Basically as title who do I have to point fingers at?

Wayland is nearly 20 years old yet valve still defaults to xwayland.

hi I'm relatively very new to linux and have only used mint before. context is on my daily driver laptop the wifi option stopped showing up on windows and nothing was working so i got annoyed and dual booted to ubuntu. since then idk how my windows boots up at 100% cpu usage and all my games close because of not enough memory. as for ubuntu the games work through proton experimental on steam very well. ex: elden ring at 60fps for 1st 15 mins. and then the fps tanks. what could be the reason for this and how do i fix it? specs: msi gf 63 ultra thin laptop rtx 3050 4gb vram intel i5 16gb ram using proprietary nvidia 575 drivers and prime-select query shows nvidia as well

Hello!

I'm new here. I joined because I feel like I've exhausted all possible ways to try and make Marvel Rivals work. Below is my current specs and launch options I use for the game. If anyone has gotten this to work please let me know what you did. (Also I run this on a gaming laptop with dual GPUs which is why the launch options have the GPU specified)

Thank you for the help.

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia SteamDeck=1 gamemoderun %command% -PSOCompileMode=1

There also this concerning tidbit. When I close Rivals, my screen occasionally looks like this.

I added a second GPU, a 5060 Ti 16GB to my R11 which already had a 2070 Super. I just cannot get the games on steam run on the 5060. Steps I have tried to set the games to the correct GPU:

1. Connect the HDMI to the 5060
2. Set the VKD3D_VULKAN_DEVICE=1 for steam and for individual games - the games end up crashing on launch
3. Set DRI_PRIME=1, which helped with putting the game launcher menu (for CDPR games) on the 5060 but the game still ended up in 2070

Any help will be greatly appreciated here. Thanks in advance

im quite a linux noob but have been enjoying my experience so far and in no way plan to switch back to windows.

that being said i am looking to upgrade my 2080 gpu and considering im going to be full time on linux now im quite torn between amd and nvidia...

currently my budget would get me a nice 5070 ti/5080 if i really push it or a 9070 xt/7900 xtx. from what ive seen both have their upsides and downsides from eachother but how is it on linux?

so far ive had very little issues (only a couple monitor issues) with my nvidia gpu but ive also only been using linux for a couple weeks, so i cant really speak for longterm nvidia usage.

nvidia seems to be getting better in compatibility but amd seems to be reliable and getting better in what their gpus can do.

so ive come to ask for tips how things are looking right now and potentially if i should hold out for a couple months before i switch/switch right now and if so, what you guys think would be the better choice.

for context im currently on cachyos running hyprland (i know, how unique) and considering hopping to nixos.

hey everyone, i have some games on lutris, that when i try to run them, they either don’t detect my ps4 controller at all, or the inputs are weird, i tried everything, from trying different proton/wine versions to installing xinput on prefixes, i even tried running some of these games on steam (as non-steam games) and they won’t even launch, some other games (on lutris and steam) do work with the controller fine though, but i really wanna get to the bottom of this so if anyone has encountered this and found a solution please help, thanks

I want to play games like cod, battlefield on steam, i ve been playing combat master so far but someone has better alternatives to share ?

Hello everyone!

This is basically my take on the meme “we have a Nintendo Switch 2 at home.” Jokes aside, I’m here to share a bit of my successes and failures using Nobara to consolize an old laptop with some extra power from an eGPU. Hopefully you can give me some advice to squeeze a little more juice out of this Frankenstein console moving forward.

• MSI PE70 laptop with no internal screen (I repurposed it to build a second monitor for my main PC): i7-6700HQ, 16 GB DDR4, and a GTX 960M. In its NVMe M.2 bay, I installed one of those Oculink adapters.
• Zotac 3060 Ti Twin Edge on an F9G Oculink dock.

For the most part, the experience has been plug-and-play! The first thing I did was run lspci to check if the eGPU was detected, and sure enough, it was. I downloaded FFXIV to test the performance (not extensively) at 1080p, max settings. With V-Sync enabled, it was holding a stable 60 FPS.

MangoHud showed 2 GPUs (strange, since I actually have 3 in there: the iGPU, the dGPU [GTX 960M], and the eGPU). It was using GPU1, which turned out to be the eGPU. In the screenshot you can see me testing FFXV with similar success (high settings at 1080p).

