I've just bought a used Dell Precision 3560 with in Intel i7-1165G7 with 8GB DDR4 (planning on putting 8 more GB) with integrated Iris Graphics, I know it's not the best, but I want to do some light gaming, nothing too much, I've already installed Pika OS which is similar to CachyOS with it's gaming-centric kernel and optimizations, and I know my processor supports modern graphics API's like Vulkan and OpenGL. But I want to know what other things I could use to optimize it more.

I am using AMD 7900xt gpu with AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor, 32 gb ram on Fedora 32 and having really high gpu usage and lag in raids when i am playing arc radiers. Sometimes it just works and sometimes it gets really laggy that i have to quit the game and reopen it.

This is quite a long list so I won't be copying it here.

If I remember correctly, this release has explicit sync now (instead of implicit sync) in codepaths. Also a change where reference counting has been changed to explicit ownership (big thing for Zink users).

This is from what I remember reading before so don't quote me on that.

When I got my new PC, I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon as a temporary OS, just so that I can copy all of my files over from my old PC, since I only had a Linux Mint install drive lying around. Eventually, I found it too troublesome to copy all of my old files to my new drive, so I just stuck with Linux. I didn't mind it, except for the fact that I couldn't play some games like PUBG, Fortnite, etc. due to kernel-level anticheat.

Today, I wanted to test out whether it was true that games perform better in Linux than in Windows, so I decided to test 3 games/benchmarks in Linux Mint and in Windows 10.

Firstly, Unigine Superposition benchmark. At 4K Optimized, High settings, I was surprised to see that Windows actually got a better score; 20399 compared to 17830 on Linux, which represents a ~14% advantage. In terms of FPS, a similar difference is seen.

Secondly, Minecraft with SEUS PTGI shaders, at 4K High settings, Linux proved to perform better than Windows; 65fps compared to 58fps, looking at the same direction at the same coordinate in the same seed. This represents a ~12% advantage for Linux. Interestingly, Minecraft with SEUS in Windows has a weird glitch in the water reflection: you can see in the left side of the screenshot. This glitch is nonexistent in Linux.

Lastly, a roughly 10 minute game of CS2 in the Dust II map: this game is quite inconsistent in terms of FPS, but somehow, Windows has a ~30% lead over Linux in this game: 279fps compared to 195fps.

I've always heard that Linux performs better than Windows in gaming, but Linux seems to perform much worse in Superposition and CS2. But maybe my sample size of games isn't large enough. Still, I don't know why this is happening. Am I doing something wrong here?

My PC's parts:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Swooferfan/saved/WmN6qs

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, -25 curve optimizer PBO | CPU Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX | Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 | Storage: Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 2 TB for Linux Mint, Timetec 35TTFP6PCIE 512GB for Windows 10 | Video Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 9070 XT, -100mV voltage offset | Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case | Power Supply: Montech CENTURY II 850 W

Recently switched from Windows 11 to Linux for gaming. Actually made a post earlier regarding some of the issues I have. I used Arch in the past but moved back to windows. Decided to move back to Linux just cause. Tried OpenSUSE, CachyOS, and base Arch Linux.

I need to prefice... I use Linux almost everyday in both work and personal applications. I am certified Linux and have actually created tools for hacking in Linux (I do red team work).

How is gaming better on Linux? My fps in all 3 OS's dropped. World of Warcraft, Hunt Showdown, and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. My PC has a 9800X3D, 7900XTX, 32GB DDR5 @ 6000MT/s. Tried everything in my power from testing different drivers, setting CPU core speeds, OC GPU, updating everything, trying various versions of Proton/Wine. Nothing improved my performance.

WoW Win11 = 250fps (1440p at High) CachyOS = 125fps (1440p at High) OpenSUSE = 90fps (1440p at Medium) Arch = 131fps (1440p at High)

Hunt Showdown Win11 = 181 (1440p at High) CachyOS = 95 (1440p at Medium-High)

This is all not to mention the amount of effort it took just to even get it running. I have 3 main drives, one for OS, one for games, and one for everything else. I can't install wow through steam because it installs the environment on my boot drive and I can't force steam to install a non-steam game in another drive.

I tried lutris. Literally nothing worked with lutris. Tried faugus... This eventually worked, but I had to install protonplus, install various versions of Proton then set faugus to use those during the installation. Funny thing, the built installer for battle.net in faugus didn't work. No matter what it failed the install. So I had to launch the battle.net setup using faugus, install the app, then create a "Windows app" in faugus to launch the newly install battle.net app. Then it worked.

