I have 5070 ti in a AMD Chipset Mobo. I tried to play both on Arch and CachyOS (they are almost the same distro) and I had mixed results. Games with less requirements run very smoothly, no problems compared with Windows. But stuff like Cyberpunk in very high settings I keep having this Xid 79 " GPU has fallen of the bus" error that shows in journalctl. The crash happens fairly regular, 5-15 minutes in game. It is a GPU crash that results in Blackscreen that require a hard reboot to recover.

On Windows the exact same settings Cyberpunk runs smoothly with no issues in the same desktop.

I tried several troobleshootings, but nothing worked: several kernel options to deal with state change on GPU, driver (and the whole system) rollback, messing with several options on nvida including limiting GPU clock, several nvidia-smi options (mostly dealing with Persistence-M), trying different kernels (like lts and zen), different options to run the games on Steam, messing with Prime and Optimus (from hybrid GPUs guides) several enviromental options and so on. I can list them here. I'm entering the 10th day of continuous troobleshootings.

As a last resort before going back to Windows, I Will try to run the game in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, to see if it's only the Arch-distros that cant handle to high settings (How does Steam Deck is able to deal with ultra high settings?). Anyway, would love to hear How other Blackwell GPUs owner are managing high settings in modern games.

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Been seeing a lot of posts of MO2 looking native mod managers for Skyrim. Also some more attempts at getting the regular MO2 working better through proton. Curious as to what people are using for modding skyrim these days, especially those with big and complex mod lists. A while back I setup mo2 using a tool called NaK which worked well enough. Still feels kinda jank though.

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Hey yall, I recently bought a new Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and I've been having issues specifically with Nightreign getting games to load in once you select the expedition. I'm running the game on CachyOS, and I've tried all the things I can think of. Changing proton versions, forcing the bleeding-edge beta build, starting the game from the CLI, trying all the launch options, nothing seems to work. I eventually enabled proton logging and both computers I've tried the GPU on spit out the same error once we're supposed to load into the expedition and the game locks up. It's just this over and over until I kill the process:

351.288:0204:033c:warn:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_device_GetResourceAllocationInfo3: Invalid resource desc. 351.289:0204:0334:warn:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_resource_validate_desc: Invalid alignment 4096 for buffer resource. Must be 0 or D3D12_DEFAULT_RESOURCE_PLACEMENT_ALIGNMENT. 351.289:0204:0334:warn:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_device_GetResourceAllocationInfo3: Invalid resource desc. 351.290:0204:0334:warn:vkd3d-proton:d3d12_resource_validate_texture_alignment: Invalid resource alignment 0x1000 (required 0x10000).

I've confirmed both computers are running on the latest Nvidia drivers, and I had briefly tried installing the previous release but had some installation failures and decided I'd keep trying in other places for the moment.

Wondering if anyone else has come across similar issues and have a fix for this? From what I've been able to gather it seems that the GPU is misusing the proton API, but I haven't got a clue why or how you'd go about fixing that. Any help would be super appreciated. Happy to give more details if needed, trying to put most everything here up front.

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Does anyone know how to fix this annoying bug that Mojang said they won't fix? It works on the Windows GDK version, but it is slower and doesn't work with Microsoft login. I am running the Android version with Trinity Launcher (Flatpak version) and my hardware specifications are: CPU: Intel Celeron 6305, GPU: Intel UHD Graphics G4 (Integrated), RAM: 4GB 3200MHz on single channel, my 256GB SSD model is: SAMSUNG MZVLQ256HBJD-00B, my OS: Debian 13 (Trixie), Kernel: Linux 6.19.11-x64v3-xanmod1, and the Minecraft Bugrock version I am using is v26.13 and this also happens in 26.12 and 26.10.

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Hi! I'm archiving older, presently unused versions of visual novels and wonder if better compression options than gzip (tar.gz) exist for what's essentially 'cold storage at home'. The vast majority are Ren'Py titles, so I'd prefer to avoid ones which don't play well with rpa/pickle archives, should any exist.

And I'm using btrfs on a SD card & portable SSD, if it helps. TYSM!

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Hey everyone, I was a bit frustrated managing duplicates in Heroic and I'd written a bunch of bash/python scripts to deal with it. However, this approach wasn't very accessible and it still was annoying to deal with hiding games in my library in bulk if I have them on Steam or elsewhere. So, I made this little application to solve that problem.

It's currently in alpha and I've not tested it extensively. I know for a fact that the duplicate detection has flaws and it doesn't catch everything. But, it's better than doing everything manually.

Deduplication at work

You can find the repository here: https://github.com/preppie22/heroiclibrarymanager

My experience is primarily in backend dev and ML data science workloads. So, I'm relatively new to building desktop apps. I've dabbled a little in web design though!

Anyway, I'd be very grateful if you guys could take it for a spin and report any bugs or errors you may find. I'd also appreciate contributions to the code since this is still fairly new to me.

Thanks guys!

