So I've been trying to play games and i just get horrible performance while people with the same specs dont, im starting to think its a cpu bottleneck, even though it didnt happen when i was on linux, but i have nothing else to grasp on:

OS: CachyOS x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.19.11-1-cachyos

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 (12) @ 4.47 GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Lite Hash Rate [Discrete] drivers: 595.58.03

RAM: 2x16gb ddr4 3600mhz

Tried lutris with latest wine and proton versions, then steam with latest wine and proton experimental, tried overclocking power limit on gpu, tried changing settings, tried reinstalling whole os, still nothing.

I'm just really curious of how even though i do all the steps i still get such horrible performance, while everyone else on protondb.com says its fine and rates the games i play gold, even with people with the same gpu as me.

I've tried cyberpunk 2077, fallout 4, fallout 3&NV (only ones that ran fine) and the witcher 3. I dont even go for high settings or ray tracing, but it still runs horribly.

Last time i gamed on this machine before the problems was around a year or so ago (when i was on windows), so im thinking that my thermal paste may have dried up and is causing the cpu to overheat (temps are at 95º when under load and i dont think thats good), so it lags down to stop it from going over the edge.

Its either that or, my other suspicion, running proton and wine (ESPECIALLY LUKS2 because i have a feeling thats causing lots of drops in performance) adds more stuff the cpu has to do so it just cant.

if anyone can can u just tell me what i can do to make it run better, or just to figure out what is the problem? im genuienly thinking of going back to windows and using a separate machine for linux.

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Play Royal Flush Rush to find out! It is officially in Early Access (v0.9) and LIVE!

Grab it here - https://softsavage.itch.io/royal-flush-rush

I wanted to show this to the itch.io and Linux community, because I’m looking for fellow arcade and card game enthusiasts to help me polish the experience before the v1.0 release and eventual Steam release with leaderboards.

What is Royal Flush Rush?

It’s a high-speed hybrid. You aren't just matching symbols, you’re building poker hands.

• The Goal: Match 3 or more to create pairs, straights, and flushes.
• The Catch: The "Rush" bar is constantly depleting. If you stop matching, it is Game Over!
• Built-in hints: No poker knowledge required.

The Launch Day Challenge

I’ve included a Daily Challenge mode where everyone plays exactly the same seeded board. My personal best for today's seed is 18,139 on Level 5.

Can you beat this developer on Day One? Post a screenshot of your score in the comments below! I'll be keeping an eye on who takes the top spot.

What can you play it on?

This build is available for:

• Linux / Windows / macOS (Desktop builds)
• Android (Sideloaded AAB)

Why v0.9?

I’m a solo developer, and even though the game is fully playable and localised in 7 languages, I want to make sure the difficulty scaling and RNG feels "fair but tough." If you encounter any bugs or have thoughts on the scoring, please let me know.

If you like what you play, consider supporting the project with a donation. Every bit helps me get closer to the Steam launch with global leaderboards!

Get matching! — Soft Savage

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Wie kann ich unter kde plasma(pikaOS) die Batterie anzeigen lassen?

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I'm using Omarchy 3.5 (Arch and Wayland) with the following pc specs:

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Playing on steam with the following proton configurations:

Proton Experimental

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1
VKD3D_CONFIG=nodxr
ulimit -n 1048576;
%command%

I'll be honest, these environment variables i just looked up on ProtonDB and by what people said it was a proper configuration for this game.

So, I was playing the game normally for a long time now (19.1 hours at the time of this post) and never had issues. But now, every time use the monorail with tons of packages the system freezes and Hyprland goes into safe mode, that seems like a memory leak but i'm not sure.

Now i really don't know if this is a Proton - Hyprland or whatever issue, or if it is a problem with the game's port to PC, i doubt it because it already has steam deck compatibility.

Any thoughts?

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So I get this issue:

drm:nv_drm_gem_alloc_nvkms_memory_ioctl [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002b00] Failed to allocate NVKMS memory for GEM object

That causes the system to crash, or rather, the screen movement and mouse and keyboard control to stop, any playing video and game audio (I often watch youtube at the same time) continues to play, but the system cannot be used otherwise.

This seems to only happen in the Sins of a Solar Empire 2 menus, rather than the the actual game.

System:

Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition) x86_64

Linux 6.19.11-200.fc43.x86_64

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

32 GB of ram

I did try using X11 over Wayland, but that seems to cause other issues.

I had no issues with the game when I had a single moniter and a older and slower CPU.

This is a classic case it seems of Nvidia issues along with possibly Wayland on top.

i am just puzzled why it seems to only happens in the menus and not in say a big battle with a million things going on at once.

Space Marine 2, Elite: Dangerous and all my other games run fine.

It is also worth noting when the crash happens, it seems to cause a massive CPU temp spike (according to my bios), far beyond what the system normally ever hits even under the heaviest load (I keep an eye on the temps due to my previous system have a dying watercooler so its just a habit), temps are fine when the game is running normally.

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I just set it up like I would've done on windows but it's not working, does someone have a fix? Even though it's just the camera tweaks I feel so uncomfortable playing without that mod

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I dual booted my pc with windows 10 and zorin os about a year ago with very small issues here and there. I dual booted it because I have work I do that only works on windows. regardless, I have had an issue pop up recently on my Linux partition. you see, I have three drives, two internal nvme ssds one of which is my main drive with Linux and windows, and the other for the sole purpose of steam game downloads. the third drive is an external ssd which I use to put files shared between windows and Linux. the internal drives are ext4 and the external is nvms.

