Hey everyone, good evening. First time posting here, nice to meet you all.

For the past few months I’ve been really tempted to switch to Linux, so I finally decided to take the first step. I started with Bazzite since I read it was a safe option to avoid “breaking everything,” but I ended up running into a lot of issues related to my GPU (RTX 5060) that I couldn’t solve.

Now I’m thinking about going a bit further and trying CachyOS.

Is it worth switching from Windows if you have an NVIDIA 5000 series GPU? I don’t know much yet, but I’m planning to dive deeper into this world.

Thanks a lot to anyone who takes the time to read

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Guys, there is some way to play GTA V online with friends? I checked areweanticheatyet and the game is unsupported, but so it is Ghost Recon Wildlands but there's a solution at least to play private matches

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Death Stranding 2 keeps crashing out of the blue; there’s no specific part where it happens – it just crashes. The audio carries on for a moment but then stops. (I’m at the start of the game, about to make my first delivery.) The FPS has been fluctuating between 40 and 60.

I’ve tried the experimental Proton on Steam, Proton GE and Proton Cache because I saw that they improved CPU usage

I’m on the latest version of the game.

My specs are: CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X, GPU: Arc B580, 32 GB RAM, kernel 6.17 on Linux Mint.

The settings are on High; I’ve disabled reflections and set depth of field to Medium; upscaling is via Xess with native anti-aliasing.

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CachyOS. Inxi output - https://pastebin.com/Bc6Mygus

Tried both with Proton Experimental and proton-cachyos-10.0-20260320 (steam linux runtime)

I have en_us and lt_lt layouts for my keyboard, but the result is completely identical no matter which layout I use

Dishonored 1 (launched straight from Steam) - https://streamable.com/rysp93

Fallout 4 (installed and initially launched through Steam, but now setup to run through SteamTinkerLaunch's handled Vortex Mod Manager) - https://streamable.com/m6e139

In both videos, you can see me going through all the number keys on top of the keyboard (i.e. not numberpad). 1-7 works okay. 0 and - also works okay. Meanwhile, both 8 and 9 are instead registering as = (can see that on Fallout video), and = itself also isn't working as expected. However, if I am not in a game, and try to use these keys in any different program (including writing here), then the whole bar is perfectly normal, even if I run the game but alt tab out of it.

1234567890-= / ąčęėįšųū„“-ž

I also found out my F1-12 keys are also misbehaving inside of games.

Anyone has any idea what issue am I having and how to solve it?

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With the new Gray Zone Warfare update I figured it was a good time to test out Linux compatibility and see where things stand. Here's what I found.

System:

• OS: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (kernel 6.18.7)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
• Driver: NVIDIA 580.126.18
• RAM: 32 GiB

Session 1 — Stock Proton (Default)
Zero configuration, just hit play. Got through the main menu, character creation, joined a live server, and completed the tutorial without a single issue. Auto graphics detected Epic settings across the board and ran at a consistent 60–85 FPS with no stutters, no shader hitching, nothing. Genuinely impressive for a silver rated title.

Session 2 — The Wheels Come Off
Came back later and immediately started getting hit with "Easy Anti-Cheat Action - The Client failed an anti-cheat client runtime check" on every server join. Tested the following trying to resolve it:

• Proton Experimental — same EAC error
• Proton 9.0-4 — EAC actually ran its installer this time, got further, but still booted within seconds of joining
• Verified game file integrity
• Added PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 %command% launch option for a mouse capture issue, helped slightly but didn't fix it, and EAC still kicked

Bottom Line:
Session 1 was genuinely gold-tier performance with zero effort. Session 2 was unplayable due to EAC. No idea what changed between sessions, no system updates, no game updates that I noticed. This inconsistency is probably exactly why it sits at silver (ProtonDB rating). If you're on Nvidia and it works, it really works. But don't count on it being reliable.

Worth noting, reports suggest AMD users have a harder time than Nvidia even on good days, so keep that in mind.

ProtonDB Rating: Silver feels right. Could be gold one day, could be a brick the next.

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Hello, hoping that someone will be able to help me here. I'm trying to get emulation to work on Lutris, but not having any luck. I've installed the Libretro runner and downloaded a SNES core for it. I've got the Chrono Trigger ROM set up, but when I try to run it, it says "no core has been selected for this game." I go into the game configuration and try to select a core under 'game options' but nothing happens when I click the core drop down menu.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Or if I should be using something else entirely?

TIA

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to find a relatively modern Linux distribution that still works with the legacy NVIDIA 340xx drivers.

i've tried a bunch of distro (Debian 13, MX Linux, Arch) and neither worked with my gpu

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Anyone else experiencing lower FPS with newest update of the game? I'm on fedora 44 with Nvidia 595 drivers on a rtx 3080 and Ryzen 5800x, proton experimental bleeding edge, yesterday I had stable 55fps on high/ultra settings rtx on dlss 4.0 quality and today it struggles to hit 50 and averages below 45, 10 FPS is a pretty big hit, as I am also using optiscaler to have frame gen on I am wondering if anyone else is having similar issue.

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But it works flawlessly when running xorg/xwayland wine.

I was wondering why...

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I have been able to play the game flawlessly for days. I had some strange issues in WoW earlier today related to the camera movements (installed through non-Steam game) and I took help from Claude to try some stuff in-game and through launch options but now Hunt is acting up too with insane camera movement speed and I have no clue from what or how. My cursor behaves completely normal otherwise. I cannot think of any changes made to the system or hardware. I have spent two hours trying all kinds of fixes but to no avail. I have tried looking into config files, deleted the game's compatdata and tried all amnners of launch options. I don't know what might have happened

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I can now play Indiana Jones with medium textures and shadows, hair on low and the rest on ULTRA, 1080p and i can only play in Gaming Mode.
The VRAM management or availability seems better on this mode.
Anyway, these settings are nearly identical to the ones I used on Windows to complete the game.
The only difference is that on windows I used DLSS-AA and here I have to use DLSS-Quality.
But it's getting there.

GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070 8GB.

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I have a pretty beastly PC running Nobara 43 KDE (Fedora) with an RTX 5070 Ti.

I want to set up some VMs for my kids to use for gaming (streaming Steam games) on their not-great computers until I can get them a proper PC.

I installed and set up VirtualBox before realizing that it cannot utilize my GPU very well.

Are there any virtualization programs that can effectively split my GPU for gaming? Is this even possible?

They don't run anything crazy, just stuff like Among Us, Terraria, House Flipper...etc. Nothing AAA, but I want to give them some extra juice just in case they want to try some things later.

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I was testing the capabilities of making custom physical PC games with my GOG games and this was the result with an USB. It contains the GOG games installer, an empty file that acts as a key and a shell script that first finds the USB, then finds the key file, then looks for the game’s executable. If I click the desktop icon and it doesn’t find any of that, it’ll display an error until I pop it in, in other words, I just recreated a physical DRM for my games lol. Of course, the game is installed onto the main drive, its not actually inside the USB, I can always go to the game’s file and run the executable right there.

I just like physical media is all lol

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Hello! I have been trying to set up Rocket League on Heroic Launcher. I am running cachyOS and have a laptop nvidia 2060. I am using the discrete GPU over the integrated. I keep running into a white screen upon launch with the same error code in the logs:
err: Presenter: Failed to query present modes: -13

Upon sending some logs and questions into the heroic games discord I was told that they assumed this is faulty Nvidia Optimus behavior and that people more in tune with DXVK would know more. I did artificially lower the screen resolution to 1080 as my laptop screen is 4K and that is just too much for a 2060. I changed Fullscreen=false, ResX=1920, ResY=1080 in ~/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Rocket League/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/My Games/Rocket League/TAGame/Config/TASystemSettings.ini

Would appreciate any help still fairly new to linux and just trying to learn. Please ask any questions if I did not provide enough information.

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I've installed the "nvidia-driver" package via my distro package manager but I've noticed that I haven't installed "dxvk", "vkd3d" and "vulkan-tools". How necessary are these packages for gaming? Are these packages also necessary if I use Wine? Wine comes for example with DXVK and VKD3D already.

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So while doing a lot of fucking around today, I discovered it is deceptively easy to set up Black Ops 3 on KDE Wayland to work in vertical splitscreen across two monitors

1. You want to use Proton-GE. You can install it from flatpak

   flatpak install runtime/com.valvesoftware.Steam.CompatibilityTool.Proton-GE/x86_64/stable

2. Set it in your game properties

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1. Set PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 in your launch params. For example, my full launch param for this game:

   MANGOHUD=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 MANGOHUD_CONFIG="offset_y=200" WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dsound=n,b" gamemoderun %command%

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1. If you get an error about Windows Media Foundation not being installed, you can use mf-install and run the following command with protontricks

   flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks -c "sh ./mf-install.sh" 311210

This worked for me, if you know a better solution, feel free to contribute.

1. Modify your Call of Duty Black Ops III/players/config.ini and add the following

   FullScreenMode = "0" // 0 to 2

   WindowX = "0"

   WindowY = "-167" // -8192 to 8192

   WindowSize = "3840x1382"

Those are the values for two 1080p monitors. Here's the little math you need to do to figure out what to replace these values for.

Your width is exactly the combined with of both of your monitors so here 1920 * 2 = 3840

For your height, multiply it by 1.25. Then add the window title bar size, it's supposed to be 32.

So here 1080 * 1.25 + 32 = 1382

Then for the window position in Y, you want to take half of the added height.

(1080 * 0.25 / 2) + 32 = 167

Launch the game, and enjoy a perfect dual monitor splitscreen setup.

The game should launch in Kwin's fullscreen mode, if it does not, right click on the game on the taskbar and set it to fullscreen.

https://preview.redd.it/3w2xd9b3a8tg1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41f9f5b7070c238f7b08841aa3fc766ae3174bff

NOTE: I also tested this with XWayland and it works, but require a few more steps. Plenty of solutions already exist for XOrg/XWayland so I will never cover it. I made it with Wayland so this guide could be future proof.

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So I have rx 9070 xt paired with ryzen 5 5700x

The thing is that I tested in furmark on both windows and linux, linux won with 220 fps vs 199 on windows using openGL

But when I tested Minecraft which runs with OpenGL, Shaders and voxy with the exact same modpack on both systems, windows 11 was ahead with 160-200 fps while linux is 100-140 fps

Seems like the GPU is consuming only 150w in Minecraft while max is is 304w

Can anyone help cuz I'm really clueless

Latest CachyOS , Minecraft 1.21.11 with voxy and shaders, prism launcher. nothing is flatpak

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Should I be concerned about what it's asking for now?

System folder mnt

Can read and write all data in the directory

System folder run/udev

Can read all data in the directory

System folder run/media

Can read and write all data in the directory

System folder media

Can read and write all data in the directory

User configuration subfolder MangoHud

Can read all data in the directory

Why does it need blanket /mnt read-write access when it's been fine so far?

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ive been using bazzite more then a week now and wanted to install some mods for red dead redemption 1/2 and for other games on widows its easy i go to nexus and install them but on linux it seems isnt that easy doesn anyone know how i can install mods

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