Someone help me please😢😢

In a couple of months or sooner, when I get out of my parents' house and move out, I'm gonna have my own space. What's the best TV for gaming? Any recommendations? I wanna get a nice TV for gaming. I'm looking for a display that supports 4K resolution and can handle gaming, similar to Dolby Atmos gaming, or one that has Dolby Atmos and can run at 60Hz or even 120Hz. I kind of like OLED

I have an Xbox Series X and plan to purchase a PS5 Pro, so I'm seeking feedback or any recommendations.

The budget is around $800-2,000

I have cachyOS installed on ssd1, windows on ssd2, separate drives. This morning I was using cachyOS without issue, shut down, no problem.

Turned on my pc again just now and it went straight into windows. Weird. Reboot, straight into windows again. No systemd boot screen, nothing.

Boot into UEFI -> boot options, both ssds show windows boot manager.

Live usb, mount my linux ssd, open root partition, all my files are there, but boot folder is empty, no entries.

I'm kind of lost what to do here, any ideas what's happened?

I'm using Nobara HTPC so I primarily game in gaming mode.
I've only used it for a couple of months and although it works fine most of the time, I noticed that there are times when the system/game crashes when I open the Quick Menu.
It doesn't happen often but it happens enough for me to observe that it happens when opening the Quick menu

When the system crashes, the display goes blank and after some time it goes back to home screen as if it just booted. Sometimes it also messes up the focus or perhaps the system UI hangs because although the game runs fine, I can't close the Quick Menu anymore so I can't go back to the game and I can't even go back to the home screen.

This is annoying when it happens but it's not really a big deal, just enough for me to be anxious whenever I need to open the Quick Menu so I usually save first 😄
Just curious if other people encounter the same and perhaps there's a solution or workaround.

Recently installed Arch Linux, and when I open games they use the resolution of my second monitor instead of my primary one. I have a 4K monitor and a 1440p monitor. When opening Minecraft and setting it to fullscreen mode, it uses 3840×2160 instead of 1440p. Is there any fix for this? I am using KDE Plasma as my desktop environment.

I just saw on Steam that ARC Riders is the 12th most played game on Steam Deck this week, but when I go through the notes they says the game has anticheat and have not passed the compatibility verification. So my question is... Does somebody knows if we can play these on Linux?

Hey I'm new to Linux and using the most recent version of Kubuntu, I was wondering if anyone had a guide or could give me the steps to roll back my AMD drivers, and help would be appreciated

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i recently installed linux and have been learning how to use it, and while playing some games my computer would occasionally completely restart. ive had this happen with modded minecraft sims4 ksp unchrashed and once with FTL. using mangohud to see my cpu/gpu usage the most recent time it happened was while playing Unchrashed with 60 fps, 50-70% cpu usage and 25-40% gpu, this doesnt seem too crazy but idk. my pc specs are AMD Ryzen 5 2600X GTX 1660 and 16GB ram,I have now idea how to troubleshoot this and could use some help as i cant play most of my games without having to worry about my pc rebooting

So I am trying to run it of steam. But it keeps trying to open ea app.

I've just bought a used Dell Precision 3560 with in Intel i7-1165G7 with 8GB DDR4 (planning on putting 8 more GB) with integrated Iris Graphics, I know it's not the best, but I want to do some light gaming, nothing too much, I've already installed Pika OS which is similar to CachyOS with it's gaming-centric kernel and optimizations, and I know my processor supports modern graphics API's like Vulkan and OpenGL. But I want to know what other things I could use to optimize it more.

I am using AMD 7900xt gpu with AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor, 32 gb ram on Fedora 32 and having really high gpu usage and lag in raids when i am playing arc radiers. Sometimes it just works and sometimes it gets really laggy that i have to quit the game and reopen it.

This is quite a long list so I won't be copying it here.

If I remember correctly, this release has explicit sync now (instead of implicit sync) in codepaths. Also a change where reference counting has been changed to explicit ownership (big thing for Zink users).

This is from what I remember reading before so don't quote me on that.

When I got my new PC, I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon as a temporary OS, just so that I can copy all of my files over from my old PC, since I only had a Linux Mint install drive lying around. Eventually, I found it too troublesome to copy all of my old files to my new drive, so I just stuck with Linux. I didn't mind it, except for the fact that I couldn't play some games like PUBG, Fortnite, etc. due to kernel-level anticheat.

Today, I wanted to test out whether it was true that games perform better in Linux than in Windows, so I decided to test 3 games/benchmarks in Linux Mint and in Windows 10.

Firstly, Unigine Superposition benchmark. At 4K Optimized, High settings, I was surprised to see that Windows actually got a better score; 20399 compared to 17830 on Linux, which represents a ~14% advantage. In terms of FPS, a similar difference is seen.

Secondly, Minecraft with SEUS PTGI shaders, at 4K High settings, Linux proved to perform better than Windows; 65fps compared to 58fps, looking at the same direction at the same coordinate in the same seed. This represents a ~12% advantage for Linux. Interestingly, Minecraft with SEUS in Windows has a weird glitch in the water reflection: you can see in the left side of the screenshot. This glitch is nonexistent in Linux.

Lastly, a roughly 10 minute game of CS2 in the Dust II map: this game is quite inconsistent in terms of FPS, but somehow, Windows has a ~30% lead over Linux in this game: 279fps compared to 195fps.

