Hi, I am trying to get 3 monitors running. I am on an amd 5800x CPU and amd 7900xtx gpu. 1 generic 1080p monitor, 1 samsung 4k monitor and 1 gigabyte 4k oled (240hz). On windows, the monitors with their cables worked fine without issues.

My GPU has 2 displayports and 2 hdmi ports. So the two 4k monitors are on dport and the 1080p one uses hdmi. If all monitors are set to 60hz, it all just works. The moment i try to bump one to 75/100/120/240hz, the whole screen freezes. I have to reset my PSU and start all over again. I removed the hdmi cable and tried with the two dports, and it works! I can use 240hz on my oled.

Thing is, im really used to my 3-monitor workflow. And its really hard to go back to 60fps gaming when you've had the taste of something higher. Is there a way to get this to work? I considered unplugging the hdmi when i start gaming but that just feels neutering my setup. Is there something I can do to make this work?

I tried installing bazzite kde, gnome, switched to cachyos, manjaro, and even linux mint (testing X11). They all freeze as soon as i move beyond 60hz. native gui tool, xrandr, arandr also tried.

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Setup Information :

• Setup: The game is launched with SKSE via Mod Organizer 2.
• Proton Version: Tested Proton GE, Experimental, Hotfix, etc.
• Linux: Arch linux using pipewire.
• Audio: Stereo.

Problem :

The game suffers from a persistent audio issue that primarily manifests in two ways:

1. the problem appeared as echo/reverb on sound effects and voices, exclusively inside interior cells.
2. severe audio compression when multiple loud sounds play at once. For example, casting two destruction spells simultaneously, or a power attack sound effect combined with an impact sound. The resulting audio is not distorted, but sounds "mashed together" or "flattened," as if all sounds are being forced to the same volume level, losing all dynamic range.

Load order:

#Mod_Priority,#Mod_Status,#Mod_Name

"0000","+","DLC: HearthFires"

"0001","+","DLC: Dragonborn"

"0002","+","DLC: Dawnguard"

"0003","+","Creation Club: ccQDRSSE001-SurvivalMode"

"0004","+","Creation Club: ccBGSSSE037-Curios"

"0005","+","Creation Club: ccBGSSSE025-AdvDSGS"

"0006","+","Creation Club: ccBGSSSE001-Fish"

"0007","+","Creation Club: _ResourcePack"

"0008","+","Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch"

"0009","+","Alternate Start - Live Another Life"

"0010","+","Community Shaders"

"0011","+","All in one Address Library (Anniversary Edition)"

"0012","+","EngineFixes"

"0013","+","CrashLogger"

"0014","+","SSE Display Tweaks"

"0015","+","Skylighting"

"0016","+","Upscaling"

"0017","+","Wetness Effects"

"0018","+","Enhanced Lights and FX"

"0019","+","Obsidian Weathers - 1.07a"

"0020","+","Skyrim Is Windy"

"0021","+","Enhanced Textures Detail (UV-tweaks)"

"0022","+","Cathedral - Water"

"0023","+","No Snow Under The Roof 3.2"

"0024","+","Terrain Blending"

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Hello!

I've moved to linux (CachyOs) and I'm loving the experience, but my PC is a bit old now, and I'm looking to build a budget gaming PC with linux compatibility in mind.
I've never built a PC, and the amount of parts is super overwhelming, so please be gentle.

What I've got now (mostly based on info from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HgAN5cEmkk )
Motherboard: MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 GAMING OC LHR 12GB GDDR6
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600
Power supply: MSI MPG A850G PCIe5.0 850W 80 Plus Gold ATX 3.1
Case: KRUX Nadir (I don't like LEDs)

I think I'd like to switch the nvidia GPU for an AMD one just to be safe (I've heard that nvidia can be a bit iffy with linux, or at least used to).

I'm not looking for crazy performance (but I really want to play Alan Wake 2 and that's not happening on my current setup), and I'd like to keep the budget around what I've currently got on the list.
If you have some good intro videos for beginners I'd also be very thankful for that.

Thank you from the mountain (I'm polish).

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Hi, i have problems with prepared shaders, yesterday i was trying to play hogwarts legacy on steam and the game crashed after preparing shaders. I was stuck with black screen after seizure warning when i launched game again. I tried diferent proton versions and saw that the proton 10.0-2 beta pushed me through seizure screen to copyright screen but then it was stuck. So i reinstalled the game and did the first run with compiling shaders on 10.0-2 beta and it worked i played for a few hours with no issues (i tinkered a bit with better graphic settings after playing for a while did that borke shaders?). But next day after reboot i ended up with the same problem - black screen after seizure warning. How should i compile shaders so the game will work everytime? Or is there proton command to not save shaders and recompile them on every launch? I know that my GPU is weak but i had no performance issues on low settings.

