If you're like me and usually install Optiscaler in most of your games, be aware that it might tank the performance in some games.

On my system I was having problems with both Alan Wake 2 and Spider man 2 with very bad performance and constant stuttering I initially suspected Optiscaler, but disabling upscaling didn't change anything so I though it might be something else, until I decided to remove Optiscaler completely from those games and all the problems were gone, install again and back to low fps and stuttering even without any processing being done by Optiscaler, just being installed causes the game to lag.

Spider man supports dll replacement so it's just better to do that, Alan Wake doesn't so you're stuck with FSR2 there.

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Is there any way to mod games on Linux? If so, what are some good apps to do it or maybe good videos that explain how to do it for people like me who never tried modding a game on Linux?

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Over the holidays, I installed Linux to try it out. I initially went with regular Ubuntu, but while the live environment launched fine, the installer would not start. After that, I switched to Kubuntu, which installed without issues.

Positives

• Installation (once on Kubuntu) was straightforward.
• Everything generally worked.
• All the games I play installed and launched fine.
• Discord screen sharing worked.
• Drivers mostly worked — some faffing around with NVIDIA, but nothing unexpected.
• KDE is genuinely very nice. Clean, flexible, and pleasant to use.

Death by a thousand small cuts

None of these were dealbreakers on their own, but together they added up:

• Discord push-to-talk was unreliable. Sometimes it worked, other times it didn’t. A few times, I was talking, got no response, and realised PTT hadn’t activated again. This varied by game.
• Discord overlay simply does not work.
• Some odd audio behaviour: game audio was fine, but if a Proton game was running and I opened something like YouTube, the audio would stutter every second, as if it was constantly resetting.
• Too many indirect launchers. Steam was fine, but Battle.net needs its own launcher, FFXIV has another, etc. It all works, but it feels clunkier than on Windows.
• Lack of overall polish. KDE itself is great, but many applications and system utilities feel inconsistent or rough around the edges.
• Some of the apps I'm used to simply don't have Linux versions (e.g. Whatsapp)

Overall

I was honestly impressed with how far things have come compared to a few years ago. For me, though, Windows still wins for the moment. However, I do think Linux is getting very close, and all the issues I mentioned will likely be sorted out sooner rather than later.

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If anyone is running 6.18.x with RDNA3 (or newer), can you share your impressions?

There have been reports of crashing under load and other issues with newer AMD cards on kernel versions after 6.17, but I can't tell how widespread they are. Some of them are in the context of ROCm, but gaming seems affected too.

Fedora just pushed 6.18.3 to updates and I'm wondering if it's better to wait. I have a stable setup with 6.17.12 and don't want to update if there are known issues.

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I currently use an old nvidia card, and am considering buying a b850, but I am unsure about Intel drivers on linux currently, I currently use ubuntu but am considering switching to arch.

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I am shifting from windows to linux.
Running ubuntu 24.04.
Predator Helios PH-315-51 (hybrid nvidia intel graphics)
Nvidia gtx1050 ti

Using steam (from apt) and i have tried to run this game (rdr) with proton -> Experimental, Hotfix, 9.0-4, GE-Proton10-28

My launch string is empty.

Everytime game runs for 5 seconds and freezes and then insee the error popup as shown in image.

Please help

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Ok I don’t see this get mentioned but one thing I really noticed switching back to Linux and using Bazzite KDE for my Nvidia build is how much faster alt tabbing in and out of games is.

On Windows 11 if I alt tabbed the screen would go black and take a good 10 - 15 seconds to get me to the desktop. This is on full screen. On borderless I had issues where the game would stay frozen for long time when trying to alt tab the game back open.

I’ve no idea what Linux does differently to fix this but it’s so much better. I’m assuming every game even non supported get the borderless treatment or the way it outputs it is way more efficient than Windows.

You normally hear Windows just works especially for Nvidia users but in my case Linux is just outright better here.

I alt tab all the time while gaming so this has been a game changer!

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Moved to Linux full time recently and I'm playing a lot of overwatch 2 ATM but I noticed I'm getting 70fps less than what I was getting on windows.

I'm running the latest protonGE (on Wayland native), with lutris, on the battle.net version of overwatch and my kernel is cachyos-bore kernel (I also tested zen too but it has the same issue).

I'm still getting around 300fps but I expected bit better especially since other games in my library run practically 1:1 with windows.

I should also mention I'm using an nvidia GPU but my girlfriend's PC with an amd GPU has the same problem.

Anyone else having the same fps discrepancy between operating systems?

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I used to play a lot of VR while I was on windows, but not rly since I switched to Linux. Does anyone know how to get Linux set up for VR gaming? I'm on fedora KDE btw. Ive tried to look around online but I haven't been able to find anything rly helpful.

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I recently switched to linux and have been trying to set up my gaming stuff again. I ended up going with Ubuntu (24.04.3) because my dad recommended it to me. However, when running some games, the main one I’m having issues with being Deadlock on steam, I have very low frames and textures seem to glitch a lot, blipping in out of existence, and dropping frames a lot. I am not super familiar with how to troubleshoot on linux yet and am not sure what is causing the problem. I’ve tried updating drivers (Using Nvidia because I’m on an HP Omen laptop and don’t think I can use other drivers.) but it hasn’t helped at all. Any help is appreciated

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Hi m​y laptop keyboard not working and display the input on the top left conner ​​when playing game on bold steam proton and through wine​​​? 😭 any help would be appreciated!!!​​​​​​

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I mainly play hoi4 and other indie games on my 980 TI on my 4k 60hz monitor, and I would like to know if I should buy a 8GB 9060 xt, or spend another 150 dollars to get the 16GB version.

