I've been a long time user of Pop_OS!, mainly using my PC for gaming. When I decided to upgrade my laptop to a desktop computer, I made sure to go with only AMD components. I've had both a desktop computer and a laptop with an AMD CPU, but never with an AMD GPU (only Nvidia). While my current system is way better than the laptop, and thus would make a difference in itself, I noticed that only using AMD components had a much bigger impact than I anticipated.

The major difference is in the random crashes I would experience with non-native games. Previsouly when I've played non-native games, they've been randomly crashing, especially when Alt+Tabbing, or even adjusting the volume with the volume knob on my keyboard. In some games I would also experience random stuttering. Until now, I thought that was just the experience of gaming on Linux. I was wrong.

After the upgrade, all of those random crashes and stutters has "magically" disappeared. All my games run smootly, even those that users on ProtonDB reports as stuttering, or even crashing while Alt+Tabbing.

I'm positive the AMD GPU makes a difference, but I'm not sure if the RAM also makes a difference. Either way, I'm so happy that everything works perfectly. The difference really is astounding, and I'd recommend anyone playing on Linux that are considering upgrading their system to go for AMD components only.

For those that are curious, my current setup is:

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
ASUS ROG STRIX X870-A (because E and F wasn't available in my country)
Sapphire Pure RX 7800 XT 16 GB
G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 4x32GB DDR5 6000MHz CL30
Crucial T700 2 TB SSD
NZXT H7 Flow RGB (2023)
be quiet! Straight Power 11 850W
Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black (unfortunately the only black component)

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I’m already duel booting, and my partner is considering switching to linux too. I’m the more tech savvy between the two of us so I’ll be doing all his installing, trouble shooting, and whatnot. He’s between Pop and Mint, hasn’t decided. The main way he plays games is via Gamepass, both on xbox and pc. I already know how to get steam going on just about any modern distro, but Gamepass is foreign to me and I haven’t heard anyone talk about it on linux. Is it just “use wine” or is there anything else I can do so he has a good experience? And how is support for xbox controllers?

Also, his favorite game is Insurgency Sandstorm (or Sandstorm Insurgency, sorry idk the word order). Does that have an anticheat that’s incompatible with linux? He can always play on xbox but I’m asking since he does play it on PC sometimes.

His specs are an i7 10th gen, and Nvidia 3070 ti. Currently 32gb ram, but he’s getting a new mobo that’ll have 4 slots so he can upgrade to 64 at some point this year. And like I said, he’ll be going with either Pop or Mint. I know ram isn’t an issue on linux but more info is better than less.

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So long story short, I installed Ubuntu about a month ago and everything works perfectly except a minor inconvenience.

I have steam installed on my SSD but installed a game on my second SSD mostly because of space limitations. So on the second drive I now have another „SteamLibrary“ folder containing the game.

Whenever I start steam it does not automatically detect that drive and I have to manually add the drive again in the steam settings.

It‘s only 3 clicks but still if I didn’t have to do it I’d be happier.

Any ideas?

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I saw an article about how it would improve performance in WINE/Proton yesterday, got excited but only the RC7 was available. This morning the 1.0 dropped and I installed it and rebooted, then hopped into some of my proton games and have been absolutely floored!

Then I hopped online to check out what people were saying about it, thus far only reading comments from days ago with everyone agreeing that there would be almost no performance increase for proton games and only native games would see a performance increase. Haven't seen any reports from anyone actually using it though and want to see if anyone else is having the experience I am.

Proton games have seen a MASSIVE performance boost for me, while the few native games I checked only got a marginal performance increase. My specs are AMD R5 3600 CPU and RTX2060 KO GPU. I keep all games at 60fps 1080. I was having issues on the 6.12 kernel where I could not even play simple 2d games like Oxygen Not Included and play a 720 youtube video at the same time. It would cause the youtube video to lag and stutter and with 3D games it would make the game stutter even if the FPS were reported a steady 60. The 6.14 kernel fixed that, now both game and video are butter smooth, even at 1080.