OS: CachyOS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.17.1-1-cachyos

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 (8) @ 3.90 GHz

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB [Discrete]

Edit: in proton log i have a lot of instances of

1268.495:0174:01dc:warn:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_pipeline_library_load_pipeline: Pipeline "FB5AE1EBB82DF501" does not exist

Edit2: weird thing is that when i run the game on system monitor steam is using a lot of cpu and read write and the game does nothing appart of allocating 1,6 mb of memory

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So this is an odd one, I just upgraded to a RTX 5060 (A Gigabyte Eagle OC card to be exact) to replace my good old 1660 ti and for whatever reason Steam, and only Steam, causes my display to briefly go black every so often while its open.

I've upgraded my motherboard firmware, enabled the BAR and 4G settings in UEFI but nope, still happening. I was running the beta client but I switched over to the normal one to see if that would fix things but no, still happening. Oddly once a game launches it doesn't seem to happen, nor does it happen when benchmarking outside of Steam.xbuntu 20.4

Running the 580.65.06 drivers on kernel 6.14, Xubuntu 24.4LTS.

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I've just downloaded fallout new Vegas from steam, but everytime I try to play it nothing happens, for a while it just says launching and then it acts like I didn't even click play

I'm using arch Linux with kde plasma 6

I tried running it with proton GE and proton experimental I also checked the integrity of game files, it said that one file is missing or damaged, it installed the file after, but fallout new Vegas still didn't start

Help would be appreciated 🙏

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Hi everyone!

So for the context, I am not a complete Linux noob, but I do admit that I have not catched up with everything that happened in the world of Linux on desktop, and I never tried playing in VR on Linux until now. I have been an Arch user and I am comfortable with the CLI tho.

I have finally decided to switch back to Linux on my main desktop after 6 years of putting it aside because of various compatibility issues. Most of them are solved now, and I want to ditch out Windows entirely.

I chose NixOS because of its reproducible nature. Linux distributions still need some tinkering on my side to make everything work perfectly, and that feature lets me fix all of the issues once, then simply put back my .nix files on a fresh install to fix everything again. It relieves me about figuring out how to fix things again, maintaining some documentation, and just wasting time only in case my system crashes.

So the issue I am trying to solve is the following: I have a perfectly working SteamVR setup and Beat Saber works fine when I launch it on Steam without any extra arguments (what a pleasant surprise after all I could read online!). However, when I try to launch any version of the game through BS Manager, it shows the splash screen on my desktop and in my VR headset, in which I can move my head and see the logo move, then it crashes.

I have tried to put this custom launch option in BS Manager but nothing changes: STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="/home/hyperfelt/.local/share/Steam" %command%. I also have tried with SteamVR stable and beta, still nothing changes.

I have noticed though that when I launch Beat Saber through Steam, it stays in windowed mode on my desktop and it has a "X" icon on it, meaning that it makes use of XWayland I guess? When launching through BS Manager, it goes in fullscreen on my desktop then it crashes. This might be a hint.

Here is my configuration:

• OS: NixOS 25.05
• Desktop environment: KDE 6
• GPU: (GIGABYTE) Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti / driver: nvidia-open I think? I'm using this in my configuration.nix (more info on https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia) :

hardware.nvidia = {
modesetting.enable = true;
powerManagement.enable = false;
powerManagement.finegrained = false;
open = true;
nvidiaSettings = true;
package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.stable;
};

• VR headset: Valve Index

And some logs from Proton: https://gist.github.com/hyperfelt/b8b400d8816984afca70a58305cfe747

Can you help me?

Thanks in advance, and sorry if my English isn't that great!

EDIT: added my desktop environment

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I think I am ready to switch from Windows 11 to Linux on my desktop, which is primarily used for gaming.

I am not new to Linux at all, its all I use on my laptops - primarily Arch due to how light and efficient it is, but If I switch my desktop over I'll go with Mint purely because of how stable it is, however I am open to suggestions for what to go with.

The reason for this post first and foremost is to clarify a few things for myself and see about some work arounds.

The first thing is my GPU. It is an Nvidia RTX 3060, and I know Nvidia cards arent exactly known for being the most simple option with the Penguin.

