I've been watching comparison videos on YouTube about AMD and Nvidia GPU performance, and I've noticed that Nvidia cards seem to stutter more often. There are small spikes in frame times, while AMD runs much smoother.

The last time I used an Nvidia GPU was back in 2015, and I’ve never tried one on Linux. Is this normal? I thought Nvidia would just lag slightly behind AMD at the same price point, not have actual performance issues that affects smoothness.

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Every time I try to load up the sober app on my steam deck I keep getting the same error. "Couldn't reach Roblox. Check your internet connection and try again." If I turn off and back on my wifi it doesn't fix anything, I get max bars anyways since the router is in my room. I tried to fully uninstall it and clear user data and THAT didn't work either. Tried maybe restarting my steam deck to see if it did anything. But still, nothing. What do I do?

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I currently am running Linux Mint, and use it for gaming. I just have two major issues.

1. Most of my games run at 60hz, even though my monitor is set to 165hz. This is an active issue within Mint and has no solution currently, just something you gotta deal with.
2. When a 2nd monitor is connected, both default to the lowest hz monitor. This is because Mint uses x11 and is absolutely terrible for gaming. This also has no fix.

I want to switch my Distro to one that solves both those problems, and am open to anything that is reputable and wont make my pc explode. It doesnt matter how much time it takes to set up the OS. Got any recommendations?

(I'm fairly new to linux so you gotta explain to me like im an idiot)

(Also AMD GPU and CPU if that matters at all)

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Real linux noob here, running mint cinnamon. I'm trying to play Shadowrun Returns via Steam, and I'm unable to launch the game at all (doesn't crash, doesn't even open at all). The output.txt gives me this:

Mono path [0]

'/home/x/.steam/debian-installation/ steamapps/common/Shadowrun Returns/Shadowrun_Data/Managed' Mono path [1] = '/home/x/.steam/debian-installation/ steamapps/common/Shadowrun Returns/Shadowrun Data/Mono' Mono config path = '/home/x/.steam/debian-installation/ steamapps/common/Shadowrun Returns/Shadowrun_Data/Mono/etc' Player is already running

A quick search says that this is a bug with older Unity versions that pops up when a program using Chromium is open. I've tried closing everything, restarting, and shutting down my computer, running Shadowrun first. As far as I can tell via the system monitor, the only thing that's running Chromium is Steam. Is Steam preventing the game from running? Any other advice?

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Howdy, I installed arch on my new laptop because getting something new seemed nice, done a bit of diving and I am a big fan. The only issue I have had so far is that I play a lot of Path of Exile and it's kinda necessary to use things like awakened Poe trade for pricing and macros and stuff. When I run it it just opens up in its own tile as I'm using a tiling window manager and even when making it float if I try to interact with PoE it cast as the overlay is "in the way".

Anyone had experience with things of the like? If so, could you point me in a direction to get some info? Thanks <3

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Installed the mod today and everything works fine until I get to the campaign map. My fps tanks to 30 and my gpu is running at like 30 watts.

But if you go into a battle or any area that's not the campaign map, gpu shoots back up to 300 watts and 200 fps.

I tried Proton Experimental as well as a few GE builds with no luck. This issue also doesn't happen in the base game. Also tested on Windows and this also doesn't happen there.

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Hey folks,

I'm playing through Claire obscure: expedition 33 and while a fantastic game so far, the constant Bluetooth controller disconnects every 4-5 minutes for 3 seconds are driving me insane.

I use a fully updated (firmware) Xbox elite series 2 wireless controller.

I'm running the latest version of Arch Linux, using KDE plasma DE (6.4) and GE-proton 10-4 on steam.

I have tried every suggestion I can online as well as from various AIs. (Disabling low power, PCIe power control, nearby interference, it's a quality Bluetooth PCIe antenna and card from Asus) Etc.

I've disabled steam rumble.

I've tried using the games built in controller support and steam controller support.

The disconnects still happen.

My question is, if I buy one of the latest 2025 non Xbox Bluetooth wireless controllers (easySMX X20, 8bitdo ultimate 2, etc), should I expect similar issues or is this exclusively due to reverse engineering driver support on a microsoft controller?

Does anyone have a similar experience to what I'm enduring right now?

Thanks!

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I'm trying to mod Fallout 4 using Limo. I have most of the basics setup, however I'm struggling to get mod manager download links to work. I personally can't find much documentation on this, I've tried using personnel api keys, multiple ones at that, and even MO2 api keys, password and no password, cant seem to get it to work. Am I missing something? I'm not above manual downloads, but if i could get some help here it would be greatly appreciated.

system info:

CPU: I5-12400f GPU: 6800XT OS: Nobara 42 w/GNOME 48

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I’ve been using Ubuntu for a couple months and am enthralled with Linux. I dual-boot on my laptop, and now I seldomly use the Windows 11 partition for certain Microsoft-only things. I had been using Steam on Windows until I became fed up with my awful frame-rate drops. I decided to install Steam on my Linux partition and was absolutely blown away with the fact that my games run smoother, with higher texture settings, and higher frame rates! Installation was a breeze and the only hiccup I encountered was user error 😅 That was pretty much the nail in the coffin for me. I don’t see any need for my Windows partition anymore. Hurray for gaming on Linux!

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TLDR at the bottom

Please help I'm losing my mind. I'll just make a full timeline so you can see my problems easier:

Thursday: I was really looking forward to the release of REMATCH, so I basically bought a controller just to play it. I'm using a wireless mouse with a receiver, bluetooth headphones, wired keyboard and dualsense ps 5 controller. Everything works smoothly, no issues. I am also using windows 11 here.

