I was looking into doing a Linux Modded MC server and I got an old laptop and set it up with kubuntu, I also have proxmox on a thumb drive ready to go in case, but I would like to try and run it fully locally, does anyone have any ways to just generally do this cause I am at a wall and can't find much :) thanks!

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Resident Evil Requiem — Linux vs Windows Benchmark (RTX 5080, CachyOS, 595.58.03)

RTX 5080 · Ryzen 7 9800X3D · 1440p · DLSS · Proton Experimental bleeding edge · SFF ncase M2

Quick note before the numbers: when I tried to play at launch on 590 series drivers (with Blackwell GPU), this game was largely unplayable on Linux — vertex explosions, terrible frame rates. On 595.58.03, it's a completely different story.

Full benchmark video can be found here.

Setup

• Proton Experimental bleeding edge (proton-cachyOS-20260330 and March 24th build both failed to work for me)
• Caveat: RT High is broken — game freezes when I switch to high, even post-intro. Stuck to PT and RT Normal
• Everything else worked: path tracing, RT Normal, DLSS upscaling, frame generation

Average FPS

Preset Windows Linux Delta Path Tracing DLSS Quality 100.2 92.2 -8.0% RT Normal DLSS DLAA 2x FG 207.5 184.1 -11.3% RT Normal DLSS DLAA 128.8 129.9 +0.9%

1% Low FPS

Preset Windows Linux Path Tracing DLSS Quality 61.7 56.4 RT Normal DLSS DLAA 2x FG 117.9 103.3 RT Normal DLSS DLAA 96.1 88.0

0.1% Low FPS

Preset Windows Linux Path Tracing DLSS Quality 52.7 49.9 RT Normal DLSS DLAA 2x FG 89.3 78.0 RT Normal DLSS DLAA 91.7 65.2

GPU Metrics

Preset Win Power Linux Power Win Temp Linux Temp Win VRAM Linux VRAM PT DLSS Quality 264W 303W 62.1°C 65.3°C 8.85GB 10.38GB RT Normal DLAA 2x FG 238W 272W 60.7°C 62.6°C 9.68GB 10.38GB RT Normal DLAA 228W 269W 60.6°C 63.1°C 9.32GB 9.13GB

Linux pulls 30–40W more across all presets. Temps are 2–3°C warmer. VRAM is higher on Linux for PT and FG presets — but interestingly Linux uses less VRAM than Windows on the DLAA no-FG preset.

Takeaways

• Path tracing through Proton on Blackwell is within 8% of Windows — closer than I expected
• Frame generation gap (~11%) is the biggest delta but still a great experience overall.
• DLAA with no FG is effectively a tie.
• 0.1% lows are where Linux shows the most weakness, though I didn't notice meaningful stutter in gameplay
• The 590→595 driver jump was significant for this title specifically as well as what's been cooking with proton.

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Every 3-5 seconds a get these lag spikes when playing RDR2, run it from Steam
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M DS3H V2
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 × 12
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
RAM: 16 GB Disk: 1.5 TB
OS: CachyOS (64-bit)
Kernel: Linux 6.19.10-1-cachyos
GNOME: 49
Session: Wayland

Launch options (took them from ProtonDB): MANGOHUD=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 LD_PRELOAD="" PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 game-performance %command%

What should I check? Can provide any info if needed.
I've seen familiar problems in this thread, but they were mostly about laptops overheating. Mine is fine!

https://preview.redd.it/4ecxbvxtbetg1.png?width=484&format=png&auto=webp&s=f1e66b28937ae96f2f9ee69ffbe6f7b71b931a7e

https://preview.redd.it/r46hkco0betg1.png?width=484&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b0717906387d2b2f83f466f429eec0d9d37d9ce

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hello everyone, I'm new to linux and currently using cachyos for gaming. my new oled monitor aw2725d is best used with hdmi 2.1 and I can only see upto 120hz on cachyos. I saw a reddit post about a kernel to enable 2.1 and I want to know how to do it? Thank you in advance :)

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Specifications

OS: Fedora 43
DE: COSMIC
Compositor: Wayland
CPU: Ryzen 9 7950X
GPU: Radeon 7900XT

Launcher: Steam (RPMFusion vers.)

