Previously used popOS on a lap with no gpu and got a good ebough gaming performance but that lap broke and while it lasted popOS gave me a good run, i cant go back to windows cuz i hate it(its caveman OS to me) and i got used to popOS cuz of using it for 1 and half year.... heard they even have nvidia popOS ISO but im concerned..

Im gonna get a gaming laptop soon with RTX 4050 and core 5 210H

Will the hardware mux switch work fine will games on steam use the dpu by default automatically or should i do stuff to force it in hybrid mode??

Does switching modes igpu/hybrid/dgpu take restarts between everything??

How is the graphics driver situation for nvidia cards on linux right now? How to upgrade graphics drivers just sudo apt upgrade?? Or something else??

Would rbg work or do i need apps for it? Asusctl works with this laptop??

Since its a new laptop im lowkenuinely scared for switching to linux i hope nvidia gpu updates dont break stuff

Its a tuf F16 1920x1200 core 5 210H RTX4050 6GB VRAM 16GB DDR5 5200Mhz

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How it looks /how its supoused to look. No special launch options, force use of GE-Proton10-34 as only custom that was the only one that launched the game. All other levels previous to this one work perfectly the problem is with this kind of lighting in the .

-Ryzen 5 2600

-rx 5700 xt (all drivers installed and updated)

-32gb ram ddr4

-Omarchy 3.5.0 Linux 6.19.10-arch1-1

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Loaded up Linux mint cinnamon after Windows pissed me off about a month ago.

Opening up Squad with Proton GE but all the servers are in Chinese and the ping quite literally says —- for all the servers. My location in Steam is in the United States and there is no filter in the squad settings. that will allow me to change my location.

How do I fix this?

Also, how do I get surround sound back with my JBL quantum 610’s?

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Like yea, with proton I get that compatibility issues have largely been resolved at least for amd. And I'll get amd if that's what it takes. But what about the performance diff between windows and Linux

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does Game File Transfer over Local Network typically work on Linux? I have no internet, so I tried to go somewhere with my laptop, download a game, and come back to transfer it to the desktop. I can't seem to figure it out, and have tried directly linking them with ethereal, as well as over a mobile hotspot. I do have the Game Transfer option enabled on both PCs

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Tried all Proton Layers. Tried no commands at all. Game use to run just fine. Cachy OS. 9070xt. 7800x3d. Mesa 26.04. Linux 7.0.0-1. Cant even launch game.

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Hey there,
I'm new to the whole Linux Gaming to be fair.
So I just wanted to install "Mongil: Star Dive". When doing that over Heroic it prompted me with the error that I need the Epic Games Launcher installed to run the Game. After I couldn't find a solution for this I tried it via Lutris. It didn't even start the Netmarble launcher to begin with and after using the manual install over Lutris I was prompted with this error:

https://preview.redd.it/xjafst13jfvg1.png?width=553&format=png&auto=webp&s=335f2afcb70d82126f89b29db05084520d6b56dd

I am honestly clueless at this point as I cant seem to find a fix. Have any of you encountered similar issues either with Heroic or Lutris?

Thank you in advance!

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specs: Arch linux, kde plasma (wayland)

Amd Ryzen9 5900X

kingston 32gb ddr4, kingston 1000gb ssd

Rtx 4060 8gb

Game i’m having problem with is overwatch launch directly via Steam with proton hotfix. It eat up 14-17gb of memory when i’m playing. Sometime even cause crash, i tried to switch to proton 9.x or ge-proton and the issue persists. Setting graphic quality to medium or low and capping fps at 100, or adding command to steam launch option also doesnt fix. On window its only like 4gb max and my other linux friend also doesnt reach the usage as high as me. I’m out of idea on how to fix it, saw some posts saying its the game issue and not linux. Need confirmation, thanking in advance

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X (12) @ 5.486G

GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 9060 XT

Memory: 32 GB

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS x86_64

Kernel: 6.17.0-20-generic

Proton GE : 10-10 ( doesn't work with 10-32 , 10-34 , and Experimental)

laucher: heroic 2.20 flatpak

source: fitgirl

thought it might be useful for others as reference

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I want to share two of my "projects", especially for those who have MCHOSE gaming peripherals.

I play a lot of FPS games like The Finals, so manually changing the mouse profile every time is annoying. I often forget about it and then realize it in-game, not to mention that when I forget to have my gaming profile turned on, the battery drains really quickly.

