Hi everyone,

I’m running into a pretty hard issue while playing Genshin Impact on Linux (Nobara), and I’d like to know if anyone else has experienced something similar or has ideas.

my system

• GPU: RTX 3050 (6GB VRAM)
• RAM: 48GB
• Distro: Nobara (Fedora-based)
• Driver: NVIDIA 580.142
• Running via: anime-game-launcher (Wine-based)
• GNOME setup:
  • Using User Themes extension
  • Theme: Orochi

While playing Genshin, the entire system freezes completely:

• Screen freezes
• Audio stops
• No input response
• Can’t switch TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F2 doesn’t work)

The only solution is a hard reboot.

I monitored the system with nvidia-smi and system monitor:

• GPU temp: ~58°C
• VRAM usage: ~2.4GB / 6GB
• GPU usage: low (at the moment I checked)
• RAM usage: ~11GB / 50GB
• CPU: ~20–35%

So it doesn’t look like a resource issue (no VRAM/RAM exhaustion, no overheating).

Checked previous boot logs:

Nothing relevant:

• No GPU hang messages
• No OOM killer
• No kernel panic

Which makes me think it’s a hard lockup (GPU/driver?) that doesn’t even get logged.

Right now I’m thinking it could be:

• NVIDIA driver crash (Vulkan?)
• Wine / DXVK issue
• Wayland + NVIDIA instability (haven’t confirmed session yet)

Questions:

• Has anyone experienced full system freezes (not just game crashes) with Genshin on Linux?
• Is this a known issue with NVIDIA + Wine + Genshin?
• Would switching to X11 significantly improve stability?
• Any recommended Proton/Wine/DXVK versions for this setup?

I’m considering

• Switching from Wayland → X11
• Trying Proton GE vs current Wine
• Disabling GNOME extensions temporarily

My mouse uses web driver to change dpi, polling rate etc. but the driver does not work on any browser(chromium based or otherwise) other than google chrome and even in chrome the settings are not displayed correctly. When I select my device in other browsers, the settings page does not even open and nothing happens. Is there any solve to this issue? I am currently on cachyos.

I have a 32 in 4k external monitor. My mobile GPU struggles with 4k sometimes, so I reduce resolution to 2k. But when 2k is stretched to 32 inches, it looks blurry. I want to keep DPI the same by adding black bars around the game. I'm on KDE Wayland and I have a modern Nvidia GPU. I tried different options with gamescope but got no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

Hey r/linux_gaming,

I've been building https://github.com/mdeguzis/MangoHudPy — a Python CLI and desktop GUI that fills in the gaps around MangoHud for people who actually want to do something with their frame data beyond just watching the HUD.

Install: pip install "mangohudpy[gui,graphs]"

What it does

• launch-option — TUI that sets per-game Steam launch options for silent background logging on Bazzite/Steam Deck Game Mode (solves the mangoapp shim problem — more on that below)
• organize — sorts your raw CSVs into ~/mangologs/<GameName>/ folders automatically; can also run on a systemd timer
• summary — human-readable stats from any CSV: avg/min/max FPS, 1% lows, frametime jitter, stability score
• graph — generates PNG/SVG charts (uses mangoplot if available, falls back to matplotlib)
• upload — pushes logs to https://flightlesssomething.com via API with an interactive file picker
• configure — writes MangoHud.conf + presets.conf with all logging keys pre-applied (desktop Linux)

• Desktop GUI — PySide6 app designed for 1280×800 (Steam Deck native), dark themed, covers all of the above

  Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/mdeguzis/MangoHudPy

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/mangohudpy

  Happy to answer questions or take feedback. Still actively developing it — issues and PRs welcome.

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Hey! its my first time using linux (went with mint) and started installing games that uses external launchers like Genshin Impact and GFL2, I installed them by adding them to steam and launching the .exe for the launcher with proton.

Everything went well, I even played a bit and everything worked, but now when I went to try to add the .exe for the game, the carpet that I think should be all the game files are basically empty, I cant find anything related to both games, I am missing something ???

I keep having random-ish crashes whilst playing intensive games (Happens to me on Cyberpunk and Minecraft with high shaders, probably happens on other games too.) on Arch (Cachyos, though this still happened even when I was using base Arch)

My computer screen would turn black, then turn back on with coloured squares and the screen would be frozen.

I saw a post about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/14sq04k/anyone_else_dealing_with_fairly_common_amd_gpu/, but I'm still having the issue and i'm not sure where or how to fix it or if it's an issue that needs to be fixed on the driver end.

I doubt my GPU is failing since this only happens on Linux and it was completely fine on Windows.

been seeing a lot of reports (and upon testing am experiencing it myself) that DS2 has an unusually high CPU usage when compared to windows causing performance issues, and im curious if anyone has any information on whats going on and the likelihood of a fix any time soon, or if i should just concede and play it on windows

Hey, so I'm not sure this is the correct subreddit for this, and please direct me to the correct one if so, but does anyone have a download/instructions for getting Heretic II running on a modern linux system? Unfortunately because the game is abandonware, I've been having difficulty getting it to run.

There's a Lutris installer, but it uses Internet Archive files that have since been removed so the installation fails. I tried installing it another way, but after install it keeps crashing regardless of whatever wine runner I'm using. My distro is Nobara if that has any relevance. Thanks for any help you can give.

