Hi fellow linux gamers... My PC currently has an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 32 DDR ram, 1 TB Nvme and a RX 6600. I was wondering if a rolling distro like Arch vs a LTS distro like Debain 12 would really make a huge difference in FPS while gaming, being that my PC has fairly dated parts already. I really like Debian 12 a lot, however, I'm currently running vanilla Arch (and love it as well) but keep thinking that with every new update...my PC will run better and better. Is it just placebo, or is there some truth to this.

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Hey all I know this has came up a million times before. Basically Xbox One controller not being detected by Ubuntu/Steam? I tried using AI to assist me in troubleshooting this and here's what I got.

xboxdrv is installed
Xbox controller does show up in lsusb
Live inputs display in envtest
No controllers detected in steam
Ubuntu drivers updated
linux-general drivers are installed
tried disabling xpad and using xboxdrv as default
Tried updating controller firmware on Xbox Accessories App

cant seem to figure out any pointers or tips? Controller is detected on Lubuntu and Windows fine

Edit:

Appreciate the thumbs down instead of actually trying to help. If I missed something critical or you have something that's helpful Just post it in the comments? Listen, I have been using linux for 5 years, So if this is a "noob question" to someone whos been using it for 15 then just scroll past or try and help.

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I've experienced a very strange thing since I upgraded to a 9800X3D. I'm running on Gentoo, latest kernel 13.9 (it happened the same with the stable version 12.X). Also, I use i3 as my wm.

The thing is, everytime I close a Steam game, the CPU keeps throttling around 5 more minutes like if it was doing a heavy task or something. Temps and the sound don't get as intense as playing the actual game tho. After that approximate amount of time, temps go down and the PC sounds quieter.

I've checked all the running processes using htop and I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, and my hardware is brand new (the MB is an Aorus Elite AX V2). The hardware is 100% compatible as I'm using the latest mesa drivers for the RDNA3 series.

Previous to this PC, I ran a Wayland box with Hyprland and I never experienced this issue.

Steps I followed while trying to solve the issue:

• Disabling pre-shader cache on Steam (seemed to work at first but now it's back)

• Updating the kernel (I thought it was the kernel version when I ran stable, but it doesn't have anything to do at all)

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I know the work around for the steam version seems to install pyroveil and add the commands to the launch options. Has anyone figured it how to do it on ubisoft connect or lutris?

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I have a Razer Nostromo. I've had it for at least 14 years, but it's on its last legs, and I would like to replace it.

I would absolutely prefer to stay away from Razer. I also would really prefer mechanical keys,I love MX Blues. Any suggestions?

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I'm still very new to Linux gaming. Well, to any gaming. An I've been wondering how my CPU and GPU work together? When I look at my stats my GPU uses an average b/w 70 to 100 percent while my CPU barely cracks 30 percent. So is my situation normal? I honestly expected much higher CPU usage. This example is based on my game BG3.

CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU VIDEOCARD - MSI Ventus RTX 4080 3X OC MOTHERBOARD - MSI MPG Carbon X870E Wifi RAM - G.Skill - Trident Z5 Neo RGB, DDR5-6000, 64GB (2x32GB) DRIVES - Samsung 990 Pro 1tb & 2tb NVME POWER SUPPLY - Corsair RM1000e CASE - Antec Flux Pro (Black) Cooler - Arctic Freezer III 420

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So I have been struggling with hard studders in monster hunter wilds that can last from 1 seconds to 1.6 seconds since the beta and now the full game. At first I thought It was just my old 5950x CPU bottlenecking my 7900xtx on am4 so I did a platform upgrade to am5 with the 9950x3d and the issue still persist. So what I tried next was to lower every graphical option and raise them all up one by one both with and without FSR and eventually I got through everything without FSR with no hitching (people have concluded that FSR is the issue into disable it) but that's not the whole story. When I repeated the same test with FSR I got through every single option with no hitching or stuttering until I turned on bloom. The stuttering happened. I decide to play 4 hours with the bloom off but everything else on ultra and it was Rock steady. Turn the settings to low turn the bloom to high and the stuttering happened again. A combination of FSR and Bloom together is making this stuttering happen for whatever reason. In summary here is my specs and everything I've tested

9950x3D 7900 XTX 64 gigs of RAM at 6,000 MHz M.2 nvme Drive with 1.3 gigs of transfer speed Fedora 41 KDE edition Wayland

I have manually updated the direct storage dlls.

Installed re framework mod to disable certain things that can't be disabled via GUI

Tried playing the game from two different drive formats both ext4 and btrfs.

Tried on all different resolutions as well as graphical settings available to me.

Had a friend also run this experiment (his specs are quite similar to mine but sporting a 9700xt + ryzen 9700x) He also is running for Fedora 41 KDE just as I am and he's experiencing the exact same test that issue As of now I have everything mostly on ultra besides field of depth which I do not like and motion blur which I also do not like and Bloom is now off and I have been playing for about 6 hours in total over a span of two or so days and no major hitches.

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Hey all

The primary reason I'm asking is that I've noticed quite the long list of Proton versions when you consider Steam's and the GE variants. While ProtonDB is an excelent resource to find what version will run a game best, there are also instances where more than one version of Proton will be recommended. Is there a general rule of thumb for knowing what versions of Proton might work best over others or does it all just come down to trial and error?

