Is it easy to swap AMD GPUs between different generations on Linux? I have a Southern Islands card and a Polaris card, and I want to swap them between two devices.

Based on my experience with Windows, you usually need to use DDU before changing GPUs. How does this work on Linux? What’s the concept behind it, and what’s your experience if you’ve done this before?

I'm stumped after trying to get Cod4, BO1, MW3 (plutonium), and other og COD games to work. I have tried everything possible I feel like and I have a feeling this is gonna be my first MAJOR clash with Linux being that I really enjoy og COD and playing zombies and with bots in offline Plutonium servers, etc. My friends want to play BO1 zombies but I have to tell them no because my mouse issue. My mouse works flawlessly on every single game I've tried be it emulators, Proton, native Linux, etc... it's only these older COD games that have issues.

So the cursor works fine in menus but as soon as I load into a game my camera has two issues:

1. Weird acceleration that feels like my mouse is on ice, not normal acceleration
2. Mouse jitters making the game look 15fps (despite being smooth when walking only)

Things I have tried to fix this:

• Change com_maxfps (I have done 60fps, 120fps, 170fps, 240fps, unlocked... feels better the higher the fps around 500fps or so, but still unplayable.)
• Enable/disable VSYNC.
• Various Steam launch commands I find complaining about performance.
• Plutonium in Lutris and tried disabling FSYNC/ESYNC.
• Using different Proton versions (Experimental, 9, 8, 7, and GE).
• Ensuring no acceleration is enabled in any .cfg file or in the command console, tested with also.
• Ensuring raw input is enabled in any .cfg file or the command console, tested without also.
• Used smooth mouse option in-game which *helps* the jitter but not fully, nor does it fix acceleration.
• Disabling acceleration in CachyOS mouse options (feels better that way regardless).
• Changing graphic settings all of them individually/simultaneously.
• Changing DPI and sensitivity settings to everything I can think of including 800 DPI and 5000 DPI.
• Changing mouse polling rate to 125Hz, 250Hz, etc via Piper.
• Plug mouse into USB 2.0 instead of 3.0 (using MB ports).
• Use mouse with controller plugged in.

These mouse issues occur on any fresh install. I am tired. I own every COD up to BO3 along with all DLC and I literally cannot play them aside from WaW/BO2/BO3 solely due to my camera being messed up. That's it. No other complaints about performance or anything else (BO1 is really the only game with fps issues in some DLC which Proton GE fixes anyways). Controller for some reason works perfectly fine for supported games (and Plutonium ofc) but I don't want to use a controller.

If anyone can help or knows what's wrong please I beg for any help at all. I have wasted the better part of 5 days now in my free time to get these games working which yes, work perfectly fine on Windows 10 and 11 (which are on a separate drive I have uninstalled rn as I plan to stay on Linux). Thanks for your time and I appreciate any help or suggestions.

Specs: RTX 3070 Ti (tried 580 and new 590 drivers), Ryzen 5 5600x, 32GB DDR4 3600Mhz, plenty of SSD/HDD space, 170Hz 1440p display, CachyOS KDE Plasma 6.5.4, using G502 Hero Mouse.

Hey. I’ve been daily driving Ubuntu/mint on my laptop for like 8 months and its has been great. Its a ryzen 5500u and 16gb and a great experiencie. In a few days a new motherboard and cpu arrives for my desktop and i want to go full linux, but the gpu is my problem. I have a 3070, have done some research about drivers and stuff. I understand ubuntu should work fine but still has some problems here and there. I wanted also to go with a amd gpu and a find 9060xt the best option for my use case, but after watching some videos comparison, its a veeery small upgrade on gaming performance. So, im looking for advice. Should i just use the 3070 or buy the new gpu? Also the “old hardware” after some upgrades will be reused for a home server or go to my brother

Recently bought an Intel Arc B580 to use in my partner's old PC to use while I'm at their place and I noticed that it performs significantly worse than many benchmarks showed, even beyond the typical performance loss of running a game through Proton/DXVK. So just as a sanity check I installed Windows on the PC and sure enough, the card ran just as well as those benchmarks and even a little better in some cases. So that left me wondering, do Mesa drivers just not get the game centric performance improvements that you get on Intel's Windows drivers?

