Hi, I've recently installed Linux Mint on my computer recently. Everything works really well, but whenever I try to play online games, I get massive ping spikes. For reference, I've played King of Fighters 98UMFE and Guilty Gear Strive. The connection appears fine to begin with, but then jumps to like 1000+ for a few moments.

To add some more clarity:

I used to play these games when I had Windows. I used to get 250ms~ regularly with my partner. After switching to Linux Mint, I noticed that the connection would be stable for a while but then immediately spike to 1300ms suddenly for a few minutes. Then it'd return to normal and repeat.

I'm using the latest version of Linux Mint(22.3) with every single update installed. My kernel is 6.17.0-14-generic, so that's not an issue. My internet works absolutely fine outside of gaming. I'm not sure what to do. Nothing I've seen matches my problem. I've even turned power management off to my WiFi dongle(Cudy WU650 AC650). I'm at a loss for what to do. I run the games through steam using proton experimental.

i have tried fixing this issue in the past but havent figured it out.

it happens when playing any game, from ARC raiders and vermintide to something like schedule one. it doesnt happen all the time and not as often on youtube as on prime video.

im running Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS.

im pretty green when it comes to the inner workings of linux but following a tutorial ive solved most other stuff ive needed to do. but this, ive never been able to figure out.

thank you all in advance if you decide to help.

i dont know what more information you need so just ask and ill edit the post and tag you in a reply to your comment

So I have a 5080 a 9850 X 3-D. I’m almost done with my PC and I want to switch over to Linux. The thing is I wanted to make it as simple as possible if it would be possible to have the Windows 11 interface but I wouldn’t mind learning a new one, but I would prefer the Windows 11 one.

I am going to play games mostly from steam. I’m gonna stream and record videos. I use stream labs and OBS studio. I also use DroidCam because I use my phone as a WebCam.

Also, I’m obviously gonna need something to edit my videos obviously I wanna be able to download chrome easily. So overall nothing too crazy for my needs.

I was thinking about mint or zorin. But I’m open to suggestions

I have a problem with fsr4 on my RX 7800xt (enabled with PROTON_FSR4_RDNA3_UPGRADE=1). It works fine in Arc Raiders but in Ark survival ascended it crashes when opening the inventory. In Monster Hunter Wilds it also crashes when opening some menus. I already tried installing the the git version of mesa but that didnt fix it. Is this a known problem and/or is there a fix?

I am very specifically trying to install Battle for Middle-earth 2: Rise of the witch king using lutris since it supposedly has several working scripts. the main issue being I need to install them onto the same prefix as the one with battle for middle earth 2.

All of the lutris scripts seem to break for me, and I'm at my wits end. One seems to maybe sort of work, but doesn't because it's not on the right prefix I think.

I am completely new to using lutris and only got it as it seems to be the only way i could potentially play these games easily from my childhood, if anyone can give me some advise on how to install this game specifically I would love it.

Hello, I already made a similar post but about World of Tanks with the same issue, but after checking mangohud on Snowrunner and Wreckfest, it's the same. I don't know how to properly explain this, but some games are not using all of my GPU to reach my monitors refresh rate. Like in the screenshot 75% GPU usage on 122 FPS, why not 100% GPU usage with 144 FPS?

im using bazzite gnome which i dont know if that affects anything. i downloaded the flathub version of HMM but for some reason it only reads games on the deck itself and not in my sd card. i have a 256gb so my steamdeck doesnt have a lot of space for my bigger games like frontiers, i was wondering if there was a way i could set a path to a different drive?

I recently installed a Radeon 9060 xt and since Fedora 43 updates to latest mess drivers my framerates randomly drop in half. Sometimes minimising and returning clears it.

This is retail wow I see this in. Not changed any settings.

I'm getting 45 FPS in dungeons where I normally get 70 plus.

Btop indicates card is only 30% in use. Doesn't vary much.

Any ideas?

For the past day I've been following many tutorials on how to open the game, I've Installed the most recent driver updates, I installed some version of proton, no one worked, and tried Protontricks, except it said that I needed to open the game at least once but the game doesn't even launch.

