Hello guy,

I have been using linux for almost 4 years now and i found a huge problem with performance in Cities Skylines (The original, not the new Cities Skylines 2).

Windows : 60 FPS on an empty map without mod and with full DLC enable
Linux : 20/25 FPS MAX with proton or proton GE without mod and with full DLC enable

After two hours of playing on linux : 5/10 FPS + huge latency in input.
I have try restart and everything : nothing help.

I need to report the performance problem to what project ? Wine ? Proton ? Proton GE ?

Specs :
Ryzen 5 3600
48GB RAM
AMD 6600 XT

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I don't know enough to evaluate this, but it sure sounds interesting.

Why is it like this? I use 6800xt and cashyos

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You love taking down fascists right? Too Many F*cking Nazis is a fast and aggressive boomer shooter with roguelite elements and game-changing perks.

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From the devs of the excellent Duskers, Below the Crown is a glorious mix of chess blended with a dungeon crawler and the full release has been announced.

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One missed from the other week is The 7th Guest Remake got announced, bringing the classic haunted mansion adventure into modern times.

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One of the most interesting smaller survival games coming out soon is Oceaneers, that blends colony building with island hopping adventuring.

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Hey, I have a problem with CS2 on a laptop with this specification:
OS: Arch Linux x86_64

Host: Inspiron 15 3525 (1.25.0)

Kernel: Linux 6.19.9-arch1-1

Uptime: 18 mins

Packages: 1137 (pacman)

Shell: zsh 5.9

Display (BOE0A8A): 1920x1080 in 16", 120 Hz [Built-in]

DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.3

WM: KWin (Wayland)

WM Theme: Breeze

Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]

Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]

Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]

Cursor: breeze (24px)

Terminal: konsole 25.12.3

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U (12) @ 4.06 GHz

GPU: AMD Lucienne [Integrated]

Memory: 4.17 GiB / 7.11 GiB (59%)

Swap: 1.76 GiB / 4.00 GiB (44%)

Disk (/): 96.48 GiB / 467.40 GiB (21%) - ext4

Battery (0x35,0x33,0x31,0x47,0x00,0x00,0x00): 81% [Charging, AC Connected]

Locale: en_US.UTF-8

I am attaching the logs:

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Since I switched to Linux for gaming, the thing i miss the most, is automatic capturing of NVIDIA Highlights when playing Hunt Showdown.

I tried to look for a solution to use NVIDIA Highlights online, but there was nothing I could find. I was not even sure, who I would need to ask or who would need to implement this (proton?).

With general coding experience, but no idea about C++ and Proton I sat down over the weekend with VSCode and ChatGPT to vibecode an idea I had: Overwrite the nvidia highlights SDK dll with a mocked version, that routes the triggered highlight event to gpu-screen-recorder.

I read some docs on the nvidia SDK, I knew proton can overwrite and debug dlls and running gpu-screen-recorder already can be triggered to automatically save a replay.

And after the weekend I can confirm: The idea is working.

I successfully tested it with: MK11, Uncharted Legacy of Thieves and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

I refrained from testing it with multiplayer games, as I learnt along the way, that anti-cheat measures can be triggered from tampered DLLs. So I chickened out on the original idea.

MK11 was the first game that worked. For the others, some additional functions in the dll had to be mocked, that were not needed for MK11.

So the assumption is: some more iterations might be needed when testing with other games, too.

Here is, how it works in general:

The GfeSDK.dll in the game folder is replaced with the mocked version.

Once a highlight is triggered the DLL sends an UDP package to a listener, that sends a delayed signal to gpu-screen-recorder.

Setup:

1. Replace GfeSDK.dll in gamefolder
2. set runtime/debug options via start parameters in Steam
3. Start gpu-screen-recorder via terminal
4. Start listener via terminal
5. Start game

This is link to the source code.

https://github.com/IceCodingGH/LinuxGfeHighlights

Compiling the dll is pretty easy. Description in the link.

Keep in mind: The whole code was written by AI and only guided be me, based on docs and debug logs. My goal was to see, if the idea is working in general. Also there are debug outputs, that could be removed but are useful atm. Also I couldn't get this working with gpu-screen-recorder-gui, thus the terminal version, which is working fine.

