I'm primarily a VR user, and my PC with Windows (1050 ti, i7 3770, 32gb DDR3) struggled to keep up in VRChat.

It runs fine under Linux.

Not only do things generally run better, but my time from power button to opening SteamVR was cut by 10x. Linux made my PC actually run well.

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Hey everyone! 👋

I’m excited to share my Unofficial DXVK 1.10.x Build on the DXVK-Sarek repo. Designed for users still relying on the 1.10.x release but want the benefits of some modern fixes. This custom build backports per-game configurations and fixes, and later it will be integrated into my custom Proton version, Proton-Sarek, aimed at low end PCs.

What's New in This Build:

• Backports & Updates: I've integrated fixes and updated configurations from newer DXVK builds into the 1.10.x branch. This includes support for 64+ games with backported fixes and optimizations.
• Async Patched Build: For those who prefer async functionality, I’ve also provided an async version of the build.

Way more info can be found on the release. Thanks for reading, share this with people that are stuck on the 1.10.x branch, hope this helps and GLHF.

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Just wanna make sure i have it configured and working properly.

The only effects I'm getting are adaptive triggers Left trigger has some resistance while aiming and right trigger has a gun trigger effect while shooting but only once, if i keep it held it stops doing anything.

And i get adaptive trigger effects when driving cars, also some resistance and switching gears.

The light bar i think shows red when I'm near enemies that are about to detect me.

And that's it. Are those 3 the only effects in the game or is my controller not working right?

For comparison, in Ghostwire Tokyo through Heroic launcher (CP2077 is on Steam), i get adaptive triggers, haptic feedback like rain drops, i think speaker sounds when picking up those green energy things, and i haven't paid attention to the light bar.

The controller is connected via the cable and pipewire for some reason picks it up as an audio device. Should i disable that? Is that messing with it?

I also created udev rules to disable the trackpad from controlling the mouse because it was interfering with games.

I know not every game has every effect, just trying to make sure it's working properly.

Thanks!

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what would be the closest linux distro if: - Is not Arch based - Optimized for gaming - is a KDE Plasma taskbar - Has software manager - Has driver manager and no problems with Nvidia 1650 ti gpu

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Whenever I try to play games like Stick Fight, TBOI etc. that I play with controller I get double input from my controller, in the settings in TBOI (easiest to mess around with the controller with) I have an unknown device and XINPUT Controller, I have no idea how to fix it, tried restarting my PC, updating drivers and all the basic fixes but nothing works, for anyone interested I am running Linux Mint 22, game are running under Proton so it's a windows version so that should not be an issue

My controller is the 8BitDo Ultimate 2.4G

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I installed Spore off of steam but whenever I open it I get error 2000. I click Okay then a black window pops and and get error 1004, unable to push the Okay in that one I push the x and it closes the black window(Which I believe is the game attempting to start). I also attempted uninstalling and reinstalling it a couple times.

Some other people online have been able to fix it but they're on windows and they changed some registry stuff. I am unable to figure out how that works here primarily because I can't figure out where Proton stores the registries. Even if I am able to find it how would I go about changing it on Linux?
I'm running Debian 12. My Proton version is 9.0.3

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Ive been trying to fix this for months now and i just cannot figure it out. Im not a seriously experienced Linux user, ive used it for gaming on my main pc for a bit for experiements and have a steam deck that i tinker with since its launch, so i have surface level knowledge.

For some reason my secondary PC i want to use for casual living room gaming, no matter the linux distro (chimera, bazzite, holoOS, ubuntu, popOS, fedoraKDE, manjaro, etc etc) all perform incredibly poorly. Ive tried using native Steam libraries and flatpak repos

Ive swapped GPU bios several times to figure out if its the bios, and its not, fans are spinning, and running games on windows provides expected performance.

Doom Eternal on my RX480 on windows will run over 100fps no problem, but will run at 40-50fps and no higher no matter the the graphics settings, and all benchmarks and games show its not my Ryzen 5500 or my 16gb of ram, it is specifically the RX480 that i simply cannot get to function on any distro of linux i tried.

I am currently running Fedora KDE, every resource i find and research says its not a driver problem since every linux distro comes with drivers baked in, so i cant even figure out if maybe the drivers arent working right or got assigned the wrong drivers.

Thank you all in advance and i will provide all information i can to help get this fixed im on my knees at this point lol

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I have a Debian testing box with a RTX 2060 6GB, a Ryzen 5 5600x, and 32GB of RAM.

Recently, I updated the vulkan libs from 1.3.290.0-1 to 1.3.296.0-1 and it seems the system can't identify the version, in order to play some games like CS2, RDR2, Diablo 2 Resurrected, and RESIDENT EVIL 4, for example.

