I run a heavily modded 1.12.2 version of Minecraft (modpack is home made) and it's always kinda had rough performance on Linux compared to Windows on the same machine. One of the issues in the past was that my setup didn't work well with X11 (dual monitors, different refresh rates) and I was advised to upgrade to Wayland to resolve a lot of performance issues.

I now have Kubuntu 25.04 running Wayland, with updated Nvidia drivers, and while that has helped performance in a lot of games, I'm still seeing on average 10-20 less FPS in Minecraft than my Windows partition on the same device.

Here is my system information:

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Modlist is here

I'm running the modpack on Prism on Linux, though I was running CurseForge on Windows. Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated!

When fullscreening in Wayland on MC Versions that use Java 8 (1.8.9), It crashes. Since I don't want to change to X11 since it also heavily breaks for me, and I don't have any clue for any other solution, I would like to find a way to run the instance under Xwayland but only for this instance. Using Arch Linux with the nvidia-open drivers (not nouveau).

P.S.: It's not OptiFine's fault, since this happens even on a fresh instance without OptiFine

Hello!

I am new to linux and installed mint a few weeks ago. I wanted to try my G29 which has worked flawlessly on Windows on linux and couldn't seem to connect it. I read that it needs to be switched to PS3 mode, but it seems to be stuck on the PS4 mode according to the terminal when I do lsusb even though the switch is on PS3. I assume the switch is broken. My question is: Is there any way to change the mode digitally, and if that isn't the case, is there any way to make PS4 mode work on linux?

I have 9070xt gpu, and the only thing that scares me, (apart from HDMI and HDMI forums shenanigans), is that ray tracing performance is like 40% worse than on windows (at least last time I read about it here). Has there been any advance in the performance since then (with MESA)?

Another strong case for Linux as gaming platform in 2025

Hi,

Sorry my allegedly noob questions, Im only into Linux gaming since 3 Days.

Background:
Reason for switching to Linux is the preassure to abandon Windows 10 (support end soon) and because Windows 11 is an absolute noGo from a privacy standpoint.
So we bought AMD 9950x, 64G RAM, RTX 5070 with 12G VRAM and choose Kubuntu 24.04 LTS (Because it looks way more like windows as ubuntu).

Installing the Graphic card was a bit tricky, because chatbots dont know the „You need to use the ...-open driver for 50xx series“… btw: How should anyone know this? What ist the official way to know this and get such informations? Nvidia page only tells the 570 Driver should work with 5070 – but no word that it is only working with nvidia-driver-570-open?

Anyway… so we installed Steam (easy)… Battlnet in Steam using Proton Hotfix (not quite that easy).

But then in Diablo 4 things start to get frustrating.
Performance is on the level of our 2015 Windows Gaming PCs with 10 Year old hardware.

And after 10 Minutes of playing, the game hit the 12 GB VRAM and it starts with some textures disappearing. Then after short the game freezes.
You can prevent this, by setting Textures to low so you don't hit the 12G VRAM so fast… But then the game looks worse than 10 Year old hardware with less FPS :(.

I found some posts stating that the „-open“ Driver don't support VRAM swapping, so it is to be expected to crash when hitting the VRAM limit. Is this true? Where is this official source?

And most important – how to fix this?
Will there be a better driver in the future?
Will the „without open“ driver also support 5070 soon?
Will the „without open“ driver don't crash when VRAM get low?

Currently we are a little frustrated and „fearful“ we did it wrong going to linux gaming. Or is it just the „Brand new Graphics card – give it a few weeks“ problem and our choice was right?

Any advice? Any tips how I can gather such informations myself?

Hello, so I recently switched to linux mint after my microsoft account got hacked (fuck microsoft like actually) and the change has been good. But I'm struggling to install reshade on the sims 4. I managed it with the sims 3 somehow but I will link the methods I tried below. Also please be nice I am well aware I'm not a pro when it comes to linux.

1. So I tried this one https://github.com/kevinlekiller/reshade-steam-proton and once I copy in the script to the terminal and provide the correct game path it says done but then asks me to run the game with the environment variable: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3dcompiler_47=n;dxgi=n,b". So I assume this is supposed to go into advanced launch options under ts4 on the EA app but when I attempt this it says 'The commands you entered contain an invalid character', so I'm assuming this is what's stopping reshade from running.

2. I also tried this https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/b2hi3g/reshade_working_in_wine_43/ which did not work

help would be greatly appreciated I've been stuck trying to get it to work for days </3

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here is my cpu - intel i7-8550u ;

in fedora , after a 3-4 hrs of use it would just decrease it to 400 mhz ; (specifically in games)

i could not fix it no matter what , i had to switch back to mint, so if anyone has any idea why it was happening do tell me

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Running Arch, Steam randomly opens like this, rather than full screen, and I can't do anything other than close Steam and try again. This is a new install (14 days old) and it's done it 4 or 5 times. Never happened on any other install over the years.

Any ideas?

Has anyone gotten this to work? I have a wired USB xbox controller that works in game, but discord does not detect its button presses. I want to use it for Push-to-talk (PTT).

I don't want to map it to a keyboard key, since that will cause games to switch from controller to keyboard mode. I want to get discord to see the controller button without affecting gameplay.

HI,

I run Ubuntu 24.04 (kernel 6.14.6) and when I boot up my PC beeps one long and three short ones. Apparently with asus motherboards(tuf gaming b450m plus 2) this means that there is some problem with the GPU. I have also installed the drivers from https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/driver/client/overview.html but nothing happens. Also I have enabled rebar in BIOS but nothing really happens .

Can you help me, please?

Thank you!

I have an old laptop that has a pentium t4200, 4gb of ram and a 120gb ssd with debian 12 which i run old 2000's games on using wine. Im kinda worried that those old games may contain malware due to its age even though they come from my personal collection. How can i protect my system from those? I heard about using firejail or bottles, but i want your opinions about it. Thanks in advance.

So I recently switched to Zorin os 17.3 on my secondary PC(laptop), I mainly use it for gaming, There is a game called bullet echo on android, I play it on my windows PC using bluestacks, the problem is linux don't have bluestacks, I tried to find out if there are any other android emulator, I found none that comes with inbuilt key mapping. and before you say switch to a linux distro that suppot android apps, I also play games from steam.