I use the Nvidia app to swap the DLSS models to the newest ones and also for driver level settings.

Nvidia Broadcast uses the GPU for microphone noise cancelling. I have a Ryzen AI 5 340 CPU with an NPU so something that could use the NPU for noise cancelling is also good.

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Testing games takes time, so please feel free to test your own games.

https://github.com/imamhs/Linux_scripts/blob/main/Old_PC_games.md

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I spent a while on this issue because there are no similar posts anywhere, so Im posting this here in hopes that people may come across this post instead of trying to mess around with power profiles. It came out to be a vram problem(the card is 4gb and 4x pcie after all). It seems that sometimes driver(I guess) considers vram full at around 3.5gb or so and puts stuff into ram(I guess) and never tries to put stuff into vram again even when it gets spare space. So how I "solved" the problem is recalled the times when I played Just Cause 2 on 1 gbs of ram when the game requires 512mb free to launch - programs to fill your ram and then empty it to flush all the not very necessary stuff into swap. In our case this way we can flush stuff into ram and have almost completely empty vram to launch the game with. I found no such programs, so had to write one myself. Im too lazy to setup a release script and posting binaries manually is unsecure cringe, so compile it yourself.

TLDR: If you have power usage and fps drops on a low vram&pcie lanes card, try running the mentioned program before running the game

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I been playing Star Citizen on Linux, and it seems to have a lot more overhead on Linux as compared to windows i know it is using a older Game engine. I used LUG to install it, did any one know if there was a fix to help it run with less jitter/laggy. also does any know if NTsync helps?

Edit Ryzen 5 240, 96GBs Ram, Nvidia 5050 8GB, Fedora 44, KDE 6.6.4, Nvidia 595.71.05.

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Yo atm i play on a rlly low end pc (1115g4 3.0ghz 8gb ram), and i was wondering if i should install linux since i dont get too good fps. I mostly play like 5 games: silksong, ultrakill, peak, minecraft, repo, and im wondering if it will run them or if its even worth installing it in the first place, and if so which distro? (btw i dont know much about linux)

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I play Wuthering Waves on Steam, they just patched the game to 3.3 and for some reason the game just does not load past 80%.

I can start the game, login succeeds, just when I try to zone in, the game just stops loading at 80%.

CachyOS 7.0.2-2

9070xt

Launch options:
STEAMOS=1 PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 %command%

I also verified i have no updates needed on my OS.

Hopefully I'm not the only person and either someone has an answer, or we can work together on diagnosing what's the issue

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what do you recommend I do with an i3 2100 and Intel HD Graphics 2000 and 4GB of ram? I was thinking about Linux but I don't really know what you recommend I do and if I add Linux, how is it about installing Windows games, my purpose is to get the most out of it

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Hi, recently my favorite game put the requirement of enabling secure boot, tpm 2.0 and hvci, i know how to get around secure boot and tpm 2.0, but i really don't know if it is possible with the hcvi

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I’ve been struggling with slow Windows updates and bloated software. Has anyone else wanted Linux-like speed while still needing some Windows apps?

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When I started up my computer yesterday morning, logging in took me to a green screen. After restarting with REISUB, some strange things have been happening: namely, I think that xwayland has somehow failed on me. Steam complains about being unable to connect to X, and some other programs just silently fail to start.

Attempting to start Steam via the terminal gives me the following:

steam.sh[5834]: Running Steam on cachyos rolling 64-bit steam.sh[5834]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically setup.sh[5883]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date! steam.sh[5834]: Log already open steam.sh[5834]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables. [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Startup - updater built Apr 28 2026 20:40:29 [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/mereid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' 04/30 11:44:03 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 04/30 11:44:03 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1777411435)/tid(5947) Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables. [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Process started with command-line: '/home/mereid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-child-update-ui' '-child-update-ui-socket' '8' '-srt-logger-opened' 04/30 11:44:03 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Using update UI: xwin 04/30 11:44:03 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(5948) [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Create window CBaseLinuxUpdateUI::BaseCreateWindow: XOpenDisplay failed Error: Check your DISPLAY environment variable and make sure that you have enabled X. If you are running remotely, make sure that you have a remote connection which will allow an X connection. For more information visit https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4050-WOJB-0608 Using host zenity for message [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/mereid/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin) [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal [2026-04-30 11:44:03] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' [2026-04-30 11:44:03] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 400, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' [2026-04-30 11:44:03] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in' [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Checking for update on startup [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Set percent complete: 0 [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Checking for available updates... [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Set status message: Checking for available updates... [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12 [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Set percent complete: -1 [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Manifest download: send request [2026-04-30 11:44:03] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish [2026-04-30 11:44:05] Manifest download: finished [2026-04-30 11:44:05] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1777411435, installed version 1777411435, existing pending version 0 [2026-04-30 11:44:05] Nothing to do [2026-04-30 11:44:05] Verifying installation... [2026-04-30 11:44:05] Set percent complete: -1 [2026-04-30 11:44:05] Verifying all executable checksums [2026-04-30 11:44:05] Set status message: Verifying installation... [2026-04-30 11:44:05] Show window [2026-04-30 11:44:06] Verification complete UpdateUI: skip show logo [2026-04-30 11:44:06] Destroy window [2026-04-30 11:44:06] Shutdown Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/mereid/.local/share/Steam/logs Unable to open display Unable to open displaycrash_20260430114406_5.dmp[6027]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/crash_20260430114406_5.dmp /home/mereid/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 966: 5947 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

Running echo $display gives me a blank return, even after manually setting it.

Running CachyOS latest, everything's all updated. I'm using an AMD RX 9060 XT GPU, so it's not the fault of bad NVidia drivers.

