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Brand new RX 7800 XT errors

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 11:46am

Hi, I'm running Arch, I recently swapped from an RTX 3070 to an RX 7800 XT (brand new), it crashes KDE completly & shows artifacts on screen when launching darktide (2nd pic), then sends me back to the log in screen.

1st pic is of FurMark through gputest, are those things artifacts or is it how the test is supposed to look? Full command here:

$ mangohud gputest /fullscreen /width=2560 /height=1440 /test=fur /xtreme_settings / msaa=8 /display_info /display_osi

It has also rebooted my pc randomly a couple of times while playing Warhammer Total War 3, here are my full system specs:

-> Specs:
> CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz (6 Cores, 12 Threads)
> GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
> RAM: 32GB DDR4 3600 MHz (Corsair Vengance RGB Pro)
> Motherboard: TUF Gaming B550-PLUS WiFi II (AM4, ATX)
> PSU: CORSAIR RM850x 850W

Also, the gpu doesn't go above 68C while stress testing.

dmesg log:

[ 0.787096] RAS: Correctable Errors collector initialized.
[ 7.058467] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[ 343.344595] amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: WALKER_ERROR: 0x0
[ 343.344598] amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: MAPPING_ERROR: 0x0
[ 355.517989] [drm:amdgpu_mes_reset_legacy_queue [amdgpu]] *ERROR* failed to reset legacy queue
[ 357.666395] [drm:amdgpu_mes_unmap_legacy_queue [amdgpu]] *ERROR* failed to unmap legacy queue
[ 357.916325] [drm:gfx_v11_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* failed to halt cp gfx

I'm also getting this from journalctl:

kwin_scene_opengl: A graphics reset not attributable to the current GL context occurred.

kwin_scene_opengl: 0x2: GL_CONTEXT_LOST in context lost

kwin_wayland_drm: Checking test buffer failed!

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[Steam Deck] Video in game (visual novel) won't play

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 11:26am

Currently I am playing a visual novel called 'Letters from a rainy day', but the in-game video stuck at white screen. I used GE-Proton but the problem is still there, so I know I need to install other components using Protontricks that provide the required codecs. This is my 2nd visual novel on Deck, the first one was also having the same problem, but after installed lavfilters, devenum, and quartz (even though there was error at the end of installation) the video finally can be played.

I've tried those three in current game but the problem is still there. I don't want to skip the video (like other people suggested), I want the video to actually play for best experience.

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[fluff] Slightly

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 11:04am

Slightliest of slightlys I have ever slightly slighted

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Strange blocky artifacts in Sifu

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 10:23am

System Info:
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.14.6-arch1-1
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT

I've tried:

The game runs flawlessly on Windows. This is the only game this has ever happened in, and I couldn't find someone else with the same problem. So hopefully this is not a hardware problem.

Any Ideas?

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bg3 modding on linux query

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 10:17am

I found this guide on r/BG3 but cant get past step 2 because the file is a .exe. im fairly new to this and am unsure on how i can do this, any help would be much appreciated

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I was always convinced that proton was for gaming and wine was useless at gaming.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 9:29am

I just installed fs22 on wine thinking that when it runs horribly, I'm just gonna re install it on proton. But it works so well at max settings, I'm not even gonna bother. If wine is so good, then why do so many people say that you need proton if your gonna game?

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Debian 12.11 Pulls In Dozens Of Fixes

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 6:48am

My favorite gaming distro gets updated

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Is there full compatibility with all games and software?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 5:54am

So i want to change to Linux SO BAD! I want to learn more about coding and also have an open source OS to personalize and modify all parameters. I love tinkering with gears and bolts. The thing is that i play a ton of videogames from Steam, Xbox gamepass, Epic Games etc etc... I also have a youtube channel so i use OBS and Filmora. I want to know if there's a Linux based OS that has full compatibility with everything like Windows does. I would also love to have one of those gaming OS that has a console-like UI to manage my games but that's just a plus if available.

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wine .exe not working

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 4:40am

I am sure many have asked and answered but I download a .exe and try to use "wine [exe file]" and receive the following:

0130:err:ole:CoGetContextToken apartment not initialised

wine: Unhandled exception 0xe0434352 in thread 128 at address 00006FFFFF483F07 (thread 0128), starting debugger...

Thanks in advance for any help and tips

Edit: For context I am trying to play R.E.P.O. with some mods through Overwolf

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Kernel panic

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 4:03am

First time i have it happen. Is it something to worry about?

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Successful Laptop dGPU Passthrough // Running Rust on Windows 11 X-Lite ISO

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 3:19am

A new gaming laptop and four months of work later... Rust works!

Laptop specs:

ASUS Rog Zephyrus G16

Intel Core Ultra 9 w/ Integrated Arc Graphics

NVIDIA RTX 4070 Mobile

16GB RAM

1TB SSD

My favorite game Rust can finally be ran on a Windows Kernel Virtual Machine with Qemu. Here is a list of problems that I had that I solved:

  1. GPU Passthrough would crash Gnome (3 month problem)
  2. Rust would crash in Windows VM every time I tried to load into a server (1 week)
  3. No audio (still a problem for now)

This doesn't include time spent learning how to set up a virtual machine in the first place.

