I am using Arch Linux and I barely know what I'm doing. I got a brand new AMD RX 6600, but it took me a week to figure out how to install the correct drivers and configure Xorg to be able get the X server working. It's working now, but most of my games will not start. All of my games are on Steam except Unigine Heaven Benchmark.

When I try to start a game, steam says that it is running, then one two things happen, the game starts into a black fullscreen, or it does nothing. Then the game shuts down. GPU utilization is very low, completely unaffected by the attempt to start a game.

There are exceptions, however: ultrakill runs perfectly fine, and so does MGS Master collection. Unigine Heaven Benchmark also runs, but has massive GPU stutters where the frames drop from 200 fps to 10 fps and back. The GPU utilization graph shows big dips at each of these points. All change in GPU utilization, whether up or down, is in very sharp spikes; there are no gradual ups or downs.

I thought the problem might be the graphics-intense games that I was trying to run, but it did the same thing for terraria. And for stellaris, it starts the paradox launcher, but crashes upon trying to run the game.

Additionally, the GPU is not getting recognized by btop, the resource monitor i usually use. I have had to look at coolercontrol for utilization graphs.

I tried a bunch of my games on Windows 10 (I dual boot), and everything works flawlessly there.

Let me know what logs or configuration files could help diagnose the problem. Any help is appreciated!

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I'm running arch linux on kde with a 3060ti and on windows the memory clock while I'm gaming shows 7000mhz, while on linux it shows 6800mhz. One time though I saw that my gpu clock went up to 7000mhz but after a game restart it when back to 6800. Anybody experienced the same probem?

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Hi linux gaming community!

Problem

This is not new, but I have been trying to figure out the cause of game stuttering in the past couple of days now. Basically the frame drops once every couple seconds when playing steam games (e.g. The Finals, Dota 2) after a couple of minutes of playing, and it remains stuttering consistently.

Background

I use vanilla arch KDE plasma, have DE X11 and wayland, kernel version 6.12.7-arch1-1 (64-bit), with GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, driver version 565.77 and GPU: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics. CPU: 13th Gen Intel -9-13900HX 5.200GHz.

Attempts:

Downloaded lutris, LACT. Installed gamemode, mangohud and GOverlay. Tried cpupower frequency-set -g performance and proton experimental and enabled multilib. Increased vm.max_map_count to 2147483642. I have tried prime render offload as well from, archwiki prime.

Some Images when in games

Frame drop in Dota 2 with GOverlay and mangohud

top command with dota 2 opened

Top 3 were when the game was open. Bottom 2 were after quitting the game.

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I hope I've provided a good amount of details. LET ME KNOW FOR MORE! I am a newbie to Linux and arch, but I enjoy it so far and really want to get the gaming part going. Any help is very much appreciated!

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I'm installing fabric on Fedora 41, but when I click on the installer jar or run it through the terminal, no gui pops up and fabric isn't installed.

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I have an 8BitDo Zero 2 controller i would like to use it for some games and for anki however although it can connect to Bluetooth it doesn't seem to be detected by any games or by button remapping software like AntiMicroX. Is there a way to fix this? (I'm on Linux Mint)

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I'm having problems trying to play mgr through proton(the game doesn't start), and I wanted to know, can I use lutris to run the game with wine? Would that actually work?

My system info:

Fedora workstation

i5 4200U

intel HD4400

vulkan 1.0 (I know this version does not have full support, may be why I can't run this game)

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Specs: Case: Nzxt H5 Flow Motherboard: Gigabyte B650m H PSU: Crossair 1250w full modular Liquid Coooler: Nzxt Kraken 240mm AIO CPU: AMD 9700x RAM: CROSSAIR VENGEANCE 2x16 5200mhz GPU: haven't decided yet between 7700xt or newer cheapest AMD card to be launched. OS: Bazzite

This was my first build ever, maybe made some mistakes but the idea is to have this as a start since i came from console gamming.

Parts that i am not sure that was a good choice thinking about price x longevity: motherboard, Cooler.

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Ever since the Vanguard incident even playing TFT became a pain to run on Linux, so today I ended up writing a guide to make it as easy as possible to configure Waydroid and make TFT work great on it!

This is all because obviously running the native version is not possible anymore due to its anticheat, which affects TFT too for...some reason.

But the Android version works just fine, with some tweaks: I covered most points, from X11 support using Weston to customizing TFT's config file to make it look better. Any correction is obviously appreciated!

Hopefully it's gonna help new people to have a fully working TFT under 10 minutes :')

Link: https://gist.github.com/NelloKudo/ffae4490b625eac4cca4a943d4def00f

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Basically, title. I've been using Discord Canary since it started to officially support Wayland streaming with audio and it updated from v550 to v552 today and now the feature has been removed and reverted to the way it was before. Just so everybody knows.

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I installed cheat engine into lutris but no matter what i do i can't figure out the prefixes to get it working, every time i try it crashes, i want to permanently switch to linux as i don't play online games but this is the one hangup i have.

Here's my starter info, any help is appreciated.

On garuda linux, i was trying to add the prefix into lutris's game with--- Configure>System Options>Command Prefix.

I was trying to prefix the game as--- /home/"username"/Games/.

