r/linux_gaming

Hi there, sorry if this post is in the wrong subreddit. I've been noticing a weird issue that after a couple weeks of using my linux distro my PC will just randomly restart when gaming. The odd things about this are that it only happens on Linux (I dual boot Windows too and it's perfectly fine on Windows) and it only started after I installed an Radeon RX 6900 XT in my system, upgrading from an 3070. I just can't seem to pinpoint the issue on what's causing it.

My distro is Bazzite, I originally used CachyOS but thought that Cachy was the cause

I’ve been trying to get gyro working on my 8BitDo Ultimate 2 with the 2.4GHz dongle on Ubuntu (running in a Proxmox VM). Here’s where I’m at:

• Set up the correct udev rule ( 2dc8:310b ) with  TAG+="uaccess"  — hidraw permissions confirmed correct ( crw-rw----+ )

• Updated controller + dongle firmware via 8BitDo Ultimate Software on macOS

• Unloaded  xpad  module to rule out driver conflicts

• Manually unbound  hid-generic  driver from both HID device nodes

• Tried B+Home and Y+Home combos to boot into DInput/Switch mode — controller only connects via Home (XInput mode), no other combo works

• Set up a gyro→R stick hardware profile in the 8BitDo software as a fallback — doesn’t seem to work in Indiana Jones

8BitDo support just told me they don’t support Linux, so here I am. Has anyone gotten DInput mode working on this specific controller (or another 8bitdo model) with the 2.4GHz dongle? Is there something I’m missing with the mode combos, or is this a known hardware issue with certain units?

Running Ubuntu 24.04, Steam, Proxmox, USB passthrough.
Any help appreciated!

Are there any performance impact from latest Nvidia drivers on Linux in terms of modded Skyrim?

Recently tried to run Nordic Souls PBR, that utilises Community Shaders with all the bells and whistles like Upscaling and Frame Generation, but was greeted with 5FPS on launch on Bazzite. Reproduced same issue on fresh install of CachyOS, and tried on Windows too where I got stable 55-60 frames on my 5070Ti at 4K with DLSS set to Performance.

From what I noticed in comparisons, is VRAM usage, under Linux VRAM was maxed out, while on Windows it was only 50-60% of usage.

Would love to know more if anyone faced something similar.

P.S.

Issue is not specific to modlist, which was installed by using Jackify, and several other lists also was tested that too had massive performance hit on Linux.

Also which linux do you play on ? ( me on cachy os and devuan )

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I started using Arch Linux last year exclusively without any kind of dual boot on my PC. I want to share my experience. I have used ubuntu while in college and I'm a dev so I'm no stranger to linux or terminals. I'm extremely comfortable with tinkering. And Arch wasn't that difficult for me to pickup and start using. It was a very smooth onboarding process.

As an operating system for daily use as well as for gaming, linux is great! I have no complaints, and I loved how snappy everything was. It just gets out of the way as most people say. I even used a few not so well known brands of 2.4ghz wireless controllers and headsets and they were just plug and play!

The nvidia situation for me personally wasn't that bad. I only play single player titles and I just cap fps, and so while I know I'm not hitting the peak fps of my card, I didn't really care as long as I'm getting a solid 60 fps with all the settings turned up.

So why did I leave then?

1. Too much fiddling - I love tinkering, but I feel like I was doing it a lot more here for every game. Proton, heroic, proton GE, swapping between them to fix issues. It worked most of the time, but having to add launch commands to each games for HDR, for Reshade, for mods. Games with launchers/overlays conflict or crash sometimes in linux because of reshade, which I have to use to fix or add HDR via renodx (example, gta V enhanced) Or to fix some weird issues by referring to protondb.

2. VR - I love flight sims like DCS and I love playing them in VR. But I feel the VR ecosystem is not mature in linux yet. I know it's on me because I'm layering jank on top of jank (proton, and then VR on top of it). My headset is lying dormant because the few times I tried I didn't have a good experience. I tried options like WiVrn that everyone recommends but even there it's too much fiddling, to get an experience similar to the one I had in windows. I'm aware that things will improve after the release of Steam Frame, but it's not there now.

That said, I will be back. I have limited storage space, so can't dual boot right now, but I'll definitely be dual booting again or even switch fully back to linux once the above situation improves. For now, I am using windows 11 with a debloat script to remove all the annoying stuff.

My PC specs: 16GB Ram, Ryzen 7 5700x, RTX 4070

9070 XT build in the beautiful TETRA S Pine from Thor Zone.

I am sorry if flair is wrong, I have no idea what to pick.

I just started to use Bottles, because Wine, Lutris, Faugus and Heroic failed me.
I tried my best for Wine and Lutris with same result Ubisoft launcher being stuck at loading.

Bottles work out of box and for me (unintelligent person) in linux and that is big win.

My question is, if there was a virus in app or game I want to play, will that virus be dangerous when I start it with Bottles or the virus will be useless, because I use Linux or get stuck in Bottles, where is nothing it could do?

Hey just wanted to let people know that for me the latest update "org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-580-159-03 (1.4)" and "org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-580-159-03 (1.4)" stopped steam from launching at startup with a segmentation fault error. I'm good because I had a recent timeshift but just wanted to make it aware that this is a problem that I had, so may be a problem for others.

If this is the wrong place to post this mods please lmk where would be better.

EDIT:

For a bit more context, steam isn't installed through flatpak (accidentally replied incorrectly so I'll fix that). Pretty sure I installed it with .deb but can't remember sorry.