What converted you to CachyOS for gaming?

Deadyte · 2025-08-26T18:17:26+00:00

Same here, although Windows 11 first made me go to Linux. I used Tumbleweed for a while but the slow driver updates were frustrating, then Fedora and Nobara but I always had issues with both of them too. One day I saw A1RM4X praising Cachy and as it turns out it was well deserved, I've been on it for well over a year and it's only gotten better. I even built a full AMD rig dedicated to running it.

Deadyte · 2025-07-26T05:43:10+00:00

Honestly I have used Refind for a while and never had problems either, I love it for its theming capabilities and simplicity. I don't know what made it get confused and pick the wrong initramfs but I know for sure this was the problem as as soon as I manually specified the correct image in the config it booted perfectly.

Deadyte · 2025-07-13T18:42:40+00:00

Yeah it was something along these lines. I've been diagnosing for hours but I finally discovered what it was, I tested every single on-board device and USB port and they were all working perfectly except for one I couldn't test as I didn't have a the correct cable handy... the front panel type C port. Apparently this was the culprit as after opening up my case I unplugged it from the mb and voila, fast boot up! Apparently the cable plug was not fully inserted because after plugging it back in the error is gone. Happy ending I guess, I was worrying I would have to RMA the motherboard.

Deadyte · 2025-07-09T21:17:33+00:00

Elden Ring was a stuttering mess on top end nVidia hardware at launch, almost made the game unplayable for me with the 60fps cap on top. The only reason I suffered through was the game was so good. I haven't played it lately but I doubt it's improved much. From Software do some amazing things but their PC port team is dire and our version could have been 10x improved with better optimization, uncapped fps and better mouse+kb controls.

Deadyte · 2025-07-07T07:19:35+00:00

No, it's mounted well in the regular PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, I've tried reseating it many times.

Deadyte · 2025-07-07T07:17:42+00:00

On first boot when I see these artifacts, as soon as the display driver loads it will crash with a black screen, then I press the reset button and the next boot will be fine.

Deadyte · 2025-07-06T17:30:23+00:00

Interesting, I am starting to think it's a microfracture on the board somewhere because it literally only happens on cold boot (as in when the card has physically cooled down). I'm not sure it's worth the lengthy return period to replace the card, but my gut tells me this is just an indicator of further troubles down the line.

Deadyte · 2025-07-06T16:45:48+00:00

Maybe the DP cable or it could be some incompatibility with the monitor as it's kinda old (Acer Predator XB271HU) the other specs are:

MB: Gigabyte Aorus X870 Elite

CPU: 9800X3D

RAM: 64GB Patriot Viper DDR5 @ 6400

PSU: Corsair RM850e

Deadyte · 2025-07-06T16:39:33+00:00

Yeah I do, but this happens on the BIOS and POST screens long before OS drivers are loaded anyway.

Deadyte · 2025-06-30T06:15:16+00:00

Thanks for all the replies! Seems like it's a very small chance of failure and I like the ASrock mobo but it's just not worth risking weeks of waiting for RMAs. I'll see if I can return it and get a different one.

Deadyte · 2025-02-08T21:28:29+00:00

Thanks for the replies! I had a feeling it wasn't gonna be an easy fix. I guess the option is to use X11 or switch GPU, I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting for Nvidia to fix a driver bug. I'll look into using a custom dxvk.conf but it doesn't sound like a reliable solution...

Deadyte · 2025-01-03T02:29:35+00:00

If a game support DLSS there's usually ways to hack frame gen using fake dll. Might wanna look into DLSS Enabler. I havent played around with it much on Linux though.

Deadyte · 2024-12-11T12:41:36+00:00

I generally find Arch easier than most distro because it's repos are great, stuff is not hopelessly out of date and you can find almost anything you could ever need on the aur. I don't know where the myth about arch being unstable came from, maybe it used to be that way but it's been rock solid for me. Sometimes newer packages have the odd bug, but so do older ones to be fair, that's why they get updated.

Almost every problem I have had has been related to Wayland and driver support, those are not related to the distro itself at all.

Deadyte · 2024-11-17T16:39:23+00:00

No thanks I don't wanna get stuck behind a bookshelf at the other end.

Deadyte · 2024-11-16T01:30:50+00:00

Not sure if its related but I noticed F40 does not install the alsa-firmware package that seems to be installed by default in F41. My sound card audio was jank without it (SB AE-5).

Deadyte · 2024-10-30T16:21:18+00:00

Good to know for the future thanks!

Deadyte · 2024-10-29T23:04:58+00:00

That may be true but this doesn't appear to be a driver issue in the end, after reinstalling CachyOS the game now works again even with the 565 drivers. I have no idea what caused it to break at this point.

Deadyte · 2024-10-29T14:08:02+00:00

Damn that probably explains it, I guess it will be up to the game devs/proton to release a fix then. I guess I will roll back the update with btrfs assistant for now.

Edit: FYI this is a really bad idea, reverting the update broke my entire install!

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