i just need benchmarking software for games and such also im on pop_Os and im a total noob

Anyone else having this type of issue? I just upgraded from 25.04 to 25.10, and now almost all games that run via Steam/Proton, AND running on Wine without Steam, do not register mouse clicks.

I've been looking for a new headset for gaming which support wireless surround sound (idc abt the 7.1 bs) i am currently rocking the corsair hs70 which worked great but its starting to break and I want a new one in the midrange price.

I've been looking at the steelseries acrtis nova 5 but I haven't rly seen ppl saying its working on linux (since the steelseries software is windows only) Does anybody have the nova 5 or can recommend something else?

I live in Israel so not everything can be shipped here

Hi all,

I have installed Heroic v2.18.1 via Flatpak. I have also installed Gamescope 23.08 with flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.gamescope and selecting 23.08. Am running Fedora 42.

When I attempt to go to settings for my game (Battle.net in Heroic, for Diablo IV) the Gamescope tab just says "We could not find a compatible version of Gamescope. Install Gamescope's flatkpack package with runtime and restart Heroic." despite having already done that.

I've attempted to uninstall and reinstall Gamescope which affects no change.

Tried googling for this but everything just says to install 23.08 for Gamescope version 2.18 so I'm not getting anywhere in my search. thanks for any help!

Hi guys, I love gpu screen recorder but the shadow play ui is kind of broken (i am on kde wayland), when I click to enter a value, say in fps or video length, it dont put the value there but the it send in background For example, i open my browser and on it, gpu screen recorder ui, and when enter some value in fps in replay setting, it write in browser search box, and if no app r there, it also dont work. And secondary, that option try out the new ui is not available when downloaded for aur or chaotic aur, it available only on flatpak.

Was looking at LMDE as an option since I have no interest in an Ubuntu based ditro or using snap, but that got me thinking, "Why not just use straight Debian?" Is Debian that much more difficult or tedious to set up for daily use/ gaming? Though it's not a huge factor, I'm not a huge fan of the look of a cinnamon DE, and actually think I like xfce more.

I'd appreciate anyone's input who has experience with the two and their differences/ benefits/ downsides. I'd be coming from Windows 10 LTSC, and my main priorities are stability and ease of use with minimal bloat.

Edit: I understand some tweaking will likely be needed for better gaming performance and am unafraid of that prospect.

So basicly I want to play with keyboard and mouse that supports only controller. Is there way to do this?

So I've installed the EGS Launcher from Bottles, then I installed both GTA V Enhanced and the R* Launcher. After a bit of troubleshooting I finally managed to run the game, but 10 seconds into it, the game enters an infinite waiting screen: "Verifying game ownership is taking longer than usual".

My Bottles configuration is the following:

Runner: sys-wine-10.0
DXVK: dxvk-2.7.1
VKD3D: vkd3d-proton-3.0

Windows version: Win10

Environment Variables (Im not sure if they are correct)
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
__VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only

Any feedback or attempt to help will be much appreciated. Thanks

Hello,

I noticed down-votes of questions like "Which Distro is Best", and the community complaining about newbie questions.

As a result, introductory gaming guides were recommended like Kwindu. The problem is: - For a long comprehensive guide, a beginner may find it difficult to read, where she'd get lost among concepts like Proton, Wine, Lutris, ..etc. - For a short step-by-step tutorial, a beginner may fail to workaround a trivial problem like blacklisting Nouveau's drivers.

Many of those who come from Windows may not even know how to execute a command on terminal to log basic system info.

I am happy to see many people switching to Linux, and I want them to learn without an entry-barrier to understand a long guide.

That motivated me to create a new kind of knowledge-base, where power users could contribute to a dynamic knowledge-base, which answers a user's question only by citing self-contained knowledge pieces, called "Snippet".

I created a new gaming guide Here.

• Snippet Compatible Games cites Kernel Anti-chaet so that more details could be explored on-demand of the reader, maintaining an easy-to-follow tutorial.
• Snippet Asking a Good Question cites Troubleshoot Nvidia Drivers which solves a huge bulk of questions asked.
• A question could be asked here whereby a snippet like Troubleshoot Nvidia Drivers could be cited in the question thread, instead of re-writing an answer every time.
• If a user asked about a GTX card compatibility, we could add a snippet, then link snippet Compatible GPU to it. So, the gaming guide could be dynamically updated and expanded, driven by users questions.

I received feedback that contributing to Arch Wiki or tldr should be given a priority. If the community found "Snippet" concept useful, I'd be happy to develop it, so that wiki projects like tldr are integrated into it. If some snippet received high citations, then this could signal a contribution to Arch Wiki or tldr, a win-win for everyone!.

