When I turn on the system, it shows me this.

the highest fps i get is 180 but throughout the entire game my fps is fluctuating massively, one moment it will be 160, then the next it will go down to 70. this doesn't just happen every so often, its happening throughout the entire game. only time i get consistent fps is when im on the menu. im on an rx 6650 xt with an i5-11400f on arch, i checked my gpu util and its only every at like 50%. i thought it could be a cpu bottleneck but i looked at my cpu and that's only at like 40%.
Ive also been experiencing this weird issue where every so often my game will randomly cut audio and the only way to fix it is to either restart the game or if that doesn't work, switch my audio device, restart the game and then switch it back. im using a kde Pipewire setup.

i already tried a few different launch options but nothing rly helped. here are my launch options right now:
LD_PRELOAD="" -sdlaudiodriver pipewire

So, I have a portable game on "/absolute/path/to/game/game.exe" when I run

wine "/absolute/path/to/game/game.exe" on "game" DIR it works (like it should), but running the same command on a different DIR (say the "to" DIR) it doesn't work!

I test it with other portable games I have, and they work (even with a bash script) someone knows why this is happening? and how to fix it?

I'm on Fedora 41 and Wine-staging 10.15

Thanks.

Can anyone help me with this 2006scape v3.3 by mige? I’m having an issue where when I put it onto pay to play world everything I do lags by a second like theirs a ping issue?

Since I switched to linux (Nobara), Steam keeps crashing regularly with the "Device memory was nearly full. Steam was using a lot of memory and has been terminated" error message. I never had this problem under Windows. What is the reason for it and how can I fix it? I am on a new pc with 16 gb ram.

So over the holidays I built a PC, choosing an MSI X870E Carbon WiFi as its motherboard. If you're considering buying one or have one this is probably a good read.

. . .

RGB. What a pain.

I installed openRGB using pacman, version 1.0rc2-5. It seemed to succesfully detect my motherboard (visible on the bottom of the program) but then failed to connect and just either crashed or did nothing. Package i2c-tools was installed previously and a kernel module loaded with sudo modprobe i2c-dev so I believe I did that correctly?

I compiled openRGB-git openrgb-git-0.9.1789.gb7230b6-1 from the AUR.

That finally seemed to do the trick and after a while I was able to get my JARGB headers working, but not all of my system's RGB...

Note that the M.2 "carbon" logo and the dragon logo do not appear to be addressable - perhaps some undocumented protocol is used for these?

BEWARE: in short if you want to control RGB using an MSI X870e Carbon Wifi, you might need to compile openRGB from source if you're on another distro that's not bleeding edge, plus, the motherboard's internal LEDs can't be addressed? --

My question: should I ever expect these internal motherboard RGB LEDs to work anytime soon or not? Thank you for reading.

I know the support list has it in there but does it lose any features? I haven't used razer for a few years and that was back on windows so I don't even know if open razer is any good or not?

I've tried everything, from installing nvcuda through protontricks, to using literally every single launch argument I could find. ( DXVK_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_NVIDIA_LIBS=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1) I have an NVIDIA GPU, so why this isn't working is beyond me. I've even installed Proton-GE! Any help would be so, so, SO appreciated. I will answer any questions as fast as possible if needed

EDIT: Before anyone asks, the game recognizes and is using my NVIDIA GPU

Greetings all.

This probably means nothing to the mass of users who already use Linux. But I thought I would just write down my experience and thoughts from jumping into Linux from windows. If it's too wordy I apologise.

I've been mostly on windows since I've been messing with computers when I was a teenager. 25 years ago now. (I feel old)

Had a small play with Linux back then but It never really amounted to much. Gave it a small go ages ago when Valve released a beta test of Team fortress 2 on Linux. I use it often for cloneing systems at work but other than that not much else.

Since Microsoft now want to keep forcing co pilot onto everyone, among other issues I have with Cloud services etc.. And since owning a steam deck I decided to just go for it. Reformatted my main drive on my pc and went for Kubuntu 24.04. As I very much like the clean KDE interface. And needed a Debian based install for some other programmes I use daily. I knew from looking that there are more gaming centric ones but I chose this one.

First thing I will say is I made things a lot more complicated for myself by trying to install the AMD drivers from their site. Was having tons of issues getting them to work, the refresh rate was all wrong. Couldn't change resolution etc. I wasn't aware that most distros seem to come with the MESA drivers inbuilt. (If that's the right term?) Which worked perfect once I realised.

Some hardware/software I have just doesn't want to work as intended. I've got a steel series headset that I can't get the chatmix to work. Though I've seen a post that suggests the next kernel updates may contain more drivers for them in the future.

