ive been having a a great time on linux until i tried to get lossless scaling working. ever since, every game has been running like this capped at 60fps. nothing i do allows them to run "smooth." every setting i can find is set to my monitor's refresh rate. vsync is off. ChatGPT says its likely a composter issue but i cannot get farther than that with the AI. i have an nvidia GPU, but im not sure if that would matter here. i have the latest drivers. the tested games are minecraft, war thunder, and roblox. i have since fully uninstalled lossless scaling and the other software affilliated with it, atleast what i can find.

if anyone has any ideas or has had this problem please lmk. linux mint btw

My goal is simply to get Need For Speed Unbound to run on my Lenovo Legion Go S (runs steamOS). Unfortunately at some point during the launch sequence it fails (something to do with the EA launcher I presume). Anyways one thing I wanted to try was deleting all of my proton files and having it reinstall what it needs, but for some reason none of my protons or any steam Linux runtimes will uninstall through steam. When I uninstall any game it works just fine. Multiple restarts have been made with no luck.

Greetings,

I'm trying to revive an HP Pavilion 15 Gaming laptop, model dk1xxx. It has an Intel i5-10300H CPU with Integrated Intel UHD Graphics and Discrete Nvidia GTX 1050 GPU, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of disk space.

I've upgraded the laptop from Windows 10 to Windows 11, but Win11 seems to be limited by the system specs. I understand that the GTX 10 series have been officially discontinued and receive no more updates, this added to the constraint of running Win11 on an 8GB RAM laptop prompted me to think of Linux as an alternative.

I've tried Debian, Arch and Fedora distributions so far, but the rolling release nature of both Arch and Fedora makes it hard to make work/business use on the laptop.

Furthermore, I know most business software for Linux is designed with Ubuntu, RHEL (and its extensions), and SUSE in mind. But I have had problems running these distributions on this laptop with discrete Nvidia GPU.

I would like to use Ubuntu or Kubuntu, as they both support low-mid Unreal Engine development, which is the platform I intend to use in this laptop + other statistics and robotics software.

The main problem I have with Ubuntu/Kubuntu is that the screen flickers too much, rendering the laptop unusable. I've tried Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 versions to no avail, and Linux Mint (Ubuntu based) and PopOS also have the same problem.

I wonder if anyone has gone through this same problem trying to run Ubuntu on an HP Pavilion 15 Gaming laptop with Nvidia, any help will be appreciated.

Currently, I'm using Windows 11, it's slow, can't open many tabs or do much workload, but it works.

The distributions that worked effectively: Debian 12 and 13 (+ LMDE, PikaOS), Devuan 6, Arch (+ EndeavourOS, CachyOS), Fedora (+ Nobara, Bazzite), RHEL (+ Rocky, Alma) - with Debian and RHEL based distros needing more setup to recognize the Nvidia card.

Although, I could use any of them, I need to use Unreal Engine for some low-end projects, which is why I tried Ubuntu many times.

I'd appreciate any help on how to solve the screen flickering issue of Ubuntu/Kubuntu in HP Pavilion laptops, or how to setup UE in Linux and the best distribution to do so

Should I consider trying to compile UE on Debian? I've found many people reporting errors, which is why I'm doubtful of it. Arch breaks easily for me, and Fedora removing Xorg support also makes things harder.

I'm genuinely considering disposing this laptop as gaming console or server if I can't setup UE.

Thanks in advance. Much appreciated.

I've been having issues when trying to run the game from heroic even though it worked flawlessly before, I'm using dw proton 10.0-14 and haven't changed anything and suddenly it stopped working, i see the game's logo pop up and then go away almost instantly. I'm no expert in linux stuff so I'm kinda lost :[

The patch note here in the Wine 11.1 claims the issue to be resolved.

"#58143 Variable refresh rate does not work properly with winewayland."

But it doesn't seem to work. I don't have a VRR monitor so it might not be exactly related to the above. But usually when running Games on Fedora Gnome Wayland "mailbox" with xwayland/x11, the game's fps can exceed the monitor's refresh rate how it should be.

When i use native wayland per winewayland with the exact same game settings though the fps don't go over 60 fps and i notice a heavy lag when moving the mouse.

I also tried this environment variable for native VRR instead of mailbox mode but in vain.

MESA_VK_WSI_PRESENT_MODE=immediate

Any clues?

so, wayland at basically all times feels choppy, like my mouse feels like 125hz and animations are 60hz but when i go to x11, everything is fixed. like the animations are smoother, mouse feel amazing. but x11 has a bug where if i go full screen on any game, any other app has a black box around it, and also im on nvidia

Sometimes its completely random, mostly it happens when I'm loading into a game. Loading screen freezes right before freezing my entire system. Sometimes I get lucky and the system logs me out, but mostly I have to do a hard physical reboot by holding the power button. I've tried using different versions of proton. I've even tried using GE proton. I tried disabling XMP profiles. Every time I think I've solved it, it happens again.

