Same distro, same kernel, same compatibility tool… yet somehow I’m getting noticeably lower FPS on KDE compared to GNOME. Anyone know what’s going on here?

• GPU: 6600 XT
• CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
• RAM: 16GB DDR4 3600MHz
• Distro: CachyOS
• Kernel: 6.16.0-5-cachyos
• Compatibility Tool: GE-Proton10-10
• Display Server: Wayland

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Just got back from a week away from my house. Before I left I could run Garry's Mod just fine on my computer, during the trip I played it a bit on my Windows 11 laptop [I'd rather switch but Windows is easier for my mum who I share it with], and now it won't run on my Mint machine; it takes upwards of half an hour to process the vulkan shaders, and skipping that process causes the game to not launch. I am not willing to spend so long waiting just to run GMod when it worked fine before...

I've tried removing any addons I subscribed to on the trip, it doesn't help.

Searching online for this issue didn't help either; the fix that came up was this but I couldn't use it as I don't have a Steam folder in either of the locations it specifies, mine is located directly on the "home" section of the file explorer, and putting the c.cfg in it didn't have any effect.

What should I do?

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The game is Monster Hunter Wilds.

Every time I restart my PC and start Steam it starts validating the game. Not only does it say Validating it also just downloads 2GB of data simultaneously. I already manually validated and I don't know why this keeps on happening. Does anyone have a clue? I am on Fedora and downloaded Steam via RPM Fusion repo.

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I bought an HP omnibook x flip 14 for college. Ive been using linux on my desktop for over a year and have just gotten used to, using windows frustrates me too much. There are a few games i want to play, namely Marvel rivals, clair obscur expedition 33, persona 5, nier. On my desktop (i7 10700k, rx 6700xt), the performance is significantly better, less framedrops, sometimes much higher fps.

I do want to squeeze out as much performance I can, starting with a much lighter OS. I don't know if the performance is really better on linux, due to drivers, Ive read online that windows offers better performance due to up to date drivers. If anyone is using the arc 140v on linux, can you give me some insights and some bechmarks (in any games, just to see differences if any)

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Anyone here who had problem with gamepad Gamesir G7 Pro or any other gamepad that it doesn't work in game? It works in steam big picture mode but not in game. It works perfectly fine with cable just not when it's connected through dongle or bluetooth.

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I just cannot get them to go to the mod organizer’s downloads no matter what I do.

For the automatic installation, I have all my nexus settings set up correctly to my knowledge. It does seem all the files associated with NXM files are there, though they don’t run when I click on them and I do not know if that is normal. Despite that, whenever I try to download with mod manager on Nexus, it gives a pop up asking which program I want to open it with. I don’t have anything in the server boxes, so that might be why, but I truly do not know.

For manual installation, I just cannot click and drag files from Dolphin into the downloads box for whatever reason. I can click and drag the files elsewhere, but it does not allow them to go into the manager. I have tried this with folders containing the individual mods and the files within the folders, neither of which work.

Is there any way to fix this or should I just reinstall?

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AMD Desktop System Setup Guide for Gaming on Arch Linux

A (slightly) opinionated setup guide for getting started with gaming on Arch Linux (Should be fully applicable to its derivatives as well) for AMD GPUs.

Preface

If you’re using the archinstall script to install Arch, make sure to enable the following during setup:

PipeWire

Zen Kernel

Swap

Multilib Repository

GNOME or Plasma Desktop Environment (Optional, but preferred for gaming thanks to Wayland)

This will save time later.

Display Server

Preferably use Wayland over x11, it is the future and more modern. Do still keep an x11 session handy just in case.

Recommended Wayland desktops: KDE Plasma and GNOME.

2. Kernel & Audio

The Zen Kernel offers better responsiveness, especially for gaming.

Pipewire is a modern audio system that handles both pro audio and gaming latency well.

3. Enable Multilib Repository in the Pacman Conf

This is required for 32-bit compatibility, which some games and Steam depend on.

