Just curious as to whether anyone has been able to get this working with MANGOHUD.

I'm trying to monitor the updated frame rate but it's still reporting 60fps even when enabled.

Here's the log that's generated when NVPRESENT_LOG_LEVEL=4 which confirms that it's enabled:

File /home/john/out.log opened at 21:13:50 05-Sep-2025

NvPresent logging initialized. Some basic info:

App name [S:\Games\The Suffering\Suffering.exe]

Smooth Motion enabled [1]

Smooth Motion allowed bits:

- Vulkan: Yes

Feature Smooth Motion requested. System support: 1. Device support: 1

NVP_Swapchain (Handle=0x55555e59f310) created with these params:

Num Images: 5

Format: kB8G8R8A8_UNORM

Width: 3840

Height: 2160

Hola, tengo una laptop de hace 5 años (con un i3) y quiero instalar Linux. Nunca he usado ni instalado este sistema operativo. ¿Se pueden jugar juegos de Steam en Linux? Y si sí, ¿qué distribución me recomiendan?

Hello all: I’m planning on passing through a GPU to a VM. My host system is Fedora, and virtualization is turned on.

My current GPU is a 1030 RTX NVIDIA, and I plan on buying a second GPU to pass over to the VM.

My issue here is the software: I’ve heard that NVIDIA has developed anti-virtualization software that blocks NVIDIA drivers from working in KVM/QEMU.

On the other hand, there’s a great listing for a minimally used NVIDIA 3060 RTX for only $180.

What should I do in this situation? Should I be concerned about NVIDIA passing new updates that limit their drivers capability of running in KVMs?

My motherboard is: B550 Phantom Gaming 4 My CPU is: AMD Ryzen 5 3600x, 6 cores 12 threads

Recently, a friend of mine made the hop to Bazzite as per my recommendation, I was able to get him up and running on most of his games with the exception of Path of Exile 2. From from our troubleshooting it appears that the game keeps resetting the shader cache, we state this because on every reboot or big area transition he gets a massive performance hit (going 60ish into the 20s) and it stays like that for several minutes, but after a while performance settles. The problem is that upon game restart, or exiting and re entering said area, the same pattern reoccurs.

We had a similar problem on Overwatch, but it seems this was fixed by adding the following launch commands and switching to a GE Proton

We attempted the same fix on PoE2 but the problem still remains. I've searched on ProtonDB for potential fixes but I haven't found any.

Stuff we've tried:

1. Adding DXVK_ASYNC=1 : It seemed to have helped a bit, but we're unsure, possible placebo.
2. Several proton versions: Experimental, 9.x, GE 9 & 10 and latest cachy proton
3. Full game reinstall: Originally he was reusing is windows files on an NTFS drive, but we reinstalled it on a BTRFS NVME drive.
4. We've confirmed that the main GPU (1070ti) is being used, as opposed to the iGPU
5. Changing the in game settings to lowest, helps but still doesn't address the problem

Any ideas on how to fix it? Alternatively, is there any way to tell proton to chill down and use less resources for shader compilation? Please find the system specs below:

https://preview.redd.it/94342jd4tfnf1.png?width=485&format=png&auto=webp&s=bfa1f3812468ff5360103a7ba819738250c05bb6

This not suppose to work but it does for me somehow. No random signal loss (black screens). How is it possible? There shouldn’t be a working Radeon driver with hdmi 2.1 support. 4K120Hz with VRR and HDR at the same time shouldn’t work. But it does.

I’m not complaining :) I’m very happy with that. Just curious how it’s possible.

no pun intended but the easiest way i can describe the sound is a pulsing sound. whenever i use the 5.1 profile in pulseaudio. i know my headset atleast supports 7.1 but is there anyway i can get this working.

I have my PC plugged into an LG TV (so no DisplayPort, unfortunately) and have a 9070XT. Wondering if there has been a consistent workaround for 4K120 with VRR found, basically the only thing holding me back from ditching windows at this point. I haven’t yet chosen a distro, but I assume that doesn’t matter for this anyway.

So I have an Acer Nitro 5 (Optimus) laptop with an rtx3050 with Intel iGpu, and Intel core i5, and I can't seem to find a distro that works well with it outside of Pikaos. I used Linux a coupleish years ago but had zero experience and often messed things up, but since getting a Steam Deck have become a lot more comfortable with Linux.

Idk why it's been an issue lately because when I tried a couple years ago it was smoother. My biggest issue is that either Steam games will have horrible stuttering and latency, or my other main game, Vintage Story, will be plagued with those issues. So far Pikaos is the only one that hasn't had that problem although it randomly breaks things sometimes.

Any suggestions?

Hello everyone. This summer I tinkered with Ubuntu to see what it's like and after some time I decided to install it on my old unstable laptop which I didn't use anymore since I built a PC.

It fixed the stability issues on my laptop. And I let my mom use it because I know it's not compatible with a lot of programs and my mom does not use a lot of programs so it's perfect.

But I am moving countries and for a short time I won't be with my PC. I am wondering if I can play any of these games on Linux? Minecraft included. I got Roblox to play once!

Thank you in advance everyone. I am happy to learn and start this step by step journey of this OS!

