Hi,

I bought my son a computer, for him to game and do homework. I installed Ubuntu on it.

He has Fallout 4 installed from Steam. I wanted to play this game too, so I created a new user on the computer for me. When I tried to run Fallout 4, I was surprised that Steam was downloading the game all over again! This game takes many GB of disk space, and having it installed twice on the same computer seems to be a terrible waste of disk space.

There must be a solution, I guess. What can I do to make all Steam games playable to all users without installing them many times?

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Hi everyone,

I'm having a frustrating issue with Steam on Garuda Linux. While everything works perfectly on Windows, Linux is giving me two major headaches:

Download Speeds: My bandwidth on Windows is stable at 90-100 Mbps, but on Linux it constantly drops and stays around 13-24 Mbps. The Steam graph shows my NVMe drive is active (around 42 MB/s), but the network just won't keep up.

Ping Instability: In games, my ping is extremely unstable. It constantly spikes, making online play almost impossible. This happens even when no downloads are running in the background.

My Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7-13700K

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

OS: Garuda Linux (Arch-based)

Drive: 2TB NVMe (Btrfs)

What I've already tried:

Disabled HTTP2 in steam\_dev.cfg.

Increased cMaxInitialDownloadSources to 20 and fDownloadRateImprovementAddAnotherConnection to 1.1.

Enabled TCP ECN (net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=1).

Switched download regions and changed DNS to Google (8.8.8.8).

Enabled TCP BBR.

Is there a specific kernel tweak or a driver setting for high-end Intel/Nvidia builds that fixes this "choking" of the network and unstable ping?

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No mans sky always crashes have the game on GOG

My setup is
RTX 5070ti

Ryzen 7 5700x3d

40gb of ram

distro debian 13

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Hey, I'm trying to get Hearthstone Deck Tracker's overlay working on Linux (CachyOS) with Wayland/niri.

I managed to get HDT running in the same Wine/Proton sandbox as Hearthstone using Faugus Launcher with a batch file that launches both together, and HDT does detect the game correctly. The widgets show up fine, but the overlay windows have a black background instead of being transparent, so they end up covering parts of the screen instead of sitting on top of the game.

I tried window rules in niri but no luck. I think it's a Wayland issue with Wine not being able to render transparent windows properly, but I'm not sure if there's a workaround.

Has anyone managed to get HDT's overlay fully working on Wayland? Any help appreciated!

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Hello there,

i've been using Mint for 6 Months and i'm pretty happy so far.

Now that i'm back playing wow (tbc) i wanted to take a look at the retail servers. The Problem is, Steam installs battle net on my smallest drive:

"/home/.../.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2751802786/pfx/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net Launcher.exe"

In the beginning i told steam to install all games on my 1tb SSD. But it still installs battle net on the wrong one. The problem is the smaller drive is to small to hold both tbc and retail.

is there a way to install retail on my bigger drive?
I realy hope this makes sence..

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Hey everyone. I recently switched to CachyOS with Hyprland and I'm noticing my CPU runs a bit hotter under gaming compared to Windows, even in titles that aren't particularly demanding.

I'm seeing temps in the 75-82°C range while playing games like Sekiro, MotoGP, and ETS2, with CPU usage consistently staying below 50%. On Windows, the same games don't produce anywhere near those temperatures on the same hardware.

For context, I'm running amd-pstate in active mode (governor), so powersave already behaves like schedutil with proper dynamic frequency scaling. Switching to performance locks the clock at 5.4GHz and pushes temps even higher, while powersave brings things down to the 60-65°C range under load. The hardware itself is fine — no issues on Windows.

My best guess is that Hyprland or some background process is adding overhead that Windows doesn't have, which would explain the consistent gap. Could also be something driver-related behaving differently on Linux.

Has anyone dealt with something similar after switching from Windows? Any suggestions for reducing the thermal delta on CachyOS + Hyprland would be really appreciated.

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I'm using Linux Mint in a laptop and it is amazing, the performance increase is quite noticeable and it is a pleasure not using microslop. Now I'm thinking about doing the same with my gaming PC but I'm not sure because I'm reading in this subreddit some problems with frame generation (though these were the last year)

How is it nowadays? Is it as good as in windows?