Recently after doing some work on windows I shut down and started up my Linux partition and wanted to play some ark survival ascended. I've had no issues in the past but this time it kept throwing a disk write error. I'll show all the things I've tried so far to fix it.

updated OS

Updated other games on the same drive (they successfully updated)

successfully updated games on the same drive

updated permissions to the files

verified ASA files

cleared steam cache and download

moved ark to the other internal drive

I removed the app manifest as well and it redownloaded the entire game

every other game downloads, updates, etc. as you'd expect. if I tried to uninstall and reinstall ark it works fine until it has to update again. My drives have over 300gb free space. I'm happy to reinstall it, but the game updates every couple days and it's a big file for my subpar internet service. any advice would be greatly appreciated

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I'm running an Alienware 17r1 with an i7-4910mq processor and a GTX1070m dGPU, aftermarket upgrade.

Currently on Windows 11 LTSC and I'm happy enough with it I guess but I would like to switch back to Linux.

On my old laptop I switched to Linux to gain performance because it was showing its age, this rig is performing perfectly fine on Windows Linux is just a preference.

I have two main concerns with migration:

1.) On this laptop I undervolt both CPU and GPU aggressively, I have 1800mhz @ .85v and +500 memory clock in Afterburner, which has gained me substantial thermal benefits and higher more stable FPS. I understand there is no Afterburner for Linux, the equivalent is CLI tools. and the same effect be achieved on Linux with a Pascal GPU, or how is the situation different? without afterburner on Windows I see lower and more variable clocks so for performance I need such tools are kind of required.

2.) How bad is the DirectX 12 translation layer overhead on performance? I understand the older API either benefit from or are at least a wash comparing Windows to Linux.

On Windows I can run cyberpunk at just under a perfect locked 60 FPS using a mixture of settings compromises and FSR. I know that game is steam deck verified so I guess it runs fine on Linux overall but that's with the 30 FPS cap on the tiny screen versus shooting for 60 FPS 1080p 32-in TV.

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I've noticed that when I have alternative versions of proton, such as glorious eggroll, launching steam writes substantially more data to the disk. One version of GE in the "../compatibilitytools.d" directory writes about 300mb vs 50mb without. The writes increase with more versions of proton.

Anyone know where the temp data is being written? I may create a symlink from there to /tmp.

Also, has anyone noticed increased writes with GE-proton outside of launching steam?

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I've seen some people complain about low performance on Vulkan, so I decided to try it and noticed the same thing - that is until I disabled implicit Wayland VSync. With enabled screen tearing, the FPS difference is massive.

To disable Wayland VSync on KDE Plasma, go to System Settings -> Window Management -> Window Rules -> Add Minecraft -> Force Fullscreen & Force Allow Tearing.

This was tested on RTX 5060 Ti with Ryzen 5 7600X with 180hz monitor.

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Hi, I have an issue with game rendering on CachyOS (Arch-based, KDE Plasma, Wayland). I have a ROG Strix B550-F Gaming with 2x RTX 3060s. The board enumerates the bottom slot (04:00.0) as GPU 0 despite my display being connected to the top slot (08:00.0/GPU 1). On Windows, the same hardware correctly routes games to GPU 1. On Linux, everything renders on GPU 0, which causes a performance issue as my Linux M.2 shares PCIe bandwidth with the bottom slot. The only game that appeared to render correctly was Life is Strange (native Linux build). Things already tried: KWIN_DRM_DEVICES, xorg.conf PrimaryGPU, DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME, NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD/GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME, various kernel parameters including vgaarb.default_vgadev. Any help appreciated

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howdy folks im running into a bit of an interesting problem on some of my games. I recently switched to Linux mint and while I have a decent grasp on unix and alsa im just not sure what can be causing my issue maybe missing codecs?

anyways issue is as follows i do have game sound, background music, sfx, and some voices in games but on some i will be missing just the cutscene voice audio example games with this issue would be yakuza 0 and the witcher 3.

(this bug from what i can tell is reminiscent to the witcher 3 4.0 audio bug where just the cutscene voice audio is missing and you had to delete patch 0 and patch 1 to fix it. however that file structure has changed making the advice obsolete)

troubleshooting i have done was figuring out my audio interface 18i8 was set on 7.1 ive since changed it to pro and have gotten it to output as stereo instead of surround (verified this through alsa mixer and pavucontrol) i have also verified my game files and reinstalled both of these games. i tested out dx11 and dx12 both have the issue. I have also installed proton ge in a hope that the codecs they provide would solve it but alas i still have this dreaded issue!

any ideas for how I can fix this? I'm near my wits end and about to install a windows vm just to play these games which id rather not do. thank you in advance if you have any questions im happy to answer.

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As many of you have probably read, the French government has officially started transitioning its public sector PCs from Windows to Linux. While meming about "French bureaucrats playing Tux Racer" is fun, I think this has massive, tangible implications for Linux Gaming.

Here is why this matters to us:

Game developers and anti-cheat vendors (like Epic with EAC) always use the same excuse: "Linux is only 2-3% of the market, it's not worth the support." But when an entire major European country shifts its public infrastructure to Linux, the global desktop market share is going to see a noticeable bump. Hardware vendors (Nvidia, AMD, peripheral makers) will be forced to provide first-class Linux drivers, which directly benefits gamers.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/even-the-french-government-is-switching-to-linux-now-in-a-bid-for-digital-sovereignty/

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