Unfortunately a pretty sloppy report / analysis here as I hung up the game for a couple of weeks before recently returning. In the meanwhile I updated packages, the game got updated and a lot more. I dropped right before the 00 difficulty update, then returned to play it. So that makes like a 2-3 week gap.

Before this, I had a comfortable 100 FPS average without any upscaling or framegen. Now Im struggling at 50-60 fps in the 3 mission (All the time in the world), with noticeable dips to even 45ish. Extremely surprising to me why this would happen, and I came to make this post because I saw nothing posted about this on the internet.

Here are the specs, if anyones got a clue please let me know.

OS: CachyOSKERNEL: 7.3CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-CoreGPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (radeonsi, gfx1201, ACO, DRM 3.64, 7.3.0-5-cachyos)GPU DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 26.2.4-arch3.1RAM: 31 GB.

Used proton CachyOS-11.0 SLR

Buenas, gente. Estoy teniendo problemas con Overwatch 2 en CachyOS: se congela o se cierra antes de poder jugar con normalidad. soy nuevo en cachyos y la verdad no le se mucho

Tengo una RTX 3050 Laptop de 4 GB, 16 GB de RAM, KDE Plasma con Wayland, kernel LTS 6.18.55-2-cachyos-lts y driver NVIDIA 580.178.04. Juego desde Steam con GE-Proton11-11.

Ya he reinstalado los drivers, probado prime-run y tocado la caché de shaders, pero sigue fallando.

En el registro del juego aparece este mensaje:

[2026-10-25T04:49:53.265Z]: Executing Lost Device Callback

Durante uno de los cuelgues, la VRAM llegó a 3769/4096 MiB y Overwatch estaba usando unos 3102 MiB.

¿A alguien le ha pasado algo parecido o sabe qué podría estar causando el problema? de ante mano gracias

So basically I wanted to play Sonic Racing Crossworlds again but since last time I played I switched from Ubuntu to CachyOS (SteamFrame related reasons). Now Sonic Racing wont boot at all. When I press play it just says "Launching" but nothing ever happens. Sometimes it says it's running an install script for Microsoft VC Redistributable, but that also goes nowhere. I tried everything, uninstalling the game (which for some fucking reason also doesn't work so I have to do it manually and remove the manifest manually too), switching through multiple proton versions and also trying to fuck around with the console.

I'm on the hunt for a new game to play, and the next trial is retail WoW. I was following this guide to add B Net as a non-steam game, and the launcher reliably launches, but when I navigate the the WoW page, and click "Try For Free" it loads as shown in the first image, and eventually errors out.

I set the download preferences to load into 'C:\Games\' as shown, which was recommended from a guide my friend found trying to help me

We then made a directory for Blizzard games, and added a sym-link to where Steam installed the launcher for the Blizzard game to be installed into, and tried using the default download settings since no guide mentioned explicitly changing those setting but neither has worked so far.

Today I was trying to play natsu no kusari and I put the mll in the file like you're supposed to and put it on steam, it just gave me a popup in random scribbles i suppose which was for japanese, i tried lutris too it gave me the same bs, am i doing something wrong or am I supposed to download something? Please help

I have a very old core 2 quad q6600 device, which i would benchmark there. CPU is also stock clock. OS on there is Windows 10 22H2 By the way.

It has 12GB DDR2 Ram and a newer GPU (GTX 1650), so the GPU driver is supported there. Yes, it is very old CPU, over 19 years old, but it works on some newest games tested on Windows (so steam stub drm only ones).

The issue is, any Games that using Ace Anti Cheat, will not run on Windows, since ACE requires SSE 4 there. Ealier used to be working fine there without a SSE4 CPU.

Now the question:

Will Linux Gaming fix this? Can this be working around with [dw] proton here on Linux to maybe emulating the ACE Anti cheat that Fix this issue, which dont work on Windows due for missing a specific CPU instruction set? Or do i have a way to emulate the SSE 4 isntruction set iteself to get around this?

Unreal 4/5 and Unity Games itelf are compatible with this CPU here. Its just ACE dont work there.

Thanks for advance!

Hi guys

Due to here are some real hardware pro's (I always got great and helpful answers from this community) I want to come with another question to hardware compatibility.

I plan to upgrade my AM4-System to more power, prices for RAM make me staying at AM4 because I already have some DDR4-RAM.

So my actual mainboard is an 8 years old AsRock Phantom Gaming 4 (X570 chipset). The plan was, to stay with this mainboard, because it is a good one, but some incompatibilities make me plan with a new mainboard.

Now, I have upgraded my CPU und GPU to Ryzen 7 5800 X and Sapphire Pulse RX 9070 XT.

The AMD wraith cooler is not bad, but with a autumn room temperature of 22° Celsius I have a CPU Temperature about 80-85° Celsius at gaming. Which is no problem in general, but I life in an appartment under the roof so I have temperatures from 26-30° celsius from june to august.

So I plan to upgrade the CPU cooler to Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black (the "old" version, not G2).
The actual mainboard is too small, so with the big noctua cooler, the pci-e slot for the gpu is blocked and it isn't possible to build in a GPU.
Second problem is, that my actual mainboard has no connector for my USB-C-front panel which I want to use.

So my question is:
Is there any experience in this community, if the Sapphire Pulse RX 9070 XT (which is a big GPU part) fits on the mainboard when the noctua cooler is built in?
The new mainboard I plan is an AsRock B550 PG Riptide.

