Hey just wanted to share my experience gaming on debian.

After hearing that windows 10 stops getting updates in october I decided to try out gaming on linux. Afterall I keep hearing about how much its improved. I picked debian because many years ago when I was a teen with no money I used debian to torrent games and play on wine, this was 2008ish. I figured I might remember a thing or two.

When looking at then best distro for gaming I found 1 of 2 responses. 1 <insert random distro> or 2 they are all the same, you can make them all good. So I went with option 2. I installed debian testing, figuring it would have more uptodate drivers etc.

On reflection I think that if I just wanted to see how linux gaming was going, I should have picked a specialised distro. There is a learning curve to installing debian and I assume any distro. I ran into a bunch of issues, and confusing documentation. I had to search a low of threads to find answers for issues ranging from the login screen breaking and having to use startx to turn on the gui, to being able to selected a paired set of bluetooth headphones... why did it pair so easily, then never be an option for audio output?.. idk. On and installing Nvidia drivers is a hassle.

/rant

oh Also numlock, My bios turns numlock on. Debian login screen turns it off, ctrl+alt+f4 to go to the terminal turns numlock off, then startx and going to the gui turns numlock off. Tiliting...

/endrant
Anyway I got lutris installed, and had to do a bunch of workaround for steam to use a different drive to share games with my windows install. (Do not install steam flatpak) So once all that's done.

Yes gaming is better on linux than it used to be. Not having to play with wine directly, using lutris I was able to run a bunch of games which just worked.

The only issues I haven't figured out yet.

• Steam overlay doesn't work. No idea why, so far all debugging has not solved it.
• Mangohud doesn't work in steam, some threads suggest fixing steam overlay first. In goverly I can get it setup and working in the demo screen it opens but never in a steam game.

I did notice some other things that have me worried.

• First thing I noticed with VRR on goverly seemed to think the max fps was 120, I read briefly this is a thing sometimes, but maybe can be fixed? I have a 170hz monitor.

Typically in windows I do the ncp- vsync on, gsync on, low latency on, max fps 165 globally as per blur busters recommendation. I have not tried to get this working on linux yet, seems like mangohud can set global max fps and vsync? Ill need to look into it.

• No undervolting

My gpu has some heat issues, I probably need to repaste it at some point but with a undervolt I can knock 10-15 degrees off the temps, which makes it quieter and boosts the clock freq higher than without.

I know people say the workaround is to apply a - offset, but I want to undervolt and get MORE mhz, not less. Please correct me if I am misunderstanding that solution.

• strangle didnt work for me, so idk how to limit fps for certain games

Maybe counter to the point above but I couldnt get strangle working for me, after a hour or two of trying solutions I gave up. I didnt really look at other ways.

The other things I haven't gotten too is stuff like setting up macros for my keyboard, I assume this is pretty chill. and setting up my logitech mouses extra buttons and the dps reducer button, logitech g hub doesnt seem to be on linux so I am worried about the little button I hold to limit dps for snipping then release for normal. I assume there might be a workout but it seems niche enough that I suspect there isnt.

TLDR:

I think for gamers without my hang-ups, linux is a lot better for gaming. If I was just a plug and play sort of person, assuming linux is setup for me, or other distros do all the work for you then its pretty viable. KDE Plasma is a really nice desktop environment and mozilla is great especially with ublock.

Ill try and solve some of those little issues on the weekend but if I cant fix them, ill go back to windows until october and try again then.

At some point this year Ill probably switch from a nvidia gpu to a amd one, which might solve some issues, and I think for my next attempt Ill try a gaming distro so I can get into the gaming quicker and maybe have more stamina for fixing the little bugs. I am sure Ill make another rant about it then too :)

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I get random freezing while playing CS2. It's very random. It can happen after an hour of play time or 2 minutes of play time. Steam overlay and recording is turned off. I use these launch options:

LD_PRELOAD="" gamemoderun %command%

gamemode is installed. Specs below in the second picture. Anyone have any idea based on the dump?

Mesa 25.0.1

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Using an Early 2015 mac book air, with Linux mint just swapped it over from Dirty Mac OS. And got Morrowind and OpenMW running thanks to you lovely folks, however I can't turn my POV/Head while moving, is this a common bug?

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Hello, I recently just switched over to Linux mint Cinnamon from windows 10. I see a lot of people talk about AMD being better for performance on Linux vs Nvidia cards. I currently have a 3080ti with a 5800x cpu. Would I be better off getting a 9070xt and selling my card or should I wait. Thank you in advance

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I have been away from PC gaming for quite a while (ever since I ditched Windows around Win 10) and just got back to it on Linux (which has been a really pleasant experience so far) but been a bit of a plonker and bought tons of old games on Steam (even before the sale) without much consideration if they would actually run.

