Nvidia is much cheaper than AMD in my country. I don't mind using the non-free driver for a few years but I want to be free eventually. I hate dealing with random issues all the time caused by the non-free driver.

Can anyone knowledgable comment on how realistic it is for NVK to be within like 10% of the non-free driver and how long it's likely to take?

I use fedora btw.

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TL:DR - Linux is great. Thanks to you guys.

New linux user here. I got a new PC at the end of July, and decided to go 100% linux. After some research I decided to go with CachyOS. After an absolutely painless install including default gaming package that CachyOS comes with, mostly everything was set up good to go out of the box.

I just want to say thanks to the community for supporting Linux these many years. It's due to the community like you that I'm not a hostage to Microsoft anymore.

My only "complaint" would be that due to my lack of familiarity with Linux, I'm not used to troubleshooting on Linux just yet, but that's nothing to do with Linux and more a testament to my lack of familiarity.

For example, the games I've installed thus far have had no issues except for Cyberpunk 2077. For some bizarre reason it would hang for 3 seconds every few minutes. Sometimes it would hitch like that several times in a row making the game rather unplayable. I tried everything to no avail, switching proton versions, adding all sorts of environment variables, even reinstalling the whole game. Nothing worked.

My problem was I was blaming the issue on the proton compatibility layer or perhaps my graphics drivers, but the real issue was my mouse. Even in windows if the mouse polling rate is too high it can cause such hitching behavior. This I did not know, since my previous windows system didn't exhibit that behavior even though I was using the same mouse. It was an older system from 5 years ago, so I suspect that that's related to why.

In any case once I lowered to polling rate to once every 2 ms the stuttering went away completely. Obviously this is not a Linux issue, but rather an issue with Cyberpunk 2077 itself. My gut instinct was to blame it on something I was doing wrong since I was new to Linux, so it's hard to tell what issues are caused by my ignorance, vs inherent issues with the software itself. However that will sort itself out in time, as I get more familiar with Linux.

In any case it was thanks to the documentation that y'all have provided through various wikis and forum / reddit posts that I was able to finally troubleshoot my issues. Thanks again, and have a nice day.

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Hey Community, I have Linux mint installed on my Dell laptop with medium level required specs for running Arkham series. Could anyone just guide me on how to make the machine really optimized for running those games. Also how to install the game (I don't want to pay via steam) Specs: Dell Inspiron 5590 Core i3 U processor Nvidia Mx250

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Running Kubuntu 25.04, Lutris using latest proton. G15 laptop RTX 4060 with 575 drivers. Tried D4 with steam but game would crash instead. Lutris is stable but the ground textures are missing most of the time.

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I've heard how customizable it is and how it doesn't collect data like windows and even how some games perform better on it, but I know nothing about linux and wouldn't even know where to install or what to install. I use my desktop for gaming mostly and im worried the games I play won't run on it. Can anyone give me some info on whether or not I should switch or stay on windows?

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I've been thinking of getting a decent gaming laptop and I've found the specifications I want. But after doing a last minute search on the support for Linux. It seems in recent years there been issues with fan control, installation and NVIDIA graphic cards on Linux.

I'm thinking of using Arch Linux and Xubuntu.

The laptop I'm looking at uses AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS Mobile Processor for the CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 for GPU.

I thought I check here before getting it. I just don't want to waste near £1,000.

I don't know if Linux is more stable now than it was before.

I appreciate any advice. Thank you.

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Hello, I recently updated my computer and suddenly Doom Eternal would no longer launch from Steam. I tried all of the fixes I could find online: reinstalling, -opengl or -vulkan in launch options, disabling steam overlay, and the only thing that worked was changing the Proton version to Proton Experimental (Proton Hotfix, GE-Proton, and Proton 7.0 - 9.0 didn't work). This created a new problem though; now in-game, certain options like settings or weapon upgrades can't be selected at all, clicking on them will cause them to flicker with nothing changing, it almost looks like it's clicking and un-clicking really quickly twice? I could change settings using arrow keys and enter as a workaround, but I can't select weapon upgrades at all. It's very strange because it worked perfectly out of the box, and I can't figure out which update broke it. Has anyone encountered this and found a fix? Thanks!

