I'm using CachyOS on a Lenovo Legion Go, I need to set VRAM to auto as i use an Egpu when docked.

However, when playing a game via Lutris or Bottles, it's only using 0.5gb which is causing awful frame drops. Is there anyway I can increase this without manually going into the bios each time?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Why is my VRAM usage so high despite my GPU having 12 GB of VRAM?

I’ve been noticing some strange VRAM usage on my system, and I’m hoping someone here can shed some light on it.

My GPU is an AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT with 12 GB of VRAM, but even when running the game (Monster Hunter Wilds) on minimal settings with upscaling enabled, the game itself uses around 3.5 GB of VRAM. On top of that, other applications I’m running are consuming about 4-5 GB of VRAM, even though I don’t have anything else running in the background except Steam. This leaves me wondering: why is so much VRAM being reserved?

P.s Mangohub shows a 95% of using the GPU.

Here are my system specs for context:

Operating System: Nobara Linux 41

KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.2

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0

Qt Version: 6.8.2

Kernel Version: 6.13.5-200.nobara.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: X11

Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor

Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT

Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.

Product Name: MS-7C56

System Version: 6.0

Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas on why such a large amount of VRAM is being allocated?

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Does anyone know if there are wireless headphones that allow good quality audio and mic at the same time?

I know with Apple Airpods, you can either have high quality sound and no mic, or mic and low quality sound.

But there's three wireless headphones I know are meant to be good generally, Sennheiser Momentum 4, Bose Quietcomfort and Sony... Whatever that stupid product name is WF1000HD5ASFKJNEUI#ETR#$TGOSNG or something.

Does anyone know if any of those can work on Linux without sacrificing sound quality to enable the mic?

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Recently on this sub I have seen people giving their experiences using Linux on this sub, and as someone who switched and did not switch back, I want to give mine. I have been a Linux user for about 4 years now, starting in 2021. Before that, I was a Windows user for over 15 years. I am no stranger to computers, and am okay with some trouble shooting. The initial reason I switched to Linux was, because after Microsoft's continued further business practices, mandatory updates became unavoidable without essentially making your PC unusable for certain task. After one of my defers ran out, I had the pleasure to update Windows. It didn't work. Not only did it not work, but it didn't revert to a working image. The computer simply wouldn't boot into Windows. At that point, I really wanted to boot into Windows, because I was trying to do work on my computer. Here is my captured frustration in an image.

As you can, see, I was very calm about the whole thing.

Notice the time delay. I had spent a long time trying to save that install. It didn't happen. While trying to troubleshoot my paid software that Just Works™ I remember having used Ubuntu on an old laptop before that was too underpowered to properly run windows 10. There was some jank with wifi drivers, but overall the experience had worked. And at this point, if I was going to get jank either way it seemed like switching might be worth it.

The issue was, however, games. I played a lot of games. But looking around it seemed like running games on Linux was starting to be much more of a thing than before, so I figured why not, I'll install a Linux and a Windows partition and give it a go.

Dual booting Manjaro

I started out tepidly and found a distro that was "good for gaming" while also keeping a windows partition just in case. Pretty much everything about this was a poor experience. First off, Manjaro was not a good distro when trying to learn Linux. Some people would say Arch isn't, but Arch is fine (more on that later), Manjaro however, has it's own special pizazz to it that has a tendency to break. And when you have no clue why something would even break, and all the plethora of information on Arch is useless to you because you are only on Arch by a technicality, it's a match made in hell. To further my frustrations, any time I logged into Windows, the experience was not much better. This entire era culminated with me simply hating computers.

Take two: EndeavourOS and occassional Windows VM's.

Taking a step back, I decided that one thing I was doing wrong was being afraid. I'm an adult now, but there had to be, at some point in my life where I had no clue how to use a computer. At that time, there was some learning process and then eventually using computers was second nature. At some point in my adult life, I got a smart phone. The exact same process had to happen. Rather than fight the process and try to simplify everything, I would just embrace it. Because of this, the last bit of handle bars I gave myself was to use an Arch based distro, but that comes with a graphical installer. I choose EndeavourOS, which I still am using now! Unlike Manjaro, it never randomly breaks itself, despite all the Arch memes, I see, and now all the Arch related info I see works perfectly with no asterisk.

