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Wanna try linux tv pc

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 19:22

Hey guys i was looking to buy a pc for my living room with an radeon 9070 xt and my plan would be to make it like a steam machine. But which os is the best for that? I never installed anything with linux ever so im pretty new to that. Can i download steam os or would another os be better?

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Wine mono

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 19:12

Slight problem. I pulled up lutris just now to play pokemon infinite fusion, and (I have over 300 hours in this game, it was working, but today) it gave me an error that wine mono isn't installed. The error also said it could install this, but it's more recommended to install it through the blah blah blah, and I hit install. So I tried to play the game again, but nothing happens now when I hit play.

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linux pop os steam games startup to black screen

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 19:01

cpu : amd ryzen 7 7800x3d

gpu : radeon rx 7700 xt

gpu driver :cb

Kernel: 6.18.7-76061807-generic

displays: 1 1920 x 1080

kde version 4:5.27.12-0ubuntu0.1

problem:

i have just switched my os from windows to pop os and after a day some games have started to only display a black screen when i launch them first it was green hell and gloomwood witch i didn't think was a big issue since it does not have built in linux but then i tried deadlock who does have linux support and had the same issue however i haven't checked many games but for some reason psuedoregalia works perfectly fine

troubleshooting

on green hell i tried the developer recommended fix was to put the command -screen-width 1920 -screen-height 1080 into the launch options but this did not work

for deadlock my friend recommend i try proton ge. i have currently only tried going into the proton ge 10-33 , proton 7.0-6 and proton experimental none of these seemed to fix the issue

next thing i tried was running the steam terminal to grab the logs for the output here they are

https://pastebin.com/ctdZY3Ja

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Can I cast my phone to bazzite.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 18:55

As title really. I tried to ask to bazzite discord. No answer. I play bedrock Minecraft a lot with friends. The nix launcher can be a bit temperamental with updates. I'd like to " cast" my phone to my bazzite install with either usb or WiFi. Scrcpy, cannot get to work well. Any other suggestions? Because I'd also use sunshine and moonlight but it doesn't seem to be offered android to bazzite. Any ideas?

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portproton runs danganronpa triple happy havoc with 60 fps locked

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 18:53

hi yall i really need help with this one. even when i try bepinex with fps unlocker plugins or with arguments OR EVEN WITH VSYNC ENABLED it just doesnt work it always runs at 60 fps no matter what and when i try to enable some things like esync and other tools built-in portproton the game just crashes. also i tried asking a couple of ai's as my last resort but nothing worked too...

proton version: GE-Proton10-32

3D API: dxvk, vkd3d (stable) (vulkan v1.3+) also tried other apis

prefix: default (i dont think ill need dotnet that wont be the fix prob)

EDIT: danganronpa trigger* happy havoc

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Adaptive sync flicker due to large swings on fps.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 18:34

Hardware.

Samsung G6 VA 240hz 1440p 10bit. 7800x3d. 7800xt nitro+. MSI PRO B650 A-WIFI. corsair rm850x. Samsung 970 evo plus.

Cachy OS, Limine. Kde plasma. Btrfs.

This a SECOND OS fresh install trying to solve this issue.

Issue.

Adaptive sync when enabled and handshake is realised, produces wide swings in fps, between 60 and 240hz, which produces gamma flickering. Everywhere, not necesarily in gaming.

On adaptive sync display settings in the OS, while VRR enabled on the monitor side, on NEVER it turns on and off because there's no VRR handshake, on AUTOMATIC same because it fails to do the VRR handshake, on ALWAYS, does the VRR handshake and produces the fps swings.

Trouble shooting.