All feedbacks are welcomed.

Hey guys! How are you doing? I use Kubuntu on Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN and it's good. But I wonder if there is another distro that is good for gaming. I heard about Pop!_OS and I liked it. Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN has Intel Core I7-8565U and Nvidia GeForce MX150. So is Pop!_OS good choice for my laptop? I don't any Arch-based distros like bazzite or CachyOS and I don't want Nobara as it doesn't support my GPU.

Sup guys I am switching to linux (have tried mint and Nobara earlier) and now I am wondering whats your experience with nvidia drivers on different distros?

I am switching to AMD in the future but I dont have the money for it at the moment and I cant wait to get off of windows permanently!

Im not a performance maxer in any capacity I am just looking for things to work smoothly!

If there any distros you feel are better with nvidia than the ones I mentiond please share and thank you in advance!

WoW is lagging like crazy on Fedora.

I can't play the game with proton or proton-ge.

Hello,

I've had my Steam Deck for a month and I'm having a problem when playing Borderlands GOTY Enhanced Edition on it.

Generally, the game runs smoothly and well. However, as soon as I make contact with enemies and they approach me, my camera starts moving uncontrollably. Also, sometimes shots are fired even though I'm not pressing any buttons.

I was briefly worried that this might be a hardware problem.

I tested the joysticks and there's no drift.

This problem doesn't occur in other games, such as The Division 2.

Are there any others experiencing this issue?

Any solutions?

Thank you.

To preface, ANV is the vulkan driver for Intel GPU. I understand that mesa devs is probably working on a different issues already (there are 100+ MR tagged with ANV). However, 2 of my Intel ANV driver bug reports have been ignored so far. This was not the case for my previous bug reports of R600 and gallium nine. Previously, my bug report at least get a respond that they read the issue ticket, even when they are not resolved (definitely never for all my gallium nine issue). Here are my 2 bug reports: - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/14502 - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/14429

Is there any issue with any of these report I make? I know I didn't include apitrace for Atelier Yumia demo. However, apitrace does not support DX 12 game. The demo is also free. I also made a report at DXVK/VKD3D repo respectively and it seems they conclude this is either a driver issue or a game issue.

Some Steam games separate your save game data in the Steam Cloud by OS. Borderlands 2, for example, does this. When I force Proton in Steam, I'm able to see all my previous characters from playing the game in Windows. However, when I use the native Linux version, all of that and all of the cosmetics and stuff I've unlocked, is gone.

I've been looking all over the place and apparently the save data is in some directory called willowgame or WillowGame. This directory is located either in ~/.local/share/aspyr-media/borderlands 2/willowgame or in /GameDrive/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Borderlands 2/WillowGame

When I force Proton and play the Windows version of the game, it takes several minutes to redownload 11GB of something. I'm assuming those are my saves?

I can't seem to find any WillowGame directory that is 11GB big. The save data might also be located in the Proton prefix? Maybe? I don't know for sure where the Proton prefix is.

I would like to extract my Windows save games so I still have acess to all of my previous progress in Linux. Does anyone have a better idea of how to do this?

EDIT: It wouldn't be such a big deal but when I'm trying to play the game with my girlfriend, she's using the Linux version in Mint and the Windows version will not let me connect to her game. I was only able to do so after disabling Proton and playing the Linux version of the game.

Also, It says there are 224.09 KB stored in the Steam Cloud for Borderlands 2 when I am playing the Windows version with access to all of my saves. /GameDrive/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Borderlands 2/WillowGame/savedata is only 23.8KiB so I'm skeptical that that is where my saves are. Likewise ~/.local/share/aspyr-media/borderlands 2/willowgame/savedata is only 15.9KiB

Hi, recently I've switched to linux (cachyos), currently using my 3060 TI, but I've seen substantial FPS drops compared to windows 11. As far as I know it's because of the nvidia drivers and dx12.
E.g. in Dying Light: The Beast I went from around 100fps on windows to 75 on cachyos. The game doesn't even run dx11, it crashes instantly. Same thing with Space Marine 2 - there was something like 15fps difference between windows and linux and I ended up below 60 frames.

From what I've heard AMD is recommended to run on linux so I've thought about switching from 3060 TI to 6700XT (or 9060XT) just for the sake of having a smoother experience.

Do you guys have any experience with this kind of switch? Or maybe I can tweak some nvidia settings to get better peformance?

I'm using newest KDE (I think it's 6.5) with Wayland