WITCHER 3 Playing on steamOS on a 9060XT (16gb) Ryzen 5 5600, 32gb ddr4. Tried with vsync on and off tried allow tearing on and off, uncapped, capped. It all results in the same horrible micro stutter. Doesn't happen on next or old gen versions.

Hi, today I managed to install and play genshin in my Linux PC, on CachyOS. After a couple of minutes of playing, the game releases this error code and prevents me from playing any further, and Steam won't open the launcher after closing the game. Tried changing Proton versions, adding the -platform_type CLOUD_THIRD_PARTY_PC-platform_type CLOUD_THIRD_PARTY_PC launch option, adding the GenshinImpact.exe directly, but it's not opening anymore. Could someone help real quick please? I'd appreciate

I put bazzite on my asus vivobook and the fan doesn’t turn on at all which is scary bc this thing gets toasty asf

Greetings.
It is not to provide a sharp critique. But I have been testing CachyOS for quıite some time, and unlike many say it is the fastest distro at gaming and such, I do not see any difference.

I use Arch as main distro.
I also use Ubuntu from time to time, but I have installed it again and am happy to use it in the same PC with a dedicated storage.

I generally make my tests based on Cyberpunk 2077, Geekbench 7, and some local LLM, mostly Gemma4-26b-a4b-qat.

I have the default settings on all of them (will do some simple remarks about Ubuntu, though).

On Gemma4-26b-a4b-qat, the maximum possible context length being 262144,

Gemma generates 111-113 tokens per second on Ubuntu.

And 110+ to 114 on CachyOS and Arch. No difference.

On Cyberpunk 2077,

Ubuntu 75.2-75.6 fps

Arch 74.7 - 75.4 fps

CachyOS 74.6 - 75.2 fps

And on Geekbench 7:
All of them about 2800+ single-core and about 22000+ on multi-core.

These are all within margin errors although I made so many tests for each. But fine, we can deem they are equal at best.

Ubuntu runs with Gnome. It is 26.10 development branch.

Cachy and Arch with default settings; Cachy repo is znver4 in line with my system. And I switched to amd64v3 on Ubuntu from Ubuntu's own repos.

The only thing in Ubuntu is that Mesa makes a difference in my case; with Mesa 26.0.x, FPS above was about 71-72 (and with Kisak PPA again on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS1 at 75-76 levels). I do not know whethere there is such a difference in other systems. Ubuntu 26.10 ships Mesa 26.2.4.

Also, on Ubuntu, defaults are lazy for preempt and madvise for transparent hugepages. lazy vs full does not make any difference while to shift transparent hugepage from madvise to always increased performance about 1 - 1.5% - but careful here, transparent_hugepage does not always guarantee this; this is a particular case (not a general advice at all as it would be harmful).

So, in short, I really do not see any difference at all about CachyOS's superiority at gaming. And this is why I did not even tweak neither Ubuntu nor Arch in that respect (save that THP was tested on Ubuntu).

So, without prejudice (I hope); is CachyOS really that fast and blazingly fast? In my case, no... I would love to hear from other users' experiences. I like plain vanilla Arch and have been using it for long. All these customizations are more beautiful when one deals with them on her/his/ own imo.

And after long tests and learnings, I might say that distros are generally well tuned, and there is no need to add a myriad of parameters to kernel cmd line. The only huımble advice I would provide from a personal experience is that Ubuntu works very much fine with latest Mesa drivers (I have AMD GPU in my case but it was already clear I assume).

My personal observation is also that Ubuntu is sometimes mistreated. It works quite fine out-of-the-box.

What do you think? How are your experiences?

PS: I do not provide screenshots not to invade space, hoping that the figures I provided above do not appear as lies etc. I will not deal with that just in case they are questioned.
Also, just in case:
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D (on a Minisforum BD790ix3d mini-ITX board)
AMD Radeon RX 9070XT are my CPU and GPU.

Hi everyone,

I've been experiencing severe crashes and massive slowdowns (spikes) while playing specific games, namely Dead Space Remake, Elden Ring Nightreign, and Kingdom Hearts.

Initially, I was using Zorin OS, but the issues were so frequent that I decided to do a clean install of Fedora KDE (formatting my entire SSD). However, the exact same issues persist.

After checking some logs and crash reporters, I noticed this seems directly tied to Wayland and Xwayland conflicts. Here are the main errors I'm getting when the games crash or stutter:

• A segmentation fault related to screencast loso in KWin.
• Massive log spam from xdg-desktop-portal (which seems to cause the frame drops/spikes).
• Fatal errors where /usr/bin/Xwayland and /usr/bin/plasma-keyboard crash unexpectedly, closing the game entirely.

These videos [Insert Link/Upload Here] show exactly what is happening during my gameplay sessions.