I have bought Doom 2016 (runs great) and Doom Eternal which both are playable on Steam Deck according to Steam so I assume they will run on a Linux PC as well. However the DLCs The Ancient Gods part 1 and 2 which I really want to play are not verified for Steam Deck and the listing says "Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo".

Does that mean I can't run it on Linux?

Same with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Mass Effect Definite Edition, they require something called Origin to run in the background apparently, but they seem to work on Steam Deck so I assume you can run it on Linux PC as well then?

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So the title is self explanatory, lately I've been having issues with gaming on multiple wine versions and forks. I've tried wine-staging, proton-ge, proton 9.0 from Valve, wine-tkg and a proton-cachyos none of which fix the issue. My issue being is the very, like very high cpu usage in games. I've read about shader compiling and such, I've enabled the environmental variable for DXVK_HUD which then lists all of the dxvk features in-game. Every stutter i have is the shader compiling, which after some time, the stutters disappear. But this problem started very recent where any game ran with a compatibility layer cause this to happen running on a much much worse performance than on native windows. Note that the games all ran without a hitch until recently. I haven't done basically anything to the system except update the stuff that is used for gaming like nvidia drivers, proton-ge wine and such including dxvk and vkd3d-proton (also tried stock vkd3d which didn't work well at all). I've also tried to downgrade mentioned (except the nvidia driver) but still no performance improvement (though on dxvk 2.5.3 there's a little less cpu usage but gpu still usage still can't reach above 55-60%). I've also tried CS2 which has native support for linux using vulkan, that works perfectly with very little cpu usage and really high fps with almost always 100% on gpu usage. When force running CS2 with proton performance drops noticeably, gpu seems again like it's bottlenecking etc. No idea what can cause this as I've also tried to remake my prefix where i run the games, still no help there. This was all tried on lutris, umu-launcher (with umu-run) and stock wine command with some important dlls in the prefix. Running the game with mangohud and gamemode (tried also without gamemode with no success). Also tried a different scheduler in linux-cachyos kernel scx_lavd still no improvement.

TL;TR Games recently started running poorly on any wine ver./ fork including proton

Distro:

Arch Linux x86_64 (nvidia-open-dkms 570.124.04, kernel: linux-cachyos, linux-zen, linux tried all of these kernels all of them have the same issue)

Specs:

Nvidia RTX 3060 OC 12gb

Ryzen 5 3600 (amd-ucode installed)

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I'm on Mint 22.1 x86_64, and just got a 9070 XT, switched from RTX 2070 super.
Had to update my kernel to Linux 6.13.7-x64v3-xanmod1
I have the Mesa 25.0.1 driver installed

Besides the crashes (I see that everyone has issues with the card right now) I noticed that the performance is not as it should be. For example Path of Exile 2 is running at 25 fps even on the login screen and even the 2070 super was better with performance. Warframe runs almost the same as it did with the nvidia card.
Do I need some additional software, or do I need to wait for newer drivers, or wait for a newer kernel or OS update, or anything I can do to improve on the performance/crashes?

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Been running into this super annoying crash in Marvel Rivals. Happens randomly, usually during the intro cut-scene, accepting a match, or when a match ends. Game just straight-up crashes, making it unplayable.

I'm on Kubuntu and launching through Steam. Tried changing Proton versions, Verifying game files, Deleting & reinstalling.

What’s weird is that it was totally fine a week ago. Anyone else running into this or found a fix?

https://preview.redd.it/4i6ztoa7oppe1.png?width=519&format=png&auto=webp&s=ba0b6cabe01f422286a856ede4498898833fd8a0

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I have been using same setup for 2 months and just until a few days ago my system started to freeze randomly on Helldivers 2 or Space Marine 2. I got an error with a dialog popup "Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset". I didn't have time to try out different games but those were very fine before. I am on 6.13.6-103.bazzite.fc41.x86_64 with 9800X3D and 7800 XT

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this effect happens when I move my camera. It can somewhat be resolved by enabling FSR, but lighting looks blocky. Does anyone know what is going on here?

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Give it up. I get it you might not have a taste for DOTA 2. But it is time to go take a shower and pack up. Where are you going? I did say pack up but I didn't say jump out the window into microsoft land. No,no no, I invite you to play Strife.
https://playstrife.gg/

That is right, Strife is back baby, and its been back from the dead for like what a 3rd or 4th time coming! AND IT NEEDS YOU. 🫵 YES YOU. 🫵 Strife needs more players to build up an active playerbase so we can run games in NA hours, outside of the typical peak hours(8:00AM to 4:00PM EST currently).

Come on down to https://playstrife.gg/ and install strife, it is also available on steam, and show everone what an absolute unit of a league of legends linux gamer you are.

