As the title says, I can't run TF2 properly without Proton, BUT enabling proton makes me unable to play any VAC servers, because its not compatible with VAC. The problem is, it breaks my resolution and makes my mouse unusable in certain parts of the window unless I run it through Proton. I don't know how else to fix this. Using CachyOS.

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Just throwing this out for the people that had the same problems

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when i try to launch a game, this error pops up:

Failed to initialize player

Details:

Failed to initialize graphics.

Make sure you have DirectX 11 installed, have up to date

drivers for your graphics card and have not disabled

3D acceleration in display settings.

InitializeEngineGraphics failed

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Hi, the past few days I've been developing nvuv, a CLI tool for NVIDIA gpu undervolting (indirect).

It is available here: https://github.com/doums/nvuv

With it, you can achieve pseudo undervolt very easily.

I'm sharing as it can be useful for other peoples too.

For now, it is available on Arch (& family) via the AUR. Open to add support for other distros and packages if there is a demand.

Note: If you're using LACT, you don't need this tool. The main diffs are mine is just a CLI tool focused on NVIDIA gpu undervolting only. No GUI, no others features, no AMD support etc. and not planned.

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I have very low VRAM frequency of 96mhz that makes all my games run slow for my PC (I have an RX 6700 XT and Ryzen 5 3600). Last time this happened (which was only last friday) , I tried resetting my computer to see if that would fix the problem and instead my PC could no longer boot up and my previous GPU was bricked, not even booting up on a completely different PC with windows installed. I've bought this graphics cards to replace it this Wednesday, and I don't want it to have the same fate.

https://reddit.com/link/1sdbgcu/video/53u8ja1t2ftg1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1sdbgcu/video/hc4nmb1t2ftg1/player

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korakys posted this on The Linux Experiment's video mentioning it and using a previous reddit thread by CosmicEmotion from December which made the same calculation, I used their formula to work it out. Dunno if I can post links so I wont try.

P(linux) - 5.33
P(English) - 39.09
P(Linuxers who use English) - 82.75

(82.75 * 5.33)/39.08 = 11.29%

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The only things I am concerned about is thousand hearts, polling rate and Rumble working well

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Hello, i’ve been playing Arc Raiders via proton GE and everything is fine except every once in a while, i get a 3/4 seconds freeze, then the game starts working again

Anyone has any clue why is happening and how to fix it?

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Hello! I'm running CachyOS and use a TB Stealth 600 wireless headset. I can use the dongle no problem, but the audio quality in Diablo 4 is terrible. I'm running Battle.net via Steam. Outside of D4, audio seems fine. While in D4, if there is a lot going on, the audio gets really degraded to the point it starts cutting off until things quiet down. Even then, the audio sounds really compressed with a low bit rate. Also, I can't seem to get enough volume from the headset versus desktop speakers.

Anything I can do to improve audio performance with this headset? TIA!

PC Specs:
CPU: AMD 7700x
GPU: RX 6700XT
MOBO: ASUS B650E-I
RAM: 32GB

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I was looking into doing a Linux Modded MC server and I got an old laptop and set it up with kubuntu, I also have proxmox on a thumb drive ready to go in case, but I would like to try and run it fully locally, does anyone have any ways to just generally do this cause I am at a wall and can't find much :) thanks!

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Resident Evil Requiem — Linux vs Windows Benchmark (RTX 5080, CachyOS, 595.58.03)

RTX 5080 · Ryzen 7 9800X3D · 1440p · DLSS · Proton Experimental bleeding edge · SFF ncase M2

Quick note before the numbers: when I tried to play at launch on 590 series drivers (with Blackwell GPU), this game was largely unplayable on Linux — vertex explosions, terrible frame rates. On 595.58.03, it's a completely different story.

Full benchmark video can be found here.

Setup

• Proton Experimental bleeding edge (proton-cachyOS-20260330 and March 24th build both failed to work for me)
• Caveat: RT High is broken — game freezes when I switch to high, even post-intro. Stuck to PT and RT Normal
• Everything else worked: path tracing, RT Normal, DLSS upscaling, frame generation

Average FPS

Preset Windows Linux Delta Path Tracing DLSS Quality 100.2 92.2 -8.0% RT Normal DLSS DLAA 2x FG 207.5 184.1 -11.3% RT Normal DLSS DLAA 128.8 129.9 +0.9%

1% Low FPS

Preset Windows Linux Path Tracing DLSS Quality 61.7 56.4 RT Normal DLSS DLAA 2x FG 117.9 103.3 RT Normal DLSS DLAA 96.1 88.0

0.1% Low FPS

Preset Windows Linux Path Tracing DLSS Quality 52.7 49.9 RT Normal DLSS DLAA 2x FG 89.3 78.0 RT Normal DLSS DLAA 91.7 65.2

GPU Metrics

Preset Win Power Linux Power Win Temp Linux Temp Win VRAM Linux VRAM PT DLSS Quality 264W 303W 62.1°C 65.3°C 8.85GB 10.38GB RT Normal DLAA 2x FG 238W 272W 60.7°C 62.6°C 9.68GB 10.38GB RT Normal DLAA 228W 269W 60.6°C 63.1°C 9.32GB 9.13GB

Linux pulls 30–40W more across all presets. Temps are 2–3°C warmer. VRAM is higher on Linux for PT and FG presets — but interestingly Linux uses less VRAM than Windows on the DLAA no-FG preset.

Takeaways

• Path tracing through Proton on Blackwell is within 8% of Windows — closer than I expected
• Frame generation gap (~11%) is the biggest delta but still a great experience overall.
• DLAA with no FG is effectively a tie.
• 0.1% lows are where Linux shows the most weakness, though I didn't notice meaningful stutter in gameplay
• The 590→595 driver jump was significant for this title specifically as well as what's been cooking with proton.

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Every 3-5 seconds a get these lag spikes when playing RDR2, run it from Steam
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H V2
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 × 12
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
RAM: 16 GB Disk: 1.5 TB
OS: CachyOS (64-bit)
Kernel: Linux 6.19.10-1-cachyos
GNOME: 49
Session: Wayland

Launch options (took them from ProtonDB): MANGOHUD=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 LD_PRELOAD="" PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 game-performance %command%

What should I check? Can provide any info if needed.
I've seen familiar problems in this thread, but they were mostly about laptops overheating. Mine is fine!

https://preview.redd.it/4ecxbvxtbetg1.png?width=484&format=png&auto=webp&s=f1e66b28937ae96f2f9ee69ffbe6f7b71b931a7e

https://preview.redd.it/r46hkco0betg1.png?width=484&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b0717906387d2b2f83f466f429eec0d9d37d9ce

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hello everyone, I'm new to linux and currently using cachyos for gaming. my new oled monitor aw2725d is best used with hdmi 2.1 and I can only see upto 120hz on cachyos. I saw a reddit post about a kernel to enable 2.1 and I want to know how to do it? Thank you in advance :)

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Specifications

OS: Fedora 43
DE: COSMIC
Compositor: Wayland
CPU: Ryzen 9 7950X
GPU: Radeon 7900XT

Launcher: Steam (RPMFusion vers.)

Description

I occasionally have this issue with a variety of games, but a quick restart of my PC "resolves" the issue. However, specifically with Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, this issue appears persistent.

Upon launching the game everything seems fine, I click through the menus and load in. But the moment I gain control of my player camera, if I dare to move my mouse whatsoever, it immediately looks up toward the sky and spins rapidly.

I launch the game through Steam, using Proton-Hotfix, I have tried changing Proton version on a variety of games when I come across this issue, but it never resolves by doing this.

The only launch argument I have is: "WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 %command%", however, when removed there is no change in game behavior.

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/14235444308885449056/7DE2D09FF0E2562F1B8464AE14F20E3AF2684DED/

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EDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!:
as soon as i posted i tested if without the shaders my fps will go up to normal (60-70) but it stayed at around 10. no its probably not to do with the shaders.

Im running minecraft fabric 1.20.1 with the standard suit of optimization mods (sodium, lithium, etc) along with some worldgen mods (terralith, bop, geophilic, etc) and i think most importantly distant horizons and shaders.

i have nvidia 2060m and Intel Core i7-10750H. not the best but runs my setup of mods with the shaders at around 25-35fps which is enough for me.

i now switched to opensuse leap and my fps count with bliss shaders has dropped to 5, with bsl to 6 and photon to like 3.

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Hey,

I am currently thinking of switching to linux. I am tired of windows and would like to switch primarily for gaming specifically online multiplayer games such as Deadlock. I have a NVIDIA 3090, a ASUS Rog Strix Motherboard, intel cpu. I am wondering which Linux distro you would recommend and do you think game performance is better than on windows (I am a newbie at Linux). Thank you in advance.

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