I'm in EndeavourOS and trying to capture Minecraft (from Prism Launcher) through vkcapture. I tried both the AUR obs-vkcapture as well as the -git package, and the game is not recognized by OBS. Even if I did apply the needed arg in /etc/environment as someone posted in this subreddit a while ago, it still won't budge. Is there any way to resolve this? Thank you in advance!

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Hey all, I had to hop off Linux for some time partly due to a faulty secondary SSD and also needed to use Windows for some time for a project I was helping some friends with. Since I only had one SSD at the time I just decided to return to Linux at a later date.

I last left off mostly distro hopping to test out different distros and their offerings. This time around I decided to just start with Ubuntu 24.04 and move from there. I moved away almost immediately because the gaming performance was really bad. I use Steam exclusively and was using the deb package from the Steam website not the system package nor the snap.

I switched to the point release of Ubuntu which was 24.10 (25.04 was just a few weeks away from release at this point) and everything worked perfectly but I was having issues with gnome and wallpaper slideshows; long story short each time the wallpaper changed, I’d get a huge system wide stutter and it was getting annoying

Then I moved to Mint and to my surprise despite the fact that its base off of Ubuntu 24.04, it ran games really well. Not sure if my first installation of 24.04 was just a one off and was having issues. I was using steams deb package here as well

Moved to Debian from there mainly because I’m more of a stock experience type of person and don’t like too many things being added on top of my OS. I installed it with KDE plasma and despite being older than 24.04 it actually ran games better but not great.

What should I be taking into consideration when picking out a disro if I’m also looking to play current games. I’m assuming at least a relatively up to date kernel and nvidia drivers. Any distros worth checking out? Appreciate advice and suggestions :)

EDIT: forgot to mention that I’m not looking specifically for a gaming distro since I’ll be doing other things in this computer. Just looking for general recomendations. And if possible I’d like to stick to KDE plasma

EDIT2: forgot to mention that I’d also consider myself moderately tech savvy in case that helps with what you suggest

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I built a PC last year, with the idea of trying out gaming on Linux. I've no interest in using windows, I haven't used it for anything in a long time. I'd describe my Linux proficiency as 9/10, with 10/10 as a kernel contributor. Really a lot of experience, and more than a decade of relevant work.

Unfortunately my experience hasn't been great. The big problem is the auto updates; a triple whammy of updates from steam, the games and Nvidia drivers. I only have enough time to game a few times per month, and I feel like everytime I try, there is something which has been broken by an update. Now, if you've spent a long day at work dealing with crappy code, then you spend hours putting kids to bed, I can say the absolute last thing you want to do is spend more time debugging.

Last time I tried to play RDR2 there was a windows runtime error. Today I tried again and steam won't even launch.

Absolutely I could work through these problems if I made a consistent effort. If I decide to persevere then I guess I'll have to make a script to keep backups of everything, and then find a way of tricking steam/games/Nvidia that everything is already updates. But I don't really want to, I just want to game a bit when I have the time.

I guess someone with my profile is better off with a console, but I know they come with lots of BS of their own these days and I don't really want to go there. But the only people I would recommend Linux gaming too, are those with lots of time for both tinkering and gaming, and for whom the process of problem solving on Linux will be valuable.

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Hi I have one PC with Lenovo Legion T5 26IOB6 with RTX 3070. I have installed Endeavour OS and drivers and everything seemed to work fine. But sometimes the PC gets hard freezes. I checked BIOS update and there is, sadly it's in a .exe form and the BIOS settings don 't have any BIOS Flash settings to update. It's pretty much made via Windows only.

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Compré el Gamesir Cyclone 2, todo muy bien, definitivamente es un mando increible, sin embargo, cunado intenté usar el control por movimiento en Linux, en ninguno de los 3 modos es funcional, ni en modo xbox, ni ps4 y como mando de swtich, ¿alguna idea de qué se puede hacer?

Nota: Por si alguno no sabe, se cambia el modo oprimiendo 2 segundos "select+start".

