Hi. I'm using Debian 13.3 on Plasma and I'd like to wirelessly connect a controller to my PC. I've read all sorts of things and I just don't know what I'm missing.

Lately my steam games don't exit the process after quitting. This is happening to me on Plasma on cachyos and bazzite.

Dota (valve game) with no launcher included.

Anyone see this or have a fix?

When i plug it with a wire(the bluetooth doesn’t work) it recognises the gamepad as a mouse and i can it can be used as a mouse, how do i configure it?

There is a patch for Windows 10/11 but not for Linux. Help!

Hi, I'm thinking of upgrading to something actually able to keep up with recent shitty optimization standards.
I know AMD has way better drivers but I heard RDNA2 has gotten support for new features cut off or something(?) and I'd rather have this purchase last me as long as possible, so the more recent B580 seems more appealing.
Also the B580 seems to have way better Ray Tracing(?) which doesn't sound bad at all.

For reference this is my system:
CPU: i5 14400F
MB: Asus H610M-A DDR4 wifi
RAM: Crucial Pro DDR4 3200Mhz CL22
Main drive: 1TB Crucial P3 nvme gen 3
PSU: Gigabyte P550B (550W 80+ bronze)
I know I'm below recommended power but my monitor is ass anyway so I'm probably not gonna reach max draw anyway

I've been having issues with Quake Live and my CachyOS/Linux Mint installations. When I originally installed it on CachyOS the game ran flawlessly and never had issues. However, recently did a fresh reinstall of Cachy and now the game freezes after an arbitrary length of time and crashes to the desktop. This crash only happens when I am in a match playing the game, not in the main menus.

I switched distros to Linux Mint just to see if it was the 'distro's fault' and installed Quake Live where it ran well without crashing (I know Linux Mint isn't a bleeding edge distro). Last night I installed Mesa-Kiask which helped with other games performances. However, now Quake Live does the exact same thing it did on Cachy where it crashes randomly during a match.

I'm wondering if anyone has any pointers to what could be causing this or how to alleviate the issue? My immediate thought is the Mesa drivers specifically, but I don't really know how or why.

Part of me also thinks it has something to do with OpenGL since that is what Quake Live uses. This is the only game with any significant issues like this for me.

Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x

GPU: AMD 6600xt

RAM: 32GB

OS: CachyOS / Linux Mint (I have tried both, but currently have Linux Mint installed)

Any help would be appreciated!

I installed the battle.net launcher using lurtis and was able to log in and get it running. the problem I am having is when I try to install a game it just sends me back to the battle.net we sit to download the launcher again.

Is there a step I missed somewhere?

Hi i am using fedora, i saw that someone said that could run ea fc 25 with the live editor a while ago in a post. Does anyone know how to set it up to work? I like playing ea fc single player and the only thing that works is the "unofficial" already modded version of fifa 23, but i have on steam ea fc 24 and 25 and if possible i would like to play them, i hate to even have a remote temptation of reinstalling windows so it would be much appreciated if someone had a solution.

I was playing Hollow Knight through Lutris on Linux Mint and my save file disappeared. Can anyone help me recover it?

Hey everyone,

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue. I just noticed it for the first time because I don't play Ubisoft titles that much. I played Far Cry 5 for the first time yesterday, about an hour. Today I hover on it, and see 11 hours played.

My guess, and it seems like the most likely explanation, is that the launcher was somehow still open in the background, so it only stopped counting once I'd shut down my computer. My machine's running CachyOS, and Niri as a wayland compositor.

I wrote a little script to make sure the launcher's process is killed after I quit the game, but it feels a little jank. I could also just use a widget to see what's running in the background, or something like that, but it's still annoying to have to remember to check every time. It makes me a bit worried my play time is going to get messed up and I might not always notice. Don't really care about FC 5 much, but there are games where I'd like it to be accurate. Is there any way you know of to make Steam not count the launcher being open as "play time"?

If not, I'd also appreciate it if you could tell me about any external tools that might be able to collect play time and other useful statistic, or hell, even a launcher that might be worth playing around with that I might have not heard of and could fun for a stats nerd.

Thanks!

Optiscaler doesnt show any options. DLSS isnt an option in game with optiscaler installed as a way to swap over to fsr4. Any tips? or is this game just not possible? On a 9070xt / Cachy os.

Hello,

After making the dual boot switch to PopOS, I found that I have become completely dependent on Steelseries Sonar. Despite its recent drawbacks (the bloat and crashes have become insane), it is extremely useful for quick volume control. However, there isn't an official application.