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I have an Asus Tuf A17 with a ryzen 7 4800H with a RTX 3050 4GB, 16GB Ddr4 3200mhz ram. Running it on Nobara with proton.(99th fresh install)After 5 minutes it shows a screen like this and I'm not sure what the problem is!! My windows 11 install kept giving me bsods so I thought Linux would fix it. Not really sure what the issue is, I've ran several memtests, the ram is fine. The drivers are all updated.

I want to provide more info about the logs but I'm not sure what would help. Pls let me know what logs you need and I'll edit my post with them. I'm having this issue ever since I removed a Gray plastic off of my ram and nvme ssd. Tried lots of fixes and nothing worked so I would really appreciate it if someone could help me with this.THANKS.

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Im trying to make a drive on my ubuntu server, it has nothing extra on it, all i did was try samba, and NFS for this.

My goal:
im trying to use the drive as centralized place to store my games, because i dont have space for games on my computers.

I want to be able to have my fedora machine on, while having my other computer that is more dedicated to gaming on as well.

For example, im workin on my fedora machine while someone else is able to game on the other setup, both connected to the Server.

No matter what i tried except for iSCSI steam says "file is not executable" so i tried adding +x and exec flags, the problem remained...

Bellow i list some of my attempts, if you need any more details on it please let me know.

My setup:
My main machine is fedora 43.

My server has an SSD to which i mounted on /media/netSSD

On my machine i attempted to connect via network drive, it did not work with steam. Again attempted with direct link, still nothing.

The only thing that worked was the iSCSI, but this doesnt allow me to have my fedora machine on while gaming on another computer.

any help is appreciated, thanks!

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distro: gentoo (openrc, source kernel)

kernel version is 6.12.58-gentoo

16gb of ddr3 ram

flatpak steam version: 1.0.0.84

specs: intel i7-3520M with iGPU😭

ok anyway... ive tried installing steam from portage but my cpu is lowkey too cheeks to do that (it fails at llvm)

since llvm couldnt compile i tried installing the 20.1.8 binpkg version, but no binpkg (that i could find) supported 32 but like the source packages did, and the mesa library (important dependency for steam) couldnt compile without llvm 32 bit support

so i resorted to installing the flatpak version, which i expected to run out-of-the-box perfectly. (it didnt, hence the reason im making this post)

ive gotten 1 specific error that i cannot fix for the life of me, which is!!:

The unofficial Steam Flatpak app requires a correctly-configured desktop session, which must provide the DISPLAY environment variable to the D-Bus session bus activation environment. On systems that use systemd --user, the DISPLAY environment variable must also be present in the systemd --user activation environment. This is usually achieved by running: dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY during desktop environment startup. For more details, please see: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/10554

LITERALLY the first 7 lines of my sway config is this dbus-update and xdg-desktop portal stuffs:

exec dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY exec gentoo-pipewire-launcher restart exec /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr & exec /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal & exec export DISPLAY=:0 xwayland enable

(graphics drivers are installed btw, and said drivers are intel)

ive also ran sway itself with dbus-run-session, cuz ion use a login manager, and alot of flags to run steam... and those flags were...!:

1. --gl__threaded_optimizations=0
2. flatpak override --user com.valvesoftware.Steam --socket=fallback-x11
3. --env=PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1
4. --steamos3
5. --device=all
6. --env=DISPLAY=:0
7. --env=WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0

and yeah i also have the freedesktop oGL packages installed (version 25.08 iirc)

sorry if the post is kinda buns i dont use reddit often at all

i have no idea how to fix this, someone help buh🙏🙏

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I recently ordered an RX 9070 as a replacement for my 7700XT. I found forums and videos from months ago saying that rasterization performance is pretty much up to par and just a tad bit slower than on Windows but that RT performance was pitiful. I couldn't find any recent resources on this so I wanted to inquire and see what people's experiences are using these cards on Linux. Are the Mesa drivers good on RDNA 4, or should I temper my expectations? Any insight is appreciated.

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hey!

so a couple months ago i installed linux mint cinnamon 22.2 and i've been loving it. pretty much any steam game i play just works. but unfortunately for some odd reason playing ffxiv with xivlauncher is rough.

for instance, on my windows 10 partition i can play ffxiv via' xivlauncher and i get around 50fps on max settings. whereas on linux mint it drops me to a choppy 25fps. to get anything near playable, i have to play on standard (laptop) settings. but even then i get lag spikes that can make things borderline unplayable at times. any help would be greatly appreciated! and if you need any sort of info i'd be happy to provide it.

my specs:

linux mint cinnamon 22.2

i5 6402P

16gb DDR4

RX 480 (4gb)

T-Force 512gb SSD (sata III) (xivlauncher is installed on here)

WD HDD 2tb

(p.s: i installed xivlauncher through the software manager. dunno if that has anything to do with my issues. just thought i'd mention it though just in case.)

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Whats up. I'm new to Linux I'm getting my laptop prepped up for when i go to college. I'm using a old MacBook air from 2016 that's now using linux. I know it's def capable to play these older retro games. I just need help. First off, RE 1996 I'll launch it and it'll just take up a corner of my screen but never go full screen or windowed. Even after messing around with Direct X9. or any settings within heroic. I haven't used any lines or scripts. or third party stuff. (other than proton ge ofc). I also tried Splinter Cell and it actually launched normally till the first cutscene finished and it would crash. Looking to play these games when I have downtime at school. If you guys are experienced please help me out I'm new to Linux and not much of a coding or scripting expert (yet). Haven't been able to find anything online similar to me. Thank you

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