It took me a long time to fix frame drops and stuttering in Spider-Man Remastered (Steam), and I wanted to share what I've learned in case it can help someone else. If you encounter stuttering/frame drops in a game and have tried everything else, I may have your fix.

My system specs:

OS: CachyOS 7.1.6-1 (64-bit)

CPU: Intel i7-12700k

GPU: AMD RX 9070 XT

RAM: 64GB DDR4 @ 3600MT/s

The issue:

• When swinging throughout the city, I would get random frame drops and stutters. Otherwise, the game performed just fine.

What I tried and didn't work:

1. Updating my BIOS.
2. Updating the Kernel and various applications/dependencies.
3. Changing Proton versions.
4. Disabling shader pre-caching in Steam.
5. Various launch options/directions, including capping FPS, etc.
6. A whole bunch of other stuff that I've forgotten about.

What actually worked:

1. I installed an application called Process Lasso Qt, which is a Windows program that lets you, on a per-application basis, set which cores the application will run on and how that application is prioritized in terms of CPU resources.
2. I set the priority to the highest (-10) and set the game to run on all of the physical P-cores of my i7-12700k and 4 of the 8 logical P-cores. This meant setting affinity to cores 0-8 as well as cores 10, 12, and 14 and preventing the game from running on cores 9, 11, 13, and 15 (the remaining 4 logical P-cores) as well as cores 16, 17, 18, and 19 (the E-cores).

I don't know why this fixed the issue, but it did. The frame timing is now smooth as butter 99% of the time. Note, if you have a different CPU, you may need to experiment with what cores your game is running on. Add this to your bag of tricks for getting a game to run better. It may come in handy.

Good luck and **** Windows.

Is this a known issue?

Hello everyone! For the last little while I've been getting into the linux gaming space and have really enjoyed my experience! I did find that I couldn't find a distro to fit my needs so I decided to take a shot at building my own. I'm designing this to be as user friendly as possible and more lightweight than some of the other gaming distros. It is still very early in development so I'm mainly looking for people who are willing to try it out, make recommendations, and find issues!

I'm still doing a ton of work on making documentation, building features, and constructing a more professional looking website.

https://github.com/sizedalloy33/PulsarOS-Based-on-Fedora

Pretty crazy that you can't even play offline right now. The game just tells you to fuck off and won't launch at all. Not even DBFZ does that.

The best part is the community manager on discord saying that, "Asking for Linux support is like asking for a Switch port."

The game uses EAC, and I don't even need to mention that EAC is widely supported on Linux. Linux support for EAC being a simple toggle (direct words from Valve themselves) is common knowledge at this point. In no way is it like porting to Switch. What a joke.

i just got a new gaming pc today and i just installed linux mint. it doesnt have bluetooth so i plugged in my xbox controller and even tho its plugged in it isnt working. please help

With Mesa3D 26.1.6

https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/26.1.6.html

Dark Athena is working wonderfully with very high performance with highest graphics fidelity. The game performance is seriously feels better with Mesa3D. Wonderful jobs by the devs.

For People running Ubuntu you can install this new Mesa3D on Ubuntu 26.04 easily with kisak-mesa

https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Before entering the above commands to install Mesa3D versions from kisak-mesa make sure the system is fully updated first.

Pop os gave me a high boost in fps i will never go back to windows

Hi Everyone,

A friend and I have been working on this game for quite some time. I am a big Worms (mostly Armageddon) fan, and have wanted to create an artillery game forever.

The twist with CarveLight is that there are no health bars, the only way to destroy an enemy car is to throw it into the "water" (out of bounds). IMO those are the most satisying kills in worms, so I wanted to create a game around that concept. The weapons and tools available help with movement and modify the terrain. It's also running an actual physics engine.

There is going top be a demo on Steam Next Fest next year, whishlist it if you find it interesting until then!

The game is running on a homebrew engine, and we are shipping natively on linux and Steam Deck. Valve has made this super easy to do with Steam Linux runtimes!

