I'm using Linux Mint in a laptop and it is amazing, the performance increase is quite noticeable and it is a pleasure not using microslop. Now I'm thinking about doing the same with my gaming PC but I'm not sure because I'm reading in this subreddit some problems with frame generation (though these were the last year)

How is it nowadays? Is it as good as in windows?

PD: I also ask how good raytracing is because I also am seeing here some problems

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should i limit the power usage limit to 80w?

This is the performance in Windows 10

Performance that i got in cachyos limiten the power usage limit

Hello, I want to apply undervolting to my gpu because it reaches very high temperatures. On windows, I’m using MSI Afterburner to do this, and i managed to get a profile of 1920 MHz and 850 mV. As you can see in the image, i get that level of performance. What i want is to replicate this as closely as possible in CachyOS. My question is: how can i achieve that? is it enough to just limit the power usage limit? should i set it to 80W as shown by the in-game msi metrics? i also set a maximum gpu clock limit. Is that correct?

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Currently running linux on my desktop and wondering if there is a way to demo Forza Horizon 5 without an outright purchase, just to test the compatibility. I know its rated GOLD on protondb but want to check it out before a buy.

Currently happy and a 12-year Linux Mint user so I wont switch or hop distros to test.

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I have a Dell Latitude E6440 with an HD 4600 which isn't Vulkan-compatible, so on Linux I can only game with OpenGL, which gives me worse performance than DirectX on Windows. What do you recommend — keeping a dual boot with Windows for gaming, or just sticking with OpenGL on Linux?

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Crusader Kings III just got a major update released, along with a new expansion pass to bring extra content to the popular Paradox strategy game.

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when i press back of forward buttons on mouse, it interacts with other windows not in focus.

happens with games, discord and sometimes while in game and swithes focus to other open windows.

This all started after i ran updates last week.

this is my first real bug since switching to linux(5 months ago.)

In video i press back/forward on mouse then tab back to browser and it happens again.

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Eu queria comprar um notebook, o melhor que consegui achar foi um linux ubuntu, nunca usei linux mas eu me adapto bem, porem nao sei ate que ponto eu conseguiria fazer as coisas sem ter dificuldade… queria saber como funciona para jogar jogos da steam, baixar jogos, jogar em emulador ou jogos baixados da internet.. Vi que o linux e bastante personalizavel e isso foi o que mais me chamou a atencao… mas tenho medo de ter muitas dificuldades. O notebook teria ultilidade para jogos mais leves, desenho digital, estudo e programação basica/mediana

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Hey r/linux_gaming!

I posted 9 months ago about my game Chipmatic, and I didn't expect so many positive comments.

Today, I'm very happy to announce I just released Chipmatic on Steam with native Linux support!

Chipmatic is a cozy mining/automation game with no timers or enemies. You control a mining robot called Chip on its quest to reach Earth's core.

It has also been fully verified on Steam Deck if any of you prefer to play games like these on a handheld instead (like I do).

We've tested thoroughly on Linux so it should work perfectly fine, but if any of you run into any niche issues feel free to post on the Steam Discussions or on our Discord (link in-game) and we'll do our best to get them solved.

Thank you all for your support, linux community!

Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3780950/Chipmatic/

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Hey linux users! I'm new to linux and theres one thing that's bothering me when playing games on linux which is my controller won't rumble (vibrate 😏 oh boy.) Uh in windows it does work the moment I plug it so its technically plug and play, but on linux it does not work for some reason I've no idea why

My controller is some generic one (Ant esports GP115) tho it does support vibrations since I've always used it for years now on windows and vibrations worked out of the box.

I'm using cachyos (I use arch btw)

I've Game Rumble enabled in the steam controller settings, Thanks!!

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Does anyone know about potential solutions for VRAM management issues on Nvidia GPUs and the lack of GTT support (the equivalent of shared memory in Windows)?

This is what glxinfo -B has to say:

.. Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info): Dedicated video memory: 4096 MB Total available memory: 4096 MB Currently available dedicated video memory: 3443 MB OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 ..

As you can see, the total available memory is the same as the built-in VRAM amount (4GB), which is not the case on AMD GPUs since those do benefit from additional RAM that adds to the total amount.

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Inspired by Natalie Vock's blogpost on https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/
(you should probably read all of that brilliant post to know what I actually made)

I made a poc so hyprland can join in on the fun, and not just KDE.
https://github.com/egnappahz/hyprland-dmemcg-boost

Youll need an arch-linux based distro, and a kernel that supports it (most kernels are in the stage on picking up on it, at the end Im sure it will be everywhere judging by the adoption rate)

I installed the cachyos kernel on my vanilla arch linux because there seems to be a lot of love poured in it (switched from linux-zen), but I already saw signs of linux-zen picking this up aswell.

Quick help how to get the cachyos kernel on ANY type of arch linux distro:

pacman.conf:
[cachyos-v4]
Server = https://mirror.cachyos.org/repo/x86_64_v4/cachyos-v4/

(You should probably use v3 on older cpus)

also add the funky cachyos archs in the same conf file:
Architecture = x86_64 x86_64_v4 x86_64_v3

Then just:
sudo pacman-key --recv-keys F3B607488DB35A47 --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key F3B607488DB35A47

then you can just install the kernel like that:
sudo pacman -S linux-cachyos linux-cachyos-headers

And adapt whatever bootloader you have

When you get the kernel running, or any kernel that supports it, this should work:

[ !19439 ] eggzpc ~ # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/dmem.capacity drm/0000:03:00.0/vram 17095983104 drm/0000:18:00.0/vram 536870912

(I got 2 GPU's here)

from then you can follow the instructions from https://github.com/egnappahz/hyprland-dmemcg-boost to get the userland tool going.