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so i need a nice and consistent way to cap my FPS without the use of mangohud and goverlay.
using mangohud and goverlay does work but every time I change the FPS while the game is open it immediately crashes my game and I would like to have something that can lock FPS without forcing me to restart every time

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Wana get a pc without a graphics card for the moment Gonna take a Ryzen 8600g plus 32gb ddr5 at 6000mhz I hope this config will run game smoothly in linux Any driver issues in linux for this igpu

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I've had to boot to Windows to play both Stalker 2 and now Oblivion Remastered. Both games run at least 50% better on Windows side with my current rig which makes me infuriated. Has anyone else noticed a huge difference with this shitty UE5 games on Linux? Have you been able to do anything about this?

I'm on Fedora 42 and I've installed Nvidia drivers with the default guide for it. I'm using the open source drivers if I remember correctly. Are there proprietary Nvidia drivers for Fedora and are they measurably better when running UE5 games? All other single player games run almost better on my Linux install but UE5 is the opposite.

I'm getting so desperate that I'm thinking of just building a new beefier PC so I don't have to use Windows so much. I upgraded to the Nvidia GPU from an AMD GPU about two weeks before I got my first OneDrive pop up and decided to switch to Linux (**** me).

Specs:

OS: Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64
Linux 6.14.3-300.fc42.x86_64
Display (MSI G27CQ4): 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (12) @ 4.21 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate [Discrete]
Ram: 16Gb

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i can get in to load on windows fine but Linux crashes on launch with this console output. Anyone have a clue why?

Proton: Upgrading prefix from None to 9.0-202 (/run/media/damien/Test/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/489830
/)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix/proton", line 1763, in <module>
g_session.init_session(sys.argv[1] != "runinprefix")
File "/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix/proton", line 1670, in init_session
g_compatdata.setup_prefix()
File "/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix/proton", line 855, in setup_prefix
os.symlink("../drive_c", self.prefix_dir + "/dosdevices/c:")
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '../drive_c' -> '/run/media/damien/Test/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdat
a/489830/pfx//dosdevices/c:'
chdir "/run/media/damien/Test/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Skyrim Special Edition"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cann
ot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cann
ot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cann
ot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 489830, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 19595 for gameID 489830
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cann
ot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
gamemodeauto:
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cann
ot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
gamemodeauto:
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cann
ot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cann
ot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Adding process 19608 for gameID 489830
Adding process 19609 for gameID 489830
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object fil
e): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object fil
e): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgamemodeauto.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object fil
e): ignored.
Proton: Upgrading prefix from None to 9.0-202 (/run/media/damien/Test/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/489830
/)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix/proton", line 1763, in <module>
g_session.init_session(sys.argv[1] != "runinprefix")
File "/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix/proton", line 1670, in init_session
g_compatdata.setup_prefix()
File "/home/damien/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix/proton", line 855, in setup_prefix
os.symlink("../drive_c", self.prefix_dir + "/dosdevices/c:")
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '../drive_c' -> '/run/media/damien/Test/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdat
a/489830/pfx//dosdevices/c:'
Adding process 19732 for gameID 489830
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=489830]
Removing process 19732 for gameID 489830
Removing process 19609 for gameID 489830
Removing process 19608 for gameID 489830
Removing process 19595 for gameID 489830

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Ive been using my laptop for college and games for around a year by now, i've occasionally used steaminput on certain games for gyro aiming and its been mostly working fine with steam games and non steam games.
Most of the time i just ran my itch copy of celeste, using my switch controller natively, and now that's broken too.
It happened yesterday when i was trying to change the controller profile for halo mcc where the ui stopped responding mid configuration and i had to restart the system, from then on nothing's worked, the only application registering my input is input-remapper, not even dolphin sees any other devices.

Been troubleshooting for a while since and i just can't figure out what i should be doing.

Any help would be appreciated !

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Looking to get a pc for my wife and will probably be putting fedora 42 gnome on it. I know the 3070 ti is faster technically but was unsure how much nvidea is doing in the present with there drivers. Also I know 3070 ti is 8gb vram while the 6700 xt is 12gb. How much is that going to affect current and near future gaming? If I remember right the 12700k is a better gpu than the 5800x.