From a playing point of view I *really* like the Xbox controller. It's comfortable and I used to it, so I don't really want to switch to anything else. I do have a steam controller, but I just can't get used to it and therefore my game play suffers.

The problem is, though, that I've had a number of different Xbox compatible controllers and they've all either just died after a relatively short life or started behaving erratically.

For example, I currently have a Turtle Beach Recon controller. At first I was really thrilled with it. It just worked with Linux out of the box and everything was fine. Then I had connection problems. TB sent me a replacement, but now I'm having issues with sticking triggers and bizarre - almost random inputs. For example, just today, it decided that pressing the right trigger meant I wanted to take a screenshot. I haven't changed any config or tweaked any settings - it just decided to start doing that.

If I plug in the old recon (if I can get it to connect - which is very unreliable - it works for at least a little bit) and pressing the right trigger doesn't take any screenshots...

All of which is to ask for recommendations for an Xbox controller that is reliable and works well in Linux. Ideally I'd rather not spend huge amounts of money, but I understand I may need to for a decent unit.

Any help gratefully received - thanks in advance!

I think Proton is really mature these days. I have a lot of games on Steam, Epic, and GOG, and I can’t remember a single game I’ve tried to run - whether on Steam or Heroic - that didn’t work.

Hey everyone,

I'm hitting a wall trying to play Rust on my Pop!_OS machine, and I'm consistently getting the error: "EAC: Anti-cheat client protection not active (NullClient)".

The crucial detail is that this error specifically occurs once I select a server and try to connect to it. The game launches fine, I can navigate the menus, but the moment I initiate a server connection, that's when the EAC error pops up.

Here's what I'm running and what I've already tried:

My Setup:

• OS: Pop!_OS (latest updates applied)
• Steam: Latest stable client
• Proton Version Currently Used: Proton Experimental (also tried Proton Experimental Hotfix)
• EAC Runtime: "Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime" is installed in my Steam Library.

Steps I've Already Taken (including a full reinstall from scratch):

1. Complete Game Reinstall: Uninstalled Rust via Steam, manually deleted Rust game folders and files.
2. Steam Play Enabled: Confirmed "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" is selected.
3. Verified Game Files: Repeatedly verified integrity of Rust's game files after each installation/Proton change.
4. Verified EAC Runtime Files: Verified integrity of "Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime" files.
5. Proton Log: Generated a steam-252490.log file, but it doesn't seem to contain any relevant entries related to Easy Anti-Cheat errors or failures. This is particularly confusing.

I'm at a loss here. It seems like EAC simply isn't activating or initializing its client protection, even though all the standard components are in place. The fact that the log is silent on EAC is making it more difficult.

Has anyone else encountered this exact "NullClient" error specifically when trying to connect to a server in Rust on Pop!_OS/Linux, and found a solution? Any info would be greatly appreciated

ty in advance for any help or a even a simple up vote to raise visibility.

Ciao a tutti, da qualche giorno sto cercando di far vedere il giroscopio del mio 8bitDo Ultimate a Yuzu.

Premetto che qualche tempo fa ero riuscito a farlo funzionare, provandolo con TOTK, e ne ero felice, ma da quando ho reinstallato Suse Tumbleweed, non ci sono più riuscito, e non ricordo come avevo fatto! 😭

Ho provato in ogni modo, seguito ogni guida trovata, switchato ogni modalità cablata e non cablata del joypad, ma nulla.

Ho notato che oltre al controller pro, vedo anche un 80AN, ed ho provato ad usare pure quello, ma sempre senza risultati.

Ieri, poi, ho provato la live di Bazzite, ed ha funzionato subito, senza dover fare nulla!!! Ma porca vacca, come ci si riesce senza dover usare una distro dedicata? 😓

https://preview.redd.it/0xjes339aenf1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a106c34f5cdbe9d666fa5ac4d86e64c7c7c4521

Nvidia Gpu not drawing enough power according to nvidia-smi

```

nvidia-smi -q -d power

==============NVSMI LOG==============

Timestamp : Fri Sep 5 22:05:09 2025

Driver Version : 575.64.05

CUDA Version : 12.9

Attached GPUs : 1

GPU 00000000:01:00.0

GPU Power Readings

Average Power Draw : 72.56 W

Instantaneous Power Draw : 72.56 W

Current Power Limit : 103.38 W

Requested Power Limit : 103.38 W

Default Power Limit : 60.00 W

Min Power Limit : 5.00 W

Max Power Limit : 115.00 W

Power Samples

Duration : Not Found

Number of Samples : Not Found

Max : Not Found

Min : Not Found

Avg : Not Found

GPU Memory Power Readings

Average Power Draw : N/A

Instantaneous Power Draw : N/A

Module Power Readings

Average Power Draw : N/A

Instantaneous Power Draw : N/A

Current Power Limit : N/A

Requested Power Limit : N/A

Default Power Limit : N/A

Min Power Limit : N/A

Max Power Limit : N/A

```

Cpu PL1/PL2 = 35/40

Fedora 42

It would definitely work on Linux through Proton, but even so, Team Cherry took it to the next level - they made a native Linux build. That’s just awesome.