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AMD Radeon 7600 weird behaviour
I've got an AMD Radeon RX 7600 in my main system, and for the first few months it worked fine, as expected. Ever since a couple months back I started noticing some weird behaviour: coil wining, performance drop and sometime complete freeze. I'm unable to play any game for more than half an hour, after which FPS go drastically down and unstable, worth to mention that the rest of the system, and any other application, works as it should.
Is this some kind of driver issue? Or is it sign of a failing GPU?
I mention that the main purpose of this computer is programming, gaming is occasional.
Computer specs:
Debian 13
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
AMD Radeon RX 7600
64GB Crucial DDR5-5600
Cricual T500 2TB NVMe SSD
Asus Tuf B650
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How's XFS for gaming nowadays?
I've heard that there could be issues with 32-bit applications due to something about inodes, I have no idea if that's true though.
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Has Rocket League stopped working on Linux forever?
Tried to play RL for the first time on Linux with steam, using proton, but the game won’t connect to the online servers after launching, and the GUI even looks like old seasons.
In the official RL website (https://www.epicgames.com/help/pt-BR/c-Category_RocketLeague/c-RocketLeague_TechnicalSupport/suporte-do-rocket-league-para-macos-e-linux-steamos-a000084314) it says that Epic Games does not support Linux anymore.
This was reported 5 days ago in proton.
This is literally the only game I want to play on Linux and it has been supported for over 8 years at least, why would they stop it right now?
What I find weird is that i’ve seen nobody talking about this on reddit, am I not getting something? Can the game still be played somehow?
Please let me know if there are any workarounds.
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Disabling compositor tanks system performance
Specs:
AMD Ryzen 5600, AMD 6700xt, running latest GPU drivers. OS drive is on an 500GB SATA SSD that's formatted to Ext4. My games are on an NVME 1TB SSD also formatted to Ext4.
tl;dr: PopOS with KDE had perfect performance in The Finals when I disabled the compositor with shift+alt+f12, then one day after I rebooted, it shit the bed. I was getting about 15fps, and Steam and Discord wouldn't even load until I turned the compositor back on. I didn't have backups enabled (lesson learned) so I couldn't roll back, and I couldn't figure out what to do. I install Mint and performance with Cinnamon was ok but not great, and using KDE with the compositor disabled is even worse (literally less than 1fps).
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Coming from Windows 10, I installed Mint Cinnamon a few months ago and everything was mostly fine, and all of my single players games would run fairly well. There was some input lag for sure, and I learned a few weeks later to enable the option that disables the compositor on fullscreen apps. For some games it worked well, but for others there was still a lot of perceived input lag. I started playing The Finals and the input lag was becoming unbearable, so I gave Cinnamon Wayland a shot and it was BUTTERY smooth, but modifier keys (ctrl, shift, etc.) didn't work (known issue), and there were many problems outside of gaming through normal use. I decided to try out KDE, and performance was perfect, but Discord would stop working altogether. I decided to reformat to PopOS and immediately installed KDE since I hate GNOME. Wayland on KDE wasn't great, so I tried X11. With the compositor enabled, there was ghosting and input lag. With it disabled, it ran PERFECTLY. Literally perfectly, I couldn't ask for better performance. It was great for about 10 days, then one day, disabling the compositor would cause Steam and Discord to not launch. In game, my FPS would drop to 15 fps. I checked if there were any updates, and there wasn't anything of note. I tried uninstall some packages and doing general clean up to no avail. The only thing I can think of that could've caused these problems is that I would press the power button on my tower whenever I accidentally hit ctrl+alt+f12 thinking my computer froze. I reinstalled Mint to see if maybe my first go was due to me installing all sorts of shit (trying to rice out my desktop), and I had the same problems before on Cinnamon, but now KDE performance w/o the compositor is EVEN WORSE. Literally less than 1fps in The Finals, and most of my computer because unresponsive.
I'm at a loss, honestly. I'm thinking of reformatting back to PopOS with KDE and seeing if the performance differs at all, because I am absolutely grasping at straws at this point.
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Leaf Blower Demo on Mint works
I'm a fan of PowerWasher Sim, and was told to try the Leaf Blower Co demo. I installed it from Steam, but to get it to run I had to grab GE Proton 10-4. First time it ran it said I had to install redistributables for the Unreal Engine, but they gave me an error installing them. Didn't seem to matter because the demo runs anyway.
