Hey, I'm trying to get HDR working properly in Hunt: Showdown on Linux, but I'm running into a really annoying issue that I can't quite pin down. I'm currently using CachyOS with 5070ti nvidia gpu.

I’m using Gamescope with HDR enabled, launching the game like this:
ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 gamescope -f -r 240 -W 2560 -H 1440 --hdr-enabled --hdr-debug-force-output --force-grab-cursor -- env ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=1 DXVK_HDR=1 DISABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command%

I'm using kde plasma i have wayland. HDR does get activated in the game and averything goes fine, but after like 2/3 hours or sometimes even less I start getting some heavy frame drops, like 1–2 second stutters. There’s no specific trigger sometimes it happens during combat, sometimes while just walking around. If I restart the game, it’s fine again for a while, then it starts happening again.

I also tried launching the game with just DXVK_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command% (no gamescope), and while HDR does seem to kick in, the colors look way too oversaturated and high-contrast, like the tone mapping is messed up.

At this point I’m considering just playing Hunt on Windows because the experience there is obviously way smoother with HDR but I’d love to keep it on Linux if possible.

Has anyone experienced something like this? Any ideas on how to stabilize it or debug what exactly is happening when the freeze kicks in?

Thanks!

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Hello Linux gamers!

Pip My Dice, my very first game, is releasing on Friday. It is a score attack game inspired by Balatro that I have been working on for 1,5 years now.

Feel free to add it to your wishlist if it looks like something you could enjoy: Steam Page

Wishing you a nice Sunday :)

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I use Fedora Workstation 42 and have a 1920x1080 monitor with %125 fractional scaling but Minecraft runs at 3072x1728 which lowers the fps.

https://preview.redd.it/gg2673y3ozdf1.png?width=926&format=png&auto=webp&s=054e49fc89994d8f4444b8f0da8bff8ccc45e43e

This probably has to do with the xwayland-native-scaling experimental feature

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hey guys, just wondering whats the best headset and mic combo for linux.
One that is good quality, and that is literally plug in and it works.

I want to use it for gaming, so discord for mic with my friends. and yeah.

Thank you very much! <3

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OS: CachyOS

Graphics: RTX 5070, 2560x1440p 180hz Monitor

DE: Gnome

Additional info:

• Using Prism Launcher

I recently enabled the fractional scaling option for Gnome and set it to 125%, as a 100% scale at my monitor's resolution is way too small for me.

Minecraft is pretty much unplayable at this scale for some reason (at 100% scale it looks fine), despite no other apps being affected by this scaling change.

My attempts at fixing it:

1. Using xpra's run_scaled in the wrapper command for my Minecraft instance (run_scaled --scale=1.0). This didn't work, and was disconnected from the xpra session once Minecraft launched.
2. Using gamescope in the wrapper command (gamescope -W 2560 -H 1440 -w 2560 -h 1440 -b -f --). The one time my game actually launched the resolution was still messed up.
3. I also looked into GDK_SCALE and GDK_DPI_SCALE but they didn't seem to affect anything, and I couldn't even figure out how to run them when the Minecraft is started by Prism.

I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

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I have been dying to play Jurassic Park Operation genesis since the announcement of the new Jurassic World movie came out. I want to play this game on my DD which is a fedora 42 system. I first used a Thinkpad with nobara installed at work, and it had started up with zero issues and never crashed or did anything weird. I transferred that same file from my laptop to my main PC running Fedora 42 and it won't run. I've tried using Steam to use proton and GE versions, but It starts up for a second with a black screen and then closes no matter what version. I've also tried to use Bottles, lutris and just plain WINE but nothing seems to work. Am I missing a dependency that nobara has, or is my intel laptop just more compatible compared to my AMD system? Any help would be appreciated.

PS- I also tried this on my steam deck with it not working there as well

PC specs:

Fedora 42 KDE

CPU: Ryzen 5900x

GPU: Radeon 6900xt

64gb ddr4 ram

Laptop: Thinkpad T480

Nobara

CPU: I5-8350u

GPU: intel UHD 620

16gb ddr4 ram

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In the past month I have had to reset my system 3 times because of system crashing or failing entirely, and even in games that are supported my laptop crashed a lot mid game, and I know this is not my laptop issue as my laptop would never crash on windows. I don't like windows at all and am considering for duelbooting, are there any Distros that are super stable, I don't care about using the terminal or ricing I just want it for gaming, something like steamos I am not well read at all on other distros. Ps I am on an all Amd system Alieanware laptop. CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800M, 16gb RAM, SSD

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Hey so I wanted to know if lutris is still developed I use heroic games launcher but I would like to have my battlenet and stuff there and lutris seems to have it all. As I checked flatpack version of lutris is 4 months old (or I was looking on the wrong thing) and it seems quite old for tool like that the version for mint Ubuntu is even older on GitHub with 9 months if I remember correctly and I don't know what to think about it. Thanks for the answers in advance enjoy your day/night!

