I am using bazzite on an xbox ally x and got a couple 8bitdo controllers for the holidays. I can connect the controller in bluetooth or 2.4ghz mode just fine, but when I open warframe, I can launch the game, but the button set never swaps to "Game" after the game launches. It stays in "Launcher" mode. This makes it so I can only pan the camera, and jump, all other inputs do nothing. If I modify the steam input binds for the Launcher mode, I see it reflected in the actual game. Issue is that "Launcher" mode doesn't have binds setup that allow you to actually play the game. Any ideas what's going on here?

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I tried looking online, but It seems I can't describe this bug well as all results I've found refer to different errors.

I happens to me in Warframe and in Elden Ring Nightreign. In the first its not that bad, just some light effects get stuck in front of the screen. But in Nightreign it makes the game unplayable as that fog/light that should be in the background just appears on top of everything.

I'm using Omarchy (Arch based) in a laptop with a nvidia gpu.

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The proton DB I have them on epic.

Like title says looking to give it away since I have them on Epic games and they left over from the Lego bundle. I wanna give them away by June so keys don't just poof.

Figure post here first as the reddit has been helpful :)

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Hey everyone, I've been banging my head against this for a while trying to fix these issues and could use some help.

My Setup:

• Arch Linux
• Hyprland 0.53.0 (Wayland compositor)
• RTX 3080 Laptop GPU + Ryzen 9 6900HX
• 2560x1440 @ 165Hz display
• Hyprland scale set to 1.25
• Steam (native, not Flatpak)
• supergfxctl in Hybrid mode

I can't seem to get CS2 working with all of these at the same time:

• Steam overlay (Shift+Tab)
• No mouse teleporting issue
• Native 2560x1440 resolution

So basically:

• Without gamescope: Mouse randomly teleports to the edge of the screen, but overlay works
• With gamescope + --force-grab-cursor: Mouse is fine, but Steam overlay doesn't work at all [ gamemoderun gamescope -W 2560 -H 1440 -r 165 -f --force-grab-cursor -- %command% ]
• Native Wayland mode: Heard Valve recently fixed the mouse issue, but overlay still doesn't work for me, and I can't select true Fullscreen (only Windowed/Fullscreen Windowed available), so I'm stuck at the scaled resolution

The resolution issue is because Hyprland has 1.25 scaling, so Fullscreen Windowed shows 2048x1152 instead of 2560x1440. And in native Wayland, there's no exclusive fullscreen option.

How do I get all these working?

• Steam overlay
• No mouse teleporting
• Native 2560x1440 resolution (or at least a way to force it)

Has anyone figured out a setup that gets all of these working? Is there a gamescope flag I'm missing that enables the overlay? Or a way to force resolution in native Wayland mode?

Any help appreciated, been stuck on this for way too long.

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Managed to grab a bc250 before the prices skyrocketed and I’m happy with the results. Great for 1080p and just a little 1440p but not recommended. Still a few things I should do though it seems.

I am wondering if anyone had a better power solution? I am just jumping two pins on the power supply with a button switch installed, but I would rather have a normal push button like a regular PC to start and power down, or wake from sleep. My current setup obviously is an issues for waking from sleep. Not sure if it’s even supported. Has anyone been able to accomplish this?

Another thing is when I put the bc250 to sleep, the power supply is still on. The bc250 is in idle but I need to reduce the idle power. Any advice on that would be really helpful. A little new to Linux builds like this, I followed the online guide, but it’s quite hard to navigate and find what I need. I currently cannot use sleep mode at all as nothing will wake it.

Lastly, has anyone got the wake through Xbox controller working or over lan? I have the original Microsoft adapter but I’m not sure that works. I can switch to Bluetooth as well. Might not work because it’s a mining card but worth a try. Looking for any input here.

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Managed to grab a bc250 before the prices skyrocketed and I’m happy with the results. Great for 1080p and just a little 1440p but not recommended. Still a few things I should do though it seems.

