I've never used Freesync before and thought I'd try it since I got a 9070 recently and started to push 120hz instead of 60, so I'm expecting some intermittent drops in frames.

My monitor and GPU both definitely support Freesync, and I believe the monitor is rated for 1440p 144hz maximum with both HDMI 2.0 (which I'm using) and DisplayPort 1.2. I'm using Arch with the latest stable kernel and using KDE Plasma running in a Wayland session.

Is there any command I can do that just gives me a big fat, "YES, I SEE IT AND I'M USING IT!!!"? I couldn't see any such command for Wayland in the Arch wiki, only for X11.

Cheers!

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How do you search for causes and fixes to your linux issues?

I find google always has many irrelevant issues and prioritises a lot of old posts that are similar but no longer relevant.

I know a lot of issues are tracked in bug trackers for the relevant software giving you the issue. But sometimes it's even difficult to find what's causing the issue to know which software github repo (or whatever bug tracker it uses) to look at.

A lot of discord servers actually have a lot of good troubleshooting information for more cutting edge packages, however it's looked behind discord servers and not indexable by search engines and AI (I believe). This problem extends outside of linux, it's unfortunate that Discord is replacing a lot of forums but is behind a walled garden.

AI has actually been super helpful in boiling down the issue. Unfortunately you still have to know what you are doing as it often mixes up things between distros, etc. It also has the same problem as above where obviously it can't access a lot of the info on Discord servers.

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Hey all,

I am running Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S cut through steam with proton experimental and all is well except one thing. The game thinks I have a controller connected. I have nothing of that sort. The only devicesI have connected are my headphones and a mouse. Because it assumes I have a controller, It does not allow me to change keyboard bindings. I really want to remap Dodge and Parry.

I have tried disabling/enabling steam input with 0 luck. Could someone help?

Operating System: Garuda Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0 Qt Version: 6.9.0 Kernel Version: 6.14.6-zen1-1-zen (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 22 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 185H Memory: 30.9 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor 1: Intel® Arc Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 83DN System Version: Yoga Pro 9 16IMH9 submitted by /u/Comfortable_Set_770
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https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

Release Highlights

• Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL applications and compositors to stall when using NVIDIA as a PRIME Display Offload sink ("Reverse PRIME"), potentially resulting in a black screen.
• Fixed a bug that led to increasing memory usage in X11 OpenGL and Vulkan applications after suspend/resume cycles.

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Hello, as the title describes, I have attempted launching satisfactory from steam with proton compatibility layer enabled, but after pressing play, Steam will appear to launch for a bit, but nothing does. I have used various different launch options (including trying both Vulkan and DX12), and switched between proton hotfix, experimental, and 9.0-4. The game files are stored on a BTRFS file system, and I have verified them multiple times. When I launch the game with a new version of Proton I have not tried before, it will process shaders for about three minutes, and still not launch. However, when I opened the game files in file explorer and opened FactoryGameSteam.exe with Wine Windows Program Loader, the game launched instantly. I have been able to play other games such as Arkham Knight and Marvel Rivals. I have also had this exact issue on an Ubuntu-based distro I used previously. In that case, I was able to launch the game with integrated graphics, but not with my graphics card. If anyone has any suggestions to try out to be able to launch the game from Steam with Proton, that would be appreciated.

System Information

OS: Nobara Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64
Host: B650M Pro RS
Kernel: Linux 6.14.6-200.nobara.fc42.x86_64
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 (12) @ 5.17 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti [Discrete]
GPU 2: AMD Raphael [Integrated]
NVIDIA Driver Version: 570.144

Logs

console_log.txt

[2025-05-19 15:03:01] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to CheckShaderDepotManifest with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:02] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to ProcessingInstallScript with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:02] Running install script evaluator for AppID 526870, 1 step(s) /home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- /home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=526870 Install=1 -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=run -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix'/proton run '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/legacycompat/iscriptevaluator.exe' 'legacycompat\evaluatorscript_526870.vdf' [2025-05-19 15:03:03] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to SynchronizingCloud with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to SynchronizingStats with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to ShowInterstitials with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp waiting for user response to ShowInterstitials "" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp continues with user response "ShowInterstitials" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to SynchronizingControllerConfig with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to SiteLicenseSeatCheckout with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitForStreamingEncoderConfig with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to CreatingProcess with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp waiting for user response to CreatingProcess "" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp continues with user response "CreatingProcess" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] /bin/sh\0-c\0/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- /home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=526870 -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix'/proton waitforexitandrun '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Satisfactory/FactoryGameSteam.exe' -NO_EOS_OVERLAY\0 [2025-05-19 15:03:04] Game process added : AppID 526870 "/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- /home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=526870 -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix'/proton waitforexitandrun '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Satisfactory/FactoryGameSteam.exe' -NO_EOS_OVERLAY", ProcID 24400, IP 0.0.0.0:0 [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitingGameWindow with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:04] GameAction [AppID 526870, ActionID 12] : LaunchApp changed task to Completed with "" [2025-05-19 15:03:05] Game process removed: AppID 526870 "/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper -- /home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=526870 -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix'/proton waitforexitandrun '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Satisfactory/FactoryGameSteam.exe' -NO_EOS_OVERLAY", ProcID 24400 [2025-05-19 15:03:05] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 24554 [2025-05-19 15:03:05] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 24402 [2025-05-19 15:03:05] ThreadGetProcessExitCode: no such process 24401