It’s been great overall, but I’ve run into a few rough spots I haven’t been able to solve:

1) Game Mode (aka the new Big Picture) has poor performance
At first, I was running the desktop environment at 4K since the system is hooked up to a 4K TV. Desktop mode works flawlessly, but Game Mode is noticeably laggy. Not unusable, but definitely not pleasant.

I enabled hardware acceleration in Steam and lowered the resolution to 1080p, which improved things a lot, but it’s a pity Game Mode struggles. In Game Mode, the GPU listed is the iGPU (Intel HD 530), so I assumed it was rendering through that. I tried disabling it with kernel parameters (i915=0 and nvidia.modprobe=1, if I remember correctly), but no luck. Unfortunately, the laptop has no BIOS option for this either.

I also tried editing the steam.desktop file to add variables like DRI_PRIME=1, or others like __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1, but nothing improved.

2) Inconsistent offloading to the eGPU
Possibly related to the first issue, I noticed that some games—like DOOM (2016… I know, I still haven’t played it)—were running terribly. I realized they were using GPU0 (the iGPU). Adding DRI_PRIME=1 to the launch options fixed it.

However, putting this in /etc/environment doesn’t force all games to use the eGPU. Right now, I still have to manually add the parameter for each game.

3) Video signal must go through the laptop’s iGPU
This iGPU is driving me crazy. The system instantly crashes when entering the graphical environment unless the video signal is routed through the laptop’s mini-DP port. I suspect I’m losing performance because of this—data has to travel both ways through the Oculink interface, which likely increases the bottleneck.

From what I’ve read, most laptops expect either the iGPU or dGPU to drive a display (usually the internal screen, which I don’t have). I ordered a dummy mini-DP plug so I can just mirror to a “second screen” (my TV).

I’m very close to having a console-like experience in my living room, and I’m excited about it. Nobara makes it really easy to consolize the laptop thanks to all the gamer-friendly additions like xpadneo for controllers, Feral Gamemode for performance, MangoHud, etc. Overall, I’d 100% recommend it.

If you have suggestions on how to get past these small bumps in the road, I’d greatly appreciate it. That would finally give me (I think) a seamless, console-like experience.

I'm currently in the market for a (relatively affordable) capture card, and I'm rather uncertain of what I should get - especially for Linux compatibility when I finally make the full switch.

Planning to use it to record:

• Xbox 360 footage.
• HDMI-converted Wii footage.
• HDMI-converted retro PC footage.
• VHS footage from a VCR with native HDMI output (yes, this exists and works).
• Modern PC display output if needed.

As for distros, I primarily use OpenSUSE and Mint, and the capture card will usually be hooked up to an OpenSUSE system.

So I am currently using fedora and I know that nobara is a fedora based distro whith tweaks towards gaming and content creation.

My question is there any special change to nabara other than addong multimedia codecs and rpm-fusion compared to fedora in terms of video recording?

I know that there are other for gaming like lutris and steam already installed but is there anything what boost video creating performance?

I'm on debian 13 and I'm having a hard time getting PEAK to run via Proton, I have tried proton Experimental and Proton 9 and protonGE, and while the ingame cursor loads and I here sound there is just a black screen, I have tried both Vulcan and Direct X rendering. My PC is a fairly old PC with integrated graphics.

So I've been trying to play Sims 4 today. At first I had some problems but it finally worked. an hour in... froze, (last save was long ago). probably just a one-timer I thought. a few minutes into playing again, froze. oh shit. I have tried everything, GE 10, Proton experimental, proton Hotfox, proton 10. environment tables like no-esync or something. prime-run, nope. I had to resort to chatgpt, and I try to avoid that. It won't not freeze.

Manjaro, gnome x11, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 ti mobile / Intel UHD (Intel core i7 10450h) hybrid. proprietary drivers. 16gb ram.

after the freeze it never prompts that the app doesn't respond. Also, the freeze happens a lot while I'm focused on another window. and I have to force close it, simply closing it doesn't do anything.

curious if theres an easy way to make a ps4 controllers joysticks control the mouse cursor instead of the touchpad.

https://preview.redd.it/3hbacwbtffkf1.png?width=1647&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5f5adda5f19a29ee90dc0ba669f10c1587f5fb5

I have this laptop come in tomorrow hopefully. I plan on changing the os and using a external drive when all the parts come in. Im not really a intense gamer but a gamer non the less. I needed a cheap laptop and this is what i found because inflation is a issue. What types of games could this device run also what os should i try. Im not sure if i should go with something like windows or linux, maybe even dual booting?

