Games & Launchers that dont work as intended & do work as intended (MASTER/GIT) (22 February 2025)

[pollux78]

Games that don't work & do work properly under cosmic git right now, these are games & launchers that i have installed right now on steam, i will keep updating this until every game on this list is working as intended on the cosmic desktop

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It is recommended that you use cosmic git for the latest patches as cosmic is WIP, you can use cosmic git from the aur on arch, use the pop os alpha iso, use a fedora copr repo, or compile it manually from cosmic-epoch github

I tested these games under a nvidia rtx 2060, rx 6700 10gb, intel 5500 igpu lol with latest mesa and latest prop nvidia driver

I also tested these games under kde plasma just make sure that the issues im getting are only on the cosmic desktop

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Issues with the desktop when playing games

When a game is fullscreen you can't overlay a app over the game or make the game minimize itself unless its natively supported on linux it seems, the tab switcher & cosmic applibrary launcher has trouble when a game is appearing over it

Apps and games like to spawn where ever your cursor is, so if you launch a game and your cursor is over on your third monitor and you want the game to be on your first monitor, then you need to quickly move your cursor and hope it spawns there quickly enough on the monitor you want the game to spawn on

When you turn off a monitor also and turn it back on games like the witcher 3 that are in borderless mode will go from borderless to window mode

Consider testing these games to see if the same behavior happens on the list with that gpu vendor, if not then please comment a update on that game with the gpu your using so i can update it on the list, thank you

