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mouse G502 -- don't reflect the chantges in piper or ratbagctl

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 19:31

Hi people, when i press the g9 button in g502 (now is resolution cycle) the dpi changes correctly (i can see it via the led bards on my mouse). However, ratbagct and piper always shows the default saved value (1200dpi) regardless of which slot is currently active

ratbagctl warbling-mara dpi get → always returns 1200dpi ratbagctl warbling-mara resolution active get → always returns 1

Setup: CachyOS Linux, Wayland (niri compositor), libratbag/ratbagctl

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Trouble with FFXIV

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 19:19

So I made the jump to Linux about 2 months ago and I've been playing FFXIV without any issues since I initially got it set up but about two weeks ago I started having some issues after running updates. The game started crashing while I was in the middle of raid night so even though I'm pretty anti AI I fed the logs into Gemini to try and get a quick fix so that I wouldn't hold up my team and it told me to turn off DXVK Async because the new Nvidia driver now does whatever it was doing internally? This did stop the crashing issue, but I've been getting really bad stuttering ever since.

The other night we were playing and my screen would freeze completely for 5-6 seconds at a time. At first I thought it was lag, but my partner was playing Warframe downstairs with no issues at all, and other tests on my connection seemed to come up completely fine. So today I tried to do some digging around to find out what the Async thing even is and if turning that off is the culprit but while I'm a little techy, I really don't follow stuff about graphics drivers beyond keeping my system up to date so I don't understand what this Async thing is or what it does really and I'm not able to find anything that would corroborate the reasons Gemini gave me to turn it off. I've also noticed that ever since I ran the updates INACT stopped working, my log files are completely empty and I can't seem to get it working again.

In the two months I've been on Linux I've had a few other apps break after updates and so I've had to use a --rebuild flag a few times to get dependencies to sync back up and I'm wondering if I need to do something like that? But I'm not sure how that works for a game like FFXIV that's running through Wine. Any help fixing these issues would be greatly appreciated.

I'm running:
System:
Host: FATE Kernel: 6.19.11-1-cachyos arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: clang
v: 22.1.2
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.6.4 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: CachyOS base: Arch Linux
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+
rev: 2 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 96 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3400 min/max: 555/3412 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3400
2: 3400 3: 3400 4: 3400 5: 3400 6: 3400 7: 3400 8: 3400 9: 3400 10: 3400
11: 3400 12: 3400 13: 3400 14: 3400 15: 3400 16: 3400 bogomips: 96000
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080] driver: nvidia v: 595.58.03
arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1
empty: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0a:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2206
Device-2: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-5.2.2:23
chip-ID: 046d:085c
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-1 model: BenQ EW3280U res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 139
diag: 806mm (31.7")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: swrast
gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia x11:
drv: nvidia inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 595.58.03
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2
display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
driver: nvidia device-ID: 10de:2206
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

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Zenless Zone Zero stuttering even tho performance (fps) is good

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 19:02

Tried running it on Bazzite, Nobara and now Cachyos

The game boots normally and it sees to run fine. Until you are freeroaming or in a battle

I get freeze screen for 1-2 seconds

It feels like, when a games shaders are not downloaded all the way and the game stutters.

I play this game for 2 years now on windows on the same hardware and never had issues.

I used the latest Proton layer and even tried launching the game from Steam.

I use a Nvidia 3070 (I know Nvidia is not recommended but I didnt find any issues online regarding my problem)

I don‘t know where to look or what else to try, besides some new/old hardware replacements

submitted by /u/JosephRose12
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My game starts up invisible and I don't know how to fix it, please help

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 18:03

I'm a newbie to linux and just recently switched to linux mint from windows yesterday. I've managed to get most things working and all stuff regarding browsing and casual usage is all good. It's just that with this game, it somehow just doesn't show up? Like it works, at the very end and the audio and stuff plays. The mouse cursor even changes and I could click around with the UI. Just no window for some reason.

I did manage to find a roundabout fix. I found that I could set it to windowed in the launcher and it would open up fine. Then I could even switch it back to fullscreen when I'm in game and play the game normally.

However, I don't really want to have to set it back to windowed then fullscreen again each time I open up the game. So I was hoping if someone could help me find a way to fix this. I tried installing the steam port of the game but it still had the same issue. I also tried adding it as a non-steam game and still no.

I'm really stumped on this one. If someone can provide a fix, I would really appreciate it! I'm currently enjoying linux so far and I'm quite liking my customizations.

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No abre Genshin Impact en Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 17:49

Hola gente como están? e estado intentando entrar al juego desde hace unos días y siempre me pasa lo mismo lo descargué desde Epic Games usando Heroic Launcher y pronton 10 como base y abre el launcher de Genshin pero al darle iniciar juego no lo abre, estoy en Nobara, otros juego de steam funcionan de 10 y otros juegos descargados desde Epic Games usando Heroic Launcher también funcionan, probé descargar Genshin desde PortProton e igual me pasó, e probado usar otras versiones de proton, por ejemplo GE-Proton9-20, GE-Proton10-25, GE-Proton10-33, GE-Proton10-34, entre otra, probé con UMU-Proton y también me fallo, estuve intentando borrando la configuración pfx dentro de la carpeta de Heroic y tampoco funcionó, ¿Alguna idea que me puedan dar?

