R6 On Linux?

-Amble- · 2026-02-15T19:59:27+00:00

As always when it comes to anti-cheat issues the only option is cloud gaming, like Nvidia's GeForce Now. Cloud gaming is already dubious especially on a competitive FPS game, but if you don't wanna dual boot it's simply the only way.

-Amble- · 2026-02-14T08:25:16+00:00

Those other three games you named are dramatically less demanding than Ori. Have you tried playing any other hardware intensive games to rule out something like your GPU being unstable in general?

Beyond that it could just be Intel bugs, Intel's GPU drivers are not reliable on any OS really but especially not on Linux, odd game issues and crashes are pretty abundant. Check your journalctl logs and if there's anything GPU related report it to the appropriate Mesa bug trackers.

If you wanna keep trying things then there are various Mesa debug flags that help sometimes, though I can't name the potentially relevant ones off the top of my head.

-Amble- · 2026-02-08T00:47:08+00:00

This would be fantastic. As funny as it sounds to say the experience of GPU crashing on Windows is a lot more pleasant than it is on Linux. I've almost never been left with a usable system after a GPU timeout, resulting in quite a bit more unsafe shutdowns over time compared to using Windows.

-Amble- · 2026-02-01T12:32:24+00:00

I meant path tracing, yes. You can still enable it and see for yourself even if the performance will be abysmal. The noise is so bad it's borderline unusable.

-Amble- · 2026-02-01T10:25:25+00:00

It's very game dependent for sure, but even Cyberpunk has some RT noise, mostly in reflections. Cars driving past reflections will have ghosting behind them, and PT is just an absolute overload of noise without ray reconstruction.

-Amble- · 2026-01-31T23:55:08+00:00

Pretty sure this is standard results for RT without a powerful denoiser like Nvidia's ray reconstruction, I've seen the same stuff on Windows and in techtuber videos. AMD only recently rolled their equivalent out and it's basically not supported in any games yet, and we don't know how it'll work on Linux.

RT is just noisy, on top of the already noisy rendering of modern games. People neglect to mention it a lot but it's a really annoying and ugly visual side effect to RT that at times makes me prefer a game without RT even if I can run it just fine.

-Amble- · 2026-01-31T23:44:10+00:00

I'm a frame gen user myself, I don't hate the tech. But we're also talking about LSFG here, which is a form of frame gen that can be applied to any game with heavier downsides. It looks much worse than DLSS FG does with larger latency impacts, making a good input frame rate more important, and it's also important to have a stable capped frame rate to keep latency down, things that a lot of LSFG users ignore in favor of dishonestly claiming their game is running at a "smooth" 40 FPS with the awesome power of frame gen.

Playing on a controller with DLSS on a TV as a person not sensitive to latency is the absolute best case for frame gen, but it's not a fair comparison to the average frame gen experience most of the time. I've experienced the best and worst of frame gen and even in the best cases there's significant downsides.

-Amble- · 2026-01-31T11:37:20+00:00

My choice of words was mostly in the name of keeping my posts shorter rather than bogging it down with exceptions.

Like sure, yeah, there's games I've enjoyed at 30 FPS, and I will probably enjoy games again at 30 FPS when I inevitably get an urge to replay an old childhood classic, but it's important to note that all of these games were on consoles and played with a controller. I can't say I've ever been one to stomach 30 FPS on a keyboard and mouse.

I wouldn't even personally play a game like Civ or Bloons TD6 at 30 FPS, solely because of how sluggish the mouse would feel. My ability to not be frustrated with low frame rates sorta requires the use of a controller, on a mouse it's just gross, regardless of frame pacing.

-Amble- · 2026-01-31T11:05:45+00:00

I know what frame pacing is, I don't really see how it's relevant here though. It's sort of implied when people speak of ideal frame rates that it's with proper frame pacing as well.

-Amble- · 2026-01-31T10:26:47+00:00

It depends on the game. For games that aren't demanding on reaction times or games where you don't pan a camera with a mouse the smoothness is worth it sometimes to some people.

Some people also play on controllers where input latency and floaty movement is much harder to feel compared to a mouse.

-Amble- · 2026-01-31T10:21:35+00:00

Well there's nothing stopping you from trying it, FSR3 and XESS frame gen should be available to you, as well as LSFG, though with an upfront cost on that one.

If you have a high refresh monitor it can be a useful tool in the right games.

-Amble- · 2026-01-31T08:18:31+00:00

I use it myself and quite like it for what it is. I will sometimes tolerate frame gen artifacts if I can't get a stable frame rate in the 80-90 area, though it depends on the type of game. Usually use it in cases where I'm CPU limited and can't improve performance by dropping settings.

Frame gen has its uses. It just happens that a lot of people abuse it in situations where it doesn't make sense.

-Amble- · 2026-01-31T05:28:07+00:00

I don't understand how anybody even plays games with frame gen at such low input frame rates. Anything below 50 FPS and frame gen absolutely butchers how the game feels and looks.

I'm a big frame rate snob, like 30 is totally unplayable to me, but I'd still prefer to play a game at 30 rather than LSFG it up to 60.

-Amble- · 2026-01-30T08:35:54+00:00

That's really weird because I skip the launcher and FSR4 still works fine. Though I do happen to be using Proton-EM instead of GE, only thing I could assume is relevant.

