Guys i just switched to fedora from windows. i loved it but gaming part is problem. i just installed cs2 on my laptop. rtx 4060 with the newest drivers i get 150fps which is so ok. but there is hella ghosting. how can i fix that.

To preface this, I am terrible at tech. My partner installed Linux for me and had to teach me a few things before I could even use it. If you know what to do, please explain like I'm incompetent lol.

I'm trying to play the Sims 4 from steam, no mods, no piracy, nothing. When I try to run the game it either gets stuck in the launcher on some install thing or says the game's running despite there being nothing on my screen aside from my steam library.

I've tried different Proton versions, uninstalling and reinstalling, and clearing my steam cache. Nothing has worked.

The images are of my system information and pictures of the problem. Let me know if there's any more information needed

Hopefully this text helps out someone googling their issue in the future!

Premise

Being fed up with Windows, I decided to make the switch and install Linux on my desktop (Ryzen 5800X, Nvidia 3080, 32gb). My wish is to play games on my ultrawide 1440p screen in 120fps. I also have GeforceNow Ultimate, a separate project would be to get that working as well.

I did some research into distro's, which is really fun actually. What are the strong and weak points of each one? Break out that shortlist!

Distro choice

• ❌ Bazzite - Popular, but immutable. Might give me problems when I want to install all kinds of weird packages for programming and such.
• ❌ Pop! OS - Apparently really well marketed as a gaming distro. But reading more about it people do seem to have various issues with it, vibe seems a bit off.
• ❌ Linux Mint - solid distro, but kinda basic desktop focused. Can probably do everything I need after some more config and tweaking
• ✅ Ubuntu - Ole reliable. One I worked with the most, so I would prefer it over Mint when taking the basic choice.
• ✅ CachyOS - Popular buzz online, seems like a good gaming distro with that Arch config deep dive for the true nerd. This is the one I go for.

Installation

The CachyOS installation is fairly straight forward with their Calamares wizard. Prepare a USB with the ISO. Launch the live environment and start the installer. I have the wiki on the side to check off all the steps.

The part which tripped me up was the installation of the bootloader. Spoiler alert: it was actually the partitioning of my drives, due to an installer bug. But the only error I get is "bootloader installation failed, gl lol".

After a bunch of googling and failed installation attempts, I had to dive into the error log like a proper Linux nerd. There I see that the actual failure is an incorrect length of some uuid that gets created. More googling.

Turns out the partitions I setup overlap each other, this fails a check somewhere, this leads to that uuid being wrong, and that leads to the bootloader not being installed.

I have two SSD's:

• SSD A - 1TB
• SSD B - 2TB

The partitioning I had in mind was as follows:

SSD A

• FAT32 /boot - 2GB

• btrfs / - 256GB

• btrfs /home - "the rest"

SSD B

• btrfs /mnt/games - entire drive, 2TB

Having the installer auto calculate that "the rest" part led into an incorrect value which caused overlapping partitions. I resolved it by manually reducing the remaining amount for my /home partition, leaving around 30MB's of free unused space. Fine, the installation ran without problems after that, and CachyOS was now the single operating system on my desktop.

Gaming

The next step was installing their premade package of various gaming tweaks and utilities, plus a bundle of applications like Steam and Heroic. This works exactly as advertised, after this quick install, you are ready to game. The experience from there is pretty much like windows, tweak my desktop a bit, getting familiar with the tricks you can do with KDE Plasma. I predict I will spend more time pimping the desktop than actually gaming.

For games themselves I tried out some smaller titles like that are known to perform well like Hades 2, Factorio, Rimworld. Indeed, perfect performance, 120fps, glorious gaming on Linux!

Next steps

I have some bigger titles in the queue to check out. I play Total Warhammer 3 on the regular, plus some Paradox map painters like Europa Universalis 5, Hearts Of Iron 4. It is nice to check Protondb for tips, so I have that one bookmarked going forward.