I am wondering if anyone had a better power solution? I am just jumping two pins on the power supply with a button switch installed, but I would rather have a normal push button like a regular PC to start and power down, or wake from sleep. My current setup obviously is an issues for waking from sleep. Not sure if it’s even supported. Has anyone been able to accomplish this?

Another thing is when I put the bc250 to sleep, the power supply is still on. The bc250 is in idle but I need to reduce the idle power. Any advice on that would be really helpful. A little new to Linux builds like this, I followed the online guide, but it’s quite hard to navigate and find what I need. I currently cannot use sleep mode at all as nothing will wake it.

Lastly, has anyone got the wake through Xbox controller working or over lan? I have the original Microsoft adapter but I’m not sure that works. I can switch to Bluetooth as well. Might not work because it’s a mining card but worth a try. Looking for any input here.

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So i switched to arch and i did backup my games on my other SSD i got this error
no matter what i do
Verify Proton or Linux runtime files
Verify game files
it doesnt work
Any help?

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I'm going to make the switch after Windows 11 left a bad taste in my mouth after getting a new computer so I'm currently just playing around with Mint before fully committing but I want to try gaming focused distros. Here are my specs if anyone needs to know: Nvidia RTX 5070 16GB DDR5 Ram Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX idk the rest

Here are the distros I'm looking at Bazzite CachyOS PopOS SteamOS Nobara

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Has there been any reports on an issue or regression regarding the amd-pstate-epp driver? Or something in 6.17 and 6.18? I only know of the regression with amdgpu that effects users.

Preface.
Last November I upgraded to AM5 + 7800X3D, a few weeks before my distro released updated to Plasma 6.5 with Kernel 6.18 lts.
Up till then I was still running 6.16.8 with amd-pstate (passive). Changed to amd-pstate-epp (active) driver for the 7800X3D and this worked fine on 6.16.8 no issues with sleep/resume.

Since I updated to Kernel 6.18 I have been having the following CPU performance issues when my system has resumed from sleep.
My CPU's ‘all core boost’ is no longer boosting to it’s ‘all core frequency’ under all core load. Which for my part is ~4.9Ghz.

The following boost behavior now occurs, after resume from sleep, on both Kernel 6.17 and 6.18:
Only two cores boost to max freq of 5049Mhz and the rest are stuck at 4.0Ghz.
A reboot is needed to get normal CPU frequency boosting behavior back for all core work loads.

Temporal workaround was to switch back to the non-epp amd-pstate driver amd_pstate=passive amd_prefcore=enable, still on Kernel 6.18 and the boost behavior issue after sleep/resume is now gone.

Cpupower output when usingamd_pstate=active

analyzing CPU 10: driver: amd-pstate-epp CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 10 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 10 energy performance preference: power hardware limits: 426 MHz - 5.05 GHz available cpufreq governors: performance powersave current policy: frequency should be within 2.98 GHz and 5.05 GHz. The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency: 3.80 GHz (asserted by call to kernel) boost state support: Supported: yes Active: yes amd-pstate limits: Highest Performance: 166. Maximum Frequency: 5.05 GHz. Nominal Performance: 138. Nominal Frequency: 4.20 GHz. Lowest Non-linear Performance: 98. Lowest Non-linear Frequency: 2.98 GHz. Lowest Performance: 14. Lowest Frequency: 545 MHz. Preferred Core Support: 1. Preferred Core Ranking: 176.

Cpupower output when usingamd_pstate=passive

analyzing CPU 3: driver: amd-pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 3 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 3 maximum transition latency: 20.0 us hardware limits: 426 MHz - 5.05 GHz available cpufreq governors: conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance schedutil current policy: frequency should be within 545 MHz and 5.05 GHz. The governor "schedutil" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency: 548 MHz (asserted by call to kernel) boost state support: Supported: yes Active: yes amd-pstate limits: Highest Performance: 166. Maximum Frequency: 5.05 GHz. Nominal Performance: 138. Nominal Frequency: 4.20 GHz. Lowest Non-linear Performance: 98. Lowest Non-linear Frequency: 2.98 GHz. Lowest Performance: 14. Lowest Frequency: 545 MHz. Preferred Core Support: 1. Preferred Core Ranking: 191.

