I have an integrated GPU (amd) which I don't use, and my NVidia card on which the monitor is connected.

When launching a Steam game or glxgears (used the latter as a test), memory gets allocated on the iGPU (checked using nvtop) and things run slow, evidence that the applications are trying to run on the iGPU instead of my NVidia card.

More of a PSA than anything. I tried 01 and 02 of this branch, both had the same symptom. Fixed things by using a slightly older one. Couldn't be bothered to try and see if I could work around it by editing a config file.

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So, I have been a bad penguin and not run updates for nearly a month. I finally got around to it, mostly because Steam games started not launching due to the "too many clients" issue from X11 sessions (possibly steam-for-linux/issues/9561 on the github), so I installed updates and rebooted.

Anyway, after I rebooted, none of the games I tried playing would play any sound. I tried native, native added as non-steam game, native but from the steam store, non-native games through proton that I had played earlier in the day. There is no speaker icon on the program either. But Firefox and videos on store pages in Steam play audio no problem.

Lots of troubleshooting later, I find that if I set sound to "Analog Stereo Output" I get sound, albeit only on two speakers, as one would expect. If I switch back to "Analog Surround 5.1", I get nothing. In fact, I get nothing on any of the other "Analog Surround" settings. "Analog Surround 2.1" won't even work.

I unfortunately had about 635 packages update right before I rebooted, so I'm not sure which might be causing the issue. I tried the "fallback" kernel, as well as switching to lts, which had no change.

System info: Arch, KDE, Wayland (also tried X11), kernel 6.14.9-arch1-1 (was 6.14.5.arch1-1 before update/reboot), Radeon RX 7900 XT, AMD 5950x. I'm using the audio jacks on the back of my mobo, not spdif or USB. I haven't had a problem with sound in the ~2 years I've been running this installation. I'm not sure what to do or where to look since sound works in some places but not others, but it seems related to surround vs stereo.

Let me know if there are any logs I should check. Please help.

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this has starting happening recently where after a certain period of time (haven't measured it yet to see if it's consistent), my performance drops off a cliff. i will go from 100+ FPS to extremely choppy less than 30 fps at times. i have noticed that it coincides perfectly with the jagged GPU utilization graphs from mission center. the utilization remains somewhat constant for a while then suddenly starts spiking and dropping.

i am running the latest version of linux mint xia, with a 4070 ti. it doesn't matter if i'm playing a game on steam using proton, or heroic games launcher, or lutris. after a certain period of time the gpu just starts spazzing out. games it happens in: WoW, Squad, BG3. restarting the game fixes it for a while. i had this problem once before, and a full OS reinstallation and drive wipe fixed it for a while, but now it's back.

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It used to work before, but after an update gamescope simply started to give the SDL_Vulkan_CreateSurface failed error on any wayland session I try. Works fine on x11. On Gnome currently, but didn't work as well on Hyprland and Niri, so I believe it's more about Wayland than the DE. Does anyone know how to solve it?

ATTENTION: default value of option vk_khr_present_wait overridden by environment.

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: selecting physical device 'AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (RADV NAVI10)': queue family 1 (general queue family 0)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: physical device supports DRM format modifiers

[gamescope] [Info] wlserver: [backend/headless/backend.c:67] Creating headless backend

[gamescope] [Error] xdg_backend: Couldn't create Wayland input objects.

[gamescope] [Error] xdg_backend: Failed to initialize input thread

Failed to load plugin 'libdecor-gtk.so': failed to init

SDL_Vulkan_CreateSurface failed: VK_KHR_wayland_surface extension is not enabled in the Vulkan instance.terminate called without an active exception

fish: Job 1, 'gamescope -W 800 -H 600 -- vkcube' terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort)

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Hello! I'm planning to upgrade my 6750XT to the 9060XT. Would it be a paper weight for a couple of months first before the mesa drivers catch up? how's amdgpu pro now a days? my distros: arch and fedora 42, occasionally boot into bazzite on a usb drive for some couch gaming too.