Description

I occasionally have this issue with a variety of games, but a quick restart of my PC "resolves" the issue. However, specifically with Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, this issue appears persistent.

Upon launching the game everything seems fine, I click through the menus and load in. But the moment I gain control of my player camera, if I dare to move my mouse whatsoever, it immediately looks up toward the sky and spins rapidly.

I launch the game through Steam, using Proton-Hotfix, I have tried changing Proton version on a variety of games when I come across this issue, but it never resolves by doing this.

The only launch argument I have is: "WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 %command%", however, when removed there is no change in game behavior.

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/14235444308885449056/7DE2D09FF0E2562F1B8464AE14F20E3AF2684DED/

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EDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!:
as soon as i posted i tested if without the shaders my fps will go up to normal (60-70) but it stayed at around 10. no its probably not to do with the shaders.

Im running minecraft fabric 1.20.1 with the standard suit of optimization mods (sodium, lithium, etc) along with some worldgen mods (terralith, bop, geophilic, etc) and i think most importantly distant horizons and shaders.

i have nvidia 2060m and Intel Core i7-10750H. not the best but runs my setup of mods with the shaders at around 25-35fps which is enough for me.

i now switched to opensuse leap and my fps count with bliss shaders has dropped to 5, with bsl to 6 and photon to like 3.

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Hey,

I am currently thinking of switching to linux. I am tired of windows and would like to switch primarily for gaming specifically online multiplayer games such as Deadlock. I have a NVIDIA 3090, a ASUS Rog Strix Motherboard, intel cpu. I am wondering which Linux distro you would recommend and do you think game performance is better than on windows (I am a newbie at Linux). Thank you in advance.

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Disclaimer

This is a slightly modified post from r/bazzite, but I think it might be interesting for you guys. The intention is to share something close to "simple user experience" to help somebody considering swapping OS make a decision.

TL;DR

Let me spoil the ending - few days ago I completely switched to Bazzite and nuked my dual-boot.

If you have some Linux experience and don't mind taking some time troubleshooting or investigating - it will just work for you. With such approach it feels nice and smooth almost all the time — in both non-gaming and gaming cases.

In case of no Linux experience at all it might be uncomfortable first time, but as for me it is the most user-friendly Linux I saw lately.

More examples with different context below.

Intro

So, almost a year ago I heard about gaming Linux distros and Bazzite itself. I don't really like the way one tiny indie OS is being developed so decision to try was made in seconds. I installed it as dual-boot and started my journey.

Now it's been about a year I use it and I am ready to share my experience of Bazzite as personal home OS.

There will be lots of text (sorry for that) as long as I want to share my complete experience of Bazzite as home OS and describe it from different perspectives.

Background

I work as a DevOps engineer and I would be bad DevOps engineer without any Linux knowledge. So, such things as containers are not new for me and I'm comfortable with Linux way.

It is important to understand because if you switch from Windows without any Linux knowledge/experience sometimes it might be unusual or even painful.

However, I will not dive deep in tech details here, my intention is to show a Bazzite from simple user experience.

Impressions

I will try to cover few topics as long as home OS is not only about gaming. Everybody has their hobbies or home tasks, so I will share my experience in following parts: - System itself - Non-gaming activities - Gaming (including VR)

So, let's start.

System itself

Bazzite is first atomic Linux I face, in fact I learned what atomic Linux is because of Bazzite.

What does it mean for home OS? Well, atomic distro means that core of system is immutable. And in terms of user experience it means two things:

• you cannot install package directly into your system.
• you cannot update system manually in classic Linux way.

Sounds like such way sucks, but let me explain how it actually works.

Package installation

First of all we cannot install packages directly into your system. At the same time there is an official guidance from Bazzite team that describes ways of installing additional software. I personally prefer Bazaar and Distrobox way.

Bazaar is some sort of store where you can find most popular applications. Installation is one-click, feels like App Store, Google Play, Name-Any-Application-Store.

Distrobox is a container management tool, pretty simple in usage. As I understand Distrobox creates containers that already has "some sort of access to your disk". However, this access level cannot ruin your system. You can create a container using Ubuntu image for example and run your additional software there. You can create a script to start and stop your containers and bind it to some desktop object, so experience will be just the same with regular application installation.

