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RX 6700 XT: Windows 11 vs Linux CachyOS – Big FPS Difference
mods stuck in download state each time steam restart for rimworld steam game
I don't know why but my mods still stuck in download state after my steam restart, but once i reinstall rimworld the mods show up again until the next time i restart rimworld.
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linux has a "graphics reset" for an unknown reason
this hasnt started until i started overclocking, but i now have the gpu at base settings, yet it still has issues. ive begun using the default linux kernel, rather than the one from cachyos, specifically, 6.18.2. ive tried reseating the gpu, but that still hasnt worked. is my gpu defective, do i have to reinstall fedora, or is it user error? thanks for helping.
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients - 2025-12-31 Edition
Pc upgrade advice
It’s been some time since I’ve been into pc gaming and now Linux has become viable, I’m looking at upgrading my very outdated gaming pc and wanted some feedback
My current pc has a gtx 1060 (6gb) ryzen 5 2600, corsair vengeance ram (DDR4 3000 MHz), MSI B450M MORTAR Motherboard mATX, Corsair VS650 Power Supply Unit. Stock cooler on the cpu
Proposed upgrades:
Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
Radeon RX 9070 XT
Corsair RM750e
Another 16gb of the same ram
As ddr5 is so overpriced, my idea was to keep my motherboard and stay with my current ram level, assuming the large cache on the cpu will help pick up some of the slack.
Asking various AI for advice and it suggests this will be enough for running most things in 4k with upscaling. But wanted to get some feedback from real users
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my second monitör cant use its max hz
ı using laptop and external monitor my laptop screen can use 144hz but my external monitor Even though I set it to 180 Hz its only at 60 Hz
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Can linux help an ancient PC with no graphic card?
Pretty much what the title said. My PC is quite literally ancient, i3-2100 cpu, no gpu and 6gb ram(2gb + 4gb stick I added later)
I've played older GTA and COD games on this and some others like zoo tycoon and mount and blade warband and older minecraft versions with pirated launchers. All of these with no crashes or fps issues(except maybe minecraft multiplayer)
What I want to know is will using linux/steamos/bazzite increase my library in the sense that will it allow me to play more games that I can't play already in windows 7 64 bit? And if yes can I also install bazzite or whatever without clearing entire harddisk?
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FIX: "amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout" error on RDNA4 cards only in specific games.
Hello, I'm making this post since I needed a solution for this and didn't find it anywhere and just tried random things until it worked, so I'm trying to help others.
Basically my RX 9070 XT began crashing my Arch system only while playing in Resident Evil 2 Remake in the sewer section, only in one specific spot. Journalctl showed a driver crash, specifically a "ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout" error.
Many people said it was a driver problem, but I found it strange since it only happened in this specific game (maybe it is and this is just a workaround, but still)
After trying everything I found out that the problem was with the crappy Resident Evil 2 DX12 implementation, and that explained why I never encountered the problem any other RE Engine title. I even tried to play Cyberpunk 1440p native path tracing to stress test the GPU without it crashing.
TLDR: the solution was to add "PROTON_USE_D11VK=1" in the arguments of the game on Steam, The game didn't crash even after hanging out in the same spot for about 2 hours.
I'm on Arch 6.18.2, Mesa 25.3.2. GE-Proton 10.27, but this happened with any other Proton version.
I hope to help some people, happy gaming.
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Light source inconsistency and large artifacts in Cyberpunk with ray tracing enabled on 9070 XT
https://reddit.com/link/1q0y7lj/video/bb8ci6nuqoag1/player
Video shows it all. Generally the game performs fairly well especially in outdoor scenes however I have noticed that indoors there is sometimes light source "pop in" where the game will hallucinate and forget V is indoors and act as if there is no roof allowing sunlight in, and in this clip you can see the game is switching between light sources as I walk along the hallway with the large window, sometimes letting light in from the window and other times not. Additionally there's the matter of the very obvious artifacting in the room with the elevators, not seen in the room at the start of the recording. I noticed this only happens when the game is using Path Tracing (used in video) or any of the ray tracing presets and none of these problems occur when ray tracing is off.
I'm playing on Arch Linux 6.18.2 and KDE Plasma 6.5.4 (Wayland) with the latest Proton-GE (10-27) and stable Mesa (1:25.3.2-1)
Graphics card is an AMD Radeon 9070 XT
My Steam launch options are: DXIL_SPIRV_CONFIG=wmma_fp8_hack PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 gamemoderun %command% --launcher-skip --intro-skip
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AI and gaming on older / newer distro
Hi, long time windows user contemplating whether i should full port to linux.
My AI workload requires me to go to ubuntu 22.04 (which i read is 3-year outdated?), and another on 24.04.3 (is this good? i heard it's 1-year late).
But I prefer my machine to be gaming first, AI second.
