Just today, I played around with the TLP service I had installed yesterday, with the guidance of ChatGPT.

My main objective was to switch to “Performance Mode” manually, in order to test something in a video game I play. After a couple of attempts, I decided against the idea, and uninstalled the TLP using pacman, followed by a few packages that were recommended to me the first time I run tlp-stat, those being ethtool and smartmontools. I also scanned my drive using smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1, and even though a message warned me about unreadable I/O --- especially the 3rd prompt --- I don't believe it to be the reason of the issue I am about to disclose.

This morning, when I launched the game via steam using a compatibility layer, I didn't stay inside the server for long. At first, I thought I was banned, but I quickly realized that the window pops up only on Europe's server, and not on any other. I even switched to Windows 11 to check the game files and try to log in. And sure enough, I wasn't banned.

As glad as I was, I was still confused. Thing is, even on Hyprland, I managed to play in the server for up to a minute, then the warning kicks me out. After some thoughts, I concluded that I must have messed up with the configurations of NetworkManager, or something similar, that lead to the current situation. Unfortunately, ChatGPT, with all his wisdom, didn't prove me with a solution yet.

I tried editing the ”/etc/resolv.conf” file, as suggested by the AI, I tried reinstalling Steam, I tried restarting systemctl restart, but none worked yet. I was hoping someone could inform me of the reason behind this issue, or if not, how to completely delete all the configurations and reset my network settings to post install state. Of course, unless there is another thing I should do.

Help.

I'm new to Linux gaming. I installed Mint to keep things simple since I'm not very tech savvy (I can troubleshoot a little through other people's solution but have a hard time figuring things out entirely on my own).

I installed Steam through the software manager and had a warning message about compatibility that I had to resolve (which I did). Steam boots fine now. I do however have an error message if I go back to the app on the software manager.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
steam-installer: Depends: steam-libs-i386 (= 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2)

Using this command did nothing to resolve the error message : sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386; apt update

But anyway, Steam still works despite this message.

However, on certain games that seem to require a bit more graphically, it often/always crashes. Some examples: Rocket League, Rust, Abiotic Factor.

The thing is, it never crashes at exactly the same place. It's always while booting the game and getting to play it. If I get to actually play a little (like starting to play some Rocket League games successfully, at least 30 seconds in a game), then it never crashes afterwards. I can play for hours. But getting there is tedious because it seems I'm playing at some kind of crash lottery (which I more often win than not)

It not only freezes the game but Steam entirely. I'm often completely stuck with the PC unresponsive and had to learn how to get to the terminal to manually kill Steam. Sometimes it takes up to 15-20 minutes to achieve that. It doesn't encourage to tinker since it costs time every time it freezes.

Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Driver: nvidia-driver-580-open (recommended)

I use the built-in Proton in Steam, 9.0-4 and force compatibility.

I tried the Proton 10 beta and experimental on some of these games - it was worse.

Some simple games work fine and never crash (Tape to Tape, Dorfromantik, Hollow Knight Silksong - though this last one has a Linux native build I believe).

Is there any crash logs or easy steps a noob could follow to try to eliminate certain things and focus on what I could try to troubleshoot through?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been playing DragonBall Gekishin Squadra on my Linux Mint laptop (Intel 520 integrated + GTX 1060M) and everything was running perfectly just a week ago. However, now the game has become almost unplayable due to severe frame drops.

I’ve tried almost all Proton versions that I could find, but none seem to fix the issue. I’ve also made sure I’m using clean NVIDIA drivers (version 535) and I’m certain that the game is actually using my GTX 1060M GPU.

Could it be that I need to use a different Proton version, or is there something else that might be causing this sudden performance drop?

Any advice would be really appreciated! (I also asked Chatgpt for advice and wasn’t successful either)

I play a lot of osu! Im assuming a lot of people on here know what that game is. For context, I play taiko, where the screen constantly scrolls. Ever since fully switching to linux about 3 years ago, I have always had this feeling that there were tiny microstutters, which, due to the nature of this game, are extremely apparent. I already had this realization in the past year that the nouveau (with nvk) drivers are somehow performing amazingly in this regard. Keep in mind, because of the game being so simple, I dont have issues reaching 1k+ fps regardless of the "worse" performance. I even found a post regarding this exact issue dating back a year here. this is an arch post, however I have tested this on tons of distros/DEs and its all the same. I also realized that whenever I had a browser open or was watching a video, this issue would become much, much worse. the more browsers/games i had open, the worse the stutters would become. none of these things appear on benchmarks btw, which is why this is so annoying. On the nouveau driver however, none of this happened. The game just kept running buttery smooth. At this point, whenever I play osu or other non-intense games (celeste is another one), I switch to nouveau, because it simply runs better and basically perfect. In case you are wondering, the prop drivers, over the last few years and months have gotten better, and even the stuttering has reduced, yet its pretty bad that the driver that has like 50% perfomance to the other one is the driver that has no stuttering and the other one does. I will be getting an amd build soon anyway, so I dont have to worry about this topic anymore for long, but still, I dont think this should be something that should still be happening at this point in time, so I wanted to bring it up, because I dont really see people talking about this.

