Hello,

I've just gone From Windows 11 to CachyOS, KDE Plasma running Wayland. I cannot be bothered with the Windows way of doing thing anymore, and having a pop up every third day telling me to finish setting up my computer to get some office 365 deal. This is unfortunately yet another post asking for suggestions for the ideal gaming distro, but not because Im new to team Penguin or because I heard X is better than Y. Anyway, CachyOS. I'm not new to Linux at all, I have 3 laptops and a NAS all running Linux, my main laptop is on Arch so Cachy should (and does) make sense for the most part. What's not making sense however, is the stutter I'm getting in a few places across the OS and Steam, and some weird little quirks that I cannot seem to get rid of for whatever reason.

This is a brand new install on a decent PC - I'll put the specs in a comment below. Steam big picture mode is very slow and very laggy. I've got it set up just as I had it on Windows, and it's ridiculous just how slow it's running. I cannot for the life of me get the panel to disappear when starting a full screen game, the closest I can get is having it disappear altogether until I push the cursor all the way down and I don't really like that. I want it there permanently until a full screen game starts. For driving games I use an Xbox controller, and it took me nearly 10 minutes for it to be detected by the PC via Bluetooth, and then a good 30 seconds for it to actually connect.

For these reasons and not being willing to run into more issues along the way, I would like a distro that is smooth, works out of the box and doesn't have any word lag anywhere. Preferably not something Arch based if this is what it involves on a Desktop, and not Fedora, simply because I hate the name. Petty reason I know but there we go.

Apologies for the "Suggest me a distro" post, but Im not only looking to get away from Windows stupidity, but also make using the PC a smoother experience, which Cachy isn't giving me.

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After finally setting up auto mount on Steam, now games don't open :D, no clue what I could show other than what is literally occurring. Proton is enabled, specifically Experimental for this video, but no version of it works.

Other games apply, like Terraria, Sulfur and Marvel Rivals - they don't open either.

If having to format my drive is required then I don't mind (was meaning to do that for an umpteenth time, yay!)

https://reddit.com/link/1qpq53e/video/l3ge6o2k16gg1/player

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Hey folks, so I recently made the move to Linux and started by using Pop! OS, I've been having a good time so far and got most of my games running fine, the one game I'm currently having issues with is Zenless, so far I've tried two methods to get it running, Lutris and Heroic, as I ran the game from Epic while on Windows, but both systems failed, the game installs fine on both, but as soon as I launch the game, it shows a small window of the game's icon with a red exclamation point and shuts down, which I later learned is a Unity error.

Now from searching Reddit and YouTube I've found people have used Bottles which is a method I wanna try next, but there's also two launchers I've heard of that people use, sleepy launcher and Twintails iirc is the name, however I'm usually a bit iffy with using a third party launcher, I don't know how to code so looking at their github pages really doesn't help me to check for anything fishy, and since I see very little spoken about them online, I wanted to see if any of you could shed some light on this, what do you use if you play ZZZ on Linux? Do you use any of those launchers? Or perhaps there's a way to fix the Unity error?

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As per the title, recently switched and am having some issues regarding my mouse in game.

On the desktop and when I'm not in game, it is perfectly smooth, but then going into some games the in-game polling rate is anywhere from 5-100hz, which, in a shooter, is unplayable. If I could have any help it would be greatly appreciated, as I can't play games with my friends :( It's especially bad in certain gamemodes (Wingman was completely unplayable, about 5hz polling rate, but other modes a bit better (40-100).

Rant explanation: my game runs fine but the mouse is laggy, everything is good frames but my mouse inputs

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Glorious Model O Wired (mouse), KDE Plasma X11. Running my games through steam, so far this has happened on CS2. My actual game frames are fine as they are upwards of 300 constantly, no drops, it's just a mouse issue.

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Followed this guide for modding new Vegas with VNV (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3610549390) it worked perfectly, but now audio effects like background ambiance sound low-quality/ bit crushed. Later I’ll be able to check if it’s an issue with a mod, but I wanted to see if anyone else had experienced this issue

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I can't get it to run completely on my PC, or it doesn't open at all. When I do manage to open it and go into settings, it closes and won't open again. Finally, it's only working on Heroic Launcher, as it won't open on Steam or Lutris at all.

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I just finished playing The Outer Worlds 2 on Steam (non-flatpak) on kubuntu. Everything went great. I'm looking to play more games on linux/steam so I tried setting up Fallout:New Vegas and MO2 but haven't had much luck.

I'm thinking of clean reinstalling kubuntu and going with flatpak steam, protonplus, steam tinker launch, and mo2. These tools seam better integrated in the flatpak universe.

Does anyone have any tips or experiences to share?

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I usually run 120fps with high setting but the game always keeps filling VRAM until it hits 100%(8GB), even on lowest settings.