System 1: $700 12700K CPU 6700XT GPU

System 2: $750 5800x CPU 3070 TI GPU

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NVIDIA sent out a security bulletin today to reveal a fresh security flaw found in their Linux GPU drivers. So it’s time to get updating again to be safe.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

People continually say adding the following code ******** to a script or file or something to modify starting parameters etc, but where and how do you add it? One example given was to add "dx11 / --use-d3d11" to get Steam or game to use dx11 instead of dx12.

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When trying to play SKSE, NPCs mouths will move like they're talking, but the audio doesn't play and subtitles don't come up until they're done moving their mouths, and they won't start moving their mouths for the next line until the previous line has completely finished playing.

I've tried Proton Experimental, Hotfix, GE, and Proton 7, all have the same issue. I've tried setting the launch option WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 %command% as well.

Any ideas?

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I have downloaded limo mode manager flatpak but idk how to actually use it its not as straight forward as vortex, there are no tutorials and the github page does not help with its usage, can anyone help ?

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Linux-wise, I'm total noob, so keep that in mind.

The goal is to give my old laptop a last chance before donating it to electro-junk container so it could serve as a HTPC with the possibility of lightweight gaming (like, very lightweight).

What I need:

• possibility to install old proprietary Nvidia drivers (from 384 to 390)
• possibility to disable Optimus and force the OS to use dGPU only (no BIOS option for that). This tool seems lovely. This is necessary since iGPU cannot even handle Steam itself lol

And that's basically that. What I tried so far:

• Ubuntu - first encounter with Linux so it went pretty bad
• Nobara - I liked it but it doesn't support such an old GPU. I would have to switch to Xorg and somehow install unsupported drivers (which I tried but with no results)
• Zorin OS - another good overall experience, with apparent support for 390 driver. However installing resulted with "pk-client-error-quark: Error while installing package (...) post installation error code 10 (313)." Despite that, I feel like overcoming this issue would be my endgame on the matter of perfect distro.

I'm pretty sure it can be done but my absolute lack of knowledge blocks me quite effectively to perform any troubleshooting without help. I can always go back to Win10 but it puts a significant strain on this pc and Win7 is not an option anymore.

So, where should I head?

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Hello,

I've noticed high VRAM usage in KDE, which has been affecting the games that I'm able to run properly. My hardware the following

Distro: Fedora 42 KDE spin

CPU: AMD ryzen 7800X3D

GPU: RTX 3080 10G

Driver version: 570.144 (though I have noticed this issue in earlier driver versions too.)

RAM: 32 GB 6000MT/s DDR5

Sitting on the desktop and running nvidia-smi sees my GPU running at 2.3-2.7GB of VRAM Usage. This is after disabling mallit-keyboard and exiting out of steam (or disabling hardware acceleration) and running no other programs such as web browsers

Unfortunately this effectively makes it so that my card is limited to using 8GB of VRAM for games, which is causing issues in newer releases, cause when I fill up the VRAM buffer, the game's FPS drops substantially until I restart the game. For example in Oblivion remastered, If I start the game in a dungeon, vram usage is at about 8GB of 10 and it runs at a locked 60 fps. Exiting into the overworld fills the VRAM buffer almost immediately and I drop to 20-50 fps with inconsistent frame times. Going back into the dungeon afterwards leaves the game running at 20-50 Fps though, as VRAM is still maxed out. This remains an issue until I restart the game. A similar issue is present in

Basically, I have a few questions here:

Is the high VRAM usage on desktop present for anyone using AMD hardware? Is this a KDE specific issue? If you're running on Gnome or another desktop, is VRAM usage still high? Are there any recommendations for tweaks I could make? I've tried stuff such as creating an embedded game scope session to launch into for more modern games, but unfortunately embedded game scope still has too many issues on Nvidia hardware to make that a viable solution for now.

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As I discover the potential of this amazing simulator and learn the capabilities of the aircraft, I'm having fun creating these showcase videos.

I hope you're enjoying as much as I am.

THANK YOU and HAVE FUN!

https://youtu.be/WMkNBKSC2Ys?si=0UhNypt80nvblCdU

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Barotrauma devs FakeFish recently revealed Frostrail during the Triple-I Initiative event, and they're giving a "tentative yes" for Linux support.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.