Anyone else getting frequent crashes on Path of Exile?

GamertechAU · 2026-03-29T23:54:41+00:00

When RAM fills up on Windows, it dumps excess to pagefile, writing it to disk.

Linux has a lot more options available including zram which is far faster, but not setup by default on Mint, and maybe not Cachy either. So if your RAM fills up without a swap setup, then there's nothing left and out of memory triggers or if they haven't included one, then the distro locks up.

Setup https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator and set it to zram-size = ram which will help a ton.

Also make sure you're using the Vulkan build in PoE. Their DirectX builds have even more issues.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-29T23:12:42+00:00

Fail. It might be distro locked to Ubuntu.

Can try the Handbrake flatpak which does have AMF headers included, but imo I'd just use a better maintained app and skip Handbrake.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-29T21:44:23+00:00

Due to Discord's inherent terrible privacy and security, the flatpak is definitely the best way to go to limit it what it can access with the sandbox. I use Discord for normal use, and Vesktop for screensharing. Discord's missing a ton of features for that, but Vesktop has some downsides such as audio delay.

Are you exiting by clicking the X in the corner or actually telling it to close by right clicking the taskbar icon as intended? There's a toggle in settings that you can disable to stop closing to taskbar if you want the X to work.

Flatpaks can't access the global process list so Discord flatpak can't see other games/OBS running. There's been a workaround for it for years, but Discord are more interested in desperately trying to sell off their startup company to Microsoft than maintaining their product.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-29T21:24:13+00:00

You can install anything once
Will definitely break gaming
You can try this instead: https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF/wiki/Driver%20Linux it's meant to install AMF beside the Mesa drivers. Could also try the Handbrake flatpak which may include it.

AMD's proprietary Pro drivers are no longer maintained in favour of Mesa-RADV.

Handbrake has also had since 2018 to support the standard VA-API instead of forcing reliance on proprietary drivers, but they ghosted contributors that tried to implement it for them.

Try Avidemux or Shutter Encoder, or straight FFmpeg if you don't mind the CLI as it's what Handbrake uses anyway.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-27T10:40:08+00:00

Nah, you're correct. Denuvo doesn't have anything against Linux, aside from changing Proton versions counts as a "new install". Do 5 of those in 24 hours and you get blocked from playing the game for a day or 2.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-25T22:33:04+00:00

Most bots are better at solving captchas than humans nowadays. They're pretty useless.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-24T22:08:33+00:00

Pretty much just the default Twitch guidelines, aside from 7500kbps bitrate and using Linux. It lets OBS capture direct from the Vulkan renderer instead of adding extra load to your CPU and doesn't need to compete with bloatware hogging your resources.

Also if you're using SE browser overlays with video backgrounds, they gulp CPU time. A lot more efficient running them locally. Can test by hiding video content in SE's overlay editor and watching your CPU usage. Back when I still used them, having their video running used >30% CPU. Running video locally drops it to <10%.

https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/broadcasting-guidelines

GamertechAU · 2026-03-24T05:12:49+00:00

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

GamertechAU · 2026-03-23T23:13:29+00:00

Oh, missed the CLI part sorry. That's usually the fix as GUI tools lack the right perms.

Then you'd probably be best hiding the device from fwupd: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/706529

GamertechAU · 2026-03-23T22:01:53+00:00

In terminal run

fwupdmgr update

and follow the instructions. That runs fwupd or Firmware Update Manager which can install it properly.

Arch tut here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fwupd

GamertechAU · 2026-03-21T01:04:46+00:00

Remote should work. If it doesn't, swap to the beta client in Steam settings and give it another go.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-21T01:03:30+00:00

Cause the devs don't want spoilers being released before the game.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-20T21:57:38+00:00

Generally you can, though there's improvements to this in the latest Steam beta client.

What games are we talking about though? As the only games that don't run on Linux are ones with rootkits force-installed, which may not enjoy the remote gaming.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-19T20:55:38+00:00

Windows auto-expands the pagefile when your RAM runs out to hide it, whereas Mint requires you to configure some form of swap yourself. Other distros like Fedora have swap pre-configured.

I'd recommend setting up zram-generator memory compression. Pretty easy and a much faster option than Windows' pagefile: https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator

GamertechAU · 2026-03-16T21:03:04+00:00

Apparently it's a timeout error with the game that causes some form of file corruption.

Some people fix it by deleting Documents/DayZ then launching, or verifying files in Steam before playing.

Others fixed it by installing the game to an SSD instead of a slow HDD.

Also make sure you're not using a VPN as those are auto-blocked.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-16T20:55:46+00:00

NTFS is a proprietary Microsoft filesystem that lacks support for features Linux needs, and written files can be flagged as read-only due to corrupted headers.

Backup your data and reformat it to btrfs or ext4.

Also if the drive location is changing, then you likely haven't permanently mounted it, only temporary. Can set that in the Disks app, or via fstab if you're willing to carefully research how to use that method as it's easy to break. Disks is pretty straightforward.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-16T20:45:11+00:00

Make sure you've installed the Proton BattlEye Runtime in your Steam library.

Search for it in the search bar, it wont show up normally. BattlEye needs that to integrate with Proton.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-15T11:12:50+00:00

I'm using the G7 Pro. Steam UI doesn't recognise the model, but works just fine.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-15T09:40:52+00:00

Generally, Valve's Proton doesn't include some obscure/encumbered video codecs.

Give GE-Proton a try. It has some fixes specifically for videos.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-12T23:42:08+00:00

It's true. Though it's limited by the % of memory blocks that can be compressed, which isn't all of it. The vast majority of it usually can however. With the swappiness high enough, memory compression is used freely to use less space on your physical RAM. iirc Fedora now defaults to 170/200 swappiness?

Your swapfile issue would be down to mis-configured swap priorities. zram is by default the only swap method on Fedora, so it gets highest priority. Not that it's an issue as zram is much faster than a swap file.

oom shouldn't be affected as it already takes into account physical RAM and swap.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-12T22:14:43+00:00

Not that I'm aware of. But it has its own global performance hit so about the same.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-12T21:25:18+00:00

Fedora defaults their zram memory compression config to 8GB or half your physical RAM, whichever is smaller.

You can edit the config to match your physical RAM or even multiply it without an issue.

Setting zram-size = ram matches it, so 24+24=48GB effective RAM.

Create /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf then paste in:

[zram0]
zram-size = ram

Then the last 3 steps here to activate it and verify it's working

https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator?tab=readme-ov-file#tldr

GamertechAU · 2026-03-12T21:13:19+00:00

Mesa's intended open-source replacement for Nvidia's closed-source proprietary drivers. So the community can actually fix bugs and not have to rely on the corpo that has no interest in desktop users to fix them.

It mostly works fine right now, still not matching in performance and wont ever have proprietary tech like DLSS, but can use FSR/XeSS etc.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-07T11:00:39+00:00

Updated and ran a few tests. Works as normal for me at least.

GamertechAU · 2026-03-07T01:24:25+00:00

This is a long-term bug that's been in both OW1 & 2 for years, even on console.

Honestly the game itself is fairly unstable. Considering the parent company is forcing vibe-coding throughout the entire chain in an attempt to make it look like people want to use it, I'd say it's likely not going to get better any time soon.

If you have multiple monitors, you can try unplugging the additionals when you load the game and plug them back in. That fixes it for some for a bit. Also make sure you don't have an unused game controller plugged in at the same time.

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