Hi, I switched to CachyOS recently and haven't had much issue playing games, except when it comes to The Sims 4, I can't seem to install a specific mod manager to handle my mods, because every time it tries to install, either through Lutris or through Steam using the latest version of Proton, or Proton Experimental, or the CachyOS variant, the OS will terminate the application and pull out a "Memory Shortage Avoided" notification.

For the record, this mod manager has never given me issues on Windows and never affected the memory so much. A much more resource heavy-game such as Elden Ring doesn't even use up that much memory in comparison either. Why is this one using up so much in a short time, just to load up an app?

My memory seems to rest at about 5 GB out of 16 GB at base, which seems like a bit much, and there are background services running that seem to hog a lot of it (though Firefox uses even more)...Why is that? Do I have a memory leak somewhere? Has any other Sims user tried running this app and making it work?

Additionally I checked my processes in the system monitor, turned "Show All Processes", and see that besides my usual apps, there is Windows showing up as the largest at 1.1 gb. I don't know if this is from Wine or something else.

Running CachyOS Kernel: 6.17.5-2-cachyos, KDE Plasma and KWin/Wayland.

Specs

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900HX (32) @ 5.80 GHz GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile [Discrete] GPU 2: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics @ 1.65 GHz [Integrated] Memory: 5.82 GiB / 15.34 GiB (38%) Swap: 5.07 GiB / 15.33 GiB (33%) System: Host: cachyos-x8664 Kernel: 6.17.5-2-cachyos arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: clang v: 21.1.3 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.1 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM Distro: CachyOS base: Arch Linux CPU: Info: 24-core (8-mt/16-st) model: Intel Core i9-14900HX bits: 64 type: MST AMCP arch: Raptor Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 2.1 MiB L2: 32 MiB L3: 36 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 826 min/max: 800/5600:5800:4100 cores: 1: 826 2: 826 3: 826 4: 826 5: 826 6: 826 7: 826 8: 826 9: 826 10: 826 11: 826 12: 826 13: 826 14: 826 15: 826 16: 826 17: 826 18: 826 19: 826 20: 826 21: 826 22: 826 23: 826 24: 826 25: 826 26: 826 27: 826 28: 826 29: 826 30: 826 31: 826 32: 826 bogomips: 154828 Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx Graphics: Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Xe ports: active: eDP-2 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:a788 Device-2: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 580.95.05 arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, eDP-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:28e0

Is there anything I can do here? I would like to use this mod manager whether through Steam or Lutris, but for some reason my memory gets filled up so quickly when this never happened in Windows 11. And this might be a risky question but is it possible to disable killing the memory shortage thing entirely and just let it run through?

I can provide more information, I just wasn't sure what else to put, I apologize.

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1. I am using two NVMe SSDs for the new pc, one is a new one I am buying, but the other one is the one I am currently using on Win10, its not my boot drive but it is the one I install pretty much any game on, and its my main storage drive I use for things like images and videos, so I am just wondering if there will be any complications with those installed games when switching from Win10 to Linux, and I assume the images and videos will be fine but I thought I would mention it just in case

2. is installing mods or making mods any different for most games on Linux over Windows?

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I just bought Escape from Duckov, which is developed and distributed by Chinese. How to make sure that this game has no internet connection and not shipping any data to somewhere else?

I tried using firejail and add it to the launch option like this `firejail --net=none %command%`, but any game will just crash. I even tried `firejail --net=none steam steam://rungameid/[game id]` but that game will just crash.

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Hey so, any recomendations in "alternative" versions of a Xbox controller to play Yakuza Kiwami on Linux mint?
I was trying to plug in my bootleg xbox one controller from "Shanwan" which the PC recognizes as a "controller device" but neither of the steam games, or the input log recognizes so I'm highly considering to buy a new controller, unless someone has an Idea on what else I could try to check out if my PC with Linux Mint actually recognizes the inputs of my controller

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As per the title, what are some must have launch options to use in steam for performance and stability, as well as any nvidia must haves?

I know these can tend to be more critical on a per game basis or per issue basis but what have you all discovered that can give a general boost?

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I downloaded Gearbox’s original Halo: CE PC port from RohanKar’s tweet (it’s also mirrored on the Internet Archive), but I haven’t been able to get it running in my Bottles container.
I keep getting the following error message:

“Executable file version is not a valid Halo version string.”

Not really sure how to fix this. This isn’t my first time running older games on Bottles, but it is the first time I’ve seen this particular error.

Since it’s the original 2003 PC port, I also tried running it inside a Windows XP–based bottle (to match the era), but no luck there either.

For context: I’m on Fedora Silverblue 42, using the latest version of Bottles (51.26) with the default soda-9.0-1 / dxvk-2.7.1 setup.