At this time, I played most of my games on Linux. I'm not a casual gamer. I play a lot of video games and probably thousands of hours a year. This is my steam breakdown for the year, which is strictly steam (I play emulators and use other store fronts as well)

https://preview.redd.it/0n2k0eyem3oe1.png?width=1624&format=png&auto=webp&s=ddc22cf6f0ad895e742ad9a2de0585e132599716

The blue disgust me

At this point, I set up GPU passthrough to play a few games through a Windows VM. My recommendation for anyone who wants to do that is, don't. It's finicky, and the actual value of it is minimal. Buying a fast SSD and putting windows on it is a much better option in my opinion, unless you can get multi-gpu's working. That also gives you access to Kernel-Level-Anti-Cheat in a more "sandboxed" fashion, because your install would literally only be for those games.

I would say at this point in 2022, I was a convert. Most games I played worked in Linux. Elden Ring was phenomenal. Not only did it work in Linux day two, but part of the Windows graph was Elden Ring in a VM. The Linux version greatly lessened all of Elden Rings technical problems, like traversal stutters. Part of that is because, on Linux, Valve acts as a driver vendor, and can include optimizations in the driver for specific games. On Windows, this is normally done by AMD and Nvidia, and they can do it on Linux too technically, but having Valve work for you in this manner is, quite frankly. pretty sweet.

During this year, I was overall happy with the install, but I figured I was still being lazy and tepid in some ways. Having Windows installs means having NTFS drives. And for me, they never worked correctly. Following Valves guide on setting them up to avoid name conflicts makes it work *at all*, but after a while, without fail, some games would just fail to boot. You click play, and nothing. Every single time this happened it was because the game was on a NTFS drive.

A second thing I didn't mention was that, early in this switch, I tried some games, and the frame pacing was horrible. VRR wasn't working, and that is because I was using x11. Having an AMD GPU (5700 xt at the time) meant that I was okay switching to wayland. I did that. Bam, problem solved...and more problems inherited. Wayland was, quite frankly, horrible and not ready for "production" I was using KDE, but switching to other versions for test show that the minute differences often times didn't matter, the issue was with the protocol.

A huge thing, and one of the reasons I'm still on Linux, is things always got better. Every year Wayland got noticeably better. Every bug I encountered with it, I reported it, and then it got fixed, or some road map or ETA was made with a fix. This is in stark contrast to dealing with Microsoft, who which I would file a bug in a PROFESSIONAL context, get an engineer "looking at it," and then not hear about it again, until maybe 10 years later in a new Windows version.

The last for this year and for windows usage, was VR. VR was terrible in Linux. You could get steam vr to work...but only on a technicality. Blowing too hard in your Index headset could make the butterflies break the entire system.

Almost there...

Rise is a better game than Wilds

The red mocks me

Another year, less windows, more video games. You might notice that this year, Windows and Virtual reality overlap. I think that's because I pretty much only used windows for virtual reality this year. Again, I play tons of new games, and they pretty much all just worked. Every new release worked, and I was enjoying myself.

Any issues I had with Wayland, as mentioned, were all improving. At this point, I was solidly a Linux user. It was no more just a "I hate Windows so I use this OS," but a "this OS actually is pretty cool and I prefer the way it works a lot of the time." Because I blocked out windows, the general workflow was second nature to me. Want a program? I check the aur then type a single command to get it. Need to play a game not on steam? Use Heroic, and Lutris as a last resort (sorry, I don't think Lutris works that well overall in terms of interface) I should mention too, that during this time, even VR was improving. Anything that was a blocker, if you took the time to go actually report a bug on it in the relevant place (not reddit), a human would usually look at it and a process would start for it being fixed. You can even fix it yourself, which is huge.

Speaking of fixing it yourself, at some point during this whole thing, Arch *did* break. And it wasn't something I did, it was something to do with Arch. I don't even remember the details. Fixing it was, quite honestly, orgasmic. I know a person shouldn't get this excited over a feature like this, but being able to boot into a USB, get a live environment, chroot, and fix your PC is a godsend. On windows, the best you get is a messed up command prompt in recovery mode with a bunch of files and commands that refuse to work because "this command failed to run" or some other vague reason. Needless to say, while I was initially annoyed my computer broke, following the step by step guide given to me to fix it meant that...it was broken for all of an hour. Then it was fine. Amazing.

