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high amounts of cache use negatively effecting performance?
I understand that free ram is wasted ram so linux tries to use up ram to increase performance but I am regularly seeing near 100% ram usage on a 32gb system often with 15 to 18gb of that just being cache.
I honestly feel like its negatively effecting performance for example on a game I go to a new area and it either takes a really long time on the load screen or I am noticing for large amounts of time a building will be missing or an npc will be standing around with no armor on.
I tried flushing the cache while stuck on load screens to see if this is the issue and sure enough it does seem to load
If randomly flush the cache at 100% it frees but does not seem to go back to 100% usage
tldr other than 'buy more ram' is there anything I can do about this?
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Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.14 brings an improved minimap, particle improvements and UI tweaks
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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
How do native English speakers talk about games and gaming experiences?
Hi r/linux_gaming. I'm studying how non-native speakers develop English fluency through gaming at University of Barcelona. A few months ago I posted here recruiting non-native English speakers and got a great response, thank you!
Now I need native English speakers as a baseline. What does native speaker fluency look like when talking about games? This baseline lets me identify which fluency patterns in non-native speaker data develop through gaming exposure versus general proficiency.
I think this may especially interest the community because the entire research stack is completely free and open-source software. No proprietary AI services, no data sent to third parties.
If you're an 18+ native English speaker who plays or has played any video game, I have a 5-minute study with audio recordings that needs your participation.
What's involved: - 5 short monologue speaking tasks - Chat with our conversational agent about games
Study: https://survey-rails-bitter-forest-2613.fly.dev/consent
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Even if you don't participate: Did gaming ever help you learn anything language-related in your native language - new words, explaining complex ideas, typing faster? Thanks for reading!
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Strange behavior on Bazzite
Hello everyone! As a lot lf other people did, I tried my way with Linux after Win10 end of support started to get close but I'm a bit lost whenever I encounter a problem. I installed 2 versions of Linux to compare them (on separate drives, not in VMs) : Manjaro and Bazzite.
I have a i7-13700KF, a NVIDIA 2080 SUPER and 32Gio of RAM. I like Bazzite better but it's where I have 2 big problems that I find nothing about on Internet.
First, my steam games have strange behavior for the most of them. Worst case is Sea of Thieves, which is just freezing after 30 seconds in menu or in game (if i rush the settings to set sail, the loading is smooth but it freezes after i can make 20 steps pretty much). I tried multiple versions of Proton and it didn't work better, BUT the game runs fine on Manjaro. When it freezes, I have to force quit it with Steam button "Stop" and my PC freezes for 5 secs when doing so. Some other games just freeze when I exit them. It does it with Hades 2 and Sker Ritual but does NOT do it with Hunt Showdown or Crab Champions for exemple.
My Bazzite disk is in Btrfs while my Manjaro one is EXT4, the games are on the Linux format drives and not on the old NTFS system.
Second issue I have is plasmashell using a (very) high amount of RAM with time. It starts with 500Mio and can go up to 9,6Gio yesterday evening. I do NOT use any widgets or styles, just a slideshow of wallpapers. I tried setting up a video wallpaper with Smart Video Wallpaper but I ended up removing the module because I thought it was the cause of the memory leak.
I'm sorry about the long post, I tried to include the biggest amount of details possible, and I thank you by advance for your ideas! 😊
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Petition Arena Breakout playable for Linux users.
I've created a petition for Arena Breakthrough: Infinite to gather votes for Linux support. Please join.
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Pirated copy of Crusader Kings III is not running properly
Recently ive pirated CK3 with all the expansions and stuff and since ive pirated my copy i dont get to use the linux native binary so im stuck running it through proton (which is not that bad but it does some problems)
when i launch the game the game acts fine and runs and when I load a save the save loads and i play the game for 5 minutes or something like that and then the gamescope window just disappears and the program just acts like it was minimized (eventhough im running it in sway so there is no minimize option) then the game doesnt come back and is just sitting there eating up my RAM
idk if someone can understand anything from this but if you can help itll be amazing
im running ubuntu 25.04 server with sway on an nvidia gpu with the propriatery drivers and im running the game with the default lutris settings through GE-Proton (Latest)
I believe that ive tried all the window modes possible (fullscreen, windowed, borderless) in gamescope and in the game itself
chatgpt says something about virtual desktop and that i should enable it but I think that lutris disabled that option long ago because i cant find it any longer
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Weird mouse issues in some games
Hey everyone, I have an issue in some games in fullscreen. The mouse cursor jump sometimes (which you can see later in the video when trying to focus the text boxes, and I get a graphical issue with the mouse cursor in the top-left corner. I had to do a phone video, because this doesn't show up in Gnome's native screenshot/capture tool.
My GPU is a RX6900XT. I'm running Fedora 42 (Gnome), but I also tested this on Bazzite with Gnome
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Change resolution of a Unity game
Hi,
I wanna play this unity game called "Anthology of the Killer", It's supposed to run in 4:3 but it gets cut like pic related. Is there a way to force a specific resolution?
You're supposed to be able to read what the second guy is talking about
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Linux hardware survey
I just did the hardware survey on Steam. This is the current operating system figures.
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Steamos alternative for working gamer
Im looking for something to replace ubuntu 24.04 Something that is geared to gaming on steam but that maybe will also install all my software like docker, vscode, virtualbox etc for work related stuff.
Also I've thoroughly bricked something cos my os runs games horribly. I need to just reinstall so im considering something other than ubuntu now.
I like ubuntu because its simple to install deb packages and the terminal is mostly easy to use. Have bricked it a few times learning though.
