Hi, I need a distro for gaming and compatibility with 32-bit games with kde or gnome desktop enviroment and mangohud or vkbasalt can work on the distro, I tried distros like : (Cachyos - Endeauvor Os - Nobara - Pika Os - Fedora), and these distros are great but for me no because most of my games is 32-bit and gta iv cannot work on them, trying to change proton version and try some environment variable or launch option, right now I use pop os and gta iv worked! But I got problems with graphics issues, anyway I need great gaming distro have compatibility with 32-bit games and the desktop environment can be kde or gnome and thanks!

Hilum

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I am using Lutris on Linux Mint (22.2 Zara) to play World of Warcraft and after the prepatch now I get this error message whenever I launch the game.

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Anyone else experiencing this? Any easy fixes? I am not so tech savvy so I don't know how to fix this without spending huge amount of hours on this. And of course asking AI will most likely brick my pc when it starts hallucinating stuff and I follow it's bs instructions like a dummy, so I refrain from doing that.

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I'm on Mint Cinnamon and used a repack from our pretty girl that works out. On Lutris with ProtonGE. I had these issues: 1. 80sec loading time 2. Freezing/crashing shortly after it launches - at language selection 3. Launching with black stripes on the sides = protonGE 9-21 fixed it - AI said it's because newer proton uses DXVK v2 and it messes up something.

• I've been told 14 and 16 run fine.
• I have all redistributables installed - Lutris handles some and pretty girl that works out also ships them with the game.

what more info can I provide?

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Tried wine, proton, nothing works, both shows error. It used to work (with prime-run wine /home/username/application folder) before I upgrade wine. Only bottles works, but I can't use my NVidia GPU, although CachyOS load it on startup. Skyrim crash when I use dedicated GPU. I have to use lowest setting on integrated GPU Intel Iris XE.

my inxi

System:
Kernel: 6.18.3-2-cachyos arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.4 Distro: CachyOS
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A515-56G v: V1.34
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: TGL model: Iris_TL v: V1.34 serial: <superuser required>
Firmware: UEFI vendor: Insyde v: 1.34 date: 04/21/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 21.3 Wh (68.3%) condition: 31.2/53 Wh (58.8%)
volts: 14.93 min: 15.4
CPU:
Info: quad core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
cache: L2: 5 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4200 cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 4: 400
5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce MX450] driver: nvidia v: 590.48.01
Device-3: Chicony HD User Facing driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.3.3-arch1.4
renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.335 drivers: intel,nvidia surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
API: ALSA v: k6.18.3-2-cachyos status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter [Filogic
330] driver: mt7921e
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Lite-On MediaTek Bluetooth MT7921 driver: btusb type: USB
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 942.7 GiB used: 229.15 GiB (24.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: 2450 MTFDKBA512TFK
size: 476.94 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500LM021-1KJ152 size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 117.56 GiB used: 44.55 GiB (37.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 1022 MiB used: 476 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: /home size: 322.54 GiB used: 184.6 GiB (57.2%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda4
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.39 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.39 GiB used: 2.5 GiB (16.2%)
Processes: 274 Uptime: 4m Shell: fish inxi: 3.3.40

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I'm trying to play SM2 on cachyOS but I always get either of these errors and can only play in offline mode.

if I try to connect to play with a VPN active, i get the N-10 error. if I try to play with the VPN off, I get the "Mods Detected" error despite no mods ever being installed.

I've tried all different Proton versions to no avail, deleted the Mods and Local folders in ...\client_pc\root folder, did a complete reinstall of the game, changed dns to cloudflare but still get these errors.

has anyone else had this issue as well or what other foxes can I attempt?

