I’m running into serious stability issues with Wayland + NVIDIA while gaming and using apps like Discord and Roblox via Sober on Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 6.

System Overview:

• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti
• Driver: nvidia-dkms 570.153.02
• WM: KDE Plasma 6 (Wayland session)
• Apps involved: Discord (with Vencord), Roblox/Sober (Flatpak)
• Crashes: Random full-system crashes (not just app crashes) traced to: segfault in libnvidia-eglcore.so.570.153.02

What I’ve Tried:

• Disabling hardware acceleration in Discord
• Running Discord on XWayland (env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY)
• Running Roblox and Discord separately -> still crashes
• Using OBS instead of screen sharing -> still crashes
• Switching to X11 completely fixes the issue (but I want to stay on Wayland)

What’s the most stable NVIDIA driver version for Wayland gaming right now (as of mid-2025)? Is anyone running Roblox (via Flatpak or Wine) and Discord on Wayland without issues? Is 560.35.03 the sweet spot, or are earlier (like 545.x or 535.x) still better? Are there any nvidia.conf, kernel, or PipeWire tweaks that help?

Any advice would be appreciated. I’m really trying to stick with Wayland since x11 feels unusable, but this driver crash is killing me.

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So it took me a month to do so, but I was finally able to configure vortex with Oblivion (og), installed via lutris (via gog)!!!!
bear in mind that I am not a hardcore linux user, would even call myself intermediate

I couldn't get the lutris script going, so I tried moving the vortex folder from my windows drive to the oblivion prefix, which didn't work (it could have, but at the time I didn't know that)

bottles didn't detect the game cause it is a gog install, could've installed gog galaxy and reinstall the game but I just wanted to play the game.

a month has passed, and the itch returned

what I have done now is take the vortex setup .exe, ran it with a fresh prefix from the "+" at the top left corner-and it worked! but there was no mods folder with all the necessary directories. I then ran the setup again but this time with the oblivion prefix, vortex didn't launch *but* it created all the necessary directories (just needed to add /oblivion/mods to it)

I then uninstalled the vortex folder found in program files in the oblivion prefix (it served no purpose),

launched through the dedicated vortex prefix, specified the installation and mods folder directories, and it worked like a charm!

some extra tinkering was needed with changing game settings, dlc and save files, but it was all fixed using dedicated vortex tools

I'm writing this so that if someone is having the same issue with the install script not working, he might find it useful, I suppose it will work with any other game, just with a different specified directory.

now that I can even mod my games, I have 0 reasons to return to windows!

looking forward to modding fallout 3+fnv ttw

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Im on Arch Linux
KDE plasma environment
r5-5600
4gb rx580
64gb ram
2tb ssd
running on steam

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I love when people say "Nvidia on Linux is fine", then you actually use Nvidia on Linux and get capped GPU usage in Wayland native games, because reality is - it's not fine, it's usable and nothing more.

• In Minecraft rendering not through Xwayland GPU just caps at 40%, because fuck me I guess, no Wayland gaming. But when using Xwayland it can properly get past 40% and up to 100% if it's not CPU bottlenecked (aka chunks are not rendering)
• In Barony - almost the same thing, with SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland the GPU just refuses to go above 67% usage, how awesome. And of course it's fine on Xwayland and with AMD iGPU
• Same thing with my Godot game, though less extreme, capping at 90%

Perhaps it's dependent on CPU usage, because it's the highest in Minecraft and the lowest in my Godot game. The issue is also not in my head, there's an open bug report on WayFix mod for Minecraft, and the symptoms are the same.

I would also test it with Proton Wayland, if it wasn't already running like garbage in Proton.

RTX 3060, proprietary drivers with GSP firmware disabled.

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Hey everyone,
I'm running into a frustrating issue with Lutris and hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm trying to run Star Wars Battlefront II via Lutris, and while the game runs fine using the default Wine runner, I wanted to experiment with using Proton GE or other non-Wine runners to improve compatibility or performance.

Here's the issue:
Whenever I switch the runner in Lutris to anything not Wine (e.g. Proton-GE or experimental Proton versions I’ve installed), the game just doesn't start. No logs, no error messages—it just fails silently.