Google seems to have no useful solutions. I'm at a total loss.

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hi i need some help with this when i go on full screen it starts doing this on all games

my config

HP Omen laptop

intel I7 11gen

Rtx 3070 mobile

32Ram

Linux 7.0.2-arch1-1

DE KDE Plasma 6.6.4

WM KWin Wayland

thanks for the help

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Same game , same graphics settings(yes i triple check resolution and up-scaling).
- RTX 50 series laptop.
- Using Proton11 or GE (cant remember which was set last)
- Both on the laptops balanced power profile.
- In fact on Linux I was downloading a game in the background full steam.

Lenovo LOQ with the 5050 and an i7 14700HX, latest windows and fedora Silverblue.

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I’ve been getting sick of Windows garbage and started looking into switching to Linux (main distros I’ve looked at are Pop!_os, Bazzite, and Nobara). The problem is that I don’t really know what I’m doing, I’ve just tried to find distros that would work with my system, allow for my intended uses, and be easier to navigate that something like Arch.

My PC is a MSI Codex R2 AI (32 gb DDR5, intel ultra 7 265, 2Tb SSD, and 5060 ti 8gb)

I mostly use it for gaming through Steam (and Epic for the weekly freebies) but also use things like Krita, OBS, and FreeCAD. (Hence why I don’t know what distro would work best for gaming and productivity).

I would like to fully switch to Linux rather than dual boot with a partition (if I knew how to do that lol). I just don’t know the correct process to do so. Should I delete all my current software and games if I won’t use windows again? How do I even remove windows? How do I set up drivers for things like my GPU? How do I keep track of and conduct updates? What exactly is “kernel level” anti cheat in multiplayer games? Will my wheel still work? (Logitech g920 with pedals and shifter). How do I navigate and learn to use linux in the first place? What resources are essential for the swap? (Hardware and software, I’ve heard that proton is important for steam games). Are there any good visual guides like videos? What are some common mistakes while swapping? There’s probably a lot of things I’ve forgot as I’m typing this.

I’m sorry for so many questions, I just dont like feeling helpless or confused about things before I do them. Also sorry for making this a post and not a thread, the thread seemed as though replies to inquiries weren’t exactly a guarantee. Thanks in advance for any replies.

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Hey guys.

I'm looking for help with Steam in Big Picture Mode.

I'm having a slowdown issue. And it's intermittent. Sometimes it works fine, and sometimes it's slow.

As you can see in the videos, there's also some strange behavior; it seems to open twice. It starts, closes, and then starts again.

In the second video, it works normally after opening twice, but often when it does this, it also opens and runs slowly.

I've already tried putting it in Windowed Mode and playing around with the Blocked GPUs list setting. It doesn't matter if I open it by clicking the button within Steam, using the joystick, or directly with a command.

Sometimes it works fine, and sometimes it doesn't, no matter how I open it.

Anyone else having this problem? Any ideas on how to fix it?

I'm on Arch, Linux 6.19

Wayland, KDE Plasma 6.6.4

Steam version 1777411435

PC Specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

AMD RX 9060 XT

16GB DDR4

https://reddit.com/link/1szeitp/video/f697lbacm7yg1/player

Opened with the controller home button.

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Just updated to Fedora 44 on my setup (running an RTX 5070 Ti) and everything has been super smooth so far, but I did hit one annoying snag with Counter-Strike 2.

The mouse movement was completely messed up. The camera would jitter and snap all over the place, making it basically unplayable. It seems like the game has some trouble handling relative mouse input with the move to GNOME 50 and Wayland.

If you're seeing the same thing, adding this to your launch options fixes it immediately:

SDL_VIDEO_WAYLAND_RELATIVE_MOUSE_MODE=1 %command%

Other than that, the performance has been rock solid. Hope this saves someone some troubleshooting time!

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Specs:

• Linux Mint 22.3 with generic kernel (Also a CachyOS dualboot)
• Ryzen 7 2700X
• Nvidia RTX 2070 Super (Tried both latest 595-open drivers and going down to the previous 580-open version)
• 32GB DDR4 at 3200mhz

Very long story short, I remember getting this game to play fine when I first installed Mint last year but recreating that success after reinstalling recently has not been possible. Not with Proton hotfix, experimental, GE, different numbered versions. I have installed Kentie's launcher, the DX10, DX9, and OpenGL renderers (with the recommended Protontricks from this guide + the compiler the comments also mention https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2967089130) and all of them appear as options but:

• D3D10 - 2 FPS in menus and in-game, just 2. Sometimes no assets besides GUI appear at all. Can still open the advanced options with "preferences" but none do anything to improve performance.
• D3D9 - Technically runs but only at about 20fps in menus and in-game. Similar preferences issues.
• OpenGL- Error message when hitting play
• Generic Direct3D support - Mostly runs fine but refuses to fullscreen.

Checked out Revision to see if that changes things, and similar issues but only with OpenGL and DirectX9 as options. Turning off Steam Overlay didn't do anything. My best guess at this point is somehow Mint installed something Deus Ex needs to work last year but my reinstall or later drivers just don't? Maybe?

I had CachyOS installed for other reasons, I've checked there and it runs the game fine without issue on each renderer and swapping Proton around (cachyos, GE, experimental, etc). But I would like to figure out why the hell Deus Ex is giving me all this grief on Mint specifically, and hopefully be able to fix it so I don't need to dualboot as often for games like this? I've tried most of the fixes people suggested on ProtonDB, especially people also on Mint with launch options like "DXVK_FRAME_RATE=120 %command%", or gamemoderun, or downgrading Proton, but no dice there as well.

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