hello everyone,

With Windows 11 getting worse and worse I recently switched to cachyOS. I was wondering has anyone noticed a significant different between a 50 70 TI and a 9070 XT.

Would you all recommend switching to AMD for better compatibility?

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The KDE team have released KDE Plasma 6.6, the latest new feature update to the popular Linux desktop environment with lots of goodies.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

After a system update and a reboot yesterday my mouse and scrollwheel feel noticeably different. My mouse feels faster and has less acceleration or feels less "smooth". My scrollwheel now has much smaller steps , which is cool for webbrowsing because I can now smoothly scroll websites without steps, but sucks for gaming.When switching weapons in Counter Strike it scrolls through every weapon twice with just one down scroll.

I have a logitech G502X lighspeed. Could it maybe also be a change in Solaar?

CachyOS with KDE Plasma

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Hey

lately I witnessed some crazy low fps on my game. I cannot really tell since when but there were multiple updates for cs2 recently and with the last system update I saw new NVIDIA/nvidia-lts drivers installed.

I have now between 90(!)-140 fps where before and also on windows I was above 350 most of the time

It doesn’t really matter if I change the resolution etc gives maybe 30-50 fps more but still dips below my monitors hz which is 165

When I checked the cpus don’t go over ~35% capacity

What’s also strange is that when I play with bots I have 300 and when I play duels map from cyberchoke I have 450 fps but arms race, casual, deathmatch it’s 150 max again

I haven’t configured anything so far

Someone else experienced something similar? Any tips what to look out for?

Thank you in advance

Cachyos

3070ti

Intel 127k

32gb ram

SSD

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New version of Lutris is released.

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Hi everyone,

Campaign map on Ultra Settings, with minimal 60 FPS.

Now in Battle, with lowest settings, with max 6 FPS.

I'm facing some curious issues when trying to play Pharaoh Total War with my Fedora 43 Workstation set up.

When I'm on the campaign/strategic map of the game, I can run everything on Ultra, with no drop on FPS and no issues at all - however, when I try to go to a battle, I can't get past 15 FPS (in siege battle, tops is 6-10 FPS), even on the lowest graphic settings, which makes the game unplayable.

Which seems bizarre, as I can play most of my other games (Frostpunk 2, the Alters, Jurassic World Evolution 2) with no issues whatsoever, playing on very high/ultra settings.

This is happening on my Acer Nitro V15 laptop, with some relatively good specs: RTX 5060 gpu with an i5-13420h and 32gb RAM DDR4, running on Wayland protocol and Nvidia driver 580.119.02.

Any thougts on why this is happening?
Thanks!

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Lutris is an all-in-one open source game manager for launching games from various stores on Linux, with version 0.5.20 out now.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Hi. I'm dual-booting Windows 11 and Bazzite KDE.

I have only gave 60GB to Bazzite for testing to see how it runs on my hardware.

I'm wondering if it's possible to access steam games downloaded on Windows through Bazzite, as Linux doesn't support NFTS.

Is it possible?

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Rocket League is set to get Easy Anti-Cheat in April, as the Epic Games owned studio Psyonix just recently announced.

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For context my system has na i5-1135G7 with the integrated Iris Xe Graphics and 12GB of RAM, it runs all the titles I want decently well, and I found the optiscaler that translates from an upscale method to another and I would like to know if it is possible or even recommended to use it with an integrated graphics

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We reported recently how the Steam Deck was completely out of stock in the USA, Canada and Asia and now Valve have put up a short statement on it.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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I was trying to play fh4 and the problem is that when i launch a game it works fine, i see the main menu, even the welcome page. However moment i go to free roam game goes to loading screen and immediately crashes no matter what proton i use.

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I have tried every fixes, tricks and proton versions. Does anyone have the same problem as me?
Below is my garuda-inxi.