Secondly, any games I want to play that rely on anti cheat, Battlefield for example, how does this work? The last I heard this can be close to impossible on Linux due to how anti cheat works. Could I not just run games like these through Wine? Any other games I'll be checking how they run on Proton DB. Does anybody play Microsoft Flight Simulator, the 40th anniversary edition? How is it?

How do modded games work, such as Skyrim? Will I need to redownload all the mods or Vortex?

Every single time I have had to reinstall Windows or when I have previously tried Linux on the desktop, I have had to redownload my entire Steam library as I cannot get it to work after reinstalling Steam. ANy good guides to follow for this?

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everytime i try to run steam from the shortcut or the terminal the pc starts freezing and when steam opens its just a black window i cant do anything. Tried a lot to fix it but nothing worked can someone help i am on ubuntu and get some error messages from the terminal but i am new and dont know what they mean

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hey i newly installed linux mint on my wifes computer and the elite series 2 controller we share works flawlessly on my system but refuses to on hers. i plug it in and the xbox light logo button just keeps blinking and blinking until it just shuts off

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I've not been using Linux for vrey long, but I'm using Ubuntu.

So yeah, steam won't open, I've literally reinstalled the whole operating system and it still won't open, but this morning I woke up to steam just open waiting for me for some reason? It still doesn't open normally.

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I'm on Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon with an NVIDIA RTX 3050 Laptop GPU. I've been using Proton for running Windows-only games for a while and all of them run (mostly) fine except Lost Judgment.

so the issue I have is: the game launches, has audio, but does not render anything. I've tried multiple Proton versions over the course of weeks, ran numerous chats with GPT to troubleshoot but I just come up empty.

GPT pointed out the troublemaking line in the log as this:

vkd3d-proton:dxgi_vk_swap_chain_recreate_swapchain_in_present_task: Got 3 swapchain images.

the weirder thing is that it ran fine a couple of times, but for some reason just stopped rendering the visuals (including Steam overlay) regardless of fullscreen, borderless or windowed mode.

I ran it on Wine3D and it launched cleanly again, but was less responsive to inputs. I've tried everything I could and still can't seem to make it render anything on dxvk consistently.

I'm currently on the Denuvo lockout because of all the tinkering but if anyone has faced anything similar to this, please help me find a solution.

I was just about to try it on Proton 8 with the exact settings that made it run (once) on GE 10-17 (didn't work even once on Proton 9) when I reached the activation limit. so if that's the solution, ig there was no point to this post.

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so, ive heard that steam link vr now has a beta on linux. how well does it work? im switching to ubuntu cinnamon soon with the death of win 10, and im curious to see if anyone has tried the beta for steam link for a quest or has any tips about getting vr working on linux

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I want to install and run old games from myabandonware. However at the same time i am also worried about getting a virus to my PC or network in the process. Is bottles a good option to run old games in isolation from my other files and wifi?.

I use bazziteOS on the Legion go.

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With 1.5 years of development, HARD VOID will enter Early Access this October 2025. The expected development time until 1.0 is one year.

This project is a solo development journey, fully developed on Linux with C language and OpenGL, and includes native Linux support! You can try the demo on Steam and itch.io.

The Early Access will be a direct follow-up from the Demo version.

I wish to develop HARD VOID alongside player feedback to try new, wild, and experimental ideas. You can join the Official Discord server https://discord.gg/YbJjr3yuys or post in the Steam forums to suggest and discuss game content and features.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2978460/HARD_VOID/

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I spent September trying out Bazzite, Pop!_OS, and finally got to Kubuntu. So far it is smoother to get things like new Vegas and Skyrim modding going. I like the familiar environment and I've developed a workflow.

Are there any distros I should consider before fully committing to Kubuntu?

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So, i use endeavouros and i do some lightgaming, atm playing silksong, stardew valley, and a few small games, nothing high performance. The thing is, a few weeks ago i notices my performance was dropping on prety much every aspect adn playing was impossible. I tried everything, downgrading mesa, vulkan-radeon. I broke my OS, fixed it, and nothing worked. After that i just said fuck it and deleted all my games and steam. Yesterday i installed steam and silksong again and it was working amazing, just like it used to, and like 24 hours later i started noticing the lag again while playing. What should i do?

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Right now I’m dual booting Nobara and Windows and I’m planning to upgrade from an RTX 2060 6gb to an RX 9060 XT 16gb. I know that on windows, I have to remove the nvidia drivers then install the AMD drivers. I also know that the Linux kernel natively support AMD so I’m a little confused. Do I have to uninstall the nvidia drivers on Linux? And if I so, how?

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