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Not registering three way buttons?

17 Jan 2026 - 2:10pm

Any help appreciated! It seems that it registered the two three way switches incorrectly. One of the positions for the second is for example only possible with the correct position of the first switch?

submitted by /u/OutrageousRope88
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There's any way to use FSR4 on a RX 5700 XT?

17 Jan 2026 - 1:43pm

I would like to know if i can use FSR4 on Monster Hunter Wilds for example on a older RDNA1 GPU.

submitted by /u/Snoo_73218
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Performance regression under Gnome compared to KDE. Causes?

17 Jan 2026 - 1:15pm

Hello!

I've recently wanted to try Gnome once again because, honestly, I prefer the defaults all around but I'm having a huge blocker right now due performance regressions under Gnome.

I'll use Fallout 76 as a reference point, since its a DX11 game and it should not present the performance penalty of DX12 with Nvidia.

9800X3D

4K Display with HDR @ 120fps and VRR

RTX5800

Overall, under KDE, I report a pretty smooth experience (having disabled the vars on the game to allow me achieve unlocked framerate), and mostly, with the correct settings I have 110-120 fps locked most of the time and very stable frametimes.

Once I changed to Gnome session, under the exact same conditions, area, and settings, I have a lot more stuttering, the frames drop from 110-120 to 80-90, and I see the frametime showing a behavior most of the time, that feels like some tripple buffering or some other sort of attempting to vsync.

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1

ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1

Gnome right now has VRR, and I'm always below the max framerate of my monitor, this should not happen at all.

Has the community ever found performance differences under Gnome compared to KDE? Did I find an edge case bug somewhere?

Look at that frametime go! It should be flat like it was on KDE

submitted by /u/felixwraith
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Need help fingering out why my pc performance went down after I switched to linux Zorin os.

17 Jan 2026 - 12:53pm

I switched over to linux to improve my pc's performance but now I can't play games as well as I used to. I am new to linux. I downloaded Wine so I could continue to play Windows games but it looks like my performance went down

submitted by /u/chrisyoutoo
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Arc Raiders is looks grainy on Linux but on Windows is normal

17 Jan 2026 - 12:48pm

I've tried several versions of Proton, display settings, and the problem persists. I'm using the exact same game settings on Windows and Bazzite.

Appears to be type Anti-aliasing I thought it was a problem, but I've already tried cinematic and low settings and it's still the same.

I'm not that much of a "noob" when it comes to Linux. I know what I'm doing most of the time, but I can't find anything about the problem online.

If anyone can help, I would appreciate it.

I haven't tested if I have the same problem with other games.

submitted by /u/magnumelasticdong
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Low system utilization

17 Jan 2026 - 12:43pm

When playing some games like cs2. my cpu and gpu is at ~40% I have ran commands for my cpu and gpu to get them in performance mode but only helps a little bit. With that I have very low fps. Especially on cs2 on the first couple of rounds the fps is normal and then drops. I have checked and the system is using the correct gpu.

I run the following launch options: LD_PRELOAD="" PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 gamemoderun %command% -high -threads 16 -vulkan -novid -nojoy +fps_max 0 -refresh 144 -forcenovsync +mat_queue_mode 2

System specs:Operating System: Fedora Linux 42

KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0

Qt Version: 6.9.3

Kernel Version: 6.18.4-100.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics

Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Manufacturer: LENOVO

Product Name: 82GN

System Version: Lenovo Legion 5 17ARH05H

submitted by /u/D3tect1v3
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Arc Reiders is grainy and a slight blur not present in Windows

17 Jan 2026 - 12:31pm

I've tried several versions of Proton, display settings, and the problem persists. I'm using the exact same game settings on Windows and Bazzite.

Appears to be type Anti-aliasing I thought it was a problem, but I've already tried cinematic and low settings and it's still the same.

I'm not that much of a "noob" when it comes to Linux. I know what I'm doing most of the time, but I can't find anything about the problem online.

If anyone can help, I would appreciate it.

I haven't tested if I have the same problem with other games.

submitted by /u/magnumelasticdong
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Lilium HDR tone mapping with gamescope

17 Jan 2026 - 12:28pm

Hi!

I have read that people have success with these gamescope shaders: https://github.com/sharkautarch/GamescopeShaders

When I run

gamescope --hdr-enabled --reshade-effect lilium__tone_mapping.fx --reshade-technique-idx lilium__tone_mapping -- glxgears

I get errors

[gamescope] [Error] gamescope_reshade: Couldn't find texture with name: V__ReShade__BackBufferTex [gamescope] [Error] gamescope_reshade: Couldn't find texture with name: V__ReShade__DepthBufferTex

From what I gather, depth buffer is not yet supported on Linux at all. But then, how can these shaders be used at all?