At max settings Sims 4 went from using 80-85% of my GPU at 105 watts to 35-40% of my GPU and using 35-40 watts, which is pretty friggin amazing! Hell my jaw hit the floor when it loaded up and I disturbed my roommate with all my cheering about it. Sims 4 has been punishing my GPU to the point that the fans have had to run momentarily at 110% sounding like a jet engine and now they are quiet, barely noticeable. The framerate is much steadier now as well.

No Man's sky went from 85-90% GPU usage to ~50% at the same settings so I am going to experiment with boosting those. Fallout 4 dropped to 50% usage, 76 dropped to about 60% usage.

For comparison Palia, a native game, went from 85% usage to 70%, so not as much of a performance boost but it is still noticeable, especially with the fan noise as it was causing my fans to go to 110% as well but not any more.

Does anyone know what they added to this kernel version to get just a massive performance increase? As far as I understand it Proton does not use NTSYNC so that is not it but I would like to know what changed to cause a 50% drop in GPU usage with improved performance because it is simply amazing.

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I run a "Steambox" on Ubuntu, where I just have it boot into Big Picture mode. I have updated Ubuntu a couple times now, and each time, after the update, I'm getting a generic error message in the GUI, followed by the system failing to boot.

Going to the Recovery Mode option in GRUB reveals the following error:

Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

I used the answer to this question to fix the failure to boot each time, and it DOES work, but I'd rather not have to deal with this every time it installs updates.

Anyone know what I could do to prevent this from happening? Anyone have any idea WHY this would be happening? I'm not doing anything unusual with my Ubuntu install. I'm a pretty basic Linux user, and thought Ubuntu would be relatively trouble-free.

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Latest Arch with KDE 6.3 converts gamescope HDR to SDR then converts it again to HDR. True HDR was working before that and was great.

At least now games can see that display supports HDR even without gamescope. Stills colors are washed for now...

People say that proton 10 will solve HDR without the need of gamescope. Still I can't find anything oficial about that beyond wine 10 default to wayland but lacking some features.

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Currently, at least in raster, the 9070xt has about 5 to 8% less performance than Windows drivers. As usual, this will be adjusted in the coming months, no doubt; however, RT has always been pretty bad before. Right now, the difference according to my tests can be between 25 to 45% less performance with RT enabled than Windows. Now, this card has amazing RT performance, which is pretty similar to the 4070ti Super. RT is very usable with FSR 4. I have seen VKD3D team and behind FSR 4 implementation, but do you guys think MESA will now care about optimizing RT properly? I could get it before because only RX 7900XT(X) had decent RT, but now the story is different.

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Every so often my game will freeze when either making a lot of inputs at one time while a lot of utilities are active or just randomly at end of game. And at random points in the game my cursor would lose focus on the game and would go to my second monitor and if I want to stay in game and look around I have to hold my mouse button down.

Im not entirely sure if it’s a game problem with Linux or even on windows. But had any one else have this problem?

I’ve tried different compatibility options: experimental, GE and even 9. All still have the problem.

My system specs are i7-12700k 32GB ram 4070 super

Any solutions or insight people have would be really appreciated!

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Hello. I have tried to use the Proton compatibility tool to run Civ V in order to use mods. However, whenever I launch the game using this option, it doesn't save any changes to settings and I have to agree to the EULA every time (I have no issues when using the default non-Proton setting). Every time the game lauches, it says "updating executable", which also seems odd. I think it must be some kind of issue with the reading/writing of the config files, but saves do work which are stored in the same area. Does anyone know what could be the cause of this issue? Thanks

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Using a Nvidia shield Pro (2019) with the steam link app, connecting back to my fedora desktop - Gb wired connection on both ends - with two ubiquiti switches in between - no reported connection issues and steamlink shows a solid connection.

Using wireless Xbox one controllers connected to shield - both work fine as just controllers.

When in game getting noticeable input lag, that seems to get worse the longer the session goes on.

