So I've used CachyOS (love it), Bazzite (both my ally x & desktop) far to locked down for my liking, Nobara (it's good) but the performance in most games sees bumps of small amounts but some games play like windows. Soooo I decided I'm going to see if I can run SteamOS on my desktop i5 11400F, 32gb 3200mhz, XFX 6700 10gb, 1tb ssd and I will say it installed and ran without a hitch, with some of the games the performance was slight less or about the same as other distros, now here is the kicker hogwarts & oblivion remastered both say not just a little jump in performance over windows and the other distros but massive jumps in performance.

So I guess I'm sticking with SteamOS for a long while now lol.

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Hello all, I switched to Mint from windows a month or so ago and I’ve been loving it so far. However I’d previously only been playing some Minecraft and Europa Universalis because I was busy. Now that I’m trying to play more games like Crusader Kings and Kingdom Come Deliverance, the performance is basically unplayable.

I’m using a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 with a 580 driver, and I made sure that the games are using that and not my integrated graphics. Is this just a problem with NVIDIA on Linux or am I doing something wrong? I’m super inexperienced with Linux but willing to learn.

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I've installed gamescope but it looks like the only way to get it to recognize my monitor is HDR capable is by setting WLR_RENDERER=vulkan but this also means I can't launch anything. Have you guys had any more luck?

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I’ve been looking to getting into gaming on Linux & this is my first build so I want to know if I have a good parts listing for a budget pc to game on? Are these parts good & compatible. Do any of these parts have back doors like intel cpus?

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Hoje resolvi tentar jogar um novo jogo. Então baixei o instalador, escolhi um wine e instalei. O jogo funcionou de primeira. Daí eu resolvi tentar colocar na minha biblioteca do Heroic Launcher. Cliquei em add game, escolhi o mesmo instalador, coloquei o nome Racing MAster (com esse A maiúsculo de propósito, pois é assim que o jogo foi identificado), escolhi uma versão do Proton GE que eu já tinha. E tudo ocorreu com perfeição.

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TLDR I am new to the linux community as I've only had it for a few days so please bare with me. I use CachyOS and this resolved the steam big picture lagging issue. Type that into your terminal.

gamescope -steam -f -w -h

4k:gamescope -steam -f -w 3840 -h 2160

1440p:gamescope -steam -f -w 2560 -h 1440

1080p:gamescope -steam -f -w 1920 -h 1080

720p:gamescope -steam -f -w 1280 -h 720

-f for fullscreen as it defaults to windowed

-w for width of the resolution you want to display examples being 1920 or 3840 or whatever you desire.

-h for the height of your resolution being 1080 or 2160 but whatever you desire gamescope -steam -f -w 3840 -h 2160 The command right above is what i use for fullscreen 4k big picture.

you can also add the -bigpicture argument so it starts into big picture mode by default, or just enable it in the steam settings to start up with big picture mode

Hello everyone. I had issues with Steam Big Picture being laggy when in full screen, and i have gpu acceleration on in the steam settings, i am relatively new to linux so i was looking around and nothing worked until someone mentioned gamescope flawlessly works and forces the gpu to work with Steam Big Picture so if anyone was looking for a solution to stop the lag on big picture, this is it. The reason i had to add in the resolution argument is it caps at 1080p i believe and tricks steam into thinking you are using a steam deck? Not sure. But i hope this helps anyone having this issue.

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I'm trying to improve the sound for games like Arc Raiders. I really like how Steel Series Sonar has game specific presets, and I can adjust distance and immersion to hear footsteps better.

Is there something similar I can do on Linux with Easy Effects or another app?

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I tried using sober to play roblox but I have to get a certain apk apk for it, But when I use the compatible one, it gives me an error and states that the compatible one is incompatible

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Hi there!
I've been wanting to mod Baldur's Gate 3 outside of the in-game Mod Manager. I personally felt like a lot of the cosmetic mods I wanted are hosted on Nexus Mods and I wanted to give the Limo Mod Manager a try. I unfortunately feel like I'm having a bit of a difficult time understanding this, even with the tutorial that's provided on the Github wiki which seems to be mostly focused on Skyrim. I couldn't seem to find any video tutorials and the only posts I could find regarding this mod manager, is Skyrim-centric. The terminology seems to be confusing to me. Deployer, Staging directory, Hard link, Sym link, etc?

I was wondering if anyone else has used this mod manager to mod BG3 and how did they go about it? I know there's a BG3 Deployer in the Flatpak but I'm not sure how to go about it and I do feel admittedly stumped.

Thank you!