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GAMES	LATEST AMD MESA FEATURE RELEASE/RADV	NVIDIA FEATURE DRIVER/560.35	LATEST INTEL MESA FEATURE RELEASE/ANV	COSMIC-COMP VERSION	BUGS
Skyrim Special Edition	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	The game is reading mouse inputs while the cursor is outside of the game, when in borderless cosmic puts it in window mode instead of borderless
Doom Eternal	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	Flickers heavily, could be a vrr issue, cursor escapes in borderless, its kinda hard to get out of the game also
Cyberpunk 2077	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	Cursor works in fullscreen but not borderless, when changing to borderless the game freezes, Cursor escaping in borderless but not fullscreen
Overwatch 2	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	Cursor works in fullscreen but doesnt in borderless, game thinks i have a 60hz monitor, mangohud likes to flicker aswell
New world	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER
GTAIV	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	No issues, inputs get detected when im out of the game also, thinks i have a 60hz monitor when i have 144hz
Marvel Rivals	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	Window mode makes cursor not work in game
Baldur's Gate 3	✅	unsure	unsure	ALPHA 1.0/NEEDS RETEST	EDIT: seems to work now on amd from one user, but before it would do this, Invisible Cursor
Division 2	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	mangohud flickers + no fps reading either, when tabbing out the game behaves a bit glitchy also
FFXIV	✅	✅	unsure	https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/commit/0916d3599a91fe40503209e0431fcc888fa6b867	Monitor freezes when being launched but only the monitor the game launches on, Final Fantasy XIV now launches with XWayland but the resolution is capped at 1920x1080. With Wayland, I'm capped at 3840x2160, another issue, eventually the mouse becomes completely unresponsive. If I switch to another workspace I can move it but switching back to the game makes it unresponsive again.
warframe	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	The launcher does appear! it is a bit glitchy like it being black sometimes but progress, i cant move the launcher window around either
No mans sky	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	mouse movement will cause spinning affect when tabbing out of the game ,fps is capped to my monitor also
Shellshock live	✅	✅		MASTER	Fps is capped to my monitor
Witcher 3	✅	✅		MASTER	The fps is lower vs kde plasma under dxvk
Cs2	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER
Valheim(PROTON)	✅	✅	✅	MASTER	Launches in a weird window mode, clicking on the game brings it back to fullscreen
Enshrouded	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	:)
Lethal Company	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	Launches in a weird window mode, clicking on the game gets to go into fullscreen
Tf2	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER
Granblue Fantasy Relink	✅	unsure	unsure	ALPHA 1.0/NEEDS RETEST	Both borderless and fullscreen mode appear in windowed mode
Hotline Miami	✅	unsure	unsure	ALPHA 1.0/NEEDS RETEST
Hotline Miami 2	✅	unsure	unsure	ALPHA 1.0/NEEDS RETEST
Minecraft	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	None so far on either native or prism launcher, another user has this issue: Minecraft works, Trying to alt-tab/etc shows the game but immediately minimizes it again,
Runescape	unsure	✅	unsure	MASTER	Working currently on nvidia?
World Of Tanks	unsure	✅	unsure	ALPHA 1.0/NEEDS RETEST	If I tab out of the game it sometimes crashes with this error code, https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/311#issuecomment-2283393508
Against the Storm	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER/NEEDS RETEST
Fall Guys	✅	unsure	unsure	MASTER/RETEST	Have to click into the game to get it to fullscreen properly, cannot escape the game with Alt+Tab or Super+Tab if it's fullscreen
Animal Well	✅	unsure	unsure	MASTER	Cannot escape the game with Alt+Tab or Super+Tab if it's fullscreen
Hearthstone	✅	unsure	unsure	MASTER/NEEDS RETEST	Works perfectly in both fullscreen and windowed mode
Robcop Rogue City	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER
ELDEN RING	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	Cursor doesnt work in fullscreen but works in borderless, Also launches weirdly in a window mode when borderless
Fallout 4	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	Borderless acts like window mode also, unrelated but mangohud also glitches
THE FINALS	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	No issues for now!
Halo infinite	✅	Driver issue	unsure	MASTER	Switching displays in the game settings will not allow you to click on the ui
Fragpunk	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	Switching between borderless, fullscreen, window can freeze the game, using dx11 not dx12 has it has other problems with the game
Helldivers 2	✅	✅	unsure	MASTER	UI doesn't work when you change the render scale in display settings
RE8	unsure	❌	unsure	MASTER/NEEDS RETEST	busted, Unsure exactly what happens, but it does freeze when going fullscreen
Assassins Creed Brotherhood	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER	Flickering when tabbing out and the cursor doesnt work, ubisoft overlay is working tho, game thinks i have a 60hz monitor also
Fallout 76	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER	Cursor isnt working in fullscreen but works in bordered window or borderless window mode
Yakuza: Like a Dragon	❌	unsure	unsure	ALPHA 1.0/NEEDS RETEST	Invisible Cursor
Horizon: Forbidden West	❌	unsure	unsure	ALPHA 1.0/NEEDS RETEST	Invisible Cursor
NARUTO X BORUTO Ultimate Ninja STORM CONNECTIONS	❌	unsure	unsure	ALPHA 1.0	Freezes Screen on Startup
The Rogue Prince of Persia	❌	unsure	unsure	ALPHA 1.0/NEEDS RETEST	Freezes Screen on Startup
Pokerstars	❌	unsure	unsure	ALPHA 1.0/NEEDS RETEST	Fails to show a third verification when launching under lutris
Kingdom Come: Deliverance	❌	unsure	unsure	ALPHA 1.0/NEEDS RETEST	Invisible Cursor
Batman Arkham Knight	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER	Freezes when switching to window(no border), in game cursor doesnt work anymore
Valheim(NATIVE)	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER	Crashes when changing to window mode but works in fullscreen, i cant play the native version on here because its in window mode lol
Forza Horizon 5	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER	Cursor doesnt work in fullscreen but works in window mode, when launching it now after a new install its a black screen and the audio is glitching out
Kovaaks	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER	Aiming is broken in the game now, invisible walls
Guildwars 2	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER	in window fullscreen mode, real fullscreen fails
Visage	unsure	❌	unsure	MASTER/NEEDS RETEST	busted, unsure exactly what happens, but it does freeze when going fullscreen
Starcraft 2 (via lutris)	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER/NEEDS RETEST	Misalignment, tearing. Would try fullscreen but mouse interaction doesn't work (can move the mouse through the part of the window that's "torn" and it maps to somewhere else on the screen) https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/311#issuecomment-2440118190
Heroes of the Storm	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER/NEEDS RETEST	Same as SC2. Not surprising, as they're built on the same framework and engine. https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/311#issuecomment-2440118190
Diablo 4	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER/NEEDS RETEST	does not load, simply crashes immediately. https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/311#issuecomment-2440118190
Borderlands GOTY: Enhanced	❌	❌	unsure	MASTER	Game launches, but cursor is stuck to the left edge of the window. Game's borderless fullscreen mode also doesn't go fullscreen on the compositor and instead stays windowed.

