Other News about gaming on Linux

Screenprofiler - swap between Monitor Layouts + Panels/Widgets on KDE Plasma 6

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 04. April 2026 - 01:37

It’s a CLI tool (with a native Plasma 6 tray applet) that lets you take a "snapshot" of exactly how your screens are set up. When you swap profiles, it puts everything back to the way it was. Its basically Monitor Profile Switcher with extras. Ive hit a new milestone and could use some more bodies to test out the native applet. This was built on CachyOS but it should work with and KDE 6 enviroment.

You can either save your widget loadout (Where your taskbar is at, or backgrounds. It even saves w screen scaling.)or just save the resolution and layout. I use it when I want to switch to a dummy plug to stream sunshine or if I want my Monitors off and just have the TV on. You can set hotkeys up.

Ive pretty much removed all of the dependencies. I used to rely on konsave and python but have managed to work out my own solutions. Hopefully people find these posts and help them out.
https://github.com/Kakiharu/screenprofiler

submitted by /u/Kakiharu
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Battler GC Pro issues on Fedora KDE

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 04. April 2026 - 01:32

Whenever I try connecting my controller via 2.4GHz dongle it is either not detected by the system or connected as player 2 (with no other controllers connected).

Opening the game controller configuration screen in KDE system settings crashes without showing any devices unless I unplug the dongle.

Using the controller in bluetooth mode works just fine, but I use it for multiple devices and don't want to have to pair it every time I want to switch to another.

submitted by /u/Ropuce
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Microsoft flight simulator 2024... with VR

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 04. April 2026 - 01:16

So first from info online it seems like i should be able to play MSFS 2024 on linux just fine via proton (I'm on CashyOS)??

But anyways i want to include 2 peripherals to use.. 1- the thrustmaster flight stick controller (T.FLIGHT HOTAS 4 or something... originally for PS4/5) and my guess is that this should work too

Then.. VR.. is it even possible? I want to get Meta Quest 3S since it's almost 60% off in my area and I wanted to check if using VR + flight simulator + Flight controller stick is possible? I couldn't find much info on that

FYI: Im running Ryzen 7 9700X + RX 9070 XT + 32GB DDR5 ram - CashyOS

submitted by /u/commanDORO
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Why is that COD Ghosts runs faster on Linux than on Windows?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 04. April 2026 - 00:25

I just reinstalled COD Ghosts weeks after I switched to Linux (specifically Mint), I then tried the game mode “Extinction”, and I was surprised that it didn’t crashed or in a black screen compared to when I was running Windows 11. I even tried watching YT tutorials on how to fix it on Windows 11, but it all failed. While COD Ghosts did stutter in my end on Linux, it’s a lot better than the case for Windows 11, so I wonder, how did that happen?

submitted by /u/Electronic_Amount766
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NVENC working with steam on my Ubuntu and RTX 5070 TI

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 03. April 2026 - 23:32

I added NVENC encoding support to the driver (totally vibecoded). Steam now picks up VAAPI HEVC automatically — no config needed, no env vars. Just launch Steam and stream.

If you've ever tried Steam Remote Play on NVIDIA Linux, you know the pain:

it falls back to libx264 software encoding because nvidia-vaapi-driver only supported decode. 20fps, unusable.

On Blackwell (RTX 50xx), NVIDIA killed 32-bit CUDA, which is exactly what Steam's encode pipeline needs. So the driver includes a 64-bit helper daemon that handles the NVENC work via shared memory.
Steam's 32-bit process writes frames, the 64-bit daemon encodes them on the GPU. Transparent to the user.

Results
RTX 5070 Ti, Ubuntu 24.04, driver 580

  • Steam Remote Play: VAAPI HEVC @ 60fps, ~3ms encode, 0% packet loss
  • Tested with Steam Link on macOS and SteamOS on Legion Go 2
  • ffmpeg h264_vaapi/hevc_vaapi work out of the box
  • Pre-Blackwell GPUs (Turing/Ampere/Ada): direct NVENC, no daemon neededLooking for testers, especially RTX 5070/5080/5090 before asking the maintainer.