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So I do like using steam and big picture mode, but I also want a console experience that doesn't require internet or having an account to log in to a launcher. I miss when I could just put the game disk into something like my PlayStation 2 and game. No needing to sign in to an account or make an account for the console, and no internet connection requirement. I do not mean to say I want to avoid having a username and password for the OS nor that I wouldn't use internet at all (I do play some multiplayer games but mostly single player games).

I know there exists Playnite for windows and that it is going to get some development for a Linux port in the future, but the only available alternatives I know of are OpenGamePadUI and the Pegasus Frontend. From what I saw, OpenGamePadUI is still very experimental and Pegasus felt very ... non-user friendly. I only mention this as I would still like the experience to be able to play games from not just steam but GOG and some emulators I use (mostly Wii/Wii U, DS and PlayStation games).

What would be the closest way to get that type of experience on Linux? Also, it would be nice if it were controller friendly (minimizing the amount of keyboard/mouse intervention).

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want to move over to linux. I use windows 11 but want to switch over to Linux. Don’t know where to start? What distribution to pick? What to do? Someone help me out

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I got linux mint yesterday because i got fed up with windows and I wanna play games on cloud gaming and I try downloading edge, doing the flatpak override for controllers and nothing is working, idk what to do, Is there any other way?

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Hello everyone was gifted this thing..works right out of the box . however how do I turn on the RGB effect under linux? Tvm

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I am looking to get/make a box that I can hook up to my TV and play my Steam games, as well as other things like PC decompilations of older games, Zelda randomizers, etc. I want it to boot up like a console, giving me a menu of games to choose from, and be turned on and navigated with a controller. It doesn't need to be especially powerful either, as all I need it to play is mostly indie games, and new versions of older games. I figured Linux is the way to go if I want a customizable UI, but A) does something like this already exist that I can buy? Or at least get me halfway there? And B) where should I start with this idea? I am a bit clueless about Linux in all honesty

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Hi All,

I have had the same PC for at least 5 years, it was a pre-built windows PC I installed Arch on, while it has been a great PC, I am looking at building my own Linux gaming PC. I was hoping to get some feedback to see if my proposed build would be suitable.

I will likely install Arch again but I have an urge to try something different, open to suggestions, I am thinking either Void or openSUSE.

Thanks

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2025-07-19

Does anyone have an idea as to what the problem could be? I've been googling for about 30 minutes and the documentation for this issue is very limited (and dated). I am using antiX Linux Full (64-bit).

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Hey, sorry in advance if this is the wrong place/way to post this. I believe I’m having the same issue posted here a few weeks ago. The solution presented in that post worked, disabling “igd multi monitor” in BIOS lets the game open up perfectly, but I’m wondering if there is another solution. I use my integrated graphics for my second monitor so I would prefer to not disable it if possible. Does anyone know of an alternative solution?

I’m not sure what information I need to include, but the following may be relevant- I’m running Kubuntu 25.04 and my GPU is a gtx 1050. I have the latest (I think) nvidia drivers installed, 575. I also tried with 570. I use -dx12 as a launch option and my proton version is GE-Proton10-9, which is the only proton version I could get to even open the game, but I also didn’t try anything before proton 8 as I got frustrated and figured anything else was probably too old anyway.

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I use steam for exactly one game (dark souls 3) when I play with my brothers, and compared to everything else I find it most annoying to start up - steam and the game itself work fine, but i neither need nor want 2-5 pop-ups and an entire game store im never touching again to start up every time I press play in Lutris and then keep running after we're done playing. That whole production is also just slow compared to my other games, on top of being unnecessary. Is there some way around this? Through different launchers/apps or changing settings in Steam itself, I don't really care so long as it works. The less Steam I have to look at to get to the game the better. I'm on Void if thats relevant.

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Hi guys, I wanted to share that I've found out after digging deep and deep about Steam Tinker Launch!
Steam Tinker Launch is like a Pre-Launch software that when you launch a Steam game, it will pop up and ask you how to customize the launch. You'll have access to all basic things like custom commands etc, but also to the possibility to "fork" the exe. Which means launching two exes, one for the game and one for the background.
You will need to have a "portable" cheat engine folder. Which means taking it from somewhere you have installed it (install on a vm or windows -> get the folder -> place it on your machine).
Cheat engine will recognize among the processes the game you've launched and you can happily cheat!

I spent days looking for using the speed hack and stuff until I found this solution.

You have to install it as compatibility layer, then on your game from library set it as custom compatibility option.

Then, if you need to use a specific version of proton for your game you'll be able to do it from Steam Tinker directly.

Hope this will help!

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