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Hello. I have a ext4 formatted drive X, which has all the steam games installed on it. I have mounted this drive on boot into a specified path on 2 seperate distros on the machne, one is Arch and the other is Bazzite. Can I share the same installed games from this storage between the Steam client on both the distros?

I know we cannot share the storage across Linux and Windows. Just wanted to check if it is safe to share across Linux distros on the same machine.

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I am using Fedora and when ever I try to run GTA V in any way, it either doesn't launch or gives me this error

https://preview.redd.it/v3ddexx22f4f1.png?width=252&format=png&auto=webp&s=90a37e9bd20cf311486ec5ddddb70ec27de153ed

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https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

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I'm trying to use Steam on Arch Linux, and everything works except loading games from the store page and playing games that require an internet connection. It keeps giving me error 105, my internet connection is good, and I downloaded a game with no issues and when I play that game it doesnt connect to the internet.

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As per the title. Has anyone successfully done this? I keep running into road blocks when i try to use linux on my LG C4 42". I just can't seem to get a flawless experience with this like i can on windows.

I've been using Fedora 42 w/ Gnome 48 as i'd REALLY like to stick to this distro. I quite enjoy it a lot. I'm running an nvidia RTX 4090 as well. AMD 7800X3D for the processor.

But i keep having issues such as the following.

Fractional Scaling: If i set the scaling on the desktop to 125% it breaks the location of where games open and they open on the incorrect monitor, or they do open on the correct monitor but do not lock the mouse to the game. I've tried this in KDE and it seems generally fine. If i gotta run things at 100% i can live with it mostly. But i'd love to run it at 125%

Multi Monitors: I've found some games just ignore the primary entirely and open on my side vertical monitors. When using Gamescope Arguments, for example hogwarts legacy opens on my left most monitor which is vertical and will not allow it self to be moved to my middle monitor. And if i do manage to move it, it keeps the vertical sizing. Also i've found that sometimes Linux just ignores monitor placements entirely and will forcefully just open up whatever is the left most display. I understand this is due to the 0x0 pixel placement and so it defaults to that, but surely it should just open on the primary display instead?

HDR: This is a big one. SDR on the LG C4 42" Is pretty crap and you need HDR on to make it remotely usable. I've found its perfectly fine in the desktop but when opening games its simply not enabled or when using gamescope to push it through, it either doesn't launch the game or it does but the game opens on the wrong monitor and won't let me move it. Or in some rare cases it does open the game and i can enable HDR. Gamescope when using nvidia just isn't really a long term viable solution right now.

I really really want to make the switch to linux but i just cant seem to fix these issues all together? Does anyone have any Distro's they suggest that could fix all of these with minimal effort? I tried Nobara which had nothing but issues for me. CachyOS seemed ok but im not sure if i want to use an Arch based distro due to its complexity. Kubuntu didn't seem to have issues with multi monitors or fractional scaling but i didn't get HDR going through to the games properly. I'm willing to go back and try these distro's again if it was something i was doing wrong however.

I'd love to use a gnome based distro and everything about fedora i really do enjoy. For all my other PC work, it ticks all the boxes. But for gaming its still quite difficult.

Has anyone else had similar issues? And realistically would switching to AMD for my GPU fix these? I am considering it when AMD finally come out with a XX90 or XX80 class competitor that beats the 4090.

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There are still some bugs with Wine Wayland driver, like the window sometimes getting lost when using multiple monitors, the Warframe launcher showing a black screen with extremely sensitive mouse input, EA App only updates when running via XWayland, and window resizing sometimes gets misaligned on the screen (this happened with Cyberpunk). MangoHUD looks overly saturated when running through Steam.