The fact I just spent 6 hours across 2 days to configure something to even work, before getting a massive reduction in fps sucks. On top of that, the various inconveniences of Linux aren't great. I have an mmo mouse for WoW... Drivers are only on windows. So I have to boot up a windows device, install the drivers, configure and commit settings to the mouse, then I can use it.

I hate windows and Microsoft. I love Linux. But gaming is still prime on windows. The accessibility and ease of use (and somehow better performance) has pushed me away from gaming on Linux.

I still use it for production and work related tasks which I think Linux is great for but it's not ready for gaming until hardware and game devs start putting in the effort.

So, messing around and wanted to see if battle.net launcher worked through steam (been quite a while since I’ve tried). So added the launcher install exe as non game and forced ge compatibility. All good! So I installed classic and went to launch it and it just crashes. So I thought “add wow as non game and force compatibility”…..this is where my problem lies, I cannot find the exe for wow…anywhere!

I’ve looked in my .steam folder and in all the relevant folders that games are normally in but I cannot find if for the life of me. If this was regular wine I roughly remember how to navigate the .wine folders to find games but I’m just lost when it comes to steams handling of this. Has anyone done this and know where in the holy hell wow installed to?

I've been thinking about how well gaming on Linux is and the sheer number of games that just work. When I made the switch in Late 2021 there were games in my library that would not run. At the time It was either that the game didn't work at all or was because I have an NVIDIA GPU that was causing issues.

-My History-

Games I remember having issues with were Assetto Corsa and Forza Horizon 5. Assetto Corsa just didnt work at all and FH5 was constantly crashing with NVIDIA GPU's. Trackmania also had some weird performance issues on my 1000-Series GPU.

Since then, Assetto +Content Manager (With a bit of setup) works as well as FH5.

The only games now, in my experience, that do not work are all games with some form of Anti-Cheat. Rainbow 6 Siege, GTA Online, Tom Clancy's Wildlands, The Crew 2.

While GTA & Wildlands do work for single player its still upsetting that online functionality is crippled by Anti-Cheat Incompatibility.

-The Big Question-

Is Anti-Cheat the last hurdle for gaming on Linux? Are there any other technical boundaries that still need to be overcome? The only thing I can think of is maybe DX12 Performance on some games. Are there any games that do not work & the issue is NOT Anti-Cheat Related

I believe the lack of support from games with Anti-Cheat is really holding back the potential growth of a lot of gamers. While the number of incompatible games is small it really limits the potential growth by a lot. Fortnite, Battlefield, Valorant, etc, are not small games by any means.

For me, Rainbow 6 and GTA Online are the only reason I have a windows installation. Dual booting is super easy but I can understand why less technically inclined individuals wouldn't set that up, its more friction to using their PC. Most people don't care that much about what system/OS they are using as long as it works. Someone may enjoy the Linux desktop more but if its not going to work with a game that they & their friends play then that's a huge deal breaker.

-Thank you-

Thanks for taking the time to read my post, I'd love to hear what you think. I'm just a nerd that's passionate about computers/Linux & wants to have a discussion.

windowed works fine btw

Using uxtu in windows I was able to get up to 3100 on my gpu (760m amd). Is there any chance to get same results on Linux? (Cachyos). Ryzenadj didn’t worked for me (set max gfxclq freq isn’t supported on this family)

So I am going to try out linux (again) and wondering. How is Steam games working ? I am not a "hard" gamer - but play civilization 3, 5, 6, and 7. Will they work out of the box with Linux Mint ? what steps should I make to prepare to game? I am using a ThinkPad L13 Yoga Gen 4 with a dock and 2 2560x1440 Samsung monitors

I'm on an hp Chromebook running flatpak so i download sober cuz why not, and when I try to run it it says "Sober couldn't find a supported graphics. You may need to install additional drivers to make it work. You might have to run "flatpak update" in a terminal (which I did) to make Sober recognize your graphics device". What can or should I do

settings > interface > enable gpu accelerated rendering web views >restart now... boom, semi transparent steam how do i fix this (pop!_os just in case it might be a me issue)

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Frist off, thanks for all your help and quick responses here. I don't want to crucify either of us, just need a sanity check here.

I had a problem and one of the generous souls asked why I kept trying different distros when the I couldn't find any errors in the logs, instead of using just fedora or another more mainline linux distro.

I went from Mint to Arch to Bazzite to Omrachy. I explained that I though they were more specialized for gaming and thereby might help solve w/e issue I was having.