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Running Nobara 43, launching game via steam. Have tried switching to several different proton versions(GE latest, 10, 7). The game either crashes during the intro or shortly after. Can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong, and google isn’t giving me much. I’m new to Linux gaming so any help or advice is much appreciated!

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I need a Ubuntu-based distro for gaming that's well-optimized for Nvidia GPUs. My hardware is a Ryzen 5 7600 and an RTX 5060 with a 120Hz HDR Full HD monitor. Would Kubuntu 25.10 be a good choice?

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I'm on arch Linux

I installed evdev and libinput and I'm able to detect the controller via jstest but certain emulators detect the controller and some do not, per example

cemu and ryubing do not detect the controller at all (flatpak)

pcsx2 and PPSSPP detect it just fine (flatpak)

Eden (app image) does detect it but the left joystick mapping is wonky asffff it low-key made me mad

I enabled all devices and USB devices to these emulators through flatseal but nothing changed.

what do I do?

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I am using on Proton Hotfix, launching with Legacy OpenGL, and every time I open TF2, it goes through the valve-head guy section, then it freezes on the loading screen. Cursor doesn't show up, and nothing happens. I am on Ubuntu, Linux Mint. What do I do?

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The Steam game in question is Kenshi.

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The optiplex has an i7 8700, 16GB ram, and an RX 550. Totk and Cyberpunk 2077 run at 45fps finally.

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i have been using linux for some time, since approximately december 2025, im using cachyOS and it has been a very good experience (as someone that only used windows for the entire life), games was one of my fear to change completly into linux, but it turns out that most of the one i plays run on it perfectly, except one of they (the one on the title)

in performace, the game runs perfectly smoth with the same configuration i used on windows, but the problem is the ram, i have 1 pent of 8 GB's ram DDR4 2666MHz, when i used to use windows, war thunder only crashed while i opened it and another game (like roblox), but on linux, it crashes all the time, some times on test drive, some times after a few hours, some times once the match started and etc, it suddenly freeze and appears crash report, the same one on the picture attached (print is not mine)

i already tryed a lot of things, like installing zram, fixing the swapness, putting 12 GB's of swap on my secondary ssd, but stills it always crash after some time, if someone could help me i would be very thankfull

also my config is: I5-9400F (CPU), Rx 550 (GPU) and H310C (motherboard)

i dont think the problem is on linux, or in my pc, since once i sayed, it never crashed on windows, and other games that i play runs perfectly on linux, the only game i have this issue is on War thunder (i forgot to metion but i play the steam version of the game)

(P.S: sorry for some of spelling errors, english ins't my primary language, also this is my fisrt post on reddit)

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I‘m currently installing Red Dead Redemption 2 on my HP Elitebook 8470p through Linux Steam. I might explode, we‘ll see. I’m looking for any advice/experience if this is even worth it or if the game won‘t run properly.

Linux noob here, only using it because my dad (who’s a tech guy) passed this laptop down to me!!

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Hi everyone!! (˶ᵔᗜᵔ˶)ﾉﾞ
I’m the artist behind NO MORE WORK FOR ITO ♡

I came here to sayyyy.

our game is finally out on Steam!! AND It’s fully playable on Linux.

It’s a psychological horror visual novel focused on mystery, with very, very unexpected routes and characters you can build ongoing interactions with… and also features completely hand drawn pixel art.

AND also a world that feels very real, with lots of details and optional content… hehe

If that sounds like something you might enjoy, please check it out!! ♡

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3326360/NO_MORE_WORK_FOR_ITO/

If anyone ends up playing it and wants to share feedback, we’d be really, really grateful.
And if you have any questions, feel free to ask, we love talking with you guys here ♡

Thank you so much for the support so far… it truly means a lot to us (ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)♡

(also translations coming in the next few days hehe)

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I am not the most avid gamer and I currently have a Ryzen 5 5600X and a Radeon RX 6700XT.

I have purchased a Ryzen R7 5700X3D and need to find the time to actually install it - once you have kids, gaming time becomes a luxury!

I only play story driven games like RPGs, where the visuals are a major part of the experience!

My favorite game is Mass Effect and the Legendary Edition runs beautifully on the 6700XT. I recently played both God of War titles on the Nordic setting and it was also really good. Same experience can be said for Baldur's Gate 3.

I have been meaning to get a RX 9070XT.

On paper, there's is a big performance jump between the two GPUs.

I am currently running CachyOS and am quite happy with it.

Question is - would upgrading to the 9070XT be really visible on the titles above or it would be just marginally better?

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I just can't seem to do it

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hey everyone. i'm trying to using my xbox one controller on steam, but steam doesnt seem to be recognizing it. nothing appears in settings when i click controller, i can't use it in game, and it specifically says that it doesn't detect an input when i use the controller configurator. fedora itself recognizes it, and the controller works otherwise, so i assume its an issue with steam itself. i've tried both plugging the controller in and using bluetooth, and neither seems to work. steam has also just been horribly finicky for me (won't recognize external hard drive, massive slowdowns, graphical bugs) so it wouldn't be a first. does anyone have any suggestions to help? i crave metal gear solid 3.

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