Used Windows for a few weeks for something for work, forgot how much I enjoyed having Discord overlay in Windows and being able to read messages from people on there w/o having to alt-tab out of the game to see them. Does something like this exist in Linux? I tried overlayed but it just kinda doesn't do anything?

I'm on a fresh install of Fedora (KDE) and I downloaded DuckStation via its flathub listing on Discover. I know the creator of the emulator made comments about not wanting to support Linux even though newer builds are available.

When I launch DuckStation I'm immediately greeted with an update screen. When I go to update it, I get sent to the project's GitHub releases page. If I download the flatpak and open it up, I'm just brought back to DuckStation in Discover where I can only uninstall the app.

Anyone please help me to fix this issue. I am running tomb raider 2013 downloaded from fitgirl repack in steam, i did set-up also using stream but game is not lunching. I tried proton 9 and experimental nothing worked.

I also tried Lutris with wine and proton, but its also not lunching in lurtis.

I tried running same game files on windows its running on windows without any issues thats means there is no issue with game files.

I logged proton logs but nothing found about actual issue.

Someone please guide me..

Os: ubutnu 24.04 Steam : Debian package

No more background, larger text and changed colors. You can get the config file on my github: https://github.com/ihpsm/junkyard/blob/main/MangoHud.conf

Previous version was renamed to MangoHud.conf_legacy, it's still available on the same github repository. You can see the screenshots of previous version here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ldz4y9/want_to_share_my_mangohud_config_because_i_think/

Hi,

As the owner of a 7900 XTX and someone who likes to tinker with my computer, I couldn’t go on without trying to use FSR4 with my RDNA3 card. Below, I’m sharing my testing, these numbers are only from the Cyberpunk benchmark.

Hardware:

• Intel 13600K
• 32Gb DDR5 6000Mhz CL30
• AMD 7900 XTX
• Monitor Resolution 1440p

Software:

• Windows 11 Pro with Adrenalin 25.6.1
• Nobara with Mesa 25.3.00 and Proton-EM-10.0-2C
• Cyperpunk 2077 V2.3 with RT Ultra Preset and Ultra Preset (no RT)

Notes:

• Nat.W = Native Windows
• Nat.L = Native Linux
• FSR3W = FSR 3 on Windows
• FSR3L = FSR 3 on Linux
• FSR4L = FSR 4 on Linux

https://preview.redd.it/g9sjmfoixzif1.png?width=1588&format=png&auto=webp&s=6838ee47c3766d0260072480a94bc5b66418a3dc

Opinions:

• There is a performance impact just from going from Windows to Linux, which I believe is due to RT, as is well known from other tests.
• FSR4 Performance has very decent image quality, perfectly playable, and in my opinion better than FSR3 Quality. I usually play this game in native resolution because I hate shimmering, but FSR4 handles shimmering very well (especially when the image is static, whereas FSR3 looks bad even with static images).
• FSR4 Ultra Performance is not worth it, as the image quality is very poor.
• The impact of going from FSR3 to FSR4 on Linux is much lower than I expected (arround 10%), I’m very impressed with the work put into this endeavour (huge thanks to everyone involved!).
• In my opinion, if I wanted to play CP with RT Ultra, I would definitely go with Linux and FSR4 Performance.

https://preview.redd.it/b06wpqhkxzif1.png?width=1466&format=png&auto=webp&s=7f0352241ef3a4b025096515064959fe60259872

Opinions:

• Not really an opinion, but a fact, the gap between Windows and Linux performance disappears without RT, with Linux actually performing better. However, my Windows installation is far from “fresh”, unlike Nobara, so keep that in mind.
• For some reason, with FSR Native the minimum FPS are much worse in Linux compared to other presets, and I have no idea why.
• FSR4 Quality is on par with Native, and sometimes even looks “cleaner” than Native.
• The performance impact from FSR3 to FSR4 is very small, around 14%. For a single-player game, this is a non-issue when we’re already well above 100 FPS.
• If I had to choose, I would go with Linux and FSR4 Quality, capping the FPS to 80 or 90 to give the GPU a break.

Bonus:

Also make a quick test with Witcher 3 Next Gen and Optiscaller:

RT Ultra preset, also at 1440p, with the upscale preset set to Performance. The FPS values are from a single spot, I didn’t have time to do proper testing, but it’s enough to get an idea of what to expect.