I’m also not sure if this is a Bottles-specific issue, so I’ll try running it directly with not sure if this is a Bottles-specific issue, so I’ll try running it directly with Proton-GE later, will update if it works.

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How you enable FSR4 for Rivals on Linux? I've done a ton of Googling and even tried Bing, but there really isn't anything concrete out there to get it to work. I have a 9070XT.

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Everything is in the title. I tried a lot of things but I feel like the only thing I do now is either waiting for kernel devs to debug xpad or completely reinstall kubuntu...

Have you ever experienced something like this?

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I'm new to Linux, and I just put in a fresh install of debian.

Since it's Linux, I know there's a command I can punch in that'll make my VR PC use the GPU instead of the integrated graphics.

I'm using an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X if that's relevant.

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i have an ASUS laptop (FX505DT) and i installed Ubuntu on it but while running minecraft java edition, the FPS drops so much my Vega 8 runs better than the 1650 . sometimes drop to the 40s after a reboot it doesn't run at all but only and play the soundtrack. using F3 shows that it is using the Nvidia gpu

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Hello. Ive just installed hyprland and im configuring some stuff but Steam seems to be all over the place when it comes to hyprland. It launches between my two monitors, the game resolution is all wrong and some other issues. Do you guys know if theres a way to fix it? Not even CS2 is running properly. The textures of all skins are just a black model. Im running it on a r5 5600 + RTX 4070 super + 32 GB RAM.

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May not be exactly about gaming, but I need help with lutris. I tried to run ClickTeam Fusion 2.5 Developer on Lutris (this is how I often run windows software) but it wouldn't run. I checked the logs several times and suddenly got them spammed with messages telling me to kms. I'm running Bazzite Fedora, and the wine runner version is "wine-ge-8-26-x86_64". I also checked the file with virustotal before downloading it from Archive (which, I know, you should be safe with stuff from there) I would attach the screenshot I got but my posts containing it were already removed by reddit </3

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I buy my games on GOG or STEAM. However, there is one specific game that I am interested in and I don't think it can be bought anywhere else. The game is called the SIMS MEDIEVAL.

How could I get an origin game to run on Linux? Is it possible?

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Hello,

Due to many problems with windows 11 i recently switched to Linux Mint. I installed steam and i’m using Proton 9.0.4( tried experimental and hotfix too). Other game are running great like Satisfactory, smooth fps and stable.

But for some reason with poe i get input lag, bad fps( like 15 to 35) and the game looks bad in general(textures). I‘ve downloaded the newest kernel and ive checked ProtonDB for adjustments, however none are really working. I also tried turning off precache shaders in Steam settings, but performance only got worse.

Any further advice?

System: Ryzen 7 5800x3d RTX 6600 8GB 32 GB RAM Samsung Evo 970. 2 TB Tried Vulcan and DX 12, no real difference. Thanks.

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System Information

GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop Video driver version: nvidia 580.95.05 Kernel version: 6.17.5-pikaos Link to full system information report as Gist: Proton version: 9.0-4 and GE10-10 Issue

EA Launcher Opens Normally Game window opens and crashes instantly or sometimes after few seconds from main menu

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I have a Asus TUF Gaming fx505d with Nvidia GTX 1050, 32GB RAM, 256GB SSD. And a Logitech G920 Steering wheel and pedals (Oversteer seems to be working for this).

As a Windows 10/11 machine, I could barely run Assetto Corsa and BeamNG (through Steam), crashing occasionally, with graphics on the lowest settings.

So I made the switch to Pop!OS. BeamNG runs about as well/poorly as it did before, but Assetto Corsa will not run at all.

I have added "gamemoderun mangohud %command%" to the Launch Options for both games in Steam. And I have tried several versions of Proton in the Compatibility settings.

I have gone through a lot of comments and cannot seem to figure out what I am missing.

Can anyone spot the issue? Does anyone have a guide they think I should reference?

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Kept seeing this thing called “Bottles” which make games on Windows run on Linux. Tried looking up any gameplay with Bottles being used, yet every single video I find that talks about bottles are only tutorials and never show Bottles actually RUNNING the games. I’m still hesitant on making the switch to Linux because of it, so I might as well ask those that use Bottles: Does it actually run Windows games or games with kernel-level anti-cheat?

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En linux yo utilizo el Heroic para el epic games ahi tengo el gta v (solo modo historia) fall guys entre otros y queria jugar el fortnite y no me deja por el hecho que tiene un anti-cheat "no compatible" con el kernel de linux pero el fall guys igual teniendo un anticheat y siendo de la misma empresa y mismo launcher corre perfectamente en linux ¿¿¿¿alguien sabe como correr el fortnite en linux????

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I looked at a lot of threads and they all recommend disabling HTTP/2, which I did, but this doesn't work for me, geographically servers is the closest, and this only happens in steam, help pls

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