been trying to play some games lately, like black mesa. i've been stricken to find that anytime I open them, except for tf2 and tf2c for some reason. this shows, and I don't understand why? to clarify, I use manjaro, the game IS there, if I alt+tab, and hover over on taskbar, it shows that the menu is active and all. However, upon re-entry, this appears again. with or without a Proton version, like 10.0 or experimental, I can't shake this off. I don't understand why TF2 and Classified are unaffected from this rgb line meshing, but they aren't.

Any help or solutions would be appreciated

i'm using ver:26.0.4 of Manjaro

this has occured with other games like minecraft, canvas of kings, space engineers, and subnautica.

i've tried using memtester to see if maybe my ram has gone bad. However, when I ran tf2, i tested it with both cpu prioratized and then gpu prioratized and it handled just fine, no errors, bugs, or screen tearing issues, and especially not this.

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For anyone considering the switch from Windows to Linux, this might be the push you need.

I always assumed gaming on Linux would involve a ton of setup and tinkering. I just installed Fedora KDE, all I had to do was install the Nvidia drivers, download Steam, and play. The exact same steps I would have likely taken on Windows.

I always read posts about Proton and Wine and figured I’d have to manually configure them to get any games running. Turns out, Steam handles all of that.​

I would’ve the switch months or years ago if I know it was this easy.

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Currently, I have a dualboot linux & windows. Linux for everything and windows 10 for gaming. However, now that windows 10 runs out and windows 11 is not an option (for me), I consider completely moving to Linux.

Is there an easy way how I can check whether all my epic games and all my steam games run under Linux? For example an API that you can query or a webapp? Checking each title on its own sounds tedious.

Thanks in advance!

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Currently trying to get two games working on my LCD Steam Deck for an upcoming LAN party that are claimed to work on Proton/WINE, but not having any luck.

The first one is Split/Second from Black Rock Studios, which everyone on ProtonDB claims works great through Proton. Knowing the game works portably on Windows, I've copied all the game files, added it as a non-steam game, and then nothing happens. In Gaming mode, the Steam logo just spins forever, and Desktop mode Steam says the game is running, but no window ever pops up. I've tried changing the Proton versions to 9.0-4, Experimental, GE 10-1, as ProtonDB users claimed work, and even a few random WINE versions through Lutris for good measure, and I can never get a game window to even appear.

The second is Shaun White Snowboarding from Ubisoft. This one I had to get an original disc for, since it's not on Steam anymore, made an ISO and installed that through Lutris, since SWS doesn't install portably. The game seems to have installed fine, but once again, I can't get it to start proper. Running the game through Lutris with multiple versions of Proton and WINE causes nothing to show up, and Lutris to change the "Stop" button back to "Play". I've set WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY to 4:0,1,2,3 in Environment Variables at the recommendation of someone else in that subreddit, as SWS has a known issue with CPUs above 8 cores, and that has had no effect, nor has limiting CPU cores with Lutris' own option.

Am I missing something? I've even formatted my entire Steam Deck just to see if that would change anything, and that seems to have just been a waste of time.

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For the first time, Linux gaming feels less like a project and more like a real option.

Not perfect — anti-cheat, launchers, modding, HDR, Nvidia issues still suck.

But overall 2026 feels better than any previous year.

Am I overstating it, or does it finally feel normal to you too?

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I've been using EndeavourOS for a long time, and I didn't have any issues with it but my tinkering and occasional mess made the system unstable sometimes so I decided to start anew by installing CachyOS.

Everything was going fine until I tried playing Roblox, which is my most played game atm. For the first 20 minutes, the game ran perfectly, even better than on EOS, but after 20 minutes it starts chugging hard. It stutters constantly, making the game unplayable.

I tried many different things, using gamemode, game-performance, gamescope, OpenGL instead of Vulkan, undoing CachyOS optimizations, messing with the ZRAM settings, the swap. I don't even remember all the things I tried, but nothing worked. No matter what I did, after 20 minutes, the game starts stuttering. I checked the RAM and it doesn't even leak memory enough to say that could be causing problems. I don't know what it could be anymore, and I'm not in the mood to reinstall EndeavourOS again. All my other games work perfectly, better than on EOS, but Roblox is the only one doing this.

Here are my Sober logs: https://pastebin.com/TMg447Y9

Kernel: 6.19.10-1-cachyos
CPU: i5-11400
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
RAM: 16 GB

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Hi everyone. I have an RTX 5050 card and I'm using Cachyos. I prefer playing games on high settings. Should I launch the game with Vulkan or DX12? Also, what optimizations can I use to minimize FPS loss for Nvidia? I need launcher commands.

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hi guys, i'll be as short as possible in this: even tho i am pretty new to Linux (i have some experience with Ubuntu and can use bash a bit) i am not asking for distro suggestion in general here, i have a particular question. I want to try daily driving Linux on my gaming pc. I asked under some YT video what distro should i hop on: i like bazzite because Is simple and reliable, but people said that i should use some more "bleeding edge" distro like CachyOS because of my Hardware (i have a RX 9070XT).