If you need even more flexible solution - there is Podman. It is also container management system that manages containers created and managed by Distrobox too. From what I tried it looks pretty similar to Docker, so it is not very hard to use.

Why do I like it? Because it is more safe, you will not get gnomed or break something by managing packages. These are isolated processes in containers that cannot break your system (usually).

System update

There is an official page that describes system update process.

Long story short as long as Bazzite is atomic distro - you do not update system by updating packages, you do it by updating whole system image. There are few ways to do it - via specific bash command, via system settings in GUI, or just by doing nothing - system automatically check for update and updates. Sounds like a bit of Windows way with no control over update, but I haven't faced any issues with it. And, as I've already mantioned, the chance of breaking something is way smaller.

Non-gaming activities

Depends on software you use, but mostly it is smooth and nice.

Here are few examples of software I use: - Zoom - Office alternatives - VSCode - Kenku bot for Discord

Zoom

I think this is most uncomfortable part, and even by "most uncomfortable" I mean that it usually doesn't save my login data. As a result I have to login almost every time I start it. This is basically it, Zoom works fine.

Office

Some time ago I thought that it is a killer feature of Microsoft. However, I was wrong, and let's discuss why.

• Libre Office. A choice of open source fans. Provides necessary tools, duplicates basic Office features.
• OnlyOffice. Pretty close to original MS Office, created for cooperative work with documents. Also can work with PDF files.
• WPS. Proprietary solution, a desktop client with closest experience to original Office.
• Google Docs. In case you want closest to MS Office experience, but online only. Also cloud-based, so you will not lose your docs.
• Office 365. Just like Google option, it is completely cloud solution that does not depend on OS you are using.

I personally work with OnlyOffice and Google Docs now. LibreOffice feels a bit too old to me. It has basic Office functionality but working with more complex documents or graphical part of documents feels painfully. Talking of WPS - this one feels good, but as long as it is proprietary solution it is up to you to trust these guys or not.

VSCode

It just works. It requires additional configuration, but all of this config is personalization. Plugin store is available, plugins are installed without any pain.

Kenku

Kenku is a great example of non-standard software. This is an app that can connect to your Discord server and either be used as a music player or soundboard, with pretty flexible config. The point is that there is no such application in default store. I installed it in Distrobox way. Basically I have the thing I've already described - a container based on Ubuntu 18 with manually installed package inside. Works nice and smooth, no issues detected.

Other apps

In my context most of other apps are usually web-based or can be installed from Bazaar. In web-based case these apps don't depend on OS, it will work basically everywhere if your system and hardware is able to run some browser. And talking of Bazaar - I've already described few cases, all in all it shows very strong user-friendly experience.

Gaming

Long story short - it works in most of cases. All you need is Steam and Heroic Games Launcher that usually does all work for you. If you play only AAA games - it usually just work without any required additional actions.

Here is my spec: - Processors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700H - Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.4 GiB usable) - Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

I don't chase a hype train and usually play games ~ a year old, when it has lots of patches and additional content (I personally call it final release). So, unfortunately, I will not be able to share this type of experience, but you surely can look for crimson desert issues in this sub and it might help you understand what cases you can face.

Anyway, here are few my examples of different games and cases with Bazzite:

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

It works out-of-the-box, you just download it and it works. Shows stable 60 fps.

Forza Horizon 5

Just the same thing. It works out-of-the-box, doesn't require any additional actions from my side, shows stable fps.

Wartales

Not so nice here. It starts, it works nice and smooth, but after a hour of playing it starts dropping fps for some reason. Workaround for me was just restarting the game.

No other issues faced.

Assassins Creed 2

It works nice and clean. However there were two challenges:

• not every game from this series supports controllers by default. This issue can be fixed by using Steam Input presets in game settings.
• It is an old Ubisoft game that requires Uplay and should be activated via Ubisoft services. I faced some troubles there but all of them were solvable.

Controller

Ah, yes, controllers. I use Xbox controller and it is also used sometimes by my wife that uses workstation with Windows. When we were connecting my controller to different devices sometimes it stopped connecting to Bazzite.

Fix was pretty simple - just update Xbox controller on Windows. After fresh software was installed the controller started working without any issues.

