Video and VR work fine, but there's no sound. The PC is basically a headless Sunshine host and when I enter a moonlight session I can hear the audio. What can I do?

https://reddit.com/link/1oyrt33/video/bf4s18xhnn1g1/player

When I'm launching witcher 3, after loading into the game, every time, exactly after around 20-22 seconds, the frametime goes crazy and it starts stuttering really bad (look at the frametime graph, but in the end you can see to the naked eye this massive stuttering when I move the camera).

When I launch it with gamescope, it doesn't do that stutter.

Why is it happening?

GPU: RX9060XT 16GB

Hi there,

Title, I am fortunate to have a 5090. The thing is that it has a particular affinity with setting itself on fire.
So I wanted to undervolt it at 860mV for W reduction following those results https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1isi8ir/rtx_5090_fe_undervolt_results/

Do you have any advice ?
Thanks for the answers

so as in title for some reason i don't have gun sounds the rest is there i even copied the game folder and tried running it on my shitty windows laptop and it worked i have no idea what causes it also in other CODs there is no such issue it is just in BO1 can someone help?

I'm kinda looking to primarily use EndeavourOS or CachyOS, but haven't installed it yet cuz no idea which is better for my RTX 4050. But there's one thing that's bothering my mind. I often extract assets from UE games for wiki stuff, but apparently FModel is Windows only. I can dual boot but getting it run on Linux is more convenient (just in case if I want to fully move from Windows later). Does anyone use FModel here? I wonder if it works with Proton, considering it's not a game.

Been playing TOW2 on 9800X3D/5090/ArchLinux, and it's been rock solid... except that you need ray tracing enabled, otherwise the game just hangs. Kind of annoying because ray tracing tanks performance...

Has anyone figured out a way to play it without having ray tracing enabled? Or atleast have an explanation to why it's needed? I haven't encountered this issue in any other game.

Hi,

I was using Linux Mint with my AMD GPU, favorite distro so far. Then I got my Nvidia GPU and moved to a Debloated Windows because of the DX12 / general performances lost.

Since then, we have open-source drivers building up and the DX12 issue will soon be fixed, so I think it's finally my time to come back .. + Windows is a very frustrating experience.

If I understand, KDE is the way to go for Wayland and VRR, but I never used KDE and I'm afraid to get lost. I would like some advice from you, thanks.

I'm having problems with Far Cry 4 on Lutris, that's what i see in game. I'm on Fedora with RX 6750 XT, i tried some solutions on protonDB but nothing helps. Someone had this problem with some games?

Im using an RX 6600 and Ryzen 5 3600. I installed the game from Heroic Games Launcher
The game for some reason when i take a look at my gpu and cpu usage, its using 30% and 24% respectively. i disabled VSync, Turned off both FSync and ESync from Heroic, and havent changed anything else. Anybody knows what causes this and the possible solution to this problem?

GE-Proton 10-25
CachyOS
Kernel 6.17.7-3-cachyos
Ryzen 5 3600
3200Mhz 32GB
RX 6600

I'm currently trying to run Waven on Linux via Steam and Proton. Everything works fine except for one thing... The game seems to miss some frames every second.

My specs : - Intel core i7 13 gen - Nvidia rtx 4070 - Ubuntu 24.04.3 - Niri (a Wayland WM)

What I have tried so far: - run without graphic card enabled (prime) - turn on/off vsync - use PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 launch option - tried several refresh rate (60, 144, 240)

Any help is welcome !!

Okay, this one is weird. Every time I launch MC, regardless of launcher *(I've used Curseforge, Prism, and the MC launcher for linux)* it'll run fine for a bit, and then either the entire system freezes or the application closes (the former has stopped happening lately).

I can even get into a server for a few seconds before the crash every now and again, anyone got any suggestions?

EDIT: Forgot to say that I'm using Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon.

The Qualcomm Adreno 825 GPU is part of the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 SoC in Smartphones and just came out in April 2025. But many vendors already offer it in middle class smartphones.

MediaTek supports this feature in their even more affordable budget SoCs namely the Dimensity 8300 and 8400 SoC in the form of Arm's Mali-G615 or G720 GPU.

Usually Ray Tracing is told to consume lots of energy but this is wrong. If implemented closer to fixed function hardware it is possible efficiently at low watt consumption. Imagination Technologies demonstrated this many yeargs ago way earlier before Nvidia's marketing made RT go mainstream. Imagination Technologies offers licenses for up to level 5 ray tracing in their mobile GPU architectures which can be obtained by GPU vendors worldwide. Those can be combined with Arm and RISC-V CPUs and other ISAs.

Another prominent example of highly efficient ray tracing is the Switch 2, which consumes only 10 watts compared to the Steam Deck's 25 watts.

Surprisingly or unsurprisingly the spread and adoption of new hardware features like these seems to happen way faster in arm based smartphone devices in comparison to desktop PCs.

It would be interesting to see Steam OS or another game focused Linux Distro running on such smartphones and to utilize these kind of features. This surely would depend on many factors like a proper ecosystem, wayland, emulation, translation and other things like porting dxvk, vkd3d, proton and the steam client to arm.

Is this too far stretched or would it be possible?

Hello everyone, im a developer (backend) and I want to help for the linux community. Is there any project more important that needs help or something that is missing in documentation or whatever, I want to help and I have freetime

Im not saying I'm a good developer tho

I have gamesir g4 pro controller and it's working flawlessly on windows with dongle but on linux(i tried on zorin,mint and cachy)it's not working expect but cable.What can i do about it?

https://preview.redd.it/e66suta44m1g1.jpg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbc804315b444561162284ce696d572e29b57939

my set up

I want to do thy gaming on the pc im going to buy shortly and im seeing a lot of people saying i should do the switch cuz it's faster but i also heard i could have problems with multiplayer games and other softwares that can't be installed on Linux so should I switch?

Anybody gave it a shot? There were rumours that they would activate linux support in the anti-cheat for full release. Did someone try it out yet?