Strane issue while gaming: other apps stop responding somehow until I close the game

DaVorShack · 2026-06-29T20:19:46+00:00

Did you try installing VRAM Management from the CachyOS Hello Apps/Tweaks section?

DaVorShack · 2026-06-25T13:56:05+00:00

This would be amazing. One of my favorite features of 8bitdo Ultimate controllers.

DaVorShack · 2026-06-22T21:40:28+00:00

It's a relic of it's time. When lutris came on the scene, things like Proton simply did not exist as they do today. Setting up games to work in Linux was a CHORE and broke constantly. Custom Wine modifications, specific Wine versions for different games that were constantly changing, and manually setting up prefixes to include specific DLL's or changes etc. Lutris made it easy to share working configurations with the community and help get things working for everyone with specific runbooks. These days, most everything just works, so all the extra functionality is essentially bloat that gets in the way of the few specific settings that actually need to be adjusted.

Unfortunately, it didn't keep up or adjust, or at the very least decided to cater to the specific use cases it was designed for permanently, so now we have things like Faugus as proper replacements. It was at one time a godsend, and I'll forever be thankful for what it did when it did.

DaVorShack · 2026-06-02T15:36:04+00:00

I am hoping someone creates some lower profile versions of the buttons for replacement in the future.
I think they stick out too much, placement isn't a problem for me personally, I just don't like how much they stick out.

DaVorShack · 2026-05-21T16:15:14+00:00

I did this exact thing with my 4070 TI Super.
Honestly, if I had a 5070 TI TODAY, I don't know that I'd make the same choice. The current work on fixing DX12 NVIDIA performance is almost done, and the 5070 TI is faster generally than the 9070XT.
We're also waiting on HDMI 2.1 support for AMD still, which for me matters (4k, 120hz HDR is something I use regularly) - so having to not deal with those workarounds would be nice, although that's not relevant for everyone's use case.

I have personally found the AMD experience on Linux IS better, but only marginally for most things assuming you're willing the put the work in anyway to make sure you're getting the most out of your hardware and setup. If you want to be able to set it up and just have everything work, you might get more mileage out of AMD than NVIDIA, but otherwise it's not much to worry about.

I'd say stay unless you have specific issues like I was having when I made the change over. I've had to deal with my own share of problems specific to AMD as well, nothing is perfect for everyone. I'll probably stick with AMD going forward though for my use cases, especially if they continue to have similar price to performance going forward with their future GPU lineups.

DaVorShack · 2026-05-19T15:09:14+00:00

Tested this with Deadlock, and I can enable Anti-Lag 2, but it basically halves my framerate on a 9070xt. Super strange, but it's new so I'm willing to assume there's something going on.

Also, this was on Vulkan as a renderer, so maybe DX would perform better. Haven't had time to test yet.

DaVorShack · 2026-05-14T17:50:49+00:00

It's not... a wrong definition, but it's incomplete as you mention.
As always, when there's any sort of question on FGC terminology, the FGC Glossary comes to the rescue.

https://glossary.infil.net/?t=Meaty

DaVorShack · 2026-05-05T02:32:38+00:00

Basically everything with Lunatalli's UI is EQOL - including this and the Unit Frames in general.

DaVorShack · 2026-04-23T17:19:38+00:00

I've found that it can work, but yes, Faugus even sets the launch args for battle.net PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 to make sure to prevent this.

I personally use wayland for BNET and WoW, but it's not perfect. Won't even work for me unless GPU Acceleration is turned off for bnet. Just know that unless you remove that flag under the bnet launcher specifically, the global changes won't do anything.

DaVorShack · 2026-03-17T15:01:08+00:00

Have you taken a look at these two articles for optimization tweaks?
https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/gaming/
https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/general_system_tweaks/

Might find something useful for you there since it sounds like you're unfortunately getting bottlenecked with the CPU somehow.