A challenge that remains is the use of Geforce Now. On Windows, I was able to stream all the high-end games set to ultra, streaming perfectly 1440p 120fps. The Ultimate tier is a most impressive service, getting that 5080 through a ethernet cable feels like magic, and your desktop remains blissfully quiet during game time.

But on Linux, you only get 1080p 60fps. Capped by Nvidia for reasons. So I am looking into options to resolve this, so a nice follow up project having made the switch, with some options being:

• Use something to spoof that I am actually a windows user, like custom scripts intercepting the traffic to nvidia, or a third party client like Geforce Infinity.

• Install a Windows partition. Honestly, not feeling like having windows on my drive again in general. Dual boot seems like a hassle with the CachyOs installation that I like to keep as the king of the desktop domain.

• Set up a Windows on the Go USB stick or external ssd. This might be interesting if I get it to work. A simple portable Windows installation where I only need to start the Geforce Now client, which is basically a chrome tab. Needs some more exploring of what is possible.

• Get some potato device to be my Windows solution. Ideally something small that can just live close to my monitor so I can switch to it for cloud gaming sessions.

All in all, lots of fun figuring stuff out as expected, but also smoothing gaming out of the box so far!

I switched from kubuntu to bazzite and now steam doesn't open my steam replays for some reason and either loads forever or says there was a problem while opening this replay

im looking for a 100%, rgb, reactive keyboard (stuff like pulse or ripple effects when typing) that has its rgb function controlled by an app like openrgb, a native app from the manufacturer or hardware controlled. i just cant find anything. all the keyboards i find like this either are controlled with software for windows/macos or just flat out dont work on linux.

I am interested in several games that are PlayStation exclusive.
It is unknown whether and when they will be ported to PC by Sony, and waiting for ShadPS4 to "mature" may also take quite some time.

I don't want to enter the PS ecosystem at all, meaning buying a console, because in reality, the games I am interested in can be counted on one hand, and the rest are already ported to PC, and the console will soon just sit and collect dust, and I would have spent a lot of money on something I won't actually use.

A friend suggested the idea - to get PlayStation Plus Premium subscription, which offers a Cloud Streaming service. This way, I pay for 1 month, which is about $20, and stream the games on my computer. For this 1 month, I will play everything that interests me, so it's quite worth it in terms of money.

And here are my questions:
- Has anyone tried this? Does it actually work? And more importantly, does it work under Linux and how does it behave?
- What if I don't have a PS controller, but an 8BitDo (Xbox-like)?
- What is the quality of the picture and what is the input lag?

All of these options are greyed out

go to home/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober/data/sober/appData and there you will find GlobalBasicSettings_13.xml, now open it with your preffered text redactor and on line 22 there will be a framerate cap, change the number to something like 9999, and here you go, no more fps limit!

We should only support devs who are making games for our eco system?

Hi everyone,

I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077 on CachyOS and I'm facing a weird issue where my FPS is at 30-40.

My Setup:

• OS: CachyOS
• GPU: RX 5700 XT
• CPU: Ryzen 5 2600
• Proton: proton-cachyos-native

The Situation:

• The game runs very smooth, I have zero stutters or lags.
• FPS fluctuates heavily between 30 and 40 FPS in the city.
• Even if I enable FSR Frame Generation or lower the graphics settings, it stays at exactly 30-40 FPS.
• VSync is turned OFF in the game settings.
• Maximum FPS limit is turned OFF in the game.

Currently, got a 7800X3D, RTX 5080, SN850X SSD booting Pop OS for two weeks now.

The only AAA games that I've confirmed that runs better here in Linux is Red Dead Redemption 2 and Dying Light 1.

May I ask what more games besides Old or 2D (Silksong, Balatro, Hades and Vampire Survivors), AAA Games that looks good that would run better with my Nvidia GPU and the graphics are cracked all the way up?

i have a steam deck that I've done some fiddling with so I'm somewhat familiar with linux. based on this and my specs, which distro should i go for do you think?

all i do on this PC is gaming and watching youtube. right now I'm wondering if i should go for mint or catchyos.