PD: I also ask how good raytracing is because I also am seeing here some problems

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should i limit the power usage limit to 80w?

This is the performance in Windows 10

Performance that i got in cachyos limiten the power usage limit

Hello, I want to apply undervolting to my gpu because it reaches very high temperatures. On windows, I’m using MSI Afterburner to do this, and i managed to get a profile of 1920 MHz and 850 mV. As you can see in the image, i get that level of performance. What i want is to replicate this as closely as possible in CachyOS. My question is: how can i achieve that? is it enough to just limit the power usage limit? should i set it to 80W as shown by the in-game msi metrics? i also set a maximum gpu clock limit. Is that correct?

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Currently running linux on my desktop and wondering if there is a way to demo Forza Horizon 5 without an outright purchase, just to test the compatibility. I know its rated GOLD on protondb but want to check it out before a buy.

Currently happy and a 12-year Linux Mint user so I wont switch or hop distros to test.

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https://preview.redd.it/fzfpslv8mcwg1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=745acd486f5dd5131821485a02fac9fee1e85287

I have a Dell Latitude E6440 with an HD 4600 which isn't Vulkan-compatible, so on Linux I can only game with OpenGL, which gives me worse performance than DirectX on Windows. What do you recommend — keeping a dual boot with Windows for gaming, or just sticking with OpenGL on Linux?

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Crusader Kings III just got a major update released, along with a new expansion pass to bring extra content to the popular Paradox strategy game.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

when i press back of forward buttons on mouse, it interacts with other windows not in focus.

happens with games, discord and sometimes while in game and swithes focus to other open windows.

This all started after i ran updates last week.

this is my first real bug since switching to linux(5 months ago.)

In video i press back/forward on mouse then tab back to browser and it happens again.

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Eu queria comprar um notebook, o melhor que consegui achar foi um linux ubuntu, nunca usei linux mas eu me adapto bem, porem nao sei ate que ponto eu conseguiria fazer as coisas sem ter dificuldade… queria saber como funciona para jogar jogos da steam, baixar jogos, jogar em emulador ou jogos baixados da internet.. Vi que o linux e bastante personalizavel e isso foi o que mais me chamou a atencao… mas tenho medo de ter muitas dificuldades. O notebook teria ultilidade para jogos mais leves, desenho digital, estudo e programação basica/mediana

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Hey r/linux_gaming!

I posted 9 months ago about my game Chipmatic, and I didn't expect so many positive comments.

Today, I'm very happy to announce I just released Chipmatic on Steam with native Linux support!

Chipmatic is a cozy mining/automation game with no timers or enemies. You control a mining robot called Chip on its quest to reach Earth's core.

It has also been fully verified on Steam Deck if any of you prefer to play games like these on a handheld instead (like I do).

We've tested thoroughly on Linux so it should work perfectly fine, but if any of you run into any niche issues feel free to post on the Steam Discussions or on our Discord (link in-game) and we'll do our best to get them solved.

Thank you all for your support, linux community!

Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3780950/Chipmatic/

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Hey linux users! I'm new to linux and theres one thing that's bothering me when playing games on linux which is my controller won't rumble (vibrate 😏 oh boy.) Uh in windows it does work the moment I plug it so its technically plug and play, but on linux it does not work for some reason I've no idea why

My controller is some generic one (Ant esports GP115) tho it does support vibrations since I've always used it for years now on windows and vibrations worked out of the box.

I'm using cachyos (I use arch btw)

I've Game Rumble enabled in the steam controller settings, Thanks!!

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Does anyone know about potential solutions for VRAM management issues on Nvidia GPUs and the lack of GTT support (the equivalent of shared memory in Windows)?

This is what glxinfo -B has to say:

.. Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info): Dedicated video memory: 4096 MB Total available memory: 4096 MB Currently available dedicated video memory: 3443 MB OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 ..

