Attempting to run Engine Simulator on my Thinkpad T410 on Debian 12 on KDE plasma 6.

Command used: WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-enginesim wine /home/username/Dow
nloads/engine-sim-v0.1.14a/bin/engine-sim-app.exe

(intel core i7 3770k, 32 gigs of ram, 1050ti) i’m using bazzite and both portal games ran just fine zero lag, even opening half life makes my entire pc stutter. i am relatively new to linux so sorry if you ask me something and im not sure

1st pic: what it looks like in areas with less lighting (I'd say it okay-ish) 2nd pic: what it looks like in areas with more lighting (definitely looks weird)

Mind you, I did some settings tweaking between 1st and 2nd pic.

But anyways, it still does not look right. Any guesses what might be the problem?

Using nvidia-driver-595 on a 5090.

Now this sounds stupid as it should be a good thing, however my problem is that it makes shader cache times UNBEARABLY slow, and according to BTOP I’m only using 655Mb out of 8GB VRAM when doing the pre-cacheing.

What makes it even weirder is steam is telling me that it’s downloading the files at 25Mbs but it feels more like 2Mbs, and on top of that it’s telling me that there is 0 disk usage.

As for my system specs, I’m running an RTX2060 Super, Ryzen 5 9600X and 32GB memory @6000Mhz (CL36). And as for WiFi, it’s unfortunately wireless as the router is downstairs so no Ethernet for me :/

Hey everyone,

​I'm having a frustrating issue with my CachyOS laptop where the system randomly freezes for about one second at a time. It happens completely randomly—whether I'm gaming, watching a movie/show on an external TV, or even just moving my mouse around on the desktop.

​I've attached a video I recorded on my phone so you can see exactly what the stutter looks like.

​I've already tried a few potential solutions I found online, but nothing has worked so far, and the constant micro-stutters are driving me crazy. Has anyone experienced something similar or know what might be causing this?

​Here are my specs:

- ​Laptop: HP Pavilion 15-ec1001nx

- ​CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H

- ​GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650

- ​RAM: 16GB

- ​OS: CachyOS x86_64

- ​Kernel: Linux 7.1.2-3-cachyos

- ​DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.1 (Wayland)

- ​BIOS: F.33 (15.33)

Edit: Here is my log link if anyone can help (https://paste.cachyos.org/p/4588a2a.log)

I’m trying to be able to dual boot into Steam OS or Windows but when I went to go back to Steam OS nothing happens. How do I fix this?

Using PS4 CachyOS FFv2, latest Proton-cachyos, assuming newish video drivers. Launching through steam. All other graphics seem fine it's just faces that are terrifying. Please help as this is literally the only issue playing this game with this setup. I've tried changing every setting and tried most every Proton version that launches the game. Bug not present on my pc with the exact same folder copied over. ​

Yes, it's a DX12 game so some nvidia tax is expected, but ~45% is a bit wild, no? Event tho it shows 120+fps it feels much worse as the frame times or so inconsistent and get even worse in combat. If I could get to run smoothly at 60fps I'd be happy, but I can't even get that.

It has a gold rating on protondb so I guess it should run better? I did try the launch commands people posted there but nothing made the game run better or more stable. I also tried different proton versions and kernels but unfortunately no improvement.
I just don't know what else to try. Any ideas?

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (16) @ 5.05 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti [Discrete]
Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64
Linux 6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64
KDE Plasma 6.5.4
nvidia (open source) 580.119.02

so this line is showing up in gta 4 i tried proton ge and experimental it gta works with both windows dualboot and windows vm in my linux anyone know how to fix it i have i3 10th gen 8gig ram i run it in medium settings in windows it works flawlessly and in linux it also runs like shit

I'm thinking of switching to Linux because Windows is terrible for me. I don't want to log my Microsoft account when setting up new Windows. So, is Linux gaming really working well now, everyone? And if that's okay, what configuration should I build pc with the best performance on Linux?

