So i tried to move gamea to my second drive and despite it working my main drive doest free up space. in steam storage manager the space just goes from games to non-steam. Same thing when i delete something of the main drive. Has anyone any idea how to fix this ? Disk analyzer doesnt show what or where the missing space is used. feel like im loosing my mind

E.g. Silksong.

With VSync enabled, I have input lag at some points. With VSync off and framerate capped I have bad tearing. With uncapped framerate my PC gets hot and loud which is not really needed for a game like Silksong.

In Windows I can use the AMD Adrenaline software to start the game and force FreeSync through the AMD driver. Can I somehow achieve the same with a Proton flag on linux?

I have adaptive sync set to "always" in my monitor settings, but the framerate still goes up in Silksong

Давно хотел пересесть на линукс с винды но без дискорда и ютуба я не могу да и денег тратить на обходку тоже не особо хочется может кто-то знает альтернативы zapret на линукс?

Hello guys,

I need some advice regarding steam cloud saves. I recently migrated my friends to PC to CachyOS pretty seemlessly. In beforehand we checked that all games have enabled steam cloud and synced every save file. After starting Steam, the save games are not downloaded and are even shown as not existing - but they are shown and are downloadable from store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage. Is there a way to make Steam realize there are indeed save games?

I migrated from Windows about a year ago and had no issues with cloud saves, so I can't really tell what is wrong.

I'm on nix os, ARC B580 GPU, 16 gb of ram and i7-10700, I managed to get working no man sky so other games work,

When I start Detroit it tells me that the GPU is not supported and when I continue anyway it crashes at 80% of shader compilation, tried varois versions of proton and proton GE, I found some posts from more than a half year ago but it didnt seem there to be a solution,

Please help me I don't want to regret this purchase (the GPU )

So... Whatever I play a vram hungry game all background apps crashes, the game start to stutter also there is the dx12 tax, I can't use waydroid and I will swap to a wqhd monitor so the 4gb will be wellcome, the only thing I will miss is the dlss4, it makes really good anti-aliassing, what your guys opinion?

They say in the FAQ that other Linuxes are not supported, but even having a native version for the Steam Deck is awesome.

Larian is a great studio, and doing work on a real Linux version is something almost nobody does anymore. When I get back to my gaming rig, I'm going to see if this works on Fedora or not.

Has anyone managed to get the latest versions of the Sims 4 to work, because the EA launcher gives problems

Hi, I just started trying to ditch Windows for linux, and I am having difficulty understanding how linux is using ram/zram/swap.

System context: I have 2x16gb ram and I used archinstall to do the initial setup of my system, by default I got 4GB of zram.

The systems performance is usually pretty stable, but has had a few hiccups, when it froze usually when the swap was full. Usually the system sits around 500MB swap use, unless I have a game open, in which case is usually around 3.6GB of the 4GB total.

Playing solo has not been a problem, but playing the same game in a party, will occasionally crash the game, after that the swap will clear and go back to 500MB used, this is why I assume that is a swap problem, although "assuming" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

In all my use of this system I ever saw the ram usage go above 50%.

So, my questions, as far as I read in the wiki and comments(that hopefully I did not misunderstood) Zram is basically compressed data that would usually be on the disk, but is moved to the ram so that it will be faster to reuse.

1. Why does this freezes the system, when the swap is full, instead of just being slowed cause it need to get the data from the disk?

2. Why does it need to use the swap, instead of ram, when there is plenty of it?

I’m new to Linux, using Zorin OS (Lite). I managed to install the Minecraft Launcher by following instructions online, and the installation went fine. But when I open the launcher I run into these problems:

1. Background image on the launcher does not load, its just gray but other things are fine
2. When I try to sign in with my Microsoft account a separate login window appears but it keeps refreshing itself nonstop
3. Because of this, I can’t log in and can’t start the game.

Has anyone else experienced this? How can I fix it?

System Info:

• Zorin OS Lite, ver.17.3
• Minecraft Launcher, freshly downloanded from official website.

I don't know how to include logs

TL;DR: RTX 3080 power consumption dropped from normal to ~200W almost all time, started as intermittent issue requiring reboots, now almost permanent. PSU failure or something else?

System Specs:

• GPU: RTX 3080
• PSU: Corsair SF750 (bought used, ~2+ years of usage)
• OS: Fedora Linux
• System age: 2 years, issue started recently

The Problem: GPU is severely underperforming with significantly reduced power consumption. What started as an intermittent issue has now become permanent.

Symptoms:

• Power draw capped around 249W (should be 300W+ under load)
• Low FPS in games despite high GPU utilization (97%+)
• Low temperatures (55°C under load, should be 70-80°C+)
• GPU reports P0 performance state but clearly isn't delivering full performance
• All of this would happen after waking up from suspends, no matter what. Only a reboot could fix it at that time, no it rarely works.

Progression of the Issue:

1. Initially: Problem occurred after boot/suspend - single reboot would fix it
2. Then: Required 2+ reboots to resolve
3. Later: Needed to unplug AC power cable and wait before reconnecting
4. Now: Never reaches expected power draw, even after full power cycles

What I've Tested:

• Multiple benchmarks (Unigine, glmark2) - all show reduced power/performance
• nvidia-smi -q -d PERFORMANCE shows P0 state during load

I assume it could be a PSU problem, but why aren't other components affected as well? I haven't noticed any degradation in CPU performance (reaches epected temps and clock speed).

I have searched everywhere and didn't find a closely similar problem. Posting here hoping to find a solution.

5700X3D with 7700XT. Arch + xfce.

Mostly playing wow but also steam games like PoE2, etc.

Kernel 6.6.x LTS works beautifully with all games, great performance and no hiccups whatsoever.