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LAUNCHERS TESTED WITH FLATPAK	BOTTLES	LUTRIS	COSMIC COMP VERSION
Blizzard Launcher	❌	✅	MASTER
EA Launcher	✅	✅	MASTER
Epic Games launcher	❌	✅	MASTER
Rockstar Games Launcher	✅	✅	MASTER
Ubisoft Launcher	✅	✅	MASTER
Sunshine	✅	✅	MASTER

[MordragT]

For me cs2 only gets stuck in minimize state, when I force wayland. In x11 (xwayland) it minimizes first but after that works fine.

Edit: And you can fix it with SDL_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS=0

[loafylemon]

Adding more to the list of games that work on GNOME Wayland but not COSMIC:

20. Baldur's Gate 3 - Invisible Cursor, Black Screen/Freeze on focus change.
21. Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Invisible Cursor, Black Screen/Freeze on focus change.
22. Yakuza: Like a Dragon - Invisible Cursor.
23. Cyberpunk 2077 - Window never spawns, but I can hear audio.
24. Horizon: Forbidden West - Invisible Cursor.

As for performance, I don't have any substantial data just yet, but after playing Horizon: Forbidden West for a couple of minutes, I was floored by how responsive the inputs were, and how consistent frametimes graph was. As soon as major issues are solved, I'll be sure to gather some data and post the results via the appropriate channels.

Edit:

A small follow-up. I've decided to test RimWorld, because it has a native Linux version. It works fine when using the native version, but as soon as I switch to proton layer in steam, it exhibits the exact same issues other proton games suffer from, like the invisible cursor, and freezing on focus change. It's the cheapest game from the list, so if anybody wants to do some testing, it's the best game for the job. (and it's pretty fun too! ;) )

[MintyGitOut]

More games that work fine:

• Hotline Miami
• Hotline Miami 2

[Drakulix]

To everyone posting these results, I have tried to replicate the issues from the games I personally own and fixed a lot of stuff with this PR, which very recently got merged and should become available through most packaging systems soon: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/pull/603

• There are still some games struggling with switching between fullscreen and borderless windowed (as e.g. reported for helldivers 2, no mans sky or cyberpunk). Generally both modes seem to work in most games now though, toggling them might need a restart though.
• Games should also not start minimized any more and minimizing (as many games do on loosing focus, e.g. from switching workspaces) shouldn't leave the game in a broken / black screen state any more. Though some games fail to properly restore into fullscreen mode and become windowed.
• Generally black screens should be far less common, I haven't been able to reproduce these issues with apex legends or cyberpunk on startup any more.
• The invisible cursor bug should be gone.

More fixes will come as time permits, the remaining ones have proven to be much more difficult to address. This is likely the state that will ship with alpha 1.

As such I want to thank everybody contributing to this giant list again and encourage retesting and updating with the newest version. I will certainly refer to this list again in the future. :pray:

[pollux78]

To everyone posting these results, I have tried to replicate the issues from the games I personally own and fixed a lot of stuff with this PR, which very recently got merged and should become available through most packaging systems soon: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/pull/603

• There are still some games struggling with switching between fullscreen and borderless windowed (as e.g. reported for helldivers 2, no mans sky or cyberpunk). Generally both modes seem to work in most games now though, toggling them might need a restart though.
• Games should also not start minimized any more and minimizing (as many games do on loosing focus, e.g. from switching workspaces) shouldn't leave the game in a broken / black screen state any more. Though some games fail to properly restore into fullscreen mode and become windowed.
• Generally black screens should be far less common, I haven't been able to reproduce these issues with apex legends or cyberpunk on startup any more.
• The invisible cursor bug should be gone.

More fixes will come as time permits, the remaining ones have proven to be much more difficult to address. This is likely the state that will ship with alpha 1.