TV is set to game mode, and not doing upscaling - any settings or tweaking I can do to reduce input lag here?

More than happy to provide more details if needed as well

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First of all, sorry for my bad English!
I distrohopped for a few days and returned to Zorin OS 17.3. I'm using Heroic Games Launcher, so I expected everything running flawlessly ootb. This is the case for some games like Saints Row The Third Remastered or Skyrim, but games like KOFXIII are slow motion (it feels smooth, but incredibly slow) and Monster Prom (Windows) is running at 2fps. One Step from Eden was running at 2fps in Pop_OS! but is working fine on Zorin. I've read a lot of posts there and checked that sometimes my driver is detected as LLVMPIPE but this is an issue for a few games (the rest detect nvidia). My inxi -G output is:

https://preview.redd.it/uj265qtt1wre1.png?width=654&format=png&auto=webp&s=6ae38dea727dacae1973c839c20b809ed874802d

I turned off and on Esync, Fsync, tried with ProtonGE (with umu enabled and disabled), lowing resolution to 1080p, with WineGE but games were still unplayable. Even Tennis Antics (12mb game from 2001) is running slow motion (I discovered it by checking videos as it was really smooth). I don't remember the same issues before distrohopping, and after a few days trying to fix it (I felt that I should be able as a software developer) I'm giving up. Any advice? I don't know if I can ask these things there. Thanks!

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My native version of TF2 crashes my entire computer to the point I have to hard restart. Linux Mint. gtx1650 mobile. Every other game works. TF2 proton works but forces the game to be in insecure mode meaning I can't play.

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hello,I did create a second user without admin rights on cachyos.But I want that this user has access to a second hard drive where my steam library is stored.This hard drive is automounted with an entry in fstab and works well.Unfortunately when the second user is logged in the drive gets shown but he can`t see any files or folder and it says: no access

So I thought I have to make the second user part of the same group of the owner of the folder in which the disk is mounted ,like /mnt/mx512/ . I did also use the usermod command to add the second user to the same group of the admin.

But I still can`t access the hard disk although the second user is successfully added to the group of the owners of the hard disk. I also thought maybe I can change something in the fstab but I read that on ext4 systems the commands for groups don`t works and I have tochgrp the filesystem.

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It’s fairly easy on xorg to change the screen resolution to uncommon aspect ratios when streaming to devices like tablets or phones so you can utilize the entire screen.

It’s the only thing keeping me from going to Wayland.

As far as I can tell you just can’t do this on Wayland. Are you on Wayland just not using the full screen of devices you stream to? Does anyone have a workaround?

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so when i try to launch SkyrimVR i get this error and i don't know how to fix it as other people who had this error simply changed their directX version but i don't think you can do that with Skyrim.

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Any thoughts on why this could be? I’m running LM 22 w an Nvidia GPU. I do have Proton Experimental checked off in the settings.

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Which is better in programming c++ and gaming Linux or windows as im used to visual studio community in windows 10 with nvidia gpu

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I'm running Linux Mint Cinnamon 22, on Kernel 6.11.0-21, running the PC with a RTX 4060, Ryzen 7 5700x3D and I'm using GE-Proton9-26 with GameMode turned on, and as the title suggests, occasionally games will start stuttering like CRAZY for seemingly no reason at all. It might have something to do with an effect appearing on screen, but idk. This has happened to me on REPO, Halo MCC, Genshin, and Slime Rancher 2 so far. I'll have a video down below of this happening, but I honestly don't think the video really captures just how bad it is. I checked system monitor and everything seemed to be fine in there. I haven't checked any terminals/logs because quite frankly, I'm quite new to Linux gaming so I'd have no idea what to specifically check. This has never happened to me on Windows. Oddly enough, I've played alot of Minecraft and it has never once happened to me on there. I also seem to have a problem where while I was streaming Terraria my game felt like it wasn't getting a perfect 60fps, and OBS kept saying my "Encoder Was Overloaded!" so maybe these two problems are connected.

Here is where the lag starts happening.

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