I recently swapped from flatpak discord to native discord from their site so I could get quests and rich presence working correctly. It works 90% of the time, but I still have a few games where it recognizes the .exe that steam is running, not the true name of the game. In discord's settings, I manually set the name (like for example The Finals gets called discovery-e and I change it to say THE FINALS in discord), it gets set correctly, I re-launch the game and it doesn't recognize the entry where I manually set the name, and it treats it like a new game all over again.

So going with my finals example, first time I open, discord calls the game discovery-e, I change it to THE FINALS, it updates correctly and all is good for the session. I close the game and reopen the game, a new game appears as my current activity again called discovery-e, but my manually created entry with the title THE FINALS is still is my list of registered games, that points to the same exe.

Anyone know why this happens or if I can fix it?

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I've been using KDE on my Cachy for about 1 year and thought about going to Sway, Hyprland or Niri. I am curious about gaming performance on these before moving on, my specs are 12gb RAM and AMD Ryzen 7 5700U.

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I've been using Linux for gaming for years, but several months to 1 year ago I started getting this weird performance bug on my system. The gist of it is games becoming so slow in framerate to the point of being unplayable, after closing any other game. I have 1 chance to play a game lag-free before the lag bomb occurs and I need to restart. This "lag bomb" can also occur in realtime after about 30-40 minutes of gameplay, but it's much more easily replicatable by simply closing and relaunching a game. I've been living with it for so long it's part of my routine at this point, restarting/logging in before a session. Log in, play game fine, close game, start game again, lag bomb.

I just randomly discovered a much better workaround: restarting my monitor. Finally no more having to close the game and log back in. This has me hopeful that I can finally pinpoint and solve the issue. Here are some old clips I found of the issue occurring in Portal 2 and HL2.

I use Arch / Gnome Wayland / RX6600xt / Ryzen 5 5600xt / 165hz LG Ultragear (the issue happens whether or not Freesync is enabled) / reBAR enabled / Feral gamemode or CPU scheduler makes no difference / all drivers from Arch mesa package / everything at its defaults

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So, I installed Speed Freaks it formerly worked amazing on both my SteamDeck and on my Bazzite Desktop but recently it seems to start fine in GE Proton 10-10 gets to starting a match and then all GPU usage dumps to zero in System monitor and my CPU maxes out and the game rolls to a crawl and I have to Kill it

Then I tested it on the Steam Deck and sure enough it behaves similar now. The Proton DB says its still Gold rated. Anyone have any ideas, Are their any known launch options that might fix that?

I've tried a few versions of GE Proton, I'm wondering if a recent update killed that game in Proton

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Hello everyone,

I just installed Garuda Linux—I tried CachyOS right before and really liked it. I’m still not fully comfortable with Linux yet. I understand that I can switch kernels to “improve” performance. I have a somewhat unusual CPU: a Ryzen 9 7945HX with an RTX 5070, in a desktop setup (Miniforum motherboard). Are the Zen 4-optimized kernels worth it?

Also, with CachyOS, I had to disable C-states in the BIOS because they caused freezes, no matter which distro I used. Is there any option that would allow me to keep C-states enabled?

Does disabling C-states actually impact performance? I haven’t noticed any difference so far.

Thanks in advance for your answers!

(Translated from French to English—apologies for any mistakes! 😅)

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Hello everyone, I'm hoping to move from Windows 11 to Arch Linux in the near future, but I'm new to Arch and I also play some games that are gonna potentially require some tinkering to get running how I want before I can fully cut the strings and be free of Microsoft. I should also mention I have an Nvidia GPU which I've read can sometimes be a challenge.

My idea is to install a second SSD drive and install Linux on that one first and setup a dual boot where I can run either Windows or Linux. My thought is that I'll be able to take my time getting acquainted with Arch and gaming on Linux in general and when I'm ready I can turn the Windows drive into extra storage. I have a X570S Aorus Master motherboard and it seems like I can definitely install multiple SSDs but I've been reading that not all the slots are treated the same and one is connected to the CPU whereas the others are not. This has me wondering if my hypothetical plan is even feasible. Would anyone be able to let me know if installing an OS to an SSD in one of these secondary slots would cause issues when booting from it? If it's just a tad slower, then I don't really mind since it would only be temporary anyway, unless it would be so much slower that it would make it difficult to identify any potential problems with my setup. For example, I've read that people tend to have performance issues when they use an NTFS formatted drive and if I made a mistake like that I wouldn't want to end up assuming the performance issue is tied to the drive installation instead of the file system if that makes sense.

For context, I do have some coding experience and I've used Linux in the past just normally Debian based distros. I'm not super techy but I'm comfortable for the most part using command line tools and editing config files so I think I should be able to handle Arch, I'm just trying to leave some room for growing pains as I attempt to make it my daily driver.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

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I'm running into a really annoying issue on Linux Mint. On Windows, even at lower frame rates, games still feel smooth and not stuttery. The same thing happens on Arch—the gameplay stays smooth. But on Mint, even with up-to-date drivers and high FPS, it feels like the frame pacing is off, making the game feel kinda laggy. In-game settings haven’t helped (this happens across multiple titles). Any tips or workarounds?

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