I keep having random-ish crashes whilst playing intensive games (Happens to me on Cyberpunk and Minecraft with high shaders, probably happens on other games too.) on Arch (Cachyos, though this still happened even when I was using base Arch)

My computer screen would turn black, then turn back on with coloured squares and the screen would be frozen.

I saw a post about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/14sq04k/anyone_else_dealing_with_fairly_common_amd_gpu/, but I'm still having the issue and i'm not sure where or how to fix it or if it's an issue that needs to be fixed on the driver end.

I doubt my GPU is failing since this only happens on Linux and it was completely fine on Windows.

been seeing a lot of reports (and upon testing am experiencing it myself) that DS2 has an unusually high CPU usage when compared to windows causing performance issues, and im curious if anyone has any information on whats going on and the likelihood of a fix any time soon, or if i should just concede and play it on windows

Hey, so I'm not sure this is the correct subreddit for this, and please direct me to the correct one if so, but does anyone have a download/instructions for getting Heretic II running on a modern linux system? Unfortunately because the game is abandonware, I've been having difficulty getting it to run.

There's a Lutris installer, but it uses Internet Archive files that have since been removed so the installation fails. I tried installing it another way, but after install it keeps crashing regardless of whatever wine runner I'm using. My distro is Nobara if that has any relevance. Thanks for any help you can give.

Llevo varios dias chekeado distritos de linux y me gusta mucho como se ven los escritorios y entornos de trabajo, pero tambien lo quiero para gaming. Mi duda es la siguiente: que distrito es la mejor para gaming y a la vez que tenga buena personalizacion de interfaz.

Mi S.O 9070 xt AMD ryzen 7 9800x3D 32 GB ddr5

Hi all,

I'm having a really frustrating issue with Red Dead Redemption 2 (Steam) on Linux Mint and I’m hoping someone here might have some ideas.

No matter what I do, the game seems locked between about 40-50 FPS. It doesn’t matter what settings or resolution I use (I’ve tested 1080p, 720p, lowest settings, higher settings) the FPS basically stays the same. It never really goes above that range.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

• Multiple Proton and Proton GE versions
• Launch options: gamemoderun %command% -USEALLAVAILABLECORES -cpuLoadRebalancing
• Letting the game run for a while in case it’s shader caching
• Switching between low and high graphics settings
• Enabling FSR (this only gives me ~5 FPS at best)

What’s strange is that changing settings barely affects performance at all, which makes me think something else is bottlenecking or limiting it.

At this point I’m not sure if it’s a CPU bottleneck, Proton issue, Vulkan problem, or something else entirely.

Has anyone experienced something similar or have any suggestions on what I could try next?

My specs:

Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena
Kernel: 6.17.0-19-generic
Memory: total: 16 GiB
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Driver: 535.288.01
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K

I have an amd 9800x3d processor (and an amd 7900xt gpu if that matters). I have been getting random kernel panics accompanied with the error in the title upon next reboot for months now. It is so fucking annoying. I have read places online this is an issue with the processor. I always keep drivers up-to-date through the discover app through my distro, and I have flashed the most up-to-date bios version for my motherboard and I still keep getting this error. Has anyone found a proper fix for this or am I just fucked? If I am just fucked, is there a different processor I could swap to that is of similar strength I could use instead. I cant take the kernel panics every other day anymore

The Windows 11 PC I've been using for years is finally starting to show some hardware problems and I'm going to switch over to Linux for my gaming PC. I've already run a few games distributed through Steam on a Chromebook that's been reworked to run Debian and I'm satisfied with that distro.

I'm probably going to get an ASRock Deskmini and an AMD AM4 type processor. I've read processor and memory are more important for HOI4 than a high-end graphics adapter. I still want to get something that works as well as what I've got, which probably wouldn't take much today. I'm still using the GeForce GTX 1050 I bought in 2018 and it works acceptably with what I have (Intel Core i5-6400 + 32GB of RAM on a RAID1 HDD array).

Is there some decent graphics adapter that fits the bill and will run on Debian and the power the DeskMini's adapter provides (120W/19V)?

So I expect that this is a fairly common question, but I'm having trouble finding answers, guide me to one if you know of.

So after like so many years, i finally got a gaming PC. I have been using a cheap IdeaPad up until now, with Arch and KDE, so I'm decently versed in Arch, not so much about stuff like CachyOS or stuff related to AAA titles since the most I've played on this is balatro and hollow knight, which just.. ran.

I still installed Win11 on my PC, because I kinda didn't wanna leave any performance on the table. But recently bluetooth just stopped working, yk typical windows stuff, and ive been contemplating switching to Cachy. I have enough of a backlog of old games to last me 6-7 months and i can skip on AAA titles until then, but will Mesa for RDNA 4 mature enough to not have a performance difference or outliers (Spiderman 2, Doom TDA, anything PT, and sometimes RT too)

Or should I wait till early 2027 to go for it

Hey guys i was looking to buy a pc for my living room with an radeon 9070 xt and my plan would be to make it like a steam machine. But which os is the best for that? I never installed anything with linux ever so im pretty new to that. Can i download steam os or would another os be better?

