Hi all,

I’ve been playing on the Xbox cloud for a while now through my pc running Linux but was wondering if there’s a way to connect this to the app? I know Xbox doesn’t support Linux so I don’t know if I’m just trying to do something that’s impossible?

TIA

I'm a bit out of the loop with Linux GPU drivers and the current state of compatibility with new features like 4x Frame Generation and the latest version of DLSS. I'm also under the impression games support Nvidia features more than AMD features. As someone who plays graphically demanding titles and likes Ray Tracing, should I continue with Nvidia or switch to AMD?

I’m looking for an easy way to install The Witcher 3 mods on Proton. Can you recommend a guide? The ones I’ve found so far are giving me a lot of trouble.
Thanks!

I've been using my RTX 3070 Ti since 2022, and overall, the experience hasn't been great. I'm running a 3440x1440p monitor, and at that resolution, the 8GB of VRAM just isn't enough. Most games are limited to low or medium textures, and over time, the VRAM fills up, leading to performance degradation—stuttering, slowdowns, and eventually requiring a game restart to make things smooth again.

For example, Resident Evil 4 Remake runs fine as long as the texture setting is kept at “High (1GB).” But if the game ever touches 8GB VRAM usage, performance instantly tanks, dropping to a stuttery mess at 15–30 FPS from that point forward.

I now have the chance to trade the card for an RX 6700 XT. While I know it's a bit slower than the 3070 Ti in raw performance, the 8GB VRAM on the 3070 Ti has become a significant bottleneck in my use case. On top of that, without access to GWE tools for undervolting on Linux, the 3070 Ti draws up to 290 watts and hits 83°C under load.

People often mention that the 3070 Ti is better at ray tracing, but at 1440p on Linux, enabling RT pushes VRAM usage past 8GB and causes the same problem—so I always have it turned off. The only real advantage the card offers me is DLSS 4 support.

Given all this, does trading it for the 6700 XT sound like a reasonable move?

As title say, I'm looking for any COD like game (arcade play) to play online on Linux. Any suggestions are welcome!

I was attempting to play the 2020 remake of Myst through Steam, and there are several areas in the game that rely heavily on videos playing in-game. When I tried to play, all of these areas simply showed a white box, no video. So I did some digging, and tried a few things. From what I was able to find, it seems that it was missing codecs, and most people had them sorted out by simply using Proton-GE, so I switched to that, and still had the same issue. I downloaded ProtonTricks (from the flatpak so it was the most recent version, and also ensured my WineTricks was up to date as well), and attempted to install all the codecs shown available there. I got a few errors specifically trying to install icodecs, which are as follows:

Checksum for /home/kingjexe/.var/app/com.github.Matoking.protontricks/cache/winetricks/icodecs/codinstl.exe did not match, retrying download

SHA256 mismatch!

URL: http://www.cucusoft.com/codecdownload/codinstl.exe

Downloaded: 6dc9c7fc93bb488bb0520a6c780a8d3c0fb5486a4711aca49b4c53fac7393023

Expected: 0979d43568111cadf0b3bf43cd8d746ac3de505759c14f381592b4f8439f6c95

This is often the result of an updated package such as vcrun2019.

If you are willing to accept the risk, you can bypass this check.

Alternatively, you may use the --force option to ignore this check entirely.

Continue anyway?

This gave me a Yes and No option, so I chose Yes, but I was ultimately met with

Note: command cabextract -q -d /mnt/23f12f95-a228-4225-b387-247590c36c86/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/1255560/pfx/dosdevices/c:/windows/temp/codinstl/ /home/kingjexe/.var/app/com.github.Matoking.protontricks/cache/winetricks/icodecs/codinstl.exe returned status 1. Aborting.

At this point I'm not sure what else to do. Even after everything I still have white boxes where there should be video. I unfortunately just don't have enough knowledge to figure out what exactly is going wrong and what to fix.

