I have two PS4 controllers and they're not being recognized as PS4 controllers in games; they always show up as Xbox controllers. They used to be recognized normally, but now they've stopped. Can anyone help me?

Hey everyone, been running Windows 11 25H2 since I got my new rig (RX 9070 XT + R5 7500F). Overall it’s been fine, but the instability is getting to me… random black screens during games with driver resets, browser issues, you know the drill. It’s annoying as hell sometimes.

Yeah, I’ve stripped down my Windows install pretty hard - used a bunch of tweakers to cut out all the bloat just to keep RAM usage down. But idk…

So I’m thinking about switching to Linux. My main priority is gaming, minimal system conflicts, and getting FreeSync/VRR and HDR working properly. I’ve been eyeing CachyOS since I tested it on my old laptop a while back and it gave me the best fps out of what I tried.

Main question - if I’m playing games without ray tracing (don’t really care about RT), just like to sit at 1440p ultra settings - am I gonna lose much fps on the 9070 XT switching to Linux? My guess is the difference would be within margin of error, maybe even slightly more stable framerate-wise? What about latency though - does Proton and the whole compatibility layer add noticeable input lag, or is it pretty much imperceptible?

What’s the deal with FSR 4? Does it work well here? I heard there’s a launch parameter that enables it - does it perform the same as on Windows?

As for the new FSR Redstone, I honestly have no idea if that even works on Linux right now, and I probably won’t need it anyway.

Last thing - HDR and VRR. How’s the support looking? Is HDR properly supported across the board in late 2025, or still being implemented? And VRR - any issues with it anymore or is it smooth sailing?

Also just to add - I mostly play roguelikes, don’t really touch AAA or story games that often, but ill get around to playing some eventually. Right now though I’m just sticking to regular games.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Would appreciate hearing from anyone who’s dealt with any of this stuff or has solid info on it. Thanks​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​!!!

so when i want to install faugus launcher, he added two installation method which is native (done via dnf for me) and flatpak. whats the difference between it? where i should pick? i think theres no performance difference, probably.

i have some old CD games that i install using lutris

since i recently bought a new computer i reinstalled linux but i just moved my game drive into my new system

the problem is that my games on lutris dont have the artwork, i could download the images and add the manually but i want to know if lutris can do it automatically

it does it automatically when installing a game

Edit:

i found the solution, right click on the game and then configure

below each image is a button, click that to set the image automatically

I just installed sober on linux mint and not even my cursor loves at 10 fps. Can anyone tell me whats wrong?

Yes, it's a DX12 game so some nvidia tax is expected, but ~45% is a bit wild, no? Event tho it shows 120+fps it feels much worse as the frame times or so inconsistent and get even worse in combat. If I could get to run smoothly at 60fps I'd be happy, but I can't even get that.

It has a gold rating on protondb so I guess it should run better? I did try the launch commands people posted there but nothing made the game run better or more stable. I also tried different proton versions and kernels but unfortunately no improvement.
I just don't know what else to try. Any ideas?

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (16) @ 5.05 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti [Discrete]
Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64
Linux 6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64
KDE Plasma 6.5.4
nvidia (open source) 580.119.02

is there any gba emulators i can run on a 32 bit linux distro os i cant find one :(

it has antiX OS btw

i want to try using linux for the first time as i just brought a new laptop... im wondering which linux should i use since i want to use it for gaming and school stuff (sorry for bad english)

Hello Guys, i am Currently building a Linux PC for my family to use as a family gaming console, there should run a few emulators on with older games and maybe some current low spec titles, what os would you reccomend to me?
I am currently looking at
- Bazzite
- Cashy OS
- Pop!_OS
- Steam OS

Hey guys, so I'm running Fedora with KDE using RTX 3060TI as my gpu. However there's this thing, frame pacing, so I have to use gamescope/mangohud every time for a new game. I was wondering if there's another way, perhaps a DE that will automatically switch to x11 for games, or have a gamemode or something like that. Perhaps a different solution to that. Any help/suggestion is welcome, thanks in advance

I am a long time Linux user, I usually run Openbox but this past year I have been trying out XFCE, the one major glaring issue I have is that apps either A. open on the monitor my mouse is on, or B. reliably open on my secondary monitor. I have set my main monitor to be the "primary" monitor through every setting that I can find, but the issue still persists.

I know there must be some simple setting I am missing somewhere but I have searched high and low and cannot seem to find the setting to fix this.

