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I recently switched to Garuda Linux, my game started stuttering constantly and nothing I do seems to fix it

https://reddit.com/link/1s3scmu/video/hemh851g9arg1/player

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Just wanted to share what worked for me after having a pretty un-fun time getting RDR2 up and running, and I didn't find a lot of good guides online so here's what worked for me.

RDR2 has a very old bug in its audio engine: it completely chokes during the initial load if the system’s default audio output uses high bit-depth or high sample rate (especially 32-bit float / anything above 48 kHz).

On Windows the fix was always “go into Sound settings → Advanced → set to 24-bit 48 kHz (Studio Quality) or lower”.

On Linux with PipeWire the exact same thing happens — Proton just passes through whatever format PipeWire is exposing. Many modern setups (DACs, Bluetooth headsets, Xbox Wireless Adapter dongles etc.) default to 32-bit float, so the game hangs forever on the black loading screen with the spinning icon.

Forcing PipeWire to output a safe, low-resolution format (16-bit at 48 kHz) tricks the game into thinking it’s talking to a normal Windows audio device. That’s exactly what finally made it load for me after nothing else worked.

On Windows the fix was always “go into Sound settings → Advanced → set to 24-bit 48 kHz (Studio Quality) or lower” (WayBack Machine archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20220720232807/https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-change-sound-control-panel-settings-in/5a70718b-7ecf-4547-a64a-22efda8da0c2 )

FIX - I'm using an Xbox Wireless Dongle with an Xbox One controller that's passing its audio passthrough to my headphones, but i've adapted this so it should work for anyone with this issue:

1. Create the WirePlumber Rule

mkdir -p ~/.config/wireplumber/main.lua.d

nano ~/.config/wireplumber/main.lua.d/99-rdr2-audio-fix.lua

Paste this into it

alsa_monitor.rules = { { matches = { { { "node.name", "matches", "alsa_output.*" }, -- targets ALL audio outputs }, }, apply_properties = { ["audio.format"] = "S16LE", -- 16-bit (safest for RDR2) ["audio.rate"] = 48000, -- or try 44100 if you prefer ["alsa.resolution_bits"] = 16, ["api.alsa.period-size"] = 1024, }, }, }

2. Now apply the changes:

systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber

3. Now play any sound e.g YouTube, Spotify to verify it worked and enter:

pw-top

4. Restart PipeWire one last time just to be clean:

systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber

You should see your main output sink showing S16LE (or S24_3LE if you change it) at 48000 Hz.

Bonus steps that also help a lot but may not be necessary:

• Check https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/Rockstar-Games-from-Epic-Games, I had to apply the first fix: "Rockstar Launcher opens showing the option to buy the game / Says the game is not owned"
• I also had to apply the 2nd fix (Social Club Error screen, where you have to switch to DX12 from Vulkan via editing systems.xml to <API>kSettingAPI_DX12</API>.
• Use GE-Proton (latest) in Heroic
• Add launch option: -fullscreen
• In-game → Graphics → Fullscreen (not Borderless Windowed) + V-Sync Off
• Verify game files in Heroic (hamburger icon in top right with game selected)
• Delete RDR2 config folder (forces clean settings):
• Add these environment variables in Heroic (Properties → Environment Variables): Key: PROTON_USE_WINED3D → Value: 1
• Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Configuration if you want to understand PipeWire better

Why it's good now:

The audio sinks (or my Xbox One dongle in my case) is now running at S16LE 2ch 48000 Hz (16-bit integer at 48 kHz). No more float32le (32-bit float) or high sample rates (192/384 kHz) are being exposed to the game.

Conclusion

This is essentially the Arch Linux (CachyOS) equivalent of the original Windows fix that suggested dropping from 32-bit/384 kHz down to 24-bit/192 kHz or lower. Plain 16-bit or 24-bit at 44.1/48 kHz is what ultimately fixes this.

If you're still not sure it's applied, check it's still showing S16LE at 48 kHz in your latest pw-top to ensure the WirePlumber rule is working and sound is playing in RDR2 in the correct format.

I wanted to share this out of sheer exasperation with Rockstar here. This is available, today, as a $99.99 game that may as well be considered as broken by default on Linux, so un-user friendly are the fixes and the troubleshooting steps.

There are absolutely no excuses for the game being such a mess nearly 8 years after it's release and it still being pushed hard in their garbage store front.

Also: Launchers within launchers within launchers should just be illegal and result in auto refunds. Heroic -> Epic -> Rockstar Social (in my case) and there were showstopper issues at every step of the way on each platform in some form or another, even disregarding the audio issues.

Hope this helps someone!

