Hello, I've just installed Fedora 43 with GNOME and enabled VRR. While it works fine in Hunt: Showdown, the issue is other apps default to the lowest possible refresh rate (48hZ) while I would want my browser, Steam etc to run at maximal possible smoothness.
I have a 165hz display and an RTX 3070. Also I have installed Nvidia drivers no problem and running the browser at locked 165hz is also not a problem.
How would I fix that? Thanks in advance

I'm using Arch Linux with the hyprland window manager and a GTX 1080 graphics card. I recently updated packages using pacman -Syu and broke my video driver. After switching back to the older 580xx drivers and linux-lts kernel installing, Steam games are running incredibly slow, with FPS 7-8 times lower than before the dreaded package update. Is there a way to fix this, or should i just fuck Nvidia and buy an RX 6600?

so i have them enabled in the text file but nothing seems to happen i just downloaded it so do i need to download a new version or sum and idk what version im on

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I just got a Lenovo Legion Go S Z1 which runs on SteamOS.

The added power compared to Steam Deck is great and it can handle battles in Warband and Bannerlord smoothly at 40fps.

The problem is that I get consistent crashes (maybe one out of three times) when going into menus (inventory, skills), and sometimes when moving around the map, though never in battles.

Sometimes my whole system will restart. Otherwise the screen will freeze with weird visual artifacts and the sound will play in a loop.

I’ve tried changing Proton versions, force single threading, windowed mode but nothing seems to work.

Can anyone who has successfully played Warband or Bannerlord on Linux/SteamOS explain how they’ve done it? Thank you so much!!

Hello all! I have an old Alienware 17 R5 with an nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card in it. I really want to put Linux on it and I just can't find what would probably work best on it. Im not looking to play any games that are really demanding. The most demanding game I have is BG3. Any recommendation for this setup? Thanks!

I have two PS4 controllers and they're not being recognized as PS4 controllers in games; they always show up as Xbox controllers. They used to be recognized normally, but now they've stopped. Can anyone help me?

Hey everyone, been running Windows 11 25H2 since I got my new rig (RX 9070 XT + R5 7500F). Overall it’s been fine, but the instability is getting to me… random black screens during games with driver resets, browser issues, you know the drill. It’s annoying as hell sometimes.

Yeah, I’ve stripped down my Windows install pretty hard - used a bunch of tweakers to cut out all the bloat just to keep RAM usage down. But idk…

So I’m thinking about switching to Linux. My main priority is gaming, minimal system conflicts, and getting FreeSync/VRR and HDR working properly. I’ve been eyeing CachyOS since I tested it on my old laptop a while back and it gave me the best fps out of what I tried.

Main question - if I’m playing games without ray tracing (don’t really care about RT), just like to sit at 1440p ultra settings - am I gonna lose much fps on the 9070 XT switching to Linux? My guess is the difference would be within margin of error, maybe even slightly more stable framerate-wise? What about latency though - does Proton and the whole compatibility layer add noticeable input lag, or is it pretty much imperceptible?

What’s the deal with FSR 4? Does it work well here? I heard there’s a launch parameter that enables it - does it perform the same as on Windows?

As for the new FSR Redstone, I honestly have no idea if that even works on Linux right now, and I probably won’t need it anyway.

Last thing - HDR and VRR. How’s the support looking? Is HDR properly supported across the board in late 2025, or still being implemented? And VRR - any issues with it anymore or is it smooth sailing?

Also just to add - I mostly play roguelikes, don’t really touch AAA or story games that often, but ill get around to playing some eventually. Right now though I’m just sticking to regular games.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Would appreciate hearing from anyone who’s dealt with any of this stuff or has solid info on it. Thanks​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​!!!

so when i want to install faugus launcher, he added two installation method which is native (done via dnf for me) and flatpak. whats the difference between it? where i should pick? i think theres no performance difference, probably.

i have some old CD games that i install using lutris

since i recently bought a new computer i reinstalled linux but i just moved my game drive into my new system

the problem is that my games on lutris dont have the artwork, i could download the images and add the manually but i want to know if lutris can do it automatically

it does it automatically when installing a game

Edit:

i found the solution, right click on the game and then configure

below each image is a button, click that to set the image automatically

I just installed sober on linux mint and not even my cursor loves at 10 fps. Can anyone tell me whats wrong?

Yes, it's a DX12 game so some nvidia tax is expected, but ~45% is a bit wild, no? Event tho it shows 120+fps it feels much worse as the frame times or so inconsistent and get even worse in combat. If I could get to run smoothly at 60fps I'd be happy, but I can't even get that.

It has a gold rating on protondb so I guess it should run better? I did try the launch commands people posted there but nothing made the game run better or more stable. I also tried different proton versions and kernels but unfortunately no improvement.
I just don't know what else to try. Any ideas?

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (16) @ 5.05 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti [Discrete]
Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64
Linux 6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64
KDE Plasma 6.5.4
nvidia (open source) 580.119.02

is there any gba emulators i can run on a 32 bit linux distro os i cant find one :(

it has antiX OS btw

i want to try using linux for the first time as i just brought a new laptop... im wondering which linux should i use since i want to use it for gaming and school stuff (sorry for bad english)

Hello Guys, i am Currently building a Linux PC for my family to use as a family gaming console, there should run a few emulators on with older games and maybe some current low spec titles, what os would you reccomend to me?
I am currently looking at
- Bazzite
- Cashy OS
- Pop!_OS
- Steam OS

Hey guys, so I'm running Fedora with KDE using RTX 3060TI as my gpu. However there's this thing, frame pacing, so I have to use gamescope/mangohud every time for a new game. I was wondering if there's another way, perhaps a DE that will automatically switch to x11 for games, or have a gamemode or something like that. Perhaps a different solution to that. Any help/suggestion is welcome, thanks in advance

I am a long time Linux user, I usually run Openbox but this past year I have been trying out XFCE, the one major glaring issue I have is that apps either A. open on the monitor my mouse is on, or B. reliably open on my secondary monitor. I have set my main monitor to be the "primary" monitor through every setting that I can find, but the issue still persists.

I know there must be some simple setting I am missing somewhere but I have searched high and low and cannot seem to find the setting to fix this.