I've been having an issue for at least a year or 2 with this 165hz Freesync monitor I bought. The issue happened on any distro running GNOME. Basically, when using my monitor at its 165hz refresh rate, my performance/framerate in games would just tank to like 20fps after a time of being logged in, VRR enabled or not. I think it may have been triggered by another app going fullscreen like Youtube. Restarting my monitor somehow solved it, but I found a better solution: I just set it to 144hz. Lagbomb instantly gone.

It is not the Steam LD preload issue or a scheduler issue, I think it's a specific EDID thing with my monitor. I was restarting my monitor before launching a game for years. Just wanted to share because after finding this workaround I feel I can actually recommend linux again.

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So I have switched from Windows to Arch Linux and so far most of my games (somehow) able to run with either Proton or Wine. For Proton one I add it as non-steam game and use proton compatibility there. My games are Honkai Impact 3rd, Genshin, HSR, ZZZ, and MH Wilds (please don't judge my game library T-T).

Now the background is done, I have a problem. The longer I play any of these games, the lower the fps becomes and it infects the next game I play. For instance, I play zzz on around 100fps, after 30 minute to 1 hour it turned into around 30fps, gpu usage goes from around 60-70% spiked into 100%, and after closing that game and play something else like MH Wilds, it becomes 20fps or lower (which usually when played it's around 60fps). The problem is gone if I reboot my PC, never fail. I already try multiple proton version from GE-9-25, proton 10, cachyos-something, any that at least let the game run. Try to check with ChatGPT (yes I use it, sorry) and I feel like it put me in circles.

For my specs, here goes:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

RAM: 16GB

GPU: Radeon 6700XT

OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 26.0.4-arch1.1

kernel driver: amdgpu

drivername: radv

OS: Arch linux with Hyprland + Wayland

For Honkai Impact 3rd I and HSR I use the launcher from Honkers Launcher and Honkers Railway Launcher. The rest is using Steam (besides MH Wilds, all is added as non-steam game). If you need more I can give it, just tell me how, I am new in Linux.

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Hello,

I have a strange graphic glitch that I only see when I play Crimson Desert and I can't find any solution.

https://preview.redd.it/3lic18pf9ctg1.png?width=1921&format=png&auto=webp&s=2f7d3211209eb00ae89601cace92c05c0274087c

As you can see there this rough outline that kind of ruin the immersion, however it's much more pronounced indoor or inside cities than in the wild.

Here is my parameters :

I tried with or without FSR upscalling or frame gen, doesn't change anything

Digital Foundry recommended settings

My specs :
Ubuntu 25.10
CPU : AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X
GPU : AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XT
RAM : 32,0 Go DDR4

I don't even know what this graphical glitch is called, I found something like "flickering" or "shimmering" but i'm not sure.

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So I've been having issues with nvidia for a while now, it isn't anything major, it's just that some games work 50%+ better on windows then on linux. I've been banging my head on the wall trying to figure out what's happening.

My setup:

Arch Linux (nvidia-open-dkms drivers 595.58.03 ) kernel linux-tkg 6.19.10 self-compiled, kde DE

Nvidia RTX 3060 OC 12GB (using VRR, issues persist without VRR)

Ryzen 5 3600

32GB DDR4 3200MHz

MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max motherboard

So what's really happening is, my gpu utilization in games is very low, while on the other side on windows, they run completely fine. I've tested a couple of games, Skyrim, Hogwarts Legacy, Elden Ring, Zenless Zone Zero, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced, Euro Truck Simulator 2.

Out of all of these tests, all of the games run better on windows compared to linux, the average on gpu usage is ~60%, while windows has all of these games running with 92-100% gpu usage constantly (same cpu usage across linux and windows), with 40-50% better fps. I tried using newer/older kernels, different kernels, older nvidia drivers, disabling GSP firmware, enabling PBO in bios for my cpu, none of which helped, hell i even tried "plug and play" distros like bazzite and cachy that had the exact same issue. The proton versions I've been using are: proton-cachyos, proton-ge, vanilla-proton-experimental with older versions of proton such as Proton 9 and 10 (8 couldn't run some of the games). Oh yeah, and I've tried wayland and x11, same perf issues.

I've also tried using some of the added-in proton env vars specifically for nvidia such as

PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_NVIDIA_LIBS=1

Also using feral gamemode, and I've also tried proton wayland which sometimes crashes the games so i kept using xwayland instead. Other then proton i tried compiling wine and using wine-tkg to run some of these games, compiling dxvk, vkd3d-proton, with no luck same issue persists.

