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Why are there so many Linux gaming OS options, yet none seem to work seamlessly? I've tried Nobara, Bazzite, and am now considering CachyOS. Playing Windows games on Linux requires a lot of setup because of the lack of built-in software. I wish there were a pre-built OS that required less effort to play 95% of Windows games.

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As the title suggests, I am absolutely confused (and scared) on what to do. Also, going with the first option, things work fine (I think) but this error message is scaring me. ( i dont know how to exit)

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Hi guys

I've been an avid PC gamer in the past, but stopped in 2007 when switching Windows XP for OS X. Since then all my gaming was done on first a Playstation 3, then a Playstation 4 and finally a Nintendo Switch. Late last year I switched OS again, this time ditching MacOS for Arch Linux.

Interestingly this switch to Linux also allowed me to rekindle my old passion so I started gaming again and, in the process, build and thinkered with my first ever PC. This PC went through five interations (as I was fortunate enough to receive various old/spare parts from friends and family and bought a select few components new). The current (and until yesterday I thought final) configuration is as follows:

• Motherboard ASUS ROG Strix B550-XE Gaming WiFi (AM4)
• CPU AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
• CPU cooler Corsair iCUE H115i Elite Capellix with 2x Fractal Aspect 14 RGB PWM (140 mm)
• Front fans 3x Fractal Aspect 14 RGB PWM (140 mm)
• Back fans 1x Fractal Aspect 14 RGB PWM (140 mm)
• RAM Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO 64GB (2 x 32GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C16
• "fake RAM" Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO RAM (2x dummy)
• Storage 2x M.2 NVMe SSD 2TB WD Black SN850X
• GPU ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT 20GB GDDR6
• PSU MSI MPG A850G PCIE5
• Case Fractal Meshify 2 RGB Black TG
• Other CORSAIR iCUE Commander CORE Controller
• Other Corsair iCUE ELITE LCD Display Upgrade-Kit black

Now I got lucky again and I'll receive the following "old/spare" PC:

• Motherboard ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI (AM5)
• CPU AMD Ryzen 9 7900
• CPU cooler be quiet! Dark Rock 4
• Front fans 3x be quiet! Pure Wings 2 120 mm PWM
• Back fans 1x be quiet! Pure Wings 2 120 mm PWM
• RAM Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB) 5600MHz CL36
• Storage 2x M.2 NVMe SSD Samsung 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD (2 TB)
• GPU MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Ventus 3X 24G OC
• PSU Seasonic PRIME 1000 Platinum 1000W 80+
• Case Corsair 4000D Airflow Midi Tower Tempered Glass black

I don't want to simply swap this one with my machine, as I kinda went the whole gaming PC RGB route with my own build and I like it a lot. I don't like the case the other PC comes in as it's kinda plain plus it's air cooled only. Still, I obviously want to get my hands on that GPU and the DDR5 RAM (and by extension the motherboard as it has a ton more connections than my current model and the CPU due to it being AM5 instead of AM4). Now my question is: how do I best merge the components from both builds and which additional upgrades should I get? I was thinking about a final configuration like this:

• Motherboard ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI (AM5)
• CPU AMD Ryzen 9 7900 -> should I get an AM5 x3d model instead?
• CPU cooler -> which one is advisable? (I could use up to 3x Fractal Aspect 14 RGB PWM (140 mm))
• Front fans 3x Fractal Aspect 14 RGB PWM (140 mm)
• Back fans 1x Fractal Aspect 14 RGB PWM (140 mm)
• RAM -> which DDR5 RAM should I get, preferably RGB and 2x 64 GB again?
• "fake RAM" -> is there DDR5 compatible fake RAM?
• Storage 2x M.2 NVMe SSD 2TB WD Black SN850X
• Storage 2x M.2 NVMe SSD Samsung 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD (2 TB)
• I could use all four NVME SSDs since the Motherboard has room for them all
• GPU MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Ventus 3X 24G OC
• PSU -> I don't know Seasonic so can't decide if it's a good brand
• Case Fractal Meshify 2 RGB Black TG -> or another Fractal case
• I'm not sure whether I need/can use the CORSAIR iCUE Commander CORE Controller and Corsair iCUE ELITE LCD Display Upgrade-Kit black because I don't know which CPU cooler to get, but I'd love to have one of those totally useless but nice to look at displays again

My gaming monitor is an Alienware AW3423DWF 34-QD-OLED with an additional MSI Optix MAG274QRFDE-QD E2 as a second monitor. Those I would keep for sure. They're both WQHD (one is UW) and can do 165 and 180 Hz respectively, so no 4k gaming for me atm.

I don't mind spending money to get the configuratiuon just right (and future proof for let's say three years at least). I'm aware that this is definitely a first world problem, but still any help is appreciated.

Thanks and enjoy your weekend!

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When trying to lunch far cry 5 for steam it will only launch when using the integrated graphics instead of my 4060 mobile. When I try to launch it with the dedicated gpu it will start to launch the freeze and will stop responding. My drivers are up to date (nvidia-driver-550) and so is the rest of my system, any ideas on what could be wrong?

