Hey everyone, I wanted to share my experience with Space Marine 2 on Linux regarding the known DX12 GPU drop that happens after roughly 30–40 minutes of gameplay.

Setup

Distro: Arch Linux

Kernel: Zen

GPU: RTX 3060 TI 535.113.01 drivers

CPU: Ryzen 9 7900x3D

The game gradually reduces GPU usage over time, causing FPS to drop from around 90-100 to 40-50. This behavior doesn’t appear on Windows and has been reported by many users on ProtonDB.

I tried the latest CachyOS Proton build, as well as many others, such as the latest GE, and various steam versions, while keeping my current kernel. I played the game for over an hour to see if there was any improvement.

All the proton versions behaved the same, except for CachyOS which gave a small improvement, early session FPS stayed around 60, with inital drops to 40 tho less frequent.

GPU usage still dips slightly after extended play, but less dramatically than before.(can't give exact percentages)

I want to see if other users had similar issues, and if someone came up with a solution, because protonDB feedback still reports issues. P.S. I used different launch commands as well none of them helped, I'll list them below PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 SteamDeck=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 Thanks for the help in advance

I have a machine with an B570 in and as yet I've not found a distro that works nicely on it, I've tried CachyOS, Garuda and Bazzite and have no end of problems with games crashing, flat out refusing to launch or weird glitches (Kind of expected the last one tbh).

This was with Deus Ex Mankind divided (which ran fine on my steamdeck) , Spyro Remastered, Revenge of the Savage planet and Divinity 2 original sin (which wouldn't even launch).

I did wonder if it was the motherboard as it's one of those weird MODT aliexpress specials with an ES CPU in (Roughly a 12900H), but I ended up installing windows on it yesterday and it's behaved itself since then.

Wondering if there are other people here using the B570 and if they're having better luck with it.

This is my TV machine that I built fairly cheaply for some couch gaming without resorting to streaming the games., my other machine is a 7745HX (Minisforum bd770i) and 7700XT running bazzite and most games "Just work" on that.

I suppose i could try swapping the video cards round at some point then putting Linux back on that machine to see if it's stable with an AMD gpu (would help rule out the motherboard/cpu hitting some bug/issue that windows doesn't)

Mostly posting to see if there are other people running B570/B580 cards and if there's a Distro/Mesa version combo that seems to be stable.

Edit:

I also haven't tried it in Linux since installing windows (the windows arc driver did update some firmware on the card I think)

Hello folks, I'm running a 9070XT with a 5700x3d on CachyOS with the latest drivers installed. Everything has been running beautifully.

Except Starfield... when I load a game or create a new one, it gets hung up on the loading screen and my system becomes unresponsive. Eventually it becomes responsive again and I can Alt+Tab and close the game. I am tried turning off on and FSR.

When I installed the game I did originally us "PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 game-performance %command%"

I've deleted the command and I get the same result.

Anyone have any suggestions on how I can get Starfield working?

So my windows drive corrupted and is unrecoverable so using this opportunity I want to fully switch to Linux. I've tried arch fully setup but i didn't like maintaining it 24/7 also mint but it's just bland kbuntu also but I had drive issues cahcy os a little but not enough for an opinion nyarch as a joke was alr . I'm currently considering endeavour, cahcy, nobara, guard, uhh that's it if

P.s. I have a nividia gpu

Iv basically had it with windows and ready to fully commit to switching. Iv dabbled with mint running it on my laptop. I'm wondering if I should stick with mint or go to its roots of debian or go with arch instead mainly since steam is running off of arch. I really don't want to be distracted hoping and I really just want a system that just works and no updates braking things every two minutes like with windows. System will primarily used for tipical daily usage, gaming, obs and possibly hosting game servers but I'll primarily use a different machine for that. Main system is on am5 with nvidia rtx gpu so more modern hardware

Questions 1 should I use debian or arch based primary for gaming I know arch has more frequent updates that could cause stability problems but since debian doesn't do as many updates would that mean say a game comes out has a problem do to say driver or what ever would it take longer for a fix to come out.

Why did steam go with arch instead of debian and for game development would a game run better or one version then another say running a win 95 game on win xp there may be bugs amd such since the game was intended to be on 95.

What is the best way to install software, drivers, updates. I know a good portion is in the terminal but I know some distros have a one stop shop for software similar to what you would find on a app store. What would be the downside to doing something like that. Would updates for those software be delayed since it wpuld have to wait for the update then for somone to update in the store there was a update for you to update it. Or is that incorrect.

What are some good practices and things to avoid. For example not google searching a code and how to know what it really does and if it would brake the system. Best ways to update. Best ways to set restore points and such.

First some tech specs out of the way:

• OS: Bazzite
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600x
• GPU: Intel Arc A770 16 GB VRAM
• RAM: 32 GB DDR4
• Mesa: 25.2.6

Previously, earlier this year, I had issues like these with Oblivion Remastered. Since then a lot of updates have arrived on Mesa and I've been able to play UE5 games... relatively... well. At least, the graphical issues don't exist anymore. Arc Raiders runs particularly well.

So I decided to reinstall Oblivion Remastered and see if that works without visual problems. But now I can't even launch the game properly!

