Happening in Wuchang with CachyOS and Pop_OS. I tried both the Cachy native Proton and the experimental.

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Classic Marathon, Classic Marathon 2 and Classic Marathon Infinity are getting some big upgrades with a Beta now available to test.

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V's Rage is a hand-drawn arcade adventure inspired by the great arcade classics of the '80s and '90s that has no single genre.

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VoxeLibre is a great free and open source sandbox game, a Minecraft-like built on top of the Luanti (Minetest) game engine and a big new release v0.90 is out.

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Hi

I have made a post with not much success, so I will try to post a question in a different way.

If you are using HDR in gaming with this setup please speak up.

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Fedora Linux 42 (fully updated and newest version)

KDE

Wayland

Steam (flatpak)

Proton-GE 10-10

Radeon graphic card

HDR screen

Newest MESA driver of course

And run this command in Steam Launch options:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

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My problem is that the colors looks all washed out when HDR is turned on.

I have tried HDR in Resident Evil 4 Remake and Diablo 4 and both are washed out and ugly.

I have tried running HDR on my Dual-boot on Windows in Battlefield 1 and i looks great.

I have tried setting the Display configuration for "prefer efficiency " and after that "prefer color accuracy" and nothing really changed.

I can see old post where people asked about washed out colors and different responses was given, but nothing useful

I am asking this question in this matter, because I need to find people with this exact setup and hear what they did to solve their problem, because if people are using Nvidia or another distro, the solution might be totally different

The rest of my setup is this

9800x3D

9070 XT

HDR 1000 Screen connected through DisplayPort 2,1

please speak up

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Got the need for speed? CarX Street released an update just as the weekend hit to add in full Native Linux and Steam Deck support.

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Debian 13 trixie has been released following years of working, bringing lots of new software updates for the popular Linux distribution.

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If you don't know, there's meant to be a little task bar above this showing how many tasks have been complete in total.

I haven't tried any other game yet, but has happened in Among Us so far.
Also odd occasion, but one of the buttons had unloaded randomly mid-round, I don't know exactly when or how it unloaded, but when I looked it just wasn't there but still clickable.

Specs/Software
Steam: flatpak
Proton: Proton 10.0-2
Distro: Linux mint 22.1 (Cinnamon)
CPU: Intel i3-3245
RAM: 8gb ddr3
GPU: GT 1030

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My system now:
12600k + 9070xt + 5 Fans, Waterpump, + v750W Cooler Master Gold PSU.

My system before was pretty the same with a 3070 TI FE.

On EndeavourOS.

### Undervolting / Overclocking:

I usually just undervolt my stuff, but here comes the part: It just works, on nvidia for sure you can also undervolt, I did this, but on linux its just a brainfuck and more of a trial and error thing, as you don't undervolt the intended way, you do this by setting offsets and pray that your GPU is running in a lower powerstate. I mean, it worked - kinda, but on AMD it feels now a bit more "free" as I can slide around and everything have direct effects to the GPU.

### Gaming:

Overall all my games worked like twice the FPS better (RTX off).

Tested games: RE4, Forza 5, CS2, Star Citizen, EFT SPT, Ghost of Tsushima. I finally can use HDR (well I also might could have used it on nvidia, but I couldn't get it really working, so I never tried it again. This was for sure a skill issue)

Games looking great and running smoothly, I was shocked. I thought my CPU will be a hard bottleneck but it seems on my 3440x1440p uwqhd screen everthings running smooth af.

Also for sure I have now 16 GB VRAM instead of 8 GB, on windows 8GB on my 3070ti wasn't that big problem, it was just a limit that I set the game on med. settings and it will still run smooth enough for me.

But on Linux, depending on the game it might still lead into stuttering. As I had e.g. a sddm bug, where SDDM on hyprland with nvidia bugged around and tooked around 1GB of vram. needed to workaround that by removing sddm and autologin via TTY.