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using the native Linux version on Kubuntu 25.10 on the main screen pops

FATAL ERROR: vulkan encounter unrecoverable error VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST.

been trying to fix with deepseek since yesterday to no avail. with -dx11 shows the same error.
I was able to launch through Proton 9 but the performance was awful. vkcube and glxgears run correctly

my /home is mounted on a separate btrfs partition (same disk) if that matters.
here's my laptop specs:

AMD Ryzen 5400U (with iGPU) product: Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0 logical name: /dev/fb0 version: rev c3 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix vga_controller bus_master cap_list fb configuration: depth=32 driver=amdgpu latency=0 resolution=1920,1200 resources: irq:41 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e01fffff ioport:d000(size=256) memory:fcc00000-fcc7ffff Devices: ======== GPU0: apiVersion = 1.4.328 driverVersion = 25.3.3 vendorID = 0x1002 deviceID = 0x1638 deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_INTEGRATED_GPU deviceName = AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RENOIR) driverID = DRIVER_ID_MESA_RADV driverName = radv driverInfo = Mesa 25.3.3 - kisak-mesa PPA conformanceVersion = 1.4.0.0 deviceUUID = 00000000-0400-0000-0000-000000000000 driverUUID = 414d442d-4d45-5341-2d44-525600000000 GPU1: apiVersion = 1.4.328 driverVersion = 25.3.3 vendorID = 0x10005 deviceID = 0x0000 deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU deviceName = llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.8, 256 bits) driverID = DRIVER_ID_MESA_LLVMPIPE driverName = llvmpipe driverInfo = Mesa 25.3.3 - kisak-mesa PPA (LLVM 20.1.8) conformanceVersion = 1.3.1.1 deviceUUID = 6d657361-3235-2e33-2e33-202d206b6900 driverUUID = 6c6c766d-7069-7065-5555-494400000000 mesa-utils 9.0.0-2 submitted by /u/Torantes
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Hello, I have a problem with Project Zomboid that on X11 it will launch show the cursor play audio but the main menu is just a black screen. Due to Wayland still being in expromental on Mint the Left shift, cntrl and alt key dont work. Is there a way to make the menu work in X11 or the keys to work in Wayland? Thx

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wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely [2026-01-21 10:10:38.394] [MANGOHUD] [info] [blacklist.cpp:83] process 'explorer.exe' is blacklisted in MangoHud err: DxvkInstance: Required instance extensions not supported Monitored process exited. Initial process has exited (return code: 1280) Exit with return code 1280

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Hey,

Basically this. When I play modded Cities Skylines I on steam on my fedora workstation, after a certain amount of assets installed, the kernel kills the game. Thing is that I have 32GB of ram and a very decent CPU. Has this happened to you before? I increased the swap file and tried so that the system would use less ram, but alas.

Perhaps I should buy more ram?

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I switched to Nobara 43 a couple days ago and dual booting with windows for some games that have EAC, i was wondering which kind of games are better on Linux rather than on windows since i saw some videos where on Linux the performance are way worse than windows

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I want to sincerely thank the people of this subreddit! A few months ago I posted this

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux\_gaming/s/BJXxeBg1Qd

asking whether to switch to Linux for gaming. The comments were incredibly helpful and I ended up going with CachyOs.

I’ve had a few problems along the way but this has been a game changer for me. CachyOs is how I imagined operating systems would be in the future 10 years ago. It’s smooth, fast and I love not getting forced updates which sometimes break something. So far I’ve had no issues with the games I’ve played (the modern Doom trilogy, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hades 2 and even some older titles). Not only that but my wireless ps5 controller works better (on windows it randomly couldn’t connect via Bluetooth after some update…). At this point I don’t see myself going back to windows at all (and good riddance).

I recommend anyone who is on the fence to give it a try.

Once again a big THANK YOU to the people of this sub!

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Hello I've tried to install NVIDIA open drivers on my debian 13 with kernel version 6.12.63+deb13-amd64.

I have an rtx 5060 ti blackwell which means according to debian documentation that I can only install the open drivers.

But not matter which kernel version I try:

- 6.12.38+deb13

- 6.12.43+deb13

- 6.12.63+deb13
- 6.18.0-061800-generic

I tried different driver versions too: 575, 580, 590 and also the master branch of NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

I also tried: https://github.com/devleonardoamaral/debian-nvidia-installer
I keep getting the same issue.