System:

Kernel: 6.8.0-71-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.2.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.2.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0

Distro: Linux Mint 22 Wilma base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Machine:

Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B650 AORUS ELITE AX ICE v: x.x serial: <superuser required>

uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F30 date: 05/22/2024

CPU:

Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen 4 rev: 2

cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 96 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 1890 high: 4833 min/max: 545/5050 cores: 1: 3668 2: 545 3: 4620 4: 545

5: 4833 6: 4152 7: 545 8: 545 9: 545 10: 545 11: 4000 12: 545 13: 545 14: 545 15: 3520 16: 545

bogomips: 134139

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm

Graphics:

Device-1: AMD Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX/7900M] vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu v: kernel

arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,

HDMI-A-1, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:744c class-ID: 0300

Device-2: AMD Raphael vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie:

speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-5,HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-4,DP-6,Writeback-2

bus-ID: 12:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e class-ID: 0300 temp: 34.0 C

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu

unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 4880x2560 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1291x677mm (50.83x26.65")

s-diag: 1458mm (57.39")

Monitor-1: DP-5 mapped: DisplayPort-4 pos: left model: Dell AW3423DWF serial: <filter>

res: 3440x1440 dpi: 109 size: 800x337mm (31.5x13.27") diag: 868mm (34.2") modes: max: 3440x1440

min: 720x400

Monitor-2: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,right model: LG (GoldStar) ULTRAGEAR

serial: <filter> res: 1440x2560 dpi: 93 size: 392x697mm (15.43x27.44") diag: 690mm (27.2") modes:

max: 2560x1440 min: 640x480

API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1

drv: radeonsi device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:

drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland

API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: PPA glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes

renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi raphael_mendocino LLVM 19.1.7 DRM 3.57 6.8.0-71-generic)

device-ID: 1002:164e

API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 8 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A

device-ID: 1002:164e device: 1 type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:744c device: 2

type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000

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Decided to try seeing if FSR4 could be made to work on Steam Deck (RDNA2) in some manner after people got it working on RDNA3. Seemingly got it working, according to Optiscaler, but it destroys the FPS (1/3 - 1/2 fps vs XESS 2) and the image quality gain, if any, probably isn't worth it. Still, this is rough instructions on the complicated process it took to get it working for me, and I hardly know anything about this stuff, so there is probably better ways to do it:

1. Download Proton-EM here: https://github.com/Etaash-mathamsetty/Proton/releases (manually place in /home/deck/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d)

2. Download Cooperative Matrix Vulkan layer Zip here: https://github.com/doitsujin/coopmat-layer

3. Compile that Coopmat-layer folder (somewhat complicated and involves downloading SPIRV-headers and Vulkan-headers from GitHub).

4. Place Vklayer_FROG_cooperative_matrix.so (from Build folder) into /home/deck/.local/lib, Place Vklayer_FROG_cooperative_matrix.json into ~/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-EM-10.0-2C/files/share/vulkan/explicit_layer.d/ (you may have to create the last few folders)

5. Edit .json file so that the library path is "~/.local/lib/Vklayer_FROG_cooperative_matrix.so" (to make it point to where the .so file is)

6. Install Optiscaler to a game's folder to be able to convert upscalers to FSR 3.1 > FSR 4: https://github.com/optiscaler/OptiScaler

7. Edit Optiscaler.ini to basically put true for all the FSR4-related stuff.

8. Add this series of launch options to a Steam game with DLSS2+ / FSR2+ support: WINEDLLOVERRIDES=dxgi=n,b PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 DXIL_SPIRV_config=wmma_rdna3_workaround VK_INSTANCE_LAYERS=VK_LAYER_FROG_cooperative_matrix %command%

Step 3, compiling, is probably the hardest step since SteamOS file-system is read-only and that just complicates things a bit. I ended up struggling through it by using a combination of built-in Distrobox with the konsole, ChatGPT, and this very helpful forum post: https://www.resetera.com/threads/linux-steamos-ot-its-a-linux-system%E2%80%A6-i-know-this.557173/page-97#post-143723760

They aren't perfect instructions, but it's enough info to get to something usable, which there didn't seem to be for the Deck / RDNA2 yet.

