T.L.D.R. if you're having issues with slow and and/or inconsistent download speeds for steam on linux populate your secondary dns.

Recently I fully switched over from windows to Linux with pretty minor experience, rather than being reasonable i decided the best course of action was to get an arch boot disk, follow an install guide and fully replace my windows os with arch linux without a windows backup. Overall this went pretty smoothly however I had continued issues getting my steam download speeds to be consistent and above few Kb.

I am currently using steam via steam-native-install on an arch linux distro ( archinstall with KDE plasma) however I had this issue following this install also.

I tried a number of solutions that had worked in the past to little or worse results. At one point I even loaded steam os onto my computer to validate faster download speed were possible but i didnt keep it because it was to restrictive. Finally on a whim I decided to update my secondary dns in my ipv4 settings (I have ipv6 disabled), stopped steam, rebooted my computer and was finally able to achieve the same speeds i had gotten on when I had a windows OS.

I wanted to post this somewhere including a bunch of the keywords I tried googling incase someone else has this issue there is this stumble upon post for them, if this was here i could have saved 4 days of troubleshooting. <3

Make sure you dns is properly configured and try adding secondary dns.

Good luck.

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I keep getting disconnected from every official cs server.
sometimes the my character can't interact anymore, sometimes everything just stops, sometimes my character just follows the last action i did, all this happens before i get disconnected from the server, i do not have the same problem with workshop maps, i have an arch linux, i installed steam properly and don't use the force compatibility option, i do have proton-ge installed but don't know how to use it with steam.
also sometimes am just glitched in one place while i can hear everything that happens around me.
also this isn't a problem from my internet since it works fine for every other thing.
I would really appreciate some help from the linux community.
6.17.3-arch2-1

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https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3BvNrM

I will likely be trying to source some of these parts second-hand. Also, it seems like PSU prices have shot up from what I remember. I recall paying $100 for a 1000w PSU and thought that was steep a few years ago.

Purpose of the build: Primarily gaming at 1440p 144hz on Fedora using the 9070XT, using the 3060 passed through into a Windows VM for CAD work. Dual boot into Windows for any game (rare for what I play) that doesn't play nice in Linux.

Concerns: I've checked the motherboard specs and it seems like this X670E board is one of the only ones out there that has great dual GPU support. I dug through a ton of X870E board specs and couldn't find one (not that it's really worth the upgrade anyways).

Clearance for two GPUs in the case. It should fit.

• The case has 8 removable expansion slots.

• The motherboard's first PCIe x16 slot lines up with the third removal slot on the case. This means that the 2-slot 9070XT will consume panels 3-4 on the case.

• I'm not certain where the next PCIe slot on the mobo will line up. It looks like it'd line up to be slot 7 on the case, so a 2-slot 3060 would fit but it'd be tight. Especially considering the intake fans at the bottom.

I also need to add a KVM into the mix for seamless switching between this machine and a laptop.

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someone told me "GE proton is old and doesnt have wow64 yet" but idek what that is or why it matters. i mean i looked it up but im confused because ive read everywhere that it's the latest and greatest and absolutely should be used to play games and it gets updated all the time. then i have other people telling me no don't use wine over proton just stick with proton lol. i really dont know what to do, im on cachyos running a very new system and just want to be on the cutting edge. what should i be using?

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Ive seen so many comments in this community that bashes on kernel anticheats, but little to no actual suggestions how to replace those. Lets have a pragmatic discussion.

This is my view:

It is all about lowering the costs while maintaining a healthy and competetive environment with insignificant number of cheaters. Kernel level anticheats lowers the number of cheaters drastically because of the higher barrier to entry. Thus lowering cheater reports which would otherwise need to be processed, costing more money.

Allowing linuxes to bypass kernel level anticheats weakens this security for a game - making cheating on linux easier. I am afraid that with the rise in popularity of linux gaming, cheater vendors will have the incentive to make cheats for this platform, pushing the game company to disable the kernel anticheat bypass.