I also understand that most of these games are dx12, and i would expect a 20% worse performance, not 50%. Also, Skyrim seems like the worst, windows runs vanilla skyrim at 160+ fps most of the time, while linux struggles to get past 70 fps. Tried mods, makes it even worse (while of course, made running it on windows better).

I've tested windows stuff on NTFS, while i kept linux stuff to btrfs.

Also for any other stuff that's I should disclose let me know since i don't know what to post except these essentials.

please if anyone can help with this / experienced / fixed this

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This might sound up side down, a windows server for a linux computer, but this is actually a great way to save money on a laptop for linux gamers. I bought a ThinkPad for 250$ and I can run basically any game all maxed out on my laptop anywhere I go. it was very easy too with Claude on my side to help me out.

I use Sunshine on my Windows PC and Moonlight on my linux laptop. Removed log in password on my Windows PC so I can restart it remotely and its opens Sunshine automatically so its ready to use. I use VDD as a viritual monitor too so I dont need mouse, keyboard or monitor for my windows PC, its totally controlled by my linux laptop. This setup adds 2-6ms at home, and 50-60ms when I access my Windows PC from another country.

Thought maybe someone would like to know about this possibility here in this subreddit

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So I'm currently using MX Linux xfce and wanted to install steam, but the app doesn't log into my account. I even installed steam needed libraries, disconnected and reconnected the wifi, it does not log in. How to fix?

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Hi, everyone.

I am a brand new Linux user of just about a week now. I've gotten mostly everything running, and installed my Nvidia drivers just fine. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to download and install cursors like I can on Windows; the process on Windows is stupidly easy and I'm at a complete loss for what to do here.

For reference, I am running Fedora 43 with KDE Plasma. My GPU is an RTX 3080 (I'm not sure if that matters xP)

My ideal cursor pack would be the default Windows 7 cursors. I like them, they're plain and boring and perfect, and I don't want to use any other cursor pack. However, I cannot find an actual cursor pack in system settings, and the ones I download on the web just don't work. As an example, I've download a cursor pack called "ModernXP cursors". I try to "install from file" and nothing pops up - when I point it to the "ModernXP2" directory, it just does not accept the cursors as valid cursors. The files are extracted and the file structure seems to be the same as the other cursor packs that come with fedora, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I'm also a little bit confused about why the system settings don't have an actual installable Windows cursor pack from the "get new" page? Above I've attatched an image of a "Win10OS" cursor theme pack; but I'm curious as to why there's a SHIT ton of cursor packs that clearly *want* to be Windows cursors... but aren't? Why not just make the actual thing?

I'm absolutely certain the solution is dead simple and as a newbie and a dumbass, I'm missing it right in front of me. But I'm not going to give up on Linux. I desperately want to move away from Windows... I just love my cursors too much, lol.

If any of you know how exactly to do this, please write it out for me, step my step, dead simple as possible. Thank you :3

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So I'm trying to get CS2 to run (even though I know frames won't be amazing) for my girlfriends brother to play with me and my friends but the game won't launch natively and only on proton (which of course breaks VAC) I've tried a few things but can't get it to run natively despite seeing lots of people say it works well.... Any suggestions? I've done the usual updating software and drivers as well as deleting CFG and verifying and tried reinstalling but to no avail.

Im fairly new to Linux and this is the only issue I'm having for now.

Specs:

Zorin (latest version I assume?)

I7 8650u

8GB DDR4 (2X4)

Intel UHD 620

Thanks all!!

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i tried so many proton compatibility like GE and also cachy and also i tried so many game launch option, i'm also searched it on protonDB but it still doesn't solve it

i'm using MSI bravo b7e laptop with ryzen 5 7535hs and rx 6550m

pls help me :)

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so want to know what difference between this to cachy os wine is on 10.6 version where as wine is at 11.6 lastest new update coming. As u have heard or not that wine is getting better fps than windows in lastest podcast of Linus tech tips he mentioned that just curious can I get it or not

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on linux (cachyos) with mediatek mt7922 i'm getting some bursts of net jitter on cs2 (and ONLY cs2, this doesnt happen elsewhere) like the image attached. they happen in 6-8 second bursts and occur every 20 ish seconds. i'm using steam linux runtime i've tried turning off powersave, switched to iwd, disabling aspm, but none of it works. i dont have access to wired internet, so i'm kinda stuck here.

❯ inxi -aN Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: c000 bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200 Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 0d:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:0616 class-ID: 0280

help?

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Hey everyone, good evening. First time posting here, nice to meet you all.

