I have used Linux (Mint back in 2019 on an old laptop) before and really enjoyed it. I have a gaming PC and it seems most of my games per the proton page are gold or better. I am leery about swapping my gaming laptop to a linux gaming distro and am wondering about everyone's experience with gaming on linux.

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As the title implies and the video shows which i videoed instead of screen recorded because the video captured would be very weirdly normal, no lag or anything. the video on the right monitor was to show the whole pc freezing instead of just the game lagging.

This happens for all my games, minecraft as an example to show not steam specific.

However, for some reason the pc does not have the same issues when being played on the second monitor (Old Vizio E320i-B2 2014 TV). Which begs the question. Why does it freeze my whole pc if its my monitor.

Anyone have ideas on how to fix this?

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My specs:

Kubuntu 24.04 (Ubuntu with KDE Plasma)

NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super
AMD Ryzen 7
16 GB RAM

Hey y'all

I am having an issue with No Man's Sky and No Man's Sky ONLY where the game would freeze up, I would get stuttering audio and this would essentially lock my computer for 10 minutes or so until the game finally crashes and I regain control over my system. During that time period, nothing works, neither Alt+ F4, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Esc nor can I open the terminal.
The timing of these freezes seems completely random - I have played for four continuous hours before just fine some times but some times the game froze on the initial loading screen from the main menu.

This does not happen with any other game. I have asked people in No Man's Sky specific communities and no one could replicate that issue. Nor does any comment on ProtonDB mention crashes like these.

So far I have tried:

• Checking ProtonDB for recommended Steam launch options and Proton versions
• Using GE Proton
• Using any of the built-in Protons including Experimental
• Using Feral Game Mode (and enabling it in Steam launch settings)
• Tinkering with my video game settings
  • One user suggested the issue might lie with NVIDIA's DLAA anti-aliasing and they got better results with DLSS. My game lasted longer on DLSS but it still crashes
  • Another suggested a difference between Borderless Fullscreen and just Fullscreen but it still crashes with both
• Changing the memory allocated to the game through Steam's launch options - both a limit to 8 GB and a dynamic memory allocation yielded no long term fix
• Using xWayland rather than x11. It seems better for a bit but after a while the crashes return. Curiously, I had the same experience once I returned to using x11 from Wayland
  • Ubuntu 24.04 and Wayland seemingly don't get along and there is no fixing that
• Checked that everything was up to date. All apps, NVIDIA drivers, GE Proton, No Man's Sky, Steam

This leads me to believe it might be some kind of memory leak - especially since crashes occur quickly when entering areas with a lot of complex geometry (i.e. the Space Anomaly, a multiplayer hub). But I am not confident in that diagnosis at all.

Any ideas?

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Every now and then when I'm playing a game on Steam, anything really, it will crash my system and require a hard restart. It will freeze, blink off the monitor, and come back on and remain frozen. Input and output audio will still work. Every time it happens, I get a similar error to what is below. What can I do to fix this?

The package providing /home/torchead/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Counter-Strike could not be found.

The package providing /home/torchead/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam could not be found.

If you want to generate a stack trace for this crash report, please reinstall it.

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Hey everyone. I know I already posted. But I wanted to know. Both work great out of the box. But I just wanna game and scroll the web on Linux plus using blender. Which would be best?

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Couple of my buddies switched on over to CachyOS and Mint. I’m tempted to follow them after being burnt out with Windows but worried I’ll miss out on things I use like VR, Wallpaper Engine, HDR, support for external controllers for things like flight simulators, and NVIDA compatibility.

How’s everyone experience with Linux and has it been a pretty seamless transition? I don’t want to switch entirely in case something I use just doesn’t work out of the box but at the same time I want something different and more technical to learn for greater freedom.

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Can anyone maybe hint to me how to do VR on Linux? I feel like i have tried so many solutions that work sometimes and then don’t

For clarity i run arch and my headset is a quest 3

SteamVR (the wireless streaming app) sometimes works great often it crashes

WiVrn works but something is up with the audio being.. crunchy.. also a lot of games don’t launch into view?

ALVR seems to work the most often but it has no async space time so.. it’s not ideal

What am I missing?

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I just installed Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon and I'm unable to use my corded headphones through my controller anymore. Is there an application or fix to facilitate this?

The controller: PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller for Xbox Series X|S

PC: Ryzen 9 3950x, RTX 2080super, 64 gig Gskill ram, Asus ROG mother board.

Headphones: Turtle Beach Recon50P corded 3.5mm jack

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I just picked up a legion go S today and wanted to control the rgb with openrgb, I ran the flatpack and immediately my screen turned extra bright gray and in both gaming and desktop mode I have this sorta burn in effect going on. I Uninstalled the flaptak, rebooted, changed from steam os beta back to stable to see if that would fix it, and it's still an issue. I've only been using this thing for 5 hours since unboxing so it can't be real burn in, plus it's lcd. What do I do to fix it. You can see at the top left of my screen Spiderman remastered is showing through firefoz

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About to make the switch from Windows to Linux for my home PC, which is primarily a gaming rig. My current PC is currently rocking Corsair keyboard and mouse all configured with iCue software and prior to that I was using Razer..

I'd like to get away from peripherals that require OS level software, as a lot of brands seem to not officially support Linux installations.

I came across Ducky keyboards which look great, just wondering what other people are using here for gaming?

I prefer full size 100% Keyboards, and mice with extra buttons.

