Hi, and today I am looking at The Alters. It is a sci-fi game with elements of adventure, survival and base-building.

The graphics and sound design is excellent and the game runs really well. Hard to believe games are still optimised in 2025. The story is engaging and the voice acting is really good. 11 Bit once again delivers a masterclass in story telling and character development.

The game mechanics are well thought out and the time based elements enforce the urgency that the story is trying to convey and with each alter you get dragged deeper into it.

I am about 6 hours in and from what i have read the main gameplay loop takes about 30 hours, and I can say that it has been an engaging 6 hours so far. It is a great game at a great price and for that I need to commend the developers, this could have been priced higher in my opinion.

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When playing games on Steam, the game randomly freezes. Sometimes it is every few minutes, sometimes it can go an hour or two without freezing. It's unpredictable. I've noticed this on both Expedition 33 and Split Fiction. I haven't tested this on other games. If you wait a bit (20 seconds to a couple minutes) it will either unfreeze itself or crash. If you press a key to say, open the app menu and force the game window out of focus, the game will resume as if nothing happened.

Hardware specs:

GPU RTX 5080 Asus Prime

CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Motherboard: Asrock B650i Lightning Wifi (BIOS 3.25)

Power Supply: Corsair SF1000

Drives: Samsung 990 Pro 4TB, Samsung Evo Plus 2TB

Case: Fractal Era 2

Cooler: Fractal Lumen S24 V2

OS specs:

CachyOS (problem is also persistent on fresh Bazzite gnome install) KDE (KDE version 6.4.1)

Nvidia drivers 575.64-3

cachyos-gaming-meta and cachyos-gaming-applications meta packages are installed.

The weird thing is that I have two CachyOS installation: one on each drive. The one on the 2TB drive does not seem to have these issues so far (knock on wood), but the one on the 4TB drive does. The biggest difference in the two installations that I can see is that the 4TB install is newer and has KDE plasma 6.4.1 whereas the 2TB installation has KDE Plasma 6.3.x. I don't necessarily think this is a plasma issue since I experienced this same issue on Bazzite gnome. I also don't experience this on my other desktop with a Ryzen 7950X and AMD RX 7900XT running Fedora 41, so this is very likely related to some interaction between the nvidia drivers and some other aspect of the system. I could just use the 2TB drive, but I would really like to get to the bottom of what is causing this so I know how to avoid it in the future.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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So, for a while, my SSD was acting up, and I'm pretty sure it's done for. Since I have to reinstall Windows anyway, I figured this might be a good time to just switch and be done with Windows entirely.

I've heard good things about Bazzite and Linux Mint, but I honestly have no idea how these work differently or how hard they are to use. What I’m looking for is an OS that lets me play my Steam games, run some emulators, use Epic Games, and run typical apps like Discord.

I also have some Xbox Game Pass games, but it’s not a huge deal if I can’t play those anymore.

I don’t want any bloat like Windows has, and I’d prefer something that doesn’t eat a lot of system resources. Just a clean, lightweight OS that lets me jump in and start using it without a bunch of extra junk.

Also, since I won’t have Windows Defender anymore, I’d like to know what a good alternative is for whatever OS I end up using.

Lastly, what should I look out for before installing a new OS and transferring my stuff over?

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My specs:

4060

ryzen 5 5600x

32gb ram

So if i play on 1440p ultra, i get an average of 80 fps (on windows) but on linux i get around 103 fps on average, the 1% low is around the same at 65 fps. I am missing something, i checked to see if i had the drivers installed on windows, i even reinstalled, but still the same, and even on some others game, linux is better, especially at the 1% low.

I am on cachyos, which seems to be the distro that brought me the most fps, the thing that bothers me is that, a month ago the difference wasn't so big, it has been a driver or smth on linux that improved it so fast in such short time?

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Hiya everybody,

I am just about ready to buy a new gaming PC after years of holding on to my old stuff. While I've always been a Windows user, I'm more often considering moving on. Having worked for a while on an Ubuntu laptop now, I'm quite content with what Linux OS'es have to offer. However, for a fully fledged gaming PC I need to make more considerations than just choosing Ubuntu. I plan on using my PC mainly for gaming, and also some hobby programming on the side (C++, game (engine) development, that sorta stuff). While I do have sufficient tech savvyness as a programmer, I'm moreso looking for a solution that works (more-or-less) out of the box.
 