What would you suggest?

I'm using Easy Effects and when gaming with any intensive game, the audio starts to crackle. This is really annoying but happens even on normal desktop usage when there's a spike in system resource usage.

I checked my effects and disabled all of them, and just having Easy Effects running without any modification still has the same issues.

Hello, I want to play to genshin impact on arch, I don't know how to do it because genshin now has anti-cheat, so, is there a way to play it safely?

Basically the title. I'm looking for a simple, lightweight, and toggleable alternative overlay for OpenGL and Vulkan that just shows the game framerate (and yeah, I'm aware that MangoHUD can be configured this way).

Alternative overlays I already know about:

• DXVK_HUD=fps environment variable in DXVK, but only works under Wine/Proton with DirectX 7->11 applications

• WINEDEBUG=+fps environment variable in Wine, but it's tied to Wine/Proton, and only works with WineD3D/DAMAVAND (DirectX 1->11?), if I recall correctly

• Mesa driver has GALLIUM_HUD environment variable, but it only works with OpenGL

• Steam has this new overlay, but I'm looking for something standalone (and also I've heard there are currently some issues with it causing lower performance in games)

So, is there some alternative overlay that works with OpenGL and Vulkan APIs and is not tied to Steam or Wine/Proton? I'm using AMD GPU if that makes any difference

I use arch btw, with nvidia driver 580 and sway.

The issue only happens with shaders, vanilla game works fine. When using older versions of the game with older version of sodium/iris I get black flickering all over the screen.

I think it has something to do with GPU drivers, hopefully it gets fixed soon. Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Today was the last straw. I came into my office and Windows once again woke my desktop at some point during my sleep. Not even disabling windows updates can reliably prevent this bs apparently because MSVC (which I just need for its compiler toolchain) can run some stupid update nobody cares about, waking my machine. Alright fine... whatever... I sit down and start working... suddenly the CPU fans spin up... again for the 1000th time... I open Task Manager... I see some Windows update or "security" or indexing process at the top of the list at 40 or 50 percent CPU usage... instantly vanishing... as if caught in the act... God only knows how to disable it... God only knows for what purpose... probably to ensure the sublime user experience we are used to from the Windows operating system... I mean it got so much better over the years, right? With every update...
And I simply couldn't take it anymore.
I logged like 40 hours of games this year. All the rest of my time spent on this machine is spent programming. And it works. I can, through some hack, always find a way to get a workable experience in that regard. We got WSL after all, right... even GPU passthrough in WSL. If I spend a day debugging I can even get some esoteric CUDA ML kernel to compile under Windows without WSL with some hacked together toolchain or trick that makes God weep.
But it's annoying bloat and a waste of time that I can't justify carrying around anymore because of the occasional 1 or 2 hours of games.

So I thought, fine... if I can play games on linux then good, otherwise whatever. I moved the little critical data I had on my boot drive to one of my backup drives and planned the transition with ChatGippedy. Considering some distros and the data swaps necessary for my warm and cold storage, which were NTFS aswell, disk encryption etc.
I took a risk by choosing CachyOS but I've heard good things.
I took another risk by going with Wayland + Hyprland which seemed to be notoriously difficult with Nvidia Hardware or at least unstable/experimental (I have a heterogenous mix of a 5090 and 3090s). But f it, if Wayland + Hyprland causes problems I can switch to KDE or something before investing time in setting up the rest.

The results were beyond expectation.
Installation was smooth and fast.
Nvidia drivers: Just worked.
Cuda: Just worked.
High refresh rate Gsync displays: Just worked.
Installing the cachyos-gaming-meta package... absurdly fast.
Launched Steam, downloaded Doom: The Dark Ages waiting for the worst to happen.
But no. It starts up. I load up a level. Smooth 150 fps at 4k without framegen at highest settings. No tearing, no stuttering. The CPU is chilling at 30% usage.
What the hell?
Are the forums just full of Windows employees posting about made up problems or did I get lucky?