Nothing really out of the ordinary.

Journalctl also does not show anything out of the ordinary after a resume from sleep state, except for these cores:

jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 9 APIC 0x3 jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#9, should never happen. jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 10 APIC 0x5 jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#10, should never happen. jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 11 APIC 0x7 jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#11, should never happen. jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 12 APIC 0x9 jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#12, should never happen. jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 13 APIC 0xb jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#13, should never happen. jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 14 APIC 0xd jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#14, should never happen. jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 15 APIC 0xf jan 02 15:05:57 Infinity kernel: Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#15, should never happen.

Pastebin for system information https://pastebin.com/xhD5fCE9

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There is some stuff I play on Linux that has generic names, so I'm not going to remember what lsfg-vk is referencing down the line. ie. Doom Dark Ages needs to have Profile Name set to Titan, Entropy Survivors is literally just called Game Thread. I have tried renaming the entry after selecting the specific process, but that breaks functionality. I believe on Windows Lossless Scaling, it is just that you have a profile for the settings, then a hotkey to enable the framegen (also with an indicator it's working, which lsfg-vk doesn't have).

Anyway...

Is there a method to rename just a profile to be the game name while maintaining the process? Or is this maybe a feature request to make on the github?

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Hi everyone.
I’m posting this as a last attempt to make this work on Linux before giving up and going back to Windows, at least for gaming.

I want to be very clear from the start:
I’m not a programmer or a Linux power user.
I’m just someone who loves PC gaming and modding, and I migrated to Linux with a lot of excitement… until I hit this wall.

My background (important context)

• Distro: CachyOS (Arch-based)
• GPU: modern NVIDIA (official drivers)
• Steam installed natively
• Baldur’s Gate 3 running via Proton Experimental
• Game installed on a separate drive:/run/media/alonso/Disco de juegos/SteamLibrary/

I’m comfortable following guides and terminal commands, but I don’t write code or fully understand how DLL injection works internally.

What I’m trying to do

I want to play Baldur’s Gate 3 with mods, specifically:

• Script Extender (Norbyte)
• Mods that depend on it:
  • WASD movement
  • Native camera tweaks
  • Edit / Custom Companions

This setup is extremely common on Windows and works there without issues.

What works so far

• BG3 launches and runs perfectly in Proton
• Performance is great
• Simple .pak mods that do not require Script Extender load correctly
• BG3 Mod Manager runs using protontricks
• BG3MM detects the game and mods correctly
• BG3MM downloads Script Extender without errors (progress bar, permissions prompt, etc.)

At this point, everything looks correct.

The problem

None of the mods that depend on Script Extender actually work:

• WASD movement → no effect
• Native camera → no effect
• Edit / Custom Companions → no effect

They all fail at the same time.

I don’t mind learning and tweaking things, but this has become very discouraging because:

• On Windows, this setup works almost instantly
• On Linux, there are many layers involved (Steam, Proton, Wine, loaders, prefixes)
• When something breaks, there is no feedback telling you where the failure is
• As a non-developer, it’s hard to know what to try next

I’m close to reinstalling Windows just to play this game with mods, which honestly makes me sad after migrating to Linux with so much excitement.

Thanks a lot for reading and for any help you can offer. -I used ChatGPT to help me structure my ideas so this post actually makes sense.

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I have been playing Elden Ring on my newly built PC, and have noticed some weird graphical issues. My specs are:

Motherboard: MSI B650 Gaming Plus

CPU: Ryzen 5 9600X

GPU: Intel Arc B580

SSD: Samsung EVO 990 Pro 2tb

RAM: A-Tech 2x8gb 4800MHz

I am running Linux Mint 22.2

I am unsure if this is a linux issue or a compatibility issue with my Arc B580. The most prominent issue was trying to do ray tracing in Elden Ring, which as far as I know should work perfectly fine, but produced the results in the image.