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I still want to play Half Life Alyx sometime, and I'm considering getting a VR headset. I don't dual boot, but run exclusively Linux. No Microsoft in this household. How is the VR experience on Linux, do drivers and games just work, does it need a lot of tinkering? Or does it not work at all?

In the worst case, I can get VR for my PS5, but I prefer gaming on PC.

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I’m trying to make protonGE work on my Chromebook. Apparently, to do this, I have to “extract a downloaded tarball”. To this end, I have been trying “tar -xf (filename) -C (directory name).”

“Filename” being the name of the downloaded file “GE-Proton9-20.tar.gz”. Unfortunately, this is not working. I get a “no such file or directory” error. Attempting to change permissions gives them same error.

I’ve been following this guide makeuseof.com/install-proton-ge-on-steamos-linux

Wait, my problem isn’t that I’m on chrome os, right? I’m going to feel so dumb if that’s what that is.

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submitted by /u/TV_Engine
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Hi friends,

I'm not sure if this is normal for my specs or if I have a problem but I am getting fairly low FPS on Counter-Strike 2 on my Lenovo T14 Gen 1 with a 4750U, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD. At 1080p low settings, I am getting 15-18 FPS in the main menu and once I get in-game I'm getting around 28-29 fps on 1080p low settings with me + 9 bots on Dust 2 deathmatch. At 720p low settings with me + 9 bots on Dust 2 deathmatch, I'm still only getting around 30-35 FPS. That seems kind of low to me, or am I mistaken? Is there a larger overhead from Linux vs Windows than I realized?

Here's a benchmark video of someone getting like 35-45+ FPS on Counter-Strike 2 with a 4700U 1080p low settings Dust 2 with 9 bots, but they are on Windows I believe: https://youtu.be/UkIFThvEY3c?t=158

My desktop has a R9 5900x and RTX 4070 so I get amazing performance on Ubuntu 22.04 with NVIDIA 550 drivers, no problems there as expecetd.

Here are my laptop specs:

neofetch --backend off someone@host ----------------- OS: Linux Mint 22 x86_64 Host: 20UD000CUS ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 Kernel: 6.8.0-49-generic Uptime: 10 mins Packages: 3909 (dpkg), 7 (flatpak) Shell: zsh 5.9 Resolution: 1920x1080 DE: Xfce 4.18 WM: Xfwm4 WM Theme: Default Theme: Arc-Dark [GTK2/3] Icons: elementary-xfce-dark [GTK2], Mint-Y-Sand [GTK3] Terminal: xfce4-terminal Terminal Font: Monospace 12 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U with Radeon Graphics (16) @ 1.700GHz GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX Vega 6 Memory: 1291MiB / 15206MiB

Here is some system info for my laptop:

lspci | grep -i vga 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir [Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000 Mobile Series)] (rev d1) lsmod | grep amdgpu amdgpu 17104896 51 amdxcp 12288 1 amdgpu drm_exec 12288 1 amdgpu gpu_sched 61440 1 amdgpu drm_buddy 20480 1 amdgpu drm_suballoc_helper 16384 1 amdgpu drm_ttm_helper 12288 1 amdgpu ttm 110592 2 amdgpu,drm_ttm_helper drm_display_helper 237568 1 amdgpu i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 amdgpu video 73728 2 thinkpad_acpi,amdgpu glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version" OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.3.0 - kisak-mesa PPA vulkaninfo | grep "Driver Name" WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Received return code -3 from call to vkCreateInstance in ICD /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvulkan_dzn.so. Skipping this driver. WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Received return code -3 from call to vkCreateInstance in ICD /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvulkan_virtio.so. Skipping this driver. sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu is already the newest version (23.0.0-1build1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. sudo apt install linux-firmware Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done linux-firmware is already the newest version (20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.5). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Does anyone have any ideas of things I can check? I know it's not a gaming laptop but it seems like I might be losing out on some performance somehow.

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Hi everyone! My hardware is 6th gen and it still works very well. I thought it would be a waste of good hardware to just chuck it and get a new machine because Microsoft thinks my hardware is too old to run Windows 11. Well I installed Pop OS tonight and I am absolutely floored by how easy it was to install my games. I downloaded Steam and the compatibility programs were a breeze to use. I have Vampire Survivors, Balatro, and Final Fantasy XIV installed and they all run great. Even Discord works and all of my hardware including my headset!

I couldn't be happier and don't need to worry about the Windows 10 end of support nonsense next year. Linux really has come a long way from when I last used it.

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I've made a post recently that I tried playing No Man's Sky on PopOS 22.04 with Nvidia drivers pre-installed, it was a bad experience overall.

I'm now on Garuda 40 (Fedora + pre built Nvidia) an it's amazing, I don't want to cause bad luck but I think I'm finally free from Windows bullshit, I've never thought Linux could perform so well for games and I think that it's just tend to get better and better.