compat_log.txt

[2025-05-19 15:08:14] StartSession: appID 526870 session ba05c3ba6b0aeeab [2025-05-19 15:08:15] StartSession: appID 526870 added secondary session 32dd3876bf55e78b to session ba05c3ba6b0aeeab [2025-05-19 15:08:15] Tool 2180100 "Proton Hotfix" has a dependency on tool 1628350. [2025-05-19 15:08:15] Command prefix for tool 1628350 "Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 (sniper)" set to: "'/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=run -- ". [2025-05-19 15:08:15] Command prefix for tool 2180100 "Proton Hotfix" set to: "'/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=run -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix'/proton run ". [2025-05-19 15:08:15] ReleaseSession: appID 526870 session 32dd3876bf55e78b released, 1 left [2025-05-19 15:08:17] Tool 2180100 "Proton Hotfix" has a dependency on tool 1628350. [2025-05-19 15:08:17] Command prefix for tool 1628350 "Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 (sniper)" set to: "'/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- ". [2025-05-19 15:08:17] Command prefix for tool 2180100 "Proton Hotfix" set to: "'/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix'/proton waitforexitandrun ". [2025-05-19 15:08:17] Tool 2180100 "Proton Hotfix" has a dependency on tool 1628350. [2025-05-19 15:08:17] Command prefix for tool 1628350 "Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 (sniper)" set to: "'/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=run -- ". [2025-05-19 15:08:17] Command prefix for tool 2180100 "Proton Hotfix" set to: "'/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper'/_v2-entry-point --verb=run -- '/home/redacted/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton Hotfix'/proton run ". [2025-05-19 15:08:18] OnAppLifetimeNotification: release session(s) for appID 526870 submitted by /u/OC_VORTEKS
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Used my 5 year PC upgrade to switch to Kubuntu, and i'm definitely not going back to windows!

I'm on 25.04 because my hardware is newer (RX 9070 GPU, MSI carbon X870E motherboard), and with this, i had to edit a text file with text from github to get support for audio on motherboard (something that will soon, hopefully, make it into current kubuntu).

I'd like to eventually go back to LTS version (i had best experience with it), and curious how can you tell when specific hardware is supported in LTS version?

This is what i came up with so far, let me know if i'm off:

1. Find where support for specific hardware would be (mesa, pipewire, alsa - still learning what's what), and which version has the support

2. Track when specific version is added to current LTS <- this is part i'm struggling with right now, how to find this

3. When added, test with live boot to confirm hardware is detected properly

4. If it works, move to LTS!

Also let me know if this belongs elsewhere, asking here since my PC is basically a Steam gaming machine.

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Hello everyone! I've been using Ubuntu 24 at my university which made me install it on my PC to get me used to it. When gaming on Windows, I used touchmote tool to connect my wiimote and map its inputs to a xbox 360 controller, and that is pretty much plug and play. On Linux, I've managed to install xwiimote and my inputs are recognized when using "xwiishow 1", but Steam games won't recognize any of them. Is there a way to do so? Thank you so much!

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Finally after the silence for so long: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/11446#issuecomment-2892172851

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so every time im playing a heaby game like death stranding, a plague tale everything is normal but i hear sometimes i hear some pops does anyone know how to fix it?

im on pop!_os btw

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I want to play with 4:3 stretched resolution but i can play with only native resolution and every other resolution no matter the aspect ratio wont work. I cant interact with the game in any way when using a resolution that is not the native resolution(see the picture). I tried to use gamescope but the game wont even start when gamescope with its parameters is in the launch options. Does anyone have any suggestions how to get it working?

OS: Arch Linux x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.14.6-arch1-1

DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.5

WM: KWin (Wayland)

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Along with some big discounts during their new May Madness sale, Fanatical also have some great new bundles to give you some easy discounts to build up your game collection on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

howdy, folks. i'm running Linux Mint with an Nvidia graphics card, just for context. I've been playing some other graphically intensive games (the new Doom game most recently) with no issues at all, but ROR2 keeps freezing, requiring me to kill the process to exit the game. Sometimes it happens at launch; sometimes after I tab out from the game; sometimes just randomly when playing. I've also tried a few different Proton versions, including the newest GE-Proton, but still no dice. If anyone has any advice I'd be very thankful

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Good news for keeping your games secure, as GOG have announced they've added support for authenticator apps for two-factor authentication (2FA).

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Microsoft just announced that the Windows Subsystem for Linux is now officially open source. While it doesn't necessarily mean much for traditional desktop Linux, it's still a nice move.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Discord seems to be really really touchy for Linux, but Vesktop seems to be a good replacement. But I have two very consistent issues that I dunno how to fix.

