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Since native Wayland version of CS2 became stable recently, I switched to it because during the CS2 beta I had better FPS than on Windows. Today, I can get the native Wayland by using these launch options:

SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=wayland %command%

Here are my findings.

Methodology: All the results are less reliable than an average of multiple runs. Between every run the game has been restarted. The game's frame rate limit was raised with fps_max 800 to not get capped.

What's the baseline for the performance? My CPU is bottlenecked by my GPU, so the most challenging map for me to run is Ancient. I used this benchmark map, keep in mind that you don't get these conditions in real matches:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3472126051

At 1440p with all the settings at minimum, I get Avg=275.5, P1=189.2. What can it be compared with? I also have the regular XWayland version and Steam Gaming Mode (the SteamDeck Wayland compositor that runs games with XWayland inside) that I use from time to time. Here are the initial results:

Environment P1 (FPS) Avg (FPS) Desktop Wayland 189.2 275.5 Desktop XWayland 140.2 234.9 Steam Gaming Mode 201.9 332.2

These are wildly different results. What could affect this? One thing to keep in mind is that even though the game reported over 400 FPS in Steam Gaming Mode, I could see on MangoHUD that it was staying on 360 FPS even though it wasn't capped by the game. I also remembered that I have the Steam Overlay, Overlay Performance Monitor and Game Recording all enabled in Steam. How do they affect things?

I turned off Steam Overlay, Overlay Performance Monitor and Game Recording for Desktop and turned off MangoHUD and Game Recording for Steam Gaming Mode:

Environment P1 (FPS) Avg (FPS) Desktop Wayland 210.5 336.0 Desktop XWayland 203.8 334.7 Steam Gaming Mode 224.0 343.4

Now this is more similar to the Steam Gaming Mode previous result. Though, it comes at the cost of Steam features. What affects things the most?

I turned off only the Steam Overlay Performance Monitor:

Environment P1 (FPS) Avg (FPS) Desktop Wayland 215.3 336.3 Desktop XWayland 130.6 251.1

Turning off Overlay Performance Monitor in native Wayland basically gives me the same performance as the Steam Gaming Mode. It barely makes a difference for the XWayland version.

I turned off only the Steam Overlay:

Environment P1 (FPS) Avg (FPS) Desktop Wayland 192.4 335.0 Desktop XWayland 129.9 253.0

One thing I noticed is that Steam Overlay never works for me in native Wayland titles. So this one might be skewed.

I turned off only the Game Recording:

Environment P1 (FPS) Avg (FPS) Desktop Wayland 180.3 285.0 Desktop XWayland 126.6 252.3 Steam Gaming Mode 218.5 337.1

The conclusions I can make based on that is that to achieve the result similar to Steam Gaming Mode on Desktop XWayland, I would have to sacrifice Steam Overlay and Game Recording.

Graphics settings: I also measured the impact of the different graphics settings in comparison to minimal graphics quality. Keep in mind that if you want shadows for competitive advantage, you need the Global Shadows set at least to High to prevent them from disappearing at distance.

Anti-Aliasing (AA) Cost:

• 8xMSAA: -38% avg FPS vs. base Low (332.2 → 204.8)
• 2xMSAA: -11% avg FPS (332.2 → 294.9)
• CMAA2: Negligible impact (332.2 → 331.7 avg).
• No AA + Very High: +56% avg FPS vs. standard Very High (72.9 → 113.8)

Most demanding settings:

• Global Shadows (Very High): -21% avg FPS vs. base Low (332.2 → 264.1).
• 8xMSAA: -38% avg FPS
• FSR Disabled: -25% avg FPS (332.2 → 250.5) vs FSR Performance

Moderate impact:

• Particle Detail (Very High): -15% avg FPS (332.2 → 282.5)
• Model/Texture Detail (High): -9% avg FPS (332.2 → 301.3)

Minimal Impact:

• Texture Filtering (AF16X): -1% avg FPS
• Dynamic Shadows: -1% avg FPS

FSR Effectiveness on higher settings:

• FSR Performance: (Very High + No AA): +51% avg FPS (113.8 → 171.3) vs FSR Disabled

My preferred graphics settings:

Setting Value Anti-Aliasing CMAA2 Global Shadow Quality High Dynamic Shadows All Model / Texture Detail Medium Texture Filtering Mode Anisotropic 16X Shader Detail High Particle Detail Medium Ambient Occlusion Disabled High Dynamic Range Performance FSR Ultra Quality

Performance on preferred settings with no Steam Overlays or Game Recording:

Environment P1 (FPS) Avg (FPS) Desktop Wayland 127.2 222.0 Desktop XWayland 127.0 220.4 Steam Gaming Mode 134.0 234.3

Bonus round, my setup on Desktop Wayland with game recording:

