My base OS is Proxmox and I'm running games inside of VMs using PCI passthrough for my GPU. I have two VMs with identical resources assigned - one EndeavourOS and one Windows. I have a handful of games that run perfectly in the Windows VM, yet if I run them in the EndeavourOS VM I get poor performance with a ton of stuttering. With the performance overlay on I can see that my CPU utilization, GPU utilization, GPU memory, and RAM usage are all at acceptable levels, yet the game performance seems terrible.

My hardware is fairly old (Ryzen 5 1600 [CPU shares prioritized to gaming VM], RTX 2060 [PCI passthrough to VM], 64GB RAM [32GB assigned to VM]) but clearly capable of running these games since it works fine in the Windows VM.

Specifically the games I'm messing with now are WH40k Rogue Trader, Battlesector, Darktide, and Dyson Sphere Program. I've reviewed the ProtonDB entries for each of these and tried various tweaks which don't seem to have any effect.

Where do I start troubleshooting to figure out what the problem is?

I'm wondering if there is any way to implement stream delay on GSR (somewhere in the range of 1 to 3 minutes). This could be useful if someone is streaming a tournament or a cs2 scrim and does not want to give the other team info on the current round.

I have no problem with moving to linux as I am an experienced Soft Developer so I know basics of linux and I have the specs for it too (5600x, 9060xt). It just sad that apollo's key feature aka virtual display isnt avaliable in linux via sunshine.

im very very very new to linux and got nobara now i have to learn how to run a flatpak and cannot figure it out for the life of me the hytale page gave me a flatpak and thats it i assumed i should just click on it to run it but no dice unless i have to use something with it. could use some help please and thank you

I'm planning on installing Nobara on a free SSD this weekend and giving Linux gamining a try for a month or so. Win 11 will remain on a different SSD in case I want to go back and I'll just change the boot drive in the bios. My Steam library is on a third SSD (NSFT). My question do I point my Linux Steam install at this library or set up a new library on the Steam install. Drive space is not a concern, I'm more concerned with stability and performance

I just upgraded from a 7900xt gpu to rtx 4090 nvida seems to work very well,

i added the nvidia repo and i installed driver currently i use the open driver the 4090 crushes my 7900xt in performnce i get double the fps in meny games. Is there eny reason to use the propritary driver over the open one?

Hey there!

I’ve got my twitch stream set up. I can get my discord out out and my game output working, but I cannot for the life of me, get OBS to pick up my mic for twitch.

I have my audio sources set up in a group so I can edit out audio in recorded vids. Recordings get my mic with no issue.

I’ve created a “desktop audio” source and given it every channel in an effort to get the mic input, but no success.

Any tips?

I have dual booting with windows 10 and linux mint cinnamon for 2 weeks now and it has been going pretty good on my low end laptop (1tb hdd,ddr4 4gb ram and intel i3 7th gen) and time spent on windows has been reduced a lot I use linux now for everything cuz faster startup and better performance overall on desktop. However gaming is another issue which I don't understand I tried minecraft on linux and it ran smoothly but when I tried need for Speed Most wanted (2012) it was laggy and stuttery compared to when i ran on windows. Same goes for assassins creed 1 and brotherhood

Can anyone explain which is better for gaming linux or windows and why the difference exists (I used lutris for everything)

Distro: CachyOS

Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x
GPU: RX 6650 XT
RAM: 32GB 3200mhz

I'm sure this has already been posted before and I'm wondering if there's a fix that's been made so that I could enjoy this game without having to worry it crashing my gpu

Whenever I try to play this game for a bit, it'll freeze, show a previous frame that had already happened like 20 seconds ago (or if it shows any graphical artifacts instead) and it freezes my entire desktop. It's like a ticking time bomb that I have to be aware of. I can prevent it by restarting the game occasionally so that it doesn't crash, but I forget sometimes and it slaps me in the face.

I've tried methods of turning down the quality to the lowest, even just setting the texture quality to low, turning off mesh lod, changing ini files from a steam guide that gives you better performance on AMD cards. Still nothing! It's making me a little mad because I absolutely love this game and have been able to put 50 hours in it, but as of now it's getting to me because the crashes are more frequent.

Is it because of recent mesa versions that's been causing this? CachyOS's version of Proton? Proton in general? I just want to know if this is an issue that anyone who plays Darktide on linux using CachyOS or any other distro is facing this problem.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I've noticed with the influx of new people to Linux lately, we have quite a disparity in experiences.

It seems people with basic literacy and intelligence, who are guided to an easy to use distro, pretty much uniformly love it. But of course there's also regular posts of people saying nothing works, and ignoring the fact that the common factor between nothing working, is them.

