I'd like some help from those more accustomed to Linux.

A month ago, I decided to try Linux. I installed CachyOS, and while I've had some minor issues, I've generally been able to fix them, either by searching online or simply requesting the necessary code from Gemini.

However, something I haven't been able to fix is ​​the download speed. As for games, I've been able to install most Steam games without problems; Elden Ring runs even with anti-cheat software. Monster Hunter, Dark Souls, all perfect. And I'm not so attached to Riot that I'd switch to Windows just to play TFT or League of Legends.

But the internet speed problem continues to bother me. Outside of Steam, Genshin Impact took me four days to download because it's so slow, and I try it with a PC with windows on the same internet and download faster. I tried to fix it, and I'm not sure if I even made it worse.

In any case, I've been thinking that instead of 'going back to Windows,' I should try a different Linux distribution.

Which distro would you recommend that won't cause problems with games, that let me play the games without much trouble and will also prevent me from accidentally messing up the system myself?

I'm asking this because before CachyOS I tried Ubuntu, and although I was able to install my games, they constantly froze or crashed whenever I tried to play music on YouTube while playing. At least with CachyOS I didn't have that problem.

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using endeavouros and r7 5700G

every time i try to open up cs this message comes up

i've tried doing sudo pacman -Syu but it didint work

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Basically the title. No clue what I'm supposed to do. It launches, loads mostly, then just dies. I wanted to play it over the original because graphics and even upgraded my computer to handle it.

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I installed Linux on my laptop, was bored and tried to run a game. Got the above error message when trying to start the game with DXVK activated. After disabling DXVK settings, the game works without problems. So I'm good, but I'm still wondering what the error message is even saying? Just curious. Thanks! :)

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I use Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon, and have been playing the gog version of Cult of the lamb on Heroic Launcher 2.18.1, with the wine version wine-ge-8-26-x86_64. It runs fine but when I play for a while the audio stops playing completely and the only way to fix it is to quit and load the game again. Sometimes when I load the game it has no audio in the first place. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

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I recently switched to Linux Mint around the same time the newest ZZZ version came out. I could get ZZZ to go as far as allowing me to log in to my account, but I could never join the server, with it always freezing before saying connection failed. When I looked this up, I found that others also had this issue, and I'm pretty sure they all said they had 12th gen or 13th gen Intel CPUs. Sure enough, I had a 13600KF.

Most damming of all, when I switched my CPU for a Ryzen CPU (I did not buy one just for this, I was already in the process of upgrading my PC), I could suddenly log into the server. Anyone else notice this? Any idea what could possibly be causing this?

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So I've been struggling to figure out how to connect my es-de to the retro arch version of steam I want to be able to use steam cloud in between dual booting. I already downloaded es-de in every available multiple way but no luck finding a way to make it detect steam

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Hey, I'd sincerely appreciate Your help in checking if GREX demo runs fine on Linux.

Regarding Steam Deck - I believe it's working, but UI still has to be operated by touch / mouse in some parts of the game. The game itself is fully playable on Gamepad controls though.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers

Mike

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Let us be real you do not need a $1,500 dollar gaming rig with Windows anymore: I run CS2 Cyberpunk 2077 Wuthering Waves and Starship Troopers Extermination all on 1080p high settings with ray tracing on a 60 dollar recycled Lenovo M900 with integrated graphics plus GeForce NOW for $10/month on Ubuntu 24. I suspect it could even be done on a Raspberry Pi 4 but you can't beat the price-per-dollar ratio of a recycled PC.

Even with this machine the CPU is constantly below 25% utilization, with no more than 5 GB ram thanks to Linux.

For ten dollars a month I get what is essentially a RTX 4070 or 5070 tier experience and one can game on a 5080 or 5090 level hardware for selected games no local GPU needed.

No Proton, no Wine, no emulators, no Vineyard. No drivers no bloated OS no noise Just performance.

We are in the age of cloud gaming yet people still obsess over GPU availability power supplies and heat.

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1. Hogwarts Legacy lags way more than it does on windows with the same specs. I asked here and people told me to uninstall the amdgpu driver and keep mesa. I did that and its EXACTLY THE SAME. IT IS EXACTLY THE SAME. Stop telling me that its a driver issue. I also got bazzite which another guy recommended me and the performance is still the same. I mean 2-20 fps. Is it possible to fix it or it's just a problem with this game on Linux and I should dual boot and stop trying.