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One feature I’m looking for in my newly installed Nobara is the ability to tweak specific settings for games; framerate, vsync, etc.

In Windows you can set specific settings through Nvidia Control Panel, is there anything like this for Linux? Using a 4070.

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I am fairly new to Linux, only having recently switched from Windows. I was tinkering a little with Wine, when I looked in the ~/.wine folder and realized it wasn't mounting all of my laptop's drives. Not realizing Wine had a GUI configuration screen, I manually adjusted the dos_devices folder to reflect how I wanted my drives mounted, and following a restart it appears to have broken all versions of Wine installed on my computer. This includes Proton, so trying to run the applications I want under Steam is out of the question. Specifically, Wine will run very slowly and hang in it's initialization stage (I think?), although Proton more often just gives up before the application can launch.

Graphics info:

- Integrated Graphics Card/Processor: Intel Core i5 10th generation

- Deferred Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX 1650 Ti (the drivers were set up following https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA)

I have tried the following to fix Wine:

- Reinstalling Wine

- Reinstalling Proton

- Trying different official Proton versions

- Trying Proton-GE

- Reinstalling Steam

- Clearing the Steam Cache(s)

- Clearing ~/.cache

- Clearing ~/.wine

- Launching games with PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 and/or PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1

None of them have worked.

I have tried the following Games/Applications through both standard Wine and Proton:

- Deltarune

- Escape the Backrooms

- Hammer

- Hammer++

- VTFEdit

All of these Games/Applications were working before, and are now either now launching at all or take forever to launch.

Possible clues:

- I have confirmed that Vulkan at least semi-works from running vkcube, but running vulkaninfo | grep DRIVER_ID_MESA_RADV returns something rather interesting:

WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Received return code -3 from call to vkCreateInstance in ICD /usr/lib64/libvulkan_dzn.so. Skipping this driver.

- Trying to run Deltarune under bog standard Wine, after about 3-4 minutes, actually launched. There was no sound, and the game window was entirely black, but it was infact running semi-properly (pressing enter actually launched Chapter 1).

Resources:

- Steam log from trying to run Deltarune (Was not terminated by me): https://pastebin.com/tgG1z4aR

- Wine console output from trying to run Deltarune (Manually terminated by me): https://pastebin.com/VzxyU1au

If anyone could help out with this, in any capacity, it would be greatly appreciated!

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Hi. I wonder if you could help out here? I'm running MXLinux on a Dell XPS 8930 with an nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 and 64 gigs of RAM. This problem has occurred with a few Steam games. I tried the default Proton Experimental compatibility layer and also Proton 9.0-4. The game loads to 100% and then suddenly blips off and disappears. It's definitely not running in the background because each time I restart the game, it does the same thing: loads to 100% and then blips off. I really want to play this game because of its Myst vibe. Any clues as to how I can get this to run? I am not an experienced gamer so I'm at a loss for troubleshooting.

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https://preview.redd.it/2ibidejy2i1g1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d7ab11f311a66d3d9e9e6f0bc287c507104c937

after the horrible experience with windows 11 ( lags - frame drops - crashes - stutters )
it became really worthless i was afraid of switching to Linux because of lacking game support
but i said am not gonna lose anything because i cant play anyway
i was amazed how easy was the setup and all of those games worked out of the box and even better than ever
no stutter at all and smooth experience
am still struggling to get retroarch works well but not an issue at all because its just lack of knowledge

cachyos
ryzen 5700x3d
rx 6800 xt

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so i want to use a vr to play steamvr games throught alvr and steamvr won't start. I have used a lot of proton and it still won't launch. Does anyone have anything that can help?

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I'm kind of a basic bitch so I like to use KDE, specifically the Wayland version because of all the added features. It usually plays better with my TV when I plug my PC in and other such things.

I've noticed that sometimes when using the Wayland version that the UI and mouse cursor in games just doesn't work. Sometimes the mouse works and none of the UI buttons work. Sometimes the mouse cursor won't even show up. Sometimes there are no issues and everything works as expected. If any issues do pop up I can log out and run an X11 KDE session and the issue is always resolved.

Has anyone run into this or can explain what is going on? This isn't an issue but I am curious to learn more and see if/how Wayland presents problems for Linux gaming in the future

Side note: inevitably people will ask what Distro I am using and what my SW setup is etc, I use Arch Linux and regularly install updates via pacman. I tend to use the pacman repos for everything (no flatpaks) and I tend to always use Proton-GE for all my games since it is very stable. I also use asdf for grabbing the latest Proton-GEs

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I bought a Steam Deck and I'm in love with the system. Every game I play seems to have no stuttering or freezing issues.

Is this thanks to Linux? I'm thinking of installing this Bazzite on my PC, and is it better than Windows 11 for gaming?

Can I install any mods as well?

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I bought a Steam Deck and I'm in love with the system. Every game I play seems to have no stuttering or freezing issues.

Is this thanks to Linux? I'm thinking of installing Bazzite on my PC and is it better than Windows 11 for gaming?

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Connex is a Wi-Fi manager built with GTK3 and NetworkManager.
It provides a clean interface, a CLI mode, and smooth integration with Linux desktops.

Features: - Simple and modern GTK3 interface
- Connect, disconnect, and manage Wi-Fi networks
- Hidden network support
- Connection history
- Built-in speedtest
- Command-line mode
- QR code connection

GitHub: https://github.com/lluciocc/connex

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