What's wrong? You chicken? 🐔

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Hello!
I recently have been trying to harmonize my system a bit and noticed that when Steam games were running, they were shown with that default icon, and in some places like the dock or the gamebar overlay extension they even were named something like "steam_app_<id>".

https://preview.redd.it/7wmqvzmg9ppe1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=8d5446a72d6ea94b98370fc3a09afad059d68bc1

I started to search for a fix for that so the normal icon and name appear everywhere and found one involving to add that "steam_app_<id>" to the .desktop file as the value of the "StartupWMClass" key.
And it works pretty well!

https://preview.redd.it/2jqzipm4appe1.png?width=514&format=png&auto=webp&s=416107bbbabe590965c30a8bbfa4bc5640786fd2

Since i thought i'd probably have to do that quite a lot (everytime I install a new game and also on my existing shortcuts), I decided to make a little script to automate that for myself and for anyone to use in case some people wanted to conveniently do the same thing.
The script can also be used to automatically create shortcuts for ALL your currently installed Steam games so it can double down as that use case as well if anyone needs it.

Note that I am using GNOME and I have no idea if it works on KDE or any other DE or if they even had that problem to begin with. You're free to try tho!

I have no idea either if this is really an issue for other people, if that workaround is common knowledge or if there already are tools to do that, I didn't seem to have find anything popular about that when I was searching for the fix so yeah, but still sharing cause why not if it can help some people.

Here's the link to the GitHub repo : https://github.com/beedywool/Gnome-Steam-Shortcut-Fixer

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Hey everyone!

I wanted to share a little tool I've been working on called Screen Profiler. If you're a KDE user who constantly uses different monitor setups and resolutions, this might be just what you need. It even remembers the relative positions of your monitors!

Having recently made the switch from Windows myself, I was surprised to find a lack of Linux alternatives that offered the same convenience as "monitor profile switcher".

I've been using it extensively on Bazzite and it's been fantastic. I recently refactored the code and designed a companion system tray icon for easy GUI interaction.

One of my favorite uses is for my game streaming setup. When I connect via GameStream, Screen Profiler automatically switches to my dummy HDMI plug for my Steam Deck. Then, when I'm done, it restores my regular desktop layout. It's also incredibly handy for quickly enabling just one monitor when I want to mirror my screen to the TV in the living room.

You can assign KDE hotkeys to the command-line commands.

In short, Screen Profiler lets you:

Save your current monitor configurations (including resolution and relative positions) as "profiles."

Load those profiles back using either a command-line interface or a system tray icon.

Optionally integrate with Konsave to save and restore your KDE panel and widget layouts along with your screen setup.

https://github.com/Kakiharu/screenprofiler

I'd love to hear your feedback!

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So I'm thinking about making the move from Windows to Linux Mint. I wanted to ask if the setup is easy compared to doing it on Windows and if the performance is comparable. I'm running an AMD 7700X and RTX 3060.

I do all of my gaming through Sunshine/Moonlight so it's very important it works well on Linux.

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Fedora 41 KDE, latest Nvidia drivers.

I've been trying to get Gamescope and HDR to work with Steam games and actually it works pretty well. This is the launch command I use (it includes DLSS4 overrides but is the same behavior without that part):

gamescope --hdr-enabled --force-grab-cursor --mangoapp -w 3840 -h 2160 -W 3840 -H 2160 -f -b -- gamemoderun OBS_VKCAPTURE=1 PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER=1 DXVK_NVAPI_DRS_SETTINGS=NGX_DLSS_RR_OVERRIDE=on,NGX_DLSS_SR_OVERRIDE=on,NGX_DLSS_FG_OVERRIDE=on,NGX_DLSS_RR_OVERRIDE_RENDER_PRESET_SELECTION=render_preset_latest,NGX_DLSS_SR_OVERRIDE_RENDER_PRESET_SELECTION=render_preset_latest %command%

However, it only works if I first start Steam from the terminal (just writing "steam", no arguments). But if I open Steam from the KDE app launcher/menu, games fail to boot with the exact same command.
As a side note, Gamescope works fine on Lutris when launching it from the GUI.

Any idea why the difference between launching from the Terminal vs the GUI for Steam?

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I read that has been released a new nvidia driver (570.133.07), I've read that has solved the ff7rebirth problems but anyone tested mhwilds if is still un a problematic state?

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i have a laptop with a 4060mobile ,intel 13700hx, 32 gig ddr5 and some random nvme ssd. i know nvidia drivers are not good on linux but windows keeps bugging out when gaming and ı dont want to reset my computer because i know it is not going to solve my problems so i will swich to linux is there anything i need to know other than the nvidia drivers.(sorry if i have bad english)

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