But one thing that surprises me, I've never seen on any Mac sub or forum, people complaining about games not working on Macs. Mac gaming absolutely sucks beyond anything, and yet people just accept it.
Linux on the other hand, has like 5 popular, DRM ridden games that won't work, and it's the end of the world.

Meanwhile any Apple device costs twice as much as it should, while being entirely locked down. Yet somehow it doesn't face anywhere near the ire of people complaining about its lack of compatibility.

What gives?!

Not sure what to say. Just wanted to try this e.g. on hogwarts legacy.

Configured everything and added HogwartsLegacy.exe to the list.

Now when I start the game, I got like 40 FPS when multi is on 4x. If I set it to 2x I get 80 FPS... disabled I am like 120 FPS. Ingame scaling + fsr is disabled for testing this plugin

My HW:

i5-12600K

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

RAM: 32GB

Monitor: 3440x1440 @ 165Hz

EndeavourOS

On Niri

Kernel 6.18.4-zen1-1-zen

Mesa 26 git drivers.

Anyone any idea?

Hi, I've moved from Windows to CachyOS about a month ago. I played a bit of modded BG3 before and it all works fine, but when I get to the first cutscene at the Grove, where the Tiefleing and the human are arguing, it always crashes after Zevlor says "you're cowards".
I tried running it without mods (outside two without which game wouldn't even start), the 'gold' and 'network' files have no errors in them, my drivers (GPU is RTX 3070) and kernel are up to date, tried running it without internet access, both DX11 launcher and Vulkan launcher. I'm kind of lost.
To try it without these two mods mentioned above, I would have to start from the beginning, which I'd rather do as a last necessity. I'm using Proton to launch the .exe files, not the linux port, as I heard it's not really stable. What could be the issue?

I want Battle.net to run on startup through Faugus launcher, but I haven't seen an easy way to do this through Faugus settings. For now I have just been opening Faugus and running Battle.net after boot, but... this happening automatically would be nice.

On Debian Unstable.

EDIT: Oh, also, how do I make something launch minimized on Debian? Under other distros, in their Startup launcher, I could go to a tab for a shortcut and Google what command to put in what section of it to make it launch silently. But Debian doesn't have these extra tabs, it is just add or remove programs, no editing.

The list shows the money paid to Nixxes to port playstation titles to PC. Most of the costs are very much unnecessary and could have been reduced tremendously if Sony set Vulkan as their primary API for their game development. It should be absolutely possible since they are using an RDNA2 based GPU.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fvdlrsxnnzd7c1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D1507%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D53d1ad92ef4dfc63b7418e1070f531f1449d9c65

Back in the days when Google's Stadia didn't land on their famous graveyard of google projects Ubisoft ported Assasin's Creed Odyssey for them from DirectX to Vulkan. It took them a very long time and a lot of money. Here is a presentation about this project back then.:

https://youtu.be/5I1KvNvUkO4?si=kdTOCPgNDij_NWUc

And now that Sony is porting more and more games to other platforms like the PC and Steam Deck anyway it really doesn't make sense anymore to hold on to their proprietary playstation graphics API. The move would also help their game streaming service in Playstation Plus since other game studios would have less work and costs as well to port their games to that. It could make Sony's platform also way more attractive this way in competition to Microsofts XBox Game Pass.

Even Nintendo offers Vulkan and OpenGL support for their Switch despite being known to be very restrictive. But they seem to recognize that Game Development can happen way faster if they adopt an industry wide standard like Vulkan which makes cross platform gaming easier be it on a cloud streaming server or on a local device. Also a lot of Graphics Engines rely on Vulkan and OpenGL which many Game Studios use.

Due to remarkable hardware performance gains in the mobile sector the latter comes closer and closer to stationary game devices and to the PC in terms of visual appearance. Who would have thought some years ago it would be possible to port titles like Star Wars Outlaws to the Switch 2 including ray tracing and only consuming 10 Watts with minor quality cutbacks.

On Linux we got DXVK and VKD3D. But as a reminder those mean an additional layer which means more unecessary work, time and cost to make games compatible which otherwise could run just natively at least in terms of the graphics API.

It costs us Linux Gamers in special a lot of unnecessary trouble, time waste due to adjustments and customization steps. But probably the biggest advantage for Linux Gamers would be that Games would run way better on Nvidia GPUs too. Currently we are still wating for Nvidia to work on a fix for the known performance issue in DX12 titles on VKD3D.

Attempting to run Skull and Bones for an event I am a part of for a friends Twitch Stream in a few hours. Made the full switch to Zorin OS this morning, after much headache and help from various linux communities.

When I launch the game it updates some things, then just stops and never launches. Have tried Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental.