Hello, I have a laptop with the following configuration :

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Often in high-traffic bgs like Ashran or high population areas, I see the FPS tank from like 60+ to lower than 40 fps (like 30 fps in Ashran) with a lot of stuttering and jitter.

I play the game at 2560 x 1412

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I have a strong Linux background, but I’m relatively new to Linux gaming. I’m still trying to fully understand how Proton’s translation layer via Steam affects WoW performance. I’d appreciate any insights on potential performance optimizations. Additionally, which logs or tools would be most useful to analyze in this scenario?

Since WoW is generally CPU-bound, I’m also wondering if thread scheduling could be a factor...specifically, whether workloads might be getting assigned to efficiency cores instead of performance cores.

Thanks in advance for your guidance.

ran some benchmarks on a 4090, all the latest drivers on Linux. figured I'd post it here. cheers!

https://youtu.be/Ol2pf60dTOk?si=Q-xZp5IrZ7e8RNI2

Using the search function on the Steam community page is basically useless - it's either 3 million plus results for the word 'trade', or the only forum that comes up on the other page is for trading cards.

Reddit has r/SteamGameSwap, but has some seemingly arbitrary requirement to bind your Steam account to your Reddit account (with a dead link no less)... which maybe makes sense if people are 'trading' for money, but I am actually just searching for a way to facilitate a direct trade, game4game.

Am I missing something somewhere? Or does Steam just not have a place for advertising direct game trades.

https://www.nullpounce.com/PassThrough/index.html

The high CPU usage in Death Stranding 2 has been fixed for me with the latest Cachy OS Proton (Running Bazzite with Gamescope). The performance is now on par with Windows 11. If you are facing any issue related to the CPU usage and the GPU not getting utilised fully, try the latest Cachy OS Proton.

PC Specs:

R7 5700X

9060XT 16 GB

16GB 3200 Mhz

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-No-Build-LTO

Recently Mesa3D disabled LTO, the side effects of this able to run some of the old Linux games now! Many old games now starting and running flawlessly on my Ubuntu 25.10 with Mesa3D 26.0.3. My recent tested games include:

Cold War

Robin Hood The Legend of Sherwood

Zero Ballistics

Yorg car racing

Tuxracer

Ballistics

Soldier of Fortune

Coincidentally, latest PulseAudio OSS daemon allowing sounds to play flawlessly in these older games with older openal libraries.

I have purchased 3 third party wiimotes for use with dolphin flatpak on Ubuntu 26.04 Linux, but i cannot connect them to dolphin with the "Emulate the wii's bluetooth adapter" option, which would let me remap certain things (for example, have fake wii motion plus from wiimote accelerometer instead of wii motion plus dongle or internal wii motion plus integrated wiimote)

I can connect it just fine through the "Passthrough a bluetooth adapter" option, but I cannot get that input outside the dolphin sandbox

I can connect a real first-party wiimote with either option, and also directly through BlueZ with the hid-wiimote kernel module

I have investigated and apparently my third party wiimotes dont have exposed HID, and so I cannot connect them to linux directly. I can only connect them to a real wii or to the Dolphin passthrough stack (which doesn't let me re-map or tween inputs)

Does anyone know if theres a clone/fork/implementation of the real wii bluetooth driver implementation used by Passthrough for linux?

So I have an xbox 360 wireless controller/dongle setup that I use whenever playing steam games on my Arch Linux setup that works perfectly fine, but for some reason xbox cloud gaming is unable to detect my controller whatsoever.

I have tried adding my browser as a steam app to no avail, and I have tried the following browsers:

Waterfox (flatpak)

ungoogled-Chromium

Chrome (flatpak)

Edge (flatpak)

Specs:
Kernel is Cachyos-bore 6.19.9-1

CPU is an intel i7-10750H

GPU Nvidia RTX 2070

16 GB ram

Anyone have any idea what the issue could be?

Hi! Sorry for another one of these posts, but I'm struggling to find the most up-to-date information and figured I'd come here and ask for the latest advice?

So, I want to play Dragon Age Inquisition on my Steam Deck. This hadn't been a problem before, though a few months ago I did have to mess around in protontricks to get the EA app to work.

But now, it isn't working again (after deleting and redownloading the EA app countless times). I'm just getting error code inst-14-1627.

So basically, what's the latest with EA games & the EA app on the deck? Are there any ways I can bypass this and play my game?

Also, I'm not super familiar with certain terminology so please explain this to me in the most simple/user friendly way you possibly can.