He seems to think I'm crazy for thinking that.

I recently switched from Windows 11 to Ubuntu 25.10 and I'm having issues with my audio. I've tried Fallout 4 and I get some audio during the start up animation but its very quiet, and when I'm actually in game there's nothing at all. Other applications have no issues, firefox plays audio from youtube, discord notifications work fine. The issues is just with steam games as far as I can tell.

switched to linux and want some recommendations like useful softwares, alternative to lenovo vantage.

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found GPU TGP was set to 60w which is designed to use 95w at max.

manged to fix it using nvidia-powerd which boosted it to 80w but i want to fully maxed it out. Learned about LenovoLegionLinux(LLL) but i have some questions about compatibility. would appreciate if you guys have any workaround for it.

Hi everyone,
If someone is / was having an issue with GTA Vice City, please take a look.
I made a fix for Unhandled exception: c0000005 At address: 00597a5d in GTA Vice City.

The game was crashing on every linux distro, every proton version I have tried, so I took a look on the mod itself and Framerate Vigilante was causing this crash.
Here is the fixed version by me:
https://github.com/shaneomac1337/FramerateVigilante-Fixed/releases/tag/VigilanteFixed

I don't know if there's an obvious solution I'm missing, but I cannot seem to get some Ultrawide games to run properly in hyprland. I've tried a bunch of stuff, so I'll go through what I have tried, and maybe someone knows what I'm missing. Some work just fine, I can play Jed: Survivor with no issue, but Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't work. Here's everything I've tried RE: Cyberpunk.

Firstly, my hyprland config has the monitor properly set:

First thing I did was just google, and I came across this issue with an unsurprisingly unhelpful response. I'm not running xorg and thus don't have xrandr, so I don't really know what he means by that, and no amount of searching led to any answers. Maybe this is the solution, but I have no clue what it really means in this context.

So next I tried gamescope, which got me a lot closer, but still no luck. I tried a couple of combinations of flags. Setting -W,-w,-H,-h, and -f got me correct output, and the game could run, but the cursor was locked to the centre 1920 pixels of my screen, meaning I couldn't turn my character at all or reach certain menus. I tried using --force-grab-cursor, but not only does that not fix the cursor being locked to the centre, it causes the actual rendering of the game to freeze every couple of seconds, and only alt-tabbing repeatedly causes rendering to resume. It's not a workaround though, because it just freezes again after a few more seconds of stuttering.

A few other details that I doubt matter that much, but I will point out, is that I'm running NixOS unstable, with the nixpkgs version of hyprland, and I have a recent-ish Nvidia GPU with the most up-to-date drivers available to me. If anyone has any advice, I'd be happy to hear it.

Oh, and I can play it just fine in Gnome (wayland session), so I suspect this has something to do with the ways that hyprland and gnome set up xwayland respectively, but I am not certain by any means.

Last year Apex decided to block Linux players from playing the game and unfortunately they saw a big decrease in the amount of cheaters.

https://esports.gg/news/apex-legends/respawn-reveal-linux-ban-reduced-number-of-apex-cheaters-by-33/

I think we can assume that Linux gamers are not more likely to cheat but people were using the openness of our platform to more easily cheat. This made me think, would creating a Native Linux version of the game rather than using the Proton translation layer to play, create the same amount of cheating? I don't have the necessary technical background to understand if that would create a difference, if any, in the amount of cheaters. What do you think would be the implications of such a change in the Linux gaming scene? Would it create any difference?

I need help with install it and make it work. I tried bottles and faugus but didnt work. I think is because of my lack of knlowledge. Anyone?

Was thinking about new Stream machine having only 8Gb of VRAM, googled up about how Steam Deck handles memory for APU, and suddenly realized Valve has theirs own memory management layer in SteamOS.

Whole graphical subsystem uses Vulkan plus Mesa3D and it should be absolutely possible using DMA Buffer zero copy to allocate some system RAM for GPU to use as VRAM in addition to dedicated VRAM. I have a strong feeling Valve did something like this on this new Steam machine, coupled with some smart management like leaving frequently used data in fast VRAM while moving rarely accessed data to RAM buffer allocated for VRAM data.

If that's the case then Steam machine might have absolutely zero issues running games which require up to 12, maybe even up to 16GB of VRAM as SteamOS on its own uses only around 1.5GB of RAM and the rest is available for user. Does anyone have any information on it, is it a plausible assumption?