Slight problem. I pulled up lutris just now to play pokemon infinite fusion, and (I have over 300 hours in this game, it was working, but today) it gave me an error that wine mono isn't installed. The error also said it could install this, but it's more recommended to install it through the blah blah blah, and I hit install. So I tried to play the game again, but nothing happens now when I hit play.

cpu : amd ryzen 7 7800x3d

gpu : radeon rx 7700 xt

gpu driver :cb

Kernel: 6.18.7-76061807-generic

displays: 1 1920 x 1080

kde version 4:5.27.12-0ubuntu0.1

problem:

i have just switched my os from windows to pop os and after a day some games have started to only display a black screen when i launch them first it was green hell and gloomwood witch i didn't think was a big issue since it does not have built in linux but then i tried deadlock who does have linux support and had the same issue however i haven't checked many games but for some reason psuedoregalia works perfectly fine

troubleshooting

on green hell i tried the developer recommended fix was to put the command -screen-width 1920 -screen-height 1080 into the launch options but this did not work

for deadlock my friend recommend i try proton ge. i have currently only tried going into the proton ge 10-33 , proton 7.0-6 and proton experimental none of these seemed to fix the issue

next thing i tried was running the steam terminal to grab the logs for the output here they are

https://pastebin.com/ctdZY3Ja

As title really. I tried to ask to bazzite discord. No answer. I play bedrock Minecraft a lot with friends. The nix launcher can be a bit temperamental with updates. I'd like to " cast" my phone to my bazzite install with either usb or WiFi. Scrcpy, cannot get to work well. Any other suggestions? Because I'd also use sunshine and moonlight but it doesn't seem to be offered android to bazzite. Any ideas?

hi yall i really need help with this one. even when i try bepinex with fps unlocker plugins or with arguments OR EVEN WITH VSYNC ENABLED it just doesnt work it always runs at 60 fps no matter what and when i try to enable some things like esync and other tools built-in portproton the game just crashes. also i tried asking a couple of ai's as my last resort but nothing worked too...

proton version: GE-Proton10-32

3D API: dxvk, vkd3d (stable) (vulkan v1.3+) also tried other apis

prefix: default (i dont think ill need dotnet that wont be the fix prob)

EDIT: danganronpa trigger* happy havoc

Hardware.

Samsung G6 VA 240hz 1440p 10bit. 7800x3d. 7800xt nitro+. MSI PRO B650 A-WIFI. corsair rm850x. Samsung 970 evo plus.

Cachy OS, Limine. Kde plasma. Btrfs.

This a SECOND OS fresh install trying to solve this issue.

Issue.

Adaptive sync when enabled and handshake is realised, produces wide swings in fps, between 60 and 240hz, which produces gamma flickering. Everywhere, not necesarily in gaming.

On adaptive sync display settings in the OS, while VRR enabled on the monitor side, on NEVER it turns on and off because there's no VRR handshake, on AUTOMATIC same because it fails to do the VRR handshake, on ALWAYS, does the VRR handshake and produces the fps swings.

Trouble shooting.

1. Removed CPU undervolt and EXPO. Both CPU and RAM run at default settings.
2. Made sure power profiles were not in ECO or laptop mode. Tried performance mode.
3. Made sure the BIOS SWITCH on the GPU is on performance mode.
4. Forced performance mode on GPU with LACT.
5. Before installing cachy OS this time, i changed to a different NVME with almost identical specs. Also installed it, using only this monitor.
6. Tried both display ports on the GPU.
7. The monitor only has 1.4 DP. The current cable im using, it supports up to 2.1 UHBR 13.5, which is more bandwith than the DP1.4. Switched cable for the stock one that came with the monitor and no fix. Either way DP 1.4 it's supposed to support 240hz, 1440p, 10bit without any type of compression.
8. Another confirmation is not a bandwidth issue, i got from switching from 240hz to 120hz mode, with adaptive sync enabled. The fps swings are there, just the same, with the consequent gamma flickering.
9. Reducing to 8bit doesn't fix the issue either.
10. I have no problem whatsoever in Windows 11 LTSC IOT.

I dont know if posting a link to a youtube short video with the issue is allowed, because i could do that.

Toughts.

After all this testing, and searching the internet, my next theory would be displayID and modifying the EDID file. Seems a lot very high refresh Samsung odyssey monitors have this issue, however they are related to DSC, which technically im not running. Never the less im new to linux, and i've always been more of a hardware guy than software. This for me would be biting more than i can chew. I honestly dont even understand what would be the issue to fix. This is what im refering to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1442#note_1017689

Tnx in advance.

So I play on Pop! os and for the life of me can't figure out how to fix this audio bug, all the tutorials are for Windows. So thus, I'm stumped.

RX 6600

Not sure if audio drivers are updated nor do I know how

16 GB DDR4 Ram

5600g CPU

My speaker works well everywhere else as well.

Realtek audio

PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO

in windows i remebr bluestacks can do smthn but in linux i have no idea and i need helpp...

also waydroid doesnt work .. duhh

Hi all,

I'm currently testing my setups with Linux, mostly with Bazzite and some CachyOS.

Setup #1 : 12600K + RX 9070 XT

Setup #2 : 9800X3D + RTX 5090 FE

In both setups, versus a optimized windows 11 setup, Linux is losing in terms of performance.

On the setup #1, by about 10-15% on fps and on the setup #2 by also 12%, BUT with a noticeable gap on power consumption on the RTX 5090 FE (~6%).

On this later case, when I undervolted my RTX 5090 FE in a similar way on both OS (Max core speed, 2700Mhz, Offset +700Mhz) the visible gap is pretty minimum (I would say ~ 5%).

I was wondering if the observation was linked to the X3D (3D VCache) helping the proton layer to go faster.

Would you have any experience to share?

I love to hear you experience

I really want to play arc in Linux and I love to see what is your experience in it I have 3050 with 4gb vram