Audio settings gives me a choice of Pulseaudio, Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller Analog Output, and Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio Digital Stereo (my Radeon card.) No matter what I set, saving the setting would go back to Pulseaudio and there would be no sound. Exit the game, then rerun it and audio will work. (Trying to change audio requires a restart.)
Mint Cinnamon 22.1, AMD Ryzen 9, AMD Radeon 7800 XT, ROG Strix MB, Realtek audio
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lmde vs bazite vs cachyos on a ryzen 7 5700G
specs:
- 32 gig ram 3200mhz
- gigabyte B450M DS3H WIFI ( 16 max shared ram for video )
- cpu ryzen 7 5700G
- nvme 500gig ( OS drive )
- usb3 4TB hdd ( game drive )
so under LMDE6 ( mint / debian based) i get an average frame rate between 25 - 37fps but im getting more and more stutters ( example of performance / picture equivalent - original / standard switch not including stutter )
under bazzite ( fedora based ) ( before it went weird on me ) average frame rate 35 - 55fps, almost no stutter ( example of performance / picture quality - switch OLED )
i am wondering if anyone might be able to tell me if i might have a better time with cachyos?
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Armoury crate linux alternative?
Hi! I am building a linux PC with mostly ROG parts, and I am looking for a software utility like armoury crate for linux (preferably without all the bloat). It doesn't have to be ROG specific, I just want it to be able to control fan speeds/curves, control RGB, and do some basic overclocking.
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help me please
i cant add drive, ubuntu 24.04LTS i3wm.
that happens, i used the disk app from ubuntu to mount it and gave it sudo.
sorry i dont speak english, but i can translate!
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Eldenring Nightreign
Guys, any ideia how i can fix this glitchs? (im using seamless coop)
In steam i using this startup commmand "WINEDLLOVERRIDES="OnlineFix64=n;SteamOverlay64=n;winmm=n,b;dnet=n;steam_api64=n;winhttp=n,b" %command%"
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Trackpad no se mueve como debería
Pues resulta que estoy probando metro last light y zombie army trilogy en linux mint, instalé steam y los juego mencionados, el lío es que cuando quiero mover el puntero para disparar no puedo, para moverme es casi lo mismo, corro con las teclas pero cuando quiero usar el trackpad para ver al rededor o apuntar un punto específico, no hay modo.
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Why isn't this easy running Windows software?
Before anything else, I'd like to state that my knowledge in this topic is superficial, so man my think this is a dumb question, but why is it so hard running Windows software on Linux when we can run really complex games at the same time.
I'm genuinely curious as to how we can run really demanding games with 100+ GB of files, multiple calls for different apis and still extract the maximum of performance from our hardware, but when it comes to general software things aren't that smooth.
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cs2 launching with black screen in mint
Hello, I'm running linux mint, this is my system info:
System: Host: nicommint Kernel: 6.8.0-60-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ASUS TUF Dash F15 FX516PR_FX516PR v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FX516PR v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: FX516PR.330 date: 05/15/2023 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 57.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 57.8/76.0 Wh (76.1%) volts: 15.8 min: 15.8 CPU: Info: quad core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11370H bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 5 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2702 min/max: 400/4800 cores: 1: 620 2: 4036 3: 2095 4: 4246 5: 594 6: 1937 7: 3793 8: 4300 Graphics: Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel Device-2: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: nvidia v: 550.144.03 Device-3: Sunplus Innovation SPCA2281 Web Camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1: 1920x1080 2: N/A API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,nvidia,swrast platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.144.03 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop max-Q GPU/PCIe/SSE2 API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlibLast week I switched to linux because of the performance improvements on some games and trying to escape all the bloatware that invaded windows more and more every year.
When I switched, my 165hz monitor showed a black screen when changed in the settings to be on more than 120hz, 3 days ago I searched and find out that rolling back to a older nvidia driver version could resolve this and it worked, but now when opening cs2 it shows a black screen or just show a static screenshot of the moment when I opened it (normally my steam library and the blue stop game button).
Tried to roll back to the newer drivers, but it was the same. Opened it with the steam force proton compatibility and it didn't even open the game, the launch button turns blue for a second and then it doesn't launch.
When using the nvidia on demand setting and cs2 launches with the dedicated intel gpu, it launches fine and the game works, apart that in game i get 25 fps and in menu 40.