System info:

https://pastebin.com/xJzXwfTT

I'm trying to find a way to upload my proton log since its too large to post on pastebin

A1RM4X Video has it broken down, the latest news from yersterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Gu1PyXPZM

First off I know these are two different systems and distributions, that is irrelevant to the questions I am posing. Ubuntu Questing Quokka (with Kubuntu) and SteamDeck both had updates pending. After updating all Compatibility games received "DirectX 12 not supported" errors on both systems. Well last night there was another update for SteamDeck. Once applied the games started working on the SteamDeck. So I looked through the logs on Ubuntu and all I see are updates to Nvidia Drivers, Mesa, some KVM components, Kernel, and a few random package updates. My assumption is that the Nvidia update on Ubuntu mucked somethings up. In the past the fix was to uninstall all games and delete the compatdata folder. Is this still the only way to fix this issue when it crops up? The only information in the proton logs is DirectX12 errors and unsupported text.

I've got myself an Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme, and I'm going to install Bazzite or Chacyos on it. I think both have a game mode like Steam OS. I wanted to know which one is better. I should mention that I only play my Steam catalogue, I don't emulate, I don't install other game stores, except for Heroic for Rocket League.

archlinux just added the steam-devices package a couple days ago into their testing repo, and cachyos already have it in stable. are things about to move?

EDIT: https://archlinux.org/packages/multilib-testing/x86_64/steam-devices/

I wanted to ask this here since I feel it's the best place, but if I booted up a game on a console each console is the same so things like loading times and hardware weirdness is all accounted for. However, on PC since hardware can vary so much I want to know what impact that'll have. On top of that compatibility layers like Wine and Proton add another factor into it. My question is if I had a game I wanted to speedrun, let's say Ultrakill for an easy example, could I boot it up with Proton and a timer app and send it to online speedrunning places, or would I have to run the game on Windows?

Soo, since my last post I changed some thinks in the Game, and here is what:

-I changed the resolution to 720p. This makes the game actually quite enjoyable, with 30 stable frames, or 60 more or less stable frames.

-changed the render scale to 60%.

Now, that the game is actually running somewhat „stable“, I am running into some other, very frustrating things: After some time playing, the games visuals freeze but the audio is continuing. Pressing the super key once to open the application menu makes the game continue. When clicking back into game the visuals freeze again (music/audio still playing) and this time, only a force close of the game and restarting it helps.

It is very frustrating…

Hi guys. I have installed Garuda Linux on a PC. I have downloaded some games like CS2 but they can't start 'cause there is not enough RAM. I know is possible to add an external RAM, can just someone explain me how?

Hi all,
I have a Lenovo Legion Go with a 9060 XT external GPU. Originally I used this setup with Windows, where FSR 4 worked easily through Adrenaline FSR 3 upgrade, as well as Optiscaler.

After moving to SteamOS and tinkering a bit I managed to get the 9060 XT to work using the main update channel (SteamOS 3.9) with Mesa 25.3.0 drivers.

The problem is that I can't get FSR 4 to work. I've followed all steps suggested in the tutorials (setting the env var FSR4_UPGRADE=1, using Proton GE or Proton Cachy-OS, injecting the AMD dll manually, using Optiscaler) to no avail.

When I use Optiscaler with the default Proton or with the Experimental one, I don't have the option to select FSR 4 at all (only FSR 3). On the other hand, if use recent releases of Proton GE or Proton Cachy-OS, I can select FSR 4 but the game crashes immediately.

Has anybody managed to get it working on SteamOS?

I run Linux Mint Cinnamon with an AMD GPU and CPU.

I run Cyberpunk 2077 from GOG on Lutris. I played the game with Wine Proton GE and didn't have a wine prefix for the game for the majority of the game. I recently swapped GPUs from Nvidia to AMD and was having a problem with loading the game because my CPU's integrated graphics were taking priority over my GPU. I thought making a wine prefix might help me play the game. which prevents me from accessing my save data. All of my game files are the same, but whenever I boot up the game, it treats it like I just downloaded the game for the first time. Is there a way to fix it?

Hi, i am wondering how to run Arc Raiders in Linux Mint with VPN via split tunnel. It doesn't start otherwise. I tried to put all executables i could think of in the split tunnel in settings, to no avail.