Altered the username for well, yeah.

The location of the cheat engine exe is --- /home/"username"/Games/drive_c/Program Files/Cheat Engine 7.5/

I have 2 Lutris game install folders, one for GOG games,and one for Manual installs, I may make a third one for epic if they put a game i'm really interested in for free on their store later, but here's what i got now.

Gog folder--- /home/"username"/Games/gog/

Manual installs--- /home/"username/Games/Manual-Installs/drive_c/

I'm not sure drive c is needed in the manual installs one but that's where the one game i did manually install's game folder is.

If at all possible i want to do this without using steam, i prefer to only use steam for steam, even on windows i'd install gog games with the installer instead of galaxy when i could.

Thanks for any help.

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Hello guys. I have been a Linux user since mid-2022. One of the few things I may miss from Windows is the ability to just press on a game's icon on my desktop and let it launch.

Is playing games on Linux by clicking on their desktop icons not a thing? I use Steam for Steam games and Heroic Games Launcher for GOG games. I take it that you can't really launch games on Linux through the desktop? Like, how would the game know which version of Proton to use etc.?

Thoughts?

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Am trying to figure out how to get my g920 to work on arch in ets 2 and ats, so far i’ve seen two posts one on burning midnight about adding udev rules to usb switch and another from spinics.net that am kinda confused on how to implement, if anyone has any insight to provide on which one to go through with it would be helpful

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Hi Everyone! I'm starting on Linux, or trying to. I did some searches and find that I can play a lot of games that I want, but not my favorite (ignore that fact), League of Legends. I was looking for Pop_OS and my friend said that I can't play it, is that true? If I can, I'm all in Pop_OS, cause is the only thing that miss on my "check" To change from Windows to Linux

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I've been having this crash where my monitors go black, the entire system is unresponsive, but the computer power stays on and the fans keep running. Eventually, after about two or three minutes, the whole thing either shuts down or restarts. There does not seem to be any pattern to whether it shuts down entirely, or restarts.

This crash only happens while playing certain games, and usually after about 45-90 minutes of playtime, if not more. The worst offenders are Hell Let Loose and Civilization VI. It would not do it at all with others, such as Cities: Skylines. After doing some digging, I am fairly certain the issue is with my processor. The ntoskrnl.exe crash, I figured, could be fixed by a switch over to Linux - something I used to run and wanted to go back to anyways. I was running Windows 10 up until yesterday.

Cut to today - I finally make the switch and install Mint (Cinnamon 22), and it seems to be running fine. The games seem (initially) to be running better. Then the crash happens - this time five minutes into the game. I try again, same thing. So now, since switching to Mint, the crashes are more frequent and more severe. On Windows, I used to retain my volume inputs when the crash would happen. I could still hear people on Discord, and they could still hear me until I shut the computer down. My game volume would usually stick around too. Now, I lose everything all at once.

I have tried disabling the CPU boost in BIOS, and it did not help.

I was wondering if anybody has had similar experiences, and if anybody might know a fix? It's getting very frustrating, and I'm over a year into trying to deal with this. I wish I could provide more detail, but I genuinely only have guesses beyond this information.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated!

Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (6 Core) GPU: GeForce 3070 (8GB) MB: ASUS B350 RAM: 32GB

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I recently bought the collectors edition of the game and installed it through Steam. I have it running through Proton GE 9.22 on Bazzite. It seems to run ok, no real performance issues. My problem is that I wanted to check out the game before spending any money on it, so I tried through Xbox Game Pass on my Series X. The game is supposed to support signing into your Xbox account for cloud saves and achievements, but every time I hit the option in the game menu, it just automatically says it failed to connect to an account, without ever asking me to sign in. I've done some searching, and I can't find anyone saying that they've had this issue, nor how to fix it. Anyone have any thoughts? I appreciate the help.

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Installed hoi4 from steam and it does not work properly in full screen. I am running Linux mint off of a USB ssd

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no matter what i try the most progress i made on launching the game is a black screen with a cursor and sound. things like protontricks didnt help. i also tried proton hotfix, experimental, 9 and 8. all the same results

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I have Microsoft Flight SIm 40th Anniversary installed from Steam I play on Proton Expiremental. The Simulator will recognise my Logitech Extreme 3D Pro and Saitek Flight Throttle Quadrant, but no matter what I try, the Saitek Rudder Pedals are not recognised by the simulator.

When I run evtest, the pedals show up and work just fine. I don't know what the issue is, please help!

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Hi everyone:)
I got a new RX7800XT for christmas and installed it in my pc along with a fresh fedora kde install. Since then the games that i play (Assetto Corsa and ETS2) keep crashing my PC. I uninstalled steam from flatpak and install it via the normals repos but that didn't helped. I have 32gb of ddr4 ram which info center says runs at 2400MT/s , 1,2V and an i7 7600K. The psu is nearly new and has 750w. Should be enough. I didn't had these problems on my mint system, but there i also had my old gpu. Since the whole PC crashed there is no chance of getting any good logs

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I play 2020 pretty nicely and I'm wondering about 2024, but the price right now is almost $90 so I wanna know if it runs well before I purchase.

What's your experience like?

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