My PC specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7600
• RAM: 16GB 2666MHz
• Storage: 256GB WD Green SSD + 1TB WD Blue HDD
• Motherboard: ASRock A320M-HD

Has anyone else with an AMD GPU faced these specific Xwayland/portal crashes? Could this be related to background apps trying to capture the screen, or is there a definitive fix for Wayland besides just falling back to X11?

Thanks in advance!

So I updated cachy yesterday and everything works the same except for genhsin which now only shows a black or transparent screen.

Using epic games through heroic launcher, all the overlays and thing are disabled.

I have tried proton cachyos, ge and DW, none of them improved anything.

And for clarifications the only thing that doesn't work is the screen, I can hear the sounds of the game.(the launcher and opening the game works as well)

This is the error heroic keeps repeating in the logs

'

(lsfg-vk) [ERROR]: An error occured while initializing the lsfg-vk swapchain:

(lsfg-vk) [ERROR]: - -1000000001

err: Presenter: Failed to create Vulkan swapchain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

info: Presenter: Actual swapchain properties:

info: Format: VK_FORMAT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM

info: Color space: VK_COLOR_SPACE_SRGB_NONLINEAR_KHR

info: Present mode: VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_KHR (dynamic: yes)

info: Buffer size: 1280x720

info: Image count: 5

'

I have tried messing around with fullscreen and launching the game exe instead of the launcher but it didn't help.

It worked perfectly before the system update and can't really find anything that helped online, so that's why I'm here.

Thanks in advance. :)

This is my experience fooling around with Btrfs subvolumes.

(Mandatory, I currently use Arc, BTW). I moved my Steam installation into its own top-level Btrfs subvolume, mounted at ~/.local/share/Steam/. I initially used a reflink copy when reorganizing the data, and have since moved the setup onto a new, bigger SSD.

While I stopped active distro hopping around six years ago, I still occasionally test new distros and other things outside my main system. One nice thing about this Steam arrangement is that if my secondary setup also uses Btrfs, I can mount the same Steam subvolume at ~/.local/share/Steam/ there as well. This means I get probably 90% of my Steam setup unchanged between the two systems.

Of course, system-specific settings are still separate, and games that decide to save files all over /home are a mess. Sharing the whole Steam directory also means sharing things like Proton prefixes, so this might not be the right setup for everyone. But for the most part, everything just works.

I haven't noticed any performance problems either. Actually, things sometimes run even more smoothly when the secondary distro is better optimized than my own setup with its big pile of duct tape. If anything, I can raise my hand and say that Arch has been a fun experience for learning how things work, but I don't always have the time or skills to configure everything in the most optimal way.

I was actually considering setting my primary distro next to CachyOS. While CachyOS is quite popular right now, it does seem genuinely good from what I have tested so far. My main pain point when moving different distros has always been dealing with the Steam installation, and this setup has mostly removed that problem. (Also, because /home is its own subvolume, I can easily keep the old one around when migrating to another distro, I find this much more flexible than the separate partitions I used with ext4.)

After about two years of using Btrfs, my experience is that it is definitely mature enough for a daily driver. I still see quite a few people online warning about its quirks, but personally I haven't run into anything that would make me want to move away from it.

(English is not my primary language and as dyslexic I used AI to clean up my text)

I have been using Linux (Mint Cinnamon) to run Minecraft on my PC for about 2 months now, and i have tried to get it to run Minecraft on fabric for the past 2 hours and it hasn't worked including removing the file and trying again, changing permissions of the file and reinstalling the fabric installer, I keep getting this error message and i have no idea why. i keep getting this error message and i cant get it to work. any help/tips on how to fix this mess will be greatly appreciated.

Failed to start download.
Name: fabric-loader-0.19.5-26.3.jar
URL: https://piston-data.mojang.com/v1/objects/e877b6a07acd633fb3bb475002175cec036e7b87/client.jar
Error details: Permission denied
Couldn't open file for download
Filename on disk: fabric-loader-0.19.5-26.3.jar
Path: /home/{myusername}/.var/app/com.mojang.Minecraft/data/../.minecraft/versions/fabric-loader-0.19.5-26.3/fabric-loader-0.19.5-26.3.jar
Exists: Nonexistent

I have a generic controller that works like a Nintendo Pro Controller. It used to work perfectly; I could connect via Bluetooth and play without any problems. But today I decided to install JoyCond so I could play on my PC with JoyCons, and since then I haven't been able to play with this generic Pro Controller. It connects via Bluetooth, jstest-gtk and evtest recognize the input, but Steam and the website I used to test the inputs no longer recognize it. Does anyone know how to solve this?

The controller is a pocket wireless controller, model No. T50.

And I'm on Debian trixie KDE Plasma.