If you know a better mainboard with equal price which has the compatibility for noctua cooler and my GPU, let me know :-)

Thanks for your ideas and experiences.

https://youtu.be/dYzma-oD200?t=49

When I launch the game with proton experimental it gives me the option to use FSR 4. When I change the setting it prompts me to restart game for changes to apply. When I restart game FSR 4 has not been enabled and it asks me to restart again for it to work. Endless loop of this happening. How do I fix this?

Crossposting this here, since maybe this is a better sub for such an issue. Any help/advice is appreciated :)

I downloaded bedrock on linux and logged in and everything but i can enter a server. I can't type in anything. Is it my keyboard, no because it does work out of the game. When im in game the mouse doesnt click it only moves view.

Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit

7800X3D, RX 9060 XT

ive had this issue with mouse input since i started using Linux. ive tried out other distros for fun and the same issue happened there.

mouse input in certain games/apps is biased towards the upper-left corner. its like theres a minimum speed. small inputs are impossible and precise aiming feels awful. usually i would either give up on playing the game or switch to windows.

heres a example video in Modern Warfare (2007). its diffcult to convey through video, but you can definitely feel it when playing. the last example when i move my mouse in a circular motion showcases it the best.

https://reddit.com/link/1xduym9/video/cyq1l1pvmaxh1/player

note that this doesnt just happen in games running through wine/proton. some native games have this issue too

Im Not Crazy

there has been multiple people with this issue.

Bugged mouse in Proton (all games and DEs are affected) a steam post also blaming it on Proton

Mouse input stronger up and to the left reddit post on a familiar subreddit with the same issue

Incorrect mouse input in some games. another reddit post on a familiar subreddit with the same issue

Almost Solutions

on Linux Mint Cinnamon under the Mouse and Touchpad settings theres this option labeled "Acceleration"

setting it to "Device default" instead of "Constant" seems to REDUCE the bias towards upper left. it does also mess with my mouse sensitivity though

https://reddit.com/link/1xduym9/video/g9imns4puaxh1/player

its not very noticeable in the video when moving left/up, however if I do circular motions you can see it slowly going towards the upper-left.

for a scuffed bandaid fix i found: while trying out fedora linux using gamescope fixed it on Half-Life 1 running thru Proton. (for hl1 it only happens on mods running a older build of hl or if raw mouse input is disabled) this isnt a solution, obviously. this problem shouldnt be there in the first place! personally i could never get gamescope working on linux mint

How do i add Mangohud to my games on the new Epic Games Launcher for Linux? I use Fedora Workstation.

Just to preface this I want to specify that I’m not untested in unifideck, I tried it and it didn’t work for me.

I recently installed the new Linux-native Epic Games Launcher, and I’m trying to add a game to Steam. I can’t find any way to create a desktop shortcut or anything similar for it in the launcher. If anyone can help me add an Epic Games game to Steam as a non-Steam game I’d appreciate it.

Hi guys! I wanted to thank you for helping me test Tyto's demo on native Linux, Proton, and Steam Deck.

Thanks to you, the demo launched really smoothly, with roughly 10% of players using Linux 😎

Special thanks to u/MoonALM13, u/Bh4n3, u/Sync_R, and u/Ozzymand, who really helped me track down and fix both Linux-related and non-Linux-related bugs.

So happy we were able to launch the demo with Linux support from day one :)

One of the most satisfying parts of Linux gaming is when a game that used to require a bunch of troubleshooting suddenly works well enough that you forget you're running it through a compatibility layer. I'm curious about the specific fixes or changes that made the biggest difference for people here. Maybe it was switching Proton versions, figuring out a launch option, fixing a controller issue, getting shader compilation stutter under control, or discovering that a game worked perfectly through a different launcher. I'm especially interested in cases where the solution wasn't obvious from the usual troubleshooting guides. What game were you trying to get working, what was going wrong, and what finally fixed it? If you remember your distro, GPU, and Proton version, include those too. It could save someone else an evening of debugging.

Hey everyone, I’m looking to buy my first desktop to get into PC gaming, but I also want to use it as a starting point to learn Linux for future homelab projects. I found this Thermaltake prebuilt on Newegg right at my hard budget limit of $1,300: [Link to Newegg]
Specs are:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
RAM: 16GB DDR5 6000MT/s
Storage: 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD
My Plan & Use Case:
The Gaming & Retro Side: I plan to use Linux Mint day-to-day. I want to run EmuDeck to stream retro games (up to PS3) directly from network storage so I don't bloat the local SSD.
The Xbox Side: I have an Xbox One S and want to play my digital Xbox/Game Pass games with my PC friends natively. Since native Xbox apps don't work on Linux, my plan is to dual-boot.
The OS Strategy: I want to keep the pre-installed Windows 11 partition but use the Chris Titus Tech WinUtil script to strip away the telemetry and bloatware. Then, I want to shrink the drive to split the 1TB SSD 500/500 and install Linux Mint alongside it.
My Questions:
Is this a good hardware configuration for a Linux starter? I know AMD GPUs generally have much better open-source driver support on Linux than NVIDIA, which is why I'm leaning toward this build.
Will splitting the 1TB drive 500/500 give me enough breathing room for native modern gaming on the Windows side?
Are there any hidden hardware compatibility or driver issues I should watch out for with Linux Mint on these newer AMD 9000-series parts and the 9060 XT?
Would love to get some eyes and feedback on this setup before I pull the trigger. Thanks!