Hi, I'm new to Linux and I have only had a few problems since switching to Linux about a week ago, one of those problems is playing Final Fantasy 14.

On Windows I got a fairly steady ping of 180ms (not great because of my location, but that's what NoClippy is for), on Linux the lowest ping I get is about 210ms, with pretty constant spikes of up to almost 700ms which rounds out to an average ping of a little over 500ms during active gameplay. My ping also seems to spike up whenever I move or do an action, which is really strange. If the ping was constant I wouldn't mind too much, but its so freaking choppy I feel like I'm constantly on the edge of a disconnect.

Using the ping command in the terminal to ping the game servers directly, I get the expected 180ms average with little fluctuation.

Specs:

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
ASRock X670E PG Lightning
32GB RAM
Radeon RX 7900 XT
Yes, I am playing the game through an Ethernet cable
(let me know If I need to add something else here)

I am using the Flatpak XIVLauncher, and I own the game outside of Steam. I have verified the files in the launcher, redownloaded the game from scratch in the launcher, and did it again with a fresh install of the launcher. No dice. The Game runs perfectly fine, its just the lag.

Any and all advice is welcome, particularly if it seems obvious.

I was sitting at work the other day on our very outdated win-8 all in one, lamenting the performance that dwarf fortress and TES2 daggerfall unity were affording me, when I suddenly remembered a few gems that used to mull me over in the past. I downloaded both to find that they ran quite well, and of course was hit with a wave of nostalgia. I was never into cs_surf type stuff, but was immediately zooming around in UT and feeling like a kid again. Obviously with proton and native Linux compatibility increasing we have come a long way, but I'm curious how many of yall remember these absolute godsends, when linux compatibility was an afterthought.

I'm trying to build a mini ITX pc to have it under my tv with Bazzite. I encounter the issue that the amd gpu I picked won't fit my case, it turns out my best choice I have is an nvidia 4060 low profile and I know nvidia has issues with Game Mode in Linux, in case that I go this route, what would be the difference between Game Mode and SBP in this use case? Also, is there any hope that Nvidia would fix this in the future? Meaning that is a matter of time or is it something that actually might not happen?

trying to install genshin impact im having trouble runing the launcher, a pop up appears

https://preview.redd.it/lyjybfsxv3od1.png?width=1202&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9e5f67d4f4e86a30c00e47cf626a84ba3717448

dont know how to fix it, been trying to fix it with chatgpt for a while

I, like many others here, love Counter Strike, and I love Linux. But CS2's native Linux port is, to put it bluntly trash.

I first looked up if I should just run the windows version through proton, but unfortunately it was said to be a "VAC disaster". So what is the best possible way to play CS2 on Linux? Any fixes? Launch options?

So with 1.0 being released this morning (hurray!) I have done a fresh download of the game and it basically kept on crashing on me while i was trying to stream.

I have used the following;

No compatibilty, Proton experimental, GE-proton9-13 and UMU-Proton-9.0-2.

All of it just basically caused my computer to hard freeze, audio still playing then sometimes it would cause a _ (kernal crash) and the other method of crash is everything slowly vanishes, my enviroment goes black backround then i gotta hard power down (i hate doing this) and restarting my computer...

Computer specs:
CPU: R7 5700X3D
GPU: 6700XT
32gb of ram and 32gb swap (for shits and giggles, gonna be upgrading to 64gb raw)

EndevourOS, KDE plasma 6.1.4, x11 platform, kernal 6.10.9-arch1-1

i would provide logs, just not sure which ones to grab. I'll happily provide those.

anything else just let me know :)

just trying to run fm24 and got the latest wine, game starts fine for 10 seconds then closes, anyone got any clue how to fix?

I am using ubuntu 24.04.1. I installed steam from the app store and it wont open. I tried to uninstall it with the app store and it gets stuck on the uninstalling loading symbol and does not get uninstalled. I looked at the post guide for this subredit and tried ending steam in system monitor and running it from terminal. That is the only thing from the guide that I knew how to do and it did not work. I have no idea what other information to give or how to troubleshoot this. Really new to linux and it has not been a great first impression but i want to stick with it. I will be gaming on windows until this issue is resolved.

I've been using Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop ever since I switched from Windows 10 in favor of Linux nearly a full year ago, and ever since then. I've been quite impressed at the sheer number of games within my Steam library being completely playable with little to no tweaks whatsoever. Even more impressive was the slight performance increase in not just the Steam games I normally do play, but non-Steam games as well. I even left numerous comments to numerous posts within this Subreddit reflecting this.

However, lately I've been noticing that, whenever I go play both Steam and non-Steam games alike, games such as Star Trek Online and Genshin Impact, games that once was lag-free, heavy lag spikes now occur by disk reads and/or disk writes once every 7 to 10 seconds. At this point, I suspect Fedora's installed Linux Kernel.

Not even system updates seem to be a viable fix for this rather annoying issue I'm currently having.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem, and how can I possibly fix this other than reverting back to a previous Linux Kernel version??

Also, I've been looking into Solus as an alternative to Fedora to game on. If I do distro hop from Fedora to Solus, how much of a performance gain will there be compared to Fedora while gaming?

My laptop's hardware info is as follows:

• Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
• KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
• KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
• Qt Version: 6.7.2
• Kernel Version: 6.10.7-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
• Graphics Platform: Wayland
• Swap Partition size: 16 GiB

Hardware info is as follows:

• Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-7100U CPU @ 2.40GHz
• Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM
• Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620

Steam version: 1721173382

Preferred Proton version: Proton-8.0-2

Preferred WINE version: wine-ge-8-26-x86_64

We don't need UWP support in Wine. We could even use this to run Xbox One games with XWine1.

https://github.com/nta/immersive-host Has anybody looked into this?