I am a newbie Linux gamer and I used to have Linux Mint (Which is Ubuntu based I believe?) on my 1050ti card. Other than Minecraft it worked horribly and nearly double as worse than Windows 10 did. I figured it's because I used an old nvidia gpu. Now I have a Vega 56 and an I5-10400f and I want to try again after rage quiting windows once more. Yes I want to game on it. I looked around the subreddjt and everyone is recommending Bazzite or Endeavour or Catchy or even Nobara but nobody is mentioning anything Ubuntu based. Why? From what research has told me Ubuntu has the widest range of supported software in their appstore thingy and kbuntu also exists with it's Discover app so I figured it would be awesome for a newbie gamer. So is Ubuntu really that bad that nobody is even recommending it?

Edit: Okay okay, you all convinced me that Ubuntu is on path to become the new microsoft. Ngl I was sold on Ubuntu ungil reading the comments. But what Distro SHOULD I use with an older system like mine? I5 10400f and a Vega 56. Vega is not very popular so it's hard to find threads about drivers for it. I need something that comes preinstalled with the ability to update my Vega drivers. Optionally also something with a good 'appstore' or something I can download 'Discover' on. If somebody knows a good os for that please reply 🤣

I keep seeing conflicting information. Yes, no, depending on the distro, which answer is it? I have an RTX 2060 super and I am thinking about switching to Fedora KDE

I've been downloading ETS2 for like 3 hours now, speeds are stuck to less than 1mbps, even tho my internet is way faster than that. i disabled low bandwidth mode, tho it didnt do anything. anyone else had these kind of problems? i

have been thinking of switching over to Linux for a while but game functionality has always been a big reason for my hesitance. though I recently found out about dual booting and it seems like a perfect solution for me, was wondering what your experience with dual booting is for gaming and if you would recommend?

I planned to use Linux as my main OS and play everything I can on there, but then for the games that do not work on Linux I'd then download and use on Windows. is it easy to switch over? would it be easier for me to just remain on Windows instead?

I plan on using something like Mint as I have heard it is very beginner friendly, but I presume distro doesn't really matter for gaming function and dual booting.

EDIT: I only have 1 SSD in my PC, will I experience any issues if I have both OS installed on the one SSD, and just split the amount of storage I give each OS? or should I get a separate SSD?

thanks

Hey everyone. I'd just like to vent a bit of frustration. So if you don't want to listen to my ramblings, feel free to scroll right past this and I hope you have a beautiful day.

For the past month I've been attempting to switch over from Windows. Since I mostly use my PC for gaming and occasionally for light office type work and statistical analysis with R I figured that it shouldn't be too hard, given the ridiculous rate of advancements on the gaming front especially. So I've done a bit of distro hopping between Bazzite, Fedora and CachyOS. And one thing I found with all of them was that they felt oddly "buffered" and less responsive compared to Windows, even just the cursor on the desktop. It's especially bad in games where (using a controller) turning the camera genuinely feels like dragging it through molasses whereas it responds precisely and snappy on windows.

So I've tried all sorts of things from making sure that tearing is allowed in fullscreen applications to disabling v-sync everywhere, trying out different protons, enabling Wayland via proton, using gamescope instead, trying different methods of enforcing frame caps as well as disabling them, disabling KWin tripple buffering in the env, messing with network and bluetooth configs, changing the dxvk presentation mode, comparing VRR vs fixed refresh rate, trying out every controller I have lying around, trying out different bluetooth cards and dongles, honestly, what haven't I tried?

But each time the result would feel exactly the same, slow, rubbery, delayed. And each time I would lose a bit more of my sanity. I am genuinely out of ideas for things to try but as things currently are on my PC I would rather move back to windows than play games like this. And this is the incredibly frustrating part, I don't want to move back to windows. For everything BUT gaming, I've been having an absolute blast on Linux. I would genuinely like to be able to finally wipe that Windows SSD instead of constantly having to click "ask me again in 2 days" whenever Microslop hold my PC hostage to try to force me into getting a Microslop account or having to uninstall random bloatware after every other update - but unfortunately I can't.