Would like opinions on linux users (not dual boot) who made the transition successfully and are able to juggle both.
Thank you.
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Boot USB error?
So I decided to try bazzite and made a bootable usb but when it booted up (did not format my drive) it didnt detect my wifi and it did not seem shal we say complete. What did I do wrong?
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Hard Freeze (lock up with audio loop) 9800x3D 9070XT - KDE Plasma
Trying to get Battle.net working on Pop!_OS -- a saga told through ChatGPT prompts.
Having just installed Pop!_OS, I decided to try a bit of an experiment -- I wanted to see if ChatGPT could walk me through installing Battle.net and getting it working, start to finish, no Googling (I previously did it myself on Ubuntu Cinnamon, but it was through Steam, and I definitely didn't remember everything I did).
I figured a fun way to present it would be by just giving you my prompts to ChatGPT in order. You can definitely see as I start to get frustrated with both Lutrin and ChatGPT itself. There's something so genuinely irritating about the constant affirmations -- "Good catch -- that was never going to work!" -- when it was the thing that told you to do that in the first place.
The human side of the conversation follows:
I've just done a fresh install of Pop!_OS, and installed Lutris and Steam. Can you give me a clean, clear, step-by-step guide on how to install and run Battle.net? I got as far as step 4 -- "First launch + sign in". When I launch Battle.net, it either freezes and crashes, or else the GUI for the login screen flickers on and off repeatedly. There doesn't appear to be any way to install a new or specific version on the "Manage wine versions" menu screen? There still isn't any way to download a new Wine version. One is already installed: wine-ge-8-26. There is nowhere, and no way, to specify a different version to download, that I can find. I get this error when trying to run sudo apt install protonup-qt: E: Unable to locate package protonup-qt Lutrin doesn't seem to be picking up the new installed version of Proton, though ProtonUp-Qt shows it existing. You aren't quite correct. ProtonUp-Qt installed to ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/proton, whereas Lutris seemingly is only looking in ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine. Every step I've taken has been at your direction, from the very beginning. Now you're telling me that ever since you told me to install Proton, you've been steering me down the wrong path completely. Why? There's no option for Wine-GE in ProtonUp-QT, and Lutris-Wine -- the closest match I found -- caps out at version 7.2.2. The version of Wine installed in Lutris -- wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 -- would seem to be more recent. Hang on -- you're assuming the issue is fixed. It isn't. Even with --no-browser in the arguments, the display still flickers. I would certainly prefer *not* to switch from Wayland to Xorg. Is there genuinely no way to force Lutrin to launch Battle.net via Proton instead of Wine? All right, let's go with Steam, then. Walk me through it. It didn't flicker anymore, but for some reason I had to unfocus the window -- click away -- and click back a few times to get the GUI to work correctly. Any idea why this is happening, and how to prevent it in the future?The good news is -- Battle.net is now working reliably! Just Battle.net, mind you. I haven't even tried installing any of the actual games through it yet. As I recall, I had use Gamescope (compiled from source, since of course it's not available on any of the Ubuntu package managers) to fix some issues with UI scaling and cursor behaviour. That's a tomorrow problem.
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MangoHud displaying mesa as 25.0.7 when I just installed 25.3.2 and that's what shows in terminal
Any ideas? It wasn't installed by flatpak. And the games it is showing the old driver version for, are launched through Steam, which wasn't installed through flatpak either. I am wondering if this is why my FSR4 launch option isn't working.
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DXVK preforming much worse in gpu heavy games. Advice would be great.
rx 9060 xt performs poorly on linux compared to windows 10
everyone i talked to said sober (unofficial roblox port) runs better on their pcs than on windows, they usually use arch or cachyos
i have a 9060 xt and im getting way worse fps on linux, and i literally upgraded from a 2060 to an amd card to be able to have good driver support
i am using arch linux and i installed it using archinstall and amd drivers work FINE, but i get around 150-200 fps on phantom forces, a game i get 300+ on windows 10. i can feel it drop from my monitors refresh rate on linux but not on windows
the game i tested and could easily see the fps is roblox on sober, it runs really bad compared to windows 10. i can feel my fps dropping from my refresh rate (180hz) on phantom forces, its unplayable.
everyone that i talked to that has an amd gpu (with no exceptions) said it ran way better than on windows 10.
my game does not have stutter issues tho, its just low fps
for comparison, in this game: https://www.roblox.com/games/18667984660/Flex-Your-FPS-And-Ping (a lot of linux users test their pcs on there) i get consistent 450+ fps on a small server but i cant achieve 300 on the same conditions on arch.
