I have recently moved back to Arch Linux (btw) after I had so many issues with Linux gaming.

I originally went back to windows just for the ease of use and compatibility of games, but I miss arch too much I had to come back.

I am now torn however, between dual booting, running games in a windows vm, or trying lutris.

I would rather not dual boot as it is just too much hassle for me and feels a bit like a last resort.

I have tried to set up a windows vm with libvirtd and virt-manager. The issue with that is once I got it set up, I tried to get looking glass working and it just fell to pieces, and I don’t want to invest a lot of time in it just to actually lose a lot of performance or not work entirely.

Finally, I have never used lutris before, only steam proton and wine, and I am not sure how much better it would be. With steam proton and wine, I still ran into many issues, with games such as RDR2 having memory leaks, etc, and some just running awfully compared to windows.

I’d just like to get some advice on what other people have found through experience, and their recommendations.

PC specs:

• AMD Ryzen 5700g CPU (but I don’t use the iGPU anymore)

• AMD Radeon 6650XT GPU

• 16GB RAM

My main games: Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2, Assetto Corsa, DCS World, and a couple similar titles

So I tried playing a (2D fullscreen Unity) game on Proton, but for some reason I got stuck on the startup screen with a flashing logo and the music playing in the background. I thought it was an issue with the Proton version I was using, but when I switched to another window with the game still open, I saw a bunch of horizontal lines in the colors of the game (which I also saw when I alt+f4'ed the game) and the game did show me the title screen, though with very low fps. When I switched back to the game, I saw that it kept blinking between two frames, making the game unplayable. I tried another Unity game, which had the same issue. I couldn't find anything about it online and I already tried most things. Does anyone know what is going on?

Here's the system I'm using (idk how much of it is relevant): Operating system: Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10 GHz x 2 RAM: 3.7 GiB Graphics card: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller Display server: X11

Yes my PC is old and probably not really suited for gaming, but most games run perfectly fine on it. Celeste, for example, runs very smoothly.

So I have gotten board of windows and wanted to try out some Linux. I have very little understanding of the various distributions but I can make my way around fine. My question is, what am I doing wrong? No matter what distro I choose (tried manjaro, nobara and PopOS) I cannot get any games to run using the dGPU.

It's a Dell laptop i5 8th gen and a Nvidia 1060 max q.

Pop os I tried rebooting the system to use the dGPU but games will not even launch (of the few I could get running)

I would like to keep the setup as hybrid as much as possible so day to day desktop stuff to use iGPU and games to use dGPU.

Any help would beuch appreciated.

Hello gamers, I just bought an 8Bitdo Ultimate Wired XBox Controller. Steam is recognizing the controller as a generic XBox Gamepad but the controller doesn‘t light up and is reacting to any inputs. A gamepad test website on firefox doesn’t recognize the controller at all. Can anyone please help? I use Linux Mint 21.3 and Kernel 6.8 I think.

Hello,

My Host OS and Hardware:

Proxmox 8.1.4
Motherboard - Asrock Rack Rome8d-2t
CPU - Epyc 7443p
RAM - 256GB 3200MHZ ECC
GPU1 - Asus TUF RTX-4070ti Super, PCIe7
GPU2 - Sapphire Pulse 7900 XTX, PCIe1
OS Drive - Samsung 980 Pro 500GB
VM OS Drives - ZFS Mirror 2x960GB Samsung P9A3, Oculink 1/2
VM Storage - ZFS Striped Mirror 4x1TB WD SN850, bifurcation card PCIe5
TrueNAS Drives - 4x12TB Seagate x16, SATA 4-7
PCIe NIC - 82599ES 10Gbe - passed through to TrueNAS, PCIe4

Guest OS:

EndeavourOS

Kernel: 6.9

DE: KDE Plasma 6.0, using Wayland

Gamescope: 6.14.16-1

VRR: I believe EndeavourOS has it enabled automatically.

Issue:

I am experiencing regular crashing in BG3 when using Gamescope. I have tried with both Nvidia and AMD GPUs and it happens to both. I have two copies of the EndeavourOS VM, one for Nvidia and one for AMD, so I can use each GPU freely without having to remove/re-install drivers. Gamescope will run for about 30 minutes and then close. I run Gamescope using Steam commands to launch the game and they are below.

gamescope -e -f -w 3840 h 2160 --hdr-enabled --hdr-debug-force-output --force-grab-curosr --hdr-sdr-content-nits 600 -- %command%

It's also worth noting that it happens with and without HDR enabled. The exact same method and commands work well with The Last of Us. It will run that game for hours without crashing.

Does anyone have suggestions or anything they can point me to to help troubleshoot?

Curious if anyone here has gotten helldivers 2 to run on the latest patch 1.000.400?

I see a lot of reports on protondb that it doesn’t work, but a couple saying they’ve gotten it to work.

Wondering if anyone has taken any effective action to unbreak it for them.