Alien: Isolation

Works almost perfectly. Following issues were faced:

• Only once I encountered a visual bug - some textures of single object were flashing. I cannot even say that it ruined an immersion. I was enjoying whole game and Bazzite worked perfectly here.
• Cloud saves. Here I should say that Alien was bought in Epic Games and installed via Heroic. So, for some reason, save file directory in Heroic was configured incorrectly. Once it was reconfigured - saves started working.

Minecraft

Well, this one is questionable for me. As long as they sell Minecraft in Microsoft store only there was no option to run it via Steam or Heroic.

So, there are two versions of original Minecraft game - Java and Bedrock. You can run Java edition with additional launcher installed, in my case it is Prism Launcher, it even support mods.

However, it seem that you have to either forget about Bedrock edition or look for workaround with android version. So, it seems that you will not be able to run Minecraft with RTX on Bazzite (Please, if I'm wrong instead of downvoting share solutions with me, I would love to see this game with RTX on Bazzite).

Project Zomboid

So, here we enter gray zone. This game supports Linux, it has Linux-native version. It works nice, however, for me this game is not playable without mods, and this fact completely changes an approach here.

I created a cloud server for me and my squad, and installed ~200 mods. I was trying to play native Linux version it showed an extreme performance - 2-3 fps. I tried different approaches but almost nothing helped. So, the only way for me to run this game was to switch a version to Windows-native in Steam. It started working nice with all Proton magic, but now it started consuming RAM a lot. I was playing with Discord and Kenku soundboard bot running, and RAM consumption was insane. So, most frequent my mistake was to open a browser when playing. It just completely freeze my laptop and I have to shut it down by power button.

Tabletop Simulator

As in most of examples - it works. But at some point I was playing with my boys a huge and complex game, one of team members tried to roll 1010 dices and this nice action completely froze my laptop. I was a host so game instantly stopped.

VR Gaming

All I can say - it is possible. My spec is not so powerful so really heavy in resource consumption context games do not run on my laptop. However, this list works: - Skyrim VR - Moss - Phasmophobia - Superhot VR

For VR I installed Steam VR and WiVrn server, to run game you should connect your VR set to WiVrn and follow all the instructions from WiVrn server app. I faced no issues with my Quest 3.

Additionally I would like to mention Skyrim VR. It works as vanilla game. But if you need to run it with mods you have to install mod manager. So, this is how I broke something in Bazzite first and only time. I still haven't dealt with this challenge and not sure if such risk pays off, because after I run some sort of mod manager installation script all VR games stopped working.

I also need to mention that this is not a Bazzite issue at all, running scripts without its understanding was always a bad idea.

Summary

So, Bazzite as a home OS, eh?

Depends on your needs. Most of software works, you either can find it in Bazaar or install in with Distrobox. There are some cases of dead end in software installation - Adobe software is a great example. I haven't investigated but I won't be surprised if some specific software for example for 3D printing will require a lot of effort to run. But I would not call these cases "regular cases of simple user".

As you probably saw, most popular word combination here was "nice and smooth". I would like to describe Bazzite as home OS exactly by this words. Fortunately, in most of the cases I can do it. There definitely are exceptions, but I would say that I can live with it. And I'm very happy to find a great alternative of Win for me.

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Installed an anime game launcher and twintail launcher, both would just end up do the same result after clicking play. The play icon would load for a second and stop working and launching the game through steam gave these logs. Heroic also ran into the same issue.

ProtonFixes[42566] INFO: Running checks

ProtonFixes[42566] INFO: All checks successful

ProtonFixes[42566] INFO: Using early stage global defaults for UNKNOWN (0)

ProtonFixes[42566] INFO: No early stage global protonfix found for UNKNOWN (0)

Adding process 42566 for gameID 13571990853169184768

ProtonFixes[42566] INFO: Running protonfixes on "GE-Proton10-34", build at 2026-03-23 03:55:11+00:00.

ProtonFixes[42566] INFO: Running checks

ProtonFixes[42566] INFO: All checks successful

ProtonFixes[42566] INFO: Using main stage global defaults for UNKNOWN (0)

ProtonFixes[42566] INFO: No main stage global protonfix found for UNKNOWN (0)

Adding process 42567 for gameID 13571990853169184768

wineserver: NTSync up and running!

