuz for the most part

Why do you have an RTX 40 series on such an outdated CPU/Chipset. It's not even a good enough CPU and you have PCIE 3.0

Minimum for RTX 4070 would be around Intel 10th Gen CPUs

What format is being used on the drive that the games are installed on?

Mint is terrible for gaming out of the box. First check whether you are using the propriatary nvidia drivers or not.

It prefers stability over performance, they are always behind on something, be it kernel related or otherwise.

If you want something with nvidia drivers out of the box get Pop OS, or just get Bazzite with the new nvidia driver option so you can't screw anything up seeing as it's an immutable distro.

You need to install games under Mint.

Use compatibility layers like proton;
- When you're in Linux Mint:
-=- Open Steam > Go to "Steam" in the upper left > "Settings" > Left side "Compatibility" > "Default compatibility tool" > Pick a proton layer (if you're unsure what one to use, the latest one is usually fine).

I don't know if you're dual booting or not. If you are, you'll need to install your games on Mint as well and run them through Proton.

If you're not dual booting and you're running games off an external drive, format it to a format that plays nice with Linux. IDR the name of it, someone here can tell you what to format it to.

If you're installing games on your primary drive and they're still not working, even with Proton enabled, come back and make a post about it.

My guess is you need to format your drive.

Update kernel, and standalone drivers if need be.
In Steam, enable the Proton compatibility as described above.

Installing Protontricks and Glorious Eggroll is a good idea, too. And Flatseal can be useful, if you installed the Flathub version of Steam.

Originally posted by Dethe:

I chose Linux Mint in part because folks said running Steam was a non-issue, but I have not been able to get any games to run.

yes, steam runs fine as advertised.

I hate how they bait in uninformed people...

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

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If you're not dual booting and you're running games off an external drive, format it to a format that plays nice with Linux. IDR the name of it, someone here can tell you what to format it to.

If you're installing games on your primary drive and they're still not working, even with Proton enabled, come back and make a post about it.

My guess is you need to format your drive.

ext4 or xfs is most likely what you’re thinking of. for an external drive being used for Steam games library on Linux I’d recommend formatting it as ext4 with casefolding.

I’d also recommend installing ProtonUP GUI to install and update/manage Proton versions along with ProtonGE (glorious eggroll) as mentioned previously.

Use protondb for reference to see if there are known issues with specific games and which proton version works best if there are issues with a game.

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Look up how to enable and make use of the Proton options. This is how you get WINOS games working in Linuz for the most part

Why do you have an RTX 40 series on such an outdated CPU/Chipset. It's not even a good enough CPU and you have PCIE 3.0

Minimum for RTX 4070 would be around Intel 10th Gen CPUs

I have Proton, ProtonTricks, etc. Have tried lots of options with that. Comments about moving files to an ext formatted drive did the trick.

Why I have this GPU on this computer is a bit involved. I bought a cheap desktop early in the pandemic to have something to game on. A year or so later my friend gave me this computer with no memory or drives, but it's otherwise better than my existing one. So my earlier gaming computer became my music computer and I put in a bunch of drivespace, M.2, and a new video card. I got the Nvidia because I wanted to play around with LLMs early on, before it was obvious those were a bad idea. And I did play with some for a bit, but they're crap and I got bored. So now I have a way too powerful GPU for gaming, which isn't a bad problem to have.

Yea honestly whether you use WinOS or a Linux distro... one of the best thing to do is configure everything that will go on the OS drive as if it can die and lose all of tbat at any time which actually is a fact we can't deny about electronics in general. That being said it's best to put all games and anything else you deem important have go onto a secondary drive of some kind. Since Win98 every PC I've bought or custom built it has had 2 drives minimum. My Pentium 90 that first had Win3 1 and DOS on it before I put Win95 on it was even like that but that PC was an expensive beast for its time.

So yes best to house anything you wish to separate from the OS drive in case the OS needs to be wiped or thT drive prematurely fails... to other drives. Today's games should be on a secondary SSD. If they are small or not very demanding games, those can go on a secondary HDD even. When you download it should point to a secondary drive or if goes to OS drive, like loose file downloads from web browser, then organize those files you do wish to keep and copy them over to a secondary drive when you have time. Then delete those copies off the OS drive to free up space.

With Linux also the OS drive doesn't need to be large, even a 120/128GB ssd would do. So for the Linux OS drive, you could technically juat use a small sata ssd you had laying around and didn't really have a need for anymore with a modern WinOS build. Then for the secondary drive just use good quality NVME drives since many Motherboard have more M2 Slots nowa days and good performance NVME SSDs in a 1, 2 or 4 TB have come down in price quite a bit.

If you compile videos or backup videos to go onto your Twitch or YouTube for example, make room on an SSD as usable work space for doing video compiles and edits on. Once that video or project ia finalized you could go and back that content up onto say a large decent HDD like 8TB+ for example. Either internal or external does not matter for backing up stuff you don't need on the internal drives everyday.