After finding https://github.com/awth13/Linux-Arctis-7-Plus-ChatMix and https://github.com/Sapd/HeadsetControl, I decided to combine both of its functionality into a GUI. This can be added to the startup applications.

https://preview.redd.it/rmqm5ehdjsdg1.png?width=837&format=png&auto=webp&s=acd385994906aaddf9d5345e36047ae172bd4bd0

For anyone interested, kindly check out the application below.

https://github.com/Michael-Adu/ArctisSonarGUI

Hi everyone! HDR in KCD 2 works fine for the most part (could be better but I couldn't get RenoDX to work). I have noticed that in specifically just dialogue scenes, there will be red dots all over the character models. It is much more obvious in person and it isn't the easiest thing to get a photo of.

This is on "bazzite-dx-nvidia:stable-43.20260102"

I've tried some of the other hdr flags that I found on ProtonDB but nothing else changes it. Has anyone else experienced something like this?

https://preview.redd.it/rlusrgnfisdg1.png?width=677&format=png&auto=webp&s=2587ebcd1018e56b63adecb7f18a6029ed1fc4ea

I know i have to use a GUI like DZTUI or DayZ-ctl but i cant seem to get them working and i can't even get DayZ to launch.
i press play - green running button - then back to the blue play button.
I'm new to Linux and if someone could walk me through getting dayz to launch and the gui to work id really really appreciate it. Its one of my favorite games and id be sad if i cant get it to work because im not going back to windows....

Anyone else having an issue with playing CS2? It has technically been rock solid for six months, no crashes, but recently I have been more and more plagued by what I would call micro stuttering. It happens especially when jiggle peeking on a corner, but it will also often happen when an opponent starts shooting, so I better hope I shoot first or I will lose 1/10 duels just because of this stuttering.

Running on Arch Linux with AMD 9070 XT + 7700X @ 1440p because that is my native monitor resolution and switching is kind of a pain for alt+tab.

What is weird is that FPS graph and frame timing graph is nearly always completely flat at 165FPS, so this stutter normally does not show on the frame pacing graph. I have tried all sorts of things. Lately been experimenting with the new CPU scheduler sched_ext LAVD that valve made for steam deck, to no avail.

Anyone else has this issue?

Yo guys, need some help here. I'm on CachyOS and Wuthering Waves has been a total pain since I switched from COSMIC to KDE Plasma. It was working perfectly before (not that perfect tbh but its still running tho), but now it's just a "crash loop".

My Specs:

• OS: CachyOS (KDE Plasma, Wayland)
• CPU: Intel i5-13400
• GPU: Intel Arc B580
• Kernel: CachyOS latest

What I've done so far:

• Steam Native: Already tried adding as non-steam game with Proton-CachyOS (v3 build).
• Launch Options: Used STEAMOS=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ace_loader=n,b" %command%.
• Cleaned everything: Nuked compatdata, reinstalled Steam native, and made sure cachyos-gaming-meta is there.
• Tried installing wuthering-waves-launcher via paru, but it failed with some linker error ld returned 1 exit status.
• Tried downloading Proton via ProtonPlus but it's stuck at 200KB/s lol, so I did a manual extract to compatibilitytools.d.

Every time I click Play, the "ProtonFixes" window pops up for a split second, then the game just dies. No error, no logs, just straight back to desktop.

Is KDE Wayland messing with the ACE Anti-cheat? Or did I miss some specific library after moving from COSMIC? Damn this thing give me lot of headache bruh cuz its my first time with linux hehe.

Hi! I just recently switched from RX 7800 XT to 9070 XT, Sapphire nitro+ that is. I've been testing different games, settings, RT and FSR Redstone at 1440p on Arch.

I've tested Oblivion Remastered a few days ago and played it a bit yesterday. It works great on FSR 4 native AA with some tweaked high/ultra-ish settings but hardware RT performance on anything other than low was really bad, even low with FSR balanced had big hiccups and framerate drops near water, etc.

And here comes the fun part. I just compiled the freshest AUR package for mesa-git, haven't updated in a bit. To my surprise, hardware RT in Oblivion now not only performs better but it kinda feels out-of-spec for this card. What am I talking about? I'm getting stable framerates at FSR native AA on hardware Lumen ultra! There's no performance hit between low and ultra and the difference between software and hardware seems so small. I set FSR to balanced and I'm at around 80 fps, sometimes drops to around 60-70 and there are of course some unavoidable UE5 stutters. I'm playing with HDR enabled through wine-wayland and using the newest Proton-GE.

This feels so bizzare and I'm wondering what magic the devs have done with the driver that it handles RT pretty much like it's nothing. I haven't tested other games but if it's a global improvement then it was the best GPU upgrade ever.

For all controllers that I have tested they are all incorrectly mapped, ive tried using steams desktop layout but that didin't work.RIght now im using a generic nintendo wired controller but the same problem exists with my ps4 controller

If anymore info is needed please let me know