I don't remember if it was this year or not, but this is also a time I believe when a bunch of kernel level anti-cheat stuff was getting bigger. It should be noted, I do play multiplayer games, but I hate systems like that. I played Valorant, but did not want it on my computer, really. The thing is, I firmly believe that if you are going to subject yourselves to those systems, they should be sandboxed. In fact, the true solution to kernel level anti-cheat should be in sandboxing period, and it should be OS agnostic. It doesn't even have anything to do with Linux, a trusted environment is objectively the goal when defending against attackers and even the level of Vanguard is nothing approaching "trusted" in a one machine environment, but that's a discussion for another day. The bottom line is, if you play games with these types of anti-cheats, you will need a Windows install. I choose to drop every single game like this. Even ones that have workarounds, like TFT. You can play it on Linux using Waydroid, but I just quit. As you can see, I'm no worse off. I still am playing tons of games.

At any rate, at this point I no longer felt like a special boy for using Linux. It was just my computer, and I was used to it. I don't customize things, I don't distro hop, I just turn on my PC and use it without thinking about it too much. I was, however, still mad that my piechart contained a small blight.

Year of the Linux Desktop

For me, 2024, was the year of the Linux desktop.

Oh Deadlock my beloved

Beautiful

This year was great. VR was solved for me. I own an Index and a Oculus Quest 2. I hate ALVR. It never really seemed that Linux focused and has the most complicated interface I have ever seen. Enter WiVRn. It just works. Every game I threw at it worked and it has 3 buttons to press. The reason you don't see VR on the pie graph is because valve stopped including it. I still played VR, now completely on Linux. The index also got better, but my 150 dollar cable broke. I'm also broke, so for now I just use the Quest 2, and boy howdy am I stoked it works now. There is one bug with Linux VR still, in that GPU usage on AMD gpu's is wrong when you use VR. You either have to manually set it to high profile when you start, or set up a profile to do that when VR starts. This is a minor gripe though, it amounts to 3 extra button clicks. For me that was a huge win.

As far as I know, I played all the 2024 big releases too. Space Marine 2 day one. Over 200 hours of Deadlock. Over 200 hours of Path of Exile 2. For some random reason over 100 hours of CS2 (sometimes you are just in the mood, ya know?) I like fighting games and played a bunch of Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising. Beat the Elden Ring DLC (half on the steamdeck, non oled model! That's INSANE to me.) Enjoyed the Hell Divers craze before the communist forced them to nerf every weapon into the ground as well.

The last thing I'll bring up, is that when playing all these games, I also am a mod enjoyer. I also do not really use goon mods, so most of the mods require dll's and the like (which are windows shared libraries) I have, in general, had no issues on that front. It's all just worked. You used to have to sometimes do WINOVERRIDE blablabla, but valve even changed that to just work. Sweet.

Basically, I played a bunch of video games. There was some trouble shooting at certain points, but as time went on, there has been less and less trouble shooting. At this point, I enjoy Linux as an OS and would never go back to Windows. I also have what I feel is a healthier relationship with games, by cutting out all games with invasive anti-cheats. It just so happens that all those games too are the most addictive and unhealthy. At this point, if I needed a locked down closed environment to play games, I would probably get a console again. I don't forsee that happening though. Linux is working perfectly fine for me and I see no reason to switch. And this is only covering the gaming side. In non gaming and work related task it's a similar story. There were growing pains, but I got better, and the actual software got way better. Everything is on an upward trajectory, and my advice would be, if you really want an alternative to Windows, Linux IS there for certain use cases, and if you embrace it and don't give up, you will end up with a nice system that you own completely.

TL;DR

Linux is cool for gaming. It was okay but has gotten better and now it's basically windows but you can't play Call of Duty Warzone.

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Just installed my new amd gpu, but I’m getting an error saying there was an X error and that I’m missing libraries.

Thanks

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So, i got my hands on a new 9070 XT card. Not the first batch so i had to pay the retail price.

Right now i am running Fedora KDE Plasma edition just for the HDR feature in desktop mode. Since i now have an Nvidia 2060 card it is the only Distro i have tried that this work with some what smooth.
But now when I get a proper AMD card, is there a Distro that works nice with this card and have support for HDR in desktop mode?

Mostly I use my computer for normal stuff but in some cases i do play. And i did run Mint before and did really like it, but the lack of HDR support made med switch. Might be possible to get HDR running in desktop using a AMD card?

/TKC

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Hello, I have the https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesarc and https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco repositories. Will try to keep them extra up to date for a while now, if that helps any Radeon 9070 owners!

Generally I have a better configuration and test setup now than I had last year, so it's a bit easier to manage now. (Finally got a full sbuild setup!)

Also noticed https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34005 this thing, hope it will be merged soon...

