Hey all, this post is partly a recount of my experience and also a question to everyone.

I've not been having a great time with my 9070 XT on Bazzite, Kubuntu or CachyOS. I recently upgraded from a 3090 Ti and although I'm getting a lot more performance, it has actually been a worse time.
On all three distros, I get horrible stuttering and frame drops, in some games once per second. I've tried problem solving by trying different proton releases, different launch commands, VRR on and off, RT on/off, lowering/increasing settings and even with gamescope but to no avail. Checked kernel version and I'm way above the minimum for RDNA4.

It seems to me like the 9070 XT mesa drivers still have a long way to go with gaming, is anyone else having the same experience? Sadly on Windows, I don't get any frame drops at all. System Specs below:

CPU: 14700K
RAM: 64GB Corsair LPX 5600MTs
GPU: XFX Swift 9070 XT
SSD: Crucial P3 Plus 4TB
Running Wayland

Thanks for listening and if anyone has any advice, I'd be very grateful!

EDIT: running dual 1440p monitors, main display is a VG27AQ with freesync

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I have both TIEBREAK and AO International Tennis 2 and they've in common a problem, they don't start when I hit "play" in Steam on my Cachy OS. I tried different proton's versions but haven't succeeded in launch them. They simply do a black flash on start and don't launch. Can anybody help? My specs are: 7800X3D with 9070 XT and 32 gigs DDR5, both games are installed on a SSD M2 and I have mesa-git

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I bought the game from GOG when bundle is on discount. I can play the game normally without cutscenes (it's an easy fix with patch) but i can't download seamless HD mod. If i download from Heroic or just raw exe with Wine i can get Japanese version but without dgvoodooo 2.72 mod doesn't work. With Lutris i can't get the mod running because it downloads US version and when i rename the exe Lutris doesn't boot the game. So my question is how can i get mod running in a desktop PC? Steam Deck already has dgvoodoo 2.72 but in my PC it only shows 2.8 and couldn't find a clear guide how to download old versions

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The Best Distro So Far has been Fedora.

Leaving this post for someone who has a use case like mine or in case I need to do it again.

Use case Checklist:

• Working with Secure Boot on - dual booting for anti-cheat windows games.
• Easy to Install NVIDIA Drivers - because on a laptop you can't switch the graphics card to AMD.

Distros Tested:

• Debian - I like Debian but I broke my installs attempting to get NVIDIA and Secure Boot to work.
• OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - Same thing with Debian.
• Fedora - I blindly followed mutliple different guides and reddit threads to get it to work and after breaking & reinstalling it once or twice and it works almost flawlessly. Steam crashed on x11 so I used wayland and to my surprise it works really well.

On that note: I have not tested Ubuntu due to controversies with the Canonical company.

Additionally I prefer main distributions and I'm only okay with derivatives that are not too far from the main distro like the Debian Based Linux Mint Spin but not the regular Linux Mint Based on Ubuntu (a derivative of a derivative is too much).

Some Notes on What I did:

1. After installing Fedora (I used KDE image), Update Everything. Then enable X11 (follow a guide for that).
2. Follow A Guide to Installing NVIDIA Drivers with Secure Boot enabled, you will have to do MOK (signing your own kernel etcetera) and I recall some kind of modified version that will automatically sign the kernel on update.
3. The color accuracy was WAYYY OFFF and everything was too dark to see. I only notice while gaming. The solution was on X11 NVIDIA X Server settings change the HDMI output to limited color range. Even though this setting is normally gone on Wayland changing it on X11 then switching back did the trick. There was also some kinda bug where the resolution on HDMI on wayland is way off and cannot change, the solution for me was same, check the resolution on X11 mode then switch back. (You change X11/Wayland in the login Screen Bottom Left on KDE)

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I'm not going through that headache all over again to write a proper guide but good luck if you're in the same boat.

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I recently revived an old laptop with Arch Linux. I tried running some games on it, but TF2 seems to have a lot of problems, the game will only start on Legacy OpenGL and it will freeze when getting to the "Retrieving server info" part of the loading screen (same thing happens when trying to play in a local server).

These are the specs, help will be appreciated a lot!

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I have my dim/turn off screen set really tight to preserve my OLED. Because of this for reasons unknown to me, my controller and joysticks don't prevent inactivity and the monitor will dim/sleep while i'm playing games.

Is there a way to automatically swap power profiles when full screen applications are active? Or allow for joystick input to prevent inactivity?

Running Bazzite Desktop.

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99% of the time, these launchers don't work because they are missing some very specific version of dotnet (usually 4.72 or 4.8). These versions are extremely finicky to install on new versions of proton/wine, but there is a way to do it.

If you are on steam deck or most other distros, the best option is to install lutris from flatpak (or discover). For some reason this version just works better for some people.