4. Install an AUR Helper

Use an AUR helper to install community packages. Paru is recommended over Yay for its sane defaults and easier customization. Also remember the dangers of using the AUR, audit the PKG builds whenever updates roll out, Paru forces you to do this.

Important Packages via AUR:

protontricks – Easily manage Proton prefixes

proton-ge – Community-maintained Proton build with improved compatibility

Optional Tools:

jdownloader2 – Useful for downloading large files from the internet, pick jre17-openjdk when prompted.

nexusmods-app – For modding official copies of these games:

Stardew Valley

Cyberpunk 2077

The Witcher 3 (Coming in the future)

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (Kinda works, not fully supported yet)

Bethesda titles (Coming in the future)

Baldur’s Gate 3 (Kinda works, not fully supported yet but full support is coming next)

5. Gaming & System Tools

Install these packages to enhance performance, game compatibility, and system control:

gamescope – Game-focused Wayland session

gamemode & lib32-gamemode – Boosts system performance while gaming

goverlay – GUI for managing mangohud

mangohud – Performance overlay (FPS, temps, etc.)

lutris – Very configurable game launcher

steam – Pick Vulkan-Radeon when prompted for the Vulkan driver

umu-launcher – Required for using Proton via Lutris

prismlauncher – Essential for Minecraft, especially for modding. Pick jre17-openjdk when prompted.

wine-staging + wine-gecko / wine-mono dependencies – For running Windows games

winetricks – Configure Wine with ease on Lutris

qemu-full, virt-manager, libvirt – For running VMs

flatpak – Not recommended due to sand boxing issues, but useful for some tools such as Limo, which is a Linux native mod manager. (Nexusmods app is better, but that only fully works with 2 games at the moment)

power-profiles-daemon – Easy power management tuning if you went with KDE Plasma.

corectrl – Overclock your GPU for more performance. Remember to double check the entered values, as mistakes might instantly cause fatal hardware damage.

Web browser of your choice

6. Browser Recommendations

Chromium-Based:

Vivaldi – Very customizable

Brave – Slightly lighter than Vivaldi (AUR)

Gecko-Based:

Firefox – Standard, useful for minimizing AUR packages while using Gecko

Floorp – Extra customization (AUR)

Librewolf – Minimal and clean (AUR)

7. Initial App Setup

Launch Steam and Lutris to let them initialize properly.

In Steam, set Proton Experimental as the default compatibility layer.

In Lutris, enable Gamemode, Gamescope, and Mangohud in global settings.

Install wine-ge-8-26 within Lutris settings as its the default recommended runner there.

8. System Tweaks

Add yourself to the gamemode group to allow Gamemode to function.

Use CoreCtrl for GPU overclocking, remember to disable processor tuning in the app as it will conflict with Gamemode. And again, read this carefully.

Configure Mangohud using Goverlay, at minimum enable "Global enable" and "Hide by default".

9. Virtual Machine Setup (for Niche or Legacy Games)

Enable the libvirt service and add yourself to the libvirt group.

Open Virt-Manager and set up a Windows 10/11 LTSC virtual machine for games that just won’t run on Linux. (Double check if they will even run on virtual machines)

10. Reboot

Great, everything should work now! Now its time to finally install some games.

Optional: Audio Enhancements

Install JamesDSP (AUR) and realtime-privileges.

Add yourself to the realtime group.

Use the AutoEQ website to create a .wav profile for your headphones and load it in the JamesDSP convolver.

Enable Bass Enhancement (At the lowest setting).

Set the Equalizer to the “Clear” preset.

Enable the Convolver.

Extra Tips

btop – A great alternative to Task Manager on Linux.

rocm-smi-lib – Optional dependency for btop to monitor your AMD GPU on top of your CPU.

openrgb – Full control over RGB lighting (if supported).

Final Note

This guide is meant to point you in the right direction, not hold your hand.

Use the official Arch Wiki to fill in the blanks, here are some helpful articles.

Archinstall script

Gaming

Virtual machines.