 
I have a few questions I hope some of you could answer for me, or at least provide some insight:
 
First: The OS. I have been looking around this sub for general opinions. They mainly seem to point to three contenders: Bazzite, Nobara, and CachyOS. I've read that Bazzite's "immutability" might be a hindrance for people who wish to delve deeper into customizing their system, which I might wish to do. The other two seem fine for out-of-the-box choices, but I haven't read too much on them quite yet. DE-wise I'm not so picky, so if it can use KDE Plasma then I'm content.
 
 
Second: The GPU. The site I'm using to build my PC only lists NVidia GPU's, but looking around it seems to generally be a bad choice for Linux systems. People seem to suggest using AMD cards over NVidia cards. Is this true? Why prefer one over the other? I get the general gist, and will thus probably look for AMD cards, but I was wondering why specifically I should prefer AMD.
 
 
Third: Do you have any other tips in general? I'm planning on playing some graphically intensive games (RDR2, Oblivion Remastered, Talos Principle 2, Minecraft with Distant Horizons and shaders, etc.) mostly coming from my Steam library. I play basically no online-competitive games, so I doubt I'll run into too many anti-cheat ridden games. I also plan to do some hobby work on my PC, which mainly involved programming, and which might involve music production etc. Any tips for other things to look out for when it comes to PC components are welcome too, I only know about the GPU situation, but not about the rest.
 
 
Thanks in advance! I hope that my first step into owning a Linux PC as my main rig will go smoothly.

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I just installed this game on my linux mint after completing it on windows on the same pc. On windows it was running at 70-80 fps constantly but on linux there are too much framedrops. Very inconsistent framerates. Is anyone else experiencing such issues? (My pc has a RX 6600 and R5 7600)

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These Ucom controllers are really really old. They are from the Windows 7 era. It seems windows dropped support for them or broke the drivers. The right joystick on windows controls ABXY and the vibration motors don't work. You need to install drivers meant to fix em and an app that will add virtual drivers so that the controller is seen as an xbox controller with xinput instead of d-input.

The controller just works as plug play on Linux.

I will get a better controller in the future ( I have had Gamesir and Dinofire die) but these $5 ones are holding up fine

Does anyone know how to run cheat engines on Linux? PINCE, which is not a cheat engine is not easy to use. I scanned dead cells for 1502 cells and got over 15 results. I would like to use FLing from Windows

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Info: Bazzite 41, KDE Plasma 6.3.1, Nvidia 570.86.16, GE-Proton10-4

I've been playing Titan Quest Anniversary Edition lately, and found an incredibly annoying issue which I cannot find referenced anywhere on the internet, despite my friend using Fedora 42 (KDE, AMD) also having the same issue.

The issue is that while TQAE is open it constantly grabs focus, meaning I cannot interact with any other windows for more than a frame, and can't alt+tab at all to windows on the same display. Does anyone know how I can fix this? The issue persists regardless of whether I'm using windowed, borderless or fullscreen.

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Yes, strictly speaking I know GPU passthrough is possible in QEMU KVM (which just has the best performance for VMs on Linux), but for what I can find this only works if your system also has integrated graphics. I'm on a Ryzen 7 5700X so I don't have integrated graphics and only one GPU in my system. And I don't have space for another either.

I need this for 2 games that I play a lot that I have on the Microsoft store (I know) and I'm trying to prevent having to boot into Windows just to play those games.
So is it possible to play Microsoft store games with at least decent performance in a VM running on Linux?
I haven't switched to Linux yet but I'm already writing down everything I need for all other games and what not and hardware support, drivers and things like that. This is like the only thing I'm not sure about and just want to know what is really possible.
(hope it's okay to ask this question here)

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Hey

You may have seen my post from a few days ago where I asked for help, because my FPS was very low in all games.