As you can see, the total available memory is the same as the built-in VRAM amount (4GB), which is not the case on AMD GPUs since those do benefit from additional RAM that adds to the total amount.

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Inspired by Natalie Vock's blogpost on https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/
(you should probably read all of that brilliant post to know what I actually made)

I made a poc so hyprland can join in on the fun, and not just KDE.
https://github.com/egnappahz/hyprland-dmemcg-boost

Youll need an arch-linux based distro, and a kernel that supports it (most kernels are in the stage on picking up on it, at the end Im sure it will be everywhere judging by the adoption rate)

I installed the cachyos kernel on my vanilla arch linux because there seems to be a lot of love poured in it (switched from linux-zen), but I already saw signs of linux-zen picking this up aswell.

Quick help how to get the cachyos kernel on ANY type of arch linux distro:

pacman.conf:
[cachyos-v4]
Server = https://mirror.cachyos.org/repo/x86_64_v4/cachyos-v4/

(You should probably use v3 on older cpus)

also add the funky cachyos archs in the same conf file:
Architecture = x86_64 x86_64_v4 x86_64_v3

Then just:
sudo pacman-key --recv-keys F3B607488DB35A47 --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key F3B607488DB35A47

then you can just install the kernel like that:
sudo pacman -S linux-cachyos linux-cachyos-headers

And adapt whatever bootloader you have

When you get the kernel running, or any kernel that supports it, this should work:

[ !19439 ] eggzpc ~ # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/dmem.capacity drm/0000:03:00.0/vram 17095983104 drm/0000:18:00.0/vram 536870912

(I got 2 GPU's here)

from then you can follow the instructions from https://github.com/egnappahz/hyprland-dmemcg-boost to get the userland tool going.

The only "downside" from this implementation is that you will have to do the "scoping" yourself, youll have to run each game inside its own wrapper. People seem to suggest gamescope for this to do the segmentations, but I am not a fan at all of gamescope, I dont use it, I let hyprland do the game compositing

gamescope --mangoapp -- systemd-run --user --scope --slice=app.slice -- %command%

But what I do is make my own wrapper. Heroic supports this via the wrapper section:

exec systemd-run --user --scope --slice=app.slice -- "$@"

And steam has the commandline override:

systemd-run --user --scope %command%

Now yes, this is some extra work per game, I realise this can be painful. I personally always work with a global wrapper script in heroic (for mangohud and other stuff), so I already had a central wrapper script going, so for me was painless;
But I realise theres some room for improvement there for other users. We will see how the userland adoption goes from this nifty kernel improvement. Better options might pop up.

Last note: if you have 2 GPUs like I do, it will ignore the smaller gpu (Vram wise). Thats likely the best route to take anyway, because all of this is untested and not as useful at best on a iGPU.

I hope this is useful to people. I only tested this on my system and it seems to work, so there might be unexpected bugs here for others. I'm happy to hear them

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For video context, whenever a communication wheel is used (voiceline, spray, emote wheels), my mouse flicks my hero's perspective up. This doesn't happen during normal gameplay, only when using communication tools, deaths, text chat, switching heroes, loading in, etc. I'm using CachyOS on GNOME 50.1 as I just switched from KDE Plasma. Also using the Steam version of Overwatch with proton-cachyos-10.0 slr compatibility. Using a dual monitor setup, 2560 x 1440p 200.1hz aspect ratio if that helps any. The *only* launch option that has worked for me so far has been: gamescope --force-grab-cursor -- %command%, but this messes with my resolution, doesn't fullscreen correctly etc. No, it's not my mouse sensor as I've tried using multiple mice. I've also tried switching my polling rate on my mouse as that's been an issue before. All drivers and packages are up to date. I've been searching for a fix for hours with no hope. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm willing to try anything out. If there's any other communities that can help out I wouldn't mind cross-posting either. Thanks! ^^

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I am running GTA V Enhanced on my Linux Gaming Notebook with AMD CPU and AMD GPU.
GTA V was running fine in the past. But recently the game only runs for a while and then it begins to stutter and the FPS drops to 0.
Is this a know problem? Or is it running well for others?
I am on Steam.

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