idk how ot describe this, i dont think i changed anything

i have an rx480 8gb and am using a distro with the base of ubuntu 25.10

my gpu is recognised by fastfetch but all games i try to play wont start and say i need a dx11 compatible card. it worked the last couple of weeks it only started today

i only play games over steam incase that changes anything

i hope the pictures help!

any help is greatly appreciated!

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Didnt see anybody else do it, hope it helps someone. Btw. I Love Goverlay.

Hello, I have a problem specifically with Ubisoft games, in watch dogs 2 I get around 60 fps at very high settings, but after I play for 2-3 mins fps drops to 20, and main problem is Assasins creed Oddysey, problem is when I play on high preset I get 70 stable fps but when I switch to very high I get 20 and it crashes, my guess it’s might be something with shader compilation, seeking for help

Hey help a guy out ... i have this very low end system and was wondering if windows would be better on it than linux in terms of gaming .

I have an RX 6600 and a Ryzen 5 5600X.

My problem is basically that if I leave Linux open for too long, like 3-4 hours, when I try to open a game, the FPS is very low. For example: I was studying, then I went to play after a few hours and this problem occurred.

I had this problem on Fedora, then I switched to CachyOS and the problem persists.

Edit: I'm using KDE Plasma without extensions on CachyOS.

One thing that solved it was logging out and then logging back in or just restarting the PC. For some reason, it returns to normal.

Please help me.

Over the course of these past couple weeks I was doing updates mainly focused on allowing people to be able to run their games outside of steam if they wanted to. This new update now applies the new features to the decky plugin version of NSL. When you install a game, the desktop mode will get a .desktop file of that game. Working with KDE and ready to play through steam, or Standalone without steam running. :)

Suddenly have this starting to show up, what is needed to be done? Weirdly re-opening steam is fine, but this comes up each time the OS is booted.

The odd part is here, I don't have any flatpaks installed. I do however have two steams, "Steam" and "Steam (Native)", assumably installed from the cachy OS gaming-meta package.

OS: CachyOS

As you can see I got this error while playing Genshin Impact on my Steam Deck this morning. 😭✌️

Is there a current fix for this. Its error code: 10010 - 4001.

For example if I look at wine, I don´t really see issue one can contribute on (on github at least). Can someone guide me on this?

Of course wine is an option but I am open to many other projects, essentially I want to help the community so that people are more encouraged to switch to linux for gaming as well. I have both knowledge of C/C++ but im also interested in kernel and drivers

Cannot play vr recently due to mesa and driver issues. Keep getting an error that it cant connect to window manager. How long till the issue is fixed?

Just so you know, I love Mint and kinda have been using for years, but then I started wanting to game on Linux (just because) and wanted to get rid of windows.

My video board is a RTX 4080 SUPER. All the rest I think it's irrelevant.

And I prefer a resolution of 4k (3840x2160)

Linux Mint:

PROS

• Everything works fine, I love the installer, I love how everything works and you don't have trouble with tweaks and shit.
• Easy to install anything
• You are in control to tweak here and there as nothing comes pre-configured.
• The Sleep or Screen shutting down are not a problem. The screen will turn on.

CONS

• Fractional Scaling is still terrible as some games won't coupe with it. My Red Dead Redemption 2 will use a resolution of 5k per 3k or something because I'm on a scale of 150% as I wanna use a 4k resolution in my monitor. This breaks the game btw.
• Streaming in Discord is still an issue for X11. Everything gets slower dropping frames when streaming.
• Screen tearing as I prefer 4k resolution. The solution is to enforce Full Composition by NVidia settings, but this will cost some games that use DXVK (e.g. Warcraft 3 Reforged). You need to disable the Full Composition by NVidia to make these games run.
• Sunshine Streaming will lose the mouse cursor in the remote screen when accessing it for the second time. (I found someone mentioning a fix for that here in reddit, but it didn't work for me. I think it's because of me using NVidia).

