I have a Nvidia laptop card with old Pascal architecture (2016). I've tried different distros (listed at the bottom) but didn't have any success performance wise.

I got Skyrim (2011) to run at 30 FPS in low graphics with Nvidia propietary drivers while in Windows runs at 60 FPS in medium graphics. I know I won't get the same performance as in Windows, and I'm fine with getting like a 20% less performance. It just happens that I get way too low performance.

Also some games perform better if I use OpenGL instead of Vulkan for some reason (not having this problem in Win). Code to execute a program with OpenGL here if anyone needs it:

--rendering-driver opengl3

I wanted to give Nobara a try, but they don't support Pascal and older cards. The same with Pop_OS! It's because Nvidia doesn't give open source support to Pascal and older anymore.

I'm curious if anyone in a situation similar to mine managed to get good performance and how? TT_TT

Distros I tried:

• Linux Mint 22.3 Zena and 22.1 Xia. Both in Cinammon edition.
• Pop!_OS 24.04, the Nvidia version and the non-Nvidia one. With Pop!_OS I installed the drivers manually from the Nvidia website since the System76 drivers won't work. Tutorial on how to do it if anyone needs it.

Thanks.

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I’ve been playing Sea of Thieves on Linux via Proton since before seasons were a thing. I recently received a permanent account closure for allegedly using “3rd party applications to interfere with game files.”

I’ve never used cheats or any unauthorized software. My theory is that Proton’s Windows API translation layer — the way it handles system calls, injects libraries, and interacts with game files — is what their anti-cheat flagged. From the anti-cheat’s perspective, Proton’s behavior can look similar to cheat injection even though it’s just doing normal compatibility work.

Some key details:

∙ My Xbox enforcement record is completely clean: 0/8 strikes, no suspensions of any kind, ever ∙ The only detection came from Sea of Thieves’ own anti-cheat, not Microsoft/Xbox ∙ I appealed twice through Rare’s support and both were denied with template responses ∙ Support said they can’t discuss detection methods and the case is permanently closed

I’m posting here because I’m trying to figure out:

1. Has anyone else been banned from Sea of Thieves while playing on Proton? 2. Does anyone know which specific Proton components might trigger their anti-cheat? (Wine DLL overrides, DXVK, etc.) 3. Has anyone successfully appealed a false positive like this with any game studio?

I’ve also posted on the official Sea of Thieves forums but I’d really appreciate any insight from the Linux gaming community since you all understand the Proton side of this better than most.

Thanks.

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Hi, so when I research mods for Garry's Mod, it crashes randomly, it also happens while I'm playing, I don't know why it happens only in Garry's Mod, this has never happened to me with Steam that it flashes and the game crashes!

Here are my specifications:

Operating System: Arch Linux

KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.3

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0

Qt Version: 6.10.2

Kernel Version: 6.19.8-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 28 × Intel® Core™ i7-14700

Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.6 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: Intel® Graphics

Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

Product Name: B760M D3HP

System Version: -CF

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Hello everyone, my friend would like to play a Steam game that is not exactly compatible with his Linux PC, but my W11 can run it, I was wondering if it is possible for him to play the game with Steam Remote (or any other way), so my W11 PC is running the game itself but he is controlling the game from his Linux PC. I have no problem leaving the W11 PC on running the game as I'm not using it at the time he would play.
Note that he lives on another continent if this might cause any issues.

Sorry I'm a total layman about Linux and remote play like this in general but the concept of something like this would be interesting and worth to try out.

Thanks for your help in advance!

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I wanted to compare the performance to Windows and found I can't get it running with all settings available on CachyOS.

Specifically, raytracing options aren't in the settings and AMD Anti-Lag 2 isn't an option I can select.

I have tried multiple proton versions to no avail. As far as env variables I tried steam_deck=0 and the one I used sucessfully on RE:Requiem, /WineDetectionEnabled:, when that had a similar issue. Is there something I'm missing?

Specs:
Ryzen 9800x3d
7900 XTX

64 gb ddr5
Newest build of CachyOS(as of 3/20/26) with kde plasma

iGPU is disabled, in case that makes a difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.

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I realize this is very niche, but would like to explore using 2 GPUs to run Windows in a VM for the occasional game I can't run in Linux. I realize I can dual boot, and so far that's what I've been doing, but it's becoming a bit impractical as I do some streaming and going back and forth forces me to change certain stream configurations here and there.

If it's practical to run a Windows VM with my dual boot partition and my 2 GPUs, I'd assume give it a try.

If anyone has a setup similar to this, what was the method you found and what would be the downsides?

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Hi! So I want to play Avatar on my relatively fresh install of Fedora Silverblue.

For whatever reason I have to deactivate Steam Imput on 50% of the games for the controller to work.

But with Avatar it works neither way.

I installed Steam via the flatpak. I also use Steam Tinker Tools.

Any idea what could fix it?

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I'm playing War Thunder via Steam, and if I don't play for a couple hours, the game updates. This repeats everytime I take a break and come back to play. Steam thinks the game is 77.85GB, but the War Thunder launcher itself seems to think the game is 65.9GB instead so every time I take a break for a while, Steam downloads a 10-11GB update. I recently switched to Linux due to performance issues on my laptop but I never faced this issue on Windows. The launcher never shows on Windows anyway.

Is there any way to fix this? My distro is Ubuntu 24.04, and shader pre-caching is on

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Hello everyone,

I'm trying to run a game in Lutris that was recently ported to PC from Playstation. It's Death Stranding 2.

I'm having issues because Playstation PC SDK is missing and I don't know how I could install it in my prefix. Has anyone had this problem before?

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Remember Nintendo Doom 64?
A whole new chapter of Doom not a re-make of the original! Wielding the classic arsenal including the double-shotgun, but immerses you in new levels, creatures and new special effects! Brutal Doom 64 is a remake of this Nintendo classic!


I really really tried to get the native Linux version running! First played with GZDoom and the pk3 files... but it was a no go!
Then found the developer supplied a native version and it complained...

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Screen only have version number and cursor

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Basically the title, it's been sitting on my order list for awhile.

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Hello everyone!

So I've been struggling with getting Palworld to launch on my dedicated Nvidia RTX 3060 but seems to not see it no matter what commands I give it.

All drivers and updates are current, tried downgrading drivers still nothing, im in performance mode and all other games see and use Dedicated.

Mint cinnamon 22.3 12th gen intell i7-12650H x10 Nvidia RTX 3060 mobile/max-Q 65 gigs ram

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I don't have any logs because after the raid I put ltsc on my PC but it's bugging me as to why it's happening.

it never happens in keys, only raids. it has a similar feeling to the video driver locking up in windows. yesterday it froze during a boss and after about 5 seconds audio came back but no video. when it happened last night I had old school RuneScape running on another monitor and discord.

running kde, it's happened on both vanilla arch and last night I tried it on cachy. 7900xt. 13600kf. running through faugus with latest proton GE.

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For a bit now steam has been acting weirdly for me (Stutters and flickering in the UI) im on wayland and don't plan to switch unless nessecery since for some reason many things don't work for me or work very poorly on x11. Has anyone had the same problem and if so is there a solution?

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It's a short free indie artistic experience, enjoy!

https://arthursouzasally.itch.io/reanimadora

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