When I try to play CS2, I get the error message "Failed to initialize Vulkan. Please make sure your driver and GPU support Vulkan 1.2+", although I have the 1.3+ installed.

CS2

I'm getting the error message "D3D12CreateDevice Failed." when I try to play RE4, and "Failed to initialize graphics device" with RDR2 and Diablo 2 Resurrected.

RESIDENT EVIL 4

Diablo 2 Resurrected

https://youtu.be/ieExqeQAqQY

In Proton Log, it says its failing to create vulkan device, even with the updated version of vulkan. I tried to downgrade to the previous version but it didn't fix the issue.

I'd be glad for any help. Thanks in advance!

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I've been dealing with an issue for the last few weeks where, at some point while I'm playing a game, usually showing up within the first 30 minutes, I will start having some intense microstuttering any time I give my game input until I restart the game. I've done a good bit of troubleshooting at this point, and I'm staring up a wall, unsure of what to do next.

Behavior: if I'm not touching my mouse or keyboard, my frametimes are fine, but the moment I start giving any input

Specs: Ryzen 1800X, Sapphire Pulse 7900XT, 32GB RAM, 750W EVGA G3

Games tested: Deadlock (NVMe SSD), Dota 2, Phasmophobia, Nuclear Nightmare (the last 3 are on a 7200 RPM hard drive)

Mesa versions: 1:24.1.1 through 1:24.1.6, 1:24.2.0 through 1:24.2.7, as well as mesa-git

Kernel versions: 6.12, 6.6 LTS (Arch)

Wayland compositors tried: Hyprland 0.45.2, Gnome 47.0

I've tried to force my GPU into a specific power profile (3D full screen and compute) while watching my GPU stats with corectrl and mangohud in Deadlock. I see my clock down to the low tens of MHz while my power draw drops from ~150W to around 100W. I've attached 3 screenshots from getting this to happen in a Deadlock bot match so I could poke around (took around 35 minutes to get it into this state).

I had a very similar issue trying to play Anomaly GAMMA on X11 when I had a 1070Ti a year and a half ago or so, but I was able to identify it was libmutter and went away when I switched to Gnome on Wayland.

I'm not sure where to go from here, honestly. This definitely wasn't happening in August or September, and I'm pretty sure it started happening around the beginning of November. With swapping mesa versions and going to an LTS kernel to still see it, I feel like I'm at the end of my rope. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can continue troubleshooting?

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So basically I installed flatpak heroic launcher first and it worked well except for mangohud. Then I got the launcher through AUR. My biggest complain with AUR was no matter what I try, I can't add new games no matter. It gets stuck when I hit play so I have to go back to flatpak version, makes a prefix, hit play then go back to native. Anyhow, I installed some games on the pacman version from epic games. Now I want that game to appear on the flatpak version without downloading the game again since I want to only use flatpak one. I have slow internet 😔. Is it possible to do that?

I apologize for my bad English. 😅

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When I installed Ubuntu, I chose "install third party software option" and I entered a password. When I did a reboot, I chose continue boot instead of enroll MOK. Will there be any problem because of that? I see from nvidia-smi that nvidia driver is loaded, but I'm not sure if everything is okay. If not, how can I get this screen back to enroll MOK? Even when I install another driver, I don't get a prompt to enter a password again, maybe something is corrupted?

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Hello r/linux_gaming hivemind!

For a year now, I have been Distro-hopping around to find my perfect distro for all general use and gaming.
I tried ubuntu flavoured distros and some arch ones, and I can't seem to get the performance I should expect.
Additionally, some unexpected monitor issues came with all of that as well.
What are your configuration and distros, and what kind of performance do you get?

My configuration:
AMD Ryzen 7 5700x
Nvidia RTX 3080
16 GB RAM

21x9 (3440x1440) ultrawide 165hz monitor - connected via displayport
16x10 (2560x1600) 144hz monitor - connected via USB-C (monitor) to displayport (gpu)

popOS: straight did not work. Many games did not start no matter the configurations I set. Tried to reinstall it 2 times. Maybe the additional windows for dual boot was a problem. Who knows**.**

endeavourOS (gnome nvidia-560.xx.xx): Good overall experience. Everything worked fine despite having like 20% less performance. The second monitor worked flawlessly until I tried to go down the Desktop Environment rabbit hole and install KDE as well as gnome. That did not go well, and I completely reinstalled the OS with KDE.

endeavourOS (KDE nvidia-560.xx.xx): So many issues. Performance was poor, the second monitor only worked with 60hz and would constantly connect-reconnect, resetting all the display settings. While this reconnect cycle was happening, the main monitor would go dark. Flash up for a second before going dark as well. This would take between 5–20 minutes before it was working again, or I would disconnect the second monitor.