As for games and such, pretty much a non issue. All of the ones I use and play seem to work flawlessly. A couple needed tweaks to install but otherwise just perfect. Both through Steam and Lutris. Oblivion remastered as an example. I was having tons of issues on Windows with it stuttering and not going past 40fps on 1080p. Now? It runs like butter at 4k. Easily past 60fps. I'm shocked at the performance increase, even with proton in the middle.

All in all I'm very happy with my current experience. I get not everything will be as smooth. But if anyone else is looking to make that jump away from Windows, honestly just go for it. And dive in. So far I have yet to find a reason to go back to my Windows install. 90% of what I need just worked. And the remaining took perhaps 1-2 hours of reading and experimenting.

I use MX Linux for home. They have some really great tools and I like the Debian ecosystem. I do know how to use the red hat ecosystem as well.

I also like to play games not necessarily on Steam. Think gog via lutris and roms along with games I purchased over years ago on CD DVD Blu-ray for the purpose of this post.

I also don't want to fiddle too much with anything when I want to play a game. Those days are over for me. Time is infinitely more valuable to me now.

So the question is: Am I going to save a tremendous amount of time in the long run by just dual booting to Nobara when I want to play games?

Sure, the research says one thing or the other although I do enjoy the empirical feedback from my buddies on Reddit and elsewhere. Thanks brodogs.

How can I lower debounce time to 0ms. I have changed it to 0ms on my mouse software but on linux I still cannot double click. I have tried this: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/ku6gth/disable_double_click_preventionlower_debounce_time/giql9b2/ and i worked on my laptop but not on my main computer.

Anyone familiar with the following issue? I installed bazzite on my bc250 It has the modified 3.00 bios but I run into an issue with the gpu temps..

As you can see it thinks the cou is at +104 all the time which makes me think the sensors Arent read correctly. This makes the CPU fan (which is somehow displayed as pump fan) run at full 100%

I used the Smokeless_UMAF universal amd form browser and set the fans to custom and somehow the fans did what they where supposed to do, only ramp up under load. Untill I reboot and the system hang untill I removed the cmos battery briefly.

Now the fans are spinning like crazy again..

Anyone knows what could be wrong?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently debating whether to keep my HP Omen Transcend 14 (Model 1fb1770ng) and switch to cachyos (Linux) full-time, or if I'm forced to stick with Windows due to performance constraints.

The hardware itself is a dream, but on Linux, I'm hitting massive artificial walls that don't exist on Windows.

The Specs: CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 255H GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5060

The Problem: On Windows, the Omen Gaming Hub does its job perfectly. In CPU-heavy titles (CS2, Paradox Grand Strategy games), the CPU happily draws up to 65W and the GPU up to 75W. The performance is great. As soon as I boot into Linux, the BIOS/Embedded Controller (EC) seems to fall back into a "Safe Mode": CPU: Hard cap at 30W (this absolutely kills lategame performance in Paradox titles like EU5) GPU: Seems capped at around 60W. In Windows the GPU goes up to 75W with Dynamic Boost. And the cpu goes up to 65W (when GPU isn't fully utilized.

How do you rate the probability of HP or the Kernel community providing a fix for this in the next 6–12 months (e.g., updates to hp-wmi)?

Does anyone have experience with older Omen models – were such EC limits ever fixed historically, or is HP generally a dead end for Linux power users? I really don't want to keep a device that runs with the handbrake pulled on my preferred OS, but the hardware is exactly what I need.

Thanks for your input!

I noticed many users are struggling with games freezing when entering fullscreen or losing focus (audio continues, video freezes), especially on Nvidia GPUs with Unreal Engine 4 titles (like Hellblade, Tekken 7, etc.).

It seems to be a compositor/driver issue where the GPU stops rendering when it thinks the game has exclusive fullscreen focus.

I solved this on Linux Mint by creating a wrapper script that launches a tiny, invisible 1x1 pixel terminal window and keeps it Always on Top. This tricks the compositor into keeping the pipeline active, preventing the freeze.

I created a GitHub repository with the script and instructions so it's easier to use/update.

👉 You can get the script here: https://github.com/tkaway27/linux-gaming-ghost-fix

Quick Setup:

1. Download ghost_runner.sh from the Release section.
2. Set Steam Launch Options to: /path/to/ghost_runner.sh %command%

It uses standard tools (wmctrl, x11-utils) and cleans up after itself when the game closes. Hope this helps anyone stuck with freezing games!

So uhh sober is trusted right? Like im not gonna get a virus. I am really new to Linux so i really dont know much about it.

I know that on Windows I should obviously pick the 5070 but I’m using Fedora KDE and I really don’t want to go back to Windows :(. The RTX 5070 costs 50$ more, should I still take it or the RX 7800XT?