I checked on bazzite's GitHub repo for its releases and saw that usually they release their update containing the newer mesa drivers around a week later the mesa update itself (for example, mesa 26.0.3 was released on March 18th and bazzite pushed his update with the new mesa on March 26th), which i guess is not that much of a delay (like for debian based i should wait 6 months). What would you suggest? I like bazzite philosophy and It alligns with what i had in mind: using my gaming PC just to game on It (no work, no university, just gaming and internet surfing), but still can't decide. I really don't have time to stay behind arch.

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I am seeing that it is common to get around 90 FPS with a 9070xt on linux using even higher settings than what I have listed below. I am averaging about 50. My mesa driver is the most recent for Fedora - Mesa 25.3.6. Any advice on optimizing my system for better performance would be appreciated.

Game settings:

2560x1440

upscale: off (do not have FSR 4 available and FSR 3.1 looks like garbage)

everything on ultra

My computer specs:

Distro - Fedora 43

KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.3

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0

Qt Version: 6.10.2

Kernel Version: 6.19.8-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor

Memory: 64 GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

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I've used both Ubuntu and Fedora and have had consistent problems getting Steam to work in Fedora. I like the system for everything else, but it's not usable for steam. I have an Nvidia GPU, which some say is an issue. I don't understand where the problem is stemming from. I have used both flatpak and the rpm version. It seems completely random when it will successfully launch. Often, it says it is running in processes, but doesn't ever show up. Sometimes I will give up and it will open 5-10 minutes after trying to open it.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Edit: It opened as I typed this post. Took over 5 minutes to open. Why is this the case?

Edit 2: After posting, it is not showing up on my screen, but will interrupt my typing periodically.

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Hey everyone,

I recently switched back to Windows 11 after spending about 8 months on CachyOS and Bazzite. Overall, I genuinely enjoyed the experience especially gaming, which felt surprisingly stable and smooth. But two problems kept nagging at me and eventually pushed me back to Windows.

Problem 1: Poor screen share quality in Discord
Whenever I shared my screen in Discord voice calls, my friends always complained about the low quality blurry, choppy and laggy. I tried switching to Vesktop and a couple of other Discord clients, but nothing really fixed it. This was probably the most frustrating issue since it affected hanging out with friends daily.

Problem 2: Bad microphone quality on my SteelSeries Bluetooth headset
Without the SteelSeries Sonar software (which unfortunately has no Linux version), my headset's mic sounded noticeably worse. Sonar does a lot of the heavy lifting for noise suppression and audio processing, and without it, I sounded pretty rough on calls.

Problem 3 (but not super important, so i dont need a fix for that):

VR Gaming was just aweful, but i dont really use it that much.

Despite these issues, I'd really love to come back to Linux the gaming experience genuinely felt more stable than on Windows, and I prefer the overall environment. So before I give up on it entirely:

- Is there a known fix or workaround for Discord/Vesktop screen share quality on Linux?
- Is there any Linux-compatible alternative to SteelSeries Sonar for Bluetooth headset mic processing? I tried EasyEffects but had only problems with it.

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I installed arch 2 days ago and no fans were working tried to fix it couldn’t.

I want good performance in gaming even if my cpu blows up ( jk but arch gnome was limiting my performance and fans were not getting detected )

I prefer arch based if not anything will do ig.

Just any OS where I install it download marvel rivals and it works out of the box

Also another question : vulkan takes hours should I skip it ?

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Recently started playing Redout 2, mostly in the living room on the TV. I wanted to try it out on my Triple 32” 4K setup with a bezel hiding kit from Etsy, that I use for work and for sim racing (180° fov). I tried running redout at the full width (11520x2160), but it was so stretched and I had no vertical fov In the game, I couldn’t see where I was going! So I settled for 32:9. 6144x2160

My screens are scaled at 125%, so I need to use the native Wayland driver to allow for the game to be rendered at 4K and scaled correctly, otherwise the game renders at the functional resolution, and is blurry due to it rendering at non-native resolution.

Without the Wayland driver, I am able to size and position the game using a window rule. But that doesn’t seem to work with the native Wayland window, so I enabled a virtual monitor at the desired resolution in the winecfg, and presto the window is positioned and sized to be 32:9 centered within my 3 screens.

I am running Huenicorn to control the lights, Philips hue

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Mesa 26.0.3 vulkan stuttering issues rx7800xt

is anyone else facing these issues specifically with vulkan games where the game just stutters more than a middle schooler trying to read in front of the class. like detroit become human when I played it a couple of months ago ran flawlessly.,

then when I decided to pick it up today it micro stutted like crazy, I mean the frame time graph was more spikey than my heart rate. the same for rdr2 when playing with vulkan but direct games like re requiem are running flawlessly.

I read online that there is a bug in this driver version that is causing this error specifically on vulkan games. so should I roll back or should I wait for when 26.0.4 will release on bazzite. (I have bazzite stable).

any help would be appreciated.

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