endeavourOS (gnome nvidia-565.xx.xx): I tried gnome again, thinking the monitor issue was somehow connected to the nvidia drivers, but it did not work. Additionally, one specific game (hunt showdown) was having some weird lighting bug where the top half of my screen would flicker in different colors. No info on any forum or on the web. I could not recreate the kind of experience I had the first run.

cachyOS (KDE nvidia-565.xx.xx wayland): Such a good Arch experience with a well documented guide on how to set up everything. I like the used package manager (paru) but the issues remained. Same monitor issues but better performance than endeavourOS.

cachyOS (KDE nvidia-565.xx.xx X11): Best performance. at first Monitor issues remained, but I could set my monitor's refresh rate to 120hz this time. Hunt showdown and CS were dropping FPS consistently no matter which proton i used.

cachyOS (gnome nvidia-565.xx.xx): Same performance and issues like wayland.

cachyOS (gnome nvidia-565.xx.xx XORG): Used to be the best overall, but now Frame issues getting worse than before.

I strongly believe that nvidia hase some issues there aswell. I tried downgrading the drivers but could not manage to make it work again like 560.xx.xx. And when I did some other issues poped up.
Any Ideas what to try next?
And thanks for the help in advance!

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I'm currently trying gaming on artix linux but wine keeps throwing error whenever I start the game

0024:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION info: Game: FalloutNV.exe info: DXVK: v2.5.1 info: Build: x86 gcc 13.1.0 info: Found built-in config: info: d3d9.floatEmulation = Strict info: Effective configuration: info: d3d9.floatEmulation = Strict info: Vulkan: Found vkGetInstanceProcAddr in winevulkan.dll @ 0xf00d0d90 info: Built-in extension providers: info: Platform WSI info: OpenVR info: OpenXR info: OpenVR: could not open registry key, status 2 info: OpenVR: Failed to locate module info: Enabled instance extensions: info: VK_EXT_surface_maintenance1 info: VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2 info: VK_KHR_surface info: VK_KHR_win32_surface 0024:err:vulkan:wine_vk_instance_init_physical_devices Failed to enumerate physical devices, res=-3 0024:err:vulkan:wine_vkCreateInstance Failed to load physical devices, res=-3 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'dxvk::DxvkError' 0024:fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (7BBB6A1C) stub 0024:fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (7BB029A4) stub

I've installed DXVK on the wineprefix, a bunch of vulkan packages and even tried to rollback but still having the same issue. My laptop has a i7-2670QM CPU (sandy-bridge) and I saw some people talking about dxvk/vulkan not supporting sandy CPU's. Still my laptop runs the game kinda decent on windows and not long ago I managed to run it on Debian 12. I couldn't find any other solution so I'm guessing maybe my CPU is the problem, yet still not sure.

Any thoughts?

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Hi! I'm looking for a solution to the problem described in the title.
Proton games I play (Path of Exile and Warframe to be exact) have been slowing down substantially after ~30-60 minutes of gameplay. PoE gives more detailed performance info, and I've been able to deduce that time spent on the CPU processes per frame is the problem, as it jump up to ~80-100ms per frame once the problem kicks in.

What I'm pretty certain the problem isn't:
- Overheating of any component, as they sit ~45-50C during the problematic times
- Overloading of the CPU with other tasks, as usage is reported to be ~60% for all 4 cores
- Memory leaking/swapping as those metrics also stay normal

What I've tried with no success:
- Changing Proton versions (Experimental, latest few numbered versions, latest GE)
- Disabling CPU powersaving by reducing frequency.

If anyone has any idea, or needs more detailed information please say so in the comments! Thanks in advance!

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Recently I covered the huge Proton 9.0-4 update for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux hitting the Release Candidate stage and there's been a couple of changes.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I've installed the Steam Link app on my Nvidia shield to game on the couch on the ground floor while my pc is running upstairs. To play on my Shield, I have to start my pc, run Steam, walk downstairs, start tv & shield, launch Steam link, connect to pc, start game, go back upstairs, allow remote connection & control, go back downstairs again.

Is there any way to automate the 'allow remote connection & control' step? Would save me walking up & down stairs.

I do approve of giving apps permissions for this feature, I would just like to whitelist Steam for this.

Running the latest Fedora workstation release on my desktop.

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Another month down and we're closing in on the festive period, so here's a look back at what's been popular on Steam Deck during November 2024.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

This is a first, I tried launching Bioshock 2 Remastered on my old GPD Win 1 with Fedora 41 and I got an error message I've never seen (and which returns no hit on Google) when asked if I agree with 2K Games Online Policies :

We have determined you are not old enough to perform this action. If you believe you are receiving this message in error, please contact 2K support at support.2k.com"

I mean, I'm 32 years old (fossilized according to today standards), how old do you have to be to launch this game ?! 😅

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