  1. Removed CPU undervolt and EXPO. Both CPU and RAM run at default settings.
  2. Made sure power profiles were not in ECO or laptop mode. Tried performance mode.
  3. Made sure the BIOS SWITCH on the GPU is on performance mode.
  4. Forced performance mode on GPU with LACT.
  5. Before installing cachy OS this time, i changed to a different NVME with almost identical specs. Also installed it, using only this monitor.
  6. Tried both display ports on the GPU.
  7. The monitor only has 1.4 DP. The current cable im using, it supports up to 2.1 UHBR 13.5, which is more bandwith than the DP1.4. Switched cable for the stock one that came with the monitor and no fix. Either way DP 1.4 it's supposed to support 240hz, 1440p, 10bit without any type of compression.
  8. Another confirmation is not a bandwidth issue, i got from switching from 240hz to 120hz mode, with adaptive sync enabled. The fps swings are there, just the same, with the consequent gamma flickering.
  9. Reducing to 8bit doesn't fix the issue either.
  10. I have no problem whatsoever in Windows 11 LTSC IOT.

I dont know if posting a link to a youtube short video with the issue is allowed, because i could do that.

Toughts.

After all this testing, and searching the internet, my next theory would be displayID and modifying the EDID file. Seems a lot very high refresh Samsung odyssey monitors have this issue, however they are related to DSC, which technically im not running. Never the less im new to linux, and i've always been more of a hardware guy than software. This for me would be biting more than i can chew. I honestly dont even understand what would be the issue to fix. This is what im refering to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1442#note_1017689

Tnx in advance.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 - Choppy Audio

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 18:17

So I play on Pop! os and for the life of me can't figure out how to fix this audio bug, all the tutorials are for Windows. So thus, I'm stumped.

RX 6600

Not sure if audio drivers are updated nor do I know how

16 GB DDR4 Ram

5600g CPU

My speaker works well everywhere else as well.

Realtek audio

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[Help] how to play old mobile games ?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 18:16

PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO

in windows i remebr bluestacks can do smthn but in linux i have no idea and i need helpp...

also waydroid doesnt work .. duhh

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Does X3D Processor helping proton layer?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 17:57

Hi all,

I'm currently testing my setups with Linux, mostly with Bazzite and some CachyOS.

Setup #1 : 12600K + RX 9070 XT

Setup #2 : 9800X3D + RTX 5090 FE

In both setups, versus a optimized windows 11 setup, Linux is losing in terms of performance.

On the setup #1, by about 10-15% on fps and on the setup #2 by also 12%, BUT with a noticeable gap on power consumption on the RTX 5090 FE (~6%).

On this later case, when I undervolted my RTX 5090 FE in a similar way on both OS (Max core speed, 2700Mhz, Offset +700Mhz) the visible gap is pretty minimum (I would say ~ 5%).

I was wondering if the observation was linked to the X3D (3D VCache) helping the proton layer to go faster.

Would you have any experience to share?

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About arc riders exp in Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 17:29

I really want to play arc in Linux and I love to see what is your experience in it I have 3050 with 4gb vram

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Does anyone know what Proton Voice Files is?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 17:15

Steam just downloaded this and I have no idea what it is.

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Very strange performance issues with DXVK and VKD3D

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 17:07

I'm having some trouble understanding what's going on with my performance lately. For the past few months, I’ve been playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1, Team Fortress 2 (which had a mouse focus bug already reported on GitHub), and TF2 Classic—all of them ran perfectly.

However, I'm now facing significant performance drops in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Dead Space Remake, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. The issues are particularly bad in Jedi and Dead Space. I haven't had the chance to test other games yet due to a lack of time.

I have already tried the following launch options to fix the stuttering/performance:

  • Jedi: Fallen Order: DXVK_ASYNC=1 gamemoderun
  • Dead Space Remake: gamemoderun PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

I’m looking for help to troubleshoot this. Switching distros is not an option for me right now, and I’m definitely not looking to buy an AMD GPU. I’ve already tried updating to the 595 beta driver, which improved things for Kingdom Come 2, but the other games are still struggling.

