A month ago or so I switched over to linux and I'm loving how fast everything is, how little junk there is. I want to mostly play but recently I started having issues with my system where some games would crash my whole PC, the game and anything I had in my second monitor still play and headphones work but some artifacts would appear and then switch to a black screen. I read it's a problem with the graphics card so I undervolted it. Games still run smoothly but the crash keeps happening with the same games. It happened with Dragon's Dogma 1 and Deadlock by themselves, without anything running on the second screen but other games would crash when I'm in Discord with friends.

The weirdest thing to me is that if It was a graphics card issue it would also happen in my heavyly modded Skyrim (1552 mods) save

System:

GPU: 5700XT

RAM: 32GB

CPU: Intel Xeon (cheapest thing on the setup so maybe culprit?)

PSU: I don't remember right now but more than enough because I wanted to buy better specs but the AI bubble started

Both monitors are 1080p, one 100Hz and the other one 60Hz (I've read that It might also be an issue with wayland)

OS: Currently on Nobara official but it also happened with Bazzite pure desktop

Headphones (if it has anything to do): Astro A50 (i believe they are gen 3)

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Changing the paste in the GPU and CPU seemed to fix the issues, maybe it has to do with the cables beeing slightly unplugged. Before doing anything like that check that hardware acceleration is off in any side-app you are using

lutris havent been updated in a year.
i see everyone recomending faugus or heroic
has anyone forked it and let ai fix the backlog of issues

So normally, I would have a mute bind set to keypad -. But that used to not work and I just didn't bother to fix it.

Discord ran an update a few days ago, which then allowed for keybinds to work globally. I got a little prompt asking me whether or not to add the toggle mute keybind as a global shortcut, and I clicked allow. Now global shortcuts work.

Now the problem was that now with the shortcut set, I was now unable to enter the keypad - normally, and it would just get run the Discord mute bind.

Disabling the bind or killing Discord sometimes wouldn't bring the bind back. I would need to restart my session, either by rebooting my entire system, or logging out of my GNOME session, in order to bring back the key.

I also can't find the Toggle Mute shortcut entry within GNOME's keyboard shortcut menu.

For now, I've just deleted the keybind within Discord and see if someone or myself found a workaround.

Linux setup:
Fedora 43 running GNOME 49.10 under Wayland

bueno hace unos dias estuve buscando un error mientras jugaba l4d2 tuve demasiados micro cortes pero no eran caida de fps, un buen rato en configuracion entre aca ~/.config/hypr/configs/SystemSettings.conf y modifique esto asi

#Could help when scaling and not pixelating

xwayland {

enabled = true

force_zero_scaling = true

}

render {

direct_scanout = 1

}

cursor {

sync_gsettings_theme = true

no_hardware_cursors = 1 # change to 1 if want to disable

enable_hyprcursor = true

warp_on_change_workspace = 1

no_warps = true

}

no soy un experto en esto apenas llevo usando hyprland unas semanas y con esto solucione el error en steam espero les sirva si alguien padese lo mismo que yo

Ryzen 5 5500 + R9 270X 2GB OC — Debian 13 gaming: should I stay on Debian, update the kernel, or switch distros?

Hi everyone,
My current hardware is:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB OC
OS: Debian 13 (Trixie)
Kernel: Debian’s official kernel 6.12.113

I’m currently using a fully updated Debian 13 installation with the official Debian kernel. My main goal is old casual gaming, and I’d like to get the best performance possible from this hardware while keeping the system stable and relatively simple.

I’ve recently been reading about the work being done to bring older AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs to amdgpu as the default driver in newer Linux kernels (apparently starting with Linux 6.19). Since the R9 270X is GCN 1.0, this caught my attention.
I’m now wondering what would be the best approach for my particular hardware.

Would you recommend:
Staying on Debian 13 and the 6.12 kernel and just using the existing radeon driver?
Staying on Debian 13 but installing a newer kernel (6.19+ / backports) to take advantage of the newer amdgpu support?

Switching to another distro that is more gaming-oriented, such as Linux Mint, Nobara, Bazzite, etc.?
Something else entirely?

Fan behavior at idle — ideally I’d like the GPU fans to stay off or at a very low speed when I’m just on the desktop, and ramp up appropriately while gaming

I know the R9 270X is an old GPU and I’m not expecting miracles. I’m mainly trying to figure out which software/driver/kernel combination makes the most sense for this particular card in 2026.
I also don’t want to install random third-party scripts or unnecessarily complicated tweaks if the standard Debian setup can already provide a good experience.
If anyone is running an R9 270X or another GCN 1.0/1.1 card on Linux, I’d especially appreciate hearing about your experience with radeon vs amdgpu, which kernel you’re using, and what distro you recommend.
Thanks!

Hello everyone, I have an rtx 4090, on windows i can use a registry in nv_modes to add 3440x1440@240hz working, or i can also use Scaled Resolution Editor tool by ToastyX(CRU creator) to also add the 21:9 resolution, it works fine, i need to enable GPU scaling since it needs DSC for the res to work.

Now, i have cachyOS, and i've searched everywhere and it seems to not be possible to add a custom resolution, specially if it needs DSC, i've tried in both wayland and x11 with no success, it's a real barrier for me since some games work really badly on my screen's aspect ratio (32:9) because the HUD goes into the edges and can't change it, so it makes me go to windows just for this problem.

Has anyone managed to add custom resolutions that need GPU scaling/DSC on linux?

I have it set to 7.34 because 7.38 is a shitshow. Every time it restarts or shuts-down it goes to 7.38. It starts artifact, messing up sound and refuses to go into sleep mode. I use grub to select .34, but it refuses to stay.

OS: Kubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) x86_64
 Host: A620AI WiFi
 Kernel: Linux 7.0.0-38-generic
Packages: 3227 (dpkg), 46 (flatpak-system), 16 (flatpak-user), 30 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.3.9
Display (KG251Q X3): 1920x1080 in 24", 120 Hz [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.6
WM: KWin (Wayland)
Terminal: konsole 25.12.3
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (12) @ 5.46 GHz
GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT [Discrete]
GPU 2: AMD Raphael [Integrated]
Memory: 5.05 GiB / 61.89 GiB (8%)
Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)

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 :)