The only "downside" from this implementation is that you will have to do the "scoping" yourself, youll have to run each game inside its own wrapper. People seem to suggest gamescope for this to do the segmentations, but I am not a fan at all of gamescope, I dont use it, I let hyprland do the game compositing

gamescope --mangoapp -- systemd-run --user --scope --slice=app.slice -- %command%

But what I do is make my own wrapper. Heroic supports this via the wrapper section:

exec systemd-run --user --scope --slice=app.slice -- "$@"

And steam has the commandline override:

systemd-run --user --scope %command%

Now yes, this is some extra work per game, I realise this can be painful. I personally always work with a global wrapper script in heroic (for mangohud and other stuff), so I already had a central wrapper script going, so for me was painless;
But I realise theres some room for improvement there for other users. We will see how the userland adoption goes from this nifty kernel improvement. Better options might pop up.

Last note: if you have 2 GPUs like I do, it will ignore the smaller gpu (Vram wise). Thats likely the best route to take anyway, because all of this is untested and not as useful at best on a iGPU.

I hope this is useful to people. I only tested this on my system and it seems to work, so there might be unexpected bugs here for others. I'm happy to hear them

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For video context, whenever a communication wheel is used (voiceline, spray, emote wheels), my mouse flicks my hero's perspective up. This doesn't happen during normal gameplay, only when using communication tools, deaths, text chat, switching heroes, loading in, etc. I'm using CachyOS on GNOME 50.1 as I just switched from KDE Plasma. Also using the Steam version of Overwatch with proton-cachyos-10.0 slr compatibility. Using a dual monitor setup, 2560 x 1440p 200.1hz aspect ratio if that helps any. The *only* launch option that has worked for me so far has been: gamescope --force-grab-cursor -- %command%, but this messes with my resolution, doesn't fullscreen correctly etc. No, it's not my mouse sensor as I've tried using multiple mice. I've also tried switching my polling rate on my mouse as that's been an issue before. All drivers and packages are up to date. I've been searching for a fix for hours with no hope. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm willing to try anything out. If there's any other communities that can help out I wouldn't mind cross-posting either. Thanks! ^^

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I am running GTA V Enhanced on my Linux Gaming Notebook with AMD CPU and AMD GPU.
GTA V was running fine in the past. But recently the game only runs for a while and then it begins to stutter and the FPS drops to 0.
Is this a know problem? Or is it running well for others?
I am on Steam.

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Start your week off with a bunch of games to add to your collection with the Sharp Shooters Humble Bundle.

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KDE Plasma 6.7 is shaping up to be another excellent release of the popular Linux desktop environment, with exciting new features rolling in.

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Spent long hours tuning the perfect undervolting/fan curve in MSI Afterburner on Windows. Then rebooted back to Linux - to be blasted with fan noise, excessive heat and power consumption.

I had this experience forever with the Founders Edition 5080, and there are so much cards on the market with totally sh*t profiles shipped by default.

Being so frustrated with this for such a long time, I decided to put all this AI Codex hype into some good use and to reverse engineer the Windows stuff. Managed to fully understand and parse the Aterburner profiles, figured a lot of from the Nvidia libraries on Linux, but the funny thing that eventually exactly at that time, the human made pull request made it's way into LACT, so the voltage setter problem got solved!

Anyway, if for instance you dual boot like me, and have nicely crafted setup in Afterburner with your favorite profile, then with this tool you can import this to Linux in a single command. The whole thing is not just yolo vibe code in a single prompt, I have 20 years of experience doing low level Linux work, so don't worry you will get some random results.

You just need to provide the main Afterburner Program Files dir, either mount NTFS Windows drive in Linux, or just copy the directory some other way, nothing more is needed! The profile is parsed in a dry run, so you can check if it parsed a reasonable voltage and fan curve before trying it out on a real machine. The next step could be to run in foreground and monitor how the card behaves under load. Finally you can persist those changes in systemd.

I tested it only with Afterburner 4.6.6 and Nvidia newest 595 driver on Linux and Blackwell card. Happy to fix any issues if it does not work for your card, but probably we need to stick only to recent Afterburner versions, GPUs and drivers. Also it would be great if you could report any success on using the tool! It is ment to apply an actual undervolt curve, which is flattened at some frequency and voltage sweet spot, below the stock configuration, so you won't do any crazy overclocks with that. The aim is efficiency not raw power, keep that in mind.

-- https://github.com/jpietek/PenguinBurner --

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Happy Penguin Burning!

BTW For my 5080 FE it is max around 220W, 2600Mhz nad 875mV - order of magnitude better experience with undervolting than stock.

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i have tried using rog-control-center to change the fan curves, but it doesnt seem to work properly - i set it to reach 100% speed at 80 degrees, hit 80 degrees but the fan doesnt seem to do much (yes i have ticked enable and clicked apply)

is there any way to bypass the curves and just set it to 100% when i am playing games that use a lot of cpu

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Can't wait on the Steam Machine from Valve? Don't want to build your own? Perhaps the Playnix might be what you want then.

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The original Alone in the Dark survival horror series has a fresh cross-platform game engine reimplementation, with lots of enhancements.

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