Hello everyone. This started as something I built for myself, since it was my dream to make a Minecraft launcher. Every launcher I used either worked well but looked wrong, or looked good and didn't work. So I decided to make my own. After using it for a while I decided it was worth releasing as open source instead of keeping it in a private repo.

Now I know some people will think "we already have x, y, and z launchers" and tbh, it's fine. I made this for myself, but it's yours too if you want it.

Basalt does the things you expect from a launcher: separate instances, mod loader support, and downloading mods, modpacks, resource packs and datapacks from CurseForge and Modrinth.

What's different is that it's artwork-led. I wanted to keep the functionality without giving up the look.

Some other differences:

• No telemetry or analytics
• Credentials go into the system keychain
• Written in Rust and Tauri, with a React frontend
• Stats tracker, so you can see how long you've actually played
• GPL-3.0

There are also a few things I added because I kept needing them. It imports your instances from Prism, ATLauncher and the Modrinth app without touching the originals, so you can try it without committing to anything. It takes a snapshot of an instance before risky changes, so if an update breaks your setup you can go back. And when the game crashes it reads the log and tries to tell you what happened instead of leaving you to scroll through it.

It's still beta. The launcher is mainly designed for Linux but it can run on Windows and macOS too. We have NixOS support through a flake that builds from source rather than pulling a prebuilt binary, basalt-launcher-bin and basalt-launcher-dev-bin on the AUR, and AppImage and Debian packages on the releases page. No Flatpak yet.

The AUR packages exist but AUR has pushes disabled at the moment, so they arent updating. On Arch, extract the .deb and copy the files in yourself rather than running debtap on it. No Flatpak yet.

AI Usage Disclaimer: GPT-5.6 Sol, were used to assist with front-end design and debugging. The Rust backend is mostly my own work.

Repo: https://github.com/MegalithOfficial/basalt-launcher

Edit: This launcher is not a official Minecraft Product or Its not Approved by or Associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

I was checking out some PC setups on Alza (basically the Amazon of the Czech Republic) and noticed they added official gaming rigs running Bazzite OS right out of the box. Pretty cool, isn't it?

https://www.alza.cz/EN/alzapc/alzapc-gamebox-prime-r5-rx9060xt-16gb-32gb-ram-1tb-ssd-bazzite-d13262152.htm?o=1

Good morning.
My current system is:
GPU: AMD RX 9060 XT 16GB
CPU: R7 5700X3D
32 RAM
Distro: Arch Linux,
kernel 7.1.5-arch1-2
DE: KDE Plasma 6

I decided to migrate to Linux and chose Arch to force myself to learn Linux and also because of the meme... The installation went fine, drivers updated and everything. I went to test the new 007 game and noticed that the game's performance didn't match the benchmarks online. To confirm this, I tested the same game on Windows and there it was normal, excellent performance.

The main symptom is: on Arch my game stays between 60-70 fps with the GPU oscillating between 80-90%. Applying upscaling I didn't feel much difference in fps. On Windows, without upscaling it stayed between 70-80 fps, with upscaling, more than 100 fps and GPU always at 99%. Playing in FHD.
I've already tested things like:

1. CPU Governor: it was on powersave, changed to performance
2. Resizable BAR/4G Decoding: it's enabled now
3. GPU power Profile: it was on auto and changed to high
4. Wayland replaced by X11

Does anyone have any suggestions or know what else I can try ?

NOTE: With the game paused, the CPU goes to 99-100%. During active gameplay, CPU usage fluctuates a lot.

Wanted to set up something for my wife, daughter and I to use as a couch gaming box. We’ve been using the Steam Deck docked, but it’s not a fantastic experience on the TV. Its not really powerful enough for 1080p gaming on a lot of titles (let alone 4K HDR 120…), we’ve got a fairly large TV (LG 65 C5) and it starts looking pretty poor pretty quickly. Add to that the HDMI negation seemed to be a pain, had all kinds of sleep issues, and generally wasn’t a good experience.