If you are playing titles where you get 500+ or more fps, give the nvk driver a shot, maybe itll surprise you, just be aware you will get "less" fps, but apparently the frames themselves are better, Im not sure what nvidia is doing here thats causing these issues.

Recently I build my first pc and I installed Kubuntu 25.04 in it (like my laptop).

Everything was fine until I noticed I couldnt connect my Pro Controller via bluetooth, only wired, this only happens with the Pro Controller, every other device like my phone or my headphones works just fine via bluetooth.

I tried to use bluetoothctl to check for errors and this is what I got (Image below)

My system information:

Distro: Kubuntu 25.04

Kernel: 6.14.0-33-generic (64 bits)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 8700G w/ Radeon 780M Graphics

MOtherboard: ASUS Tuf Gaming B650 Plus Wifi

https://preview.redd.it/667ikn570btf1.png?width=1031&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a8823fbb0f898e51ade1b079233cfa6f7f99056

Hope this is alright for this sub, but rofi-games is a plugin for rofi which can display all the games it detects on your system (along with their cover art) in a nice menu to be easily launched. I made it about 2 years ago and have been adding features here and there since. It supports parsing games from several launchers already, like Steam, Heroic and Lutris, but I'm always open to supporting more (Itch is on my TODO).

Some other features include sorting entries based on usage, and support for a configuration file, allowing you to modify attributes of the detected games (like the box art image) or create custom entries for anything you want. You can also open the root directory for a game directly from the rofi menu (Shift+Enter).

Let me know what you think, I'd be happy to receive any feedback (specially if you can't get it installed or anything like that - I only have it distributed on the AUR but some kind users have also made it available on NixOS).

Also, as an alternative, I've recently created rgd. This one is a CLI which is more basic (no sorting or custom entries) but is easy to include in scripts, and can be used with any other picker program (e.g. fzf, wofi, fuzzel, etc.). Happy to hear any feedback on that one too.

Update for https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ni062k/flickering_black_bars_when_streaming_on_discord

Just a disclaimer: while I have done some testing, I haven't been able to do full-blown practical testing with a friend (since its hard to watch my own stream while gaming lol). If other people can try the following and confirm my findings, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Short answer: most people identified GNOME's window manager, Mutter, as the primary cause of the issue. I don't think that's wrong, but there's something else at play that is making the issue significantly worse than it should be. I'm not yet sure what the offender is, but you can avoid installing it by installing just the `gnome-session` and whatever applications you use instead of the entire `gnome` package.

Long answer: So because everyone was saying Mutter is the issue, I sought replacing it with KWin, since through prior testing I know KWin with KDE doesn't have this issue. However, while you could have probably replaced Mutter with KWin on Gnome 10-15 years ago, it seems impossible now (at least not without excessive tinkering I don't have the energy for lol). During this, I ended up uninstalling all of gnome, installing KWin, then installing just the gnome-session and tried to start it with KWin. It would kinda start, but it'd just give me a black screen with a cursor lol.

In defeat, I decided to kinda just keep working with what I had. Remove any extra bloat the default gnome package may have. So I uninstalled KWin, and only reinstalled and enabled GDM before rebooting. This installed Mutter, but very little else.

But, when I went to test the flickering issue, it was gone. Not entirely gone, but it only flickers if you have two windows open and rapidly move your cursor between the windows. (Note: I was only streaming one of the windows, not the whole screen). This effectively eliminates the issue, as I won't be constantly changing windows when streaming games lol, and even if I do the flickering is much more manageable, whereas before it basically would make my stream unwatchable.

I can't guarantee this will be the same for all distros since I'm on Arch, but I'm sure it'll be the same for any Arch-based distros). From here, I plan on passively working to figure out what the offending default package is, just if I end up installing it later.

Just to itemize the effective steps I took, in case other people want to try it:
1. Uninstall everything gnome, reboot.
2. In the TTY, install gnome-session and gdm. run `systemctl enable gdm`. reboot.
3. Login like normal, install anything extra you need like gnome-backgrounds and gnome-control-center. You may have to use the TTY if you were previously using the default gnome terminal emulator.
4. And that is all I did :)

I don't fully recommend doing this for everyone unless you're ok with any potential breakage just cause there may be issues that arise due to the lack of all the default gnome suite, but for now this has been working fine for me. Also not going to mark this as "answered!" since the exact cause is still unknown, and this is a less-than-ideal solution for now. Plus I havent done extensive testing to 100% confirm it even fixes the issue lol.