I'm using Fedora 40 (Workstation Edition) x86_64 with Gnome 46.4 (wayland). It Works pretty well. Today I decided to connect it to my 4k TV (as monitor) with an HDMI cable. But almost everything was bad. When I try "join"ing screens my TV goes black and after a minute says "Check your device's power". I tried mirroring. It displayed correctly but it's really laggy. Not just on my TV, but also on my laptop's monitor. E.g For example in a game my laptop would normally get 300+ fps, it gets 30-40 when plugged in to TV or on an AAA game that will give me 90-120 fps on high settings, it gives me 20 fps when connected to TV. So it's really bad. I also tried using Gnome with XORG., because same thing also happened with hyprland (which is using wayland), but gnome xorg was pretty unstable. Opening discord, trying to mirror or join screens, opening steam etc. all of them crash it. And it says Log out on a white error screen flashing. For my specs: I'm using Asus TUF Dash F15 laptop: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile(4GB VRAM), 11th Gen Intel i5-11300H (8 cores) @ 4.400GHz, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Also, Nvidia X Server shows a lot more options on XORG, than wayland. Any help would be appreciated.

I can't seem to open any links in programs running through wine - I first noticed this in Mod Organizer, where I can't open any mod pages, help pages, or authorize my Nexus account, but it's also an issue in other programs using wine in different prefixes.

Brave is my default browser - when I click on a link, the brave icon appears by my cursor, but no link opens up. If I close brave, it opens brave but not the webpage.

I tried changing my default browser to Firefox, and it doesn't work with that either.

This issue seems to beq similar to mine, and the poster is on Ubuntu 24.04.

I'm not sure what the next step is to debug this.

This is not at all tested by me and is more anecdotal, but...

When i was using Gnome, temperatures in cyberpunk started at about 90C junction, and quickly hopped up to 95C and up with default fan curves. I had to spin the fans at about 2500 RPM just to keep it slightly under 90C.

Now i'm on KDE Plasma, and (this is the anecdotal non scientific part) while the ambient temperatures are a bit lower now, so of course, the temperatures will be lower but here's the thing - Now i'm getting juction temperatures of 75-80C with fans spinning at 500-1200RPM!

The ambient temperature is not *that* lower so that the GPU can go from "barely keeping it under 90C with 2500RPM" to "casually cooling the 75C junction with 1000RPM".

This is a drastic difference for ambient temperature difference of about 10C. I don't think 10C ambient temperature difference would equate to 20C difference in GPU temps with drastically lower fan speeds?

Cyberpunk also seems a bit smoother in frametimes overall on Plasma, but that's possibly because of the huge overheating that was happening on gnome...

Anyone have any similar experience?

After recent updates on opensuse steam vr just freezes and crashes the whole computer when starting steam vr this was after a recent update I can't downgrade because I had to reinstall so I don't have the rollback what coude cause this steam vr never freezed or crashes the whole pc before recent tumbleweed updates.

I think this updates happend 1 week ago ISH

Is there anything I coude do

Steam vr use to work flawlessnesy 100% perfect before tumbleweed updat I think the last roolback where vr worked was the one I had with kernal 6.10.3 something after that no longer works don't know if this the kernal causing problem or if it's a driver or whatever

I have a amd 7900xt GPU And a r9 7900 CPU

I've been trying to run Gmod on steam using proton, and when I try to launch it, it shows it as running for a few seconds and nothing happens. I've only been using Linux for about a week now. I've tried installing directx9 and loading it, yet nothing happens still. (I know I don't need to use proton to run it, but I'm using it as an example. All games I've tried don't function using it.)

This is what was printed when I used inxi -F.

Host: skibidipc Kernel: 6.8.0-44-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64

Desktop: GNOME v: 46.0 Distro: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Machine:

Type: Desktop Mobo: Acer model: Aspire 5600U

UEFI: American Megatrends v: P11-B0 date: 05/17/2013

CPU:

Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-3120M bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:

L2: 512 KiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 1197 min/max: 1200/2500 cores: 1: 1200 2: 1197 3: 1197

4: 1197

Graphics:

Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel

Device-2: Chicony USB 2.0 Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:

loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915

resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz

API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast

platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device

API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.2 vendor: intel mesa v: PPA renderer: Mesa

Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)

Audio:

Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio

driver: snd_hda_intel

API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-44-generic status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active

Network:

Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k

IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: 48:d2:24:93:f5:47

Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet

driver: r8169

IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: f8:0f:41:96:4b:79

Bluetooth:

Device-1: Lite-On driver: btusb type: USB

Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down

bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes

address: 48:D2:24:94:0C:B7

Drives:

Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 108.69 GiB (11.7%)

ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 size: 931.51 GiB

Partition:

ID-1: / size: 914.78 GiB used: 108.69 GiB (11.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2

ID-2: /boot/efi size: 1.05 GiB used: 6.1 MiB (0.6%) fs: vfat

dev: /dev/sda1

Swap:

ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4 GiB used: 861.5 MiB (21.0%) file: /swap.img

Sensors:

System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A

Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A

Info:

Memory: total: 6 GiB note: est. available: 5.61 GiB used: 3.51 GiB (62.5%)

Processes: 276 Uptime: 44m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.34

I've tried installing and loading directX, I've tried updating my vulkan mesa drivers, and I'm at a loss. Can anyone help me?