I've been running arch with my 9070xt for about a month now, and haven't gone in to windows for essentially anything. But the frequent crashes in the amdgpu driver for the 9070XT are absolutely soul crushing. I have crashed 4 times this morning (full system lock, tty to reboot) and lost progress in expedition 33 every single time.

This amdgpu driver instability is the thing that's going to force me to go back to windows temporarily even though I have no desire to. I'm following the open bugs about this, and have provided dmesg logs etc to the open bugs, but to date there isn't a resolution that I'm aware of.

I should say, this isn't exclusive to expedition 33, it's most games using the gpu (sometimes it crashes just using desktop applications). I really hope this gets sorted soon!

So I just wanted to share the experience I had with gaming on linux. Im very pleased and it was smoother than previous attempts.

Background: Ive been able to get my games running in the past, wine to get StarCraft running. So I have that as experience. At some point I had tried SteamOS but found the compatibility wasn’t there.

Yesterday, I installed fedora 42, opened software and installed steam. Noticed that the install button was grayed out, so I went to preferences and enabled compatibility (cant remember if steam restarted or my desktop) either way, then it came back on, I now saw the install button, great! After the smooth install, I ran the game but noticed 14 fps, so I immediately knew it was running off the iGPU. I opened software again and installed nvidia drivers. Ran the game again and got 100 fps.

Great experience overall! Almost getting to excellent!

I think Im ready to completely ditch windows.

Thank you to all the developers that made this dream possible. Let me know how I can buy you a beer or coffee or tea.

Decided to switch Linux mint. So far this is good. I hope one day anticheat systems can run on Linux as well. For instance faceit anticheat.

Why not the anticheats are not running on Linux?? Can someone explain me?

Enough of Windows

i use bigbig won gale hall and i daily drive cachyos. i can play some games with the default layout but most of them doesn't work with the default one, or any layout for gamepads. i can only play them when i apply a keyboard&mouse layout, but it is annoying as you can guess. can anyone help me.

Repository: GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom · Tag: GE-Proton10-5 · Commit: 8d993b5 · Released by: GloriousEggroll

Nothing too major here, mostly just an update to upstream's code since it's been about 30 days.

• Wine-wayland patches have been updated/rebased, should fix some nvidia crashes, and no longer need this mesa patch: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34918
• patches added to help with Wuthering Waves.
• protonfixes updated
• protonfix added for Artificial Academy 2
• protonfix added for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
• protonfix added for Anno 1800 from Ubisoft Store
• protonfix added for Anno 1800

Randomly when playing Path of Exile anytime I move the mouse the CPU graph / performance starts stuttering all over the place every second. If i stop moving mouse, its smooth. Whats going on?

Hi everyone

Actually I have bazzite on my Ayaneo 2. But I asked myself many times, is there any better OS for Ayaneo 2? I have games from GOG, Steam, Epic and other sources to install.

Maybe somebody here knows the answer or have a suggestion?

Cheers

Although the percentage of Linux users for gaming has increased in recent years, it is clear that it has only progressed from an ant to a beetle, still nothing compared to the market share of Windows.

With the entry of Steamdex and SteamOS, developers have made more optimizations for Linux through Proton, but as the statistics clearly show, it is still very small and almost only with games on Steam, while games from other launchers are almost blind people finding their way.

Recently, with the appearance of Harmony OS, I had a dream, although it is quite unrealistic. Currently, HarmonyOS is only available on Huawei computers and it is ARM-based. It will take time to see if HarmonyOS can gain a large market share in China. It is very possible that Huawei will get government support to develop market share, but it will need to be released on the x86 platform to be popular on current PCs. At this point, big names like Steam, Epic, EA,... can change their policies to support Linux more.

But whatever, that's still just a dream. But do you think my speculation will become a reality?

Recently ive been having way so many BSOD that i just couldnt do anything productive on my pc. Ive tried seemingly everything to get them to stop appearing but i was ultimately unsuccessful. The only options i was left with were buying new ram in hopes that would fix it or install a new OS. Instead of installing windows 10 or 11(eww) i thought of finally installing linux as my main OS which i wanted to do for a while now.

I have a little experience with ubuntu from school but i heard i shouldn't really use that one. Ive done some surface level research and found out that Mint, Pop_os, Bazzite and Nobara are really good for gaming. Out of the 4 distros which one would you recommend me?

Dont know if it matters or not but i use wireless peripherals such as razer basilisk v3 pro and logitech g435. My pc has a ryzen 5 3600, gtx 1650 super and 16gb of ram. I play games from roblox, steam and gog launchers.

I know very little about Linux.

Having said that, I would like to switch from Windows to Linux, I accept every advice you have on which distro is better for gaming, but possibly also for work and file management, in short balanced but with a good support gaming side. For example not Bazzite, I see it a little to much focused on gaming, and navigating with controller only basically.

Anyway

The real question is, can you play Rocket League?

Unfortunately I am an avid Rocket League player and this is currently pulling me back from making the switch from W11. Since most of the support for gaming on Linux comes from Steam, and outside of this it seems to me that there is little or no support.

https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/c-Category_RocketLeague/c-RocketLeague_TechnicalSupport/rocket-league-support-for-macos-and-linux-steamos-a000084314

As the link says, Epic Games talk about how there is no longer support for Linux, but I saw online people who can play it, for example with "Heroic Launcher", but looking deeper (even here on Reddit), I see some who have a lot of problems to make it work, or even restrictions such as playing only offline.

Are there "launchers" that allow Epic Games's games to run? And are they reliable?