Attempting to turn ray tracing on.

Sometimes the lighting will just go super dark at certain camera angles. When it rains in game, I get very weird and odd graphical effects with the skybox and other elements in general. Some parts of the UI are messed up, like Boss names only displaying the top half of the text.

Weird graphical issue in the UI.

Other than these weird issues, I have had literally no problems actually running the game on my 1440p monitor on High settings. Framerates are fine, but these issues really bother me and make it difficult to want to play the game.

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Hello everyone, i started playing RS3 again, managed to install it through steam no issues.
But only problem is I am getting 35-45 FPS in ANY graphics settings(low or ultra).

At first i thought i am running on CPU(R5 7600) and that was the case. So i enabled Proton in Steam and I see my GPU (RX 7800XT) spiking up. But it goes up to 40%.

AMD drivers are built into the kernel if I understand correctly, so there should be no driver tinkering for me to do, but if that's the case, why my GPU not hitting 100%?

If you need any logs, let me know.

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I'm on lubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

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I’m relatively new to Linux and I often hear that running cracked games on Windows is risky because of malware, system-wide access, registry changes, etc. My question is: is using cracked games on Linux via Wine just as risky, or is it inherently safer?

From what I understand, Wine doesn’t run things natively and doesn’t integrate with the OS the same way Windows does — but I’m not sure how much real protection that actually gives. Can malware inside a cracked game still escape Wine and affect the host system?

Also, since Wine-based setups usually have three separate access areas

-> the actual game folder,

-> the Wine prefix

-> the app/runner folder (where DLLs, Proton/Wine binaries, and temp files live, like in Heroic or Lutris) — can this be further restricted using sandboxing? For example, using tools like Flatpak,, Bottles or Heroic’s sandboxed environments. Via flatseal app and proper permissions?

If so, how do people usually lock this down in practice to minimize risk while keeping games functional?

Any best practices or real-world experiences would be appreciated

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I have a laptop and handheld PC using Bazzite. Laptop will change cause their dev mode sucks, waiting on LinuxMint, hated cachyOS didn't behave smoothly. Laptop hardware is newer.

Anyways not discussing that I'm here for help with my gaming desktop. My goal for the month of January is to switch to Linux.

AMD 5800X, 3070.

I pretty much just game, watch content, and play with excel on the desktop. I don't want to tinker with my OS it needs to be stable for gaming, I'll keep a Windows drive as insurance (hope to never use it again) pretty much all the games/apps I use work on Linux or I can find new ones. Is there a nice up to date info graphic that shows the pros/cons of the popular distros for gaming?

I was thinking of Bazzite since I know it, however with that 3070 I'm just not sure what the best choice would be. Will probably be the first and last time I buy nvidia.

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Hello, I am currently on Linux Mint 22.2 after switching from plain ol' Debian. My CPU is a 13th Gen Intel i7-13700K, and my GPU is an RX 6600 XT, and as the title says, I am having issues where Steam games encounter diabolical frame drops, most notably in the 2 games I play, which are Team Fortress 2 (running with native steam runtime) and Cyberpunk 2077 (proton experimental).

To be specific, in Cyberpunk 2077, the lag spikes occur after an hour of playtime, and in TF2, the lag spikes occur once there are too many things on screen (eg, players on fire or just plain ragdolls ragdolling and whatnot). Considering my specs, I don't think this is normal, and I have tried the traditional fixes of setting gamemoderun or LD_PRELOAD launch options to no avail (specifically in TF2 since it doesn't require me to sit for hours for the lag spikes to kick in).

I have been using different Linux distros for 11 years and have never seen this before, so any help is appreciated :D

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I ran a speedtest on Linux, I get around 2Gbps. But when I download through Steam, it always hovers around 100MB/s, even if I change to next nearest server. Sometimes it'll go even lower. I thought it was holiday throttling by Steam, but when I went into Windows to test, Steam is downloading around 200MB/s there.

Any ideas? I've tried some Google "fixes" (found some Steam console commands) but they didn't improve anything.

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