Adding process 42583 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42584 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42585 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42588 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42590 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42593 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42602 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42607 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42614 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42647 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42657 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42659 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42680 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Adding process 42708 for gameID 13571990853169184768

pid 42586 != 42585, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=13571990853169184768]

Removing process 42708 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42680 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42659 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42657 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42647 for gameID 13571990853169184768

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Removing process 42607 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42602 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42593 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42590 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42588 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42585 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42584 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42583 for gameID 13571990853169184768

Removing process 42567 for gameID 13571990853169184768

It would give these logs on Proton GE or hotfix or dw.

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https://preview.redd.it/xp43by4sgdtg1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=e849e93ebf957103ce1ee27aa08fdf857c87dd18

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I managed to squeeze a stable 50 FPS out of my RX 570 on medium settings. On max settings, it’s unstable and hovers around 20-30 FPS.
Path Tracing didn't crash the game, but I'm getting artifacts and only 2-3 FPS

1 chapter very black, maybe emulate rt getting artifacts, 2 chapter normal
Frametime normal, i use LossLess Scaling (lsfg-vk) and this bug frametime

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Since the good practice when using wine is to use one prefix per game/app, how this works in faugus?

Currently I've installed Battlenet in prefix A, and use that battlenet installation to install Diablo2:R.

Now I want to install Starcraft2 so I tried to add Battlenet again but in a different wine prefix B, however Faugus wont let me do that saying that battlenet already exist, so it seems I can have only one Battlenet installation, but this means all my battlenet games will have to share the same wine prefix, doesn't this go against wine good practices?

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Hey everyone! Good morning, good evening, good day. (This is my first time posting in this subreddit)
I'm trying to build my first gaming PC for Nobara + Windows 11 (dual-boot). Budget ~145-155k RUB (max 200k).

• CPU - Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• Motherboard - MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk wifi
• RAM - 32GB DDR5-6000 (2x16 CL30)
• GPU - RX 7800 XT 16GB
• Storage - 2 × 1TB Gen4 NVMe (WD SN770 / SN850X)
• PSU- Seasonic Focus GX 750W Gold
• Cooler - Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE
• Case - be quiet! Pure Base 500 Airflow

(And I chose AMD over Nvidia because I heard that AMD graphics cards have fewer issues? Or is that no longer the case?)
Main goal: 1440p gaming + smooth Nobara. Also some creative stuff later. I'm new to this—to be honest, I only understand half of what's going on, so please forgive me if I sound clueless or don't know something. I have a couple of questions:

1. Nobara 43 gonna work with this hardware?
2. Do I need to configure any important BIOS settings before the first boot?
3. Are there any known problematic components in this build that I should be aware of?
4. This setup actually decent or total mess?

Thank you very much in advance! Would really appreciate any advice!

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Trying to run some games with wine and proton but nothing seems to work to fix my issue.

The executable presumably launches and the fans spin up, but nothing happens at all on the screen. No black screen, no crash, nothing. The logs also show no significant error.

Tried steam with proton experimental and 9 and lutris with most available runners.

The nvidia-smi shows no game process.

Im on ubuntu 25.10, running nvidia drivers v580 and all 32bit libraries are installed and latest version.

No idea what else to try.

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I've been having an issue for at least a year or 2 with this 165hz Freesync monitor I bought. The issue happened on any distro running GNOME. Basically, when using my monitor at its 165hz refresh rate, my performance/framerate in games would just tank to like 20fps after a time of being logged in, VRR enabled or not. I think it may have been triggered by another app going fullscreen like Youtube. Restarting my monitor somehow solved it, but I found a better solution: I just set it to 144hz. Lagbomb instantly gone.

It is not the Steam LD preload issue or a scheduler issue, I think it's a specific EDID thing with my monitor. I was restarting my monitor before launching a game for years. Just wanted to share because after finding this workaround I feel I can actually recommend linux again.

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So I have switched from Windows to Arch Linux and so far most of my games (somehow) able to run with either Proton or Wine. For Proton one I add it as non-steam game and use proton compatibility there. My games are Honkai Impact 3rd, Genshin, HSR, ZZZ, and MH Wilds (please don't judge my game library T-T).