As such I want to thank everybody contributing to this giant list again and encourage retesting and updating with the newest version. I will certainly refer to this list again in the future. :pray:

Amazing! I love your work by the way :>

We will most certainly continue testing :)

I shall update the list when im able to get those new commits in cosmic aswell

[Tsubajashi]

since i didnt see FFXIV on the list just yet, i found some very weird but interesting behaviour. when i start the game, the monitor freezes - but if another monitor is connected, the second one keeps on working just fine. this does not change even after the process has been killed. just installed the de through the AUR yesterday, and made sure everything is up to date (atleast, as far as the AUR packages go as of right now). Another Game is Granblue Fantasy Relink: its borderless and fullscreen mode appear in windowed mode. Hardware is a 7950x, running the monitors on a rtx 4090.

[Tsubajashi]

a few more games to add (tested on popOS 22.04 with the cosmic session installed from popdev:master) on a 4090 on driver 555.58.02. NARUTO X BORUTO Ultimate Ninja STORM CONNECTIONS: Freezes Screen on Startup The Rogue Prince of Persia: Freezes Screen on Startup

[mikejaques]

Pokerstars Windows game that I can install and launch through the lutris launcher.

• Runs on Pop
• Runs on Pop on Wayland
• Does not run on COSMIC DE

This is the Lutris log file output at crash time:

Start monitoring process.
fsync: up and running.
Initial process has exited (return code: 0)
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  4 (X_DestroyWindow)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x580002a
  Serial number of failed request:  1694
  Current serial number in output stream:  1719
Monitored process exited.
Exit with return code 0

It launches the main window, and sub-window to login in front of it, once you go to log in after entering your username and password, once validated, a third verification window is supposed to popup where you are supposed to enter a 6 digit security code where you click on the 6 digits with your mouse on a window drawn with numbers 0 to 9 that are clickable (round) boxes. That window is failing to display under COSMIC DE, and the above crash is what I get just as that window is supposed to pop up. I've tried almost every possible change to the lutris config to fix it, but no joy.

If I use the same lutris shortcut in the launcher it works under both Pop and Pop on Wayland.

Everything up to date, 555.58.02 Nvidia driver, and pop-dev is current, no waiting apt updates.

EDIT: added a more extensive crash log by turning on Lutris output debugging: Pastebin Crash text

[BuLEEto]

Elden Ring (via steam) was working but since some updates I installed last week sometime it has broken. The game launches and you can hear it running in the background but no window is displayed, so have to kill the task. GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7600 Cosmic all updated and ppa-dev'd up!

Game still works on Pop/Pop on Wayland.

[trebinor]

I'd like to echo @BuLEEto's hidden window experience, with audio, on an updated popdev-master. In my case, I have a single monitor, AMD GPU, and am running Warframe. Warframe runs flawlessly on Pop and Pop on Wayland.

Logs available on request.

[gabriele2000]

@mikejaques I have your exact problem, I thought it was caused by the latest Proton-GE version (9-11) but apparently come commit broke XWayland.

Maybe the Wayland package?

[pollux78]

i am using latest cosmic git from the aur and im not having this problem, rx 6700, im using regular proton 9 for it, it launches in a weird window mode, then figures out what to do and fullscreen windows, the only issue im having right now is fullscreen will make it so you cant click on anything in the game

[BuLEEto]

Update on my Elden Ring issue- it seems that sometimes it will launch (A white window appears, then it becomes a black window, then the game launches and plays perfectly fine full screen.) Doing some testing it, if it doesn't launch first time (which it realy does) I can log out back to cosmic-greeter and then log in and try again, sometimes I'm lucky and it works.

(I've never been able to get it to work without logging out first- even if I try 10+ times.)

[robotman40]

Can anyone test if Minecraft works fine?

[pollux78]

Can anyone test if Minecraft works fine?

like normal minecraft launcher or is something like prism ok? or both lol

[pollux78]

Can anyone test if Minecraft works fine?

flatpak version of the minecraft launcher is working perfectly so far, fullscreen is working without any issues

prism is working also! no issues with fullscreen or anything so far

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kE4pggNX2aaJLASohVwXhLPSWk7gpAPq/view?usp=sharing

here is a video also of native launcher working

[robotman40]

Can anyone test if Minecraft works fine?

flatpak version of the minecraft launcher is working perfectly so far, fullscreen is working without any issues

prism is working also! no issues with fullscreen or anything so far

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kE4pggNX2aaJLASohVwXhLPSWk7gpAPq/view?usp=sharing

here is a video also of native launcher working

Could you possibly test Sodium + Iris on NeoForge? (They have NeoForge builds of both mods on the Iris Discord channel)