Desktop environments

Corectrl

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I understand the sentiment around here is "fuck kernel level anticheat" and as a newbie into this space im starting to grasp at allbeit a surface level why this is a problem. this post is more aimed at the people like myself who still want to play those games yet dislike the OS your forced to play them on. is dual booting worth it? do VMs work? or is it just a case of stay with windows/macOS or drop the game entirely?

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1. How does DRI_PRIME even work with Nvidia proprietary drivers?
2. Why does it start using Zink?
3. How is Zink even used with Nvidia proprietary drivers?
4. Why doesn't it work if the game uses Wayland? (it's not on the video, but I tested with Barony and in Wayland mode it just uses llvm pipe)

I was just testing DRI_PRIME variable and randomly discovered that for Xwayland OpenGL games it forces use of my Nvidia GPU and somehow switches renderer to Zink while still using Nvidia proprietary drivers (according to mangohud).

│ System Information │ 󰍹 OS Arch Linux x86_64 │ 󰒋 Kernel Linux 6.15.9-zen1-1-zen │ Hardware Information │ 󰻠 CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5600H (12) @ 4.28 GHz │ 󰢮 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile [Discrete] (nvidia-dkms 575.64.05) │ 󰢮 GPU AMD Radeon Vega Mobile Series [Integrated] (mesa 25.1.7)

PS: Sorry for the yellow-ish video, GSR for some reason records Plasma's night mode.

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I mainly play my gog games through lutris or heroic but it will also happen with steam games too. Anytime I have it mirrored to the TV.

I'm a noob who recently switched over from windows. Back when I played on windows I liked to mirror it so that friends and family can enjoy the back n forth of watching each other playing single player games.

If there's no fix I may just use sunshine moonlight. I'm loving loonix asides from this issue.

Right now the best way to prolong the crash seems to be using xcfe on 60 fps on both monitors. It still ends up crashing then but takes longer for it to.

Forgive me if there's some glaring obvious answer my nooby self didn't find.

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Hi,

Has anyone been able to succesfully mod Pathfinder: WOTR in Linux Mint? I tried using Unity Mod Manager added as a non-Steam game running Proton and it even says "Installed", but then it keeps reporting "Access denied" when I try to add mods. I can straight-up extract mods into the Mods folder after UMM installation and they even show up in UMM. However, UMM and the mods don't load up when I start WOTR.

This is strange to me because I used this method when modding Pathfinder: Kingmaker in Fedora 42 and it worked well so it must be some distro difference. And yes, I did take ownership of all non-root drives and even reinstalled the game on the same disk as the UMM.

Would appreciate any help. Thanks!

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I knew the game ran in the past without a problem, I wanted to get back into it after the new update so I re-downloaded it and it is not working. I boot up and get into the title screen and it will not let me sign into my Microsoft account. There's a spinning wheel after you hit enter and nothing pops up. Does anyone have any idea of the fix this?

I'm running cachyos

Thanks in advance!

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I am currently running Windows 11 on my gaming PC. For a while I've been thinking of moving to Linux for it. I'm not a complete idiot but I would like a guide and guidance on getting it working.

I use Steam, Epic Games, and GOG for my launchers. I know Steam has Proton but I haven't looked at how to install Steam games with it. How difficult will it be in getting my games from Epic Games and GOG to run under Proton?

I also use Vortex from NexusMods to mod a few games, Cyberpunk 2077 & Oblivion Remastered. How difficult is it getting that set up?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi everyone, I’m excited to share that volt-gui has its 1.1.0 release.

For those unfamiliar, volt-gui is a straightforward GUI tool for creating and modifying the "volt" script, along with other performance related tweaks. Its main goal is to make it as easy as possible to fine tune a Linux PC for gaming or general performance improvements.

With it, you can change your CPU governor, start or stop scx_* schedulers like lavd or rusty, and adjust a wide range of kernel parameters to influence system behavior. If anything goes wrong, simply restarting your PC will revert everything to the default boot values.

On the GPU side, you can configure a large variety of environment variables taken from official NVIDIA, Mesa, and Freedesktop documentation (and in some cases, even from source code when they weren’t documented anywhere else).