Thanks :)

I had a weird problem where modded Skyrim on linux caused the system to restart, while on windows, every game i played shut down the computer mid playing.

I have no idea what caused it, but it's not happening anymore.

Now... I had CoolerControl installed before, and as a troubleshooting step, i uninstalled it and removed the amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff kernel parameter as well. But around that time, as well as other factors, the PC stopped restarting, so i have no idea about the cause.

I want to install CoolerControl again to control the fan speed of the GPU, because, the the default fan speed ramp up is so painfully slow that i think the GPU will damage itself. I've seen the hotspot go to 115C while the fans are still slowly and gently blowing a breeze at 500RPM. Idk who thought this is a good idea, but i'm not happy about it.

Furthermore, i upgraded the CPU, and got an AIO liquid cooler which produces some annoying whistling frequency at certain low % of fan/pump speed, so i want to make sure it's always running at least above that.

But i'm afraid the kernel parameter will make the computer unstable again. Is that even possible?
And i'm not talking about adding the kernel parameter, then undervolting the GPU by 70% and wondering why the system doesn't work, i'm talking about just the kernel parameter itself. Because it does expose voltage control, and power control as well as fan control to everything, and i'm not sure if anything is taking control of it that shouldn't be.

Because, last time i used LACT for example, the computer crashed when i tried to change any value, even fan speed. CoolerControl didn't crash immediately, but i've set up the GPU fan speed to be constant (to avoid slow ramp ups), and at that time, the resets were happening, so i have no idea if this is somehow related to exposing the GPU control in any way.

I guess i can enable it, then if restarts happen again, it's probably that. But restarts like that are scary and idk if they can damage the hardware in any way because i did get some error messages relating to hardware the next boot (and only next boot, every subsequent boot, there were no hardware error messages).

Any advice would be appreciated!

Earlier I've made a post about this, and I was suggested that it is probably a Distro issue with Mint. Now I've made the switch to CacyOS, which is 10/10 blazingly fast and now I can use HDR, which is amazing, but I am getting off topic.
Sadly, it didn't solve the Darktide crashes. What it gave me, is some indication what might be going on.

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 4.63
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT [
RAM: 31.26 GiB
CachyOS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.15.4-3-cachyos
KDE Plasma 6.4.1
KWin (Wayland)

This time during the crash I was able to recover the system,
In in htop, the RAM and Swap usage started climbing like crazy, from 10/30Gb to 30/30Gb in a minute to be exact.

https://preview.redd.it/xx37px7ndv9f1.png?width=331&format=png&auto=webp&s=adc9d76bf7b2e8437f0748ea089f94df624fdd84

And long after the crash, even as I'm writing this the Ram is sitting at 22.4/32Gb and it won't go down.

I soon need to do a fresh install anyway to fix some minor things, and now i'm thinking of just switching to Mint for gaming purposes. Gaming is not my top priority, but along with video editing, tinkering etc it is still up there.

Running AMD and GeForce.

What would I really lose going to Mint? If you have examples im happy to hear them.

My personal opinion is that Debian just has a lot programs and I am fairly used to Debian since most i've run has been either Debian or ofshoots of it. I would do Arch just by personal preference but it is too much work, Debian in itself is a bit of work to run on your main. (At least when you want to be able to casually use it as a main during limited free-time)

How is the privacy in Mint nowdays? I ran Mint like 10 years ago and I was very satisfied with all of it then. Has they "sold out" in any ways recently?

Stupid questions maybe, but i dont really know anything about Mint like that.

Hello everyone, so I recently started playing around with Linux (Arch with KDE Plasma) and Steam using proton. So every time I open Elden Ring Nightreign the game starts with around 30 - 40 fps and is not really playable, and after some time it gets to 60 and sometimes doesn't even stay there (in some occasions I've had it drop down to 30 again - while being in game). I'm guessing it's the shaders compiling, but I'm wondering if it really is that and if it's supposed to be happening every time.

If anyone has some info I would be really glad to hear you out.

My specs:

Kernel: 6.15.4-arch2-1

DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.1

WM: KWin (Wayland)

CPU: i5 12400

GPU: GTX 1660 Ti

Nvidia drivers: nvidia-open-575.64-5

The jump from 40 to 60

If any more info is needed I'm willing to provide.

I can hypothetically install GTA 4 on Linux Mint, since I bought the game on Steam. I haven’t tested yet if it will work and if I will need Proton.

However, my main question is whether I may play LCPDFR on Linux Mint. For those who don’t know, an app must be installed and you search for it by the name “GTA 4 Downgrader”. After the game is downgraded to the version 1.0.7.0, the next step is to install a file from the LCPDFR website and configure the mod.

Will all this work? The answer to this question will influence if I will use Linux or Windows in the future.

When I trying to download Monster Hunter: World or update something (for example Proton Experimental) , it gives me Disk Write Error. I have enough free space (~70 GB) on my secondary btrfs volume. And Steam installed via pacman, not via flatpak.

Basically the title. Black myth wukong crashes during boss fight. Screen goes black, audio still continue and then bazzite loading screen appears. Hardware is i3 12th gen, rx9060xt 16gb, 16gb ram. What could be the issue? I tried proton ge 10, tried verifying integrity and everything. This it crahses. Please help..

Я уже устанавливаль последние драйвера из официального свйтв и без толку думвв проблемв из блоком питанием но нет я установив новий и нечего непоменялось при установке драйверов екран тухне но виндус работает но пк не перезапускается пожалуйста помогите

I tried Ubuntu a year ago and it didn't run Helldivers 2 at all. I really want to quit windows 11.