I am doing this post to see if there might be some "real" developers with interest in this idea, that's why I am sharing the source code.

Plus: There might be some more braver souls than me, who want to test this in other (multiplayer) games, too. If so: Use PROTON_LOG=1. With that you can find out pretty easily which function the game might be missing in the mock.

Have fun!

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While the Tiny Takeover game drop update hasn't released yet, Mojang are already announcing the next big update to Minecraft called Chaos Cubed.

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Let's "Hypothetically" say I'm a filthy pirate that refuses to pay for multimillion companies and I want to play a Denuvo game with Hypervisor crack. Would it be possible on Linux?

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Mojang revealed during the latest Minecraft Live that Minecraft Dungeons II is officially coming and quite soon too.

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Inspired by the classic stealth game series Thief, the free and open source project The Dark Mod has a new release out.

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I have Rx 6650 XT

ryzen 5 7500f

MSI g255f

I use proton GE 10.33

the hair and hairy thing look so pixelated and the NPCs on other games like RDR2 shadows and grace also look pixelated does anyone know how to fix that

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D7VK v1.6 is another impressive sounding release for the Direct3D 3, 5, 6 7 to Vulkan translation layer bringing further compatibility improvements for Linux.

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GE-Proton 10-34 has arrived bringing even more gaming fixes for Linux / SteamOS, so here's all you need to know for the community-run compatibility layer.

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Hi everyone,

​I’m running an HP Omen 16 with the following specs:

​CPU: Intel Core i5-11th Gen

​GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti Mobile

​RAM: 16GB

​OS: CachyOS (Hyprland WM + end4’s dots)

​Kernel: Linux-cachyos-bore

launche options of steam :

SteamDeck=1 __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_PRIORITY_HIGH=1 PROTON_USE_WOW64=1 DXVK_ASYNC=1 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE=1 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 MANGOHUD=1 game-performance %command%

​I installed God of War Ragnarök via Steam using proton-cachyos-10.0. While my average FPS is around 50, the game feels incredibly unsmooth. The frame rates are extremely unstable—dropping to 20 FPS and sometimes spiking over 100 FPS—even though I have a frame rate cap enabled.

​I’m also experiencing severe input lag; when I press a button on my controller, there is a noticeable delay before the action happens in-game. Additionally, my performance overlay shows 0% GPU and VRAM utilization, which is very strange.

​My questions are:

​How can I fix these stability and input lag issues?

​What can I do to get better, more consistent performance on this setup?

​Would I get significantly better performance if I switched back to Windows for this specific game?

​Any help or optimization tips would be appreciated!

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Wine 11.5 has arrived with new bug fixes and features for running Windows apps and games on Linux, with a nice sounding compatibility improvement.

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Proton:

• update latest wine bleeding-edge
• update latest dxvk
• update latest dxvk-nvapi
• update latest vkd3d-proton
• update latest vkd3d
• update latest FEX
• import proton script game fixes from upstream
• import aarch64 build changes from upstream

Protonfixes:

• added protonfix for god of war ragnarok playstation sdk error
• added protonfix to disable hidraw and enable sdl for gta v
• added protonfix for GOG version of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
• added protonfix for cpu topology for Assassin's Creed 1

Patches:

• patches: Enable .exe dynamic relocation. For XIV specifically, this fixes issues with low address space being filled up by everyone and everything and, as a result, some plugins failing to apply their hooks and leaving the game in an unstable state.

New Features:

• add new PROTON_WAYLAND_MONITOR to allow easier setting of WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR

• attempt to detect and set primary monitor if wayland is enabled and no primary is set

How these work:

You can now specify something like PROTON_WAYLAND_MONITOR=HDMI-A-1 to specify which monitor the wine-wayland driver uses when enabling wayland. Previously you could already do this using WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR, but it wasn't documented. PROTON_WAYLAND_MONITOR is now an easier to remember envvar for setting that value. Additionally by default if no WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR is set when enabling wine-wayland, GE-Proton will now attempt to use xrandr to detect the default primary monitor set by the desktop environment, and if found, display on that monitor, just like xwayland does.

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