Every now and then I experience a hang on my 7900xtx. It freezes my screen for 10 or so seconds

Mar 19 10:19:22 desky kwin_wayland[1171]: kwin_wayland_drm: The main thread was hanging temporarily!

I am running Arch Linux with latest packages.

It seems more of a issue when running my oled @ 240hz. But I cannot confirm that, I have downed the hertz to 100hz to see if it comes back

OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (radeonsi, navi31, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.61, 6.13.7-arch1-1)

driverName = radv

https://r6fix.ubi.com/projects/RAINBOW6-SIEGE-LIVE/issues/LIVE-69842#contribution:db4b12a5-1663-4074-ae93-a831ba01a77b

There seems to be some traction with R6 in the last few days and that due to the new update coming to the game. I think its time to remind Ubisoft once again that there are people here that want to play the game on their linux system. I recommend you to either create your own or just upvote the one I created just to bring some more light to it.

There is another post like this from an older date but its been closed and archived.
https://r6fix.ubi.com/projects/RAINBOW6-SIEGE-LIVE/issues/LIVE-61903

So i red some articles about my issue, im playin a game on ubuntu, and the game runs smooth! Even better than it used to run in windows. But 30/40 min maybr an hour into the game the fps drop is insane, uplayabe.

My question is what do i have to do with:

LD_PRELOAD=""

How and where do i apply this ? Seems to be a temp fix untill they patch that up. Thank you in advance

I am seriously concerned and confused right now. So I just went back into Linux using Kubuntu 24.04 and somehow Steam games have treated me well. Now about my Epic Games, I am using Heroic Launcher as it is the only way to get that working. So far only few games actually worked on this unlike the last time i have tried it about 2 years ago and now both GTA V and Cyberpunk wont work. But now this is what concerns me. So i did workarounds to install VC Redist on the prefix of GTAV since that's where the Rockstar Launcher gets stuck whenever i am trying to run this game (Enhanced Edition) through winetricks. That somehow managed to get the rockstar launcher installation to go through. Just to get greeted with this:

GTA San Andreas?

I dont even own this!? And I tried installing and running this out of curiosity and boy it runs! I dont really understand how and why this happens.

Now my questions are.

1. How do I really get this properly working? I really wanted to run GTA V which i was able to do before

2. Now that I am running this GTA San Andreas I don't even own. Would I get banned at this?

TL;DR, I tried Installing GTA V through Heroic Launcher, I get GTA San Andreas Instead which I don't own.

If so, how do you do it?

Heya I'm a student and am writing a research paper on How Indie games can learn from the success of AAA games. And i would love it if you could fill out this form. Thank you!

Hello there, recently riddled ubuntu newb here. I am still having trouble connecting my machine to the internet. I dream to one day host a windows vm so I can game again. Any tips for less than ables? Much appreciated!

I just bought Dying Light and I was excited to play it, only to realise that my average FPS is 11-20. The frametimes are also horrible with slowdowns common. I was surprised since I'm reaching about above 30 FPS with stable frame rate and almost non existent slowdowns on Lutris. I'm asking this because I want to use Lutris's Wine GE for steam Compability. Is it possible? I am using Proton-GE 9-26.

CPU: A10-7860k, GPU- Radeon 7750 HD 1GB Distro: Bazzite

ik i can use obs but it dose not work with a keybind when i am in a full screen game if anyone has something to help me or a software like medal or outplayed cuz it will help me a lot i make videos on youtube and i need something to clip with cuz ofc i won't be recording 24/7

So I was having some trouble getting this to work with certain games when including the PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER=1 environment variable.

This is an issue which was referenced by the following post so I decided create a simple script which automatically swap out the dlls with a symlink.

Thought I'd just leave this here in case someone else finds it useful:

• https://pastebin.com/qg0aTCTs - dlss_fix
  • Temp. workaround which will prevent the game from "freezing" when DLSS is enabled
• https://pastebin.com/pTk7tibM - dlss_swap_dll
  • References dlss_fix on line 36 - remove it once Nvidia fixes their drivers
• https://pastebin.com/WTRq7HHH - dlss_debug
  • Enables an overlay on the bottom left corner of the screen by updating registry
• https://pastebin.com/uDrcigEa - dlss_debug_off
  • Updates the registry again in order to remove the overlay

Where to find the DLLs:

• https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-dll/
• https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-3-ray-reconstruction-dll/
• https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-3-frame-generation-dll/

Setup:

• run "echo $PATH" to find a suitable directory where you can place each script
• copy paste them into one of those directories - for me that was ~/bin
• update lines 31-33 in "dlss_swap_dll"
  • should reference the DLLs you just downloaded
• make each script executable
  • chmod +x ~/bin/dlss_fix
  • chmod +x ~/bin/dlss_swap_dll
  • chmod +x ~/bin/dlss_debug
  • chmod +x ~/bin/dlss_debug_off