[pollux78]

Sodium + Iris on NeoForge

is neoforged a seperate minecraft instance? if not and its just a mod api for loading other mods then i dont see why this would have problems with cosmic

i have installed neoforged through prism and im not having problems, iris + sodium shouldnt have problems either

[trebinor]

I'd like to echo @BuLEEto's hidden window experience, with audio, on an updated popdev-master. In my case, I have a single monitor, AMD GPU, and am running Warframe. Warframe runs flawlessly on Pop and Pop on Wayland.

Logs available on request.

I should clarify that it's the Warframe launcher that's hidden. Can someone else try and see if you're seeing the same thing when launched from Steam?

[pollux78]

I'd like to echo @BuLEEto's hidden window experience, with audio, on an updated popdev-master. In my case, I have a single monitor, AMD GPU, and am running Warframe. Warframe runs flawlessly on Pop and Pop on Wayland. Logs available on request.

I should clarify that it's the Warframe launcher that's hidden. Can someone else try and see if you're seeing the same thing when launched from Steam?

installing right now, will be back in around a hour lol

edit: same issue

[trebinor]

I'd like to echo @BuLEEto's hidden window experience, with audio, on an updated popdev-master. In my case, I have a single monitor, AMD GPU, and am running Warframe. Warframe runs flawlessly on Pop and Pop on Wayland. Logs available on request.

I should clarify that it's the Warframe launcher that's hidden. Can someone else try and see if you're seeing the same thing when launched from Steam?

installing right now, will be back in around a hour lol

edit: same issue

Thanks for confirming on Arch, which helps rules out a Pop-specific packaging or settings issue.

[wramalho]

Can confirm that Hades and Hades 2 works really well. Will check more unreported games later this week.

[jokeyrhyme]

I keep wondering whether a table in a public wiki page would be easier to work with than a GitHub issue

Perhaps something like:

	AMD	Intel	nVidia
Assassins Creed Brotherhood	2024-08-07 👍	?	?
Doom Eternal	?	2024-08-07 👍	?
Cyberpunk 2077	2024-06-15 👍	Cell	2024-08-07 👍

Or maybe with GPU drivers along the top instead of just GPU vendors...

And perhaps with cosmic-comp commits or version numbers instead of dates when known...

[pollux78]

https://github.com/polluxau/cosmic-games-wiki-test/wiki/cosmic-game-test-wiki i have made a test wiki as i have never done a wiki before in this format you have shown

i dont know about nvidia or intel gpus, i do have a rtx 2060 so ill install that and test the majority of these games on the list and update it as i go in a couple of hours, i dont have permission to create a wiki for this repo so someone else may need to make one

i also dont know the exact version of the comp, if its just alpha v1 or something more technical

edit: changed the issue to this format so it looks cleaner

if there is any intel gpu users please test some of the games and if there is a difference then please report it so i can add it :)

[pollux78]

Can confirm that Hades and Hades 2 works really well. Will check more unreported games later this week.

what gpu was this on?

[ItsLemmy]

Also getting the "X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"

When launching Battle.net with Wine. Used to work okayish in July, so this is a regression.

[ryzendew]

Also getting the "X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"

When launching Battle.net with Wine. Used to work okayish in July, so this is a regression.

yes

[dbarronoss]

I have played about an hour of fullscreen Baldur's Gate 3 without any issue. Cut scenes loading, leveled, spells, etc. Used heroic launcher on alpha Cosmic release ISO.

[Hyperchaotic]

GuildWars2 with Steam/Proton on COSMIC crashes when opening game window. Intel iGPU+NVidia dGPU hybrid.

Adding process 8152 for gameID 1284210 X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 4 (X_DestroyWindow) Resource id in failed request: 0x2a00005 Serial number of failed request: 7605 Current serial number in output stream: 7628

Edit: The game is configured to open windowed, not fullscreen.

[pollux78]

I have played about an hour of fullscreen Baldur's Gate 3 without any issue. Cut scenes loading, leveled, spells, etc. Used heroic launcher on alpha Cosmic release ISO.

And what gpu?