The recording wasn’t done in HDR because the capture card doesn’t support it. The conversion from Kdenlive along with YouTube slightly desaturates the colors and reduces the quality compared to the original. This video is just to show some games run fine with HDR on Linux — it’s not a demo of HDR quality itself

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This game does not like Intel 12/13/14 gen, and the solution on Windows is to disable core parking. For Linux, you want to set the CPU governor mode to performance--"sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance". Prior to this, I was getting 60 in solo, but 25-30 in multiplayer. Now I am getting 45-55 FPS in multiplayer and its so much more smooth and actually playable

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Tested Stardew Valley modded, no issues, no terminal used at all no rocket science

Tested Fallout New Vegas modded, my only issue was that Linux is not case insensitive as Windows, I had 2 folders, one names NSVE and the other nsve but they were not overwriting eachother so I had some issues there but again, no rocket science or terminal.

GTA SA and GTA Vice city were both extremely easy to mod, most of my time was spent looking for mods and reading my old CDs a sno my steam deck

And Max Payne 1, as it has a lot of issues with modern PCs I got the fix patch working too, again, no rocket science just execute the setup.exe in the wine prefix and click next next select the right folder and... Done lol

Modding on Linux is possible and doesn't involve terminal or any weird rocket science!

What games do you consider to be difficult to mod on Linux? Would like to see if maybe I have the game and try to mod it

Cheers!

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So I must have awful luck with Linux in general. I've tried numerous times to switch without success and most recently decided to really give it a proper effort.

Attempt 1) Debian install w/ DE via my proxmox server. Installed great, things smooth until issue 1 cropped up: System would suspend after 20 mins. Not a desirable thing. Turns out the default GUI for Debian actually doesn't have a way to update the power settings. No problem, some searching helped me disable that behavior. Then I went ahead and updated packages via APT and restarted. Something in that update broke the desktop environment and I was CLI only via prox management. Tried uninstalling the DE and reinstalling it, installing another DE... Nothing I did helped.

Attempt 2) Reinstalled Debian and used KDE Plasma as the DE this time. Had to be a fluke. Things were actually going pretty well, got things updated, rebooted just fine. Then, the system suspended again after inactivity. After that initial suspend, I could never get the DE to load again. It would show a log in screen, but once I credential, I'd just sit on a black screen with my cursor stuck. Again, nothing I did would help.

Attempt 3) Just Install Debian and use CLI only. No issues on my server box it's now a docker host, and I'm using tmux to run all my game servers

Attempt 4 & 5) Decided to try out Mint on my main PC. My big hold up before was sim racing, and it looks like there's enough out there to take a swing. Tried out Mint Debian edition, and the install went OK. I realize that Debian might not be the best choice for someone who wants a "windows-like" experience. I managed to get my nvidia drivers installed, but ran into a pretty bad problem right away. I have 4 monitors plugged in at all times, but only drive two daily. Nvidia drivers or stock drivers, I could not disable two monitors. The system just kept turning the monitors off and back on as if I were changing resolutions or unplugging something. I figured it was an issue with the Debian flavor (no driver manager, slower updates, etc). Same issue happened with the Ubuntu-powered Mint. Even with the latest drivers, I could not get it happy turning off more than 1 monitor at a time.

I ended up putting it back down again to try again later and just worked on updating my W10 -> W11 and de-bloated it via AtlasOS. I want to give linux a good shake, but I cannot do the simplest of things without major issues. Am I just the odd one out?

PC Specs aren't even wild

• Ryzen 5900X
• 2x16Gb DDR4 3200mhz
• 3080Ti
• Installation SSD - Samsung 850 Evo 250GB

My monitor situation is crazy though. I have:

3x 2560x1440 27" on my sim rig - One is always plugged in

DP Splitter 1:

• 3440x1440 32" primary monitor
• 1 of the above 27"

DP Splitter 2:

• 1440x2560 vertical 27" secondary monitor
• 1 of the above 27"

4k TV always - plugged in

This setup works fine in Windows and I use Display Magician to manage things when I'm switching between my desk monitors and the sim monitors, but I do always have 4 monitors actively plugged into the video card & Mint just refused to play nice

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Seemingly taking people from Windows 10

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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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