Im flexible on desktop environments but I do like gnome.
Make suggestions please. Ill try them on my laptop before commiting to my main desktop though.
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How to get and run Total Overdose on Pop! OS?
I'd love to play the classic Total Overdose on my Pop! OS system, but I see it's not on Steam. What's the best way to get a copy of it these days? I'm not sure if it's still sold somewhere or if it's considered abandonware/freeware now. Also, once I have it, what's the easiest way to run it? Should I just add it to Steam and use Proton, or is Lutris the better option for a game like this?
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Audio problem in games under Wine and Proton.
hi, i have a small problem related to the audio, and it is that when i play things under proton from steam and heroic games launcher, i have clicks in the audio and honestly i don't know how to solve this detail :( i would really appreciate the help since i am a user who plays a lot, and i repeat and clarify that this click in the audio only happens with proton and wine... by the way, i have pipewire as an audio service.
My distro is Void Linux.
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Opening modded Minecraft world hard crashes PC
Hey everyone, so I have a modded minecraft world that I have with friends that we have been playing for a while now. Me and another friend both run Arch based OS's (I use vanilla Arch and she uses Garuda linux) and all of a sudden after a recent system update neither of us can open any worlds in modded minecraft. After attempting to open the world it hard crashes our PC and freezes completely after saying "Reading world data" for a few seconds. Interestingly enough when testing various things I noticed that this does not happen on Vanilla minecraft ONLY on modded even when using the same launcher. Please let me know what I could do to better look into this or if someone had this same problem and found a solution.
My PC specs incase its relevant are:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
AMD Radeon 9070 xt 16gb
32gb Ram
Thanks in advanced for the help!
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Steam sidebar logo
I added a non-steam game to steam but when I try adding an image for the logo on the sidebar it doesn't work. I was able to add the main logo and background, it's just the sidebar giving me trouble. I've made sure the image was a .png like it says it has to be, but no dice
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First gaming pc build ever distro?
I am going to build a pc with Ryzen 7500f and am still debating between intel b580 and rx7600 for around the same price where I live. I am tired of Windows 11 giving me anxiety about bricking my pc with each update than just chill and game. I am also debating on what distros to use. I want something simple, preferably pre-configured and ready for me to just download my games on steam and play. Thanks in advance!
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Game title in Bottles
Let me say first of all. I'm am LOVING Linux for gaming. and Bottles makes install and running of games so simple, in some cases, even simpler than in windows.
But one odd thing has popped up, Some games install and run just fine, but in the bottles list of installed programs, they don't use the default name of the game. I assume its because the launcher uses its own custom name , a lot of older software had that issue. And i cant seen to find any way to change that name in the list.
For example, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (An old school Resources management title I am addicted to) Installs and run just fine, no issues at all, but in bottles, its listed as facedit. Star Wars - Galactic Battlegrounds shows up as player. And I cant seem to find any menu or option to change these names in that list, to find the games easier.
Does anyone have any idea how to change this in bottles? or should I just try to memorize the games launch names?
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My games are freezing and i dont know what to do
I installed Linux on my notebook about a month ago and everything was going fine, i was playing a lot of visual novels and it was all ok. Some days ago i decided to go back to fighting games, Blazblue CF, Guilty Gear Strive and Street Figther 6. All these games worked perfectly on windows. The games worked just fine for the first hours of gameplay, GGS was lagging a bit but ok, BBCF was just fine but SF6 was freezing and crashing just seconds after i run the game, first it was just SF6, now BBCF is freezing too, i tried to update everything, change the Proton version, enable and disable feral gamemode and after some minutes of gameplay my BBCF just freeze and i have to close the game. When my SF6 freeze i cant close it through steam, i have to reboot my notebook. Another detail is that my VLC media player and MPV media player sometimes freeze too, My desktop rarely freezes, and when it does it goes away quickly. I did some research on the internet and saw that it could be RAM, I ran fastfetch in the terminal and saw that my notebook was using practically 50% of my RAM just to exist, I don't know what to do now. Can anyone help me?
My specs: Ubuntu 25.04
Proton-cachyos-10.0-20250919-sir-x86_64_v2 (Tried Proton experimental too)
Feral gamemode = on (Tried with gamemode off too)
16gb ram (the system only shows 14.85 on fastfetch)
12th gen intel core i5-12450H 4.40 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050
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Radv performs worse than NVIDIA in KOTOR 1
I recently had the "pleasure" to switch between GPUs in my first Knights of the Old Republic 1 playthrough (the GOG version 1.03 on the Heroic Games Launcher flatpak). Only the GPU was changed between sessions.
On mesa/radv 25.2 (tested on a 6900XT and a 9070XT) the game heavily stutters in a quite a few areas, for example in the large boulevard of the upper city of Taris (first planet), it struggles to 35 ~ 45 FPS.
On NVIDIA 580.82 (tested on a GTX 1080) the stutters completely disappeared and remained buttery smooth, like a game from 2003 with modern hardware should be like...
So the 9070XT actually performs worse there than the 1080, which should not be the case at all. In all cases I had to play with zink, else there would be visual bugs in the game.
Distro: Arch Linux
Kernel: 6.16
DE: KDE Plasma (Wayland)
Heroic version: v2.18.1 (flatpak)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Proton: GE-Proton10-17 (with umu enabled and no ntsync)
Used zink (otherwise there are visual bugs)
I used the KOTOR widescreen patches for my 1440p monitor, the Ultimate Character Overhaul (upscaled textures) and the KOTOR Community Patch. (Link)
Does anyone else experience those lags with radv in that game?
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