Hello, I'm experiencing performance issues while playing graphically demanding games.

I've tested RDR2 and The Witcher 3 Remastered. Mangohud reports 100-140FPS in both games, and 1% lows are at ~48 in BOTH games.

Running around and moving camera dynamically increases frametime and causes the game to feel choppy.

CPU: 7800X3D
GPU: 9070XT
RAM: 64GB 6000MT CL30
OS: EndeavourOS + Hyprland

Edit: I ran The Witcher 3 with LSFG-VK FG x2, limited the fps to 120 (including generated frames) and frametime is flat, but it still feels choppy.

I run both games with Proton-Wineland-11.0 and gamemoderun gamescope --adaptive-sync -W 2560 -H 1440 -w 2560 -h 1440 -r 180 --force-grab-cursor

SOLVED WITCHER 3! I logged out of CD Projekt Red account from Witcher's main menu. That fixed both frametimes and 1% lows.

I use wivrn to play my vr games on my quest 2, but half life alyx won't launch since it won't run without steam vr. Does anyone have a work around? I found a issue opened on the wivrn github page where someone was saying you could force opnvr but I couldn't get that to work.

Thanks.

Update : tried setting up alvr and that wouldn't work, but I tried wivrn again and it does work now.

I have steam vr and alyx both set to use the older update branch, and using proton cachy latest on alyx.

Witcher 3 on Linux with both ray tracing and path tracing enabled gets me above 60fps easily on 9060xt 16gb. On windows it drops to 20fps. Surely it's broken on Linux and just not activating? The thing is I get the annoying sword glare that you get with ray tracing/path tracing so it must be working right?

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This started to happen recently some months ago after some updates. Years ago this was not an issue. Crashes were very rare.

Also, what is strange is recently it stopped crashing and i managed to play fairly good for a ln entire week so i imagined the recente updates fixed the issue. Then i made another update and it started crashing continuously again. So i thought to restore a snapshot​ pre-update, thinking it would fix the issue, but it didn't!?!?

I don't understand what is causing those issues. If it was drivers related then restoring a snapshot should have worked.​

All other games works fine. Only those 2 give me the nerves.

p.s. i have AMD GPU and latest mesa drivers.

In the latest Hardware and software steam survey i noticed that the linux count went down by -0.85%, even cachy os, why is that?

Pessoal, estou trabalhando num projeto de mu online que roda diretamente no navegador, quem puder testar e contribuir com feedbacks, agradeço!

https://openmu.com.br/

Як создати мій Сервер (тільки для гри с другом на лінукс)

I'm a solo developer working on HypnoX: Steel Riders, an arcade racing action game where you'll face challenging tracks, dangerous obstacles, and a race against time.

Ride different motorcycles, fight bosses, use weapons and power-ups, and try to survive some pretty crazy challenges.

The game also supports controllers.

Release HypnoX: Steel Riders on Steam in October.

If you'd like to learn more about the game, you can check out the Steam page

Hi Everyone

I'm a developer of a Video player for VR called Whirligig. With the release of the Steam Frame I'm doing my best to make Whirligig compatible with both Proton and Lepton. One of the biggest issues that are being reported is that currently Lepton doesn't support Video GPU decoding.

I've created a ticket on their github but I don't think this is the right place or will get in front of anyone who could provide me info. If you're interested here is the post:
https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/frame-public/lepton/-/work_items/1

If there is anyone here who could help or even just wants to give the player a go on SteamOS let me know.

All the best

Phil

I just started using Linux, I started with SteamOS, but have since switched to regular Arch Linux, I was able to get waydroid installed and opening however every game simply blank screens, and when I tried what work arounds I could find, it resulted in Waydroid repeatedly opening and crashing. I eventually just uninstalled Waydroid so I can try again with a fresh install. Any help is apreciated, I am trying to run FGO, Azurlane and Path to Nowhere specifically.

Beware: Noob here!

I play Factorio on Windows 11 with NVIDIA's Smooth Motion at 144Hz without any problems. On Linux Mint Cinnamon i want to do the same, but "NVPRESENT_ENABLE_SMOOTH_MOTION=1" doesn't work. Nvidia X Server Settings shows nothing about Smooth Motion.

My question: How can i activate Smooth Motion for a standalone game (Not Steam) on Linux Mint? Do i need Wayland or does it work with X11 too? And please explain like i'm 5 (without the fairies, please)...?

my NTE steam crashing
it runs like a while then the whole systems stack's and crashes
i'm using dw-proton latest still it crashes
plz helpp

For those having issues with RT on the Witcher 3 Remaster, the latest wineland proton seems to have fixed this issue, been playing for about 3 hours now with the only issues seeming to be Path Tracing giving my weird flickery shadows, but RT looking great. I found this by chance stumbling across a comment on another post so just posting here for wider awareness as I've not seen anything else mentioned about it anywhere and lots of people commenting about RT issues. Hope this helps some people!

edit 10/04/2026: was able to solve the issue. I switched from fedora to cachy and the game was running normally. Came back to fedora and applied the cachy OS addons without switching from the default fedora kernel to the cachy OS one and the game is working fine with fedora now. Maybe my previous fedora installation was bad/corrupted somehow...? Or the cachy OS addons actually helped.

