I recently pulled the trigger to switch to Linux for my gaming machine, as I was tired of Windows 11's recent inclusions; and since I had already switched to Linux for work years ago, and know my way around Ubuntu, I decided to go with Arch, so I could get my hands dirty with things. Everything has been going relatively well, minus this game.

This game was obviously running perfectly fine under Windows with good enough framerates, but on Linux I just get about 8-10 FPS, and like, 20% CPU and GPU usage across the board. It's a bit odd that it's doing this.

Cropped screenshot of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, showcasing mangohud with a GPU marker at 19%, CPU marker at 17%, framerate of 8 FPS, and 126.1 ms of frametimes at the time of the screenshot.

My system specs are as follows:
- CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X
- GPU: Radeon RX 9070 XT
- 32GB of RAM

The game is running off of the boot drive, a 1TB NVME SSD. I had recently changed my vulkan implementation from `vulkan-radeon` to `amdvlk`, since the game wouldn't run at all with the prior one. I know I do have a slight CPU bottleneck going on here (or at least I think so) but, this feels like something is just off with my setup. Any insights would be very much appreciated!

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The game launches then during the first loading it crashes with this error message.

OS: Nobara 42

Kernel: Linux 6.14.5-200.nobara.fc42.x86_64

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Hello everyone! Just here to ask if anybody was trying gaming on kubuntu 25.04 and how it was going so far. Because i am and it's not going so well. For instances, i had to install flatpak steam because the .deb was opening only from the terminal amd not from the .desktop file (which configuration appeared to me to be ok). And furthermore my controller isn't working very well, since some buttons aren't detected when pressed (i tested if they were broken with an online tester and they were not). Plus, i had to switch back to x11 graphic server because on wayland i couldn't uncheck the setting which let the apps to stop the compositor (i don't know if this is related to wayland or my distro)... Finally i got the feeling everything's not very stable, but i can't say it's more than a feeling.

I bought a new graphic card and so i decided to mak a fresh install and try 25.04. I was before on 24.04, which had its issues but on the gaming side it was ok.

So any gamer on 25.04 like me?

P.S.: i can't decide which flair suits this better. I'll pick the closest one i guess.

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I have an RTX 3060 and I currently use Pop!_OS, but is Cachy OS better? I've seen people get more performance on it with games.

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Recently, problems started with native Dota 2 on Steam via vulkan, 30-40 minutes after the launch and active game, it starts to freeze wildly, as if 15 FPS, but in fact, the counters show that there are more than 200 FPS. Everything seems to be OK with the drivers, other games don't behave like that outside of steam. I haven't tried to test other games in steam yet, if that's what I'll add to the question.

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We gave Vircadia a full Gen 2 overhaul (big thanks to our sponsors such as Linux Professional Institute, Deutsche Telekom, etc. for enabling this), aiming to cut down on code bloat and boost performance. The main shift is swapping out our custom backend infrastructure for a battle-tested, high-performance system like PostgreSQL with Bun wrapping and managing every end of it.

It's kind of unheard of to do this for things like game dev (preferring custom solutions), but it works and makes things way easier to manage. The shape of the data in a database affects how well it works for a use case, and that model scales well for virtually every kind of software ever, the same should apply here!

Feel free to prototype some game ideas you might have been tossing around, our priority is DX for the project as a whole to enable more developers with less resources to build bigger worlds, so please do share feedback here and/or in GH issues!

Our roadmap is for more SDKs, and cutting down on bloat where possible, with the express goal of giving devs more cycles in the day to focus on the actual gameplay instead of tooling.

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Help me undervolt Every undervolt works 10-15 minutes and then start to bug or crash

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Could you please tell me another program/platform to start and run games cause Lutris is total Shit...
When i start the games straight from the Terminal they run no problem absolutely no problem
Lutris on the other always says there is a problem exit code blah blah blah......

Linux Mint 22.1

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Hi all, why is every steam games I ran detects AMD (onboard graphics?) instead of my Nvidia 5070. Running games feels slow and laggy, this is running through the GPU's display port.

First PC and newly built with Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. I installed the drivers via `sudo ubuntu-drivers install` command and let it run for an hour, restarted the PC.

The driver manager says that I'm using `NVIDIA driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-570(proprietary)`

Is there any installation steps, or packages I missed or steam config I need to know? any tips and help will be appreciated.

Thank you

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Running Overwatch 2 through the Battle.net client using Lutris with the wine-10.6-staging-tkg-amd64 runner in Linux Mint 22.1. Game runs, but does not respond to any keyboard inputs (but does respond to mouse inputs). Some notes below:

• The problem seems specific to Overwatch - the keyboard works fine in the Battle.net client and when Starcraft is launched in the same fashion as Overwatch.
• A similar problem is described for Steam Deck here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/y5mv53/overwatch_2_not_using_plugged_in_keyboard/
• It was suggested in the thread linked above that this problem may be caused by Overwatch not launching in fullscreen mode, but adding the command line argument "-fullscreen" in the Battle.net launcher does not fix things, not does modifying the graphics settings inside Overwatch once launched.

Anyone had this problem on Linux desktop and found a solution?

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Hey everyone ! Is there someone experiencing the issue with launching Battle-Net via Steam Proton ? I am running Fedora KDE and I just can't get Battle net to reliably launch every time. It just sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't and I don't know why? I am just getting tired of rebooting my system to roll a dice if this reboot will work or not. Anyone having same experience ? Battle-Net was working just fine on Lutris but due to latest update to battle net I've been forced to move the app to the steam and Proton 10. Thanks in advance.

