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Loosing HDR in games with optiscaler and/or LSFG

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 Mar 2026 - 8:27am

hi, when I enable lossless scaling in a game or install optiscaler into a game an option to enable HDR in game disappeares.

I toggle "HDR mode" in lsfg but it doesn't help in 95% of cases.

I also tried playing with ge proton and no luck enabling HDR too.

any help would be appreciated

I'm using Bazzite. Steam deck image on PC (boots into gaming mode).

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Can someone help me?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 Mar 2026 - 7:34am

I decided to try death stranding 2 on my steam deck lcd but it won't start

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Intel Arc B580

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 Mar 2026 - 7:10am

Anyone else using the Intel Arc B580 to game on Linux? Specifically CachyOS. I haven't come across anyone else who is using an Intel GPU and it's a struggle to figure out if any issues I have are GPU or OS related, or something else entirely. Overall, I'm curious about your experience with Arc

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Reflex seems to not work in dx12 games making terrible input lag

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 Mar 2026 - 6:38am

Hey everyone. I've been trying to track down why DX12 games (The Finals, Cyberpunk 2077) feel so heavy and laggy when my GPU hits 99-100% load, even with NVIDIA Reflex set to ON.

My Specs: CachyOS (Driver 595.24), i7-11700, RTX 3070, latest proton.

I changed my resolution to 4k to get maximum gpu bottleneck Using smartphone 480 fps camera, I have recorded my mouse click, and monitor. Using Openshot I've calculated how much time is spent from clicking, and character reacting in game.

The Measurements (Average of 5 clicks per scenario): I tested both DX11 and DX12 to see if the translation layer makes a difference.

  1. DX11 Game (Overwatch 2 via DXVK) - 100% GPU Load:

Reflex OFF: ~68 ms

Reflex ON: ~11 ms (Reflex works perfectly here, completely bypassing the render queue).

  1. DX12 Game (The Finals via VKD3D) - 100% GPU Load:

Reflex OFF: ~70 ms

Reflex ON: ~70 ms (Reflex seems to do absolutely nothing here).

Capped FPS IN GAME (GPU at ~85%): ~15 ms (The only way to get a responsive mouse in this game)

Cyberpunk 2077 seems to have the same problem.

I only have one PC to test this on, I want to ask: Is this a known universal issue with dx12 and NVIDIA Reflex right now? Has anyone else with LDAT or a high-speed camera measured this in DX12 titles? Or perhaps someone can feel the same latency?

Any insights, tests or fixes from others would be greatly appreciated!

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gtaV crashing

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 Mar 2026 - 6:33am

Hi!

As the title says, was working fine untill I did a full system update trough pacman. It load's fine untill the storymode should start. I'm on CachyOS, the game is a Fitgilr repack and running it trough Wine 11.4. Thank's for the help, hope someone is smarter than me!

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Ryzen 9950X3D on CachyOS – any tweaks needed for proper core scheduling?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 Mar 2026 - 6:19am

Hello,

I’m running CachyOS on a Ryzen 9 9950X3D, and I was wondering if there’s anything I need to configure to get the best performance out of this CPU.

On Windows 11, I know that things like Xbox Game Bar are required for proper core parking / scheduling between CCDs (especially for X3D chips).

Is there anything similar I need to do on Linux (CachyOS/Arch)?
For example:

  • core parking / preferred cores
  • scheduler tweaks
  • any kernel parameters or services
  • CPPC / amd_pstate configuration

Or does Linux already handle this correctly out of the box?

I’m mainly interested in gaming performance and making sure the 3D V-Cache CCD is used optimally.

Thanks a lot

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I got tired of Wayland screen-share audio not working on Discord/Browser, so I built an event-driven Rust daemon to fix it natively.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 Mar 2026 - 5:51am

Hi everyone,

Like many of you, moving to Wayland has been great, except for one glaring issue: sharing my screen on Discord (or any browser-based communication app like Element/Teams) meant my friends couldn't hear the game or application audio.

I got tired of manually opening qpwgraph or running

pactl commands every single time I wanted to stream a game to my friends. So, I wrote PipeShare.

What it does: PipeShare is a lightweight, background Rust daemon that completely automates audio routing during screen shares on Wayland.