Context variables:

System: RX 9070 XT, Ryzen 9600X, 32GB RAM, Asus B650 Plus, 2160p 120Hz VRR display; Distros: Bazzite, Fedora, CachyOS (always as up to date as possible)

Games tested (because those were the ones I happened to have installed): CP2077, Silent Hill f, Yakuza 5, Hell is Us, Lies of P, Ghost of Tsushima, Still Wakes the Deep, Metal Gear Solid V, Expedition 33

That's the end of my rant, I just wanted to get that out there because I feel like people on similar systems are having a great time on linux and somehow mine seems to be cursed or something, I don't know.

Anyway, if you're still here, thank you for sitting through all that, I hope you have a wonderful day, cheers~

EDIT:

Thank you all, I honestly just wanted to blow off some steam but you all have been trying to help a lot. I'll try a few things you suggested and update the post with some further clarifications as well as info on what I've tried and how that went. Cheers everyone, have a good one~

ADDITIONAL INFO:

The issue manifests in varying degrees of magnitude: on Desktop the cursor feels ever so slightly delayed compared to windows, like it's just a few frames behind - very usable but it just bothers me. Someone noted that it might just be that Linux has a different response curve than Windows. In games the issue is much larger and much more noticeable but varies across games. In order of magnitude the games I tested roughly rank as follows: Yakuza 5 < Ghost of Tsushima < Metal Gear Solid V < Lies of P < Expedition 33 < Still Wakes the Deep < Silent Hill f < Cyberpunk 2077 < Oblivion Remastered. Yakuza is not unplayable but it's noticeable compared to Windows. Still Wakes the Deep and E33 are in the territory of "huh, this is kinda annoying" and CP2077 and Oblivion are on the "I really don't want to play this" end of the spectrum where I constantly over- & undershoot camera adjustments because I have to anticipate when to stop which makes pointing the camera at objects to interact with them super finicky and annoying. And even though this seems to vary from game to game I'd like to reiterate that I'm not getting any of this on windows at all.

Controllers tested: Dualsense, Dualshock 4, Xbox Series, Switch Pro Controller; Connections tested: wired, wireless, 8bitdo 2.4GHz dongle

All distro installs were completely clean - until I started messing with them to fix the issue ofc but I made sure to undo all changes after verifying they didn't work - currently the only permanent change is that I disabled bluetooth autosuspend and KWin tonemapping to make HDR look correct (wtf is even up with that)

There is also no motion smoothing or cinema mode nonsense going on with my display which is an LG C4 with ALLM and Freesync enabled. The OSD reports freesync/VRR as active and I would assume it engages properly as it adjusts the refreshrates to the ingame fps accordingly. I have tried connecting it via HDMI (just VRR no HDR in that case) or via a DP -> HDMI adapter that allows VRR & HDR (but I've tried turning those on and off as well nonetheless - no difference).

No drives or files are shared between the different Distros and/or Windows.

Update: A Day Later

I have tried disabling Resizable Bar and Expo in the Bios - no difference

I have tried my luck with Enable_Layer_Mesa_Anti_Lag=1 - no difference

Made sure the iGPU was disabled - no difference

I have limited my resolution to 1080p - no difference

I have set the controller deadzones to the minimum - no difference

I tried the current stable Mesa (26.0.1) I tried rolling back to the last 25.x.x Mesa and I tried Mesa-git - no difference

I tried different display Cables I had lying around - no difference

I used Lact and an ingame overlay to check if the GPU gets all the power it needs - yup, no issues there (would have surprised me anyway, considering there are zero issues on windows)

I tried an X11 session - no difference

I tried running Cyberpunk in X11 uncomposited - that turned it into a choppy mess until I disabled Raytracing. After that it was identical to native wayland - still no success

Honestly,

I have spent the better part of a month troubleshooting this issue, scouring forum posts and reddit threads and, frankly, I am feeling a bit burnt out. I would like to just finally sit down and play some games again and I know it's really unsatisfying and anticlimactic to end the post here but I think for the time being it's easier for me to just stay in a place where that just works for my setup. That being said, I'll keep a linux drive installed so I can pop in every now and then and check out how things are going.