I learned that GPU passthrough can sometimes not work or crash my system if Gnome was able to attach itself to the GPU before being bound to VFIO.

One of the workarounds I did for this was doing "sudo systemctl stop gdm," booting into TTY2 and then running "startx," which is runs an older version of Gnome on X11 (I think). Once I did that the system was able to unbind Gnome from my GPU and allow me to start my KVM through Qemu without any crashes. Luckily I only needed to do this on Ubuntu 24.10. When upgrading to the newest version of Ubuntu 25, I also upgraded to Gnome 48 on Wayland and for some reason I have not needed the workaround since because Gnome it runs on my iGPU now automatically, although I am not sure why.

I wish Gnome would have some sort of startup option where I can set the process to run on the iGPU, because if I could then I would not have had so many problems getting this to work.

Rust also crashed a toooon! I fixed this by increasing my PageFile size on Windows, so that way when I ran out of RAM it would use PageFile as backup "RAM," kind of like swap memory on Linux -- and Voila!

You can increase your PageFile size on your Windows VM by hitting the Windows key, going to "Run," typing in "SystemPropertiesAdvanced," and going to PageFile size and increasing it to 16GB. You can follow this guide for more help: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-on-windows-11

I hope I'll get to see more success stories in the future :)

https://preview.redd.it/lpxgz0cfzf1f1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=72262ce0f90d7b1fbb31adf96622220ef2d9bcca

P.S. I am not exaggerating when I say this, but I reinstalled Ubuntu over 20 times until I got this right. I changed so many settings to get this to work I bricked the OS at least twice a week until I finally got it!

https://preview.redd.it/pty20tedzf1f1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=e3ff36460b95b8caa813c789587f85b21db9c01d

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Modding Skyrim SE in 2025

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 3:17am

How are you guys modding skyrim SE in 2025? I really wanna play this again with mods, last time I did it was in windows in 2017. I think I tried previously but nothing worked for me. If anyone has a straightforward way to mod skyrim SE on linux please let me know. I am using cachyos if that matters.

Here is the guide I used last time, forgot which step i got stuck in https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer. Do i try this again or is there another better way to do this?

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Fallout New Vegas not detecting correct graphics card (Mint 21.3 Cinnamon)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 3:11am

I posted earlier about Fallout New Vegas failing to render after months of working without a hitch and I think I've found the root cause of the problem. For some reason the game is pointing to a graphics card that I don't have, as shown below:

https://preview.redd.it/j58t52poxf1f1.png?width=486&format=png&auto=webp&s=062fd1c893a6d28399319d5a3f5caaaef8e4d3fb

My actual graphics card is an Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 that comes built-in with my HP Envy. I suspect this is also messing with some other games that I have installed on my computer. My question is how can I get my system to point to the right graphics card and fix this particular problem?

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Running the 2016 roblox client on linux (Help!)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 3:08am

Using proton ge for this, using a thing called "solario" that lets me play old roblox and I spent the past few hours trying to get it work on linux, but it keeps crashing

Loading screen, a few frames of gameplay, crash

Here is my log file incase anything useful is here

https://www.mediafire.com/file/zls16eb78wbooic/message+(8).txt/file.txt/file)

If anybody knows how I could fix this let me know.

Maybe I could read on some old "roblox on linux" forums from the era

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Puck

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 2:22am

I'm a big hockey fan and found this cool free to play physics based hockey game called Puck on steam. I'm a long time rocket league player and this game really gives me the same vibes as that mechanics wise.

Only problem is it seems to be just invisible when I launch it using any Proton version, gamescope, or turning off compatibility. I see only one report on ProtonDB that it is running great on Linux. The game's not crashing and steam claims it is running which is really confusing.

I was able to get it running on my Windows secondary boot, but I'm not using that install for much right now so I'd love to get it working on Linux.

My setup is as follows: 7800X3D 7900 XT Arch + Plasma 6 Mesa driver from the standard repository

If anyone has any ideas lemme know. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2994020/Puck/

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Where to go to keep up on Wayland/nVidia update news?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 2:19am

Like many others, I'm looking at making at least a semi-permanent jump to Linux from Windows 10 (dual boot for now until I can make sure the games I play work in Linux).

For the past few weeks, I've been testing both CachyOS (Arch) and Nobara (Fedora) with my 3090, and both have the same exact issue in KDE: graphical issues when dragging windows around the desktop. It will leave lines from the edge of the window scattered across the desktop, and they will sit there and flicker until I do something to clear them out. When I log out and switch to X11, those graphical issues are not present.

I've also tried Gnome and Wayland, and don't recall those graphical issues being present in Wayland using the Gnome DE, but I'm not really a fan of Gnome coming from Windows. KDE is more at home. I've tried a couple fixes around the net for KDE/Wayland, but nothing.

With that said, where can I keep up with the latest Wayland/nVidia news to see when Wayland has better nVidia support to try out Wayland again?

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Discord stream is choppy and laggy

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 18 May 2025 - 1:47am

Whenever i try to stream either a window or the entire the screen, from my friend's POV the stream is really choppy and low fps. Running amd 7600x and rtx4070.

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