2. Does Bazzite really help performance or its just fedora with preconfigurations and the latest drivers?

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It's been now 1 month I dropped Windows and playing 100% under Linux, mainly using Lutris and Steam.

Today I checked Lutris's Github : 1 year since the last release, 10months since the last tag. The main dev is now full time on Playtron-OS.

Then I checked Bottles: the devs made a post about the lack of donations, another one in August... then no news since then. There is periodic releases but that's not so encouraging.

At last I checked Heroic : the last non-fix release is from July.

So overall, to my eyes, it seems that the development around the non-steam launchers slowed down a lot.

Is steam working "so well" that the need of others launchers reduced? Are the projects mature enough and needs less development? Are new launchers raising?

Edit: adding details for lutris

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With PROTON_USE_WOW64 EAC just throws Unexpected error #1.

That's it, hopefully someone finds this helpful one day.

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When I have a youtube video/livestream open on one side and a game on the other(not AAA, were talking Hades and other indie stuff) the game and audio start lagging.

the output from inxi -xxACGS:
System:

Host: Desktop Kernel: 6.8.0-88-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc

v: 13.3.0

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin dm: LightDM

Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 Zara base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

CPU:

Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4

rev: 2 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 6 MiB L3: 32 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 2789 high: 4131 min/max: 545/5074 cores: 1: 3432 2: 3805

3: 3362 4: 3358 5: 545 6: 545 7: 3474 8: 3474 9: 4131 10: 545 11: 3394

12: 3405 bogomips: 88629

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm

Graphics:

Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: CardExpert driver: nvidia v: 580.95.05 pcie:

speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1

empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2f04

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:

loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa

gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 92

Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled

model: LG (GoldStar) 24GM77 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92 diag: 609mm (24")

API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: nouveau

device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11:

drv: nvidia inactive: wayland

API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.95.05

glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070/PCIe/SSE2

API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu

driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:2f04 device: 1 type: cpu driver: N/A

device-ID: 10005:0000

Audio:

Device-1: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 32 GT/s

lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:2f80

Device-2: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel

v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0e:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3

Device-3: C-Media Blue Snowball driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid

type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-9:5 chip-ID: 0d8c:0005

API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-88-generic status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse

status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

I suspect something somewhere is wrong, cause this should be good enough to handle a youtube video and a game that my 10 year old laptop could handle, but I am not tech savvy enough to find the bottleneck.

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Hi I'm new to Linux I switched from win 11 to cachy os and now I am standing in front of a problem I can't join my modded servers when I spawn game freezes in 10 sek and that's it but on official servers without mods no freeze at all I tried many things Tutorials and chat gpt but nothing worked I don't want to go back to windows maybe someone can help me out thx guys

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So, I recently did a clean install of Arch Linux with Hyprland and I wanted to see if I could play GTA V or online somehow. My GTA is from Epic Games, so I'm on Heroic games launcher, and every time I click "start", the rockstar launcher simoly crash and say "Visit website X for more information!"

Does anyone have any idea what to do? I'm completely lost.

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Hello everyone! I'm pretty new on Linux (about 3 months), I've been trying to play some games that has voice recognition or a voice chat and the game immediately crashes whenever I try to play it.

For example: I love playing phasmophobia and I can play it without voice chat through Discord but if I try to enable the voicechat the game crashes.

I've been investigating and reading protonDB and for example with phasmo it says I must add SteamDeck=1 %command% and it should work but it doesn't

I opened pulse audio while the game freezes and went to the recording tab, there the game appears but the input device appear as Unknown device, If I select my headphone it changes automatically to Unknown device again, but if I select other input device the game unfreezes and can be played.

I don't know why pulseaudio doesn't allow me to select my headset knowing that I can use it perfectly with discord or other apps.

If someone can give me a solution I'd be pleased.

P.S. I've tried other games and the same happened.