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Audio issues when running games on bottles

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 16:56

Running some games on bottles using my headset (either Analog Surround Output or Pro Audio) and external speakers the game plays this annoying buzzing sound usually on menus and cutscenes. If I start the game using laptop's build-in speaker and then switch to headset it fixes the problem most of the time.

Games that I had problem with are The godfather: The Game, Alpha Protocol, Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered and Call of Duty : Advanced warfare (during heavy-action gameplay).

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Pulsar X3 Mini not detected in BBB Web Driver on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 16:36

I’m trying to get the Pulsar BBB web driver (https://bbb.pulsar.gg/) working on Linux but I’m stuck at device detection.

Distro: CachyOS

Browser: Brave (WebHID supported)

Mouse: Pulsar X3 Mini (1K dongle)

lsusb shows: 3710:5402 Pulsar 1K Dongle

What I’ve done:

Added udev rules:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="3710", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5402", MODE:="0660", GROUP="input", TAG+="uaccess" SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="3710", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5402", MODE:="0660", GROUP="input", TAG+="uaccess"

Reloaded rules + replugged device

Verified device shows up in dmesg as multiple hidraw interfaces (hidraw0–3)

Confirmed user is in input group

Switched from Firefox to Brave (so WebHID should work)

Current issue: BBB site loads fine, “Connect Device” button is clickable but it shows "No compatible devices found"

Right now it looks like Linux exposes the device correctly, but BBB doesn’t recognize it via WebHID. I want to confirm if this is a limitation of the web app or if I’m missing something

submitted by /u/BlueDragonReal
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[Fix] Cosmic Byte Blitz Tri mode Controller on Linux (No XInput / Rumble not working)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 15:56

NOTE: only tried it on new tri mode version of controller as thats what i have.

Problem: when connect with 2.5ghz dongle steam shows as generic device

SOLUTION: just hold "BACK + HOME" , it will vibrate and change input mode and it will appear as xbox controller.

what is back button ? --> buton with ". . . " 3 dots on it at left of home button

confirmation that mode changed:
in generic , 3rd LED is yellow
in xbox mode, 2nd LED is yellow

submitted by /u/saketVerma03
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A black screen appears and disappears when the hertz is increased to 200 on arch linux gnome and cachyos

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 14:57

just flashes a black screen at the same rate on arch linux gnome tried to reduce the hertz stopped installing cachyos the same thing before that this did not happen. I have an amd video card and amd processor. All drivers were installed

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Gaming experinnce

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 13:39

A few months ago I swapped my 7900 XT for a 4090. I frequently hear people complaining about NVIDIA, but my experience has been the opposite — more games run better on NVIDIA for me.

Grayzone Warfare, my favorite game at the moment, ran like crap on AMD. The game stuttered so much that I couldn’t even move my character one meter without it becoming unplayable. After I installed my new NVIDIA card, all issues disappeared. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Based on my nvidia experince the nvidia hate on linux seems unfounded for me at least its an better experience then amd

offcorse an 4090 is better but still meny games went from unplayebale on amd to playebale on nvidia

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Just Cause 4 in game freezing

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 13:29

How to fix just cause 4 in game freezing many times?

It was regularly freezing about 5 - 10 in game while grappling or do some stunts.

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Disco Elysium constantly crashes on Linux Mint (2026)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 13:21

This is my system as of today:

- OS: Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon (64-bit)
- CPU: 12th Gen Intel© Core™ i5-12500T
- GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 770 (integrated GPU)
- RAM/Memory: 8 GB
- Storage: 512 GB
- Steam version is from the official repository (via sudo install command)

What I checked and tried to do:

- Verified the game files
- Uninstalled and re-installed the game
- Tried all the Proton versions for compatibility
- Checked my drivers for updates (its updated)
- Tried to start the game in low graphics
- Tried various commands like "gamemoderun %command%" and "PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%" etc

I tried to run the game on Linux for the first time a few months ago, it crashed just like it does now. I've since deleted and re-installed Steam, did everything above, and nothing fixed this issue.

Is my hardware the problem here, or is this game just not stable on Linux/Proton? I also checked on ProtonDB and I'm surprised that it's considered a very compatible game for Linux, I've had the opposite experience so far.

- My system info from terminal output: https://pastebin.com/4zm9kkWC
- Steam Proton Log: https://www.mediafire.com/file/bkqa18lutu1t00f/Disco_Elysium_Proton_Log%252C_April_9%252C_2026.txt/file

Any help would be gladly appreciated, thank you.

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I want a new distro for nvidea gpu because i cant afford a new one

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 09. April 2026 - 12:30

Hi i got a rtx 5060 8gb model and i was thinking for a distro that was better for gaming than windows 1. But i heard nvidea isn't that good on linux so can somoane recomend a good linux distro?

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