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linux gpu power draw

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 12:10

hi folks.

a year ago there was an issue with linux operating system.

back then the operating system were capped with gpu power draw, or ot least there was an issue where it capped the gpu total power draw to around 300 watts ish.

that could be an issue for some gpu users.

i know that linux shows different values as in windows. linux only shows gpu core watts.

but it was clear, that my 7900xtx was not getting enough juice and was somehow capped by the operating system thus giving me lower gpu boost clocks as on windows.
it was very representetive in clock speeds and of course: performance was lower.

so i had to manually do some tweaks and do some commands and install corecontrol to make it ,,somehow" work.

so basically when you have a 7900xtx / 4090 / 5090 or ANY card more than 300 watts it was bottlenecked by the operating system.

i mean getting it to work is okay i guess, but there is no way to tell how much watt only the gpu ,,board" takes cause linux only shows you core watt.

is this issue, or bug, or whatever still an issue in linux?

so some gpus like 5090s or 7900xtx are underperforming.

can someone report on this issue? and maybe like check for watt usage and core clocks on 7900xtx or 5090 cards?
i know its alot to ask, but this is crucial to getting the same performance as on windows.

my 7900xtx was using 270watts core watts and around 30 watts was used by the board itself.
so my 375 watt card was missing 75 watts of power making it a lot slower :/.
it went down with clocks from 2900mhz to 2400 mhz sometimes even 2300 depending on the task.
and thats, a lot of missing performance.

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3DS emulation disaster

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 12:03

Hi, I’ve had my steamdeck about 8 months, and had been playing Pokemon on Citra. for some reason the games were grayed out in the directory, and as I wanted to patch Pokemon Y to Wilting Y, I decided to delete the emulator and reinstall it.

Now the shaders don’t load and the emulator freezes, with no games starting. I’ve installed Azahar and the same happens. The same happens when I try to run it through the emulation station.

Does anybody have any ideas for what I’ve done wrong or broken for this to happen?

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help with nvidia drivers

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 12:03

I am currently using AccuMarine Linux, and after using “Discover” to install the proprietary drivers, I have version 580.119.02. Is that correct? In my previous installation of Cachy, version 590 was downloaded...

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Cannot figure out how to mod Cyberpunk 2077

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 11:50

I'm completely new to linux, been using it for a few weeks now, and wanted to play Cyberpunk again. But i cannot for the life of me get mods working.

Completely fresh installs straight off Nexusmods, and it's telling me they're outdated??

I'm getting these three errors when i start the game:

"Unable to load cyber_engine_tweaks.asi. Error: 998"

"No access to memory location
S:\common\Cyberpunk 2077\red4ext\RED4ecxxt.dll
RED4ext could not be loaded."

"Compilation error
REDScript compilatiomn has failed.
This error has been caused by mods listen below:
-EquipmentEx
One or more of the errors found has a known solution.
Here are the recommended steps:
-Install ArchiveXL 1.21.0 or higher
-Install Codeware 1.15.0 or higher
The game will start but no scripts will take effect.
If you need more information, consult the logs."

I'm genuinely at a dead end, my linux expert buddy doesn't know what to do, and i'm no good at all.

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Generally why is Ubuntu taboo here?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 11:42

I am a newbie Linux gamer and I used to have Linux Mint (Which is Ubuntu based I believe?) on my 1050ti card. Other than Minecraft it worked horribly and nearly double as worse than Windows 10 did. I figured it's because I used an old nvidia gpu. Now I have a Vega 56 and an I5-10400f and I want to try again after rage quiting windows once more. Yes I want to game on it. I looked around the subreddjt and everyone is recommending Bazzite or Endeavour or Catchy or even Nobara but nobody is mentioning anything Ubuntu based. Why? From what research has told me Ubuntu has the widest range of supported software in their appstore thingy and kbuntu also exists with it's Discover app so I figured it would be awesome for a newbie gamer. So is Ubuntu really that bad that nobody is even recommending it?

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Thinking of switching from windows to linux.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 11:42

Hey fellow linux users I am thinking of switching from windows 11 to linux mint but my concern is that would I be able to play fps games like counter strike , warzone and any other fps games on linux mint ?

Edit- I am not familiar with linux so I am not familiar with a lot of phrases or words.

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14 year old $109 GPU still going strong thanks to Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 11:34

With the recent news of the work being done to fully support old GCN chips in the AMDGPU driver, I decided to dust off an old HD 7750 that I used back in the day. To my surprise, it managed to run this native Vulkan game notably faster than I could ever get it to do on Windows, scoring 12% higher in the inbuilt benchmark once I got past the hurdle of making everything fit within the measly 1GB memory capacity.

And I must say, The Talos Principle still holds up. I couldn't have asked for a better showcase of this piece of antiquity in action. Shoutout to Timur Kristóf for breathing life and making this come true.

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Should i switch back to Win11 for gaming performance?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 11:26

Yesterday i downloaded Bazzite as my main OS. Yeah, it's hard to use, but I'm ok for that.

But I've got some issues and some of them may not get solved as of now:

  1. First and the main problem is that using Proton will cause a performance loss when redirecting from DX12. It's not something that can be fixed now, and this is the main reason I wanna switch back. I'm using a NVIDIA GPU, and the loss is visible compared to Windows. I consider that I'll be playing a lot of games that natively only support DirectX and this disturbs me.
  2. Stuff related to NVIDIA is really hard to configure. Firstly it's that i can't find a method to set my screen color depth to 10 bits for my HDR to work better. Secondly it's that i can't set up the latest framegen version by swapping dlss (Only tried doing that in The Finals so far, tells me to turn on HAGS.). There is no NVIDIA App, no control panel, nothing (aside nvidia settings panel which has almost nothing in it) that could help me configure the settings i want.