Llevo varios dias chekeado distritos de linux y me gusta mucho como se ven los escritorios y entornos de trabajo, pero tambien lo quiero para gaming. Mi duda es la siguiente: que distrito es la mejor para gaming y a la vez que tenga buena personalizacion de interfaz.

Mi S.O 9070 xt AMD ryzen 7 9800x3D 32 GB ddr5

Hi all,

I'm having a really frustrating issue with Red Dead Redemption 2 (Steam) on Linux Mint and I’m hoping someone here might have some ideas.

No matter what I do, the game seems locked between about 40-50 FPS. It doesn’t matter what settings or resolution I use (I’ve tested 1080p, 720p, lowest settings, higher settings) the FPS basically stays the same. It never really goes above that range.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

• Multiple Proton and Proton GE versions
• Launch options: gamemoderun %command% -USEALLAVAILABLECORES -cpuLoadRebalancing
• Letting the game run for a while in case it’s shader caching
• Switching between low and high graphics settings
• Enabling FSR (this only gives me ~5 FPS at best)

What’s strange is that changing settings barely affects performance at all, which makes me think something else is bottlenecking or limiting it.

At this point I’m not sure if it’s a CPU bottleneck, Proton issue, Vulkan problem, or something else entirely.

Has anyone experienced something similar or have any suggestions on what I could try next?

My specs:

Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena
Kernel: 6.17.0-19-generic
Memory: total: 16 GiB
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Driver: 535.288.01
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K

I have an amd 9800x3d processor (and an amd 7900xt gpu if that matters). I have been getting random kernel panics accompanied with the error in the title upon next reboot for months now. It is so fucking annoying. I have read places online this is an issue with the processor. I always keep drivers up-to-date through the discover app through my distro, and I have flashed the most up-to-date bios version for my motherboard and I still keep getting this error. Has anyone found a proper fix for this or am I just fucked? If I am just fucked, is there a different processor I could swap to that is of similar strength I could use instead. I cant take the kernel panics every other day anymore

The Windows 11 PC I've been using for years is finally starting to show some hardware problems and I'm going to switch over to Linux for my gaming PC. I've already run a few games distributed through Steam on a Chromebook that's been reworked to run Debian and I'm satisfied with that distro.

I'm probably going to get an ASRock Deskmini and an AMD AM4 type processor. I've read processor and memory are more important for HOI4 than a high-end graphics adapter. I still want to get something that works as well as what I've got, which probably wouldn't take much today. I'm still using the GeForce GTX 1050 I bought in 2018 and it works acceptably with what I have (Intel Core i5-6400 + 32GB of RAM on a RAID1 HDD array).

Is there some decent graphics adapter that fits the bill and will run on Debian and the power the DeskMini's adapter provides (120W/19V)?

So I expect that this is a fairly common question, but I'm having trouble finding answers, guide me to one if you know of.

So after like so many years, i finally got a gaming PC. I have been using a cheap IdeaPad up until now, with Arch and KDE, so I'm decently versed in Arch, not so much about stuff like CachyOS or stuff related to AAA titles since the most I've played on this is balatro and hollow knight, which just.. ran.

I still installed Win11 on my PC, because I kinda didn't wanna leave any performance on the table. But recently bluetooth just stopped working, yk typical windows stuff, and ive been contemplating switching to Cachy. I have enough of a backlog of old games to last me 6-7 months and i can skip on AAA titles until then, but will Mesa for RDNA 4 mature enough to not have a performance difference or outliers (Spiderman 2, Doom TDA, anything PT, and sometimes RT too)

Or should I wait till early 2027 to go for it

Hey guys i was looking to buy a pc for my living room with an radeon 9070 xt and my plan would be to make it like a steam machine. But which os is the best for that? I never installed anything with linux ever so im pretty new to that. Can i download steam os or would another os be better?

Slight problem. I pulled up lutris just now to play pokemon infinite fusion, and (I have over 300 hours in this game, it was working, but today) it gave me an error that wine mono isn't installed. The error also said it could install this, but it's more recommended to install it through the blah blah blah, and I hit install. So I tried to play the game again, but nothing happens now when I hit play.

cpu : amd ryzen 7 7800x3d

gpu : radeon rx 7700 xt

gpu driver :cb

Kernel: 6.18.7-76061807-generic

displays: 1 1920 x 1080

kde version 4:5.27.12-0ubuntu0.1

problem:

i have just switched my os from windows to pop os and after a day some games have started to only display a black screen when i launch them first it was green hell and gloomwood witch i didn't think was a big issue since it does not have built in linux but then i tried deadlock who does have linux support and had the same issue however i haven't checked many games but for some reason psuedoregalia works perfectly fine

troubleshooting

on green hell i tried the developer recommended fix was to put the command -screen-width 1920 -screen-height 1080 into the launch options but this did not work

for deadlock my friend recommend i try proton ge. i have currently only tried going into the proton ge 10-33 , proton 7.0-6 and proton experimental none of these seemed to fix the issue

next thing i tried was running the steam terminal to grab the logs for the output here they are

https://pastebin.com/ctdZY3Ja

As title really. I tried to ask to bazzite discord. No answer. I play bedrock Minecraft a lot with friends. The nix launcher can be a bit temperamental with updates. I'd like to " cast" my phone to my bazzite install with either usb or WiFi. Scrcpy, cannot get to work well. Any other suggestions? Because I'd also use sunshine and moonlight but it doesn't seem to be offered android to bazzite. Any ideas?