Well another issue was like on EFT or star citizen and even sometimes on DAYZ (on 3440x1440p) where my VRAM was flodded over time. while on windows the system allows the nvidia driver to swap a bit of vram into the systems ram to let the game still perform well enough, on linux it doesn't, it just stutters when the vram is on 100%. Most modern games respect the limits but some doesn't or have vram leakage and might have random stuttering. I tricked these games by telling them I just have 6GB of vram, most times it worked - kinda (still used like 7.5 GB as they still try to cache everything but everything below 100% was fine)
I also couldn't open a HW accel. other application when a game used too much vram, like a kitty- alacritty terminal or a browser / discord, etc. as there was no vram left)
I mean I also read about this specific issue on the nvidia forum. Its currently only an issue for nvidia combined with linux - and for sure just for some niche programs/games. But as far as I read AMD implemented a similar feature to their drivers, that allows to swap when 100% VRAM was reached to bypass this issues, even on linux. So this means if I had an AMD card with 8GB VRAM I wouldn't run into that issue on linux gaming.

### Problems

I had some GPU resets, my system freezed and rebooted randomly under load.

It needed a while to recognize whats the problem in here.

Firstly I thought it was the MESA driver, updated to the -git package, as well as the firmware packages.

It kinda worked, but kinda not. I thought it was my undervolt settings, resetted them but happened again random. Then I hardly set the GPU to -500 mhz and it mostly stopped. Then I thought, wait a minute, what if my PSU is too much under load.

It might be exactly this.

So I monitored my system a bit more.

Found out my i5 12600k used on stock clock with -0.115mv undervolt still on peak around 200 wattage (maybe even more, was just a short monitor) while my GPU in stock settings wanted around 350-480 watt (spikes PEAK, maybe even more stock) combined with all the other parts (5 fans, pump, 4 SSDs+ nvme and so on) it MIGHT be that the 750 watt PSU is too hard under load.

Okay - I started to drill down my CPU.

BIOS - LLC to intel defaults, instad of mainboard defaults - this allone saved some watt in here but didn't was enough to run my system stable.

Turned off E-CORES and undervolted the CPU by -0.110 mv

And now I'm around 50-60 watt CPU usage.

Decided to test again my gaming scenario where my system crashed.

(mostly under heavy load, like forza 5 max settings 10 minutes driving like an idiot around everything besides the roads)

And... it didn't crashed!
Lact told me the GPU wanted around 480 watt on spikes, but hey the system runs well!

Now tuned a bit the undervolt on the GPU to -200 mhz, -35mv, 290W limit and - well the limit is more like a soft limit I guess - its working now below 410 watt peak! More like 310-380 watt, depending on the game / load.

I might will switch either my PSU or CPU+MOBO+RAM combo, but as long as I can and everything works on my system + have enough power for my workload / games, I don't see any reason to do a full system upgrade, so I'll just stick into this setup for a while.

### TL;DR:

AMD makes so much sense on linux for gaming (if you don't mind the raytracing performance), no DX12 / DX11 issues, or performance loss, even more a performance gain compared on windows, less bugs and a smoother easier experience!

AND If your system crashes, don't think too fast "dang this GPU sucks on linux" if everyone says its working on their side smooth AF, its more likely your hardware has an issue. And even if a 750 watt PSU might be enough today with modern CPUs that don't eat as much watt as older CPUs, it might be an issue on spikes that let your system freeze!

It‘s worth to look into the sensors and check the watt usage under load of your hardware!

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Hello, I have recently decided to switch to the Linux world on my main computer, and I wanted to know if my printer will work on it.

Hp LaserJet Pro MFP M125nw

I use with wifi without any cables

And what will be best distribution for gaming and programming?

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Nvidia is much cheaper than AMD in my country. I don't mind using the non-free driver for a few years but I want to be free eventually. I hate dealing with random issues all the time caused by the non-free driver.

Can anyone knowledgable comment on how realistic it is for NVK to be within like 10% of the non-free driver and how long it's likely to take?

I use fedora btw.

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TL:DR - Linux is great. Thanks to you guys.

New linux user here. I got a new PC at the end of July, and decided to go 100% linux. After some research I decided to go with CachyOS. After an absolutely painless install including default gaming package that CachyOS comes with, mostly everything was set up good to go out of the box.

I just want to say thanks to the community for supporting Linux these many years. It's due to the community like you that I'm not a hostage to Microsoft anymore.

My only "complaint" would be that due to my lack of familiarity with Linux, I'm not used to troubleshooting on Linux just yet, but that's nothing to do with Linux and more a testament to my lack of familiarity.