Usage:

• Within steam client update your launch options
  • dlss_swap_dll %command%
• For games do not store their dlls within the working directory (usually not necessary).
  • DLSS_PATH=bin/x64 dlss_swap_dll %command%
• Verifying that it works
  • dlss_swap_dll dlss_debug %command%
• Disabling debug overlay
  • dlss_swap_dll dlss_debug_off %command%
• The script can also be used within Heroic
  • Click Game:Settings -> Advanced -> scroll down
  • add "dlss_swap_dll" beneath wrapper commands

Notes:

• I've only tested this out using GE-Proton9-26
• This script will create a backup of the original dlls before creating each symlink
  • You can safely delete the symlinks and rename the backup files to revert changes

So I have an Azeron Cyborg II and have recently tried to make the swap from Windows over to Linux. Everything has been rather smooth for the most part, save for one major thing. If I can get this working, then it will heavily weigh my thoughts of swapping over to "the penguin" for gaming. Is there any way to get the Cyborg II to work with Linux? I know in the past people have used AntimicroX to achieve what I am looking for, but when I try to use it, the software recognizes the device, but the device is completely unresponsive. So I turn the question to the community, is there maybe something extra that I have to do to get this functional, or am I just wasting my time with something like this? Again, I'm rather new to Linux, so please go easy with the comments.

I plan to use wabbajack or some other premade modlist.. but I cant even get Skyrim to generate the ini files/ etc its supposed to on the 1st launch. Any help getting mods to recognize Skyrim exists? Every tutorial I look at handwaves this step

i just bought Mass Effect : Legendary Edition on steam but everytime want to play it's always like this, any fix? I'm currently on NixOS right now

https://preview.redd.it/bezsys4m7lpe1.png?width=1531&format=png&auto=webp&s=f67dcf7730a1c076ef40a93d4203bcc0d9dda836

Specs in the video

So I have many questions and I searched around but for some reason there are sometimes conflicting information (maybe because some info is outdated) but I wanna switch to Linux, trying to move away from most not open-source software tbh and moving away from the big corporations, personal choice kinda thing.

So my questions are, how hard is it to install new and STABLE Nvidia drivers on Linux? I know that the new ones are available if you spend time learning how to install them, but that sounds like you need to do a work around which might cause the drivers to not be stable? If that's incorrect then please tell me.

I use a gaming laptop, I have it mostly on dGPU only mode, but sometimes I might wanna switch if I know I'll be away from the charger for a bit, I'm assuming there are no problems switching back and forth on Linux but I wanna make sure that there isn't.

What is the best distro to use for gaming? I know everyone says they all perform the same, I understand that, but on my old laptop a lot of the distros I tried were very unstable, including Ubuntu (which seems like the most used distro) was I just getting unlucky or is Linux just unstable in general? I also want a nice looking UI and something that makes it easier to do things, I can figure out how to use the terminal and everything, but I'd rather not have to use it if I can, just out of laziness tbh, if you have any advice on that it's be appreciated.

How hard is it to install games with anti-cheat? Or is it straight up impossible if they don't allow it themselves? I've seen people say it's impossible but some others said there are workarounds, just not sure about that and honestly it's probably not a big deal, I just wanna know what I'm committing to.

Is there DLSS support? I see so many people say DLSS 3 is not on Linux, I don't care for frame gen but if DLSS3 is not on here I fear DLSS4 isn't either and I use DLSS in almost all games I play (mostly DLAA) and I don't wanna miss out on the transformer profile. If DLSS at least works well and it isn't the old bad looking DLSS I'm fine with it, but I wanna know what the support is like

To end this post, I wanna just ask about your experiences with Linux as a main OS, I am a power user and I'm not sure how many features are missing, never actually bothered to use it as my main OS, but as a secondary OS or an OS for an old dying machine it was fine.

I don't believe i ever noticed this on windows. I now see little flickering white square artifacts in certain instances. Its not always the same types of areas but the same areas always exhibit the flickering. Telling me its game ad not hardware. Anyone else experience this? Only game iv ever seen this in.

Cachyos

KDE

7900xt/7800x3d

The Cable Matters DisplayPort to HDMI Adapter just had a firmware update.

With lots of debate over the cable and adapter, i ordered both and was unable to get them working but with the newest firmware update i was able to get the adapter to do 4k@120hz HDR ycbcr 4:2:2 no vrr sadly. This fixed my issue with them not working so at least its working on 4:2:2 so i can use my LG C2 on linux.