My setup:

• Running on Mint
• I have several runners installed: Proton-GE, Proton Experimental
• Game starts fine when Wine is selected as the runner
• Changing to Proton-GE or anything else causes it to fail at launch

I thought Proton GE and similar were just Wine forks with extra patches, so I expected them to work similarly. Am I missing a configuration step? Do I need to launch it differently for Proton-based runners? Or are these runners not supported in Lutris the way they are in Steam?

Would love any advice or tips! Thanks in advance.

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I'm trying to download this playonlinux to play league of legends but idk why it's not working. I've downloaded the wine thing aswell but this is my first time doing something like this so I have no idea what's going on or what I'm doing someone please help.

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Kerbal Space Program gradually increases in RAM usage as I play and it eventually leads to system being so slow due to only having megabytes of RAM left free and I have to restart by cutting the power to the PC.
I run the game natively with mods using CKAN

GPU: AMD RX 5700 XT
CPU: AMD R7 5700X
RAM: 32GB DDR4 3600
Video Driver: Mesa 25.1.1-arch1.2
Kernel: 6.12.31-1-lts

Any help is appreciated

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Hello people,

After launching a game, I can play and stream no problem, however, when I pause the stream and try to reconnect, it gives me a timeout error.

I have recognised that when look at the sunshine webui, I see that there are these fatal errors:

-Unable to find display or encoder during startup -Please check that a display is connected and powered on (which it is on and displaying the game)*

It works fine at first but usually after game launch, no matter if bordereless, fullscreen, or windowed-it doesn't resume again unless game is closed manually trhough ssh

I am on Arch linux - kernel 6.14.8 (lenovo legion laptop - plasma xorg session) Nvidia gpu with nvFBC capture method.

It works with X11 capture method but performance hit is significant.

Thank you in advance.

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this is the games that i have

https://preview.redd.it/rvf3v9g2qd4f1.png?width=892&format=png&auto=webp&s=578eb2a714ec5a13c3520bd87d55ce23a1c704be

if you know what i can do tell me and yes i install frimware and keys

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Previous benchmarks used less watts on SteamOS, so I simply installed LACT from the App Store and set the proper wattage.

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My friend gifted this game to me on steam to play with him. When I downloaded and launched it, I was faces with this error. I checked protondb and people seem to be playing fine except for this one person who said the game doesn't run on his GTX 1050 even with the latest drivers.

Now I don't have a fancy rig, and I play on a non-gaming laptop with an MX330 with 2GB of VRAM (which meets the 2GB VRAM system requirements of the game) and. It also has a directX12 required. What's causing this? My driver's are updated, and I updated the system just now and still no luck.

I did check the game both on Proton 9 and experimental btw.

Are there any extra steps I could take to make this run? Or any way to fix it? My friend's really enjoying the game and I wanna play with him and it would really he disappointing to refund a gift.

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Like many of the folks in this sub, I've long been a Linux gamer but also have constantly been searching for better experiences. I've been running a "SteamOS"/Bazzite-like gaming PC in my living room for over a year now (more or less just an Arch machine that boots directly into a gamescope session running the Steam Deck UI). This setup has been fantastic and far and away the best Linux gaming experience I've had.

The one flaw in this setup that has bothered me above all else is that it is just not ergonomic to remotely turn on my gaming PC from the couch. My solution for a while has been Wake-on-LAN from my phone or laptop, but that still fell short of what I wanted.

What I've finally done is implemented a solution that lets me wake my gaming PC up just by turning on my controller. The blog post linked describes the approach and implementation.

It's somewhat technical, so I don't imagine it's suitable for most (and it requires having some kind of server available that can act as an intermediary), but for me it just works and I'm super excited about it, so I wanted to share.

The approach is more or less just using a second system to listen for Bluetooth devices and send an appropriate Wake-on-LAN command if it detects the controller turning on. (I'm aware some devices support wake-on-Bluetooth but it seems rarer and I didn't have that on hand.)