Map P1 (FPS) Avg (FPS) Ancient benchmark 122.7 223.1 Dust2 benchmark 150.9 262.9

Raw benchmark results: https://pastebin.com/2t9iZKYh

Specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
• RAM: Corsair DDR4 32Gib (16x2)
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX6650XT 8GB
• Main display: 1440p @ 180Hz over DisplayPort
• OS: Bazzite 42 (FROM Fedora Kinoite) - bazzite-deck:stable
• Kernel: Linux 6.15.6-105.bazzite.fc42.x86_64
• DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.3

TL;DR: Steam Overlay Performance Monitor significantly impacts performance. By keeping it on, you might be leaving 10-20% more FPS on the table in native Wayland. Any kind of overlayed Steam feature impacts your performance on XWayland by 40-50%. Game Recording and MangoHUD impact in Steam Gaming Mode is negligible, and you may gain 3-10% by turning them off. Some settings barely make an impact so you don't have to make everything low for the sake of performance.

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Real-time FPS is only slightly lower on Linux, but the 1% lows take a big hit-sometimes nearly double the drop compared to Windows.

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I think CCL need to re-evaluate their algorithms.

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I'm running some games as standalone exes with bottles. When I use shortcuts to the executables, I usually get nothing or a "could not locate game resources" error. But if I open the legacy Wine explorer and manually navigate to the game and launch it from there, it works fine every time. I've tried to set the working directory in the shortcut settings and I just get the same errors. Of course these games launch just fine if I manually add them to Steam but I don't wanna launch them from Steam. I don't see anyone else having this strange issue.

I'd like to be able to just launch from the shortcuts or the library, having to open the legacy explorer and manually browse to each game feels annoying, even if that's what I was already doing on Windows...

I'm using Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, Bottles 51.24, my runner is soda-9.0-1, and my bottle directory is called /mnt/stuff/Gaming (I moved the games themselves to/mnt/stuff/Gaming/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/Games, so the bottle has access to all the files). I wondered if it's an issue with flatpak sandboxing the applications but since the games launch fine from the explorer, I think that rules it out.

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Made an account.

Tried to log in. Password wrong.

Recover account with new password 3 times. Still can't log in.

Give up and try to launch a game from my steam library.

Nothing.

Does lutris not work or?

(Also, I cannot install and run mangohud)

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hello everybody, I don't have much experience using Linux, initially I installed it all out of interest, I really like customization here, but I can't play tf2 because it runs in a very small fps on the same settings as on Windows

windows 80 fps

mint 45 fps

arch 25 fps and crashed out if i start walking

https://preview.redd.it/zo53vielgnif1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=607c8b4a52a56546d40a5fd0eb2d7e28de04f574

https://preview.redd.it/ztzd4melgnif1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e14600484c601243e749922d0dba867f36565371

linux users help me how to raise my fps

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Yes, I am aware that it has been clearly stated that VRR is not officially supported. However, when I actually run it on a 120Hz VRR display in Bazzite's game mode using the Decky plugin, it is clear that with VRR on it is smoother and there is no stuttering. With VRR off, stuttering occurs. This is not limited to a specific game, but applies to all the games I tried (games that run at twice the 40-50 fps, or 80-100 fps). It shouldn't be supported, so why is this happening?

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I have very limited hardware, i7 8665u uhd620 24gb ram, I was talking to deepseek and he chose primeos instead of waydroid to play mobile games in terms of anti cheat etc, I want to know your opinion.

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I've tried to install official AMD drivers, amdgpu drivers, mesa, tried different kernels, o feel like I've tried everything but Linux mind just doesn't work

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I switched to KDE but I would love to try out GNOME again. Does fractional scaling still behave like this or have they improved it?

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Hi, skip grammar mistakes, English is not my native language.

I installed Linux Mint yesterday. I loved it really. Sleep and internal mic now work with Linux 6.14 and above kernels. But I had an issue while playing games with steam(native pkg) and proton that the Nvidia gpu does not work automatically while gaming even when I choose Nvidia On-demand option. Cinnamon's optimus applet is just broken(says log out but when i switch to intel it fully disable my Nvidia card and I have to reboot to be able to switch again). The only way to get my Nvidia card to work is by switching to it manually. Does anyone here have a fix?

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Hello everyone! I've encountered a problem while trying to play Red Dead Redemption 2. I launch the game, everything goes smoothly to the main menu, I launch story mode, everything loads, these photos appear, and the moment they disappear, the game crashes and displays a GFX ERROR. If I remember correctly, I've tried everything: Steam files, different Proton versions, driver updates, I even looked through every post about this problem, but nothing helped! So please help! :D

My specs:

RTX 2080 TI

I9 9900K

32GB RAM

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For Roblox, csgo etc

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so basically my understanding of how proton/wine works is that they translate the windows api to the relevant linux api and i know that most games dont work because of kernel level anticheats.
So heres my questions why cant we translate the kernel calls in windows to the corresponding linux ones.

Thanks in advance

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