I've always heard that Linux performs better than Windows in gaming, but Linux seems to perform much worse in Superposition and CS2. But maybe my sample size of games isn't large enough. Still, I don't know why this is happening. Am I doing something wrong here?

My PC's parts:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Swooferfan/saved/WmN6qs

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, -25 curve optimizer PBO | CPU Cooler: Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX | Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 | Storage: Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 2 TB for Linux Mint, Timetec 35TTFP6PCIE 512GB for Windows 10 | Video Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 9070 XT, -100mV voltage offset | Case: Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case | Power Supply: Montech CENTURY II 850 W

Recently switched from Windows 11 to Linux for gaming. Actually made a post earlier regarding some of the issues I have. I used Arch in the past but moved back to windows. Decided to move back to Linux just cause. Tried OpenSUSE, CachyOS, and base Arch Linux.

I need to prefice... I use Linux almost everyday in both work and personal applications. I am certified Linux and have actually created tools for hacking in Linux (I do red team work).

How is gaming better on Linux? My fps in all 3 OS's dropped. World of Warcraft, Hunt Showdown, and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. My PC has a 9800X3D, 7900XTX, 32GB DDR5 @ 6000MT/s. Tried everything in my power from testing different drivers, setting CPU core speeds, OC GPU, updating everything, trying various versions of Proton/Wine. Nothing improved my performance.

WoW Win11 = 250fps (1440p at High) CachyOS = 125fps (1440p at High) OpenSUSE = 90fps (1440p at Medium) Arch = 131fps (1440p at High)

Hunt Showdown Win11 = 181 (1440p at High) CachyOS = 95 (1440p at Medium-High)

This is all not to mention the amount of effort it took just to even get it running. I have 3 main drives, one for OS, one for games, and one for everything else. I can't install wow through steam because it installs the environment on my boot drive and I can't force steam to install a non-steam game in another drive.

I tried lutris. Literally nothing worked with lutris. Tried faugus... This eventually worked, but I had to install protonplus, install various versions of Proton then set faugus to use those during the installation. Funny thing, the built installer for battle.net in faugus didn't work. No matter what it failed the install. So I had to launch the battle.net setup using faugus, install the app, then create a "Windows app" in faugus to launch the newly install battle.net app. Then it worked.

The fact I just spent 6 hours across 2 days to configure something to even work, before getting a massive reduction in fps sucks. On top of that, the various inconveniences of Linux aren't great. I have an mmo mouse for WoW... Drivers are only on windows. So I have to boot up a windows device, install the drivers, configure and commit settings to the mouse, then I can use it.

I hate windows and Microsoft. I love Linux. But gaming is still prime on windows. The accessibility and ease of use (and somehow better performance) has pushed me away from gaming on Linux.

I still use it for production and work related tasks which I think Linux is great for but it's not ready for gaming until hardware and game devs start putting in the effort.

So, messing around and wanted to see if battle.net launcher worked through steam (been quite a while since I’ve tried). So added the launcher install exe as non game and forced ge compatibility. All good! So I installed classic and went to launch it and it just crashes. So I thought “add wow as non game and force compatibility”…..this is where my problem lies, I cannot find the exe for wow…anywhere!

I’ve looked in my .steam folder and in all the relevant folders that games are normally in but I cannot find if for the life of me. If this was regular wine I roughly remember how to navigate the .wine folders to find games but I’m just lost when it comes to steams handling of this. Has anyone done this and know where in the holy hell wow installed to?

I've been thinking about how well gaming on Linux is and the sheer number of games that just work. When I made the switch in Late 2021 there were games in my library that would not run. At the time It was either that the game didn't work at all or was because I have an NVIDIA GPU that was causing issues.

-My History-

Games I remember having issues with were Assetto Corsa and Forza Horizon 5. Assetto Corsa just didnt work at all and FH5 was constantly crashing with NVIDIA GPU's. Trackmania also had some weird performance issues on my 1000-Series GPU.

Since then, Assetto +Content Manager (With a bit of setup) works as well as FH5.

The only games now, in my experience, that do not work are all games with some form of Anti-Cheat. Rainbow 6 Siege, GTA Online, Tom Clancy's Wildlands, The Crew 2.

While GTA & Wildlands do work for single player its still upsetting that online functionality is crippled by Anti-Cheat Incompatibility.

-The Big Question-

Is Anti-Cheat the last hurdle for gaming on Linux? Are there any other technical boundaries that still need to be overcome? The only thing I can think of is maybe DX12 Performance on some games. Are there any games that do not work & the issue is NOT Anti-Cheat Related

I believe the lack of support from games with Anti-Cheat is really holding back the potential growth of a lot of gamers. While the number of incompatible games is small it really limits the potential growth by a lot. Fortnite, Battlefield, Valorant, etc, are not small games by any means.

For me, Rainbow 6 and GTA Online are the only reason I have a windows installation. Dual booting is super easy but I can understand why less technically inclined individuals wouldn't set that up, its more friction to using their PC. Most people don't care that much about what system/OS they are using as long as it works. Someone may enjoy the Linux desktop more but if its not going to work with a game that they & their friends play then that's a huge deal breaker.

-Thank you-

Thanks for taking the time to read my post, I'd love to hear what you think. I'm just a nerd that's passionate about computers/Linux & wants to have a discussion.

windowed works fine btw