Specs:

  • OS: Fedora Linux 43
  • DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.2 (Wayland)
  • KDE Frameworks: 6.24.0
  • Qt Version: 6.10.2
  • Kernel: 6.19.6-cachyos1.fc43.x86_64
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (16 threads)
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (Driver: 595.xx beta / 580.126.18)
  • RAM: 16 GiB
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M AORUS ELITE

https://reddit.com/link/1s0pkdx/video/7uaeb37gdmqg1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1s0pkdx/video/1mv28y5cdmqg1/player

Two strange observations:

  • Power Throttling: During testing, "POWER THROTTLING" kept appearing, even though my power limit settings are at their defaults.
  • High Swap Usage: Swap usage became unusually high during the games. After closing the game, the swap usage only decreased by less than 1 GB. I have both zRAM and a swap file enabled; I’m not sure which one the system was prioritizing during the tests, though I believe it was zRAM due to the priority levels.

https://preview.redd.it/sz616zq2emqg1.png?width=442&format=png&auto=webp&s=f444e9dcb701081a9127fc0fef74c0c733e6f3c3

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Is 3050ti with 4gb vram enough for Linux gaming?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 16:48

I have Asus tyf dash f15 with 24 GB ram

an i7 12 gen

and a 3050ti with 4gb ram

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How to get Battlefront 2 (the newest one) to work on steam?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 16:44

I bought BF2 because my friends also have it on steam, but every time I try to play, it just doesn't load. Does anyone have a solution?

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A very casual Windows vs Linux benchmark The Sequel

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 16:28

Hai! Continuing my journey with Linux gaming and Linux in general, I've decided to once again share my very casual (and a little less scuffed than last time) benchmarks of games I happen to own, previous findings featuring Intel Arc B580 can be found in this post

Short context about this experiment: I'm currently dual booting Windows 11 and Fedora 43 with KDE Plasma, the benchmarks are being done on the same drive (with the difference being formatting, Windows was using NTFS and Fedora was using EXT4 file system and different drivers). I only included average FPS without the lows because I couldn't get rivatuner to show anything on the low 1% or 0.1% so this post will not have those unfortunately. Taking the feedback from last time I've also decided to include graphs to make it easier to read and as a little tldr

DISCLAIMER: These tests aren't by all means professional, they're made by very casual gamer with little to no tinkering with the system, the reason the tests are made on the following games are simply because those are the games I own and play, which is also the reason this list is so small. And lastly all games were using Proton Experimental (except Minecraft and 7 Days to Die which ran natively)

Here are the 'puter specs:

  • GIGABYTE X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7
  • AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
  • GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC
  • G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB 2x16GB 5600MHz CL36
  • Kingston M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe KC3000 2TB (this is the drive the games were tested on)
  • Corsair RMx Shift 850W
  • Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

GPU Drivers for Windows: 26.3.1
GPU Drivers for Fedora: Mesa 25.3.6
Monitoring app for Windows: MSI Afterburner + RivaTuner
Monitoring app for Fedora: MangoHUD

And here are the comparisons:

Minecraft Java 1.21.11, running around exploring on a new world (no mods, render distance 12 simulation distance 12 everything else max settings)

Windows 11 1440p - 740
Windows 11 1080p - 650*
Fedora 43 1440p - 826
Fedora 43 1080p - 962

*The 1080p performance on windows is lower because it did not wanna go higher than 180 when on 1080p so I had to use a different monitor which I'm pretty doesn't support the newer display port standards :P

Comment: I tuned it down from 16 chunks from before to 12 chunks because in Minecraft or any other CPU intensive games my CPU becomes a bottleneck.

Cyberpunk, benchmarking tool (max settings, no ray tracing, no upscaling)

Windows 11 1440p - 125
Windows 11 1080p - 167
Fedora 43 1440p - 120
Fedora 43 1080p - 160

Cyberpunk, benchmarking tool (max settings, max ray tracing, no upscaling)

Windows 11 1440p - 46
Windows 11 1080p - 73
Fedora 43 1440p - 35
Fedora 43 1080p - 56

Cyberpunk, benchmarking tool (max settings, path tracing, no upscaling)

Windows 11 1440p - 25
Windows 11 1080p - 40
Fedora 43 1440p - 20
Fedora 43 1080p - 33

Comment: upscaling is definitely needed in order to play at a comfortable framerate with ray tracing.