I don't know if this implies to all the other games that don't have a Linux version, because I'm new to Linux, but still, if you need to ask me anything, I'll reach out as soon as I can.

Hi, simple question. RAGE MP is a multiplayer launcher for GTA V.
Atm it uses EAC as an anticheat

I’m playing Arc Raiders and aiming feels noticeably less smooth on my Linux install compared to Windows.

Setup:

• Fedora 43
• KDE Plasma (Wayland)
• NVIDIA GPU
• Official Xbox Wireless Adapter + Xbox controller
• Same in-game controller settings as on Windows

I can't tell if there is any difference in FPS, but stick aiming feels different/less smooth.

Could I have missed some Steam, in-game or Linux settings?

https://preview.redd.it/tg6syovkl1ig1.png?width=1103&format=png&auto=webp&s=f24033452a37ef191e5607bf23ffffecb4f6394e

Has anyone tried Windows 10 + DX11 games? I'm willing to use that instead of wine since it's 64-bit lib is still immature.

So, I'm getting into Fallout 3 at request from my older brother. I downloaded the game on Steam and used the Fallout Anniversary Patcher to patch the EXE.

What's that done is that as soon as the Please Stand By slide loads, the game stops being full screen and kicks me back into my desktop environment (I use Linux Mint if it helps), but the game is still technically playing. I can't see the game and my mouse is locked. I have to use Alt+Tab to go back into the game (which brings the audio back but not the video), and Alt+F4 out of the game.

So... What do I even do? I tried windowed mode, but that runs very poorly on my hardware. It's either fullscreen or nothing.

If anyone is into modding Cyberpunk, then this will help you a lot!

I've been experiencing this issue since like the past 1 year. I have about 390 mods and when i launch the game it just hangs at 1.8 or less gigs of ram. The game still launches but it takes several relaunches to finally cross the 2.0 gigs of RAM mark and launch the damn game.

If you are experiencing such issue, atleast from my ~390 mods, Audioware was causing it. Hope this helps!

Hey all, I recently switched from windows to Linux, tried bazzite, moved to Nobara, finally settled on CachyOS, been really enjoying it compared to windows, the only issue is my favourite 2 games , path of exile 1 and path of exile 2, seem to perform quite a bit worse, fps seems to be roughly the same although it drops a lot harder when there’s a lot going on in the games. But also lower fps feels a lot worse on Linux than it did on windows, like 100fps on windows feels like 100fps, how ever on Linux 100fps feels like 60 or worse. And when I’ve had drops down to 60fps on Linux (which I never got on windows) it feels like 10fps, I’ve tried playing with free sync and adaptive sync as well as without (didn’t change anything) other games such as Minecraft I actually gained like 50fps and feel way more stable, so really annoyed this is happening to my 2 most played games, it’s almost bad enough to the point where I’m going to switch back to windows purely because of it, which I really don’t want to do because I’m loveing Linux, if anyone has any advice or experienced anything the same please let me know, am getting desperate.

Specs -

AMD 9070XT

Ryzen 5 9600x

32gb DDR5

Hey y'all, I've searched this issue and the fixes I've found haven't worked for me so far. I'm running Civ VI on Mint via Proton. I've tried Proton 9, 10, Experimental, and Hotfix, none have corrected this issue. In "Graphics", only the Intel dedicated graphics is found, and not my Geforce RTX 2060. This is a Razer laptop. Any other ideas I can try?

my pc is really old and i wonder whats the best distro for it?
i use my pc for lightweight/older games like
skyrim (LE)
Dark souls 3
minecraft

should i even switch to linux?
i use windows 10 for now

specs:
i5 3550
8gb ddr3 1333mhz
HD 7570 1gb gddr5

hello,

im looking for a linux distro that is oriented to preinstalled things with minimal setup for almost everything. i use my pc for gaming (xbox controller, steam/emulators), emailing, listening to music, watching movies/series and daily stuff without use of any specific programs. i work a lot and i dont have really a time or some knowledge, so i would like to switch to something that's ready out of box if possible.

drop me your suggestions and thank you for understanding