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Hello once again!

This post is a continuation/update of/on my earlier post Here. There is stuff in the replies there, please check those if you want to assist me!

I have managed to figure out the most likely (to me) reason for the fps being low: My vram clock speed was for some reason stuck at 96Mhz and would not budge no matter what.

After reading online about a bug of similar nature that affected these gpus (rx6600) in the past in kernel 6.4, i took some of the steps people back then had recommended, along with some others i kinda made up myself. These included, but were perhaps not entirely limited to: turning VRR on and off, Changing my monitor refresh rate, changing my fedora power profile and enabling and re-disabling blank screen and auto suspend. After doing all this, the issue WENT AWAY without rebooting as was previously required to fix it.

Now, this could be completely off base but assuming that this bug was actually fixed back in 6.4. this makes me suspect it could have been a power management/saving issue, somehow related to the screen blank or auto suspend features. I'll also need to do further testing to actually see if it is fixed permanently.

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I’ve tried to download mods manually but as Im trying out most it gets more and more tedious to manage them. I’ve tried following this guide https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3135090956 but im stuck on launching the runtime using protontricks. Is there an alternative or a guide which is for linux desktop? My hardware CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600x GPU: Nvidia geforce 1650 super RAM: 32 GB 3200

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TL;DR If you want plug and play functionality for all your games, and software support for your headset, mouse, monitor, and keyboard, stick to Windows. If you’re willing to tinker, know a bit about computers, and don’t play sweaty esports games, give Linux a shot.

Hey all! I recently took the plunge into Linux gaming, and wanted to share my experience with it. My computer, an AM5 system running an AMD Ryzen 3700x, 16 GB DDR4 RAM, and Nvidia RTX 3080, is reaching end of life. I know this because Microsoft has very aggressively been full-screening a big image saying I need to get a new computer to run Windows 11. It was right after clicking one of these screens that I received an ad for an Xbox subscription thing, and noticed my start bar had been changed to include a bunch of hearts for Valentine’s Day. It was at this point that something finally broke in me. I had been dissatisfied with Windows for some time, and had also been seeing news about Windows updates breaking games (see https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/gamers-beware-windows-11-24h2-update-could-wreck-your-colors-and-crash-your-games). A decision was made, and I began frantically googling how to game on linux.

The first thing I did (and probably the first thing you should do if you are thinking about switching) was go to https://www.protondb.com/ where I linked my Steam account. I was able to check my entire library, and 97% of my games were rated as Silver or higher. I don’t do eSports, and honestly don’t even really play multiplayer unless I’m absolutely forced to (looking at you, Diablo 4). I like lots of single player RPGs and strategy games like Stellaris and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Luckily, I am being told these games just plain work on Linux.

The second thing I did was come to /r/linux_gaming, and start finding a distro to use. The usual names like Linux Mint and Pop!_OS came up, but I had experimented with those before and didn’t like them. I also saw something called Bazzite being mentioned, and ultimately decided on it after going through their documentation and finding Mike’s Tech Tips and his installation video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbxM_1ZJCCc). I downloaded the proper image for Bazzite KDE, used Rufus to put it on a USB stick, and off I went.

I quickly discovered the Bazzite installer is bugged if you have a dual monitor system. It took me some kerjiggering, but once I unplugged my secondary monitor, it worked without a hitch. I followed the install instructions, and within about 20 minutes I was up and running in Bazzite. I plugged my second monitor back in, and began messing about. I quickly discovered another bug when I tried to play Halo: The Master Chief Collection. I found that, when an application went fullscreen, my screen went black. I was able to replicate this using my Jellyfin server’s web player, which also went black when I hit fullscreen. Thankfully, I was able to find a solution on GitHub! (https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/1657) Turns out there’s an option for Adaptive Sync that, when enabled, gives a black screen. I turned this off, and now it doesn’t happen. That being said, I don’t have Adaptive Sync, and am reliant on VSync to remove tearing. Turning off features doesn’t feel good.

