Hi everyone, I'm looking for a simple solution:

I installed Bazzite on an AMD 5825U that I had left over. I installed it in the room, connected to 2 8bitdo ultimate.

The system isn't bad, but since I don't have a keyboard/mouse, sometimes I can't start some games.

1) could it be that I haven't calibrated something on bazzite? Some games that I ran well on Mint are annoying here.

2) are there better alternatives? I know about Cachy OS, I still have to test it, but I'm interested that when it turns on, Steam starts to control it with the gamepad.

3) do you have different alternatives? I've never bought games on itch.io and other platforms, to tell the truth I haven't played well since 2014, before I had PS4 headphones etc.. now that the daughters are 9 and 11 years old, we're rediscovering some games to play together. So if you have any advice, shoot away!

Thank you

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I've made the jump to PopOS! from Windows !! as I'm just tired of MS bullshit (as a sysadmin I deal with their shit everyday).

Absolutely no regret, my PC boots instantly and all games runs as good as on Windows. (7800X3d, 9700XT)

The only issue I have is to make my HTC VIVE works. Just haven't figured it out yet after trying pretty much everything online.

Does anyone have a comprehensive and tested guide to make it run?

thanks

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Currently I'm running a 5070ti, and a friend of mine recently rebuilt his PC and gave me his "old" 7800xt. I know in raw power, the 5070ti is better. But for penguin gaming, would the compatibility/drivers be worth swapping cards for? And would it be close enough to make up for the ~20% dip on Dx12 games that NVIDIA drivers currently suffer from on Linux?

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Hey everyone,

I'm a newbie to Linux (only a month in now), and I've had a smooth experience overall with the exception of one game. I'm playing Expedition 33 (GOG version) through the Heroic Launcher, and I'm having issues where the audio will crackle and pop badly at many points.

I attempted the fix from this thread, but when I copied the command into my terminal, nothing happened. It's very possible that I'm doing it wrong, but I'm not sure how.

My specs:

OS: Linux Mint v. 22.2

CPU: Ryzen 7 7700

GPU: RTX 4060 TI 8GB

Further info:

Heroic Launcher is running v. 2.18.1

The game is up-to-date.

I know there was a suggestion in a different thread about changing the power profile from 'Balanced' to 'Performance.' I attempted this, but the issues persisted.

Can I please have some help? This is my first time posting my own topic, so if any information is missing here, please let me know.

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Hello guys, Recently I moved to Mint, my first ever Linux distro, and gaming seems a bit tricky. I got Bottles, Wine and went forwards to try Deltarune (from fitgirl), and it went pretty well. So the next one I tried was The Outer Worlds (from fitgirl too), and it just doesnt download, no matter what. I did the exact same thing I did with Deltarune - Downloading the Installer with Qbittorrent -> Creating a Bottle > Setting sys Wine to run the Setup -> Extracting it to C:(name of the game), but it didnt work. I tried like 3 times, 2 of them the download just freezed, and the other one it gave me a IsDone.dll error and I gave up. I know repacked games are not that stable and all, but am I missing something? Like I have to install additional files? Or switch sys wine other runner? I dont know the best one. Any help is appreciated!

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Some months ago I read something about gaming specific linux kernel that I can install on existing os like linux mint or ubuntu and then that gaming kernel would give me optimized gaming experience on my linux machine. So is that actually a thing or was I hallucinating. And another thing about gaming in linux is that, my 1000 hz polling rate mouse just doens't work on linux. it' just gives me really less polling rate like office mouse, and another problem i face on linux is, I mostly only get 60 hz support only with my display. so how is that everything changed on linux??

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I wanna play

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CPU: 5600x

GPU: RX 6600 8GB

RAM 16 GB (8x2) DDR4 3200 Mhz

OS: CachyOS 6.17.8-2 + KDE PLASMA 6.5.3 with Wayland

Hey guys, I'm getting really high CPU % in Cyberpunk 2077 and RDR2 (80 - 90%), and in the first game it is not even using all my GPU. I'm playing both on medium-high settings without any mod. I'm kind of new to Linux but when I played these games on Windows my CPU usage didn't go higher than 50%. I've already tried changing compatibility on Steam and updating drivers/kernel.

Idk if it could be a Mangohud bug because even with those metrics I thiiink my game performance is what it should be with my specs, but it is still weird.

Any help is very welcome, tysm.

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Yesterday I finally installed Linux. Since I had trouble with CachyOS and I am completely new to Linux I tried Mint and it worked.

After some trouble I made battle.net work. I installed it with Lutris and I start it with steam in compatibility mode with Proton 10.

Unfortunately I have around 10-20 fps less than I have with Windows 11. My Hardware is a 7800x3d, a 7900xt, 32Gb Ram and a Msi B650 Tomahawk.

Is there anything I might be able to do, to get more fps?

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TL;DR: HDMI audio was stuttering and none of the usual culprits (PipeWire latency, GPU clocks, suspend settings, etc.) were the reason. Real cause was PCIe link instability!

I recently built a new couch + TV gaming PC with an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU and installed Bazzite. Games ran great with high FPS, but I had persistent audio issues—a split-second skip every 30 seconds to a few minutes. It happened even with very lightweight or emulated games, which led me down a rabbit hole trying to fix it.

