Here's one for ya. So my amd system periodically lags while gaming and I can't figure out a solution. The system resources are more than adequate and it doesn't happen with every game but I've noticed it with the desktop too. I'm beginning to think it's cpu related.

Ryzen 9 7900xt, RT 7900 xtx, 64gb ddr5 5600.

While gaming, it'll manifest as a slideshow and the audio gets choppy. I used to think it was a issue with pipeware but the whole system is affected. I also changed distros from kubuntu to cachyos while keeping my home partition and it still happens.

Idk if I need to tweak something in the bios or if it's a inherent flaw in that CPU. I can't afford to try different cpus and I really like this machine outside of that.

I might try windows after work for a few hours to see if it happens there. Be home in about 10 hours after this post. I've tried googling for solutions and one mentioned manually overclocking the infinity fabric and that just destabilized the whole system and made it unusable. I'm sure I'm missing something else there but I know nothing about overclocking and don't want to if I can avoid it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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The next release of KDE Plasma is due in October and the developers have been working non-stop on some great new features for the popular desktop.

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86Box is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software, with a big new release out to make managing multiple systems easier.

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I now have an extra SSD so I think I can finally try actually gaming on Linux. I've been using Ubuntu for more than a decade but I never game on it for real. Recently I tried it just to check out some games and surprisingly some of them worked better than Windows (for example Stray stutters a lot after arriving to a certain early part but it doesn't happen on Linux).

So now I have a decision to make, which distro to install. I've never been a distro hopper so I want to try out the one that will actually work best for my use case 😄 I actually wanted to wait for Valve to release an official Steam OS version that can be installed on any PC. I know that already exists but I don't think it's still "officially" released.

My main choices are the following:

Bazzite, Nobara, CachyOS or my existing Ubuntu

Details of my use:

• Will be used for splitscreen games so at least 4 controllers should work at the same time. My controllers are Xbox Series, 8BitDo Ultimate, and Steam Controller. I discovered that the Xbox's dongle needs a special driver. I assume most gaming distros have that preinstalled?
• PC is connected to a 4K@144Hz TV and 1080p@60hz monitor. I'll obviously game on the TV. Not sure how well gaming on Linux works in multi-monitor setup. I'm hoping to get HDR, 4K@120Hz and VRR but now I remember that I read somewhere that HDMI 2.1 doesn't work on Linux, is that true?
• I have a surround system that is connected via eARC.
• Will only be used for gaming so minimal use of mouse and keyboard would be ideal. I can use the Steam Controller for mouse control but it seems like it doesn't work properly on Wayland
• Human Fall Flat is a must for my nieces LOL
• I have an AMD CPU and GPU so most likely no issue with that.
• Ubuntu is already my main OS so I guess I can also choose to just game on it unless it's really worth using a dedicated gaming distro. For example, Xbox controller adapter doesn't work out of the box.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who'll take the time to read these 😄

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Recently the Bottles team announced they've been granted funding by NLnet NGI Zero Commons and now they've given more detail on what it means.

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Open source evolution sim Thrive version 0.8.3 brings in some more customization in how you play, along with new additions to the gameplay.

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The TRX project that brings an open-source reimplementation of Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2 has big new releases out now.

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The community compatibility layer GE-Proton for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck version 10-13 brings fixes for videos on various games with some new options.

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Heyo, I'm using Fedora workstation 42 and trying to play world of warcraft with GE-Proton-10-13 in Lutris. Like a year ago WoW played fine on Linux, but now every time I start WoW it opens in a weird low resolution that places it directly underneath the top bar i gnome. If I change the resolution to the correct one I can play fine, but every time I restart the game it gets this same wrong resolution.

Anyone know how to fix this? Or if this is just a thing that will have to be fixed in new versions of Proton?

Hardware:

Ryzen 5800X3D

32GB Ram

Radeon RX 7900XTX

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So I started typing this out as a comment and it kinda meandered on for a while so I decided to just make a post about my experience and why I’ve decided to go back to windows for the moment. There may be a day I come back, but at least for now even if the below issues are resolved I think im ok until the platform matures just a bit more. I tried for 2 straight years up until very recently and I just think I’ve hit my limit on what’s acceptable to fix and what I need to wait for in terms of patches. I will also say that I don’t forget to update: in fact, I would often reimage about once every 3 months with a new iso freshly installed from the site and then run the update command first thing.