• FSR3: ~86fps
• XESS: ~84fps
• FSR: ~78fps

Image:

• Left: FSR 3
• Middle: XeSS
• Right: FSR 4

You can see below that FSR4 retains more detail in the leaf.

https://preview.redd.it/3d99371xxzif1.png?width=1622&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d54a16151baa097770729bb080bddc302c19d54

Also, in the image below, FSR4 is able to retain the thin leaf branch and overall detail.

https://preview.redd.it/5xul5fhzxzif1.png?width=1581&format=png&auto=webp&s=953955850215dd7a6c115bbc5a564aecaffcf871

I'm currently playing The Witcher 3 for the second time, and I will definitely move my saves to Linux to play using FSR4.

Let’s hope AMD will bring this officially, maybe when they have other “selling features” for RDNA4 besides better upscaling, they will release it for RDNA3. It’s more than proven that it’s perfectly viable to use, achieving better performance than Native even at lower resolutions than 4K (like my example at 1440p) while delivering great visuals.

Also, thanks to the YouTuber, and my Portuguese compatriot, Ancient Gameplays for the video setting everything up, it definitely saved me some time.

Edit: Tables as images

Hello everyone,
I’m running CachyOS with KDE Plasma (Wayland) on a Ryzen 5700X3D and Radeon 7800XT.

Most games on Proton run fine, sometimes even better than on Windows. But Minecraft, the game that should benefit the most, runs poorly.

With Sodium, it goes from 30 fps to 400 fps on Linux, but on Windows I get around 900 fps with Sodium and 200 fps without. Using VulkanMod, which switches to Vulkan, I see ~1500 fps on Linux versus ~1000 fps on Windows.

400 fps isn’t bad, but with shaders it’s still worse than Windows. Is poor OpenGL performance normal on Linux, or did I mess up the drivers? I’ve tried both Mesa and Mesa-git.

I dont play many games that have ray tracing, and most games work OOTB in my experience, but my performance tanks whenever I try to enable ray tracing in Control. Like from 60+ fps to a solid 2 fps.

I've already beat Control, so its not a big deal if it just straight-up doesnt work. I just switch to linux as my primary OS a little over a month ago, and I'm just taking steps to distance myself further from windows. It's not a major issue if it doesnt work, i've already beat Control lol; I'm just asking in case another game releases some time down the line and I want to enable it.

My current configuration is:
- Fedora 42 Workstation (Wayland)
- GE-Proton-10.11
- Nvidia RTX 3070ti

So I have tried to install World of Warships through Lutris, and it doesn't seem to complete the install on it's end. I installed the launcher, downloaded the game and am able to play it, but it won't exit the install script from Lutris and if I click abort it deletes everything. I have the errors shown above, but I'm not able to find anything helpful online.

I have some questions about this controller. I use Debian 13 BTW. I have not used a controller in like 10 years and never used one on pc so I am a complete noob when it comes to controllers.

I am looking to play some old lego games like lego city undercover which have horrible keyboard support. I am going to add these games to steam as a non steam game or ran in bottles (definitely not forced free licensed "open source" software).

1. I am assuming it works with normal steam, is that correct?
2. Does it work with the flatpak version of steam?
3. Does it work in flatpak bottles out of the box? If not is it possible to get it to work?
4. Anything else I should be aware of as a controller noob?

Hello to all the community!

So, I come here because I have a problem, I'm trying to adjust the RGB on my config. So I installed the experimental version from the official OpenRGB website (appimage). I can run it without sudo but it only displays and controls the RGB of the graphics card (3080FE). So I wanted to run it using sudo and I got this error (see photo). I try Do a grep | display as you can see in the photo and everything looks correct so I don't understand lol. I tried with the pacman version before it did the same so it's not a problem linked to the Appimage. The other applications work well, I use Steam, LM-Studio, Librewolf, I have never had this problem...