System:
Kernel: 6.18.9-zen1-2-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
clocksource: hpet avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=70d862c3-01e1-49bf-8e8a-9f6fa14e54f5 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet resume=UUID=f56cd26b-ea39-413a-ace7-2a3d4877e380 loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.23.0
wm: kwin_wayland with: krunner vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 83LQ v: Legion R7000 AHP9
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Legion R7000 AHP9
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76479 WIN
serial: <superuser required> part-nu: LENOVO_MT_83LQ_BU_idea_FM_Legion
R7000 AHP9 uuid: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: LENOVO
v: Q2CN12WW date: 06/17/2025
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45 Wh (79%) condition: 57/60 Wh (94.9%) volts: 16.52
min: 15.44 model: Sunwoda L21D4PC0 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> charging:
status: not charging type: long_life avail: long_life,standard cycles: 77
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 8745H with Radeon 780M Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4 gen: 4 level: v4 note: check built: 2022+
process: TSMC n5 (5nm) family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x75 (117) stepping: 2
microcode: 0xA70520A
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 8 threads: 16 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 8 MiB
desc: 8x1024 KiB L3: 16 MiB desc: 1x16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4739 min/max: 405/4967 boost: enabled scaling:
driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: performance cores: 1: 4739 2: 4739 3: 4739
4: 4739 5: 4739 6: 4739 7: 4739 8: 4739 9: 4739 10: 4739 11: 4739 12: 4739
13: 4739 14: 4739 15: 4739 16: 4739 bogomips: 121371
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: Lenovo
driver: nvidia v: 590.48.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-11) arch: Lovelace
code: AD1xx process: TSMC n4 (5nm) built: 2022+ pcie: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1,
eDP-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:28e0 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] HawkPoint1 vendor: Lenovo
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 code: Phoenix process: TSMC n4 (4nm)
built: 2023+ pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-2
empty: DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 06:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:1900 class-ID: 0300 temp: 49.0 C
Device-3: Syntek Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 174f:246a
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,nvidia
unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-2 model: BOE Display 0x0c29 serial: <filter> built: 2023
res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0
drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: radeonsi device: 3 drv: swrast gbm:
drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi inactive: device-2
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.3.5-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (radeonsi
phoenix LLVM 21.1.6 DRM 3.64 6.18.9-zen1-2-zen) device-ID: 1002:1900
memory: 500 MiB unified: no display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 layers: 15 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: AMD
Radeon 780M Graphics (RADV PHOENIX) driver: mesa radv v: 25.3.5-arch1.1
device-ID: 1002:1900 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 590.48.01
device-ID: 10de:28e0 surfaces: N/A device: 2 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 21.1.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.3.5-arch1.1 (LLVM
21.1.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: lact, nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA AD107 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:22be
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_pci_ps v: kernel alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x,
snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x, snd_acp_pci, snd_rpl_pci_acp6x,
snd_sof_amd_renoir, snd_sof_amd_rembrandt, snd_sof_amd_vangogh,
snd_sof_amd_acp63, snd_sof_amd_acp70 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 06:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 06:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.18.9-zen1-2-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.10 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [Filogic
330] vendor: Lenovo driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: 2000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: br-a381b68ad036 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
mac: <filter>
IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-3: vethd36b1f9 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, nginx, smbd, systemd-timesyncd,
wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai MediaTek Bluetooth Adapter driver: btusb v: 0.8
type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:6
chip-ID: 0489:e0cd class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
lmp-v: 12 sub-v: 2506 hci-v: 12 rev: 2515 class-ID: 6c010c
Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 240:8 link-policy: rswitch sniff
link-mode: peripheral accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, audio,
telephony
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.22 TiB used: 655.81 GiB (19.9%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 4B2QEXM7 temp: 43.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:2 vendor: Lenovo
model: UMIS RPJYJ512MLR1QWY size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 1.2L06B1 temp: 47.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Patriot model: P210 1024GB
size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB
rev: 3.0 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: USB
rev: 3.0 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 tech: HDD rpm: 5400
serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0215 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 460.23 GiB size: 460.23 GiB (100.00%)
used: 72.36 GiB (15.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 32.7 MiB (10.9%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:3
ID-3: /home raw-size: 460.23 GiB size: 460.23 GiB (100.00%)
used: 72.36 GiB (15.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 460.23 GiB size: 460.23 GiB (100.00%)
used: 72.36 GiB (15.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 460.23 GiB size: 460.23 GiB (100.00%)
used: 72.36 GiB (15.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 14.92 GiB used: 4.49 GiB (30.1%)
priority: 100 comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842
dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 16.42 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p3 maj-min: 259:5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 56.1 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.92 GiB used: 9.62 GiB (64.5%)
Processes: 618 Power: uptime: 53m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume
image: 5.92 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil, power-profiles-daemon,
upowerd Init: systemd v: 259 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: 1655 pm: pacman pkgs: 1639 libs: 455
tools: gnome-software,octopi,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 16 Compilers:
clang: 21.1.8 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.9 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.40
Garuda (2.12.3-2):
System install date: 2026-02-10
Garuda release: 260115
Last full system update: 2026-02-17 ↻
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-utils nvidia-open-dkms garuda-hardware-profile-nvidia ga
ruda-hardware-profile-standard garuda-hardware-profile-standard-x11
Windows dual boot: No/Undetected
Failed units:
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25/26 checks run in 0.74 seconds ⌛
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Okay soooo been a Linux gamer for about 4 years now, and wow has things progressed positively since then.