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Hello, I just moved to linux (zorin) and was trying to add fightcade to steam to see if it allows me to configure my controller to use on the emulators. But I'm not finding out how to do that, steam doesn't show any programs currently installed when I click the option to add a non steam game.

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I have been playing World of Warcraft (classic and retail) in Lutris for a long time now. I recently updated Pop_OS and had Nvidia driver issues, so I took the plunge and upgraded to their new Cosmic desktop environment, which uses Wayland. (Was using X11 before, but I had used Wayland occasionally and never had this issue.)

After that and then purging and reinstalling the latest Nvidia driver, graphics issues were fixed, but I my now have a new issue:

In wow, if I hold a mouse button to camera look (left or right, doesn't matter which), the mouse cursor moves. When I let go of the button, and the cursor reappears, it's in a new position as if I had moved it without holding a button. It is supposed to stay in the place where you clicked and held the button initially.

I am not sure what, out of all the stuff I did, is causing this problem. I've tried various runners, though I am usually using Proton GE (latest). I have tried gamescope on and off, makes no difference. Not sure what else I should try. Ideas welcome.

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Weird journey. I started with a Void Linux install using Gnome. It was buggy so I changed to Arch and Sway, and kept the home directory. I haven't launched Lutris since I changed to Arch. Now I'm trying Niri and decided to check Lutris.

It seems like it all works well except for Windows games using gamescope. They run fine if I turn off gamescope.

I'm not sure whats happening. I also tried this using Sway and it is the same story.

Any ideas?

Here are the last entries in the logs ``` ATTENTION: default value of option vk_xwayland_wait_ready overridden by environment. [Gamescope WSI] Forcing on VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1. The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:

Warning: Unsupported maximum keycode 709, clipping. X11 cannot support keycodes above 255. Warning: Virtual modifier Hyper multiply defined Using 0, ignoring 0 Warning: Virtual modifier ScrollLock multiply defined Using 0, ignoring 0 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server [gamescope] [[0;34mInfo[0m] [0;37mxdg_backend:[0m Changed refresh to: 74.964hz

(zenity:19048): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 17:47:38.836: gdk_seat_get_keyboard: assertion 'GDK_IS_SEAT (seat)' failed

(zenity:19048): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 17:47:38.904: gdk_seat_get_keyboard: assertion 'GDK_IS_SEAT (seat)' failed

(zenity:19048): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 17:47:38.904: gdk_seat_get_keyboard: assertion 'GDK_IS_SEAT (seat)' failed

(zenity:19048): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 17:47:38.979: gdk_seat_get_pointer: assertion 'GDK_IS_SEAT (seat)' failed

(zenity:19048): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 17:47:38.979: gdk_device_get_position_double: assertion 'GDK_IS_DEVICE (device)' failed

(zenity:19048): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 17:47:38.982: gdk_seat_get_pointer: assertion 'GDK_IS_SEAT (seat)' failed

(zenity:19048): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 17:47:38.982: gdk_device_get_position_double: assertion 'GDK_IS_DEVICE (device)' failed

** (zenity:19048): WARNING **: 17:48:03.991: atk-bridge: get_device_events_reply: unknown signature ```

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I am on fedora 43 with a 9070XT and have been desperately trying to get optiscaler though Goverlay to work. So far I have tried it in 4 games and it only works in 1.

I pasted the launch commands from Goverlay in steam and try to bring up the optiscaler menu but it never pops up other than in

1. ratchet and clank rift apart - works with the bleeding edge build where using f4( what I set instead of default insert) brings up the menu and I can use fsr 4 with it

2. crimson desert - it seems optiscaler is some what being injected as I can see the prompt in the beginning of the game but its insert even though I set it to f4 and never works no matter how many times I try to press the button

   1. god of war ragnarok has the same issue too

3. frostpunk 2 doesn’t even give me the prompt at the start.

I have tried various different protons ge , cachyos, experimental …. To no avail turning off the spoof dlss inputs doesn’t help either. Have it installed as a flatpak but tried it non flatpak too and it’s the same issue all around

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I’m fairly new to Linux. While browsing Steam, I came across this game called MineMogul and really liked it. I wanted to try it, but the game’s graphics look like this. What should I do? My graphics card is quite old. I’ve listed all the details below. (Please let me know if anything is missing.)

-GPU: GTX660Ti (470 drivers installed)

-Distro: EndeavourOS XFCE

-RAM CPU: 16GB 3600X

-Launch command: PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%

-Proton version: GE-proton10-34 (I tried versions 5 through 9, but they either give a Unity error or a DirectX 11 error.)

I tried Vulkan, but it won’t launch because my card doesn’t support versions higher than 1.2.