Detailed system info follows:

System:

Kernel: 6.8.0-60-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: MATE 1.26.0 wm: marco

dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Machine:

Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A78L-M/USB3 v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>

BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2101 date: 12/02/2014

Battery:

Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M705 serial: <filter> charge: 20% status: Discharging

Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech MK700 serial: <filter>

charge: 70% (should be ignored) status: Discharging

CPU:

Info: 8-core model: AMD FX-8320 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Piledriver rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB

L2: 8 MiB L3: 8 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 1894 high: 3515 min/max: 1400/3500 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1406 2: 1406

3: 2309 4: 2310 5: 3515 6: 1400 7: 1404 8: 1406 bogomips: 56247

Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3

Graphics:

Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 535.230.02

pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 empty: DVI-D-1,DVI-I-1

bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:13c2

Device-2: Sunplus Innovation USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo

bus-ID: 2-5:3 chip-ID: 1bcf:284d

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 compositor: marco v: 1.26.0 driver: X: loaded: nouveau

unloaded: amdgpu,fbdev,modesetting,vesa failed: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3280x1080 s-dpi: 96

Monitor-1: DP-0 pos: primary,left res: 1920x1080 dpi: 102 diag: 547mm (21.5")

Monitor-2: HDMI-0 pos: right res: 1360x768 dpi: 216 diag: 184mm (7.2")

OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.230.02

direct render: Yes

Audio:

Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK M4A785TD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel

bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383

Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel

v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fbb

Device-3: Sunplus Innovation USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo

bus-ID: 2-5:3 chip-ID: 1bcf:284d

Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.8.0-60-generic running: yes

Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes

Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes

Network:

Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK P8 series

driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e800 bus-ID: 04:00.0

chip-ID: 10ec:8168

IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Drives:

Local Storage: total: 1.46 TiB used: 1.06 TiB (72.7%)

ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: PNY model: CS900 240GB SSD size: 223.57 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s

serial: <filter>

ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Crucial model: CT120M500SSD1 size: 111.79 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s

serial: <filter>

ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST3250820AS size: 232.89 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s

serial: <filter>

ID-4: /dev/sdd vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 size: 931.51 GiB

speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>

Partition:

ID-1: / size: 218.51 GiB used: 164.74 GiB (75.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5

ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 4 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1

Swap:

ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile

USB:

Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001

Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID

driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 046d:c52b

Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002

Device-1: 2-5:3 info: Sunplus Innovation USB 2.0 Camera type: Video,Audio

driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1bcf:284d

Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002

Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001

Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001

Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001

Hub-7: 7-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001

Hub-8: 8-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s

chip-ID: 1d6b:0002

Hub-9: 9-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003

Hub-10: 10-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s

chip-ID: 1d6b:0002

Hub-11: 11-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003

Sensors:

System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: 37.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 53 C

Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2428 case-1: 1979 gpu: nvidia fan: 0%

Power: 12v: 11.95 5v: N/A 3.3v: 3.27 vbat: N/A

Repos:

Packages: 2856 apt: 2800 flatpak: 56

No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list

1: deb https: //dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-jammy.list

1: deb http: //ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu jammy main

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport

2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse

3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse

4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list

1: deb https: //deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free

No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-beta.list

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-stable.list

1: deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https: //repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam

2: deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https: //repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq-focal.sources

1: deb [arch=amd64 i386] https: //dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu focal main

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq-jammy.sources

1: deb [arch=amd64 i386] https: //dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy main

Info:

Processes: 275 Uptime: 5m Memory: 15.6 GiB used: 2.1 GiB (13.5%) Init: systemd v: 249

runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12/9 Client: Unknown python3.10 client inxi: 3.3.13

I just bought Skyrim for the first time on GOG. I know i'm about 12 years late lol but can someone point me to a guide on how to mod this game I launch it using heroic Thanks

I'm a big fan of "the last spell", but on my current machine the game runs fairly poorly (https://steamcommunity.com/app/1105670/discussions/1/601903412169188006/). Oddly, my machine should be more than capable of running the game very well, based on anecdotes from other players with much weaker PCs by raw stats.

This makes me curious; are there good, comprehensive ways to profile or measure for the load on other parts of my PC (e.g. motherboard busses, ram read/write) that could show me my true bottleneck?

This isn't a strictly Linux-specific post, but I'm running mostly on Linux nowadays.