As an example say a game came out at the time of Proton 7 and some version of Proton 7 runs the game well. Is it fair to assume that Proton 7 will ALWAYS work with the game barring any large updates that overhaul the game or is it also possible that another newer version of Proton or ProtonGE can run the game equally well or possibly better?

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I had to remove this app off my computer because it caused large amount of storage to drain on my computer, no not from installing which that would be normal but I'm talking about something else, it seemed like the disk space on my computer would drain by good amount every time I used it. I don't if its my computer that messed or the sober itself. I had to delete it, which I hope my computer is not breaking.

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These are my specs:
Distro:Ubuntu Core 22

Kernel:6.11.0-19-generic

RAM:64 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 550.120

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core

And these are the logs: (I tried searching it but i didnt understand the fix)

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

fsync: up and running.

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

wine: failed to open "c:\\windows\\system32\\steam.exe": c0000135

chdir "/media/steven/Shared/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Watch_Dogs/bin"

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/steven/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/steven/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/steven/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/steven/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Game Recording - would start recording game 243470, but recording for this game is disabled

Adding process 41173 for gameID 243470

Adding process 41174 for gameID 243470

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/steven/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Adding process 41175 for gameID 243470

Adding process 41180 for gameID 243470

WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!

WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!

WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!

WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!

Adding process 41334 for gameID 243470

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

fsync: up and running.

Adding process 41339 for gameID 243470

Adding process 41340 for gameID 243470

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

Adding process 41345 for gameID 243470

Adding process 41348 for gameID 243470

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

Adding process 41350 for gameID 243470

wine: failed to open "c:\\windows\\system32\\steam.exe": c0000135

pid 41346 != 41345, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=243470]

Removing process 41350 for gameID 243470

Removing process 41348 for gameID 243470

Removing process 41345 for gameID 243470

Removing process 41340 for gameID 243470

Removing process 41339 for gameID 243470

Removing process 41334 for gameID 243470

Removing process 41180 for gameID 243470

Removing process 41175 for gameID 243470

Removing process 41174 for gameID 243470

Removing process 41173 for gameID 243470

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I am looking to change the OS on my gaming PC (Currently Windows 11) and am trying to get a Linux distro that works well with gaming on Steam and Battlestate games (Escape From Tarkov). What distro’s would you recommend and why? Any help you can provide is appreciated!

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I'll keep it short since I don't think much info is needed. I'll give more if needed.

I'm playing Dead By Daylight and the game requires the steam overlay to make purchases.
I have it on in options but it still doesn't work and the game says it's disabled when going to make a purchase.
So basically I need to know how to enable the steam overlay.

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The Steam menu looks horrible when I click on it from the status bar. I'm using Arch Linux with Gnome 48. Does anyone know how to fix this so that it looks like the rest of Gnome or at least not so ugly?

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I use the modrinth app, as in the minecraft launcher, since its simple, but recently since I changed to linux it's been SUPER laggy, no idea why. My game is likely to crash when I launch it, and the modrinth app runs like a slideshow.

SPECS

Distro: Ubuntu 24.04 lts
CPU: i3-3245 @ 3.40Ghz
GPU: GT 1030
RAM: 8GB DDR3

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I use a single root partition barring swap (sue me). However due to this I cannot add a second library drive I have mounted as /home/data as it just defaults back to /.
Any know any workarounds for this?

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Any game I launch with gamescope looks like this. I have AMD GPU, Fedora with Gnome, and here are my launch parameters: gamescope -h 1080 -r 60 -f --force-grab-cursor -- %command%

Does anyone know why is it happening and how can I fix it?

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Hi,

It has been a while not using Linux, last time I was using it I had a RX 570 which I had no issue.
To anyone using Linux with 3070, do you have any problems with performance or drivers? I am currently using Windows to play Valorant, but I can switch to CS2 lol.

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I can't see anything in the settings here, but basically due to a failed mini-PC project, I have just installed an Arc A40 Pro along with my B580 and was wanting to let the A40 do the recording/encoding grunt work with GPU screen recorder. I can't see an option for it, but I'm wondering whether I've missed a config file somewhere.

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I'm using Cyberpunk 2077 v2.21 on Linux with Proton-GE (GE-Proton9-27). I installed Cyber Engine Tweaks (CET) correctly — version.dll is in Cyberpunk 2077/bin/x64/, and I'm using this Steam launch option:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="version=n,b" %command% --launcher-skip

When launching the game, I get the following error:

I’ve verified file structure, permissions, and installed all required Proton dependencies (vcrun2022, d3dcompiler_47) using Protontricks. Proton logging doesn't produce a log file either. It’s like version.dll is silently ignored or blocked.

Pls Help.

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Confusing headline. I get it. I've been running Linux on and off for about a year now, and settled on Bazzite around the new year. It was working great, apart from having two monitors with different resolutions (3840x2160 and 1080x1920). So, ditching the second monitor and it worked better, until "Split Fiction" came out. It started good, and a few levels in, the performance went from 90+ fps to 10+ fps. As it's a multiplayer game, I simply installed windows and carried on with it.

Granted, this was using an RTX4070 Super.

Now, I'm wondering if I should go back, but I've read some posts about my current GPU not performing as it should on Linux.

So my question is, is it time, or do I still wait awhile for it to settle a bit?

Don't really want to hear about my distro of choice, I like Bazzite, I prefer KDE Plasma, and unless there's an easy fix, I don't want to be tinkering too much. I want to play games :)

EDIT: I wasn't clear on the fact that I already purchased a 9070 XT, and have been using for a few weeks already.

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