When I run it with OpenGL, the performance isn’t bad, but these lines make it unplayable.

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I tried using Bottles, Boxes, VirtualBox, Waydroid (I need Android 11+) and Wine, but it didn't work for me.

Idk if is the dependencies or the wrong version, I just need to play Guardian Tales (for speedrunning or something idk)...

What I did? I just installed all of those in Zorin OS (and yeah, didn't work).

From where? Flathub and maybe GitHub (example. Waydroid-script).

If I tried to troubleshoot? Yes, I tried using tutorials, posts and another things that I forgot...

System information pls?

Zorin OS 18

Videocard: Integrated CometLake-S GT2 (Intel I3-10100T)

Chipset: Intel I3-10100T

OpenGL: 4.6

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These are the launch options

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 mangohud game-performance %command%

The moment I turn HDR ON in game the game crashes, Anybody else?

Game works without crashing in gamescope, but the peak brightness settings in game is going to 4100, which is obviously wrong. So I doubt HDR is working properly in gamescope too.

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Hi , i want to switch to linux bcuz F*** Windows i cant deal with it abymore , anyway im a computer engineering student and a graphic designer and yes i like to play some games and i use adobe programs, So how do i start? and what distro should i choose?

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Hi! I enjoy playing minecraft, but now am looking into getting a client to be able to install mods. Most of my friends use feather client, but that is for windows. Can anyone suggest a great client that supports loads of mods available for ubuntu?

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How can I play eFootball on Linux Mint Xfce Edition?

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I used to use CachyOS for gaming like two months ago and everything was fine, I deleted it accidentally, then two days ago I installed it again, no games are working now! I have an Nvidia card (Rtx 5060) and I'm playing non-steam games on steam... And no error messages or anything! It just starts then stops immediately without showing anything! I've tried several proton versions too, downloaded the "gaming pack" suggested by CachyOS, and even switched to X11 session but nothing seems to work... Is there a solution? Is it because of updates? or should I go to another distro?

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Artix Linux, last zen kernel, amdgpu (AMD 5700 XT), updated drivers.

Tried every possible combination of Proton versions, even experimental bleeding edge.

The game crashes my GPU to ring0 every time the gameplays starts, sometimes even in menu. I can play from around 0 to 20 minutes, being the last the higher session.

I'm out of ideas. I need help.

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Hello everyone,

I've had this Steelseries Arctis Nova 7 Wireless for a couple years or more. It has accompanied me in my Windows - and now my KDE Neon times. However it has become rather unstable... Meaning: it keeps disconnecting or breaking up, like up until a point where its just the connnect-disconnect noises again and again.

Pulling out the USB-C dongle and putting it back in previously did solve it for a short while but that has not also stopped doing anything.

Does anyone have any experience or advice on this?

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hi all, i just got a new pc and i decided to switch to linux because of, y'know, everything that's wrong with windows. so far i love it and i'm glad i made the switch, but installing minecraft is proving to be a major pain in the ass for some reason.

i downloaded the .deb from mojang and installed it through the terminal, but the launcher wouldn't open after install. i tried opening it through the terminal with the sudo command and that almost worked, but the minecraft launcher just opened as a white box. i looked back at the terminal and it gave me... whatever this is.

https://preview.redd.it/ixmmd43ds8rg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=b29c05332c3932dec5fc451079c02f53286d2471

https://preview.redd.it/4i80k6xds8rg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=7a393207c18f4a1a6ac497d70dc4cfc951076bdc

https://preview.redd.it/0mhrq9ies8rg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=a9e684e5fe0a448a4363686e1f5bf8bfc21aab9c

https://preview.redd.it/hpx5k20fs8rg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=21646c55ee7df7312394b62f03b13ee2110a1a69

i consulted this post and this guide but neither seem to be helping.

i'm brand new to linux so i would really appreciate having instructions broken down as step-by-step as possible. genuinely i have no idea what i'm even looking at here. if someone could explain what i need to do to fix this the same way you'd explain it to a literal child, i'd be incredibly grateful.

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When playing the game and connect the controller, the camera starts spinning and all buttons doesn't work; as soon as I disconnect the controller everything turns normal.

I've already tried connecting the usb of the controller, without luck.

My setup is Cachyos, proton cachyos-slr latest version with PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=0 PROTON_LOCAL_SHADER_CACHE=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_PREFER_SDL=1 PROTON_NO_STEAMINPUT=1 WINE_FSYNC_SIMULATE_SCHED_QUANTUM=1 WINE_FSYNC_YIELD_TO_WAITERS=1 game-performance mangohud %command%

I've also tried removing all the proton Environment Variables but nothing.

The controller works perfectly fine with all my other games.

Ideas?

Thanks.

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