Turns out my PC was only using my iGPU, which was fixed by disabling secure boot in the BIOS.

I really appreciated you guys' help, thank you to everyone who helped me solve the issue.

I'm sorry but here is why, in the end, I still stopped gaming on Linux. Even if we fixed the perfs in 3d games.

1. Finding the issue and fixing it was a miserable experience, and was only possible because of the insights of SO many people from this subreddit, and the fact that I have some amount of technical knowledge. I know it's going to happen again later down the road, and I don't expect the whole world to help me fix it when that happens.

2. I play Brawlhalla a lot, and after 30min of playing, it suddenly drops to 10fps until I reboot the game. Not only that, but the game was actually more responsive when it ran on the iGPU for some reason, before all the tinkering. Now it's pretty laggy.

3. Sound glitches and crackling when my games are on, which I tried a lot of things to fix.

4. Steam games were actually pretty easy to run because of Proton but I don't even want to check how you run Windows games outside of Steam.

While Windows is a bloated insane pile of garbage, I did appreciate that everything worked out of the box when gaming.

Overall I really like Linux, but trying to game on that operating system is starting to make my experience miserable, so I will stop trying now. I will just keep Linux for daily use and software engineering.

Maybe I would have had a better experience with another computer or another distro than Mint Cinnamon, but it's not for me right now.

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Hi all,

I have just finished building my new PC, including a 9060xt. I wanted to try Linux but have been told that some distros might not work with this GPU yet.

I am brand new to this and don't have a lot of time for the next month or so, so I would love to know if there's a beginner friendly distro that 'just works' (ish) for now.

I only really need Steam and a bit of basic web browsing right now. I don't particularly want to install Windows.

Bazzite look like an option - anyone running this with a 9060xt?

Or any other suggestions? Thanks+

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I'm using lutris wine-ge-8. I'm on arch linux KDE X11 linux kernal. I have the game installed can play story mode just fine but when i try to go online it lets me get to the find session freeroam tab then starts loading the session, ends with error DR1001 and DR1002 anytime i try to connect. I have played nfs Heat online with no problems what so ever but anytime i try to play unbound i just get stuck with this issue non stop. Logs dont show anything to do with connectivity to the servers or anything. I am confused why i am having this issue but others were able to get it to work according to ProtonDB. If anyone has any kind of insight please let me know what I could do to fix this issue. If you need any more information let me know below. Thanks

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So, this is what I want. I have a PC atm with a RTX 4070. I know that Linux isnt optimal for nVidia. I love to play on a tv, but Windows is a mess for it. Im into AAA games and emulation, So my thoughts is • M.2: Bazzite: Clean Steam experience. • M.2 Windows (for anticheat games etc) • SSD: Batocera for emulation. Gba to Cemu.

Can I expect a flawless experience if I switch to radeon? TV LG C2, HDMI 2.1, 4k120hz VRR HDR.

What is your thoughts?

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AFAIK gamescope uses XWayland to run X apps on Wayland, and it doesn't support running Wayland apps without the --expose-wayland flag. But doesn't X not support HDR? What exactly is Gamescope doing that makes it support HDR in X?

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so i was having trouble getting epic games to work on linux then i found this tutorial that uses a patched proton version and i was able to get both epic games launcher and rockstar launcher to work

when i click launch on gta v from epic games, it starts rockstar then rockstar shows this popup telling me to link epic games account to rockstar account

the problem is that i'am stuck on this screen
i tried visiting both epic games and rockstar account settings but i coul'd find a way to link both
epic games shows no option to link rockstar and rockstar shows no option to link epic games

system info:

arch linux: 6.15.3-zen1-1-zen cpu: Intel core i5-11400H gpu: Nvidia RTX 2050 ram: 8GB Proton version: GE-Proton9-25-GTA (trust me i have tried so many wine/proton versions) wm: sway version 1.11

my guess is that epic is unable to open urls?
i noticed this whenever epic or rockstar try to open urls (or wine/proton overall?)
this message appears when the account linking thing opens or when i manually click on my pfp -> account (in epic games), same thing for rockstar

i had the same issue when i tried other wine/proton versions, they can't open urls

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