Hello, I don't know much about linux as I have used windows all my life but I really don't want to use windows 11 so I figured linux was my best option but as soon as I started gathering information I found out games like Fortnite or Apex or, from what I read, any game with an external anticheat (in reference to vanguard, easy, etc. I think) do not allow linux users. Does this apply to every linux distro? Is there anyway to bypass this?

My Problem is that Duet Night Abyss wont start on my PC.

Well, the Launcher starts without problem, the installation was without problems but when I try to Start it.. wont. After some seconds it goes back to the launcher. Everytime.

I tried it with "Proton-GE Latest", "GE-Proton10-24", used wine, even tried just to start it over Steam. Nothing worked.

I installed it multiple times with the same results. Hopefully someone can help me out here.

The screen on the headset (quest 3S) is pixelated, I cant get a screenshot, unfortunately.

This is is the error message:

Failed to create VAAPI encoder: Cannot open video encoder codec: Function not implemented

Please make sure you have installed VAAPI runtime.

I upgraded from a 7 7700 to a 9950x3d

My gpu is the 7600rx

My distro is arch linux
My headset is quest 3
Alvr is version 20.14.1

What I have tried

• Restarting (about 5 times)
• Full system update
• Reinstalling Mesa and vulan-raedon
• Installing incompatible drivers and spending an hour trying to delete them

I have Gta San Andreas exe file in Linux if I play he lag. If any one have a file Gta San Andreas for Linux give for me please

Trying to play Hitman on Linux Mint and I can't understand why my performance is so poor. On windows I can get up to 144 fps with my laptop: i5 12450hx RTX3050 6GB 16 GB RAM. On Linux I get 40-50 on the map Paris. I tried different Proton Versions, I'm monitoring my performance and the GPU and CPU are both below 70% usage, RAM is like 6.5 GB used, VRAM is 3 GBs.

I just got the game and setup the compatibility Layer to Proton GE and then tried Experimental. Always have played games like this and never had issues. To be fair I've only played Hollow Knight, Hades, Slay the Spire which are not intensive at all, so if I haven't setup something correctly it probably wouldn't matter in those games, but in Hitman it's extremely noticable and idk what to do...

Any ideas on what I should try

hi guys i have a bug or something i don't know i want to play fallout 1 on my arch laptop but when i try to open the normal version on steam it just shows up a little window and instantly closes but the classic version opens normally but there's a catch it looks like this

https://preview.redd.it/f9c8xde050bg1.png?width=1918&format=png&auto=webp&s=e3677e8d3c1cb991f491527b9e2efd127b3bdffa

so i want to know should i even try to fix it or is there any way of fixing this

thanks in advance

https://preview.redd.it/n4658ns650bg1.png?width=836&format=png&auto=webp&s=af16a8870600c80eef9a849a69e2bd1d0d7c84e4

Not the most exciting thing in the world because it only impacts OpenGL and not Vulkan, but still nice to see.

Hi everyone! I'm a Linux noob.

After a week of using Ubuntu on an old PC, I decided to switch to Arch right away, waiting until after the New Year holidays. I installed and configured Arch Linux and found that the Kepler drivers for the GTX 650 conflict with the Xorg kernel. While everything works fine in Vulcan and rendering is handled by the GPU, when using OpenGL, even in Minecraft or in native mode for other Linux games, graphics are rendered by my CPU (an Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2). After searching the forums, I found information that newer versions of Xorg conflict with the Nvidia 470.xx. I'm too lazy to rebuild the configured system (although I know that the configured policom, i3, and polybar configs can be copied and you can try downgrading to an older kernel).

My question is that I know there were enthusiasts running Minecraft Java in Proton, and I know that Proton works on the DX ---> Vulkan principle. Will it work like OpenGL ---> Vulkan?

P.S. Considering possible responses like: "Dude, upgrade your hardware:" - I'd gladly upgrade it if I had the opportunity (and the money). And yes, I know it's my problem that I installed Arch on such an outdated piece of crap.