Tested with a RTX 3070, up-to-date drivers (570.144 atm) and KDE Plasma. I'm using the non-opensource Nvidia diver & kernel module, GSP firmware disabled on Wayland due to issues.

On X11 it worked fine. Not sure if it actually used my regular system RAM but at least I never ran out of VRAM.

On Wayland it's not working correctly. It either freezes the game (e.g. Total War Warhammer 3) or the game becomes very laggy (<30fps, e.g. Resident Evil 2 Remake) if I set the graphics settings so high that they sometimes need more VRAM than I have. Also other applications freeze (e.g. Discord on my second screen) and I need to minimize & maximize their windows again.

Is there any way to fix this? Limiting the available VRAM in the dxvk config didn't do the trick for e.g. Total War Warhammer 3.
At the moment I have to lower my graphics settings, to not consume too much VRAM.

Using wine-10.7-staging-tkg unofficial-wine-xiv-staging-ntsync-10.7 Ubuntu 25.04 Intel I5 8250u with UHD 620 Mesa 25.1.0

For recording using - GPU Screen Recorder

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Does anyone else have this issue and possibly a solution? I'm on an AMD system with a Nvidia GPU. I tried Proton 9.04, Experimental and the new GE 10.3.

So a few weeks ago I got a 4K 32" monitor and when i first hooked it up my distro (Fedora 42, Gnome, Wayland) set the scale to 150%. All seemed good.
Then in games I noticed that my mouse would keep escaping the focus of the game and land on my second monitor which was pretty unusable, I had to keep in mind not to move the mouse fast towards the direction of my second screen. Also there were other problems like weird resolution setting in games which would sometimes really tank the performance.
I've been now using the scale at 100% but everything is just too small and I'm kinda tired of it.
Does anyone know know solutions to those issues? Is there some reported bug or planned fix someone knows about? Is it Gnome or Wayland issue or maybe even something else?
Thanks in advance

I'm trying to play modded Skyrim, but the GPU i think is getting power spikes, this also happened on windows. There i solved it by just limiting GPU power to -2% and it seemed to work.

How do i do that here? Because i think my GPU is triggering the PSU overdraw protection, and my computer resets mid gameplay. It's not overheating because i set the fan curve to be pretty aggressive and i haven't seen it go past 80C on the hotspot so it must be the power thing.

Weirdly enough, Skyrim seems to be the only game doing this. I guess modded Skyrim is the GPU final boss. That or modded Minecraft. :P

Hello! Anyone use the 8bitdo ultimate 2 wireless controller and experiencing ghost inputs?

Been playing Khazan on Steam and randomly the right trigger activates even when im not holding the controller. Steam input is disabled. I'm using it on Arch and Fedora 42 with the xpad-noone kernel module as I also use xone for my xbox series controller.

I did notice that if I switch the trigger mode from long to short, the issue goes away. Is my controller defective? I just got it new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3giSDF520 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pqnmUVGcGU

Hello everyone, I'm quite new to Linux and I've been reading all the posts going through here and other places just trying to learn more. I've been using Linux mint for about 2 months now and it's been fantastic. I rly enjoy Linux and want to keep it as my main OS. The problem is certain games I miss being able to play on windows. So this is sort of an opinion based question that will hopefully be informative for other new users who come across this same problem.

For games that can't be played on Linux is it more efficient to use a virtual machine, or dualboot?

I've watched some tutorials and setting up a virtual machine seems abit intimidating for someone without much experience. I'm not really sure of the pros and cons of using a VM for gaming vs dualbooting. If anyone could share some info it'd be appreciated!

Last year i decided to give Linux a shot and gave mint a try duel booting with windows and to my surprise i didn't hate it but ended up just sticking with windows, until last week.

So i went full in and wiped my drives. I installed Mint Cinnamon 22 and have been getting to know it some more. Im on a full AMD system, AM4 socket with a 5800x3d, 32gb ram, 7900xt GPU, two different monitors of the same resolution (one has freesnyc) and a 5.1 surround sound bar connected to the GPU with HDMI.

The problem i have is very jittery game play in every game i have tried so far. I get good FPS. Having looked around i tried a couple suggestions like lowering the refresh rate on my main monitor from 165hz to 144 and disconnecting all but the main monitor.