  1. Event-Driven Detection: It listens to PipeWire graph events (pw-dump --monitor). It uses 0% CPU while idle—no polling.
  2. Native Prompts: The moment you start sharing your screen (even in a browser), it detects the new ScreenCast node and pops up a native dialog (using kdialog or zenity) asking which application's audio you want to share.
  3. Smart Routing: It instantly creates the necessary virtual sinks via PipeWire to mix your real microphone with only the application you selected.
  4. No Echo: You hear the game normally, your friends hear you and the game, and nobody hears an annoying echo of your voice.
  5. Auto-Cleanup: When you stop the screen share, PipeShare detects it and destroys the virtual sinks, returning your system to normal.

I've been using it myself and it makes Wayland feel so much more complete for daily use. It's built entirely in Rust, handles application pauses seamlessly (using module-stream-restore rules), and integrates directly via a systemd user service.

Link to the project: https://github.com/SavasTanriverdi/PipeShare

This is my way of giving back to the community that has helped me so much. Currently, the UI relies on system dialogs (kdialog/zenity), but I'm looking into building a proper Tauri/GTK native GUI for it next if there's enough interest.

I'd love for you guys to try it out! Any feedback, PRs, or GitHub issues are highly appreciated.

Let me know what you think!

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Issues With EA App?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 Mar 2026 - 4:07am

Is anyone else having issues installing the EA app using Proton? It keeps throwing me an error.

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Weird FPS issues for all games

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 Mar 2026 - 3:22am

Im not sure if its a multiple monitor thing ?

I play Minecraft and I get around 180 fps that’s cool but nothing compared to 700 on windows

Marvel rivals I get around half the fps.

Alienware aurora 16x

Inten i9

Nvidia 5060

Hyprland

Cachy os

Wayland

Ax shell dots or whatever the updated version is idk

Is there something I’m doing wrong ? Should i switch to KDE?

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GE-Proton10-33 Released

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 Mar 2026 - 1:40am

Proton:

  • wine bleeding-edge updated
  • dxvk updated
  • vkd3d-proton updated
  • vkd3d updated
  • dxvk-nvapi updated
  • fex updated
  • pulled in upstream misc proton script fixes
  • pulled in upstream steam_helper fixes

Patches:

  • NEW: Added new wineopenvr patches to allow VR to work outside of steam for non-steam games (examples such as GOG version of ProjectWingman, Overload, Star Citizen). Compatibility tested using Meta Quest 3 with WiVRn. To use, setup WiVRn, then launch games with the additional environment variables WiVRn instructs. Tested flatpak system and user modes as well as standalone package install.
  • NEW: Rebased em10/wine-wayland patches, should have some new dead-key fixes.
  • Patch added to fix Star Citizen EAC warning popup
  • More winepulse patches from Vyrolian
  • NEW: Added new umu.exe that works the same way steam.exe does -- this is used now instead of the standard wine start.exe, it should help some 3rd party launchers work better by making them run the same way steam runs them.

Protonfixes:

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Agregar Disco definitivamente?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 17 Mar 2026 - 11:46pm

Cada vez que prendo la pc y abro Steam, mis duros de Almacenamiento desaparecen y tengo que agregarlos de vuelta a mano.
Estoy usando Ubuntu LTS.
Tengo los discos En ext4

https://preview.redd.it/0h3iqg6uoopg1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=ecae4bc005aeab1aa0e3230812a1010145122c58

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Proton crashing on re9

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 17 Mar 2026 - 11:02pm

I've recently downloaded fedora and downloaded re9 in order to 100% the game(played the game on w11 before) and every time I get the cedarbrook apartment key the game crashes and a wine pop-up error appears. I have tried the proton hot fix,the standard and the 10.0-4, same error.

My specs:

Fedora 43 kde; R5 5500; GTX 1660s; 8gb ram; 500gb nvme.

The Nvidia drivers are already updated

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Any tip for begginers?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 17 Mar 2026 - 10:41pm

I js did a dual boot of windows and linux mint, Im new with this, on windows everything runs js fine but now me pc cant run deadlock, well it can but it lags a lot. The only other game I tried was p5r and I was js running. Me pc isnt the problem bc on windows is js fine. I installed all the drivers, have it updated. Is there anyhing missing? Since Im new idk what info would be useful so aks for anything

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