Unfortunately I cant think of a solution to make a linux anticheat that is reliable just as a kernel level anticheat on Windows is. Even if linux kernel itself implemented some kind of verification process of all modules, it could be bypassed by patching the kernel itself. I believe cheat vendors would quickly catch up and find a nice automated way for their non-technical clients to install and configure it. Windows kernel being closed-source is a good thing for anticheat systems, unfortunately.

What do you think?

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Hi, As you can see my game is not taking the full screen, i use proton expérimental from Steam on ubuntu 24.04, how can I fix that ?

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My 8Bitdo Pro 3 and 8Bitdo Ultimate 2 (Bluetooth version) controllers keeps disconnecting after 5 seconds when I connect them using the 2.4GHz dongle on Linux. When I connect them using bluetooth they work normally. They also work normally with the 2.4GHz adapter on Windows.

I installed Nobara recently on an old SSD and curiously the controllers worked well with the 2.4G dongle and didn't keep disconnecting, but on Fedora (the distro I use) and Cachy OS (I also installed Cachy OS on the old SSD) they kept disconnecting, so maybe the problem is some configuration on the OS that needs to be changed?

I also have a Ultimate 2 wireless version and a M30 2.4G version, and both of them work well on Fedora.

All the controllers and the dongles are updated to the latest version.

Anyone else had this problem and knows how to solve it?

I also tried posting this on the 8Bitdo subreddit but the post wasn't approved for some reason.

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I have all dependencies installed, including JQ, moved my Fallout New Vegas to my internal disk drive (where bazzite is installed to avoid NTFS issues) and I'm still having this error.

Any clues or tips of why this is happening and how I can get past this?

Thanks in advance!

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Certain games like Team Fortress 2 and now Sonic x Shadow generations wont open, I've been using linux mint for only a couple months now but am honestly considering switching back to windows (yuck) because of the compatibility issues. anything would be appreciated, i dont want to have to dual boot!

in the case of team fortress 2, it opens and freezes before i get to the title screen, and for sonic x shadow gens the game won't launch at all

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System:

Kernel: 6.14.0-33-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0

Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 Zara base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Machine:

Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>

part-nu: SKU uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4622 date: 09/29/2024

Battery:

Device-1: ps-controller-battery-70:20:84:59:fe:19 model: N/A serial: N/A charge: N/A

status: charging

CPU:

Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled

arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 3468 high: 4441 min/max: 400/4465 boost: enabled cores: 1: 4441 2: 3560

3: 2367 4: 3551 5: 3552 6: 3553 7: 4441 8: 3834 9: 3552 10: 4040 11: 2367 12: 2367

bogomips: 93418

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm

Graphics:

Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia

v: 580.95.05 arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1

empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2504 class-ID: 0300

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: nvidia

unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0

screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 103 s-size: 473x292mm (18.62x11.50") s-diag: 556mm (21.88")

Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled model: 100002480 serial: <filter>

res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 103 size: 474x296mm (18.66x11.65") diag: 552mm (21.7") modes:

max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480

API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1

drv: nouveau device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia

inactive: wayland

API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.95.05 glx-v: 1.4

direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2

Audio:

Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel

v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e class-ID: 0403

Device-2: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel

v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 07:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403

Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:

speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 07:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403

Device-4: Sony DualShock 4 [CUH-ZCT2x] driver: playstation,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB

rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-9:3 chip-ID: 054c:09cc class-ID: 0300

API: ALSA v: k6.14.0-33-generic status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active

2: wireplumber status: active

Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: off (using pipewire-pulse)

Network:

Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK RTL8111H

driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 05:00.0

chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200

IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>

Device-2: Realtek RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey] driver: rtw_8822bu type: USB rev: 3.0

speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 4-2:2 chip-ID: 0bda:b812 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>

IF: wlx90de80899b8d state: up mac: <filter>

Drives:

Local Storage: total: 2.33 TiB used: 732.82 GiB (30.7%)

ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Fanxiang model: S101 512GB size: 476.94 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD

serial: <filter> fw-rev: A25C scheme: GPT

ID-2: /dev/sdb model: P3-2TB size: 1.86 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter>

fw-rev: 6A0 scheme: GPT

Partition:

ID-1: / size: 1.83 TiB used: 732.81 GiB (39.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb3

ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb2

Swap:

ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 80 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile

USB:

Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 10 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1

chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900

Device-1: 1-1:2 info: USB Optical Mouse type: mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1

rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 30fa:0400 class-ID: 0301

Device-2: 1-9:3 info: Sony DualShock 4 [CUH-ZCT2x] type: audio,HID

driver: playstation,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1

power: 500mA chip-ID: 054c:09cc class-ID: 0300

Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003

class-ID: 0900

Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1

chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900

Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Primax HP PR1101U / PMX-KPR1101U Keyboard type: keyboard,HID

driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA

chip-ID: 0461:0010 class-ID: 0300

Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003

class-ID: 0900

Device-1: 4-2:2 info: Realtek RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey] type: Network driver: rtw_8822bu

interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 power: 504mA chip-ID: 0bda:b812 class-ID: 0000

serial: <filter>

Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1

chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900

Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003

class-ID: 0900

Sensors:

System Temperatures: cpu: 37.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 53 C

Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%

Repos:

Packages: 2487 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2466 pm: flatpak pkgs: 21

No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com zara main upstream import backport

2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse

3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse

4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse

5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unityhub.list

1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/Unity_Technologies_ApS.gpg] https: //hub.unity3d.com/linux/repos/deb stable main

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.sources

1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main

Info:

Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.65 GiB used: 3.92 GiB (12.8%)

Processes: 367 Power: uptime: 2m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep wakeups: 0

hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical

Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Client: Unknown python3.12 client inxi: 3.3.34

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I am using Proton Experimental

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Along with the launch of the GOG Autumn Sale, the GOG Preservation Program has expanded to include even more games the GOG team will be keeping alive.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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Did you know if you leave the Display Settings window open while gaming it can remove tearing and improve performance?

This is a real strange one! I recently played Monkey Island and had some issues with resolution and freezing. When I tried to change the screen resolution in the Display Settings the game ran perfectly. Then by chance, I closed the Display Settings and it completely froze. Played around with opening and closing Display Settings and confirmed with other games and screen tearing issues that it fixes the problem.

What is up with that?

I'm playing through STALKER Clear Sky and it has some horrible diagonal screen tearing but with the Display Settings window open its gone.

Here are my findings in detail:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1ocef41/diagonal_screen_tearing_and_performance_issues/

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Fedora Linux 43 has arrived for Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE and other assorted flavours that use Fedora have also seen various upgrades.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I have heard that apparently the best game ever made is something called Okarena of Tyme. I have no idea what that game is about but I am curious about it.

I know it's not got a Linux port so how do I emulate it?

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Death by Scrolling is a rather unique twist on some of the ideas from survivor-like bullet hells, from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox and MicroProse Software.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Archlinux + hyprland setup. I have bluetooth headphone when i do not change game settings to use my bluetooth headphone for voice input i can play the game but whenever i want to talk in the game all sounds go away. I can nor talk neither hear anything. If i change the voice input the my headphone in the settings, game freezes immediately. What's the issue ? Can't i use my bluetooth headphone for both input and output ?

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I'm sub 200ms average every time.

I used to be stuck at 200-220 ms under Windows 10, same mouse, same polling rate. I was happy when I hut sub 200. I did change monitor though (benQ XL2411 to lame 144 Hz AOC 100 bucks I don't even remember the name).

That's very subjective but I always felt Quake Champions is snappier on cachyOS. I don't know to what extent the OS input lag account for. The desktop cursor doesn't feel particularly different though.

One thing I don't like about HB is the range when the background is about to change is way too predictible. You definitely get a sense of when it is about to change the more you practice.

By all account I should have a lower reaction time since I'm 30 now.

Well I'm positively surprised.

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The main game it happens in is Dead By Daylight with reshade installed. Whether it lets me record matches is random and extremely inconsistent. Sometimes when I open the game, it works. Sometimes, it just doesn't. I'm on CachyOS if that helps.

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