To test

git clone https://github.com/efortin/nvidia-vaapi-driver cd nvidia-vaapi-driver git checkout feat/nvenc-support ./install.sh submitted by /u/Weary-Buy-8132
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Gpu screen recorder instant replay not working

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 03. April 2026 - 23:30

on wayland, arch linux, kde plasma and running flatpak version

used to work until i changed some audios settings

btw on my phone, can add more info tomorrow

submitted by /u/rollysh33p
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How to undervolt an nvidia GPU

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 03. April 2026 - 23:16

Looking for a way to undervolt my nvidia gpu since I'm using an sff case, temps are not bad but definitely could be better since I used to undervolt it quite heavily under windows with msi afterburner.
I know that nvidia drivers don't expose undervolting but maybe I missed something

Looking for advice, thanks!

submitted by /u/P-VA
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Arc Raiders issue with Quick Use wheel

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 03. April 2026 - 23:14

Hi,

anyone playing on any Linux distro that has issues with the Quick Use Item wheel in Arc Raiders?
The mouse movements are wonky, not tracking my cursor movements any good.
I kind of have to force the mouse movements in the wheel, either it tracks or it feels like something is blocking it.

Would like to fix this in someway, it is kind of haltering my complete move over to CachyOS.
I thought I would learn to use the keybindings in the wheel instead, but it's only a workaround and in the heat of the moment, I default to using the mouse.

Yesterday I got an answer in r/ArcRaiders that it might be related to mouse acceleration.
I though I had it turned off but apparently I didn't

I turned it off, jumped into a practice round, and it worked flawlessly.
Though that was the resolution, but today it reappeared, even though mouse acceleration is turned off.

Anyone that has found a fix for it?

This is not about using items once selected, it's about selecting an item.

I run:
NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super

KDE Plasma 6.6.3
KWin (Wayland)
Kernel Linux 6.19.11-1-cachyos

UPDATE: I've tried rebooting the game a couple of times. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.

submitted by /u/LARRYLUKE
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Need help for crossplay compatibility

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 03. April 2026 - 22:54

hey guys I'm a nobara user and I want to ask people who play Tekken 8 what settings (runner, run arguments...) do they use to have normal crossplay with consoles cuz i've been trying for a month.

your help would be much appreciated

submitted by /u/SchadYac
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Discrete [nvidia...] gpu doesn't seems to work on steam

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 03. April 2026 - 22:51

Hello, the last 2weeks i started to encountered issues with my steam games, starting to launch a game would result on a black screen (with still background sound/music).

At that time the only way i tempory found to "fix" it was to forced Wine with :

PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%

because all the other commands doesn't seems to do much and by other command i mean things like :

__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command%

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command%

prime-run %command%

and surely other one but i forgot them.

My computer's spec are :

https://preview.redd.it/pj0n2jdhd1tg1.png?width=658&format=png&auto=webp&s=9cce30f569185ac4ba305f47bb1003eecaae6316

Since then i updated my driver and the black screen issue is nowhere now :) but the performance seems to be the same as with wine (except it's without theorically )

Otherwise, i already check different proton version and it didn't make any differences :')

and here also a screenshot of my nvidia driver (in hope it's usefull )

https://preview.redd.it/8phuzyyyd1tg1.png?width=836&format=png&auto=webp&s=7fbef56c7f3d12898252260c352ff2123358f0fd

submitted by /u/Vorox121
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Absent Friends

Gamers on Linux - 03. April 2026 - 22:04
TR where fourth art thou!
Any news from any one would be welcomed.

can NS2 joycons connect to a linux pc?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 03. April 2026 - 21:53

(linux mint 22.3 btw) I was wondering if NS2 joycons can be used on my pc? I really just like the way they feel in my hands lol

submitted by /u/TheGamerRexyboi
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I love how elegant MangoHud can look

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 03. April 2026 - 21:46

my MangHud.conf
it's probably best to use a monosapce font so text become stable in position but google sans looks awesome

gpu_stats gpu_temp gpu_load_value=60,90 gpu_load_color=39F900,FDFD09,B22222 cpu_stats cpu_temp cpu_load_value=60,90 cpu_load_color=39F900,FDFD09,B22222 io_read vram ram fps frametime fps_metrics=0.01 frame_timing font_size=24 font_file=~/Games/fonts/GoogleSansFlex-VariableFont_GRAD,ROND,opsz,slnt,wdth,wght.ttf text_outline_thickness = 0 round_corners=10 text_color=f6f5f4 gpu_color=99c1f1 cpu_color=8ff0a4 vram_color=ffbe6f ram_color=ffa348 engine_color=f66151 io_color=f9f06b frametime_color=ffffff background_color=000000 media_player_color=62a0ea wine_color=f66151 battery_color=f6d32d network_color=9141ac horizontal_separator_color=77767b toggle_hud=Shift_R+F12 no_display submitted by /u/Alawami
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Need help with a Dark Souls crack

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 03. April 2026 - 21:42

I have a copy of prepare to die edition and i cannot for the life of me get it to run. tried adding as non steam game and running but doesn't work. any help would be appreciated

downloaded from here if it helps. https://archive.org/details/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-collection

submitted by /u/CheezyWeez
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