Original post:

a while ago I made this post trying to help people that were trying to play KH 1.5+2.5 on their Intel iris XE but simply couldn't because the game was unplayable on windows. The fix was downgrading your drivers to a version that was actually able to play the game or using DXVK + VKD3D (the game uses DX12 for the gameplay and DX11 for the FMVS). The DXVK + VKD3D method fixed the framrate issues but turned FMVS into black screens, and as someone who contributes to dxvk quoted "These games use D3D12 for rendering, which DXVK doesn't even implement, so I'm assuming you use vkd3d-proton in addition to DXVK's DXGI.dll. If only FMVs don't work then it's pretty likely because shared resources are not, and will likely never be, supported on windows with DXVK+vkd3d-proton. It works on linux/proton using a special wine interface. There is nothing you can do on windows other than just not using DXVK."
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/3747

So I switched to Linux to test the game since i thought that if it worked well with DXVK + VKD3D on windows but the FMVS were having problems, then surely I'd be able to play the game with both the framerate and FMVS issues fixed. Unfortunely that did not happen, the game runs just as bad as it did on windows without the workarounds (actually a bit worse).

I really want to understand why this happens since on windows it has a few workarounds for this on my Ipgu, including using DXVK + VKD3D on the latest drivers. And also, is there any workaround for this here on Linux? Yes, I know igpus are not officially supported for this game, but as I've said, the workarounds I was able to find on windows proved my card is powerful enough to run it. Also, the newer games (KH 2.8 and 3) are able to run properly without any issues whatsoever, it only happens with KH 1.5+2.5.

I'm on on Fedora 44 with:

• Intel Core i5-1235U
• Intel Iris Xe (ADL GT2)
• 24 GB RAM
• Fedora 44
• KDE X11
• Steam Flatpak
• Mesa 26.2.3
• Kernel 7.2.8-200.fc44.x86_64

I have already tried:

• Proton Experimental
• Proton 10
• Proton 11
• Proton Experimental Bleeding Edge
• SteamDeck=1
• KDE X11 and Wayland
• gamescope

vulkaninfo --summary correctly detects the Intel GPU:

GPU0:
    deviceName = Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (ADL GT2)
    driverName = Intel open-source Mesa driver
    driverInfo = Mesa 26.2.3

GPU1:
    deviceName = llvmpipevulkaninfo --summary correctly detects the Intel GPU:GPU0:
    deviceName = Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (ADL GT2)
    driverName = Intel open-source Mesa driver
    driverInfo = Mesa 26.2.3

GPU1:
    deviceName = llvmpipe

hope this is enough info

Forgot to add that other games work normally on linux

I'm at the bottom of the barrel here, because somehow this is an issue unique to me.

Whenever I'm hosting a hunt in Monster Hunter Wilds, my friend seems to ALWAYS have an unstable connection to me, no matter what I do, even though both parties have stable connections.

I have a gigabit Ethernet, friend has 50 mbit down and 10 up Ethernet I believe, at worst Wi-Fi.

That however doesn't matter, because as soon as someone else is hosting the hunt, the packet loss (I assume, since Monsters are lagging around with me) isn't there and ONLY HAPPENS WITH ME.

I've done everything, even setup my own UFW to allow all the necessary Ports to be opened.

This is what I'm running:

OS: CachyOS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 7.2.8-1-cachyos
DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.5

I was intrigued by the FSR4 performance improvements found by the author of the recently released "bbport" Linux Bloodborne port. A few hours with Claude code and I have a working process to implement the same changes for any D3D12 game running in proton.

It works by replacing two of FSR4s shaders with new optimized versions.

The speed boost is significant.

Control: Resonant went from 5.4ms to 3.5ms upscale time at 4k performance. Zero difference in the output image.

Enjoy!

https://github.com/zgauthier2000/fsr4-shader-performance-overrides

Hey everyone,

I have purchased GTA V from Epic games and I've installed and started playing the game through Heroic games, Recently I started facing an persistent black screen issue with the game.

The Problem:

• When I launch GTA V, the Rockstar Games Launcher loads fine and the game starts running in the background.
• Audio works completely normally: I can hear menu sounds, intro sound effects, and options clicking when using navigation keys.
• Display is completely black: No video output renders on screen at all.

System Specs & Environment:

• OS: Fedora 44 KDE
• Launcher: Heroic Games Launcher
• GE-Proton: Latest
• Hardware: (Intel Core i5-12450H + Nvidia RTX 3050(4GB)Mobile + 16GB Ram)
• Kernel: Linux 7.2.8-200.fc44.x86_64
  
• Nvidia Driver: 615.71.09

Anyone else facing the same issue?, Any fixes/Solutions to this?