One of the most user friendly features that i have added is the ability to select your OpenGL and Vulkan renderer from a list detected on your system. Once applied, the correct parameters are automatically added to the volt script, so you don’t have to worry about manual setup. One small problem with this its that it breaks some Linux Native games. As they have their own logic of selecting a renderer, and they arent quite happy when you pass some parameters to actually use another GPU.

I originally built this to help friends switching from Windows 10 to Linux, aiming to make performance tuning as accessible as possible. I’m very happy with how far it’s come, but I’m always open to ideas if you have a feature in mind, open an issue and tag it as a Feature Request.

The 1.1.0 release its a QOL one, no new features that might help with performance have been added compared to the 1.0.0 release.
New features will be added on the future and are already being worked on, just that they are not ready yet for an stable version.

Here are some images of the program:

https://preview.redd.it/43cr8b0xk1if1.png?width=1680&format=png&auto=webp&s=2da645b6f54ad6b6a3b85ca959a7c69a4ddde29b

And the links:
volt-gui github repo

volt-gui 1.1.0 release

my github profile

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Before I start Hearthstone Deck Tracker is an overlay for Hearthstone which shows cards in your deck and few convenient features (like next Fatigue damage, for example). There is a video from their website to get an idea of how it works. There is no Linux version of the program, so I launch it with Wine in same prefix as the game (Hearthstone).

I am trying to improve how Hearthstone Deck Tracker works with Wayland on Fedora 42 using Bottles. It sort of works now, but unfortunately if you alt+tab from game it makes everything unclickable, for example, in Firefox (any app or even desktop) since the tracked does not disappear. Also in some cases it starts fighting for click focus and makes hard to play. There are few workarounds (which I don't really enjoy) like toggling off overlay with hotkey (which does it with small delay) or minimizing the game (sometimes the maximizing the game back leads to freeze/crash).

I used to play with X11 session few Fedora releases away and HDT used to work flawlessly at least for me - if I alt-tabbed from Hearthstone the tracker used to not show and not block clicks. So I assume it is possible to have good experience with it on Linux systems. I guess the problem either with Wayland or the deck tracker can't detect that the game is not in focus to hide itself.

From Github page of HDT some users advise to add Window Rules but it didn't help me to overcome all problems. I've experimented a bit and apparently there is a Window Rule called "Layers" which allows to set the app as "Overlay" but it makes things only worse.

So are there any ideas how to tackle Wayland and overlays?

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So to spell it short, the headset doesn't seem to register at all, it isn't lighting up when I turn on steam vr, and it isn't showing up in the display options window either. Everything else works, but not the headset.

I have it directly connected to my Invidia gc that has fully updated drivers, and I checked the integrity of steam vr's files. I've restarted the pc and replugged the cables multiple times too, and I have x11 stuff already installed.

I have no idea what's going on with it, any help?

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Used to be really into sim racing back before I switched to Linux. Recently got the itch again and brought out some of my old gear, a Thrustmaster T300RS, and a set of Fanatec CSL LC pedals. After installing Oversteer (a racing wheel configuration tool) and a couple community made drivers (hid-tmff2 for the wheel, and hid-fanatecff for the pedals), I was able to get everything set up and recognized. I ran through the basic wheel test in Oversteer to verify that force feedback was working, and everything seemed to check out. I used a tool called jstest-gtk to verify that my pedals were recognized and the axis' read as they should.

So, I went to test in game. I ran Automobilista 2 via Steam under Proton-GE 10-8 (GE versions of Proton have better support for sim racing devices as I understand it). The wheel was recognized and I was able to tweak my bindings like normal, however the pedals were nowhere to be found. I tested Dakar 18 as well, same story. Wheel worked perfectly, no pedals.

Just wondering if there are any sim racers here who have experience getting their Fanatec pedals working, if there are any special Wine hoops I have to jump through or launch options I have to add. Hell, even a Linux program similar to Joystick Gremlin that would let me create virtual devices that these games might see more easily. Thanks in advance.

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