Today I finally started playing “Star Wars Survivor” on my desktop running CachyOS. It’s running the game on epic setting too on my ultrawide 49 inch monitor.

Super excited, and already got pretty far so since I’m on PTO this week guess who’s playing the game in full. I did have one question how well does the game run on the deck like I remover playing cyberpunk between the two, and lord did I notice a huge difference in quality.

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Hello,

I created a new guide for Audio.

Virtual Surround needs more research and testing. You may ask a question and the guide will be updated accordingly. The goal is to curate best practices and common troubleshoots.

All feedbacks are welcome.

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First of all, this worked fine a few weeks ago, when I isntalled the distro. I just gonna add some details, Idk if they are usefull or not.

My GPU is an RTX 5080, I have an AMD CPU.
Kernel: 6.18.8-200.fc43.x86_64

inxi -G output:

Device-1: NVIDIA GB203 [GeForce RTX 5080] driver: nvidia v: 580.119.02
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Granite Ridge [Radeon Graphics]
driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 24.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: gnome-shell v: 49.3 driver:
gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 6144x3456~117Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 580.119.02 renderer: NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 5080/PCIe/SSE2
API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Info: Tools: api: glxinfo gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi x11: xdriinfo,xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

Help would be much appreciated, I distro hoped for too long and Fedora was really good for productivity so far, but I would like to game from time to time.

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Hi everyone,

I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 on a laptop with an Nvidia RTX 4060. I have an external Acer monitor connected via HDMI.

The Issue: My external monitor works perfectly at 60Hz and 120Hz. However, as soon as I try to set it to its native 200Hz (or even 165Hz), the screen goes completely black.

• The monitor signal is lost or black until it reverts settings.
• This exact setup works perfectly on Windows 11 on the same machine (200Hz, full RGB color, no issues).

My Setup:

• OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• GPU: Nvidia RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
• Driver: Proprietary nvidia-driver-570 (verified via nvidia-smi)
• Display Server: X11 (I switched from Wayland, confirmed via Settings)
• Connection: HDMI directly to the dGPU (Nvidia card).

What I have tried (and failed):

1. Switching to X11
2. Drivers: Verified I am using the proprietary 570 drivers. nvidia-smi shows the Xorg process running on the GPU.
3. xrandr:
   • xrandr lists the modes correctly (up to 200Hz).
   • Manually forcing the rate via xrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 165 results in a black screen.

Is there anything that can be done?

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