I think i was too hasty when deciding to install Bazzite... It seems to be too unfinished to me right now. While the second point is tolerable, the first one seems to be really obstructing...

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The 2026 Linux Summer Games

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 10:57

Seems the Nvidia driver borked on a bunch of these, falling back to NVK on some systems and even llvmpipe/lavapipe on one. Poor 1080 Ti, so many eggs...

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1140p AMD mini ITX

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 10:51

Looking for recommendations for pre-buit AMD RDNA4 gaming PCs for 1440p high/ultra, ideally in a smaller form factor like mini ITX.

Is there anything out there or do I need to build it on my own? Have no price limit but should not be bad value for money either ...

Thx in advance.

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Opening steam on Linux Mint causes my system to logout

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 09:45

Everything was working perfectly fine yesterday. But when I tried opening steam today I got this, I don't know what's happening. If anyone has got any information or advice, I would appreciate that.

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X11 games flicker on Wayland, NVIDIA.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 09:21

I got a GTX 1060 for free to replace my old RX 550. Using AMD, I had no problems with games or programs. After installing all the drivers, I launched the first game I had installed, Counter-Strike 2, and... The game flickered so much that it was impossible to play. Then I launched the latest version of Minecraft and encountered the same problem: when I turned on the shaders, the game flickered.

After that, I was advised to uninstall the old version of the drivers and install them using a script from this GitHub repository (Frogging-Family/nvidia-all). It downloaded the TKG version of the drivers for me, but the problem remained.

I tried to fix the Xorg (X11) settings myself, but nothing helped. What should I do?

OS: Arch Linux

Kernel: 6.17.8-1-catgirl-edition

TWM (Tiling Window Manager): SwayFX (fork Sway)

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B580 or 9060XT?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 08:46

I have now had the Intel B580 for over a year. It has been awesome (and surprisingly good). But, as many of us now, I’m switching from windows to Linux as my main OS. (Fedora and/or CachyOS)

But that experience has not been the greatest.. to say the least. Unstable in games (newer games), lots of visual glitches, not being able to see my bios anymore unless i use HDMI(???). Im this close now to switch to the 9060xt. Question is; stay, or order the AMD card?

(Have in mind, i do game at 1440p with XeSS, and that feature does not work in linux at this point).

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Getting error with Vulkan

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 06:36

Just did a fresh install of Fedora 43 KDE. Followed the RPM fusion guide:

sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing sudo dnf @update --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin sudo dnf install intel-media-driver sudo dnf install libva-intel-driver sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld

Installed Lutris, set the Wine runner to use GE-Proton Latest and installed battle.net from the Lutris add game menu. I was able to successfully install battle.net but when I launch it, after entering my password, it crashes. I've had something similar happen in the past, and went about looking into my GPU/Vulkan drivers and I"m getting an error.

vulkaninfo --summary WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Received return code -3 from call to vkCreateInstance in ICD /usr/lib64/libvulkan_dzn.so. Skipping this driver.

Vulkan info seems to indicate both RADV and llvmpipe are being used?

vulkaninfo | grep GPU WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Received return code -3 from call to vkCreateInstance in ICD /usr/lib64/libvulkan_dzn.so. Skipping this driver. GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) GPU id = 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) GPU id : 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) [VK_KHR_xcb_surface, VK_KHR_xlib_surface]: GPU id : 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) [VK_KHR_xcb_surface, VK_KHR_xlib_surface]: GPU id : 0 (AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP (RADV POLARIS10)) [VK_KHR_wayland_surface]: GPU id : 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.5, 256 bits)) [VK_KHR_wayland_surface]: GPU0: deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU GPU1:

Though admittedly I'm a bit new to this. Could llvmpipe be the issue? Any ideas why it would be used?

PC specs:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0 Qt Version: 6.10.1 Kernel Version: 6.18.5-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700KF Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.2 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP Manufacturer: ASRock Product Name: Z790 Lightning WiFi submitted by /u/Burine
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Marvel rivals keeps crashing when starting a match but only when I have Bluetooth earbuds connected

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 06:28

Has anyone experience this issue? I cannot prove if Bluetooth is the problem but every time the match starts the game crashes and so does the whole desktop environment. The game works fine if I don't have them connected, it's weird and I'm confused. I've looked up many fixes and they don't work either. Does anyone know what the problem could be?

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Can DP to HDMI adapters bypass the AMD 4k 144hz limit?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 24. Januar 2026 - 05:47

Been getting more familiar with my CachyOS install, trying to set it up the same way my win10 LTSC setup works; I have an app that saves display profiles so that I can quickly switch from the monitors at my desk to my 4k 144hz TV. I've been figuring out how to make a kscreen-doctor script that can emulate this, but I noticed I wasn't allowed to set my TV to 4k 144hz (I'm restricted to 120hz); after some brief reading I discovered that it's apparently some proprietary HDMI spec BS that's causing this arbitrary restriction.

I saw rumblings in that short research that there are DP to HDMI adapters that can bypass the restriction, but I honestly have no clue how to search for that. Does anyone know of ones that work or what I should look for to find them? My GPU is a 9070XT.

I know 24hz really isn't a huge deal, but I just want near feature parity with windows so that I can eventually completely ditch it.

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