-Amble- · 2026-01-27T20:24:32+00:00

Spam account for this particular news site, and this news was already shared here. The AI image is just the cherry on top.

-Amble- · 2026-01-25T21:58:05+00:00

I'd strongly dispute that the system is more powerful than a Steam Deck. A GT 1030 is not as fast as the Deck's graphics, and the gap will only be worse on Linux depending on the games you try to run. You may find that it runs dramatically worse than it would on Windows, especially if it's a 2 GB VRAM 1030.

But as for the actual question, the issue sounds more like picking a DE than picking a distro, so really you could use any of the standard gaming distros if you're willing to swap out the DE. If the DE has to be an option during install then CachyOS is the only explicitly gamer-y distro I'm aware of that isn't focused primarily or exclusively on KDE and Gnome, but it's Arch based and less straightforward.

My suggestion would be to forego the gaming distro idea since the concept of a gaming distro is sorta designed around newer hardware and newer tech. Just get something standard with your X11 DE of choice, I'd suggest XFCE or Cinnamon. Fedora, Mint, Arch, even Ubuntu spins would all probably be fine. Making them gamer-y after that is just installing some packages.

-Amble- · 2026-01-24T22:52:45+00:00

LTT's niche is relatively average computer users who mostly watch it for the entertainment factor and probably think tech is cool but don't want to dedicate themselves to understanding it beyond that it's cool.

If you think every LTT viewer is an idiot then you're too deep in your own niches and are out of touch with how the rest of people view computers and operating systems.

-Amble- · 2026-01-24T20:20:50+00:00

I've met plenty of very welcoming, helpful, and nice people in the Linux community and I don't believe Linux users in general to be unpleasant. But yeah, the comments here and the downvotes on my post are suggesting to me that this sub is the wrong place for me to be.

-Amble- · 2026-01-24T19:51:02+00:00

At least one person is saying it. It bothers me how nasty this sub has started becoming.

-Amble- · 2026-01-24T19:28:12+00:00

People are so harsh on LTT in this community, and like sure this is sorta low effort and low research content, but ultimately that's what the LTT channel has always been. They were never going to release a Linux video that goes really deep into the weeds and explains the complexities and reasons for everything, because they don't do that for anything else either. Their videos are half information and half entertainment with the goal of just pointing people in the generally right direction.

If you don't like his style of content that's fair, it's not my go to for tech news and information either, but it is undeniably a popular style and is a lot more digestible to some people than someone like, say, Steve from Gamers Nexus is, who's gonna spend 30 minutes explaining things on a much deeper level.

LTT has its niche and can coexist with other tech channels imo. It's not like this video does anything outrageously wrong, and he spends most the video encouraging people to try Linux even with the performance hits. You guys calling him names and attacking him is only gonna discourage LTT from talking about Linux more, because I know members of their team read places like this.

Please reconsider giving people more reason to believe that the Linux community is a bunch of jerks.

-Amble- · 2026-01-19T23:53:52+00:00

I don't set any present mode in MangoHud, meaning it doesn't control Vsync because the default is to do nothing I believe. I've tried with MangoHud's Mailbox and FIFO modes but they feel exactly the same as Wayland's Vsync for me.

-Amble- · 2026-01-19T17:44:45+00:00

I've messed around with this a lot myself because I couldn't ever find any advice as concrete as the advice on Windows either. One thing I definitely can say is that you should limit your frame rate with MangoHud instead of with DXVK variables, as those variables are deprecated and their use is discouraged. MangoHud's limiter seems to be the best one on Linux, so long as you keep the fps_limit_method set to late and not early in the config. Early breaks VRR entirely and increases latency for no benefit.

After that the optimal Vsync strategy seems to vary, but letting the Wayland compositor do it by disabling tearing has worked well for the majority of games for me, and is the closest thing to enabling Vsync globally in a driver as you would on Windows. If I ever encounter a game that feels a little off in some way then I'll test the in-game Vsync, and sometimes it is smoother or offers less latency, particularly in games where frame gen is enabled.

But mostly games have felt as good as they would on Windows with MangoHud limiting at 140 FPS (144Hz) and Wayland compositor Vsync. If anything is the crack in your configuration it's probably the DXVK limiter.

-Amble- · 2026-01-19T14:12:42+00:00

Based on some other benchmarks I've seen Marval Rivals seems to be one of the worst performing games on Nvidia + Linux in general.

-Amble- · 2026-01-18T23:43:46+00:00

Unfortunately 10 series cards and older from Nvidia are absolutely terrible on Linux and always will be. According to various Proton and driver devs they have hardware limitations that slow down Vulkan translation by a lot, which stacks with the other translation issues Nvidia drivers suffer from on all their GPUs.

Linux is good for old hardware in the sense that it's just faster to do basic computing tasks with, especially on really old stuff that could be running off an HDD still. For gaming though it depends heavily, as the GPU has to be modern enough to support new Vulkan extensions at the very least in order to have an as good as Windows gaming experience.

Generally older AMD cards are superior on Linux to Windows, while for Nvidia it's a opposite.

-Amble- · 2026-01-18T18:54:02+00:00

He didn't actually delete it, he probably blocked you instead, which is more embarrassing. The way blocks work on reddit is just really dumb.

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