I supose that it's some nvidia driver problem or library problem, but i cannot figure out how to fix this, can anyone help pls?
Other Unity games, like RoR2 and Ultrakill doesn't run (nor open) either
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Where to get 32-bit vulkaninfo.exe / vkcube.exe?
Trying to troubleshoot some 32-bit issues with dxvk and I can't really find 32-bit vulkan-tools. Is there any place they can be downloaded from just to be sure 32-bit Vulkan is even working in the prefix.
More specifically, I can run things in WINEARCH=wow64 mode that uses thunking and 64-bit dxvk / Vulkan and that works OK. But it fals with WINEARCH=win64 which tries to use old style wow64 and therefore 32-bit dxvk and 32-but winevulkan and dxvk chokes on it. I have 32-bit Mesa installed and not sure what the problem is.
So I wanted to try if basic vulkan is even working in 32-bit, but can't find any tools weirdly. LunarG's SDK doesn't ship them.
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Dead keys with Azerty config in ARK
Hello,
I'm having a keyboard configuration issue when launching Ark: Survival Evolved from Steam. I'm using Steam (official deb package) on Ubuntu 24.04. I have a physical keyboard with an AZERTY layout. However, when I start a game of Ark, the keys corresponding to diacritic letters seem to be dead. When I try to manually reassign the diacritic keys in the game settings, the only effect is that no key is assigned to the action. The game detects that I am pressing a key, but its value is null, wtf? This is annoying because most of the accented keys are used to access the 10 inventory slots:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 & é " ' ( - è _ ç àNote that the keys &"'(- work, as non-diacritic characters. I also cannot use the diacritic keys in the game console. For no particular reason, I can assign the ù key without any problem but cannot use it in the console, wtf x2?
For information, the Steam settings indicate:
- Interface Language: French
- LANGUAGE: fr_LU.UTF-8
A bit more information about my configuration:
- Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 5
- Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (64-bit)
- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS
- AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
- Linux 6.11.0-26-generic
- GNOME Shell 46
- Wayland
- Steam 1747701111
- Proton Hotfix
Any help or suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in advance!
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can anyone help me??
A game I want to play has Linux compatibility via a launcher. The first time the game was installed, it ran normally, but the next day, the launcher didn't open, even after reinstalling it. I can run the game normally without the launcher, but I'll need it sooner or later for updates.
The point is this: I thought I'd run the Windows version launcher through Wine and I need it to be able to “see” the game installed natively on Linux. How do I do that??
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[Path of Exile 1] Need help with Mint, Nvidia 3050
AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 32 GB RAM, kernel 5.15.0-141-generic x86_64, Nvidia (Gigabyte) RTX 3050, nvidia-driver-550 (550.144.03), Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia, Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Running PoE1 standalone using Lutris. The opening screen (Settlers of Karguul) shows 1 FPS with the F1-key report. This report shows the GPU locked at full usage (number is around 1200 MS).
Note that I ran this setup with the nvidia-driver-570 (570.133.07) driver for months with no issues; framerate was somewhere around 60 fps and very playable.
I first saw this problem a few days ago, but the problem could have been present days or weeks prior, since I was in Last Epoch (without issues) most of that time. I tried several different graphics options in PoE1 with no success. I even left the PC running overnight, on the offchance that might let a problem work itself out; no dice.
I uninstalled and purged the Nvidia drivers, dropping back to Nouveau. I then installed the 550 driver. Startup screen still shows 1 FPS, GPU locked at full usage (about 1200 MS), SHADER shows 0 usage, MEM shows 6.7 GB, VRAM shows 676 MB, CPU shows 4 MS.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Is Space Marine Crafted Edition (2025) borked on Linux?
I tried to launch the game with many proton versions, even adding t he dinput8.dll, but I keep getting: "bug splat error"
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Xbox code?
Hi all,
I’ve been playing on the Xbox cloud for a while now through my pc running Linux but was wondering if there’s a way to connect this to the app? I know Xbox doesn’t support Linux so I don’t know if I’m just trying to do something that’s impossible?
TIA
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Stay with Nvidia or switch to AMD GPU?
I'm a bit out of the loop with Linux GPU drivers and the current state of compatibility with new features like 4x Frame Generation and the latest version of DLSS. I'm also under the impression games support Nvidia features more than AMD features. As someone who plays graphically demanding titles and likes Ray Tracing, should I continue with Nvidia or switch to AMD?
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