Hi, I not so recently switched to Linux gaming, and have found that my Skyrim mod list just basically does not run properly under Linux. And in my testing, the conclusion I've come to is that the VRAM management on my Nvidia driver is just basically not existant for over-provisioning. So, pretty much as soon as my VRAM fills up and needs more VRAM to load in more textures or whatever, the frame rate takes a nose dive into the dirt. And I'm not entirely sure about what to do to fix this, because I don't have the money to go out and buy a new GPU, because I mean, who does these days? I have a 1660 super and I'm running cachy OS with the bore-lto kernel and I believe the proprietary drivers for nvidia. When I was on Windows, this wasn't really much of a problem. I could run this mod list at 30 FPS without frame generation for the most part in Tamriel. But on Linux with the exact same mod list, I get 5 FPS. And frame generation doesn't work. Granted, I'm still in the process of going through my mod list and chucking out any code mods that are taking a detrimental performance hit to kind of optimize my mod list in the first place as it desperately needs to be done, but I can barely have any kind of texture mods at all installed without my frame rate just dying because of VRAM.

What can I do to mitigate this, if anything at all? other than just buying an AMD GPU because they have a lot better driver support as I don't have the funds for even a used gpu.

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I am on Ubuntu and trying to play nightreign.

The map is on pressing the button in the middle as a touchpad. However when i try to press it, the touchpad activates, i turn my character and the maps does not open. Is it possible to disable the touchpad but keep the button active.

I found a few posts on this but have not found a solution that worked for me yet. So far i have tried:

• disabling the touchpad through ubuntu settings. This disables both the touchpad and the button
• writing a udev rule to for the Controller touchpad. This also disables both. It was a pain to find out the Controller name...
• changing the input in steam.

I have not found any other suggestions so i would love it if anyone else has any ides on what i could try. Thanks.

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I’ve read a lot about certain brands which produce GPUs, proprietary hardware, or unsupported software which continue to be unsupported or outright hostile about Linux support.

This has posed me to wonder; instead of focusing on the negatives: what are the best Linux friendly brands that have full proper support for their products? I know Linux has so many great and amazing tools to extend hardware otherwise unsupported, but I’m wondering which brands fully endorse their products on Linux by themselves without relying on open source devs to make their products work.

This way, next time I buy hardware, I can vote with my wallet.

The tech I am referring to are gaming mice, keyboards, weird little tools like Elgato stream decks, capture cards and more. Anything that has had a positive experience on Linux and is supported by the actual manufacturers!

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Hello all, new linux use here so be patient with me lol. A couple days ago I installed Bazzite for the first time and its great, I tried several different steam games and they all ran equal to or alot better that Win10. I installed Epic Games Launcher through Lutris and the launcher works flawlessly on both Proton GE or Proton Experimental, I downloaded Snowrunner and Hogwarts Legacy and both are issues. Snowrunner before anything even shows up on screen with close back out, and Hogwarts legacy will open a window and sit on a black screen, but if I dont close it back out before it sits for a few minutes it freezes my PC, any tips?

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so i just downloaded Arkham city from steamrip in my arch linux and i tried to run it from steam library using proton ge and it doesn't show anything like it just doesn't run, then i tried to run it in lutris and still the same thing what am i missing here any help would be appreciated

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Im currently playing a 1.7.10 minecraft modpack.

Out of nowhere my whole system Starter stuttering, froze about 4 minuets later and then the kernel killed it because of the used memory.

Now i have looked at the memory in btop, the memory leakage is only starting after i joined a server or opened a world, it isnt present in the Main screen, it seamingly isnt related to Java too, since its suroasses my set xmx value and the Java process also doesnt increase in memory usage.

After leaving the world or the server the leackage stops, after closing minecraft the memory stays as used except the ammount used by Java.

It also stays as used after loging out of the session.

It also isnt decreasing after all that and there is no listed process in btop which is using this much memory.

Does anyone know what the fuck is happening here or what i could use to figure things out?

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I heard modding is annoying on linux so I wanna know does that include the visual novel patchers that is sometimes required to play the full game or not ? Just need a heads up so I can buy it from different stores

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System info:

OS: Arch Linux x86_64; Kernel: Linux 6.18.1-arch-2; CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400F (12)z; GPU: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3050, GPU Driver: 580.119.02; Wayland

Story: I tried playing Lords of the Fallen 2023 on steam, which is been gold on ProtonDB. It doesn't even start up at all. The play button glows blue as if the game was starting, but then it reverts back to green after around 20 seconds. I tried all of the Protons Steam offers, I also tried running it with the different arguments I found people mentioning on ProtonDB. Nothing worked really. I also tried using Lutris with some older Protons. That's it.