Any pointers?

Thanks!

submitted by /u/progyam
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GE-Proton or regular Proton and .net4x - help?

17 Jan 2026 - 12:02pm

Is there a working procedure to get .net45 or .net48 installed on a modern Proton version like 10.x?

Recent proton versions seem to have a hardcoded barebones .net/mono setup with symlinks which prevents installation of the full MS .net releases or even the net4x options via protontricks.

I remember that older protons had some kind of hack to set the OS to win7, remove mono and then install the .net from the MS offline installer. But this does not seem to work anymore and you are left with a broken and non-bootable proton prefix.

submitted by /u/Juppstein
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Can't run Kenshi on HDD

17 Jan 2026 - 11:48am

I've had kenshi for a long time and been playing it on and off. Few months ago I got couple other games that I play regularly but didn't have much space on my SSD, so i move some games to my 1TB HDD since those games are more demanding and actually do require SSD to run. Kenshi being one of the games i don't play often was one of the ones that i moved.

I been feeling some nostalgia lately and wanted to hop on Kenshi. My issue is that the game won't even launch. I can understand for a game like BG3 to not run because it is stated that SSD required, but Kenshi? This game can run on a potato PC. Furthermore, I have Genshin Impact installed on the same HDD and it runs fine, loading screen time is treacherous but it actually plays.

I've used the commands from ProtonDB site and tweaks for Kenshi but game simply won't. Is HDD really not supported or there's some tweak I'm missing?

Edit: Will format the HDD to a linux friendly filesystem format. Was not aware of the impact of filesystem format. Thanks for the assistance.

submitted by /u/fallen_Tarnished
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Roblox Macro

17 Jan 2026 - 11:29am

I saw a post here that recommended input-remapper, but I am not able to understand how to properly use it, and it doesn't look like it was ment for this type of usage. Is there any other software that I can use for Roblox afk Macro on Linux?

submitted by /u/BasilDoesMinecraft
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Got a good deal on an obscure laptop with decent specs, only concern is how to change power modes under Linux

17 Jan 2026 - 10:53am

Hi,

Found a good deal for the following laptop, it's a Thunderobot Radiant 15 (i7 13650HX, RTX 4060). I believe it is based of some variant of Clevo which is a well known OEM. It uses an app that is called Control Center for Windows, that is used for things like changing power modes (Quiet, Entertainment, Performance).

https://preview.redd.it/f0qk7m77tvdg1.png?width=790&format=png&auto=webp&s=6346b38233a08b7ea5e440f7e5b267a8dfbaa9a2

From my experience with other gaming laptops (Like Acer and their Nitrosense), these settings can really affect performance, some of them even cap the power limits of the GPU, and i am afraid that with no Linux version i will be stuck on a mode where the hardware is limited. There is a chance that the software is just a rebrand of the Clevo Control Center, but i can't know for sure.

Any suggestions? I know some would say to get a known brand laptop instead, but the deal i found locally is hundreds of dollars cheaper than anything remotely similar.

submitted by /u/International_Dot_22
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Proton Environment Variables

17 Jan 2026 - 10:24am

Just wanted to share this since I thought it was really neat. At least in Proton GE, you can add shorthands for your ENV vars for proton to clean up your launch commands.

So instead of:

PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_DLSS_INDICATOR=1

You could instead just use:

PROTON_ADD_CONFIG=wayland,hdr,dlsshud,dlss

The full list of shorthands that I know of are found here

submitted by /u/horriblesmell420
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i need help

17 Jan 2026 - 10:18am

can any one help me to conect my joystek in linux ??

submitted by /u/ghazwani1
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Fixing Matchmaking Region in Soulcalibur VI

17 Jan 2026 - 9:59am

In case someone else runs into the same problem as me, I'll post what fixed it for me.

I live in Australia, but for some reason I was forced into the North America region in this game. From what I can tell, this game determines your matchmaking region based on what region you've set yourself in the control panel in windows. This doesn't seem to do that based on the region you've set on Linux. I've done some frantic searching through various Wine and Proton forums, and this is what I've found worked for me on Ubuntu 24.04

In launch options, i typed

HOST_LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8 %command%

Substitute in your own locale/language code. I have to guess that proton defaults to en_US which was why it was putting me in north america. I don't know if this will work for people who want to play in a language that isn't an official one of their country, but I hope that this will at least help english speakers outside of North America.

edit: formatting fix soz

submitted by /u/f1ngerless
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