1. Install Lutris (flatpak version recommended)
2. Install ProtonUp-qt (if Lutris is flatpak version, this should also be from flatpak)
3. From ProtonUp, install the latest ProtonGE version
4. In Lutris add a new game, and select a locally installed game
   1. Set its name to whatever
   2. Set the runner to wine
   3. In the "Runner" tab, make sure the wine version is 8.26 something GE (the default one from Lutris)
   4. Finally, set the prfix to some empty folder
   5. Click save, then click on the game, go to wine options, and open Wine Configuration
   6. After it opens, set windows version to 7 or Vista (try one, and if it doesn't work try the other)
5. Finally, it's time to install the first dotnet you need.
6. Open the Wine options, select winetricks
7. After winetricks opens, disable silent install (it can sometimes cause problems)
8. Select the default wine prefix, and go to install a windows dll or executable
9. Select dotnet472 and just continue through all the installers
10. Close everything, maybe even restart linux, then repeat, installing dotnet48 this time, instead of 472
11. If everything went well, you can now just run the installer for the games launcher you need in the new wine prefix, then in the game options, set the game executable to that installed launcher after the installer is done
12. This is usually where you switch to the latest ProtonGE version you downloaded earlier, but not before launching that launcher at least once
13. Sometimes you might need to manually open wine config and change windows version to 10 or 11

Hope this helped someone, so far this is the only method that seems to work *most of the time*.

If it doesn't work first try, just try it again and it might magically fix itself

You can also disable feral game mode in the system options for wine, which makes things more stable (sometimes)

Sometimes it helps to disable easy anti cheat and battle eye, and switch to 64-bit prefix instead of auto if the launcher still has trouble launching

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I feel like I've tried most of the steam os" variants and most of em don't use the actual amplifier that's in the oxf so end up going back to windows 🫡bc it has some spectacular audio IMHO and lol 💀 sounds like it's running on half volume on these

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Is the Intel Core Ultra 5 + Intel (integrated) Arc combo good for gaming on Linux?

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Undervolting -90mV works fine for the most part in pretty much all games, except Grounded 2. It always freezes if there is a little bit more to see of the world. In tunnels or buildings it's fine, but having a far view of the world crashes/freezes the game within seconds. typing the REI of REISUB brings back the desktop, no need for the rest. Then I tried it with -50mV with the same result, instant freeze. It works fine (so far) if I use the default values.

no errors in dmesg or journalctl during and before the crash, only when I type the REISUB.

OS: CachyOS x86_64
Host: X570S UD
Kernel: Linux 6.16.0-5-cachyos
Display (EA244WMi): 1920x1200 @ 60 Hz in 24" [External]
Display (AORUS AD27QD): 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz in 28" [External] *
DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.3
WM: KWin (Wayland)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (16) @ 3.40 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT [Discrete]

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Valve released the data for the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for July 2025, showing the Linux user share making gains towards hitting 3%.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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As already mentioned in the title, is there a way to use one game installation with different launchers?
E.g. I have battle.net and WoW installed via Lutris and want to give Faugus launcher a try. To not download the hole WoW package again and then having the game installed twice, I'd like to just direct Faugus to the installation done by Lutris.

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This is happening right now with Battlefield 6 posts but affects other super popular games like Fortnite, Roblox, League of Legends, EA Sports FC, GTA Online, Call of Duty, Destiny, PUBG, R6 Siege and more.

Not everything is for you. We get it. You don't need to spell it out every time.

But these are super popular games that most of us want to be able to play. By publicly expressing negative interest for such games on Linux you are harming us. If I was a market researcher scoping for Battlefield brand sentiment online, the message from the Linux gamers would be clear to me.

Personally I am against invasive kernel space anti cheat solutions. Ideally I would like to see these games available on Linux without introducing such shitty measures into kernel.

But most of us don't care about technicalities and just want to play the super popular game.

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I tried multiple shaders, but all of them are broken (OpenGL 1282 error I think), and my hands are broken. When I turn off shaders, everything is ok. Is there a way to play with shaders?

Distro: Arch Linux

GPU: RTX 4060 Max-Q Mobile

Driver Version: 575.64.05

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I hate python I hate it, I never get errors like this as an end user of software in a compiled language. It crashed as soon as I picked a game

protontricks --gui

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/protontricks", line 8, in <module>

sys.exit(cli())

^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 32, in cli

main(args)

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 149, in wrapper

return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 274, in main

proton_app = find_proton_app(

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 821, in find_proton_app

tool_app = find_steam_compat_tool_app(

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 610, in find_steam_compat_tool_app

appinfo_sections = [

^

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 540, in iter_appinfo_sections

raise SyntaxError("Invalid file magic number")

SyntaxError: Invalid file magic number

Phil@GamingPC:~/Desktop$

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😫

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as of 02/08 update of cs2 that brought bhop fixes after animegraph2 updates, looks like linux version also has antilag 2.0, I just saw it in game options, and it felt like game was a bit more responsive, I'd be interested to hear other peoples experiences with the performance and latency

I am on cachyos, running mesa-git in case stable releases of mesa doesn't have antilag 2.0 support

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