I have like 3 or 4 that really get to me: let me preferace this by saying I have a degree in computer engineering too so it’s not like I’m afraid to hammer at the terminal either. Here’s the killers I never solved. I will also say that even if they were solved, I probably wouldn’t come back (for a few months at least) on the fact that these issues are only a fraction of the issues I was having as a whole on openSUSE, fedora, bazzite, Ubuntu, Pop_OS, and CosmicOS:

1. To get controllers working, you have to install a very specific steam input package. This wasn’t too bad but the issue is that I had about of million of these kinda things: one patch here, a shell script here, delete these files and start over. This for me is an expectation for Linux in general and I was able to tolerate it for 2 ish years. This is #0 though because it didn’t stop me from using Linux but it certainly didn’t help.

2. WiFi never worked super cleanly and any KDE plasma image/desktop layer such as OpenSUSE on my machine didn’t connect to the bluetooth at all (unless I also installed the gnome desktop OpenSUSE in which it worked perfectly) I tried lots of packages, I tried lots of configurations and settings and setting up DNS profiles but it never really worked cleanly or for longer periods of time. Especially bazzite I found would find my WiFi antenna, connect for about 10 minutes and then drop connection and logs would simply state that my connection dropped. This issue I wasn’t killer since I found the resolution was ignoring pretty much any distro with KDE plasma, not that I liked that solution but I never found the direct diagnosis to fix.

3. When I was using any distro, I always had to reprocess my vulkan shaders and it never saves. Literally every single time it would ask me to do it again even if I just closed the game. I know I can skip but some of the games couldn’t work without processing them. I never found a forum post, a discussion thread and chatGPT just hallucinated an answer that didn’t work. I found lots of people who had the same issue and attempted lots of these. I tried changing the folders where this was outputting the shaders to, i tried at least 6 versions of proton per operating system, I tried messing with nearly every single setting but sometimes these shaders were the death of sessions with friends because I had to intentionally wait for my game. So if I was hopping on with friends I would often have to get on 20 minutes early to do so because it would take a long time too. I had a 3080Ti and a Ryzen 5950. I haven’t found a similar issue online that could explain both of these or resolved the issue cleanly no matter what I tried. This was ALL games. I spent by far the most amount of time on this issue on all 2 distros I tried to fix and I never figured out a perfect solution nor found a distro that had it solved out of the box so I imagine it wasn’t something I did. I didn’t write a post because lots of other people especially on bazzite seemed to have the same issue but I also experienced this on cosmic os and pop os so I figured it was more widespread for deeper.

4. Some games like helldivers, Baldur’s gate, total war warhammer 2, and spiderman gave me fantastic frame rates, better than windows even. Retroarch and nearly any program for the 2ish years I used Linux 100% would work great as well. However, some games would arm wrestle me like no other. Specifically, monster hunter wilds would refuse to work on my system if I so much as upped the graphics just a bit too high and upon startup would simply crash on the vulkan shaders, crash on shader cache, or work for about 10 minutes, then crash. In fact, that game in particular was a lost cause as a whole and I told my friends we need to just move on to something else. Often I would have to go into files, mess with configs and it took hours whereas windows machines would simply play the games. I just wanna play my games and I didn’t want to make each game that had an issue a whole new discussion post. I know it helps the community to post issues but I often found others with the same issues already posted but they were also just unresolved.

5. Sometimes games that didn’t have a normal game engine have the weirdest glitches. Stardew valley would work 100% up until I would try to host a multiplayer game and it wouldn’t pop up. Like the menu itself was blank and I never figured it out (this specifically I got around by just using my MacBook) Others like NGU IDLE would refuse to work as much as I tried to get all sorts of things working. I also found that lots of people straight up had a shell script to run deltarune chapters 1 and 2 but there wasn’t a fix for 3 and 4.

I had enough that I have a windows boot that’s purely for steam and literally nothing else and I have all my main workstation and developer tools on the Linux machine. I know some people like to have a WSL, but I like this setup more because it keeps steam away from me if I need to get something done (also setting up Linux is much faster if I mess up nvidia drivers or something else of the sort I found those issues to be more easily solvable on raw ubuntu). I don’t like Microsoft’s current predatory practices but I don’t want to keep wasting my life away configuring every single game that comes out new with a total roll of the dice if it works at all. My friends knew I was trying really really hard to get all this stuff working correctly, but the real killer for me was that I fell behind in monster hunter wilds and I couldn’t do anything about it because it was such a struggle to get spun up. It was also a running gag that I could never get stuff working and I know that I definitely turned them off from ever trying Linux at all because they also somewhat experienced most of these issues through me. Even my friends who are programmers, electrical engineers, and computer engineers have seen what I went through and decided not to touch it with a 10 foot pole even though for about a year I would still recommend it to others.

I often had to suggest we play something else because my computer just couldn’t handle it for more than 3 minutes without crashing. For these reasons, I am out for now.

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Given the recent debacle with the latest windows update crashing SSD/NVMe I'm seriously considering making a switch to Linux. I do already own and use a steamdeck actually.

