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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/TXC_IJOJOI on 2025-01-10 08:21:27+00:00.

I finally ditched Windows 11 and moved to Linux (tried a few different distros) on my gaming machine.

Even though things have improved greatly, since the last time I tried, there are still a few edge cases left, which make it hard for me to keep it as my main gaming OS.

General

Since I'm used to debian, i started off with trying popos and mint before switching to chachyos.

Hardware: Ryzen 5800X3D, GTX 2080Ti, 32GB @ 3200Mhz, Asus X570 Gaming

The Good

First off, wow things have come a long way, since I tried to switch the last time (~7y ago). The forums are full of useful information and you can feel how many gamers want to move on from windows.

All of the distros I tried were a breeze to install, no faffing about with drivers either, my 2080Ti got recognized immediately.

Mounting shared ntfs drives isn't a big deal anymore. Steam recognized the games library immediately. Still I'd recommend properly defining mount points in fstab.

Steam and ProtonDB are your best friends, even obscure old games were easy to run most of the time. Just amazing!

FPS were generally great, on par with Windows.

The Bad

So why am I not ready to keep going you might ask?

There were two things, that I just wasn't able to get working: Multiple displays with different refresh rates, and The Finals, the main game I'm playing at the moment.

I was very well aware about the jank x11 + Nvidia could cause. Disabling compositors, changing the cfg files, nothing "really" worked. I tried different drivers and even switched to arch to try to see if wayland would fix this. My only workaround was to disconnect the 2nd screen when gaming. Thats not really a fix though.

The Finals is my main game at the moment. While working quite will, the performance just wasn't there compared to windows. The GPU was underutilized, while my CPU had weird 100% spikes on single cores.

I tried different kernels, drivers, Proton versions (custom GE etc), but was not able to get it running the way I wanted.

It's getting really close now. It was never this easy to set up linux for gaming. If valve can make a big impact with SteamOS and wayland gets better, I will not look back.

Maybe next year will be the year.

TL;DR: There were two things, that I just wasn't able to get working: Multiple dispays with different refresh rates, and The Finals, the main game I'm playing at the moment.

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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/AlexFaden on 2025-01-10 08:14:19+00:00.

Getting this error.

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Assertion failed!

Program

File .../src-wine/dlls/winevulkan/loader.c

Line:526

Expession: !status

OS: Garuda linux (arch-based)

Proton Experimental

UPDATE:

Adding "SteamDeck=1 %command%" into launch options looks like helped the issue. We will know for sure when server launches. I suspect developers trying to block access to the game for regular PC proton users and leave only steam deck. Mb because they afraid of the cheaters, who knows.

UPDATE 2: Dont give much credit to my fears about devs blocking access to non steam deck proton users. Most likely it is some sort of bug in the launcher that causes error and SteamDeck=1 skips it all together.

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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/Intelligent-Stone on 2025-01-09 21:16:23+00:00.

I didn't use Linux for a while, last was when Nvidia got explicit sync, I installed it again, and still the games I play under Wayland is not smooth, it's getting almost a hundred FPS, but the feeling is not even half of it, it's like I'm getting 25 30 FPS or something, on X11 I can feel I'm playing with 100 FPS. Is this really an Nvidia problem for all? Or only me? I have latest open drivers right now.

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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/FennyaTheRock on 2025-01-09 09:24:38+00:00.

Hi everyone.

I decided to give Linux gaming another go as SteamOS has made me quite excited. Before this, I've only used ZorinOS (For about 2 weeks in 2022) and more recently Bazzite (For a few days at around May 2024). I decided to go back to Windows after playing around with them because the FPS penalty I was getting in games compared to Windows was far too great. Around 30% for Zorin and 15-25% for Bazzite. Not to mention the crazy amount of stuttering (Happens way more on Bazzite than Zorin) when I'm just navigating around and using my browser.

Anyway, 3rd time's the charm I guess as I'm currently on CachyOS and not only has the entire experience been completely smooth, but I actually do not suffer the performance penalty while gaming any more. In fact, I'm actually gaining average and 1% low fps in Helldivers 2 and Zenless Zone Zero in CachyOS when compared to my very debloated Win 11 install. I would have been happy with even just a 5% performance hit, so to see performance parity or in this case a performance uplift, I'm almost ready to wipe my Windows drive. Almost.

The final game in my suite of games I constantly play as of right now is Total War: Warhammer 3 (WH3). And for the life of me I cannot get it to work. No matter what compatibility layer I set, the game strangely does not seem to be able to connect to servers, thus locking me out of multiplayer. Performance is generally horrible too. I'm locked to 60fps in the main menu and campaign map with noticeable input lag(Forced Vsync from what I read in other threads), but during battles I'm not locked to 60 anymore and I can easily go over 90.

To fix this, I tried a creating dvxk conf file thing in the game directory's .exe location and set a launch parameter for the frame rate as suggested by a Redditor in a different thread. While the main menu now operated at a nice 144fps (My monitors refresh rate), campaign map performance tanked down to 20-25fps. Battles wouldn't start too, it would just freeze in the loading screen.

And that's where I'm at now. The tl;dr would be:

1. WH3 refuses to go online, thus locking me out of multiplayer
2. Proton WH3 is a must and is non negotiable. I know they have a native client, but I'm playing coop campaigns with my friends on Windows. They're not ready to switch over to Linux nor are they keen on doing it atm. Also, Linux version is horribly outdated.
3. Performance is all over the place depending on if the dvxk fix is in place or not.
4. I've tried Cachy's proton, proton experimental bleeding edge, 9.x, hotfix. None seem to make a difference.

Also, I'd appreciate it if someone could be so kind as so provide some insight as to why Bazzite was, frankly, dog water, on my system compared to Cachy. My specs between Bazzite and Cachy are identical, same with my drive that I do fresh reformats for. Speaking of specs, (Specs in bracket were my stuff for the Zorin install, which wasn't anywhere near as stuttery as Bazzite):

CPU: Ryzen 7 5700x (Ryzen 5 2600)

RAM: 16gbx2 3600 cl16 (8gbx2 2666 cl16)

GPU: RTX4070 (GTX 1660 Super)

SSD: 240gb sata formatted to ext4

OS: CachyOS

Kernel: Linux 6.12.8-2-cachyos

DE: KDE Plasma 6.2.5

WM: KWin (Wayland)

I'm so close to moving over to Linux for good. Any help is and will be appreciated.

EDIT : FIXED. For internet being unable to connect, download Easy Anti Cheat from Steam library. For game not being playable, switch from Wayland to X11. Thanks everyone!

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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/Suitable-Hour8428 on 2025-01-08 04:38:38+00:00.

I'm going into game dev and have heard concerns that allowing Linux users also allows those without kernel-level anti-cheat to play. I don't think, in reality, this has led to that significant of a cheating issue, but if anyone has thoughts or specifically uses linux-supported games for this reason, I'm interested.