yo i got an meta quest 3s and i tried making it work on steam vr but it didnt work is there anyway to make it work on steam vr? and if there is non is there any other program that vr works on?

So i have seen different posts about wayland and x11. Im just more curious than anything since its my first week with linux.

But what is the difference and all the jazz between them all and most of all what do they do exactly?

Can someone please give a detailed explanation? 🙂

Today I tried to play Rocket League using Heroic and Proton, but I just couldn't pass the "press any button" screen. Then I figured out it only works if my internet is disconnected.

Epic Games just blocked Proton?

Hey all,

So I've just moved from a 3080Ti to a 9070XT and I'm undervolting the GPU. Typically on Windows I would run 3D Mark and just keep tuning the mV values until the score stops going up and starts going down. Afterwards I typically run something like furmark for 30 minutes to an hour to make sure there are no crashes

However, to my knowledge 3D Mark is not supproted on Linux but I did recall that I used Unigen Superposition to undervolt my Steam Deck so I thought I'd give it a go. Currently at -100mV and it got me thinking if there are other tests because Superposition is quite old to my knowledge and I'm not sure if it's stressing the GPU enough

As an alternative I can always undervolt in Windows since I still have it for some use cases and just note the values and apply them in LACT on linux. I'd just have to do a bit more testing to make sure that the same UV on WIndows will be fine on Linux

I’m using Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3

So I have been having this issue for weeks now and it’s slowly driving me insane. When I started to play multiplayer and use the chat function more frequently, sometimes the game just randomly closes/quit (Not crashing but like closing when pressing the close window button or alt+f4). Before the game exit, the typing start to feel glitchy as in my input isn’t registering, the mouse right click menu sometimes/(almost all of the time?) open on the top left corner of the screen. Then the game suddenly exit to desktop (closes entirely), and for some reason the desktop bottom right corner dialog box (the one that open when you type something while at the desktop) keeps spamming a single letter. That random letter might be y or b or anything really.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Alright, first of all I'm not entirely alien to Linux systems. Since 2017 I've tried Lin ux and it's many distros. Hopped and daily drive on my Gaming PC from 2023 to 2024 then switched back to Windows and never bothered again because I bought a VR headset and wanted to use it.

I've daily drive Linux (Ubuntu LTS) on my ThinkPad E14 and use it daily so there are no problems there. It's pretty much flawless.

On my Gaming PC though I've never gave a thought about going back because my last experience with gaming was %80 of time going to tweaking/tinkering and %20 was actually playing the game.

So this sums up my prior experience with Linux. Now I'm planning on dabbling on it once again because it seems like 16GB RAM is not really enough on Windows and rammagedon is not looking good.

I'm positive that my specs is pretty much golden for Linux usage as it's all AMD but still adding them here just in case:

Ryzen 5 3600X - RX 9060 XT 16GB - 16GB DDR4 3600Mhz CL14

Now since you guys have much more recent experience than me on gaming side of things I got few questions:

1- How's the RAM usage on Linux with games and background programs (Discord/Spotify) open? This is my main motivator for switching to Linux. On Windows I easily hit 15.5 GB usage with Game/Spotify/Discord open.

2- There was a severe gap between Windows and Linux performance I'm talking about %20-30 at worst. Has this improved on AMD side?

3- Has VR become viable on Linux? I got Quest 3 and use Virutal Desktop on Windows to play only one game Blade and Sorcery. When I got this headset there was lots of issues on Linux side. ALVR and DRM was pain in the ass to setup, Blade and Sorcery would stutter and had pretty low FPS (from 120/90 to 30-45 FPS) on Linux which wasn't simply the issue on Windows and finally with Steam Frame on the horizon did Valve somehow took the SteamVR to next level so I don't need any bridge software like ALVR and just use native SteamVR to play my games on Linux? This is one of the dealbreakers back in the day for me so it's pretty important.

4- Has VRR support improved? I know that Gnome and KDE has implemented VRR and should be stable but on my monitor when I last tried I had lots of issues, like VRR flicker (from voltage changes between refresh rates) while on Windows this issue was non-existent on my AOC Q27G2U monitor.

5- Input latency is one of the major things I consider. I play competitive games which work under Linux AFAIK (For Honor, Overwatch 2, CS2) and I'm pretty much sensitive to input lag. Did Wayland improved on this end compared to past versions? Because I remember having terrible input latency increases on Wayland with both GNOME and KDE. I'm talking about 30-40 ms differences compared to Windows.

6-On Windows with AMD Adrenaline Software we just got a pretty much a easy upgrade toggle for FSR 3 FG and Upscaler to FSR ML FG and FSR 4 Upscaler. I'm betting my money that those work on Proton might have implemented similar upgrade to FSR4 as it's now 8 months old but do we got FSR ML FG? Also AMD Image Sharpening 2 which came out with RDNA4 is pretty much a must have and great upgrade from the original Image Sharpening so do we have something like that? AFAIK RIS 2 uses AI Accelerator cores to detect UI and whatnot and intelligently sharpen the image whereas old RIS was just a full screen sharpening effect.

These are my main concerns and questions for Linux users because I have limited time to play games as of now. I can't really troubleshoot for 3-4 hours like I did in 2023-2024 and would rather use that time to game.

Thank you all for your answers in advance.

Sons of the Forest keeps crashing and glitching out my entire software just wondering how I would fix this I have a Nvidia graphics card

https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15433

Vortex

As we move into 2026, Vortex is shifting back to the centre of our development roadmap. While we have spent the last couple of years exploring new territory with the Nexus Mods App, we have decided to consolidate our efforts and bring all that innovation directly into Vortex. Over 1.4 million modders use Vortex every month to mod their games, and we’re committed to improving their modding experience.