Then I stopped working on the issue and uninstalled the game, with having in mind I might return to it in the distant future. Then, something interesting happened. Stick Fight: The Game (Platinum on ProtonDB), had exactly the same issue. It blips for a second as if booting up and then immediatelly shuts down. Not even a window to open up. Here, I wasn't so thorough, I just tried all protons, but nothing happened.

While these two unrelated games have the very same issue and both games work on brother's computer, who also uses Linux (more or less the same config but has AMD graphics instead of NVIDIA). Strangely enough, these are the only two games I observed the issue, other games work fine.

I provide logs for the Stick Fights, I don't want to really bother with redownloading LotF for the logs right now if even the smaller game doesn't work yet.

https://pastes.io/stick-fights-proton-log

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Can linux reliably run nikke and brown dust 2? If so, can they also be run in proxmox virtual machines?

context: I have a nuc cluster with proxmox; a laptop with arch and a gaming pc with windows 11. Aside from clipstudio paint, which i use to draw, these two games are the main thing preventing me from installing linux on my gaming pc; and i kinda just want to add my gaming pc to the proxmox cluster and use it remotely through a vm and take one of the nucs off of the cluster to install arch. If playing via vm isnt viable, i am fine with installing arch on the gaming pc, but it does use an Nvidia rtx 4060TI 16GB. I'm also curious as to how well vr games run on linux, be it in a vm or otherwise.

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Hey all,

I am trying to pick up a couple controllers for my younger kids. Basically I want something preferably a little smaller than a standard controller. I'd like them to be able to connect via an included dongle or bluetooth (my computer does not have bluetooth so I would need to buy a usb one)

Basically I want something that is a decent quality and can work fine on linux with multiple of them running at the same time wirelessly.

I was looking at the 8bitdo lite but it doesnt seem to come with dongle and I'm not sure if it would work connecting multiple via a usb bluetooth adatper or which adapter to get

Any advice is appreciated thank you!

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So, im using an MSI Suprim SOC 5090 gpu and wanted to know if it was possible to undervolt it at all. Im using bazzite, and my psu is a corsair hx1500i incase that helps.

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I'm sharing my own experiences as well as those I've read about elsewhere.

For gaming, you have more planned obsolescence than on Windows, at least with graphics cards. If you have a GPU that's no longer supported, or something similar, you'll have a harder time running newer versions of Proton and you'll have to rely on modified versions from third parties. This ultimately leads to worse compatibility.

Now let's add Nvidia to the equation. Their proprietary drivers cause problems with newer kernels, and this is quite noticeable on graphics cards that haven't been supported for years. For example, a GTX 780 has trouble installing its proprietary drivers on newer distributions. This is because newer kernels don't support such old drivers. It means using a very old distribution with support or patching an older kernel. On Windows, it will work the same as always, except that it won't work with newer games due to outdated drivers or a lack of technology.

The infamous overhead, which I've personally experienced. Consuming more resources in the same game. Benchmarks are run on high-end systems, where these problems can be minimized due to the sheer power.

I've experienced lag in the past when playing The Witcher 3 or GTA V with a quad-core i5 and an RX 570 4GB, while running perfectly on Windows. Then there's the issue with Nvidia, where you lose at least 20% in DirectX 12 games, something I already experienced with a GTX 1050 Ti or GT 1030, which are already struggling even on Windows.

There's a need for good Vulkan support. For example, playing indie games with a GTX 750 Ti using the Unity engine and getting lower FPS compared to Windows. Then, installing a GT 1030, which is a worse card, increases the FPS by 50%. Graphics cards where Vulkan or DirectX 12 wasn't their strong point perform better on Windows than on GNU/Linux.

Now I'm getting into game clients. With Steam, there's not too much of a problem, since it automates almost everything. But it's like going through the same monopoly as on Windows for gaming. I have many games from Epic Games, GOG.com, EA, etc., and Heroic Launcher, Lutris, etc., have problems launching games. Many don't launch unless you install certain libraries or codecs yourself and use a specific version of Proton. I also have pirated games in compressed repacks. Some even had problems installing. I also sometimes use trainers in some games. I'm not very good at playing, and in some RPGs, I add things like leveling up faster to improve my character more quickly. There's nothing official about this. While on Windows you have clients with a double-click, on Linux I only saw a manual configuration on GitHub.