silent hill 2 remake and bodycam also ran bad, i could feel the lags
these are my pc specs:
gpu: sapphire pulse rx 9060 xt 16 gb
cpu: ryzen 5 5500
ram: 32 gb (2x16) @ 3200mhz
I KNOW, THIS CPU DOES NOT PAIR WITH PERFORMANCE WITH THE GPU, I HAVE IT BECAUSE I GOT MY GPU RECENTLY. what im trying to solve is the fact that it runs way worse than windows 10.
i also met a guy with an rx 580 (yes, 580, not 5800) with a ryzen 5 5600x that was getting 900+ fps on that roblox game on a normal big server.
the footage attached to this message is me comparing the max fps i get on a benchmark game using cachyos' gnome, kde, xfce, my own arch bspwm system and windows 10. on windows 10 i first tested no fflags then with my own fflags, which were used at my arch system. cachyos had no fflags.
the difference is blatant, considering that i get consistent 2000+ fps with my fflags on windows and 1000 on arch.
these are my main arch linux bspwm system config files, i havent changed anything besides those:
bspwmrc: https://pastebin.com/MmHid83t
sxhkd: https://pastebin.com/HKeNhcTy
picom.conf https://pastebin.com/N934JkCf
20-amdgpu.conf: https://pastebin.com/u3VryKSm
bashrc: https://pastebin.com/p2uwFbwR
i tested linux mint and pop os too, they perform the same as arch
to be clear, this is not only on sober. as i said, bodycam and silent hill 2 also run way worse on linux.
i dont know if i need to configure something else, i dont know if i need to install any other package, i dont really know why it is like this. literally everyone i met had a pc that performed better on linux than on windows
i tried to search for help on different discord forums, but no one could help me with my issue
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Controller back paddles not being detected
I recently got an EasySMX X20 controller. I have been playing around with it, and it seems to work almost perfectly out of the box. It is recognized as an xbox360 controller and works in everything I have tried. The only issue I have is that the controller has back paddles that are not being registered. I tried googling the issue, but nothing much came up. Using evtest, I verified that the paddles are not sending events, while the other buttons are. This issue is reflected in Steam as well, with steam-devices installed. Controller is registered as xbox360, paddles are not detected. Does anyone know how to get the paddles to be recognized as buttons?
I am running Linux Mint 22.2 with kernel 6.14.0-37.
Edit: Forgot to mention that the controller is connected through an included dongle
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I JUST learned I may be screwed permanently gaming wise for now
I JUST learned that support for my videocard, a GTX 1050 Ti, is over. NOW what? I keep hearing that Radeon cards are better for Linux, I've got eye candy dialed down painfully low for Borderlands 2 and I'm STILL seeing framerate dips, I can't afford a new(er) card from AMD, NVidia, OR Intel, new or otherwise. Any ideas here would to improve performance would be GREATLY appreciated.
Update: My CPU is an i5-7400, I am currently rocking 32 GB DDR4 2400 RAM, and my storage is a SATA HDD (magnetic platter drive). My PSU is 300 watts. As old as my PC is (8 years old), I don't think I could find a PSU with a higher wattage rating that would even work at all with my PC, which I would need to upgrade my CPU to an i7-7700, the best CPU my mobo can handle, and/or the aforementioned GPU.
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Overwatch 2 not using my gpu
Hello everyone
Recently I have moved from Windows to Arch linux on my main desktop
for a few days overwatch 2 had zero problems but now the gpu wont get out of p3 state which is a low power mode and thus using ~70w in-game
I am using hyprland as the main desktop window manager
leo@archlinux
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OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: B550M AORUS ELITE -CF
Kernel: 6.18.2-zen2-1-zen
Uptime: 15 mins
Packages: 1457 (pacman), 20 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.3.9
Resolution: 3440x1440
DE: Hyprland
Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: foot
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (16) @ 4.665GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Memory: 5308MiB / 32005MiB
pacman -Qs nvidia
local/cuda 13.1.0-1
NVIDIA's GPU programming toolkit
local/egl-gbm 1.1.2.1-1
The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.21-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-wayland2 1.0.0.rc.r53.gf4a2d32-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform (2)
local/egl-x11 1.0.4-1
NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 590.48.01-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libva-nvidia-driver 0.0.14-1
VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as a backend
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 590.48.01-1
NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20251125-2
Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for NVIDIA GPUs and SoCs
local/nvidia-open-dkms 590.48.01-1
NVIDIA open kernel modules - module sources
local/nvidia-prime 1.0-5
NVIDIA Prime Render Offload configuration and utilities
local/nvidia-settings 590.48.01-1
Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 590.48.01-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/nvtop 3.2.0-1
GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
local/opencl-nvidia 590.48.01-1
OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
overwatch 2 only getting ~50fps and the card stuck in p3 state
disable proton for Overwatch 2 which is the setting I used
cyberpunk 2077 doesn't have a problem what so ever
I am new to linux gaming so if I forgot some crucial information please let me know!
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