What are things to keep in mind, minus certain games requiring anticheat not working (don't play any of those anymore) and performance variance? If it helps, my current Pc specs:

• AMD Ryzen 9 5900x
• ASUS AMD 9060 XT
• Corsair RAM @ 3200 MHZ - (it's actually a 3400 kit but my system only boots at 3200)
• ASUS ROG STRIX x570-F Gaming

My OS is on my C: drive, Games on a separate NVME (D:) and a HDD for some mass storage/emulator stuff. I assume that my C drive will competely wipe during install, but the other drives should be fine? Minus having to reinstall games and stuff.

Also OS wise, the only one i know of is Bazzite because of a Jayztwocents video about it. I realistically want as much of a hands-off gaming experience. I am happy to make minor changes like setting certain launch options etc. that is stuff i can handle. But I am not looking for a fully customiseable OS.

My main games is Oldschool Runescape which i know works through Bolt launcher and the clients being Linux compatible. (has been running great on steamdeck after fine-tuning).

I have a windows laptop to do workstuff on which i can just conect to a dock. I would lose the ability to do work on my desktop computer but that is fine with me.

Looking forward to any replies and hope i can gain some insight into things that i might lose as well or other things that are useful to know!

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I have the problem that games (tested with expedition 33, black myth wukong and ninja gaiden 2 black) are extremely blurry when moving as shown in the video. I suppose this is a linux problem as I cannot imagine that this is normal.

My system is

• Linux 6.15.9
• AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (16) @ 5.27 GHz
• AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
• Proton-GE 10.1
• GNOME 48.4 Wayland
• Mesa 25.2.0
• NixOS 25.11

Is this normal or do I have a problem somewhere?

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If anyone doesn't know sober is roblox for linux

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I have Garden Warfare 2 on steam and previously played on my windows PC, but for storage reasons, I deleted it. I learned that the EA Anticheat has ruined all ways of play without dualbooting or stuff like that, and I DONT wanna do that. Is there a certain wine or method I could use to run the game?

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I finally got OBS set up and tested it with DOSBox. Running this on Linux Mint and Arch (dual boot) with a Ryzen 9 + RTX 4080, but the real star is my ancient Creative Telex mic from 1993 that somehow still works. 😅

Everything is running 100% on Linux (no Windows here), and I’ll be mixing in modern Linux games too from a 150+ game library with at least one title from every year between 1989 and 2025. Right now I’m just having fun sharing old DOS classics but Im willing to switch it up to anything from classics to the newest titles.

Not looking for numbers or big growth, just hanging out and seeing if anyone else finds it fun.

twitch.tv/solo_energy

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Issue: When playing most fps games on Niri window manager, gamescope with --force-grab-cursor is required to be able to look around. However, in some games, when using --force-grab-cursor, the mouse movement is weird and jittery. I am using the gamescope-git package from the AUR, and my launch options on steam are gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -f --force-grab-cursor -- %command%. Does anyone know a fix for this? I would prefer a fix rather than having to switch window managers, however I will swtich if there are no fixes.

Specs: Arch Linux, AMD Ryzen 5 5500, Nvidia GTX 1060 6gb, 24gbs of ram

https://reddit.com/link/1mze1vt/video/hu6r56cmn2lf1/player

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I am currently on pop!os and there seems to be no audio at all in Dead Cells. As a comparison I have tried Brotatoes and Stardew Valley and the sound is there.

There seems to be some answers on this problem, with various steam cummunity/reddit posts commenting on the need to delete libraries like libSDL, libopenal and libsndio. However these strategies do not work for me. Is there any other solution?

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A while back I moved from Ubuntu to Mint. Under Ubuntu, DoD worked perfectly.

Now that I'm on Mint, not so much. Same hardware.

I can play a bit more than one map before it crashes to desktop. After some digging the only thing I've been able to extract from the logs is:

syslog:
kernel: hl_linux[98843]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000cb2c96d1 sp 00000000ff975c50 error 6 in client.so[cb1b9000+1df000] likely on CPU 5 (core 5, socket 0)

Running steam from the command line basically just gives me the same info when it dies.

Any suggestions? I did find an old bug report saying that the particle system is running out of memory, but I don't get the same notice they are talking about - no out of memory error in the console or logs. I do get a crash dump, but gdb can't read them (file format unrecognized) so I have no idea what to even do with that.

OS: Linux Mint 22 x86_64

Kernel: 6.8.0-78-generic

Resolution: 2560x1440, 2560x1440, 2560x1440

DE: GNOME 46.0`

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 3.600G

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

Memory: 5462MiB / 32002MiB

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This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin

The game is smbx 2

How do I fix

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