Now the background is done, I have a problem. The longer I play any of these games, the lower the fps becomes and it infects the next game I play. For instance, I play zzz on around 100fps, after 30 minute to 1 hour it turned into around 30fps, gpu usage goes from around 60-70% spiked into 100%, and after closing that game and play something else like MH Wilds, it becomes 20fps or lower (which usually when played it's around 60fps). The problem is gone if I reboot my PC, never fail. I already try multiple proton version from GE-9-25, proton 10, cachyos-something, any that at least let the game run. Try to check with ChatGPT (yes I use it, sorry) and I feel like it put me in circles.

For my specs, here goes:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

RAM: 16GB

GPU: Radeon 6700XT

OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 26.0.4-arch1.1

kernel driver: amdgpu

drivername: radv

OS: Arch linux with Hyprland + Wayland

For Honkai Impact 3rd I and HSR I use the launcher from Honkers Launcher and Honkers Railway Launcher. The rest is using Steam (besides MH Wilds, all is added as non-steam game). If you need more I can give it, just tell me how, I am new in Linux.

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Hello,

I have a strange graphic glitch that I only see when I play Crimson Desert and I can't find any solution.

https://preview.redd.it/3lic18pf9ctg1.png?width=1921&format=png&auto=webp&s=2f7d3211209eb00ae89601cace92c05c0274087c

As you can see there this rough outline that kind of ruin the immersion, however it's much more pronounced indoor or inside cities than in the wild.

Here is my parameters :

I tried with or without FSR upscalling or frame gen, doesn't change anything

Digital Foundry recommended settings

My specs :
Ubuntu 25.10
CPU : AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X
GPU : AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XT
RAM : 32,0 Go DDR4

I don't even know what this graphical glitch is called, I found something like "flickering" or "shimmering" but i'm not sure.

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So I've been having issues with nvidia for a while now, it isn't anything major, it's just that some games work 50%+ better on windows then on linux. I've been banging my head on the wall trying to figure out what's happening.

My setup:

Arch Linux (nvidia-open-dkms drivers 595.58.03 ) kernel linux-tkg 6.19.10 self-compiled, kde DE

Nvidia RTX 3060 OC 12GB (using VRR, issues persist without VRR)

Ryzen 5 3600

32GB DDR4 3200MHz

MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max motherboard

So what's really happening is, my gpu utilization in games is very low, while on the other side on windows, they run completely fine. I've tested a couple of games, Skyrim, Hogwarts Legacy, Elden Ring, Zenless Zone Zero, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced, Euro Truck Simulator 2.

Out of all of these tests, all of the games run better on windows compared to linux, the average on gpu usage is ~60%, while windows has all of these games running with 92-100% gpu usage constantly (same cpu usage across linux and windows), with 40-50% better fps. I tried using newer/older kernels, different kernels, older nvidia drivers, disabling GSP firmware, enabling PBO in bios for my cpu, none of which helped, hell i even tried "plug and play" distros like bazzite and cachy that had the exact same issue. The proton versions I've been using are: proton-cachyos, proton-ge, vanilla-proton-experimental with older versions of proton such as Proton 9 and 10 (8 couldn't run some of the games). Oh yeah, and I've tried wayland and x11, same perf issues.

I've also tried using some of the added-in proton env vars specifically for nvidia such as

PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_NVIDIA_LIBS=1

Also using feral gamemode, and I've also tried proton wayland which sometimes crashes the games so i kept using xwayland instead. Other then proton i tried compiling wine and using wine-tkg to run some of these games, compiling dxvk, vkd3d-proton, with no luck same issue persists.

I also understand that most of these games are dx12, and i would expect a 20% worse performance, not 50%. Also, Skyrim seems like the worst, windows runs vanilla skyrim at 160+ fps most of the time, while linux struggles to get past 70 fps. Tried mods, makes it even worse (while of course, made running it on windows better).

I've tested windows stuff on NTFS, while i kept linux stuff to btrfs.

Also for any other stuff that's I should disclose let me know since i don't know what to post except these essentials.

please if anyone can help with this / experienced / fixed this

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