Also, Windows has benchmark and testing software with a graphical interface and complete features. Linux isn't the same. For example, MangoHUD is configured manually through text. There are external GUIs available, but nothing as automated as MSI Afterburner and many others.

I currently have two older computers. Two Xeon E3 1150 v3 processors, similar to the 4770 and i7-4790. The first has a GTX 1650 4GB and the second a GTX 1660. Let's just say the "good" gaming PC is the one with the GTX 1660. Both have SSDs and 16GB of DDR3 RAM. My main PC uses Windows 10 LSTC 2021 IoT with support until 2032. The second one runs the regular Windows 10 22H2 to avoid compatibility issues in games.

Currently, it's not worth it for me, given the performance and driver problems with Nvidia. That's another problem. Many of the old, second-hand Radeon graphics cards are burned out from mining, and I had to return some. They don't support full DirectX 12, and there are many models to choose from. This is normal, since AMD only has a 6% market share, and this is noticeable in both new and used PCs.

As a last resort, when Windows 10 stops working altogether, I see a Linux distribution as the best option for minimal gaming, leaving my other PC with Windows 11, for example, for gaming.

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So far my BC250 is running pretty good, but having an issue with Expedition 33 crashing when starting a game. I get into the menu and it works fine if I try to start a new game or continue one, it crashes when it tries to transition to rendering something from the loading screen.

Running Bazzite, stock clocks, 512mb Vram assigned in bios. Anyone else have a similar issue or have you been able to progress?

I have tried running the game in non-deck mode and forcing DX11 but neither changed the behavior. Not facing overheating, GPU and CPU never go above 75* before hard lock of the system.

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Good day,

I switched to from W10 to mint two month ago and so far I never turned back. Gaming wasn't a problem in the beginning (like AoE2DE).

Now I played some hours PoE2 and Diablo 4 with proton. In both games it can happen that my PC freezes and stops working. I believe this happens more often when I click in Firefox on the second monitor, but this could be coincidence. I need to press and hold the power button and restart.

My graphic card is Nvidia 4060 GTX, I tried the driver version 580 and 570, with no difference.

I also tried to limit the VRAM in a mentioned workaround, but without effect.

How to solve the issue? Or how can I investigate the issue more? Maybe it has nothing to do with VRAM, but I dunno.

And help appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Got back into Rivals recently, mostly playing w friends but occasionally solo queue comp. Lately I've had these random freezes, where I'll be running around and my whole pc will freeze, super key does nothing, alt tab nothing, only fix is the hard reset the PC. Not sure if its related ir coincidental but I've only had it happen when playing as Daredevil.

Im using a 9800x3d, 9700 xt and 32gb of ram with an extra 32 swap for reference.

Is this a common issue? If so does anyone know a fix?

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It's just something that bothers me too much on Linux. Games like Marvel Rivals, Overwatch 2, any competitive game at general all have TERRIBLE stuttering issues on my PC; shader compiling takes forever, and if I skip it, it's basically unplayable.

It's not my PC that is bad, i can run Red Dead Redemption 2 on High settings, Cyberpunk 2077 on High settings + mods without any issue at all, and shader compiling takes no time at all. Even cracked games work without any issues, this problem only happens on competitive games on Steam. Why? :(

I also tried several GPUs: GTX 750ti (I used to play on it without any issues back when I still used Windows, back in 2022), RX 550, RX 560, and even my RX 5700. Even on different CPUs, I've tried Core 2 Quad Q9400, i3 2100 (both playing without any stuttering on windows, but not on Linux), and on my current I5 3470 that still has the same problem.

My PC:

RX 5700

I5 3470

16GB DRR3

SSD NVMe 512GB

PS: Yeah, i know my CPU is really weak for my GPU, but i found it really cheap from a acquaintance of mine, like, WAY cheaper than any GPU i could buy in my country.

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I have RDR2 installed in one disk (installed from Windows) and want to open it with Lutris. Wine wasn't working and would stay updating the prefix indefinitely, so I'm now trying with Proton. These are my settings:

https://preview.redd.it/hq78koqgwbcg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=551a88adffdd072ce4d9199f4359ef2f671bfff3

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