For example, the games I've installed thus far have had no issues except for Cyberpunk 2077. For some bizarre reason it would hang for 3 seconds every few minutes. Sometimes it would hitch like that several times in a row making the game rather unplayable. I tried everything to no avail, switching proton versions, adding all sorts of environment variables, even reinstalling the whole game. Nothing worked.

My problem was I was blaming the issue on the proton compatibility layer or perhaps my graphics drivers, but the real issue was my mouse. Even in windows if the mouse polling rate is too high it can cause such hitching behavior. This I did not know, since my previous windows system didn't exhibit that behavior even though I was using the same mouse. It was an older system from 5 years ago, so I suspect that that's related to why.

In any case once I lowered to polling rate to once every 2 ms the stuttering went away completely. Obviously this is not a Linux issue, but rather an issue with Cyberpunk 2077 itself. My gut instinct was to blame it on something I was doing wrong since I was new to Linux, so it's hard to tell what issues are caused by my ignorance, vs inherent issues with the software itself. However that will sort itself out in time, as I get more familiar with Linux.

In any case it was thanks to the documentation that y'all have provided through various wikis and forum / reddit posts that I was able to finally troubleshoot my issues. Thanks again, and have a nice day.

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Hey Community, I have Linux mint installed on my Dell laptop with medium level required specs for running Arkham series. Could anyone just guide me on how to make the machine really optimized for running those games. Also how to install the game (I don't want to pay via steam) Specs: Dell Inspiron 5590 Core i3 U processor Nvidia Mx250

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Running Kubuntu 25.04, Lutris using latest proton. G15 laptop RTX 4060 with 575 drivers. Tried D4 with steam but game would crash instead. Lutris is stable but the ground textures are missing most of the time.

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I've heard how customizable it is and how it doesn't collect data like windows and even how some games perform better on it, but I know nothing about linux and wouldn't even know where to install or what to install. I use my desktop for gaming mostly and im worried the games I play won't run on it. Can anyone give me some info on whether or not I should switch or stay on windows?

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I've been thinking of getting a decent gaming laptop and I've found the specifications I want. But after doing a last minute search on the support for Linux. It seems in recent years there been issues with fan control, installation and NVIDIA graphic cards on Linux.

I'm thinking of using Arch Linux and Xubuntu.

The laptop I'm looking at uses AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS Mobile Processor for the CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 for GPU.

I thought I check here before getting it. I just don't want to waste near £1,000.

I don't know if Linux is more stable now than it was before.

I appreciate any advice. Thank you.

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Hello, I recently updated my computer and suddenly Doom Eternal would no longer launch from Steam. I tried all of the fixes I could find online: reinstalling, -opengl or -vulkan in launch options, disabling steam overlay, and the only thing that worked was changing the Proton version to Proton Experimental (Proton Hotfix, GE-Proton, and Proton 7.0 - 9.0 didn't work). This created a new problem though; now in-game, certain options like settings or weapon upgrades can't be selected at all, clicking on them will cause them to flicker with nothing changing, it almost looks like it's clicking and un-clicking really quickly twice? I could change settings using arrow keys and enter as a workaround, but I can't select weapon upgrades at all. It's very strange because it worked perfectly out of the box, and I can't figure out which update broke it. Has anyone encountered this and found a fix? Thanks!

System:

Kernel: 6.8.0-71-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.2.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.2.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0

Distro: Linux Mint 22 Wilma base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Machine:

Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B650 AORUS ELITE AX ICE v: x.x serial: <superuser required>

uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F30 date: 05/22/2024

CPU:

Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen 4 rev: 2

cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 96 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 1890 high: 4833 min/max: 545/5050 cores: 1: 3668 2: 545 3: 4620 4: 545

5: 4833 6: 4152 7: 545 8: 545 9: 545 10: 545 11: 4000 12: 545 13: 545 14: 545 15: 3520 16: 545

bogomips: 134139

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm

Graphics:

Device-1: AMD Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX/7900M] vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu v: kernel

arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,

HDMI-A-1, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:744c class-ID: 0300

Device-2: AMD Raphael vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie:

speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-5,HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-4,DP-6,Writeback-2

bus-ID: 12:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e class-ID: 0300 temp: 34.0 C