I have tried steam with the -pipewire flag and it didn't change anything. I'm on an AMD GPU. Does anyone have other suggestions?

was on windows 11.used amd software to disable zero rpm. worked. installed fedora workstation. thought there's amd software to disable zero ram. but only drivers exist no amd software.didnt install driver. found corectl. installed. found a setting "fan start". played around with it. still can't disable zero ram. installed amd driver. "fan start" setting disappeared. still zero rpm. fucked around with grub configs. did some terminal shots. pwm1enable, amdgpu grub setting config things. no go. went back to windows 11. I really want linux to work but there's always something that goes sideways. I had 2080 ti. monitor issues on linux too. i have 3 main monitors and 1 small one. refresh rate difference. tried to fix it. used difference OSes, DE all that. didn't do anything terminal heavy though like xrand stuff. Just wanted it to work without doing terminal heavy stuff. if I wanted to do that, I'd just do a server. actually...maybe I can do that instead. I'll post a reply after this if all else fails.

i thought switching to amd would work. it somewhat worked. multiple monitors have no issues until zero rpm. didnt know there was a zero rpm feature. so what I wanted to ask, is there something I missed regarding disabling it? or is this a kernel patch or update thing for newer gpu?

thanks

Whenever I open Tf2 45% of the time it freezes on startup another 45% of the time it starts with no audio and i can't get the audio to start working without a restart and the Final 10% of the time it works flawlessly. Does anyone know what could be causing this or what i can do to fix it?

Small piece of additional information. whenever the game boots but with no audio the in game disconnect button in the top right corner doesn't work and instead just freezes the game, This does not happen when the audio is functioning.

The numbers i gave of 45/45/10 are not estimates I actually tested and these were the percentages of each outcome.

list of things I have tried,

Using proton (Linux Runtime Sniper is the only compatibility tool that opens the game in secure mode for me),

Switching from x64 Vulcan to Legacy Open GL

Messing with pipewire and none of these worked.

If it matters I do use a script for engineer buildings but this was an issue before i started using them.

I heard they're making a full on Distro for PC and gaming. I would really like to check it out. Yes there's already alternatives that I could try but I really wanna try Steam's take on Linux PC, especially if I can download all my apps like other distros.

So the question is in the title, I tried using stuff like -force-glcore in steam, when turning on War Thunder steam tells me it is processing vulcan shaders, and I am unable to change them to OpenGL in manual game update as the only option is auto, I am not using protons. All and any help will be appreciated

Hi, I'm playing the GOG version of The Witcher 3 on a system with a GeForce RTX 4070 through the Heroic Games Launcher. I'm starting the game via the DirectX 12 option. In the settings I switched to Proton Experimental and I have set the following environment variables:

• PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1
• PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0
• VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr,dxr11

and the following wrapper commands:

• gamemoderun
• mangohud

And yet, when I run the game, go to the graphics settings and try to switch DLSS on it tells me it's not supported.

I'm using Arch Linux with version 550.90.07-2 of the Nvidia drivers.

Hi,

I currently own a GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7700 XT Gaming OC which I intend to rma since I have experienced varius driver/card issues. My idea was that I want to get a refund instead of a new card so that I can buy a new card from a different vendor which has less issues.

So my question is: which card from which vendor do you recommend because you had no issues (like crashes) with it?

I previously owned a RX 5700XT from powercolor which had similar issues (at least I could fix them by adjusting the voltage).

Hey guys,

So been trying to play Alan Wake 2 on Linux, I did know this was going to be a bit of challenge from what I read but need some advice now.

So currently running a 2060 12gb card with a i5 10400f and 32gb ram on Linux mint (running the recommended driver for my card) I am running Alan wake 2 through heroic launcher on a 1080p 144hz monitor with a dualsense connected via cable.

I am experiencing stutters throughout when I did get control of Alan after playing sage it did get better for a bit but then came back. I'm finding I will hit a splid 60-70ish at the most and randomly hit down to 30-40 this is on low (for textures and stuff) and medium settings and using dlss at balanced.

Now i don't personally mind running at 30-40 fps I just wanna enjoy the game so tried to limit my fps but no method seems to work. I've tried Mango, Strangle, Gamescope (which wouldn't let the game even launch kn heroic), did try lutris but game doesn't want to launch either on that. And with the Nvidia settings I can only change my fps on both screens to 50hz at the lowest.

I could be being too extreme with wanting to limit my fps maybe there is a fix for the stuttering but I'm not sure honestly any help would be greatly appreciated. If it comes down to it I will deal with the stutters stories got me hooked so far so that'll keep me going :)

With the new v8.0 update, Squad has finally fixed a long standing issue on Linux. They updated EAC linux module, which currently works without needing DT_HASH patch, on stock Arch Linux.

It works flawlessly with Proton 9.0, in fact better than Windows. As in Windows you can't change your audio device in game without restarting.

Follow up on this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1brh5i2/what_is_exactly_required_from_game_developer_to/

I had to reinstall Genshin Impact with the new HoyoPlay launcher as the "old" one is not available anymore. After installation the launcher stayed black and was completely unresponsive.

With some testing in Bottles and in native wine i found webview2 is now a needed dependency. So I'd recommend to install webview2 before installing the launcher.

I don't use Lutris or alike's so i can't tell if they face the same problem.

Hello! I've searched the internet far and wide and haven't found anyone with a similar problem yet, at least on Linux.

Recently, i've reinstalled Apex Legends but i've encountered a bug where i can't log in to my EA account since the steam overlay refuses to open, with the game itself saying that i need to have steam overlay enabled which i do.

What is more curious is that the steam overlay will open on the EAC loading screen which comes up before the actual game starts.

Here are my launch options: MANGOHUD=1 gamemoderun DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command% -novid -high +fps_max 75

I run Ubuntu 13.10

use a Ryzen 5 5600 and a GTX 1050Ti

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What made you stick exclusively with Linux on your desktop?

Do you find the same gaming features again, or do you miss something you can't have on Linux that you had before with the Microsoft operating system?

Do you miss your "old" Windows?