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I'm here to tell you my story, about a month ago my old motherboard stopped working and so I decided it was time to change platforms, I went from the LGA 1151 socket to an AM5 and my old CPU (i5-9400F) didn't have an iGPU but my new R5 8500G did. I use a dGPU too, a GTX 1650 which is pretty weak for today's times but serves me well, however the situation of NVIDIA drivers on Linux is still not very good and the games ran well at first but as I played the FPS started to drop, probably because of the lack of shared memory for NVIDIA GPUs. That said, I went to test the GPU offrender on Linux to see how it was currently, I hadn't used it since 2019 and to my surprise it is much easier to use and much more functional. From what I've seen, GPU offrendering is rarely talked about here, so I wanted to talk about it because my 1650 is running games better than ever since all the VRAM and processing of the dGPU is just for the game and I can still enjoy all the smoothness of using AMD's iGPU in Plasma. If you have a low-end NVIDIA GPU and a CPU with iGPU, it's definitely worth using offrendering.

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Hey guys,
I recently installed Battlefront 2 using Heroic. Epic gave it away for free two years or sth. ago and, even though Epic doesn't like Linux, it was working for some time. Now it randomly stopped working and I have absolutely no idea why. I've done the basic steps of changing around the Wine/Proton-version, looking at ProtonDB, looking up the log and updating my drivers. Maybe someone of you has an idea?
Specs:
Ryzen 5 5600
RTX 4070, Driver ver. 570.153.02
Fedora 42

Log: https://pastebin.com/ACUrt4Pr

Sorry if i forgot something important but it should be everything necessary.

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Hello,

As title says, I can't get Dual Sense haptics to work. When I try to use it with The Last of Us Part II, it says that rumble is unavailable due to failure detecting the Dual Sense's sound device. I'm on CachyOS, and I did install last update of proton-cachyos, which ships with a patch which is supposed to fix sound device detection, but with no luck.

In fact adaptive triggers do work, only rumble doesn't work because the game can't find the gamepad's sound device, even though it is available in sound manager. It seems that the name of this device doesn't matches the one in Windows.

Has someone managed to make it work?

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I am on Ubuntu 25.04, kernel 6.14.0-15.15, Intel ARC B580 and I am experiencing screen tearing on Minecraft.

Even though on the video I am using mods, it happens without them too. Also, I am afraid that it also happens on another games, but I didnt test.

I have my FPS limited to 80, but I play with vsync on. I play on 2560x1080

My monitor is the 25UM58G from LG, 75Hz, https://lg.com/br/monitores-ultrawide/25um58g-p

Is this a monitor issue or is there something I can do on my OS to fix it?

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Hey, so I recently switched over to Linux Mint (22.1) and have been enjoying working and gaming on it so far. Games like Palworld and others have been working great without any noticeable issues.

However, since Dead Island 2 was free on Epic Games recently, I decided to give it a shot using Heroic Games Launcher. The first day went really well, the game looked fine and actually ran beautifully. But just yesterday, I started getting weird visual issues in-game. The colors seem messed up, there’s this weird dithering or color artifact happening. (Not sure if I’m using the right terminology.)

Here's what I've tried so far

• Downgraded my GPU driver
• Changed Proton versions (GE, Experimental, etc)
  • Changed too many Proton version that Denuvo decided to lock me out for 24 hours because it seems changing each proton version counts as a new machine
• Rechecked in-game graphics settings (even resetting to default)

Unfortunately, none of these made a difference. The color glitches still persist.

Has anyone else encountered something like this or have any idea what might be causing it?

System specs:

• OS: Linux Mint 22.1 x86_64
• Kernel: 6.8.0-60-generic
• DE: Cinnamon 6.4.8
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
  • nvidia-driver-570-open
• Memory: 64 GB

Appreciate any help or suggestions!

https://preview.redd.it/lq57fvix3d4f1.png?width=659&format=png&auto=webp&s=8eb421cc70c5c5cb1aceb54d3f6c2644900eec0b

Here's is how it should looks like (on windows machine)

https://preview.redd.it/uhhi8xrv5d4f1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=647c2da468e1a411bcc6022529797fa38a01cc5f

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What’s better for gaming steamos or bazzite on a full amd rig

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Same graphic settings, same spot. -Windows is using the stock settings. -Bazzite has an Undervolt of -70 offset and 272w limit (this undervolt made Windows crash. Bazzite worked flawlessly).

You can tell when a game is optimized for Steam Deck, we all win!

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