Once VRAM is full, I get constant micro-stutter. FPS still says60, but frametime feels awful.

Happens after 30-60 mins, and restarting the game fixes itevery time, happened on the 2nd and 3rd day after launch, thenbecomes perfectly fine and now its back right after i unlock a new area.

I'm on an RTX 5060 laptop (8GB VRAM) which i am pretty sure i can rock this game on 120fps. Temps are fine (55 max). The game is on my ssd.

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Has anybody ever tried getting lact to recognize an overclock card to push power limit higher?

For reference i have a 7900xtx xfx 310 merc

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As the title says, I wanna share one drive with games across Windows and Linux, as going full Linux is not an option for me yet. For my distro I'm using Ubuntu 25.10 and Windows 11. Is there a way to do it? And I'm a total Linux novice so yea...
System Info:
Ryzen 5 3600
Radeon RX 5700 XT
Gskill Ripjaws 32 GB 4000 MHz
Gigabyte B450M S2H
1 NVME SDD 2 SATA SSD'S

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I recently downloaded Linux mint and I was downloading all of my steam games like rdr2, and when I play it I get audio problems that sounds buzzy, I am brand new to Linux any advice so will help

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Пк просто не видит джойстик, у меня 10 винда. Джойстик xbox one 1708. Пробовал уже все ниче не помогает вообще

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My dualshock 4 works on all games except on Sony games like spiderman miles morales, 2 and ghost of Tsushima.

It used to work normally but I don't know what happened why it doesn't work anymore.

The source of the game is not Steam but I use steam to start it with proton GE latest. I tried to disable steam input with no luck.

Sometimes I manage the controller to work after restarting game multiple times but it's glitching so much like the buttons are wrong or stick drifting

Wired doesn't work either.

Arch Linux hyprland

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This happens with both the Flatpak and hytale-launcher-bin from the AUR.

The game currently runs entirely on my iGPU, which can't run it at a good framerate, so I tried launching hytale-launcher with prime-run and every time I get this error near the beginning:

``` No provider of eglSwapInterval found. Requires one of: EGL 11 SIGABRT: abort PC=0x7ffb350a790c m=0 sigcode=18446744073709551610 signal arrived during cgo execution

goroutine 1 gp=0xc000002380 m=0 mp=0x1b06bc0 [syscall, locked to thread]: ```

And this at the end:

```

rax 0x0 rbx 0x17c71c rcx 0x7ffb350a790c rdx 0x6 rdi 0x17c71c rsi 0x17c71c rbp 0x7ffe988c0780 rsp 0x7ffe988c0740 r8 0xb r9 0x0 r10 0x0 r11 0x246 r12 0x7ffb34f18f67 r13 0x7ffb34f22740 r14 0x6 r15 0x7ffe988c08e8 rip 0x7ffb350a790c rflags 0x246 cs 0x33 fs 0x0 gs 0x0 ```

Other games like Steam games, Heroic games and other Linux native games work fine through prime-run e.g. SuperTux which also uses OpenGL.

Using __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 hytale-launcher also didn't help.

And as far as I know there's no option inside the game itself to switch the render card. Any help?

Specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
iGPU: AMD Radeon 680M
dGPU: NVIDIA RTX 3050 Laptop (which is what I can't use) RAM: 16 GiB

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Im using oversteer to configure my G923 but it wont let me mess with the autocenter strength or anything for that matter

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Hello guys I need some help regarding keyboard layout issue when gaming. I'm using Cachy OS with Hyprland and an AZERTY keyboard (yes, I'm French, don't blame me :D). In my hyprland configuration I have this setup

input { # setting double layout / variant allow to switch between variants kb_layout = fr,us # kb_variant = azerty,us kb_options=grp:win_space_toggle numlock_by_default = true repeat_delay = 250 repeat_rate = 35 # Mouse sensitivity = -0.15 # range -1.0 (slower) - 1.0 (faster) accel_profile = flat # force_no_accel = 1 focus_on_close = 1 follow_mouse = 2 }

In general application (terminal, web browser, IDE, etc.) the layout switch with win + space is working as expected.

But when I play games the layout switch is not "propagated" to the game. I have tried different things:

• setting PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 allow the correct propagation of the layout to the game but unfortunately some games becomes really unstable when setting this variable (Wuthering Waves for exemple crash at almost every load screen ...) so I'm looking for another (better) solution.
• If I override the kb_layout value to us only (or even us,fr) in hyprland configuration then my game (even if already running) switch to QWERTY layout

A suitable behavior would be to force QWERTY layout on games but I don't know how to achieve this.

Does someone has already encountered this problem ?

Thanks for you help

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NVIDIA today made public a fresh security bulletin to details some more security issues discovered in the GPU drivers - here's the details.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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