basically the title. Running a game via proton on steam uses dedicated gpu, but running a native one makes it use my integrated one. I don't want to disable my integrated one as I want to use it for stuff like the desktop and basic apps.

I have an nvidia 3050 laptop gpu and run kubuntu. this issue happens with non-steam games as well such as sober, which technically isnt its own game but idc. I have the 580 propritetary driver installed and have the PRIME profiles thing set to preformance, but that did nothing. I installed the drivers via KDE's built-in driver manager

Hello everyone! 👋

I've posted a few times here before and I'm excited to announce that my new indie psychological horror/CLI simulator game's demo is out!

Me and a small team of indie creators have been working on this for a while. The demo is now fully polished though it may receive 1 more update.

🖥️It's mostly a CLI simulator and psychological/bodyhorror type of game though in the demo there won't be much bodyhorror.

The full game will include cutscenes too, all with original music,art assests & voice acting! (Even now most music and sounds you'll hear are original: minus the main menu music, the type beep, message notification and heartbeat sound. Those are pixabay assets).

💾You can download it on Itch.io!

📝I'm open to feedback (especially about the Itch.io page I'm not sure if it's captivating enough yet)

There will also be a proper trailer video but that requires a lot of art and voice acting to be done so that won't come anytime soon.

I have this issue where UE4 and UE5 games running under VKD3D will randomly freeze for 5-10 seconds and then continue running as normal. For example, Stellar blade does this after 1-1.5 hours of gameplay. The rest of the system does not freeze, and is completely responsive, only the game freezes and recovers after a few seconds. I have observed this behaviour in other games such as Witchfire( UE4) and Void/Breaker(UE5). Games that are not made in the UE and not DX12 do not exhibit this behaviour. I don't have this issue in DOOM The Dark Ages(VULKAN), Red Dead Redemption 2(VULKAN), and Dying Light(DX11), and my play sessions in those games are 4-5 hours long, so the issue is either UE or VKD3D.

Setup:

Arch Linux

Hyprland

Ryzen 7 7800 X3D

32GB DDR5 6000MHz

RTX 5090

nvidia-open-dkms 580.95.05-1 driver

Proton experimental and GE 10-15, GE 10-20

Any idea what is causing this/how to fix it?

Hello! I've been having this inquiry for a while now, and is, will achievements work if I use MO2? I remember installing mods for Oblivion remastered (OBSE64 specifically) and since its a new executable, Steam does not recognize as you playing the original game, so the saves, play time and achievements wont count on the original unmodified game.

I've been feeling like a 5th fallout 4 playtrhough, but without mods is not the same; any input would be greatly appreaciated :D

Cyberpunk 2077. Don't think it happens in other games.

NVidia 2080ti. KDE Plasma, Arch Linux
Proton 9 (Also tried Experimental, same thing)
Happens both on X11 and Wayland session

Everytime I launch the game, it starts with lower FPS than expected. Then, after I alt+tab one time, and tab back in, I get a permanent 20+fps boost for the rest of the session.

Why is this happening?

I spent almost half an hour uninstalling and reinstalling wine and vinegar, restarting my laptop, nothing worked. Genuinely what am I missing? btw the open log button just closes the window, it doesnt do anything else.

Hi linux_gaming!

I'm trying to run Far Cry 5 that I've bought on Steam on my CachyOS install. The game is purchased through Steam, I'm not trying to run this via Lutris or anything like that.

When I boot the game, the button changes from Play to Stop and acts as if the game has booted, but nothing shows. I never see a Ubisoft Connect login prompt, or any sign that Ubisoft Connect has booted at all. I've tried reinstalling Ubisoft Connect with Protontricks into Far Cry 5s prefix and that doesn't work. I've tried Proton Experimental, the latest Cachy Proton, the latest Proton GE and nothing will work to get this game booting.

Is there currently a bug with Ubisoft Connect on CachyOS/Linux? I've checked the Proton Issues page for both Ubisoft Connect and Far Cry 5 and I can't see anyone reporting anything.

Any help would be much appreciated!

I know the performance wasn't that great on launch day with Mesa. And I know it has improved over time.

I'm curious If they've improved in the last few months since I haven't read any news on this lately. And how do they compare with Windows at the moment.

Sooo... HDR was going well at least with gamescope enabled... without I already had the same problem.

- Desktop HDR works fine (for example MPV HDR via `vo=gpu-next` + `waylandvk` looks perfect).

- Proton games appear **grey/washed** (SDR tone-mapped as HDR).

- Untilast week, running them with **Gamescope** fixed it; now after Plasma 6.5 update, it’s broken.

- Tried `DXVK_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1`, Proton-GE latest, Gamescope `--hdr-enabled` with/without `--hdr-itm-enable`, no joy.

- VRR toggle / fullscreen modes → no change.