CachyOS

PROS

• Installer simpler as well.
• Easy to install anything (Except that I'm a bit scared of what "paru" is doing. I get scared of how much it does when I install "nordvpn-bin". So much script and shit).
• Games work super good on it. Only in CS2 I have to enable XWayland, so Steam overlay is able to work with it.
• Fractional Scaling works better. I don't see the same trouble as in Linux Mint.
• Discord streaming works fine as well. I don't notice dropped frames as in Linux Mint.
• Sunshine Streaming don't lose the mouse cursor as in Linux Mint.

CONS

• Screen tearing still happens on 4k resolution.
• Sleep or Screen shutdown still requires from you to type CTRL + ALT + F1 and then F2 to make the screen turn on again (which is opening terminal session and then back to graphical).
• Sometimes I don't like the much it's been done for me. I like to install and configure some stuff by myself.

Right now I'm sticking to CachyOS as I wanna still keep playing some repack games on my TV and sometimes join some Discord with my friends. Sometimes I stream on Discord too.

I want to Switch to Linux but i do Play a Lot of Unreal engine Games and Vrchat with virtual Desktop can anymore recommend me one distro? And Support

Greetings, as a Linux user I was experimenting to get Runelite to open on Linux through steam if you have a jagex Account / Launcher connected, while basically being able to choose which account I want to login (same as a Jagex Launcher), at least on Arch (CachyOS for me) I did it following steps:

Install Runescape on Steam (if not already)

Install Bolt Launcher

yay bolt-launcher

1. And set the Launch parameters for Runescape in steam as:

env -u LD_PRELOAD bolt-launcher %command%

1. Now clicking PLAY on Runescape (on Steam), should launch Bolt Launcher which in return basically lets you choose your account that's connected to your Jagex Account to play in and run Runelite, and also the time will be tracked as playing time on Steam.

Hello everyone, I am a big gamer and recently I got a small rig to play and discover older games (ps3 era and before) I want to use it as some sort of console that I could use as a PC whenever I want so I installed Windows 10 and Playnite to gather all my games. The thing is that I’m currently debating whether I should have installed Linux or not, it seems really interesting and powerful but I don’t know if it can run all the games that I want, I mainly get my games from GOG or any other website that would allow me to possess the game without DRM and not only have a key to use it, I think GOG already supports Linux but I don’t know about games that I got from other places (like Halo CE that I got from internet archive for example). So my question is : Is there a version of Linux that could allow me to play all my games or not ?

As the title says, my PC freezes, mostly when launching a game or during gameplay. I'm on Arch Linux, KDE Plasma, Wayland, using Proton-CachyOS. I have a full AMD system (5700X3D, 9079XT). I'm checking the logs and frequently seeing error: Pageflip timed out.

I tried everything: disabling lact, reverting back to regular mesa, and some other things that I don't remember.

It's kind of annoying and problematic. I need to hard power down my PC, which I don't enjoy doing. Honestly, I like Linux better, mostly because of the customizable nature of it, but if this is the cost, it's not worth it. At least on Windows when the driver crashes, it can reset itself. The screen may flash, but I don't need to restart the PC...

Anyone else experience anything like this?

Hey everyone

If you grab a lot of Linux games from sites like freelinuxpcgames.com, you know how annoying it is to download a .tar.gz or .zip, extract it, hunt for the real executable, fix permissions, and then make a shortcut 😩

So I built a small CLI tool called Spawn to automate all that. With one command, it:

• extracts the archive
• finds the game binary
• sets permissions
• creates a desktop entry
• links the icon

It’s super simple and saves a bunch of time.

This was my first Rust project, so I’d love to hear what you think — especially if you also download games from places where everything comes in .tar.gz files.

Check it out on GitHub:
https://github.com/Anayo-Anyafulu/Spawn

Any feedback or improvement ideas are welcome! 🚀