It consistently crashes 2 or so minutes after launching the game (any Proton version it's supposed to work on, so from 9.0-4 and up, including Proton GE). So this happens when the shader precaching hits around 48%.

At first I thought this was an issue with UE5 shader caching, but after it crashes in the middle of shader precaching it can launch into the game's main menu where... it crashes after about 2 minutes.

This is not an immediate crash; after about 2 minutes the game freezes (the game specifically. My system still works fine), it stays frozen for about a minute, and then it crashes with a UE crash report window.

I've been trying to look for solutions, but I'm only finding reports from earlier this year where the game would crash after an hour or at specific points in the game, nothing that is similar to what I'm experiencing.

I have recently switched from Windows to Pop!_OS. Is there any way to get pirated games from repack websites such as Fitgirl to work on Linux? As far as I know, They’re Windows-specific and I am completely new to Linux and its ecosystem. I would really appreciate your help.

I recently started using Linux mint, for the past weeks I've been dual booting with windows 10. I had just been testing Linux out so I had the majority of my disk space with windows until last night i decided to delete all my games off windows and give the disk space to Linux. But I'm having a problem with Marvel Rivals, soon after the fight breaks out in a match my screen freezes then my monitors shut off, and after a few seconds they turn back on but the display looks corrupted (like the image it froze on but a grid of hue shifted squares, red, blue, and green. and a ton of random black pixels everywhere.) then my Linux desktop will crash and ill have to sign back in.

I tried to look into and saw that it might be a GPU hardware issue, but it was working fine on windows. some extra info: I have an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card, and I'm launching from steam which automatically downloaded proton experimental when I downloaded marvel rivals. I also heard that when moving partitions around on your hard drive to extend the volume of a Linux partition might break things, so could that be affecting anything?

Any idea what could be happening? I've tried to run it through Faugus and Lutris unsuccessfully.

Hey everyone! 👋

I got tired of manually creating .desktop files and looking for icons for my non-Steam games (Lutris, Heroic, etc.). So, I built gde-creator.

It searches the Steam database to fetch app icons and metadata, then generates a launch shortcut for your system. It works perfectly with launchers like Rofi, Wofi, or Vicinae, so you can launch your games instantly without touching the terminal.

You can download it here (GitHub)
or download it from AUR:
yay -S gde-creator

If you have any issues or feedback I will greatly appreciate it!

Hello, here is the problem: I can't manage to launch the game The Alter. I'm running Garuda (OS), yet according to the Proton website, it seems to be working. I have tried other kernels, but still nothing. Has anyone successfully managed to run it? If so, could you please share your configuration? Have a great day, everyone.

I have an issue with my PC locking up when playing Rocket League. Gradually when loading into games, memory usage increases until it hits 98+% and locks up my PC.
The only solution I have now is to restart the game on time before it hits too high.

Sometimes this freeze gets sped up dramatically when trying to stream on Discord while i'm at 80+%.

Distro: Kubuntu.

Help or insight much appreciated.

just switched to linux mint , installed sober , but it lacks some things that can only be provided by lucem-like apps , safe or risky ?

Hi folks, running Linux mint 22.2 with steam and was playing Anno 117 pax romana a couple of weeks ago but today it does not start, well, I start it, but then the icon in Steam goes back to 'Start' after a couple of seconds. I tried running 'steam --reset' in terminal, rebooting and starting steam in terminal but can't see anything obvious, ideas?

chdir "/home/mats/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Anno 117 - Pax Romana"

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/mats/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/mats/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/mats/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/mats/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/mats/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Game Recording - would start recording game 3274580, but recording for this game is disabled

Adding process 3323 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3324 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3325 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3326 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3437 for gameID 3274580

fsync: up and running.

Adding process 3438 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3439 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3440 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3443 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3445 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3448 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3457 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3462 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3473 for gameID 3274580

WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.

WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.

Adding process 3499 for gameID 3274580

Adding process 3527 for gameID 3274580

pid 3441 != 3440, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=3274580]

Removing process 3527 for gameID 3274580

Removing process 3499 for gameID 3274580

Edit: I have played it 56 hours but not for a week or two

So I figured out how to run GMod (via GModCEFCodexFix), but I have this one problem where when I tried to walk or sprint I can't simultaneously turn my camera with my trackpad (I can only do that with arrow keys which I find frustrating since I can't have fun with Nextbot chases)

I'm the owner of a Steam Deck, and I've been playing fine until now, but I wouldn't call myself very savvy of the whole procedure. Normally, for windows games that have to be installed, I add the installer on Steam, execute it, then add the .exe of the installed game to Steam, and it generally works.

However, I've been trying to get Pokémon TCG Live to work, and after choosing the language it redirects me to the browser to login. If I do that on the browser, the game doesn't recognize that. I get the prompt from the browser to choose an app for xdg-open, but nothing worked of what I tried.

Does anyone have a solution? I've seen other threads about the game, but they seem to be stuck on a different login error (Error 15), so I'm not sure if I'm skipping a step somewhere even.

I use a lot of windows applications and cycle them a lot, a store-like launcher isn't very efficient to me, PortProton is great, but I would like to have a second option, specially because PortProton only opens one thing at a time.