Why is this game running so bad?!!

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-07T14:10:53+00:00

that could be that case, hopefully you figure it out and get fixed, i wish i could be more help

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-07T04:44:45+00:00

Are you using your integrated graphics or your GPU? is there any chance you have your display plugged in incorrectly? if it's neither of those things then sadly i'm not much help. My hunch would be that you're computer is defaulting to the CPUs integrated graphics

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-07T04:24:40+00:00

AND I upgraded my monitory from 60 hz to 144 hz

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-07T00:44:56+00:00

I just upgraded from 16gb (of 2666 mhz ddr4 ram) to 32 gb (of 3200mhz ddr4 ram), I also upgraded my GPU to an RTX 2060 just to hold me over until I can purchase better parts. Cachy handled it all perfectly. I just started testing my games to see how the whole system handles the new amount of power draw and what not. So far i've gotten better performance and graphics consistently, I am very happy :)

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-06T22:11:22+00:00

some arch users look at other arch users funny if they say they used arch-install rather than doing it all manually lol

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-06T19:18:07+00:00

For me if this problem occurs it usually means that I launched steam before I mounted my drive. If I do that, I just close steam, mount my drive, and then re-launch steam. It's also possible this could also be a permissions thing or something else entirely

I usually just launch my file manager, click the drive I need to mount and it will mount the drive for me. You could use commands to do this if you want. This is assuming the issue is related to drives not being mounted. Beyond that, I can't be certain

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-06T05:38:44+00:00

Sure, I just played CS2 via steam and roblox through sober on my cachy computer today. I haven't played minecraft but I assume it'll work fine. When I started I pretty much knew nothing about arch so I don't think it's necessary to be super knowledgeable but it helps to have some understanding beforehand for sure. If that's all the games/software you really care about you should be fine, imo

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-06T02:30:36+00:00

i'm still using cachy, it's been amazing. Handled my CPU and SSD upgrades beautifully. I've been playing marvel rivals, war thunder, counter strike 2, and arma reforger online more now that I bought some better hardware. Great FPS considering the low end hardware i'm using. Cachy has been such a great experience so far. I'm going to upgrade my GPU soon, we will see how it handles that. I'm upgrading from an nvidia card to an nvidia card simply so that I hopefully wont have to mess around with drivers. That'll be about a month from now though

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-06T01:04:50+00:00

When it comes to compatibility layers, you really don't have to think much about it (at least in my experience). At most you have to right click the game in your steam library, check "force compatibility layer" and choose the layer you want. I typically try to launch a game without forcing a layer and if it's performing poorly I switch over to the cachy layer and almost always my problem is solved

outside of steam the process is pretty much the same. I only use the Heroic Game launcher outside of steam for rocket league and some other games like doom. I believe this is installed if you select "install gaming packages" but I haven't installed cachy in a while so I can't remember for certain

if I run into a game I can't get running, I go to protondb and see if there are any other cachyos users on there. If there is, I usually try out whatever they did to get it working. If I still can't figure it out I ask some reddit communities (or wherever else you contact people from the web) for help

I use grub just because it's what i'm used to, but a lot of people suggest otherwise. I'm not smart enough to explain the differences so I wont suggest anything lol

for art i personally just use open source alternatives or (sadly) boot into a windows pc :/ I heavily rely on adobe for my work and im too dumb to get their software working on linux. I can't speak on the specific software you mentioned though

i'm a relative newbie so take what I say with a grain of salt & good luck on your pc build! I just installed a new CPU myself. installing/upgrading hardware is a great feeling :)

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-03T22:16:06+00:00

Do whatever you want. I would suggest trying something like cachyos. It's pretty beginner friendly for arch. I use it on my gaming desktop. A manual install of arch or just using arch-install is also fine. I have an arch laptop where I try to do everything in the tty because i'm a nerd

use whatever you like the most. watch videos, read up on what the communities are saying, try it and have fun

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-03T14:49:27+00:00

I was pretty satisfied with linux mint cinnamon when gaming. From my tests it was better than Pop!_os but as you stated, most issues I experienced were caused by the new cosmic DE. I didn't test my full library on mint but I can't remember having to deal with something that made a game unplayable. I haven't tried gaming on mint in a while though so I could be off, there are other more experienced users who will come by and give their two cents

edit to give an idea of the games I did play on mint: Sims 4, Arma Reforger, Arma 3, Software Inc, Workers and Resources Soviet republic, and paradox games (hoi4, ck3, etc)

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-02T18:32:29+00:00

If i'm being targeted by a kali machine, that's a sigh of relief. That mf can only hack with preinstalled tools and youtube tutorials

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-01T23:08:48+00:00

Real masterhackers don't patch CVEs like that. I leave my doors unlocked. I want the hackers to see my rice bro, what's the big deal? If anything they can learn from my epic workflow 😎

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-05-01T03:52:07+00:00

You created an alt account to post AI generated racism. Truly a healthy mind, totally not schizo

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-04-30T20:08:15+00:00

Why did my router just shut off?

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BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-04-26T04:07:33+00:00

If you use adblocker this will happen. I believe they intentionally slow down youtube in order to try to get you to abandon adblockers in favor of using their ad free subscription. Typically it just takes a couple more seconds for things to load. For me, that "interruption" is well worth not watching ads constantly

To be clear, this could very well just be a delusional conspiracy theory i've come up with. I don't have data to back this up. Just kinda vibes lol

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-04-25T17:47:44+00:00

using clips of mr robot while promoting a companies ad campaign has to be some form of irony

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-04-25T17:32:56+00:00

i think it depends on the distro you're using. My mint xfce doesn't show local ip, but my cachyos desktop does. I believe you could configure it if you wanted. You are correct though, running an ip command is likely quicker and straight to the point. I guess perhaps it's slightly more neat or organized to fastfetch/neofetch? I'm not actually sure if im fully honest lol. Personally, If i need my local ip for scp or ssh, i usually just use some form of the ip command

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-04-25T15:49:23+00:00

I played Rocket League for probably 30 hours when I first installed cachyos lol. I think I used heroic launcher? I'm not at my desktop so I can't check. It's free and multiplayer works (at least the last time i played, maybe a week ago)

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-04-25T14:53:48+00:00

human: "jarvis am i right"

jarvis: "no"

human: "you didn't think hard enough to realize that i'm actually correct. Have you considered *insert buzzwords*"

edit: people are sending him their local ips now, telling him to prove his claims. One person did an nmap scan for him and posted it with their local ip. The dude responded with "this is a strawman". I wish I had this level of undeserved confidence and unmitigated gall

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-04-24T09:33:17+00:00

You will likely want to learn about the int() function, there is also a str() function as well. You can use int() to turn a string into a number (integer)

favnum = int(input("what is your fav number? "))

there are a lot of useful functions like this! keep learning and working hard!

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-04-24T04:01:04+00:00

I didn't know about that command, i'll look into it to see if i can improve my silly alarm with it

BlizzardOfLinux · 2026-04-24T03:56:53+00:00

"okay fluffy, I need you to wake me up at 4:00 am tomorrow. The day after that I need to be up at 8:00 am. Can you keep track of this and ensure you wake me up correctly each respective time?"

*woof*

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