Turns out, this is a very common problem when running audio over HDMI. There are numerous Reddit posts and a massive GitHub thread with many suggested solutions. Here's a guide summarizing everything I found and my experience debugging this:

Solutions I Found Online

1. Tweak Pipewire (Bazzite 43 already implements most of this by default.)
   • Adjust the PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC environment variable.
   • Modify min & max quantum.
   • Set up realtime scheduling for Pipewire threads in the kernel CPU scheduler.
2. Disable suspend for HDMI audio sinks
   • Especially important when going in/out of sleep.
   • Example here
3. Disable aggressive GPU power-saving
   • Lock GPU clocks, or at least memory clocks.
   • Use LACT for AMD or nvidia-smi for Nvidia
4. Check for other apps stealing the audio sink (this is rare)
   • For example, speech-dispatcher
5. Enable kernel preemptiveness (Also default on Bazzite 43)
   • Example discussion

Many are just “try this and see” suggestions, which is frustrating for intermittent audio skips. I recommend a methodical approach:

1. Check Pipewire buffers and sinks
   • Use pw-top to watch for under-runs/overruns or apps stealing the sink.
   • Enable Pipewire logging if needed.
   • In my case, there was no correlation between Pipewire and audio skips.
2. Monitor GPU clocks
   • Check if audio skips correlate with clock changes.
   • In my case, they didn’t—the issue was completely different.

Aside: How gaming video & audio work over HDMI

• Video: Frames are computed on the GPU using textures, geometries, and assets loaded into GPU memory ahead of time. Only small updates—commands, movements, physics—are sent live over PCIe per frame.
• Audio: Streamed from CPU threads (Pipewire, ALSA) to GPU memory at 2×48k samples/sec, or higher for 5.1/7.1 channels. AI chatbots tell me that GPU buffers can be as tiny as 10–50ms and hardware-specific, not software tunable.
• HDMI output: The GPU’s HDMI block interleaves video frames and audio samples with latency synchronization and sends them over the HDMI link.
• So HDMI audio is the proverbial canary in coal mine all the way from CPU ==> GPU ==> Audio -- it is very low bandwidth but is a continuous latency-sensitive stream, and any latency hiccup along this path causes an audio dropout.

My Specific Problem

All of the above solutions unfortunately did not fix my issues. I couldn't find any fishy pipewire errors/logs or GPU clock changes that correlated with the audio dropouts.

Here's what I eventually figured out:

• Run sudo nvidia-smi dmon -s e
  • This command shows various errors and I saw an ever increasing count of PCI errors.
  • All of them were correctable errors, so nothing functionally failed and reported back to kernel logs as hardware issues.
  • These PCIe correctable errors are typically CRC (or similar) errors, due to poor signal integrity on the link.
  • The hardware automatically retries the packet which causes a tiny microseconds worth latency hiccup; few errors won't matter, but 100s of errors per second could make a big difference.

Solution

1. Fix signal-integrity issues: These issues originate due to hardware, so starting there is a safe bet
   • Reseat your GPU
   • Get rid of any PCIe riser cables
   • Check for bent pins, remove debris from the PCIe slot
2. Avoid PCIe link retraining as much as possible:
   • Manually fix the PCIe link speed in your BIOS instead of letting it auto-negotiate.
   • Make sure you don’t accidentally lower your NVMe SSD speed or misconfigure its link. Use: sudo lspci -vvv <device> | grep -e LnkSta -e LnkCap to check each device’s current state and capabilities.
   • Disable PCIe ASPM and other PCIe low-power link states. This slightly increases power draw.
   • Just doing this dramatically improved my audio — instead of a dropout every few minutes, I only got a split-second skip once in four hours.
3. Eliminate PCIe errors entirely:
   • Use a lower PCIe link speed that produces zero errors. Example:
     • My GPU supports Gen5, but my CPU only supports Gen3 — and even Gen3 still produced a lot of correctable errors.
     • Dropping to Gen2 eliminated them.
   • Very few games are PCIe-bandwidth-limited, so don’t stress about lowering link speed. Raise it back up only if you can prove a game is PCIe-bound. This barely matters.
4. If all of that didn't help and you do have a lot of PCIe errors, you may be dealing with a poor PSU that has too much noise or a defective motherboard :-(

After doing all this, Bazzite 43 worked perfectly out of the box. Not one audio skip.

Notes & Observations

• Some users on the GitHub thread see this only with Bazzite or Fedora, not sure why. If nothing works, try a different Linux distributions like CachyOS (avoid Nobara as it's also Fedora based).
• Others observe this as a problem only with HDR enabled, again not sure why. Probably requires more methodical analysis. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• Tip: AI chatbots are surprisingly good at pointing you to the right commands and tools. They helped me discover PCIe errors, which I wouldn’t have checked otherwise. And they helped fix the language for this post as well :-)

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yo good day, i dont know if this the right group but maybe there is someone here using a fake ps3 controller im on arch endeavour os my fake ps3 controller is not working vis bluetooth now its not connecting i install bluez-plugins-ps3 but still its not working maybe there is someone can help me i cant find any solution to fix my prblem thanks

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The game launches and works perfectly fine - until maybe 1 or 2 minutes into the match, the game crashes completely. No matter the version of proton, I tried many of them, like GE10-25, or hotfixes, experimental - crashes no matter what.

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Came back trying to run retail wow after a few months. Its always been fiddly and oddly specific about what wine version to use, but I always got it working without really understanding what i did.

But this time was different. Tried maybe a dozen different runners, some of them would get me into battle.net, none would be able to launch the game. Wasted maybe an hour or two. Then i gave up and added battle.net launcher to steam and proton 10.0-3 everything would work instantly. Almost went back to install the game on my w11 (im dual booting).

Should I just assume lutris is dead in the water and not worth it anymore or is there something going on that i dont know?

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Switched from Win11 to Fedora Kde Plasma on my second SSD, i got the latest Nvidia drivers and proton working, but when i launch a game ( for honor ) it takes like 10 to 15min to launch. any way to fix this? i tried some fixes like disabling vgui and downgrading the mesa but its still the same. thanks in advance

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