Steam: Proton Experimental

Nvidia: nvidia-driver-580-open (marked as recommended), on perfamance mode

edit: Using Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon Edition btw

I installed a few games and extracted the files no problem however when I then try and run it on wine, bottles, steam or even lutris it will not work. It seems like it runs but then nothing happens and it says I can run it again. This doesn’t happen witht the other games I’ve ran on these apps and used so why wont it with this one?

Hello guys. I am using Ubuntu 25.04. I use Heroic Games Launcher for GOG games and Steam for Steam games. This post is for Steam specifically.

I had GTA IV (not V, not VI) installed on my external HDD. Right now, the game does not show up to me. It has been this way for some time.

Honestly, I genuinely don't remember deleting this game? It's also not very large, less than 30 gb, so I don't see a reason to have deleted it.

Any way to check whether the files are still there but not being detected, other than browsing ten thousand proton prefixes?

so im running plasma 6.4.5 with kubuntu 25.04, using steam and proton 9.04 the game worked fine the last time i played it a couple weeks ago abd actualy worked great my first run last night but frame rated suddenly dropped and im not sure whats going on, ive ran all my updates, verified the install, reinstalled the game, double checked my nvidia drivers. im running it in windowed mode on a tv(i use a large tv instead of multiple monitors i just corner snap my windows, resource usage never goes above 30% and temps look good, sometimes the game launches and it wont go above 40fps and other times it launches and wont go above 20fps, ive been trying to figure it out all night.

So I just bought a new gaming mouse that is capable of going up to 8000hz for polling rate, but even with limited FPS, I just get a lot of micro stutters while playing Overwatch even on 2000hz polling rate (basically anything greater than 1000). I set my FPS to unlimited and sure enough, I drop from ~550fps straight down to 400fps when I start moving my mouse on 2000hz polling rate. On Windows, I do not drop even a single frame on 8000hz polling rate, so it is neither my CPU and Overwatch itself. I did notice that using X11 does lead to less frame drops, but I rather get this running under Wayland if possible.

I am running Proton GE 10.15 , I tried running the game through Proton Experimental and Hotfix, but I still get frame drops.
KDE Neon 24.04 on Wayland
Ryzen 7 5700X3D on a Radeon RX 6700
CPU and GPU governor are set to their max
kernel: 6.14.0-33-generic
I did try running the game through bottles (used to do it through lutris once upon a time ago), but the battle(dot)net launcher kept crashing on startup, so I will tackle this later.

I haven't asked linux related questions in a good while, so if I have missed out on information about my system, let me know and I will provide it! I would also like to get 8000hz polling rate running without a hitch, purely out of interest though, I know it's overkill lol.

I pirated a few games including Elden ring nightreign but when I try to extract it won’t let me. It let me extract silent hill 3 (5.6gb) but it wont let me extract nightreign(22.1gb) can I have some help pls I am on Linux fedora 42. I also downloaded a different game around 3GB and j could extract it fine. It just seems to be when it gets into double digits.

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3923210/Terminal_Descent/

Is there a way to configure MangoHud to output to a VR headset? By default, MangoHud outputs the data on my (flat) PC screen. Or is there another performance monitor tool for Linux Mint + Steam + ALVR + Meta Quest 3?

So for context, I have a Ryzen 5 5600x, 16Gb RAM, and an RX 7800 xt with 16Gb VRAM. At 1440p I'm getting 40fps, so I want to run the game at 1080p (since benchmarks I've seen show 60+ fps for similarish systems to mine at that resolution) and upscale. My main issue is that this game just won't allow it - I have a 3440x1440 monitor and the options just don't appear in the drop down menu.

I attempted to work around this by using gamescope, however despite rendering at a lower resolution the performance seems to be slightly worse (struggling to hit 40). The launch commands I used were:

gamescope -w 1920 -h 1080 -W 3440 -H 1440 -b -F fsr --force-grab-cursor -f --%command% -nostartupmovies -nosplash

I have fiddled with settings for a couple hours however I can't seem to find a solution - I would appreciate any advice or being pointed in the right direction. Thanks!

Edit: another piece of information that might be useful - frame generation feels significantly better in gamescope compared to running the game normally. I find myself almost completely unable to aim by default with frame gen enabled.

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I'm trying to load minecraft but every time I try it tries 3 times then loads this error message. Is this an issue with prism launcher, the mods or minecraft & how can I resolve it?