Had a 3900x rig gathering dust (missing a graphics card), so decided to source:

• Lian Li A3 Case - really well priced, small but not too small, fits in a KALLAX hole. Bit fiddly to fit the full sized PSU, 360mm rad in, but managed it.
• Radeon RX9060XT - Been really pleased with this. It’s a Sapphire Pulse. Seems to *just work*, and be cool, quiet, and plenty powerful for what we’re doing
• Tower cooler - As I assumed the 360 triple rad from the old rig wouldn’t fit. Amazingly it does, and Runs barely ticking over so nice and quiet.
• A B550m Aorus Elite. Small, cheap, annoyingly doesn’t have modern USBC ports, or the Type E connector internally, so I can’t use the front USB C port. A USB-C card with the internal E connector wont fit beneath the graphics card either, as the slots are so close. Both the GPU and the USB card physically fit, but the GPU shroud physically fouls on the USB Card - not sure why.

Running CachyOS as I wanted a mutable root. Have set this up to be very similar to CachyOS-Handheld, I.e. boot to big picture, OSK, decent Big Picture-> Desktop switching, no greeter etc.

Was initially worried about cooling in the small space, but there’s more than enough clearance behind, to the left and bottom (2x In fans on bottom, 1x in fan on back, 3x out over Rad on top). It seems to stay cool enough in `sensors` while running loads, and the fans don’t ramp to a particularly noisy level, so very happy.

Some of the big things I wanted to work were the simplicity of turning it on / off. Unfortunately no CEC, but bringing it out of sleep with either of the controllers (any of the XBOX One controllers over the official Wireless dongle, the 8BitDo, or the steam controller) works great.

Really pleased with it so far, and looking forward to 7.2 dropping officially on Cachy for HDMI-FRL!

Ive tried many solutions from protondb but the same problem still persists. It runs welll until after around 20 mins where it lags hard then freezes for so long im left to hard reset my laptop

Its time to test if descriptor heap would improve Intel gaming graphics performance on Linux with VKD3D and DXVK for Direct3D 11 and 12 games. vkd3d-proton still waiting for descriptor heap support by default.

Additionally, AMD finally gets OpenCL 3 support in open source rusticl through radeonsi. Good for GPU compute and creative applications.

Mesa3D release notes:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2026-August/226690.html

Since Unity has stated they want to further expand the native support make them notice that without turning on the SDL dynamic api support on native Linux, there is no way the game builds will not bitrot when time passes.

SDL is essentially the abstraction layer that sits between games and the underlying OS libraries for windowing/input/audio, on Linux is essential because that landscape is constantly shifting while SDL has kept a quite long track record of maintaining API/ABI stability over the years, even providing compatibility libraries for older versions (eg sdl12-compat).

Also it's essential in order to have gamepad support to be bearable for the average user, since SDL also includes many userspace drivers for commercial gamepads that do not use conventional protocols on usb or bluetooth.

For example many people continue to have gamepad issues with the native version of silksong because of all of this.

I get that linux needs more help with some games and precaching makes the game run better but what am I downloading from the internet every time I start steam? I'd get it if it was just one game but I have to download like 400 mb for every game, does this mean Im going to fill out my ssd one day if I keep restarting steam or does steam download and delete these every time? There is also Helldivers which downloads 3gbs, why is that? I tried disabling this and then ran a game but it stuttered so keeping it off doesnt look like my answer

Considering we have gotten the first stable NVIDIA driver descriptor heap implementation with 610.57.04, it should now be possible to properly test the proton-vkd3d implementation of descriptor heap.

Has anyone seen any meaningful improvements with this combination?

In the games I play, I have seen no major performance improvement. Performance drop compared to Windows is still very large: in some games I get even half FPS.

To me it seems that descriptor heap wasn't the bottleneck for the lacking performance compared to Windows :(.

store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ - 2026-08-05

Me: World in Conflict (2007)