1) Webcam consistently flickers in and out. On my end, when I see myself on the webcam I look perfectly fine, but to everybody else in the call they see my box go pixelated or freeze on one screen and it stays that way for hours or just forever. No errors are visible on my end! My webcam preview doesn't have slow down or glitching, so I assume there's some miscommunication between Vesktop and everyone else??

2) Screenshare consistently flickers in and out! Same issue as before! I'll be screensharing and randomly the picture will flash a darkish green across the entire screen. Usually, when I first turn on the share screen I'll see the picture come on, green flash pops up for a second, and then it fixes itself. Only sometimes does the picture completely crap out, the green flashing picks up, and then it just stops working. A lot of the time the screenshare works just fine, which is nice! But when this flickering happens it also pixelates the screen after it stops.

Worth noting I do have hardware acceleration on. I'm using the flatpak version of Vesktop too. I know there's extra stuff in Vesktop's options, so perhaps I need to turn some else on? I've heard of Flatseal, which sometimes helps with permissions for flatpaks. Any help is appreciated!

I'm running this on Linux Mint, which has THE HARDEST TIME running Discord's screenshare without cutting the audio out completely. And before anybody asks, I've also tried Discord Canary and while that is very stable it doesn't share audio and it makes me wanna cry.

SPECS (I dunno, maybe it's needed)

• OS: Linux Mint Cinnamon 21
• CPU: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400F @ 2.60GHz
• RAM: 46.9
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700

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Hey guys. So, a weird issue.. Doom loads, and IS playable on my setup..But I can't select the resolution my gaming display is. IE: If I go to set 3440x1440, it doesn't exist as an available option, only upto 2560x1440 max..

any thoughts? idk where to begin checking on this. Endeavour OS is the operating system, most recent mesa/AMD drivers installed..

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hello everyone, trying to set up Overwatch 2 which i've installed on Flatpak Steam. despite my attempts at solving the issue in the title, what keeps happening is that i will go in a shooting range game to test the changes out. but, after 1 to 2 minutes of being in this practice range, the game will become unresponsive and freeze. the rest of the system is fine and i can alt-tab out.

i also found that any settings changes i made in one session were overriden in the next, defaulting to what OW2 considered the best settings for my system. this by itself isn't exactly a bother as it should run fine, but the fact it resets any changes is likely part of the problem at play here.

currently attempted fixes

• sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=2147483642 (which made my game a lot smoother, seemingly, but didn't fix the freezing)
• DXVK_HUD=compiler to see cache progression. but i didn't see it pop up..
• __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 to prevent the game from deleting shaders once done, so its easier to start up
• used Proton 8.0.5, 9.0.4, GE Proton 9.27... and also tried no layers. OW2 runs very well on Proton 8.0.5 for me, but nothing about the freezing changed
• trying just a "vanilla" launch with no layers and launch options, which also does not change anything

this has not happened to me on the many other games i play, such as TF2, Monster Hunter Rise, Deep Rock Galactic, Critter Cove to name a few... so i'm guessing this is specific to OW2.

i'm on Void Linux, with a correctly set-up Nvidia Optimus configuration, a Geforce GTX 1050 Ti and drivers 570. i also have 8GB ram (which, surprisingly, i got to get away with for a lot of games), if this matters.

some logs

here's an extract from 'prime-run steam', where i took what i thought were interesting bits. i'll add i had OW2 with Proton 8.0.5 and 'PROTON_LOG=1' for this test :

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arni/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/arni/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ... pressure-vessel-wrap[11501]: W: Using libGLX_mesa.so.0 from provider system for some but not all architectures! Will take /usr/share/drirc.d from provider. ... 05/19 18:41:28 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 05/19 18:41:28 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(20250428210926)/tid(11814) 05/19 18:41:28 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)/tid(11814) crash_20250519184129_3.dmp[11824]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/crash_20250519184129_3.dmp 05/19 18:41:29 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 05/19 18:41:29 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(20250428210926)/tid(11825) ... crash_20250519184129_3.dmp[11824]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes crash_20250519184129_3.dmp[11824]: response: Discarded=1 crash_20250519184129_3.dmp[11824]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20250519184129_3.dmp'', upload yes: ''Discarded=1'' reaping pid: 11814 -- gameoverlayui

please let me know if there is anything else i should add to this post! hoping everyone is doing well, and cheers :)

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So I recwntly installed CachyOS, at first I have some problems because of Windows pagination and divide partitions (dual boot), but with Mini Tool Wizard I finally could make a partition for CachyOS, after that I tested DBD with Proton 10/9 in Heroic Games Launcher and was normal, but somehow in others games like Darksiders 2 and Salt and Sanctuary from Epic, Salt even start it, just open with and error and for Darksiders 2 I open it and was normal, but the second time I tryed open it wasnt working anymore, I reviewed the drivers and system updates, but nothing working, I also tried to change my kernel to bore-lto and enable prime, and also dont work.... I starting to think that the problem is my Laptop, yep, my Dell G15 5511 (RTX 3050 4GB, i5-11400H), because it use something like a hybrid format, sometimes the i5 and sometimes my RTX, and I'm considering into installing a new distro more easy for gaming, like Nobara, Bazzite or even SteamOS. Maybe Anyone could make a suggestion or help me? Thanks!

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