Hello

I'm new to Linux and not very tech savvy so I don't even know how to start fixing this issue. The problem is when ever I play any steam game on my laptop it works perfectly fine but the moment I plug in a second monitor not matter the size of said monitor, my games will open and sometimes even load but after a 2-3 minutes will freeze and I will get a error message saying the game file name is not responding. Here are my specs in case that matters

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0

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So i am on cachyOS and the game where winds meet on steam is stuttering a lot its running on my nvidia gpu but not fully utilizing as the fans speed dosnt increase at all. i played this game on windows on same device it didnt have any problem installed GEproton and a lot but cant make it work pls help

I'm sure this story gets told a lot here... The enshitification of Windows in particular and Microsoft in general means I'm looking for somewhere else to do my gaming and I really want to give Linux a proper go.

I've been looking around at different distros and, guys I'm a bit lost and choice paralysis is kicking in. Someone should make a distro picker (I'd do it myself but I don't know nearly enough about why you'd choose which ones).

So far I've been eyeing, in order of discovery:

1. Bazzite. Seems an obvious choice because gaming but I heard a lot of chatter about it being pretty locked down and as a dev I feel like that would bother me. I don't want to have to run everything via the command line but I also don't want to be told "you can't do that" by my OS. I get that enough on macOS...

2. Pop_OS!. I've heard a lot of good things but one of the concerns I had was that since it's based on Ubuntu it'll always be a bit behind things and I have a nasty habit of wanting to try the latest things before it's smart to do so. N-th level stability is great but, again, not at the cost of not being able to do things.

3. CachyOS. Aside from it being Arch-based—which I believe means tends to be closer to updated?—this is just one I've heard mentioned by people who are more knowledgeable. That's genuinely as far as that goes.

4. Nobara. Just came across this one. I've heard a lot of good things about Fedora in general and it sounds like this one is gaming-focused but not in a way that will stop me from getting into trouble if I so choose. Is this the right one for me?

I'll be running it on an AMD 5900X + AMD 9070XT system so my understanding is that, in terms of hardware, I'm going to be pretty good. I already bought a new NVME to use as my boot drive for Linux (the Windows one is going on the shelf until I feel comfortable saying it's dead to me).

I did mention macOS and when I'm not gaming that does tend to be where I spend most of my time but I don't have any particular need or desire for the distro I choose to be Mac-like. I've lived quite happily on all sorts of systems so as long as it doesn't look like dev designed software I'll probably be pretty happy.

One thing I did see what originally I had thought about keeping my games drive as an NTFS drive but it sounds like that's a very bad idea and I should just deal with moving things off, formatting, putting them back. I've got more than enough space on my NAS to handle it.

In case it matters, I'm not concerned about multiplayer games at this time. I assume that if that starts to become a thing again (like if BF6 takes off in my friend group) I'll just dual-boot. So all single-player games. The next game will be the latest Assassin's Creed and from what I've seen that runs fine.

So what do y'all think? Nobara? CachyOS? Something else I've never heard of?

I have struggled to run those, can anyone give a link with a video on which button press and what version of wine/proton to use. I have managed to run .exe and even play - but It never get's installed. Thank you, I am sorry to bother.

I’m putting together a new pc and I’ve really grown to despise windows over the past few years. Tired of the AI copilot and terrible optimization, and just not feeling like I have control over my own system. My issue with Linux tho is I’ve heard many games with strong anti-cheat’s don’t really enjoy Linux. I play a wide range of games, basically anything you can think of. I’m most worried about the online casual and competitive games I play with friends such as Valorant, Fortnite, and Genshin. But perhaps it may actually be a blessing in disguise if they don’t work on Linux. Either way I’d still like to be able to play massively multiplayer games that contain anti-cheat software with my friends. If anyone can point me in the direction of the good Linux operating systems that have the widest range of games that run natively on the system, that would be amazing. Not that i think it’ll make a difference, but my specs are a Ryzen 7 5800 XT and a 9060 XT, if that’ll play any role in this.