Friday: I decide to clean up my setup. Pc goes from the floor to the desk, I do some cable management and I try to make my keyboard wireless. I'm using a lemokey p1 pro as my keyboard. It has 3 modes: wired, bluetooth, 2.4 GHz mode or whatever it's called. At the time I didn't realise I could just connect the receiver, so I download some drivers of the lemokey website. The bluetooth option for the keyboard still didn't work but I realised I can just use the receiver to connect my keyboard wirelessly. Keyboard works. On friday morning I played a bit of rematch before I did my setup cleaning and everything worked flawlessly. In the afternoon after I did my cleaning I got bluetooth issues. Audio from my headphones crackles and cuts out, sometimes works for a minute with no issues, sometimes doesn't work for 30 seconds. The same story applies largely to my controller. I try every possible solution to this under the sun but nothing works.

Saturday: Same problems today, but I decide to finally switch over to Linux (Nobara). Before that I wanted to do a clean install of windows 11 to see if the problem fixes itself. I do a clean install of windows 11... and the problem is not fixed. My headphones work perfectly fine on phone or laptop during all of this. After installing a fresh windows 11 I try to do some fixes to my audio, but nothing works. Now I switch to Nobara and the same problems continue.

So, my current setup is: PC with integrated wifi and bluetooth connected with ethernet, wireless mouse, wired keyboard, bluetooth headphones. This is the exact same configuration as on Thursday but I have major bluetooth issues.

TLDR: I have connectivity issues on bluetooth devices; sony headphones and dualsense controller, no issues on other wireless peripherals. My headphones have weird crackling and cutting out for 1-30 seconds, same story for the controller. Issues on both windows and Nobara even after a fresh install of windows and nobara after that.

Anybody have potential fixes?

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I really enjoyed Zork, but I didn't have the physical stuff so I feel like I missed a bit of the story and vibe. I was wondering if there are any text adventure games that you can just play without any kind of physical booklets or anything and still get the full experience.

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Hello guys im running on fedora 42 i have a dell laptop it has a mx450 nvidea graphics card and a i7 11th gen cpu. I get around 30 to 50 fps on cs2 with low settings and i'm running 4:3 1400 x 1050 stretch res. I have set the sdl_video grapghics to wayland. When i play war thunder(witch i belive is a more difficalt game to run) i get around 100 fps. Im dont know what to do to fix this.

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As per title, the dropdown list in the ¨Storage" section of the settings shows 2 of my internal drives with the SD icon.

https://preview.redd.it/wr14fakv1d8f1.png?width=644&format=png&auto=webp&s=a477ff9a573563d86870b7678651a280313e25d4

Now, this doesn't impact the functionality as far as i know, but to me is really annoying.

I'm running bazzite and the drives are formatted as btrfs. They're mounted in their respective folders in /var/mnt/

https://preview.redd.it/l1wdyrtm2d8f1.png?width=318&format=png&auto=webp&s=97705d701ec42a49da1e863117c2d665724e0eb6

I tried changing the fstab file, so that these drives would also use the UUID for mounting, to see if it would do anything but, after a reboot and removing and re-adding the disks in steam, nothing changed.

Is there something I can do to change this behaviour or do I have to live with it?

Thanks in advance.

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I dont know if this will help anyone but atleast its out there now, the linux community needs all the help it can get. This was on UBUNTU.

Note that this will work for other games aswell as ones gathered via nonofficial matters, but i do not recommend this and do not support it.

So i was trying to install a simple mod onto Hitman 3, i came across a simple roadblock and pushed through. I was trying to install a mod that unlocked offline scenarios because im of grid sometimes. Here is how:

The mod i installed was basicly a rpkg patch with a exe to patch the system using the rpkg patch. i tried wine, and after that didnt work i tried winetricks and decided to install something, it seemed a little to clunky. Finaly i used The heroic games launchers feature called run exe on prefix, which you can access by going into one of your games and scrolling down on the wine tab. Then after my mod files were in the correct locations according to the tutorial, i ran the exe file with that feature (Make sure the exe also is in the same folder). The exe ran without problem and did the changes without error and here i am with a "Better" game.

This is simple but i wanted to make it eitherway. Hope it helps in some sort of way. This might also work on other games.

MOD: https://www.nexusmods.com/hitman3/mods/289?tab=description

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Should I still bother using it on steam launch options? For context my Ryzen 5 3600 is on a all-core overclock at 4.4ghz on the bios.

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I Miss the ninja game , like shinobido and thenchu. this era ninja game just hack and slash mode.

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Hello,

I recently bought an easysmx x10 controller, and it's nearly perfect on linux. The only issue is that the "switch" mode does not seem to work on linux when I wire it to my PC. It defaults back to the "wired" mode which causes it to behave like an xbox controller, causing me to lose gyro functionality.

Has anybody experienced this issue and know a fix?

I am on endavourOS.

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Just bought battlefront 2 on steam, it launched and worked well the very first time, but after closing it and trying to play it again it does not launch. Ea app shows app, says its preparing to play but the game never starts.

I'm on arch, 6.15, nvidia 575, gnome. Using proton ge, but i tried deleting the compatdata and installing EA app with proton 9.0.4 and 7.0.6, refuses to work.

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im on CachyOS with KDE Plasma though the same issue happened with Debian on GNOME as well. the way it happens is im playing the game like normal and it works perfectly fine, but after a while my monitor just loses signal. like it says no signal and thats it. the music that i open on firefox still plays perfectly fine, but the roblox audio is lost. i have to restart my system to get my display back. why does this happen? is anyone else having the same issue? i would've submitted the issue on github but i dont really want to do it until i can find a way to record it and get logs on it or something. idk how i can get the logs for this. thats all i have to say idk

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