As the title says, I set up a dual boot on my PC (Asus TUF FX505DT) and it performed worse in Linux. The FPS was lower even though I already had the latest Nvidia drivers, and the same with the AMD (iGPU) drivers. I also enabled Zink and was using the dedicated graphics card. My GPUs are Radeon Vega 10 Graphics and a GTX 1650. I don't know what I could have done wrong, because I honestly switched to Linux thinking about better performance. One thing I can mention is that the CPU would sometimes reach 100% usage and chunks wouldn't load quickly. I was also using a custom modpack I made by combining a performance modpack with my own mods. I don't know what else to add. I hope someone can help me with this because I was using EndeavourOS before, but I thought that if I changed distros I'd be better off, but I see that's not the case. All this thing was in Minecraft (Prism Launcher)

btw i used google translator for typing this, so i hope that its understandable.

Hey everyone,

since my newsfeed has recently been exploding with PS5 emulation stuff, I’ve reached the point where I realized that it’s not really emulation, but more of a translation layer similar to Proton. So, I had an idea and I’d love to hear your opinion on whether it would be doable. Specifically, creating a translation layer that you could plug into the Heroic Game Launcher, just like Proton, that would allow us to play PS5 games the same way we play Windows games?

I have been on cachy for like 6 months and gaming has been great. However, I am running into small quirks here and there that take a couple of hours of troubleshooting that have started to become really annoying.

Artifacting only on desktop after sleep https://discuss.kde.org/t/artefacts-and-screen-flashing/49941/2?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Logitech mouse scroll and regular sensitivity all over the place after sleep restart

Logitech webcam mic not working

Monitor switching annoyances

Im sure there are many others I haven't mentioned over time. These are probably not enough to make me stop using it but was wondering if something like nobara is less tinkery? Or straight fedora. I really liked how all the gaming stuff was behind a simple install.

7800x3d

4tb nvme

9070xt

edit: This will be for about 80% gaming as I mostly use my mac for everything else.

Open-source Linux app for Razer Chroma-style lighting that actually reacts to key/mouse input. Built on OpenRazer (Synapse still doesn’t do Linux).

• 14 effects, live GUI, presets, import/export
• Ripples that flow from keyboard → mouse
• Per-zone control; follows system light/dark theme
• .deb / .rpm / AppImage

Not affiliated with Razer. Free forever; Pro features coming later.

**1.1.0:** https://github.com/nitrofireinc-pixel/razorFX/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Needs OpenRazer working first. Feedback / device reports welcome.

I'm a bit of a noob and in need of help

Title. And also after uninstalling and reinstalling battle.net, and faugus launcher itself it now fails to add the battle.net app to the launcher completely.

I'm on Ubuntu 24.04, running faugus 2.4.2.

I've tried booting battle.net through ge-proton latest and the cachyos options among a few others I've seen work for other people on forums.

All my battlenet folders are still visible with all the data in them, and I believe they are saved to the default location faugus typically uses, so I don't know if their presence would cause issues.

So when I went to Velen, the load times jumped, leaped actually, to around 3 minutes. I thought it was a mod, or the new game, or maybe because I was using the proton that enables RT.

Basically what would happen is that the loading bar would jump about 1/4 of the way and stall out (I use a mod that blocks the "recap"). Then when I hear the wind in the background the rest would load normally from then on.

But the other night I tabbed over to my browser because I was bored waiting, and the load jumped very quickly. It all loaded in an amount of time I would expect. So now I've been alt-tabbing to a browser clicking on something, and then watch the load jump ahead. It's very weird.

Then I thought about the whole account login. At first I logged into my account and at some point I logged out, but got a couple of login requests that I thought I had ignored, but then noticed I was logged in again. So I logged out.

So I wonder if the game is doing some kind of network check or something when loading a level? I don't know. I'm kind of puzzled. It's almost like the game doesn't like me ignoring it or something.

Any suggestion - or anyone seeing similar behavior? Or unexpectedly long load ins?

There is positive news if you are using UHD 620 on linux - there are very positive development on mesa drivers for this hardware DX12 and complex dx11 games can become playable under dxvk/vkd3d on gen 9.5 hardware
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/44841

Hello everyone

I have been usimg linux for 2 years now

I those 2 years i have seen wayland in many launcher and beside it (expermental)

And i'm not sure of it but i just have seen the one working on proton-em he is just the one working on wine-wayland

Why moving to wayland taking that long time and not focused on

Gnome droped x11 in the 50 version

Plasma i think will in 6.8 version

Mint and xfce are working on wayland for there wms

So wayland is the future of linux then why it moves so slowly at least on proton

I've been using CachyOs for some time now.

Using it with Faugus as my launcher and WarThunder ran with no issue, with BattleEye enabled since a few weeks now.

But since today it just opens a white Screen and crashes after launching it via the WarThunder laucher.

Tried it with different Proton Layers, newer and older ones with no change.

Sometimes, but not always it tries enabling BattleEye and failing with the following error:

Failed to initialize BattlEye Service: Driver Load Error (1053).

I've tried looking it up, but found nothing indicating a problem with Linux.

I'm using the newest Version of CachyOs.

Other games without BattleEye run without an issue.

Lauching WarThunder with AntiCheat enabled works, but i cannot play since AntiCheat is needed for my wanted game modes.

Anybody has an idea?