In my previous post some people agreed that Nvidia could be shit on Linux, but honestly, at least for No Man's Sky it seems pretty good, running just like Windows, except for a few micro stuttering for new areas, but just the very first time I go to a given area, if I revisit it, the micro stuttering goes away.

Thank you guys who recommended me a better distro for gaming.

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I’m facing an issue with my GameSir T4 Nova Lite controller. Everything works perfectly fine when it’s connected via a wired USB connection, including vibration feedback. However, when I connect the controller using the 2.4 GHz wireless dongle, it switches to Android mode (yellow light), and I’m unable get vibration working.

Even when I try to force it into other modes, it doesn’t register any input.

Has anyone encountered this issue? Is there a way to fix it so that I can use the controller with the dongle while retaining full functionality (including vibration)?

I tried following, didn't help.

• Xone,
• xpad
• xpadneo
• xboxdrv

submitted by /u/Sage_of_7th_Path
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I am a Linux Mint user. Everything up to date

I got the game on sale, and got just over an hour of gameplay in before it refused to startup again..

If the game actually boots, it always shows the epilepsy warning, followed by an endless black screen with the menu music playing

Crash report says something about Gnome and flatpak being End of life?

I've tried various Proton versions, and installing an older version of my graphics driver (as I was already fully up to date

GPU:GeForce 3050

Any fixes or thoughts? 🙏

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I'm looking into the documentation right now (for bazzite) and it looks like a lot of manual tweaks and configurations are needed in order to reach the full potential of the device and it also looks like bazzite makes use of workarounds in order for most stuff to work.

Steamfork just looks like a straight port of steam os but I can't find enough documentation to give me a good idea of the pros and cons of each.

I'm looking for your experiences and opinions in order to avoid making a poor decision.

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Yknow on the surface it sounds easy, right?

So I tried using retrodeck's retroarch. Turns out retroarch doesn't work at all with large rom hacks like b3313. But you can download a custom core of parallel that has the option to allow large roms. Didn't work, doesn't even act as a core. Yes I've tried compressing them via retrodeck but that didn't do anything. I hear project 64 is probably best for rom hacks. I'm like sure I would have preferred it all be in retrodeck. well. It doesn't have a linux version. I'm all out of ideas. Please help yall T.T

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So I planned to install CachyOS, I have been trying to get it setup from past 2 days, already bricked the OS installing armor app and open rgb, now I'm reinstalling it for 3rd time.

I wanted to install open rgb. I installed all the dependencies from arch wiki, it worked but only one effect worked, the rainbow effect for 2 components. My hyperx pulsegire surge mouse does not work with it for some reason. All partially good for now. On my windows I was able to install the open rgb effects plug-in. On linux I was somehow able to get the openrgb plugin git from arch wiki. Now I was able to clone the git, built the package and installed it. Now after that the open rgb does not want to launch, no matter what I tried.

I tried uninstalling the package wirh pacman -Rns and -Rsu

Reinstalled all dependencies and tried again. Now everytime with the plug in the openrgb got bricked. I looked up the file structure of ope rgb, deleted all files manually. It does not launch no matter what. It briefly pops up and closes with an error SIGABRT from fish.

Now I'm on my reinstall again. Has anyone got openrgb to work with its plug-ins on arch linux ?

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I've been trying to play Assassin's creed 2 recently but it won't start without ubisoft connect. I have tried downloading it through lutris and wine but both had similar results. Downloading it works fine but when it comes to start it then it breaks. The ubisoft launcher the steam version tries to download is outdated and doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm running arch if that helps

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So i noticed one thing for a while that i kinda just ignored but whenever i try yo stop emulation on some emulators like dolphin or ryujinx, it will crash or close the app instead of going back to the games list. my steam deck does not suffer from this but my pc ALWAYS has,regardless of distro

specs
OS:fedora 41 (KDE)
cpu: ryzen 5950x

Wayland

gpu: radeon 7900 xtx

dolphin crashes with

/usr/bin/dolphin-emu: line 2: 65554 Segmentation fault (core dumped) QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb dolphin-emu-x11 "$@"

ryujinx crashes with

00:00:29.948 |E| HLE.OsThread.7 SurfaceFlinger DequeueBuffer: No available buffer slots 00:00:29.949 |E| HLE.OsThread.7 SurfaceFlinger OnTransact: Error returned by transaction DequeueBuffer: Busy [1] 67253 segmentation fault (core dumped) ./Ryujinx submitted by /u/XDM_Inc
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im new to linux and wanted to completely shift from windows to linux (like the customization in linux). Having ubuntu in my pc(dual boot) and trying to run games like cs2, brawlhalla, The Finals but geeting low fps, sometimes its get stuck.

i thought ill get same fps, might be more than windows, but its performing bad as expected

Any suggestions guys?

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I use xiaomi redmi k60, i can't remote on steam link with my pc. Anyone else have issue? I'm sorry that my grammar skill is not good. Please help me.

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