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Hi ! I’m having an issue with my laptop’s GPU (NVIDIA MX110). When I unplug the charger, the GPU frequency drops from 1006 MHz to 251 MHz and stays locked at this low speed. The only way to restore normal performance is to reboot the system with the charger plugged in this happen in every linux distro i tried.

In Windows, simply plugging the charger back in would fix the issue without a reboot, but now I have to restart every time. Is there a way to prevent this behavior or fix it without rebooting?

Sorry for my English, and thanks in advance for any help!

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I recently switched to Arch and after a bit of trial by fire I have most of my games working properly. (cyberpunk and snowrunner mainly) Both have worked 180 fps+ no issues

The last few I am having issues with i have not been able to get them working regardless of what fixes i try.
My issue in the finals is when i am in a game i am getting 70-80 fps (very spikey though and feels sluggish). When i am in the practice range i can get 180-200 no problem but as soon as i get into a actual game it drops.

FYI I am fairly new to Linux but i am willing to learn and do what needs to be done to get it fixed. If there is a obvious fix somewhere that i just missed any direction would be hugely appreciated. I am pretty commited to making this work because if i cant play all my games on Linux id rather just use windows for everything (i currently have dual boot setup so i can test in both)

I have tried some basic things with Gamemode and Gamescope and they seemed to help but i dont really understand them enough to know how to use them further.

Setup:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
GFX: NVIDIA 4070 TI SUPER 16Gb
Ram: 64Gb 3600mhz Corsair Vengance
Boot Drive: Samsung 990 Pro 1TB

If you need any additional info i am happy to provide but might need some guidance on how to get it(crash report kind of things)

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I'm using kde plasma and I'm having a lot of trouble on steam. I have 2 drives: one for the OS and another one to store games. But I can't install games in this second drive, it is formatted in ext4, every one can modify and read it, and it does works like a normal drive when you aren't trying to install games on steam. I've tried a lot of tutorials but when I try to download a game I always get after some time the "Disk write error". Any thoughts?

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I tried resetting all flatpak settings to default using flatseal. It runs but on x11 (which makes everything upscaled/blurry and of course less performant), and after that this is what I got disabling x11 on flatseal a running from terminal:

Disabling updates already done

Discord 0.0.94

[5:0510/213840.311058:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(246)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY

[5:0510/213840.311102:ERROR:env.cc(257)] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.

/app/bin/com.discordapp.Discord: line 36: 5 Segmentation fault (core dumped) env TMPDIR="${XDG_CACHE_HOME}" zypak-wrapper /app/discord/Discord --enable-speech-dispatcher "${FLAGS[@]}" "$@"

2025/05/10 21:38:40 socat[3] W exiting on signal 15

Running from Flatpak in Arch Linux

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I'm using Fedora with KDE Plasma.

On Windows, the "Retro Scaling" option can be enabled in the Intel Graphics Command Centre, and this ensures that all games ran at lower than the native resolution will be integer scaled.

However, I can't figure out how to enable this on Linux? There's practically no information about this online at all. It can't be impossible, since Nvidia and AMD have the option, and Nvidia is known for terrible Linux support.

How can I enable this option to have integer scaling on Linux through Intel Iris Xe igpu?

I have a higher than 10th gen CPU - 13th gen i7, so Retro scaling is supported.

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after updating my nvidia graphics in pop everything went down, anything that i update or move fuck everything and i am tired, so i am thinking in leaving POP_OS, so i am here asking if anybody knows how to save my games inside the same SSD.

Update my nvidia drivers recently, didnt work and nothing worked, some games are laggy as hell even being easy to run.

is there anything that i need to know before changing to steam OS?

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I downloaded it from the zorin store. I have already entered my Google and Microsoft account, Do I change my passwords?

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Componente Especificação CPU Intel Core i5-12450H (12 threads) GPU Intel UHD Graphics (Alder Lake-P GT1) Memória RAM 15,7 GB (3,5 GB em uso no momento) Armazenamento 233 GB total (53 GB usados) — raiz (/) Bateria 28% — DescarregandoComponente EspecificaçãoCPU Intel Core i5-12450H (12 threads)GPU Intel UHD Graphics (Alder Lake-P GT1)Memória RAM 15,7 GB (3,5 GB em uso no momento)Armazenamento 233 GB total (53 GB usados) — raiz (/)Bateria 28% — Descarregando submitted by /u/Nearby_Arachnid_9393
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Hi!

I installed Linux today on my main notebook. I first installed Fedora, but Dota 2 was lagging very much. I then tried Zorin OS to see if it would work properly (I chose Zorin because it is Ubuntu based). It didn't. I dont know why it is not working. My no5ebook previously had Windows 11 installed and I could play my Dota runing at 120 FPS on low. Now, on Linux, I can barely open. I tried to start a match and the program kept closing because of high memory consume.

Do you know what it is the problem and how I fix it?

Some key infos: - My GPU is Intel Iris (on Zorin it appears as Mesa Intel) as well as my CPU (Inter Core i5 13rd gen); - 8GB RAM; - It is running Wayland; - I installed Steam from Software Store, via Flatpak package. .deb from Steam's site didnt work; - I waited for the Vulkan shaders to be installed.

Thanks!

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