That actually works and the jitters go away but i dont want to be unplugging and plugging those connections all the time and id like to actually use the second monitor while gaming and use the speakers instead of the headset a lot of the time too.

I tried using the same resolution and refresh rate on both monitors and funny enough the sound bar because both windows and linux sees the sound bar as an actual screen from what i gather is the signal from HDMI.

Is there a fix for this i haven't found? Maybe i need two identical monitors both with freesync?

Thanks to u/Nrezinorn for all their help first and foremost. This project seemed to tickle that problem solving side of his noggin that I love to scratch myself, so much so that he ended up pushing through some changes on the github repo which should help with getting the game to run inside of a VM.

So I have some good news! It compiles! On arch32 at least.

The bad news? It crashes to desktop immediately with a generic segfault error.

After I get back home today I'll probably be taking cracks at it through MX-Linux's 32 bit distro, but everyone is free to take a crack at getting this game to run. All you need is the dependencies, repo, and a 32 bit Linux Virtual machine!

And I'm new to code myself, so if you have an interest in coding and just want to mess around with it, feel free. Sometimes trying dumb shit works because if its dumb but it works, it's not dumb.

To Do? Well we have to refactor fonts.h to NOT use dat2c since that's one of our primary limiting factors, then we need to update it to Allegro 5 before it can be safely ported, since those are likely prerequisites to getting the game to run on x86_64 architecture, and therefore prerequisites for remaking the game in Godot.

As always, thank you guys for helping me out and taking interest in this game.

Github: https://github.com/Kerenas/Monster-Monster-Asteroid-Madness

I'm thinking on changing my GPU but still deciding on whether to buy an AMD or NVIDIA. I've seen equivalent AMD cards are cheaper than NVIDIA ones but I'm not sure if changing drivers will be a pain in the ass, i don't have integrated graphics in the CPU nor the motherboard so i pretty much risk my computer not giving image and probably having to reinstall my OS (it happened once when i tried to test an older video card and installed it's drivers).

If the drivers have an installer or can be installed by the driver manager provided by Ubuntu then it's one thing less to worry about.

Hello.
I install Battle.net on Lutris and Heroic Game Launcher, with some Proton-GE and Wine-GE
I'm logged in my account, but trow a error "don't loading the game..." in the lashes home and game, but the Shop runs like.
Any suggestion??

I'm playing Assassin’s Creed Mirage on Proton Experimental and it works fine, all is good until I reach the end of the initial cut scene where the game seems to get stuck, mangohud does not change as well.

this is where it gets stuck

I can't find any logs to send since I'm using this as a non-steam game and I don't know where logs are stored any help would be greatly appreciated

System info:

I am using Proton Experimental
I tried using Proton 9.0-4 but the game gets stuck in the splash screen and never actually launches
my current launch opts are:

This might be a stretch but I’m all out of ideas I have asked for help everywhere.

I recently distro hopped from Mint to CachyOS and I am having issues with XPlane 12 more specifically with a linux native plugin for it called AutoOrtho.

The plugin uses symlinks to inject scenery into the sim on the fly and has been working great for me on Mint and Fedora before.

It’s now behaving like it should but nothing is being injected into the sim and the logs have nothing that I can see.

Plugin depends on FUSE for the virtual file system and that is set up correctly.

I suspect this might be a weird permissions issue as I was using the flatpak version of Steam prior and now I am not or that it may have something to do with my file system.

I’m out of ideas.

Any help would be welcome.

Cachy OS AMD Ryzen 5800X3D AMD 7800XT 64GB DDR4 4TB M.2 (EXT4)

PS it’s late here and I might see replies tomorrow.

I have a mini pc with the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS which has the integrated GPU AMD Radeon 780M: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-780m.c4020

From 32GB of DDR5 RAM I have allocated 8GB to the GPU.

On the other hand I have MSI GeForce GTX 1650 4GT Low Profile 4GB GDDR5 : https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-GTX-1650-4GT-LP-OC/Specification

I could connect the MSI as external GPU using the oculink port as eGPU.

Do you think I would have better performance using the external GPU?