So it will be my third time trying Linux, I used two variations of mint previously and stopped because I couldn't properly install Creaminstaller for DLCs, thing is, windows and Google are so overtly invasive and the new ID verification laws of Brazil piss me off so I'm switching back to Linux out of spite, I was recommended Nobara and CachyOS but wanted to hear your opinions

Hi all,

I would like to know if anybody has recent news of the implementation of VRR for AMD GPU connected to HDMI 2.1.

I saw some progress, back to Jan 2026. Since nothing showed up.

I tried today on the latest CachyOS. No luck unfortunately.

Thanks!

Hello everyone,

I'm using a Arch based distribution with Steam beta and Proton Experimental as default, AMD GPU.

I noticed this missing video when I launch games such as: - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 - Sackboy A Big Adventure

It is a well known problem? Or I just missing a necessary package to install?

I already tried to verify game files and Proton files.

TL:DR

Is there anyone with similar setup, that can tell whether these settings (4K dlss + medium high) are viable for other AAA titles on 2000 series 8GB cards? or is it a TLOU2 thing?

Arch - 595 - 2070 Super - KDE

I've recently started gaming on Linux, and haven't encountered an issue until I tried The Last of Us 2. I'm aware of the Dx12 problem but that doesn't really concern me since I already cap my games at 50 frames.

For most AAA titles, what I was doing on windows was: 4k + DLSS + medium to high settings so I get smooth 4k60fps even on my old 8gigs vram 2070 super.

However when I try TLOU2 with the same settings on Linux I get only single digit fps (gpu/cpu util is low) and eventually crashes, which I assume is most likely related to GPU running out of VRAM. People with similar setups have also stated this on ProtonDB for TLOU2.

I don't experience this issue with the same game on windows, though both windows and linux shows similar VRAM usage (maybe around ~500 mib more on linux, also windows includes shared memory to its calculation) I'm guessing there is still some confusion present regarding NVidia VRAM management on linux?

I bought a MSI clutch gm50 mouse and vigor gk50 low profile keyboard for my siblings' setup, and am planning to give one of them linux as it'll be easier to learn using a computer on

Problem right now is though, i can't seem to find an MSI center equivalent for these peripherals, only for laptops (which i already know of, as i use an MSI laptop. Mcontrolcentre is literally just laptop controls)

So is there any software that'd work for these? Preferably a GUI app as linux is going to a 7 year old. The distro I'm planning to give is Debian 13, incase that helps finding anything

Thank you!

Hi i am tnze i have been using linux since 2014 started with Ubuntu and now arch my daily routine is mostly work and you know and no time to browse internet much my experience was coding and gaming and drawing and lets say i utilized everything i can do with linux based distros my family use linux too my 2 brothers and one of my parents

first opinion of gaming on linux one of thing that pissing me off is that people treat linux as a windows but light version imagine applying your family rules in your friend house no everything will go well lol lets say linux world of gaming is so beautiful the native games are so good Neverball 0ad openTTD minecraft

(as for minecraft is just executing java scripts so its just native if you have java installed XD)

and then you see people complain about the anti cheat

i just wonder like the reason they crawl to linux for the lowest requirements to run the system i use i3wm arch 300~ idle and playing everything normally and then says yeah anti cheat cant run csgo2 or valorant if your pc is able to run these titles why changing to linux? windows 10/11 LTSC is more than enough at this point

like the minimum of csgo2 requirements is Intel Core i5-750 or equivalent and DirectX 11 compatible and1 GB VRAM(google source)

these specs can run windows 10 LTSC so fine

and then linux is not wrong at this point imagine being all shiny and good everyone fear to support you if anti cheat wasn't thing in linux windows is already dead atp

The Void Cargo demo launches in exactly one week, on April 7, 2026.

If you haven’t seen it yet, Void Cargo is a physics-based space trucking sandbox where you fly delivery routes, manage thrust and fuel, repair systems mid-flight, and take on riskier jobs for better payouts.

You can wishlist on steam to be notified about the demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4319290/Void_Cargo_Equilibrium/

The part I think works best is the actual flight feel. It’s not an arcade ship. Heavy cargo and fuel change the way landings feel, and a messy route can turn into a fight to keep the ship together.

I also put together a pretty extensive steam guide that covers a lot of the game, including a few things that go beyond what’s in the demo.

If you want a quick look before launch:

• 5 minutes of uncut, commented footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr8DGx9uUe4 (plays on an old version of the map the demo will launch with)
• Teaser trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qzYDVJQMXc

The demo will have one map and supports Windows, Linux, and Steam Deck. It plays best with a gamepad, but keyboard and mouse work fine too.