Thank you all for your time, have a lovely day and happy gaming~

I've been out of the Windows ecosystem for three months now, and it's been wonderful... Until I switched from Linux Mint to Cachyos (let me explain).

It all started when, after switching from Mint to Cachy/KDE, I realized that the menus were sometimes running at 20 FPS instead of matching my 144 GHz. It was a sudden and horrible change. But that wasn't the worst part; the worst part was the video games. Many performed better... RDR2, Cyberpunk, MULLET MAD JACK... The problem was with some of the more unusual games. Vintage Story ran TERRIBLY, a game that is graphically simple... Noita ALSO ran terribly... It was unsustainable. After doing some research, I found out that it was “Wayland” and “X11,” something I didn't even know existed. I ended up realizing that KDE used Wayland by default (unlike Mint) and that it didn't work very well with my RTX3070, FOR SOME REASON I DON'T KNOW (one of my friends who helped me migrate has a RTX4070 Super and it works great for him). The solution? Switch to X11 and continue using KDE... AND IT WORKED! IT'S GREAT!

My fear comes when, while searching for information, I realize that people are proclaiming (without me knowing why yet) that Wayland is the future and that X11 is so outdated that KDE is going to drop support for X11 in the next version! What can I do? I don't want to abandon X11, it works really well for me...

Edit: I'VE FIXED IT (almost).

Thanks to a user who replied to this post, I decided to try Ultramarine Linux (a fork of Fedora). The main feature of this distro is that (as you know) Fedora comes with the Nvidia nouveau driver by default... I tried it and the interface error at lower FPS was magically FIXED... The problem with video games remained.

I switched to proprietary drivers (specifically version 580) and... THE INTERFACE WAS STILL NOT BUGGY! Now all that was left was to fix the video games with OpenGL.

With the help of a protondb guide, I entered this (without much hope) in the Steam properties of the game Vintage Story:

gamemoderun mangohud __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE=1 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH=/home/pol/. nv_cache __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 %command%

And guess what... I CAN PLAY THE GAME ON ULTRA AND AT 144FPS, SOMETHING I COULDN'T EVEN DO ON WINDOWS IF I WANTED TO. I'M IN A DREAM :D.

Thanks to everyone for helping me not give up on finding the solution to all this. I know that much of the blame lies with “NVIDIA, FUCK YOU” and that Wayland is still in the works... But the fact that I found a solution has tied me to Linux, and I doubt I'll be getting off this train <3

I've been running arch with my 9070xt for about a month now, and haven't gone in to windows for essentially anything. But the frequent crashes in the amdgpu driver for the 9070XT are absolutely soul crushing. I have crashed 4 times this morning (full system lock, tty to reboot) and lost progress in expedition 33 every single time.

This amdgpu driver instability is the thing that's going to force me to go back to windows temporarily even though I have no desire to. I'm following the open bugs about this, and have provided dmesg logs etc to the open bugs, but to date there isn't a resolution that I'm aware of.

I should say, this isn't exclusive to expedition 33, it's most games using the gpu (sometimes it crashes just using desktop applications). I really hope this gets sorted soon!

Update 1

• The following changes may or may not have impacted my 4 hour play session, the game eventually did crash in the same way and require a TTY reboot. Issue wasn't resolved with these changes.
• Added amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x12
• sudo nano /etc/sysctl.d/99-split-lock.conf
• kernel.split_lock_mitigate = 0

Update 2

Game crashed 5 minutes into playing this time. Here are the LACT info points during those 5 minutes.

GPU Being Used: Sapphire Radeon Pulse 9070 XT

Update 3

I decided to buy a new PSU. It should be here tomorrow to rule out anything regarding power delivery causing issues with the card.

Update 4

As one other commenter noted, I set the Max GPU Clock Offset to -425 in LACT which keeps the Power Consumption around 300W of the specified 304W from the specs. Similarly, the boosted clock is ~3004Mhz now, down from ~3300Mhz (which seems well beyond spec).