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu

unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 4880x2560 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1291x677mm (50.83x26.65")

s-diag: 1458mm (57.39")

Monitor-1: DP-5 mapped: DisplayPort-4 pos: left model: Dell AW3423DWF serial: <filter>

res: 3440x1440 dpi: 109 size: 800x337mm (31.5x13.27") diag: 868mm (34.2") modes: max: 3440x1440

min: 720x400

Monitor-2: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,right model: LG (GoldStar) ULTRAGEAR

serial: <filter> res: 1440x2560 dpi: 93 size: 392x697mm (15.43x27.44") diag: 690mm (27.2") modes:

max: 2560x1440 min: 640x480

API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1

drv: radeonsi device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:

drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland

API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: PPA glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes

renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi raphael_mendocino LLVM 19.1.7 DRM 3.57 6.8.0-71-generic)

device-ID: 1002:164e

API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 8 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A

device-ID: 1002:164e device: 1 type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:744c device: 2

type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000

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Decided to try seeing if FSR4 could be made to work on Steam Deck (RDNA2) in some manner after people got it working on RDNA3. Seemingly got it working, according to Optiscaler, but it destroys the FPS (1/3 - 1/2 fps vs XESS 2) and the image quality gain, if any, probably isn't worth it. Still, this is rough instructions on the complicated process it took to get it working for me, and I hardly know anything about this stuff, so there is probably better ways to do it:

1. Download Proton-EM here: https://github.com/Etaash-mathamsetty/Proton/releases (manually place in /home/deck/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d)

2. Download Cooperative Matrix Vulkan layer Zip here: https://github.com/doitsujin/coopmat-layer

3. Compile that Coopmat-layer folder (somewhat complicated and involves downloading SPIRV-headers and Vulkan-headers from GitHub).

4. Place Vklayer_FROG_cooperative_matrix.so (from Build folder) into /home/deck/.local/lib, Place Vklayer_FROG_cooperative_matrix.json into ~/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-EM-10.0-2C/files/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d/ (you may have to create the last few folders)

5. Edit .json file so that the library path is "~/.local/lib/Vklayer_FROG_cooperative_matrix.so" (to make it point to where the .so file is)

6. Install Optiscaler to a game's folder to be able to convert upscalers to FSR 3.1 > FSR 4: https://github.com/optiscaler/OptiScaler

7. Edit Optiscaler.ini to basically put true for all the FSR4-related stuff.

8. Add this series of launch options to a Steam game with DLSS2+ / FSR2+ support: WINEDLLOVERRIDES=dxgi=n,b PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 DXIL_SPIRV_config=wmma_rdna3_workaround VK_INSTANCE_LAYERS=VK_LAYER_FROG_cooperative_matrix %command%

Step 3, compiling, is probably the hardest step since SteamOS file-system is read-only and that just complicates things a bit. I ended up struggling through it by using a combination of built-in Distrobox with the konsole, ChatGPT, and this very helpful forum post: https://www.resetera.com/threads/linux-steamos-ot-its-a-linux-system%E2%80%A6-i-know-this.557173/page-97#post-143723760

They aren't perfect instructions, but it's enough info to get to something usable, which there didn't seem to be for the Deck / RDNA2 yet.

Is it actually worth using on a Steam Deck though? As it currently runs, probably not. Aside from the complicated work to actually get it running (and long load times it can cause, if it doesn't freeze while loading), the performance hit is huge and, strangely, potentially tied to the output resolution? For example, that picture location from Cyberpunk ran at 45 FPS with XESS 2, but ~15 FPS with FSR 4. Whether it was FSR4 Quality or Ultra Performance, it was still stuck at ~15 fps while at 1280x800 resolution. I also tried with Baldur's Gate and it was the same story: stuck at ~15fps regardless of upscaler quality, despite the internal resolution definitely changing properly. Not something that could be considered playable. It's a longer process than getting RDNA3 running FSR4, and for less payoff. I personally would not recommend going through the hassle of trying to set this up, unless you are just really curious or think maybe you could make it run better.

I don't know if performance could realistically be made better in the future, but for now, I'd probably just stick to using Optiscaler to add XESS 2 to games.

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