However, anything past that and especially past 6.12.x I get weird micro-stuttering, frame-time spikes and sometimes huge fps drops for about 1-2 secs.

Anyone has any experience with that? What gives?

Hi, my CS2 on Debian 13 suddenly stopped working in fullscreen mode. The game only runs windowed or borderless fullscreen now. Tried toggling settings and adding -fullscreen in launch options, but no luck. Using KDE Plasma. Any quick fixes?

Hi guys, real fast question because I could not find any recent answer. I want to use a controller for playing some games (cult of the lamb for example) and I wanted to ask if I will find many problems by connecting with linux, or it just does not matter (have preference for the Xbox controller, but I don't care that much tbh). Just for reference, I'm on Linux mint and I have a Lenovo LOQ 15arp9.

could someone tell me any FIFA that works on linux. im on arch linux.

I've seen FIFA 17 on lutris, but i haven't bought it so, can i crack it?

I decided to write this guide and refer to it because there are still many people who keep asking the same questions over and over, and the answer is always the same.

Guide is for and based on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and derivates.

If you have a different distribution, the process may be the same or a little different.

Install the Steam package directly from Valve (for me here is a DEB package).

The reason to use the Valve version directly is to avoid potential bugs that the Flatpak or Snap versions suffer from. And the DEB version from the repository is older (currently DEB from repo 1.0.0.79 vs Valve Steam 1.0.0.84).

https://store.steampowered.com/about/

You will have the latest version of Steam. It will automatically install the necessary dependencies. It will guide you through the entire installation process step by step. As a bonus, you might have higher FPS. Or it will just be smoother. Not everything is visible in the FPS counter.

Then download the ProtonUp-QT and use it to install ProtonGExx-xx to Steam. Available as Flatpak or Appimage (requires a launch flag for the file (chmod +x or in GUI set it up)).

https://github.com/DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt

And as a bonus, enable NTsync in the kernel(for 6.14+). After that, Steam will use it automatically.

echo "ntsync" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules-load.d/ntsync.conf

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

I'm not sure if it's necessary to restart the OS.

If you need to play in a non-native resolution and the game is blurry, tweaking the game parameters in Steam will help. FSR is made by AMD, but i have Nvidia. No problem. (FSR_STRENGTH from 1 max blurry to 5 max quality, for my low 1680*1050 resolution in game is good 3)

WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=3 %command%

More here or find it in somewhere:

https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Wine-FSR

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/r8nxsz/difference_between_wine_fullscreen_fsr_proton_ge/

Next performance/workaround tips:

Desktop environments ...are for desktop environments for compositors. Turn these compositors off for fullscreen gaming or maybe too for windowed gaming. For KDE is there settings: Screen tearing - allow in fullscreen, turn it on. Its automated if fullscreen app is running. For Cinnamon, it's simply somewhere in the settings to turn off composition. Same for XFCE, etc. In GNOME, you cannot turn off composition. But there is a special solution that should also work automatically. Maybe. If you have any issues with rendering in GNOME, you can try switching GNOME from the new NGL renderer to the older GL. (I have never tested this solution.)

Steam recording If you happen to experience what happened to me, where after some time of playing the game your performance drops significantly, like after 20 minutes of playing, it is possible that Steam is performing something with screen recording in the background, even though you have it turned off in its settings. It then helped me: For game set launch parametr ld preload:

example:

LD_PRELOAD="" WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=3 %command%

But be careful. Some Steam settings (this!) will disable its overlay.

Ad Steam and Mangohud. Be careful that some applications have bugs. Do not enable the FPS limitation in Mangohud. Do not use the FPS counter in Steam. It reduces performance.

For Nvidia users: Somewhere I read that Steam is built for drivers 575. Given that 575 was just a development version. Now at this time, it's the 580 series. As a bonus, one can finally play without input lag on Wayland. I tested it on the Pascal generation. I have no idea about the newer ones.

For better microphone input is good Easyeffects (use Flatpak, my distribution in native package has off few must have plugins for him).

Not tested tips or unfinished instructions:

sudo sysctl kernel.split_lock_mitigate=0

split_lock_detect

options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0

gamescope

gamemode

etc

Happy gaming. Good luck and aim!

I do it already with .mp4 files through Hidamari, just linking it to the workshop folder, but the vast majority isn't .mp4 but .pkg. Is there any way to convert it, or any alternative to Hidamari that can play it?
I'm on Fedora with Wayland Gnome.

Hi all. I recently upgraded my main desktop from a Ryzen 5 2600X to a Ryzen 9 9950X as a late birthday present to myself, but it seems I didn't do enough research/preperation as unfortunately I'm experiencing some pretty severe performance drops when running GPU intensive apps (mostly games, sometimes even KiCAD).

Whenever I'm running a game that heavily utilizes the GPU, if I try to interact with any other program that uses the GPU (particularly web browsers with GPU acceleration, like Chrome, Firefox, or Brave) while the game is running, none of the windows/graphics in the other application will update. The window is still interactable (hovering over tabs works, closing tabs, etc) but nothing visually will update, like the program isn't able to get any time on the GPU to redraw the window.

Here are my machine specs:

• Motherboard: MSI PRO X870E-P WIFI
• CPU: Ryzen 9 9950X
• GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 Super
• RAM: 32GB DDR5 @ 6000 MT/s
• OS: Fedora 42, using kernel 6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64

None of these changes have made any impact, but so far I've tried:

• Updating BIOS to 2.A30 from MSI
• Added amd_pstate=guided to GRUB command line args
• Updated Nvidia Driver, currently using 580.82.09 from the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repository

From reading online, I believe this issue stems from the 9950X core parking as well as not using any type of custom affinity mask settings. If I understand the affinity masking correctly, would this be something I'd have to apply for every application I'd want to run to only use certain cores?