DOOM: The Dark Ages, few rounds of ripatorium (Ultra Nightmare preset, 2048 texture pool size, upscaling FSR Native AA 100%)

Windows 11 1440p - 70
Windows 11 1080p - 100
Fedora 43 1440p - 71
Fedora 43 1080p - 96

Comment: Even tho the frame rate is pretty good on Windows, it stuttered a lot so the 1% or even 10% lows were like single digit FPS so Linux wins here by a landslide.
And for those wondering path tracing brought it down to like 20 FPS on Windows and didn't work at all for Linux

Monster Hunter Wilds, benchmark tool (Ultra preset, no ray tracing, no upscaling)

Windows 11 1440p - 106
Windows 11 1080p - 110
Fedora 43 1440p - 91
Fedora 43 1080p - 101

Comment: for some reason ray tracing option was grayed out on Linux so no ray tracing comparison here unfortunately

Black Myth Wukong, benchmark tool (Very High preset, no ray tracing, super resolution 80%)

Windows 11 1440p - 87
Windows 11 1080p - 96
Fedora 43 1440p - 82
Fedora 43 1080p - 78

Black Myth Wukong, benchmark tool (Very High preset, Very High ray tracing, super resolution 80%)

Windows 11 1440p - 30
Windows 11 1080p - 35
Fedora 43 1440p - 18
Fedora 43 1080p - 15

Comment: I honestly have no clue why the 1080p on Linux is doing worse lol
I also don't know if they're ever going to optimize this benchmarking app because the rt performance sucks

The Witcher 3, regular gameplay of running around and killing mobs (RT Ultra preset)

Windows 11 1440p - 101
Windows 11 1080p - 102
Fedora 43 1440p - 44
Fedora 43 1080p - 51

The Witcher 3, regular gameplay of running around and killing mobs (Uber preset)

Windows 11 1440p - 164
Windows 11 1080p - 178
Fedora 43 1440p - 101
Fedora 43 1080p - 147

Comment: This is another great example of Mesa being really far behind when it comes to ray tracing

7 Days to Die, regular gameplay of exploring and looting houses (max settings)

Windows 11 1440p - 118
Windows 11 1080p - 147
Fedora 43 1440p - 126
Fedora 43 1080p - 185

Comment: Just your average Linux native game having better performance!

In conclusion, gaming on this beast of a card is very comfortable both on Windows and Linux, with the penguin systems struggling significantly with ray tracing, but in the end, the best way to game is to turn off any and all performance metrics.
As a side note I excluded Minecraft from the chart to make the viewing experience just a little better! Once again feel free to share any feedback or ask any questions! Thank you for reading and have a nice day!

https://preview.redd.it/nvyxxjzu7mqg1.png?width=733&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a82cd0bda562b75c7d39ef9f4037c214cf48ac6

https://preview.redd.it/u2zgwyov7mqg1.png?width=734&format=png&auto=webp&s=07a6404dc676a9fcb4f8ac811668a41b962c9970

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Minecraft entities stuttery on servers

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 22. März 2026 - 16:21

As the title says, entities are super stuttery while on servers, any servers. I run a Minecraft server locally and it was also stuttery. Running single player does not cause the issue. This was not an issue while on Windows, but has been an issue on Mint, Arch, Bazzite, and currently CashyOS. I have increased the allowed ram up to 8gb just in case that would help, it didn't. This is also happening modded and not modded (mostly performance or rendering mods). I would like to get this to work in vanilla, but if there is a known mod that can help, I am willing to try it. Below are my specs:

OS: CachyOSKERNEL: 6.19.9-1-cachyos

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU

GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 595.45.04

RAM: 32 GB

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