Our plans for the year include a steady, iterative modernisation of the Vortex user experience. We’ll be investing in the developer experience, which will allow us to focus on quality-of-life improvements, specifically streamlining navigation, simplifying game management, and introducing more intuitive controls for load orders. You can expect the interface to become cleaner and more responsive as we integrate the design lessons learned from our recent projects. Our goal is to make modding more accessible and reliable without disrupting the workflows that long-time Vortex users have come to rely on.

We’re also committing to supporting Vortex on SteamOS. We’ll be targeting vanilla Steam hardware like the Steam Deck and Steam Machine. We won’t be officially supporting any other configurations, but as Vortex is an open source project community developers will be free to extend support for their preferred Linux distros as they please.

Here’s an early proof of concept (subject to change) of the updated Vortex navigation:

https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/mods/3836/images/24/24-1769081338-743663158.png

"Box64 v0.4.0 (built with Box32) running various games on a Ampere (Arm64) machine.

CPU: Ampere 64Cores at 3.2 GHz

GPU: NVidia RTX4060

OS: Debian Forky

Linux Steam used. Battle net and GoG Windows games run with Wine 10.20 with new WoW64, Heroic is the Arm64 build

List of games showed:

Red Dead Redemption 2 / Steam

Portal: Revolution / Steam

Asphalt Legends / Epic (Heroic)

Just Cause 3 / Steam

Distance / Steam (default Linux 32bits version)

Divide by Sheep / Steam

Rage 2 / Steam

The Talos Principle 2 + DLC / GoG

Beyond a Steel Sky / Steam (default Linux 64bits version)

Revenge of the Titans / Steam

Black Myth: Wukong / Steam

The Battle for Polytopia / Epic (Heroic)

Quake 2 RTX / Steam

Satisfactory / Steam

Dakar Desert Rally / Epic (Heroic)

Viewfinder / Epic (Heroic)

Hearthstone / Battle net

StarCraft / Battle net

And many more are already working..."

Recently switched to Nobara Linux and I am pretty new and fresh. Wanted to play Code Vein, but it doesn‘t start the game. Tried using the WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY thing and still doesn‘t work. Is it because I use 13th gen Intel? Anyone maybe knows how to solve?

I'm on Win 11 and I had a little talk with a friend of mine saying and he quoted, "The second you link with someone who has the service running, battleye will just kick you out."

Is there a workaround or how do we get around this?

The only thing I can really think of is if some super popular software becomes completely windows only without any possibility of running through proton or wine or something. I do see the KLAC problem to be an issue with gamers, but more something that slows adoption not necessarily stopping it.

Do games run better generally speaking? Im new to using Linux? Should I just run proton by default?

So, regarding my previous post, at last, I was successful in my (kinda) complicated way of gaming on Linux.

I've jumped through a moderate amount of hoops, but in the end I was able pass my RTX 3060 into the KVM and also made Looking Glass work properly (took me the longest), so here are my notes:

1. If you want to keep your santiy, DO NOT USE the master branch of Looking Glass as they mention it in the docs, use the "Release/B7" branch (at the moment), otherwise the linux client won't see the windows host application no matter what you do, the master branch is 190 commits ahead of the latest stable release of B7 and the windows host application IS on the latest stable release of B7, you need to match the versions exactly.
2. MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX II does in fact support proper IOMMU grouping, so your GPU will 100% appear in a separate IOMMU group that you can safely pass into the VM as PCIe devices.
3. Nvidia's Error 43 is easily avoidable (in fact, I never ran into it) by just checking "Copy host CPU configuration (host-passthrough)" option under "CPUs" confugration in the KVM (or edit XML config accordingly).
4. Make sure you've configured your ufw properly (or just straight up disabled it), especially If you're on CachyOS, as it blocks all incoming connections by default so KVM's virtual connection just won't work.
5. Still have no clue how to properly acquire rights to the /dev/kvmfr0 file, so I just winged it and chown'ed it to the root, it works so I don't care.
6. Also, you'll probably need an HDMI/DP dummy plug, because Windows won't turn your GPU on until there's a display connected to it (smh).
7. Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 is a CHUNKY BOI, it also requires 6+8 PSU connectors, which I don't have so it only runs on 8 pin connector, still works though, I doubt that it will ever get enough load to require additional power in general, yet I still ordered a new PSU that has enough connectors (probablt could've used an adapter from 6/8 pins to 6+2 x2, but I doubt their quality)

So in the end, ~100 FPS on the half of Ryzen 5 5600X cores and RTX 3060 with DLSS and framegen enabled on max settings, the difference is like ~10 FPS compared to bare windows install, the bottleneck is the CPU, because I give the VM like 3 cores and 6 threads only.

Had to use my 2nd display for RTX 3060 to it turns on, already ordered a dummy hdmi plug

https://preview.redd.it/7bg37x2shxeg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=e72d0dcbd074a5754564003f3d183908637f68db

I started a post on Bungie forums to help vocalize Linux gaming community on why its important to have linux support marathon.

Estoy en busca de 2 personas para mi familia, que sean de chile ya que si no estoy mal informado solo se pueden de el país de que uno es.... Gente interesada hablenme al priv o en los comentarios

had no issue whatsoever with the base game and the two Daud DLCs, but the Trials one keeps crashing, no matter what. this is the error i got recently:

https://preview.redd.it/zy48sdmkaxeg1.png?width=326&format=png&auto=webp&s=08ad63b080f4a3ac45e4e93cd7ae756105b3c3e2

tried it with multiple proton versions, and everything.

this error message was with GE10-28

gamemoderun DXVK_FRAME_RATE=120 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 WAYLANDDRV_PRIMARY_MONITOR=DP-1 %command% -windowed -nostartupmovies