For the past few months I’ve been really tempted to switch to Linux, so I finally decided to take the first step. I started with Bazzite since I read it was a safe option to avoid “breaking everything,” but I ended up running into a lot of issues related to my GPU (RTX 5060) that I couldn’t solve.

Now I’m thinking about going a bit further and trying CachyOS.

Is it worth switching from Windows if you have an NVIDIA 5000 series GPU? I don’t know much yet, but I’m planning to dive deeper into this world.

Thanks a lot to anyone who takes the time to read

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Guys, there is some way to play GTA V online with friends? I checked areweanticheatyet and the game is unsupported, but so it is Ghost Recon Wildlands but there's a solution at least to play private matches

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Death Stranding 2 keeps crashing out of the blue; there’s no specific part where it happens – it just crashes. The audio carries on for a moment but then stops. (I’m at the start of the game, about to make my first delivery.) The FPS has been fluctuating between 40 and 60.

I’ve tried the experimental Proton on Steam, Proton GE and Proton Cache because I saw that they improved CPU usage

I’m on the latest version of the game.

My specs are: CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X, GPU: Arc B580, 32 GB RAM, kernel 6.17 on Linux Mint.

The settings are on High; I’ve disabled reflections and set depth of field to Medium; upscaling is via Xess with native anti-aliasing.

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CachyOS. Inxi output - https://pastebin.com/Bc6Mygus

Tried both with Proton Experimental and proton-cachyos-10.0-20260320 (steam linux runtime)

I have en_us and lt_lt layouts for my keyboard, but the result is completely identical no matter which layout I use

Dishonored 1 (launched straight from Steam) - https://streamable.com/rysp93

Fallout 4 (installed and initially launched through Steam, but now setup to run through SteamTinkerLaunch's handled Vortex Mod Manager) - https://streamable.com/m6e139

In both videos, you can see me going through all the number keys on top of the keyboard (i.e. not numberpad). 1-7 works okay. 0 and - also works okay. Meanwhile, both 8 and 9 are instead registering as = (can see that on Fallout video), and = itself also isn't working as expected. However, if I am not in a game, and try to use these keys in any different program (including writing here), then the whole bar is perfectly normal, even if I run the game but alt tab out of it.

1234567890-= / ąčęėįšųū„“-ž

I also found out my F1-12 keys are also misbehaving inside of games.

Anyone has any idea what issue am I having and how to solve it?

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With the new Gray Zone Warfare update I figured it was a good time to test out Linux compatibility and see where things stand. Here's what I found.

System:

• OS: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (kernel 6.18.7)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
• Driver: NVIDIA 580.126.18
• RAM: 32 GiB

Session 1 — Stock Proton (Default)
Zero configuration, just hit play. Got through the main menu, character creation, joined a live server, and completed the tutorial without a single issue. Auto graphics detected Epic settings across the board and ran at a consistent 60–85 FPS with no stutters, no shader hitching, nothing. Genuinely impressive for a silver rated title.

Session 2 — The Wheels Come Off
Came back later and immediately started getting hit with "Easy Anti-Cheat Action - The Client failed an anti-cheat client runtime check" on every server join. Tested the following trying to resolve it:

• Proton Experimental — same EAC error
• Proton 9.0-4 — EAC actually ran its installer this time, got further, but still booted within seconds of joining
• Verified game file integrity
• Added PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 %command% launch option for a mouse capture issue, helped slightly but didn't fix it, and EAC still kicked

Bottom Line:
Session 1 was genuinely gold-tier performance with zero effort. Session 2 was unplayable due to EAC. No idea what changed between sessions, no system updates, no game updates that I noticed. This inconsistency is probably exactly why it sits at silver (ProtonDB rating). If you're on Nvidia and it works, it really works. But don't count on it being reliable.

Worth noting, reports suggest AMD users have a harder time than Nvidia even on good days, so keep that in mind.

ProtonDB Rating: Silver feels right. Could be gold one day, could be a brick the next.

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Hello, hoping that someone will be able to help me here. I'm trying to get emulation to work on Lutris, but not having any luck. I've installed the Libretro runner and downloaded a SNES core for it. I've got the Chrono Trigger ROM set up, but when I try to run it, it says "no core has been selected for this game." I go into the game configuration and try to select a core under 'game options' but nothing happens when I click the core drop down menu.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Or if I should be using something else entirely?

TIA

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to find a relatively modern Linux distribution that still works with the legacy NVIDIA 340xx drivers.

i've tried a bunch of distro (Debian 13, MX Linux, Arch) and neither worked with my gpu

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