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Was testing out Lossless Scaling on cachyos with doom 2016 on vulkan and wanted to compare without Lossless again but for some reason it stays either 144 or 72 FPS when full screen now (when putting doom into windowed mode I get 144+ fps) even though I removed lsfg-vk package and uninstalled it from steam is there a global vsync set for vulkan now somewhere I need to change?

openGL lets it go past 144fps in fullscreen

I have tried reinstalling the game and also an earlier snapshot still locked FPS

I am using a gtx 970

Kernel: Linux 6.17.5-2-cachyos

DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.1

WM: KWin (Wayland)

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What's a good Linux distro that has lots of customization for ricing but is also good for gaming using mint RN and it lacks a few things

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I'm trying to play No Man's Sky on Linux Mint, using Proton 9.0-4. The game will launch, act as if it's running, then close. running terminal while attempting this comes up with:

wine: '/mnt/5480878980876FF2/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx' is not owned by you chdir "/mnt/5480878980876FF2/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/No Man's Sky/Binaries" ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/poss/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/poss/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/poss/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/poss/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/poss/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Game Recording - would start recording game 275850, but recording for this game is disabled Adding process 13244 for gameID 275850 Adding process 13245 for gameID 275850 Adding process 13246 for gameID 275850 WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function! WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function! WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function! WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function! WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function! WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 2 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function! Adding process 13247 for gameID 275850 Adding process 13368 for gameID 275850 wineserver: /mnt/5480878980876FF2/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx is not owned by you wine: '/mnt/5480878980876FF2/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx' is not owned by you Adding process 13369 for gameID 275850 Adding process 13370 for gameID 275850 Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=275850] Removing process 13370 for gameID 275850 Removing process 13369 for gameID 275850 Removing process 13368 for gameID 275850 Removing process 13247 for gameID 275850 Removing process 13246 for gameID 275850 Removing process 13245 for gameID 275850 Removing process 13244 for gameID 275850

I assume it does similar things for other games that are not working.

Edit: I haven't checked every game, but it seems some games work (namely Death Road to Canada) but others have this problem.

searching the "wine: 'blah blah blah blah' is not owned by you" it seems the problem is that my drives are NTFS, since I switched from windows to a dual-boot linux. Is there any way to solve this that doesn't involve reformatting the drives to exFAT or some other filesystem? I have four hard drives full of games, and I really don't want to deal with the hassle of having to move everything off those drives, reformatting them, then moving everything back and hoping nothing broke in the meantime.

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Hello, I've had this issue with this game in the server slam and now again at launch. The Finals from the same developers has this issue also

Things i have tried:

• fullscreen instead of bordeless fullscreen = same issue

• gamescope --force-grab-cursor %command% , game wont start with this. Am I doing something wrong?

It is quite annoying as it hops over to the other monitor even when no menu or map etc is open ingame, so any sudden mouse movement will cause this

Seriously considering switching desktop enviroments because of this, my guess this is an gnome issue since my friend with KDE does not have this

Thanks for any advice

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I have been thinking of switching to Linux and my 2 contendors for the distribution are bazzite and catchyOS I know cachy might be hard to deal with and require a lot of troubleshooting so I want to know if it’s worth it

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On windows 11 i was getting about 340-360 fps after switching i got anywhere from 80-180 fps on Counter-strike. Furthermore, my game tends to crash a lot whereas beforehand it didn't occur at all and my entire game is permanently windowed covering a lot of my UI. any help will be appreciated.
I use a 6700xt GPU Ive tried it through various proton versions and without and have seen no difference.

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I've been migrated to Linux for a few months now but there's this weird issue I can't isolate and it's driving me a bit insane.

Specifically for Source engine games I keep getting disconnected randomly during game play for seemingly no reason on Arch Linux. For CS2 this is typically halfway through a match or near the end. In Dota 2 it's usually at the start of the game and 1-2 times after in the middle. Can reconnect immediately though.

No obvious frame drops, no lag, no console messages indicating an issue, just a disconnect.

None of my other multiplayer games do this, and my Windows laptop does not have these issues either.

Is there anything obvious I should be looking for or a launch option I should be using for Valve games in specific?

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in my testing I discovered that the best proton level to use on alot of my games is 8.0 or 9.0 (9.0 is better but 8.0 works too) the experimental, hotfix and glorious eggrol versions all do not work with these type of games, and I wanna ask is there something specific with versions before 10.0 that makes it work on a weak chromebook with a mobile apollo lake archetecture? and is there a custom proton variant that is linked to 9.0-4 that is even more optimal and hopefully more performant?

for reference I am also using linux mint 21.3 as that is the best version to use for this (more performant, loads faster and also more compatible with brightness and audio (after i get mrchrombox patch to get speakers working))

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