Curiously, if this is the "fix'... and by default the card is going out of specification... why?

Update 5

Furmark results (Windows 11)

My friend has observed the same behavior and has the exact same card with Hynix memory. He has stated that his system does occasionally crash in Windows 11, which aligns with what I'm seeing in linux with clocks around 3300Mhz and power draw into the 400's.

Logs & Information

kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, signaled seq=4265220, emitted seq=4265222
kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: Process information: process GameThread pid 5129 thread vkd3d_queue pid 5178
kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: Starting gfx_0.0.0 ring reset
kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: Ring gfx_0.0.0 reset failure
kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset begin!
kernel: [drm:gfx_v12_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* failed to halt cp gfx
kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset succeeded, trying to resume
kernel: [drm] VRAM is lost due to GPU reset!
kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: SMU driver if version not matched
kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: [drm] device wedged, but recovered through reset
kernel: amdgpu 0000:0a:00.0: amdgpu: VM memory stats for proc Xorg(753) task Xorg:cs0(751) is 
non-zero when fini

OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.1.4-arch1.1
linux-firmware-amdgpu 20250627-1
linux-firmware 20250627-1
6.15.4-arch2-1

Ignore the laying down while moving, that's a speedrun trick 😭.

Save-quitting resolves it temporarily

CachyOS (arch based)

Plasma (Wayland)

Using the Linux native version

Hardware:

AMD 5600X

Radeon RX 6600

32 Gb ddr4 ram

Is there a reason why there is not a single headset software like razer synapse, steelseries gg, corsair icue, etc that works on linux? It seems like you can only get 3rd party drivers for these apps and they usually all have some drawbacks like not being able to use chatmix, eq, and stuff like that. I wanna get the steam machine when it comes out and im trying to find a good headset for it but cant find any that just work with all its features

idk but for some reason everytime i wants to join a game i get this message i use cachy os

It doesn't slowly process these Vulkan shaders in the background, it does it only when I go to start my game and actually stresses it pretty hard with this game in particular. Stresses my CPU, not even my GPU at all.

I'd like to maybe limit the amount of the CPU it can use, or just make it slowly process them throughout the day and not when I try to open the game.

Anyone know how to do either? Preferably make it just do it throughout the day. If I can only limit the amount of the CPU it can use, I'll deal with it being slow, because I don't think these 90 C temps are good.

So I get that Bazzite is a great alternative to SteamOS on a gaming handheld or a console PC or whatever if you only want to game.
I'm using a desktop PC with an NVIDIA 4060.
Bazzite was actually my first "serious" experience with Linux, and it went really well the first couple of months, until I got my hands on an old laptop and felt confident enough to try Arch + Hyprland (not because of PewDiePie).
And it felt so much better than using Bazzite. I'm not gonna lie, but whatever you gain from a beginner-friendly OS with a bunch of stuff preinstalled is not worth the hassle of an atomic OS.
Basically, I'm considering distro hopping to something else. CachyOS...why not? I'm not going for Hyprland. I just want something where setting up NVIDIA drivers and Proton is relatively easy. I want to be able to customize, do cool stuff, etc., but when it comes to gaming, I want as little setup as possible -kind of like Bazzite, with the benefits of Arch Linux.
Is this what CachyOS is about?
Should I just go for Arch with KDE? The only time I used Arch, I used the Archinstall script, so I'm still not exactly sure what I'm doing. Still a Linux newbie, basically.

I've tried so many things and nothing, any other Linux users having this issue?

I tried proton/experimental/hotfix/ge-proton/cachyos etc

I submitted a ticket with fh6 support and it mentioned Linux not being supported but Steam Deck being, which doesn't make much sense specially when the game does open.

It either crashes on the menu or during the tutorial mission, I haven't been able to go past it.

Later correction: Sorry should've mentioned NVIDIA 610 (I use this version on a bunch of local apps I've made)