After an amazing linux journey on my RTX 5050 system I had to go back to windows they latest update on CachyOS made deadlock unplayable the vram would get maxed out or the game would crash at start up unless I sit for like 30 minutes for shaders to compile not the ingame one the ones steam is doing not sure why that is happening and for some reasone my audio started stuttering and freezing , Now I know you can find fixes for this issue but this is the second time this kinda thing happened after an update last time I had to troubleshoot sunshine not openning up and artifacting in resident evil ,I dont wanna do this anymore I just wanna play without having to do 1 or 2 hours of troubleshooting after every update and I am not buying an AMD card just to stick to linux , I have 2 systems an b580 and a rtx 5050 the 5050 was starting to show decent performance but stuff is breaking too often on it the b580 on the other hard is realy stable but the performance isnlike 30% of what I had on windows on it. Sadly my linux journey ends here until the nvidia and intel drivers are as good as AMD. Sorry for the rant just wanted to vent :D

Hi, i'm trying to play throne an liberty on my amd bc-250, on steam if i click play it immediately closes without an answer, in lutris otherwise, the game starts, but when it comes to the loading screen it immediately closes without an answer, i noticed that the game starts only if i disable dxvk, other games usually work without issues, and it seems to be playable on the steam deck, can someone help me to make the game work please?

Hi,

New Linux user. Been a few months and a few distros. I've settle on Nobora currently and it's running great. I'm using an Asus G14 with 4060 laptop. The only issue is when I run it docked on a monitor I would like more fps and quality. I have been considering getting an egpu with 9070 XT or 4080 or whatever I can get a good deal on in comparable performance. Just curious if I should expect headaches or if it's a good idea.

I like the portability with the gaming laptop and don't want to build a desktop PC but if it's a bad idea I'd rather skip the headaches and just build a desktop.

Thank you

Is the survey wrong? Is the true percentage 3.96% instead of 5.33%?

P.S: 3.96 is roughly 75% of 5.33

https://x.com/legendary_gl/status/2039646372027093405

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/legendary

Hey everyone, I really like playing rocket league but its performance is worse than on windows especially when loading the map. Every other game like roblox, minecraft, brawlhalla run better on linux except this. For some more details:
CPU: i5 6500

GPU: RX 480
Distro: Fedora workstation 43
RAM: 8GB DDR4
Launcher: Heroic games
Proton version: Tried 9.0-4 (best one so far), proton GE latest, proton CachyOS

Kernel: Linux 6.19.9-cachyos1.fc43.x86_64 (also tried the fedora default kernel)

Game scope and feral game mode enabled

I really appreciate any help or response :)

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Linux gaming has improved a lot, but the same issues still come up again and again: anti-cheat, NVIDIA on Wayland, DX12 weirdness, and the occasional "this game just runs worse for no obvious reason."

What is the one thing that still annoys you the most in 2026? Or do you think some of these problems are already overblown?

It just struck me. 5.33% of players on Steam are about 8 million active users. What are the companies with anticheat games waiting for?

Hi,

I got a Strix Halo PC a few months ago, happily installed CachyOS on it as I use it to run local LLMs and play some games. I have only been playing Overwatch and Farcry 4 so far, and I would appreciate feedback from other Strix Halo owners to see which games run well on that platform :

• in Overwatch, I get 110-120 fps in low details mode, QHD, DX12. I would expect more tbh, but I guess proton doesnt do miracles on that one.
• Farcry runs great at max details but it is quite old, so that is expected.

Any recommandations on games that run great on that platform ? Note : I'm not looking for compatibility scores, protondb is fine for that, I mean games that make good use of the CPU + iGPU architecture.

Thanks ! Cheers

Two games i'm running through steam have suddenly reduced their resolution options to about six, the highest being 1536x864.. Monitors native 1080p isn't there any more.

Running Cachyos on an asus tuf dash f15 laptop.

So far i've gone into the steamapps/compdata folder and deleted the games folder there but it didn't change anything. Also tried a different proton version but that didn't help either.

Whats causing this and how can i fix it?

I’ve been getting into PC’s and Linux lately. I’m aware of issues with compatibility and kernel level anti-cheat and that VM’s won’t fix the issue with kernel level anti-cheat but can the other issues with gaming on Linux be worked around through a VM reliably? I’ve heard it can take some beefy hardware from people who have tried to game in a VM, so I’m also curious if a ryzen 9600x, RX 9060 XT, and 16gb of ram is enough or will I need a second GPU, more RAM, or a more powerful CPU?

So the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta cards were dropped from support a few months ago, and that happening has made be concerned it may happen for Turing as well in a few years. Anyone know if there are any official plans for this, or at least predictions?

end4 somehow un-end4red itself (on cachy os) and i need a new good arch based distro for gaming with cachy os performance without the gamer branding cuz the gamer branding kinda seems cringe to me and i dont wanna see it every time i open my laptop