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Unable to login when screen is locked Plasma

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 20:27

Heya,

I'm having this issue on Plasma (Wayland) for some time now (not shure when it started) that is whenever the screen is locked (Win+L or due to inactivity) I can type the password but it's not logging me in, it does nothing. Only way is to switch user and log that way.

I use Nvidia GPU (if it matters), Plasma 6.6.3, any other info I can provide please ask.

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Crash on Crimson Desert

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 20:20

Hey, i have been playing the game for 60 hours and crashed just once, but i got here where i think is the end of the puzzle for the first element that you get and it is crashing basicaly every time in this place, the first time it took longer, i think i finished the puzzle before it hapened, im on arch with hyprland and using the last proton cachy slr, i tried different protons but it does not seen to help, someone knows what could this be?

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Trouble with drivers

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 19:59

My specs:

SSD: Corsair Force GS (180GB)

Processor: AMD FX-8320E Eight-Core

8GB RAM

Graphics card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti

Distro: Kubuntu 25.10

I used to run the command "sudo ubuntu-drivers install" to keep my GPU drivers up to date. Until last week, when I ran that command and my display got stuck in the 640x480 resolution. It won't let me raise it.

I had to purge the Nvidia drivers and return to the Kubuntu default drivers, so I could return to the 1920x1080 resolution. Now I can't play games without the Nvidia drivers and everytime I try and use "sudo ubuntu-drivers install" my resolution got stuck at 640x480 until I purge the Nvidia drivers again.

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Cyberpunk FSR 4.1 issues ?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 18:57

I just booted up Cyberpunk after a long while, and I'm assuming its using 4.1 now? The game says FSR4. It really doesn't look great compared to any version of FSR4 in any other game I've seen (even previously). Boiling and instability, even compared to FSR3. Just a bad implementation?

CachyOS - 9070xt - 7800x3d - Mesa 26.0.4arch2.2 - Proton-Cachyos-slr

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3dcompiler_47=n;dxgi=n,b" PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 LD_PRELOAD="" game-performance %command%

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Game similar to Fortnite on steam?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 18:46

I'm stuck travelling for work and I'm not going to pack up my PS. I play Fortnite just b/c I can log in, shoot some people, and walk away after a round. I'm looking for something from steam or linux native to help on the road. I'm old and out of the loop on popular games...preferably something with a decent userbase.

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Out of order frames in wayland

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 18:45

Issue: Frames out of order when the GPU heavily, as demonstrated in the video. This doesn't happen in X11. This problem doesn't occur without shaders, which kinda proves my assumption.

--- System ---

RTX 3050 Laptop GPU, 550.163.01 drivers

Debian 13, KDE Plasma 6.3.6, Wayland

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Sorry if this is a frequently asked question, if so please redirect me to the relevant sources. But I couldn't find a fix for this. Also if any information about the problem needed I will be happy to share.

Edit: If my understanding of the problem is incorrect please let me know, but from what I can see, the game sends frames that were supposed to be rendered a while ago.

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High polling hardware?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 18:32

hi all. Curious if anyone has any recommendations or insight for high polling hardware (such as 4k-8k polling rate mice or controllers). there's a ton of dropped inputs and loopy feeling inputs compared to windows, so seeing if this is something that can possibly be ironed out as I slowly migrate to cachy full-time and only use windows for battlefield. thanks!

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Steam on Mint isn't playing audio on Bluetooth output

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 17:51

I'm running Linux Mint on an Aerofara Aero3 MiniPC. It's always had problems with the onboard ESSX8336 audio chip, to the point I've completely given up trying to run it. BT audio output uses a different device and driver and works just fine, so I just use BT headphones instead.

I can run like this everything including native Linux ports with working audio, but Steam doesn't want to know about it. Everything is silent. I'd assume it'd use the output configured in Mint's audio options, but apparently that's not the case.

Is there any way to configure it to use the BT output? I've had a look in the settings but couldn't find a dedicated audio menu.

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Steam GUI doesn't start

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 16:57

Hello everyone, I tried to play games with my PC with KDE neon installation and I can't use steam because i don't see the gui. But, if I start steam by the terminal, I don't have any problem. Sorry for my bad english, can anyone help me, I want only to play.

I can add, with my laptop with KDE neon, steam start without any problem

PID: 4967 (steamwebhelper)

UID: 1000 (zuture)

GID: 1000 (zuture)

Signal: 11 (SEGV)

Timestamp: Tue 2026-04-07 16:42:02 CEST (3s ago)

Command Line: ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/zuture/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=4698 -buildid=1773426488 -steamid=0 -logdir=/home/zuture/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=0 -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/zuture/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/zuture/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/zuture/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --disable-component-update --gaia-url=http://disabled.invalid --enable-features=PlatformHEVCDecoderSupport --disable-features=WinRetrieveSuggestionsOnlyOnDemand,SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,BlockPromptsIfIgnoredOften,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC

Executable: /home/zuture/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper

Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-steam@edff3cfeac9e4bf19cf6906a903340b2.service

Unit: user@1000.service

User Unit: app-steam@edff3cfeac9e4bf19cf6906a903340b2.service

Slice: user-1000.slice

Owner UID: 1000 (zuture)

Boot ID: 72682e61f097457abeb22798d8707d69

Machine ID: 8b60b348419646f2a18fa8a42e9686fb

Hostname: zuture-pc

Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.steamwebhelper.1000.72682e61f097457abeb22798d8707d69.4967.1775572922000000.zst (present)

Size on Disk: 11.2M

Message: Process 4967 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 dumped core.

Module /run/host/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.33 from deb gcc-14-14.2.0-4ubuntu2~24.04.1.amd64

Module /run/host/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.7.8 from deb systemd-255.4-1ubuntu8.14.amd64

Module /run/host/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1.5.5 from deb libzstd-1.5.5+dfsg2-2build1.1.amd64

Module /run/host/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0.38.0 from deb systemd-255.4-1ubuntu8.14.amd64

Module /run/host/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 from deb gcc-14-14.2.0-4ubuntu2~24.04.1.amd64

Module /home/zuture/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libSDL3.so.0 without build-id.

Module /home/zuture/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libSDL3.so.0

Stack trace of thread 5187:

#0 0x0000000000000000 n/a (n/a + 0x0)

ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

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Logitech g920

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 16:18

Os: Bazzite Gnome

Issue: input lag

Any recommendations on how to get the Logitech g920 to switch from Xbox to pc mode? I’ve read some guides and I’m using oversteer but haven’t been able to get it to switch from Xbox to pc mode which, if I understand correctly, is the probable cause of my issue. Could it be that I’m just not configuring it correctly in game? I’ve used a few suggested configurations and they all seem like they’d be fine if the input was real time.

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[FIX] Dota 2 dropping to 20-30 FPS on Arch Linux + Hyprland + AMD — gamescope was the culprit

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 15:04

Hey everyone, leaving this here in case someone else runs into it and ends up Googling at 2am like I did.

The problem

Dota 2 randomly dropping to 20-30 FPS for no obvious reason. GPU barely under load, temperatures fine, nothing changed — the game just refused to run properly. Should've been hitting 150-180 FPS.

The cause

I had gamescope in Dota 2's Steam launch options. Turns out it was silently throwing this error in the background:

"(EE) failed to read Wayland events: Broken pipe"

That broken pipe was killing GPU performance entirely.

The fix

Just remove gamescope from your launch options or unistall the software. That's it. Mine now look like this:

`RADV_PERFTEST=gpl,nggc %command%`

Back to 150-180 FPS instantly.

My setup

- Arch Linux

- Hyprland

- AMD RX 5600 XT

- Mesa RADV

Hope this saves someone a couple hours. The fix took 10 seconds, finding it did not.

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the last of us pt 1 weird artifacts

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 14:54

https://preview.redd.it/zcl1qxgnlrtg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=3771cd634e03dc996bff79c088626dc7d005aa7a

i get those blocky artifacts im on rtx 4060 and on CachyOS with 32gb ram and i5 12500 kernel:6.19.10-1-cachyos
and proton CachyOS

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Is Waydroid good/safe for gaming?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 14:46

Hello!

I want to get an emulator for gaming purposes, and heard a lot about Waydroid. Now, I found a tutorial how to install it, but I want to know if it's safe to do so? I'm a complete noob, and don't want to risk my PC just because I want to play few games.

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Why does Wayland stutter so much compared to X11

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 14:45

Hello,

I read a few times that Wayland is apparently better for newer NVIDA GPUs (RTX30/40/50 Series), however I noticed that Wayland gives me a lot of stuttering after some time using a web browser. That's at least when I notice it the most. I have a 240hz monitor and on X11 there is literally no such issue, it feels way smoother.

I have got an NVIDIA RTX 3060 running on CachyOS.

Does anyone else have the same issue or am I the only one?

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Void Cargo: demo is out now, first-person cargo hauling on a hostile moon

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 07. April 2026 - 13:28

If you haven't seen it before, Void Cargo is a physics-based cargo hauling game where you fly a first-person lander between remote bases on a hostile moon. You take delivery jobs, load cargo, and try to get it across mountains, fog, wind and hazard zones without smashing the ship into the terrain on approach.

Demo on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4319290/Void_Cargo_Equilibrium/

If you want a quick look first:

The flight model is on the accessible side, but it still has weight to it. The lander stays upright, so you're managing main thrust, lateral movement and yaw rather than full 6DOF controls. What really matters is mass. Cargo and fuel change how the ship handles, heavy loads make takeoff and landing noticeably rougher, and bad approaches can turn into a scramble to keep the hull intact and the landing under control.

One thing I spent a lot of time on was making flights feel calm right up until they aren't. You can be lining up a normal delivery, then a system fails, the wind starts pushing harder than expected, or a rough shortcut through a hazard zone stops looking clever very quickly. That balance between routine hauling and mild panic is probably the part I like most.

The demo supports Windows, Linux, and Steam Deck. Steam Deck has been my main test device from the start. It plays best with a gamepad, but keyboard and mouse work too.

I also put together a fairly extensive Steam guide that covers a lot of the game, including a few things that go beyond what's in the demo.

If you try it, I'd genuinely like to hear what feels good, what feels confusing, and what gets frustrating for the wrong reasons.

Cheers!

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