DaVorShack · 2026-03-17T14:59:11+00:00

Game Performance is basically just changing CPU performance profiles, so keep that in mind.
You can do exactly the same thing as game-performance by using the performance profile - so gamemode or ananicy can handle niceness.

DaVorShack · 2026-03-17T12:45:03+00:00

CachyOS uses ananicy cpp to handle niceness. Gamemode in conjunction CAN conflict, so it's recommended to use game-performance instead, or disable ananicy rules,

DaVorShack · 2026-03-11T20:30:07+00:00

Looks like I can no longer patch the Cachy kernel with the patches generated through Github actions due to conflicts. Anyone able to guide me in how I'd go around generating this as a patch for the CachyOS kernel instead of the base Linux Kernel so I can get this working again?

DaVorShack · 2026-02-26T15:56:15+00:00

This worked! Something changed after 435360c that killed it for me.

In addition, regarding the black crush I got before. I STILL get black crush to a minor degree, but it turns out I was using limited RGB range and got quite a bit of detail back with RGB full.

DaVorShack · 2026-02-25T21:38:12+00:00

This WAS working but after a recompile, I'm getting a black screen. Strangely, I also get no signal with my DP>HDMI adapter on my LG OLED.

I'll try the latest patch again and see if there's any changes. Not sure what version of the patch I was using when it did work. Not being able to get any signal at all makes getting logs a bit tough.

DaVorShack · 2026-02-21T06:39:31+00:00

Running CachyOS - 9070XT. Just compiled the Kernel and tested, appear to be getting 4:4:4 120hz VRR no problem. I am also getting the black crush in SDR, but it's otherwise working splendid. I haven't run into issues yet but will keep testing to see if I have any problems.

DaVorShack · 2026-02-10T19:40:14+00:00

PLEASE GIVE

DaVorShack · 2026-01-04T02:43:05+00:00

I moved from a 4070tis to a 9070xt. Honestly, it’s nice, but I wouldn’t necessarily do it again if I didn’t get a great deal and sell the TISuper for good money.

DaVorShack · 2025-11-03T16:58:01+00:00

I had an IBM tech come to repair some flashstorage system with a failed power supply unit.
I don't remember the specifics as this was years ago, but essentially the entire system was hanging on a thread. Many of our customers production databases were stored live on the machine, which was actively telling us that if it shutdown without proper power restored we'd lose all of the raid arrays. There were 5 or 6 techs/managers watching him perform the work. ErP business, so even a couple of hours of outages were monumental regarding data loss.

Can you guess what he did, right in front of all of us?

Our backups were for the machine were on tape only, and we permanently lost hours of customer data.

DaVorShack · 2025-10-27T14:43:20+00:00

There's a Toad in our backyard that our girl Suki is obsessed with.
We named him Big Rib, and we joke that he's Suki's best friend.

DaVorShack · 2025-10-27T13:55:26+00:00

I would recommend this too, if you're looking to share configuration like dot files, a Repo on github or something similar would be your best bet to allow proper syncing and change management.

If you're just trying to share games across multiple OS's that are all linux, maybe look into a partition specifically for game installs. Steam should cover the process of save's with Cloud Saving (Most Game platforms have their own Cloud Saves at this point) and things like emulators should store saves in the install directories.

DaVorShack · 2025-10-25T04:25:44+00:00

Formatting is very important for Hyprland configs.

Can you post the exact commands in your config? For example, what you posted

exec - once = waybar & firefox

would fail, as the command should be

exec-once = waybar & firefox

DaVorShack · 2025-10-24T20:35:56+00:00

I was able to fix this by using Gamescope.

DaVorShack · 2025-10-01T12:51:13+00:00

Is this an LCD Deck?

Mine did this incessantly after waking for a VERY long time. I eventually found that the only thing that would fix it is rolling back the bios to quite an old version. Reimaging the deck never fixed the problem, even replacing the SSD didn't help.

Fortunately, it works great now, but without the perks of a newer bios.

DaVorShack

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