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Mandatory System Information here:

System: Kernel: 6.14.0-36-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 Zara base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 v: x.x serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F5 date: 06/04/2025 CPU: Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D bits: 64 type: MCP smt: <unsupported> arch: Zen 4 rev: 2 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 96 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 4391 high: 5037 min/max: 545/5053 boost: enabled cores: 1: 4937 2: 5037 3: 4025 4: 5037 5: 4024 6: 4029 7: 4019 8: 4026 bogomips: 67076 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: AMD vendor: Sapphire driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: speed: 32 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2,Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:7590 class-ID: 0300 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00") s-diag: 777mm (30.58") Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 model: AOC Q27G2WG4 serial: <filter> res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 685mm (27") modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400 API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi gfx1200 LLVM 20.1.2 DRM 3.61 6.14.0-36-generic) device-ID: 1002:7590 Audio: Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 32 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab40 class-ID: 0403 Device-2: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 12:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 Device-3: Texas Instruments PCM2902 Audio Codec driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3.3:7 chip-ID: 08bb:2902 class-ID: 0300 API: ALSA v: k6.14.0-36-generic status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin Network: Device-1: Realtek driver: rtw89_8922ae v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8922 class-ID: 0280 IF: wlp8s0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200 IF: enp9s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-9:5 chip-ID: 0bda:8922 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 410.2 GiB (86.0%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: A-Data model: SX8200PNP size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 42A4SANA temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT Partition: ID-1: / size: 467.89 GiB used: 410.19 GiB (87.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile USB: Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-2: 1-3:2 info: Realtek RTS5411 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 0bda:5411 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 1-3.1:4 info: Trust GXT 160 Gaming Mouse type: mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 145f:0240 class-ID: 0300 Device-2: 1-3.2:6 info: SiGma Micro USB Keyboard type: keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 480mA chip-ID: 1c4f:0084 class-ID: 0301 Device-3: 1-3.3:7 info: Texas Instruments PCM2902 Audio Codec type: audio,HID driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 08bb:2902 class-ID: 0300 Device-4: 1-6:3 info: Integrated Express GIGABYTE Device type: HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 048d:5711 class-ID: 0300 Device-5: 1-9:5 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:8922 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 5 rev: 3.1 speed: 20 Gb/s lanes: 2 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-4: 2-3:2 info: Realtek Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.2 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 0bda:0411 class-ID: 0900 Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-7: 5-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-8: 6-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-9: 7-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-10: 7-1:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900 Hub-11: 8-0:1 info: Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub ports: N/A rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 52.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 65.0 C mem: 62.0 C Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0 Repos: Packages: 2371 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2349 pm: flatpak pkgs: 22 No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu-proprietary.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu.list 1: deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/rocm.gpg] https: //repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/30.10.3/ubuntu noble main Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com zara main upstream import backport 2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse 3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse 4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse 5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list 1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/rocm.gpg] https: //repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/7.0.3 noble main 2: deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/rocm.gpg] https: //repo.radeon.com/graphics/7.0.3/ubuntu noble main No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-beta.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-stable.list 1: deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https: //repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam 2: deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https: //repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam Info: Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.96 GiB used: 3.44 GiB (11.1%) Processes: 322 Power: uptime: 6m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Client: Unknown python3.12 client inxi: 3.3.34

Recently I was looking into overclocking my GPU to gain some performance after seeing that the card runs really cold and tries to boost more in games but the current setup is very limiting. Watched a couple of guides on overclocking this model, and planned to take the preset from this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOuPNSYD918

Everything was going well for like about a minute, until I activated AMD overclocking in LACT and quickly noticed one of the parameters from all those videos missing (basically all guides use Adrenalin software to OC). While I can easily change the power limit, voltage and memory frequency, I'm missing the "Max Frequency Offset" setting present on Adrenalin, instead in its place LACT has a "GPU Clock Offset" setting, which at first I thought was the same thing under a different name, but with research quickly found out it is an entirely different setting :C

I didn't dare proceed with OC at this point because I very much suspect raising power and undervolting without the Frequency Offset setting will be unstable as hell.

I later checked out CoreCtrl but unfortunately that one has even less settings to choose.

Anyone got any other OC software recommendations or tricks to solve this, or maybe the GPU Clock Offset does the same thing as the setting I'm missing and I'm just freaking out needlessly?

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