Is it actually worth using on a Steam Deck though? As it currently runs, probably not. Aside from the complicated work to actually get it running (and long load times it can cause, if it doesn't freeze while loading), the performance hit is huge and, strangely, potentially tied to the output resolution? For example, that picture location from Cyberpunk ran at 45 FPS with XESS 2, but ~15 FPS with FSR 4. Whether it was FSR4 Quality or Ultra Performance, it was still stuck at ~15 fps while at 1280x800 resolution. I also tried with Baldur's Gate and it was the same story: stuck at ~15fps regardless of upscaler quality, despite the internal resolution definitely changing properly. Not something that could be considered playable. It's a longer process than getting RDNA3 running FSR4, and for less payoff. I personally would not recommend going through the hassle of trying to set this up, unless you are just really curious or think maybe you could make it run better.

I don't know if performance could realistically be made better in the future, but for now, I'd probably just stick to using Optiscaler to add XESS 2 to games.

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I'm checking out most of my fav games on steam that I play but they only support windows (I wanna switch to Linux) the games are tf2 red dead redemption metal gear solid stuff like that

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Hi everyone! I am currently looking for a gaming distro that supports AMD integrated graphics for my laptop. My laptop currently has a Ryzen 5 5600h and a Radeon RX 5500m. The laptop is slow now, back then when I first i got this laptop for Christmas. It was working fine with Windows, however over the years it began to got slower and I knew it may be time to switch to a different operating system. Please let me know by replying!

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Hello all, in CachyOS, i have checked the kwin debug console, and, as you can see, Steam semms to run in x11 mode. So, for gaming, isn't better to use directly X11 instead of Wayland? Thanks

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It was arguably the worst experience of my life. The game was great! But the shit I had to go through to even install and use windows was wild. I am happily going back to arch now. The game is not worth using windows for.

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Updated my GPU from a 4060 Ti to a 5070. Now when I log in the screen goes black and the cursor turns to an "x". Tried both HDMI and DP with no avail. Fairly certain I have the GPU hooked into the PSU (850x) properly. I don't have a dedicated 12v 2x6 slot on my PSU so I have two PCIE slots going into the provided adapter. I tried plugging back into the mobo and purging the drivers, reinstalling the recommended drivers, and rebooting to no avail. I am assuming this is a driver-related issue and am trying to figure out how to circumvent. Please advise. Thank you in advance.

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Using mint 22.1. specs: I9 11900kf, RTX 4060. driver: nvidia-driver-575-open

when i load into cs after the season 3 update i start in 60hz, when i change it to 165hz my monitor goes black and doesn't detect an input source as long as cs2 is running. Also had some issues with graphical glitches like some skins not appearing and on nuke any metallic surface is just black.

already: verified the integrity of the game files, reinstalled drivers, tried other driver versions and tried using different types of compatibility modes on steam (some of which won't even let me load into the game)

anyone else been having this issue and/or knows a fix?

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Hey everyone I want to build a small form factor pc that I can bring around for family trips to do some local coop on. After setting bazzite on my ally x and loving the emulation experience on that, I'd like to build something a bit beefier. As I understand GPU isn't relevant for emulation?

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I tried to go full linux a couple years ago, ofc as always I like hardcore mode so I got arch, I didnt know half of what I was doing and followed a youtube bald dude's tutorial, after a year of being able to play half my games and having constant problems with everything I gave up and went back to windows.

Now I had problems with w11, it is utter shit, my gpu (rx6700xt) had some driver problems that caused my pc to shut down randomly when playing games with old directx. After trying many solutions and changing my motherboard, power source and cpu cooler (initially thought problem was due to overheating so I got a liquid refrigeration for my CPU (Ryzen 9 5900x). I ended up finding out that amd drivers are better in linux so I happily tried to get back and my god I am surprised, I installed cachyos, it was so easy, I just needed to remember the update and install commands for pacman and have not looked a single time for any archwiki article or anything, everyhting just works, out of the fucking box. I just installed steam and fuck has proton improved, all my games are gold or platinum compatibility, Im now playing mafia old coutry which lauched a couple days ago and it just works the same day it got out, this was unthinkable back then...

Oh and I have tried cyberpunk elden ring and many others that i played on windows and I get between 10-30 more fps on average depending on the game, fuck I'm so happy

Thanks to all the programmers who made this possible, you are the best boys.

I hate microsoft

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