Here are my specifications:

Case: BeQuiet! Light Base 900DX

Motherboard: Aorus B850 Elite Ice

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7700

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founder Edition

RAM: Kingston Fury Beast RGB (32GB) - 16x2

SSD: SK-Hynix Platinium P41 (1TB)

CPU cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360mm

Fan :

Arctic P12 120mm (HIGH - AIO)

Phanteks P30 140mm Reverse Blade (Side and Bottom)

Phanteks P30 140mm Regular (Rear)

Power supply: Lian-li Edge 850W Platinum

Screen: HyperX Armada 27" (165Hz - 1440p)

Keyboard: Rog Azoth Moonlight

Mouse: Roccat Kone Aimo Remastered

I would like to control the RGB without having to download Windows or access the bios (it doesn't have the option anyway apparently). I also want the RGB music visualizer because it looks cool. But my first objective is that it detects all my RGB devices including my motherboard... (I hope very much because I know that with Gigabyte it's hard)... Afterwards I saw no one talking about my motherboard with OpenRGB so I don't know if it works or not (even experimental)... But already I would like to be able to start OpenRGB in Root to test (hoping not to damage my hardware because it scares all the stories from some people!).

Any help is appreciated, Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,

https://preview.redd.it/znuwgd5e9zif1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=384d2ba7d6889081e5c612eacdb24abecbac3ef7

help me with ubisoft connect please. im trying to play WD on arch, im using GE-Proton 9 on it. i just login normaly to UC but they gave me message "connection lost" "A ubisoft service is curently unavailable. Please try again leter." and if i click the Try Again button its just stuck on "initializing..." just like in the photo. any solution?

You know the things like steam tinker launch, Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris... I use none of them because I wanted a simple setup.

I installed battle net launcher by adding the installer to steam as a non-steam game, then I just had to re-launch the installer to launch the launcher. I was like, the games won't start right? Well, they do start without additional efforts.

I then installed epic games launcher the same way, but this time I copied the launcher to ~/Applications to tidy things a bit, removed the installed from steam and added the launcher instead.
Once again, games are working without effort.

On the internet, almost all the tutorials tells us to install one of the tool I talked about above, to use epic launcher, but I don't understand why. Steam itself is powerfull enough to use almost any windows program. I used it to install PowerISO because their native linux version was not working, for example.

I did not find ANY game that would not run on linux, that's really impressive... Sometimes you have performances troubles, but you can almost always fix them.

Thank you, steam, for making a linux game console that forced you to work on game compatibility on linux !

Hello,

I'd like to change my distribution to something more powerful for gaming (and potentially which will not crash when I want to customize a little and because I know Mint isn't that great for gaming). I've read a few things here and there, especially the FAQ, and I'm still not sure. I can't really use gaming distros like Bazzite or Nobara since I'm a student and need development tools.

I'm attaching my configuration if it helps.

Anyway, if you have any advice or feedback, I'd be grateful. Thank you.

https://preview.redd.it/znr4czi37zif1.png?width=843&format=png&auto=webp&s=2ae25edbcda94c52f419e51d452937c4adc258ec

i tried looking around for this answer but found conflicting info

i first read that gsync doesnt exist on wayland and only x11 because nvidia hasnt prioritized porting gsync to wayland yet, hence the "nvidia x server settings" being pretty barebones on wayland compared to x11

i then read somewhere else that gsync only works if you have one monitor active, regardless of whether x11 or wayland is used, but that this would be fixed in an upcoming nvidia driver? not sure what the current status of this situation is

i did some digging in the KDE settings on my own and found a setting called "adaptive sync" for my primary monitor with the options "never", "automatic", and "always". theres also a setting called "screen tearing" at the bottom of the page. i dont know why its enabled by default nor the option to allow screen tearing exists to begin with. arent we trying to mitigate screen tearing when gaming? both of these options are under "display configuration" in KDE

id appreciate a definitive answer as to how i can enable gsync here because im genuinely confused after i did my own research.

as a side note, i know blur busters recommends to enable gsync and enable vsync globally in the nvcp in windows, and im wondering if theres an equivalent setup on bazzite.

tl;dr i did my own research and got even more confused on how to enable gsync, if its even possible to begin with

The title essentially.

I tried GE Proton 8-16 which works fine, but lacks behind the newer ones. So does anyone know what the best latest Proton is that Genshin works with?

Also someone said GE Proton 10-10 works, but sadly that didn't did I maybe do something wrong?

Game is installed via Lutris with the official game launcher