MCHOSEWaybarBattery : Displays battery percentage and mouse name and displays it on Waybar.

MCHOSEProfileSelector : Allows you to activate a mouse gaming profile when you launch a Steam game and sets it to a conservative profile when you close it.

They are certainly not the best solutions in the world, but they do the dirty work they need to.

I hope they can be useful to you!

Thank you for your attention and I wish you a good game 😊

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I want to play Sea of Thieves, and I usually do so with random players from the Discord. On Windows, I needed to use Xbox Game Bar to invite players without adding them as friends or to accept any invites. On Linux, I need to add them as a friend to invite them, and cannot accept invites at all.

Is there a way around this?

Fedora 43, Wayland, running the game though Steam.

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hi guys I installed doom eternal (crack) from 3 different sites and the same bug happen to me(I try lutris launcher and I switch to heroic launcher and the same bug), in the begging game runs great when I start to play black screen appears and go so fast and, they don't let me see and make the game more scary

sooo how can I fix it?

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I'm running the 595.58.03 Nvidia driver on kernel 6.19.12-1-cachyos, KDE Plasma/Wayland

Was playing a Minecraft modpack yesterday and out of nowhere my whole system completely froze and had to force power it off, I looked in the kernel logs and saw it was something related to the GSP firmware after it woke from sleep.

I know nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 was the workaround, and someone previously asked about it in this post but this was for 555 drivers.

Is GSP STILL an issue on the 590 drivers????

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Hi guys,

I've been having the issue of some games on steam freezing after a few seconds. They launch normally and then suddently they freeze. A lot of those are old games that I've been able to play with no issues when I still was using windows so the hardware requirements shouldn't be the issue.

I can't tell what the commone denominator is between the games that work with no issues and those that just freeze.

I'm unsing Linux mint.

I'm not well-versed in tech, so please be kind <3

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Hey! have been enjoying using Linux so far(apart from rookie errors and some weird bugs that I don't have the energy to deal with), however with games, it has been complicated. One of the games I was obsessed with was Cyberpunk, however I had to rely on Windows for now to play it, even if the game is rated "Gold" on ProtonDB. I would like some help with troubleshooting my issue.

My configuration is a

• Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (2021) with a Ryzen 7 Processor,
• NVIDIA RTX 3060 DGPU with 6 GB of VRAM
• Operating System: EndeavorOS with the zen kernel
• RAM: 24GB DDR4

Issues:

1. Game seems to never go above 50-60 FPS, even with the settings turned to the lowest possible, and the frame limit/v sync turned off.
2. Weirdly, the menus run as expected. The cursor movement indicates the right refresh rate.
3. On mangoHUD it's the same thing. It never displays higher frame-rate.
4. FrameGen makes no difference whatsoever. While the FPS is higher, the presented frames never feel like the smoothness expected from 100-120 FPS.
5. DLSS results in black splotches everywhere.

What I have tried:

1. Changing to different versions of Proton. So far, Hotfix and the latest version of GE-Proton gives best performance and stability.
2. Switched to X11, and still the issue remains
3. Even created a partition to boot into CachyOS, still the same issue but I had expected it.
4. Increased powerlimits on the dGPU, still no dice.
5. Used params like PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND or NTSYNC.

If you need more details, I will provide it in the comments.

Especially with the dGPU, I was having performance issues that I believed wouldn't be there.

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Haven't played much as far as video games since Kingdom Hearts, SoCom on ps2. Or Zelda on Gamecube/DS. Looking for similar immersive, decent artwork games that i can play from linux

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hey, i have 3.7k hours in cs:go and cs2 matchmaking is honestly terrible. so ive been building an open-source alternative in my free time.

what im working on:

• lobbies, friends, messaging
• competitive and wingman matchmaking with ranking
• 128 tick servers
• server-side anti-cheat
• desktop and web clients

everything will be fully open source. no company behind it, no paywall, just a side project from a devops engineer who wants better matchmaking.

the hard part is infrastructure — multi-region 128 tick servers arent cheap. if this gets traction id love help with contributions, testing, and eventually donations to keep servers running (like how blender and other open source projects do it).

still in progress. if theres interest ill share the repo and a roadmap.

would you actually use something like this?

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