Here is a ticket opened on open-gpu-kernel-modules github with more information including logs. I'm open to any suggestions

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/1006

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Hi guys, idk if the flair Is correct for this post. Also, i'm sorry, i know you get these questions a lot. I just want to know: Is there any real performance difference between Bazzite and CachyOS? I was planning to switch to Linux, but i am still not sure where to land. I will use this PC mainly for gaming, watching films and listening to music, i have a separate laptop for work and uni. My points are: i won't be doing much tinkering anyway, so a distro like Bazzite Is fine, but i'm willing to use CachyOS If overall It's better in terms of performance. Also, i have a thermalright cooler (Frozen warframe pro 360) with an integrated display. I don't know if coolercontrol (which can be installed with ujust, i checked) can interact in any way with the display, so i searched online for another software to do so. On GitHub i found one, but It Is not packaged for any distro (you need manually compile It from source). The thing Is: idk if i can do this on Bazzite itself. I know i can use and Arch distrobox container with a USB passthrough, tho i need to do some try and error to set It up. What do you suggest?

Edit: as pointed out in the comments, the bleeding edge nature of CachyOS Is not to be underestimated. I am on AM5 (ryzen 7 7700), with a Radeon RX 9070XT GPU. Is Bazzite good enough? Or do i need more of a bleeding edge solution?

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So I just started dual booting with cachyos with the aim of eventually having it take over (9070 XT with 9800X3D user). Spent some time setting up Clair Obscur (hopefully at some point redstone upgrade will be more straightforward) and had a few questions:

• One issue I seemed to have is that audio during proton games seems to briefly cut out at times. Can't work out if this is a caching thing or a scheduling issue, but I ended up mitigating it by changing my Pipewire config to use 192000hz bitrate (why isn't this just configurable within KDE?)
• Is there anyway to simply set certain launch options as default for Steam games (so I'm not having to put mangohud and fsr4 upgrade launch options on every game)?
• Similarly is there a way to have per game profiles for mangohud (i like to have an fps limit of 139fps for games on my primary monitor and 116fps for my TV to keep with the recommendations for optimal setup of VRR)?
• When connected to my TV I have a passthrough 5.1 sound bar. Is there a way to do Dolby Audio (I'm assuming the answer is no given licensing)?

EDIT: For background context, I have some previous experience with desktop Linux (lots of experience with server linux) but admittedly most of it comes either from my early Arch days back when Wayland was this niche thing that was considered Ubuntu's pet project that the rest of the community thought would never take off or from my Steam Deck usage.

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I’ve been looking at modding GTA V again after switching to Linux. As most people familiar with GTA V modding know, OpenIV is required for many mods, but it has no native Linux support. I’m aware there are workarounds, but to be honest they’re beyond me.

I’m considering the following steps and would like to know whether it’s viable:

1. Create a Windows VM (VirtualBox)

2: Install Steam, GTA V, and OpenIV inside the VM

1. Use OpenIV to install mods into the GTA V directory

2. Copy the fully modded GTA V directory from the VM to my Linux system

3. Run the modded directory through Proton/Linux

The intention would be to play the game on Linux via Proton, not inside the VM. I understand VirtualBox doesn’t support GPU passthrough, which is fine since the VM would only be used for modding.

I got VirtualBox set up with 8 GB RAM, 4 cores, and 150 GB of storage.

As a side note, if anyone has experience running Photoshop in a similar VM setup on Linux, I’d be interested to hear about that as well.

Thanks in advance.

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I've been out of the Windows ecosystem for three months now, and it's been wonderful... Until I switched from Linux Mint to Cachyos (let me explain).

It all started when, after switching from Mint to Cachy/KDE, I realized that the menus were sometimes running at 20 FPS instead of matching my 144 GHz. It was a sudden and horrible change. But that wasn't the worst part; the worst part was the video games. Many performed better... RDR2, Cyberpunk, MULLET MAD JACK... The problem was with some of the more unusual games. Vintage Story ran TERRIBLY, a game that is graphically simple... Noita ALSO ran terribly... It was unsustainable. After doing some research, I found out that it was “Wayland” and “X11,” something I didn't even know existed. I ended up realizing that KDE used Wayland by default (unlike Mint) and that it didn't work very well with my RTX3070, FOR SOME REASON I DON'T KNOW (one of my friends who helped me migrate has a RTX4070 Super and it works great for him). The solution? Switch to X11 and continue using KDE... AND IT WORKED! IT'S GREAT!

My fear comes when, while searching for information, I realize that people are proclaiming (without me knowing why yet) that Wayland is the future and that X11 is so outdated that KDE is going to drop support for X11 in the next version! What can I do? I don't want to abandon X11, it works really well for me...

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