The next thing I wanted was to install my VPN client. I pulled up the documentation for Mullvad on how to install on Fedora based systems and…it didn’t work. I get an error message instead

ERROR: Fedora Atomic images utilize rpm-ostree instead (and is discouraged to use). Please, read our documentation https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/

Oh. I go and read the documentation, and find out that Bazzite in particular really discourages you from adding things to the OS. It encourages using flatpaks and ujust commands. I try both of these with no joy. There’s no flatpak for Mullvad, and ujust doesn’t help, or I’m too stupid to find a way. I read through my options, and I try using Distrobox. I install a Ubuntu box since I have some level of familiarity with Debian-based systems, and run the apt commands to download and install the Mullvad client. It works! I should just be able to run the application from the Distrobox according to Bazzite documentation. Unfortunately, it won’t launch. Long story short, I did a lot of reading and eventually just did a system level package through rpm-ostree, which Bazzite documentation says is a “last resort.” I was able to launch it, but it still didn’t work, and gave me an error saying it didn’t have access blah blah blah. After even more googling and reading, i eventually stumbled upon this GitHub page (https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/issues/1570) and found the command ‘sudo systemctl enable --now mullvad-daemon’ and it FINALLY ACTUALLY worked. I was able to connect to the VPN, and, after a tiny bit of tinkering in my browser, eliminated my DNS leaks.

Since then, it’s been pretty smooth. When I want to play games, I just play games. I haven’t yet had to tinker with a game. They just launch, usually after compiling shaders or some such nonsense. I think one time I had to switch to Proton Experimental for Path of Exile 2, which is done entirely in the Steam GUI, no CLI needed.

If you are looking at switching to Linux, and your ONLY use case is gaming and light browsing or multimedia use, I would suggest Bazzite with the caveat that you should be familiar with computers in general. I know enough about Linux to get myself into trouble, and this was not my first time on a Linux desktop. I also have the issue of not having software support for my headset or mouse, which SUCKS because the default EQ on my headset is ass, and I was fixing it with ReaEQ on Windows. If you’re looking at switching to Linux, be aware you will not have as much software support for other things.

As for me, I’m probably not going to stay on Bazzite, but I have no intention of going back to Windows. I've been full Linux for about a month. I even fully deleted my Windows partition. I think Bazzite, while good for gaming, is not the answer for power nerds like me who want all the control. All this time tinkering and playing around with commands has really reignited my computer hobbyist passion, and I’ve been spending more time doing an SSH connection into my Pi and learning CLI navigation. I’ve also been researching more distros, and kind of want to just install plain old Fedora with GNOME and see how well I can get that going for gaming. I’ve always used Debian-based distros in the past, and always kind of bounced off of them. I’m not at Arch Linux level yet, but it is tempting since I am such a control freak.

Also dd is goat, I love dd command. Screw using software to make a bootable usb, sudo dd for life

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Hello friends

I'm thinking to switch from windows 11 to linux on my main pc where I mostly play games (counterstrike) or cut some videos on Sony Vegas should I dual boot and try it out or just stay with windows because I read that nvidua on linux is not the best decision and I have a 4060ti

I'm not sure about this step I mean people my age have family's and I'm deciding to boot linux on my main pc

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Starting with Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will no longer get the old Nouveau OpenGL driver by default and will instead get Zink+NVK.

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/goodbye-nouveau-gl-hello-zink.html

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I have this problem where when mission is loading if I alt + tab it makes the game fullscreen window force itself over ALL, not just once but as long as the mission is loading. I don't know if it's a game issue, a proton issue or on my end. The game let's me alt + tab when is NOT loading but it's unfortunate I can't use that downtime...

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Time for a bit of modernisation. With the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release, Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand announced a big change for NVIDIA GPU users. If you're not using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, that is.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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I'm getting like 50-70 fps regardless of settings while a friend on windows is getting 120+ on an identical laptop. I got into MHW recently, is this just normal on Linux? For reference Helldivers 2 runs the same (50-70 fps if not better) on high settings. And any other game I have played across the years on Linux performs as expected.

Tried different proton versions (ge 9-xx, a couple of valve's too), disabling overlays, recording, gamescope and probably more that I can't remember. No hires textures dlc. Restarted the machine a couple of times while I was at it.

I'm on cachyos (tried cachyos-gcc and bore kernels for the sake of it), running Ryzen 4800H, 1660ti mobile, 16gb ram. Latest drivers and everything.

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I've been playing steam games for over ten years. Mostly RUST, GTA V and a little Fallout76; and while I have had a rocky relationship with RUST, I have never had a single problem with steam proper, until today.

Way to knock it out of the park, Valve! My steam client hasn't been startable as of 5:00am CST today. WTAF?

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When I launch a Source game through Proton using OpenGL, the game becomes much darker than it should be, even at the maximum gamma settings. However, if I use an older version of Proton, the gamma looks fine, but the game becomes unplayable.

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