Anyone else on NVIDIA Wayland seeing this after Plasma 6.5? Any combo (Gamescope build, Proton-GE, driver branch) restoring HDR? I can share `vulkaninfo`, DXVK logs, or KWin traces if needed.

I am not too knowledgeable on Steam on Linux, just a few games in a couple years sometimes.

I am on Arch Linux, audio device is Focusrite, and other games (I tested Thimbleweed) still sound fine.

I am running Easy Effects always, pipewire, Sway, fully updated everything on Arch. It feels like it's not reaching the right channel but this is beyond me. Anyone?

I am trying to use sober on my dell latitude e6410. It's old but there shouldn't be any problems running Roblox. Im using Linux mint and I just installed it. I'm getting this weird glitch, can anyone explain and help?

hi all

i know this has been brought up a few times already before but i cannot get this to work for the life of me.

i tried gamescope and the game just doesnt start

im on lmde and x11, gpu is 3070ti

(yes, i like 4:3)

I've a laptop with Nvidia GPU (T1000), which I'm using with Kubuntu 25.04. For background, I'm well experienced with Linux and this laptop+Kubuntu has been my general non-gaming daily-driver for many years now. I want create a low overhead, near-zero tinkering, couch+TV gaming setup. Mainly because if I've to tinker I'm too lazy or tired and just end up watching TV instead of gaming (been many years since gaming).

I've a bunch of games on Steam and EGS, few indie titles and few AAA of 5-10yrs ago; same games that worked on this laptop+Windows 4 yrs ago. I tried Steam and Heroic Games Launcher from flathub, and they were working but with lots of perf issues -- some games worked, some didn't. And Steam's own UI was very laggy. I do have the proprietary Nvidia driver installed.

If I setup Bazzite on a different partition, can I expect a significantly improved / seamless experience, or should I just spend more time debugging/tuning my Kubuntu setup? Or is this just perf overhead of Wine/Proton translation and I need to upgrade hardware?

If yes to Bazzite -- is there a pointer to setting up Bazzite on a 2nd partition alongside some other Linux distro? I found a bunch of Windows+Bazzite dual boot tutorials, but no Ubuntu+Bazzite tutorials and few articles/posts mentioning this is complex -- needs 2 EFI partitions or manual grub modifications etc.

I tried the commands SteamDeck=1 %command% using proton db experimental, still no luck. Any solution for this?

PC Specs:

CPU : i7 13700k

GPU: RTX 4080

RAM: 32DB 5800MT/s

OS : Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

I see it when interacting with bottom right taskbar icons and in steam and sometimes in my browser. Very occasionally I'll also see it in a game, although it's not very consistent. it's only ever in the bottom right quarter of the screen though, never anywhere else. I'm a relatively new Windows-abandoner running CachyOS with KDE Plasma. I've got a 7800x3d and an RTX 4080 Super. Main monitor is an Asus PG32UCDP. Thanks for any help!

https://reddit.com/link/1og2i9w/video/eoob63mpmbxf1/player

I have a lot of idle desktop games on Steam that I like to mess around with, but running any of them, the part that is supposed to be transparent and allow me to still interact with my desktop, is completely blacked out. Some of these games I can't interact with at all.

Anyone have similar games and managed to find a work around? I'm not dying to play them so if I can't fix it, it's no biggy, but I'd still like to use them.

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Ive already tried clearing the cache, dont recommend me that.

Have Raceroom on steam tried several protons but wont start, i push play, choose 1 of the 3 alternatives the nothing happens. Linux mint. Have Bottles, wine but i dont know wich file to try it with. Plz help. With windows 8 i could run Raceroom and other games like f4, Dying Light but since windows 10 my pc got to slow for games, windows 11 it just couldnt do anything, not even watch youtube, yes i tried shutting of background programs but windows just started it again. Plz help i need to practice tracks before my real race car is fixed. I now have Linux Mint.

Hi, hope you all are good:) linux semi-newbie here. I'm having horrendous stutters while trying to play any steam game. Emulators runs fine, games like Roblox (Sober) Runs fine, too, but anything I tried from steam so far (Metaphor, Rivals2, Dark souls 1-3) had random lag spikes. The spikes starts randomly, from even the start of the game or like 5-10 minutes in. I tried monitoring my I/o and everything seems ok. Switched my sata for an nvme and problem is still there. Idk what else to try and I really don't want to go back to windows. Idk if shaders are the problem because when I enter an old zone i still have frame pacing stutters.

Idk if it's relevant, but sometimes when the lag spikes starts, they don't stop until I change zone/character.

PLEASE please help, I have like 1 month trying to make things work here :(

Specs: Distro: CachyOS GPU: Nvidia GTX1070 EVGA CPU: Ryzen 3 3200g Ram: 16gb Disk: 1 - 128gb NVME, 1 - 480 Sata SSD, both Kingston