Hello I am a Debian 13 Trixie user who tried to install NVIDIA drivers by following this guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1jyzgrx/the_correct_way_to_install_newer_nvidia_drivers/

(yes I know that this creates a kind of Frankendebian) but after rebooting I got the following message during booting:

failed to start NVIDIA persisteced.service -Nvidea persistence daemon during boot

I tried setting "nomodeset" during boot to get access to my desktop and fix the issue but it didn't work.

Help what should I do next

So, as the title indicates, I'm having an issue with certain parts of games going black and rendering them unplayable once my PC has been sitting idle long enough for the monitor to shut down or the PC to lock itself. Logging out of the KDE session and then back in appears to fix it.

I've made a few posts about this issue before. I had thought that running updates or picking a different version of Proton and rebooting was what was fixing the problem. I was mistaken. Apparently, it was only rebooting the machine that was temporarily solving the problem. As, if I rebooted the machine without running updates, the game would work. That led me to believe that there was more to the issue than I thought, so I tried just logging out and back in and that also solves the problem.

Until the machine sits idle again. I can boot the rig up, play a game for a couple of hours and then walk away. When I come back after another hour or so, the splash logos will often pop in instead of fading in as they do, or the menu will be black for a moment before finally appearing, if it even does. When I go to resume a game, the game itself is black and unplayable. This does not limit itself to any particular game. It is all Steam games and it doesn't matter if they're using Proton or running natively: it affects Borderlands 2 both ways. I'm not sure if this issue affects GOG games on Heroic Launcher or not.

I really have no idea where to even begin troubleshooting this. If there are any logs you require, please feel free to tell me how to get them and I will post them. Any help is appreciated. This issue has been annoying me for months.

I'm running CachyOS with KDE Plasma and an RX7800XT.

recently moved to fedora kde from mint and i just tried running doom 2016. the game runs very choppily no matter what graphic settings i use. i'm using proton experimental.

Hi everyone, I recently made the jump to linux (right now with Ubuntu 24, but open to trying other distros if that would help somehow) and I'm looking for a controller with gyro and rumble features enabled over wireless (whether Bluetooth or 2.4ghz or something).

Actually I was often using the ps5 dualsense controller on Windows, which is what prompted me to make this post. On Ubuntu, I get most of the special features like adaptive triggers, trackpad as mouse, and gyro, which was great, but I can't get the HD rumble thingy to work, whereas it was working on Windows. I do get normal rumble on Linux, but some games only work with the HD rumble and I don't get rumble at all (this happens to me on MH Wilds, but there may be some per-game settings that I am not aware of?)

I also have tried the 8bitdo Ultimate 2 controller wireless, which can connect via either Bluetooth or its proprietary 2.4 dongle. There's also apparently the option of booting up the controller in different modes using certain button combinations, but I have tried some configurations and no luck getting both rumble and gyro working.

Both controllers are updated with the latest official firmware (using the updater programs on Windows), so I don't know if some of the hardware is just limited on Linux, or if there's something else on the software side that I can try, I'd like to hear if anyone has experience with these or similar controllers.

Also, I am interested about recommendations of other controllers that people have tried out and know that work for sure. I'm also interested in the upcoming steam controller, which should work for me if I understood correctly all the features.

Thanks in advance

If I try exist after logging into root. It goes back to login. System reboot does just reboot, doesn't fix it. Don't know what to do right now. A little help is appreciated, thanks! This happened after I installed proton ge, steam and gamemode, then restarted to windows for some work.

After playing nearly 5-6 minutes i am getting this error any idea ?

OS:Arch
DE:Hyprland

Hello all! I decided a few days ago that I didn’t want to play casual rocket league through steam share from my brothers rocket league game. So, after installing heroic and running into controller problems (dual shock and steam deck controllers not working), I finally fixed it by installing the newest wine version, GEproton10.27. It was working fairly well, and pretty consistently (for a day and a half ish). Now, here I am, again, repeatedly launching rocket league in desktop mode hoping that it will let my controller through. For those who run rocket league this way, I would appreciate any help or advice and experience in this kind of problem! I’m open to using others ways of running rocket league that are known to be better also. Thank you!

Not sure if this means anything, but I know something recognizes the DualShock input in the start screen because I hear the sound that usually occurs when a start button is activated. Still, nothing happens.

Greeting gamers, games like once human, black desert online and Where Winds Meet have ingame instrument. on windows you can use midi player to import midi files and then it'll automatically play it in game if youre holding an instruments, would it be possible to do that on linux aswell? and if it possible which midi player should i use?