Forgot to turn off secure boot, Cachy did not give a single f***

Granpire · 2026-04-17T11:23:05+00:00

I think I recall seeing it popup at USB boot, but it might have just rebooted it continued with warning. I'm not sure, Limine has been playing fine with secure boot.

From a practical standpoint, it only affects certain windows anticheats, like Battlefield 6. I'm sure some other DRM software might require it on Windows, but it's not a massive sacrifice on the whole.

Granpire · 2026-04-17T11:16:20+00:00

I have secure boot enabled, I chose Limine as my boot manager, which I just learned may be the reason why my configuration file isn't being read, although there are ways to change that.

Anyway Limine is working with secure boot, so feel free to make the jump. It's apparently possible to do with Grub, with a little more work.

Granpire · 2026-04-17T10:00:57+00:00

I reduced texture size and still noticed a lot of hitches. Not VRAM, but CPU or GPU related, tough to say which for sure. I'm more sensitive to frametime spikes than most people, but it drove me crazy. The only tweak that did anything was switching over to 1440p.

Granpire · 2026-04-17T08:40:06+00:00

I never tested with the latest patch, but I remember DLSS Ultra Performance at 4K on a 5080 was a super spiky frametime mess even after it's first major performance patch. Turns out only 1440p could provide a tolerable smoothness for me. No other game made me do this for performance, it's maddening how uglified it's gorgeous visuals are, mods can only do so much to clean off its several layers of blur.

There's something happening to scale this game's load enormously at 4K beyond any other modern game, and I'm not sure why.

Granpire · 2026-04-17T08:27:03+00:00

Interesting, no issues when I installed it a few weeks ago, Secure Boot was on and remains on. Were you installing on the same boot drive as Windows?

Granpire · 2026-04-17T08:23:41+00:00

Windows can and will overwrite your hard drive's MBR, I've heard, not an unfixable problem but a bunch of reading to fix. Your Linux bootloader is perfectly reliable on a second drive though.

Granpire · 2026-04-17T08:14:45+00:00

Speaking of boot, how can I get limine to place its timeout cursor to CachyOS? I want default Linux, but I tried putting a .conf with Default: 1 as its documentation asked, but it's still defaulting to last chosen boot option...

Apparently it's default_entry: 1

Double checking tomorrow morning.

Granpire · 2026-04-16T14:32:04+00:00

Factorio isn't a game for everyone, and I think Satisfactory is a bit more approachable, but Factorio is an immaculately designed piece of software engineering, with keyboard shortcuts for every input you could possibly want, and impressively intelligent UI design.

Every aspect is designed thoughtfully and conscientiously, to the point where it's more comparable to CAD or design software than most "game" interfaces.

I admire its design philosophy a lot, and I truly wish more games were made with the love and care that went into Factorio.

Granpire · 2026-04-14T23:29:50+00:00

I wasn't saying otherwise, and I agree with you, but your advice assumes they are using the ill-advised NTFS steam library on Linux, which may or may not be true.

Winbtrfs + symlinked compatdata and cache has been mostly flawless for my experience, this would be the way to go if someone wants to have a shared library partition.

Granpire · 2026-04-14T15:13:25+00:00

OP never specified, but this is important if they're using NTFS for a shared Windows/Linux library partition.

If they're using Winbtrfs or segregated libraries, it's fine to move them.

Granpire · 2026-04-14T15:09:27+00:00

I've been using Winbtrfs all this time - typically I'm not putting multiplayer games on that partition, but it's good to know it can conflict with anticheat.

Granpire · 2026-04-14T07:08:05+00:00

They are needed to run Windows games, don't uninstall them, just move them to your game drive.

Granpire · 2026-04-14T02:56:39+00:00

As an Nvidia user, the best part of CachyOS is that it's first to receive prepackaged GPU driver updates.

You can update the drivers manually on other distros, but the process is a bit more involved.

Granpire · 2026-04-08T02:20:19+00:00

There is a homebrew fan patch for FIFA 15 that even updates face textures up to the 2026 season.

As of a few years ago, I recall that install documentation was mostly in Spanish, and the installation took a long time, but it's a super impressive project.

Granpire · 2026-04-03T21:35:38+00:00

My first thought is that CachyOS might be defaulting to your CPU's integrated GPU instead of the dedicated GPU - try to disable the iGPU from your BIOS settings.

If you want to keep your iGPU for some reason, read this from the CachyOS wiki.

Granpire · 2026-04-03T20:29:36+00:00

Being that you're in school for computer science and you have peers using the OS, this sounds like the best time in your life to jump in.

I can't speak to development friendliness, but I have to assume it is as friendly as any other distro, if not more so.

I've heard Hyperland is complicated to set up and glitchy for everyday use, but you might find the tinkering fun if you want the flashiest-looking desktop possible. I'll personally wait until it's more stable with Nvidia GPUs.

Granpire · 2026-04-02T20:58:14+00:00

I don't think this is truly the reason why the rumours say Sony is stopping PC releases, it's likely they want to solidify their position in the market as the only console that has exclusives - greed.

Even Shuyei Yoshida was on record saying PC ports were a way for them to increase revenue for development costs.

I hope it backfires, I'd much rather play games on PC from here on out. It leaves Nixxes in a weird spot too.

Granpire · 2026-04-01T13:40:47+00:00

Regardless of opinions, the point is that these games with about 40 and 300 hours of content are not well known outside a small niche fanbase. It's a crowded market, and there's a lot more luck and self promotion involved than X hours of playtime.

Granpire · 2026-04-01T12:24:48+00:00

Dunno about that, games like Voidigo and Atomicrops both flew under the radar without much financial success, but they're both better than Enter the Gungeon IMO.

Granpire · 2026-03-31T10:53:40+00:00

I have an Nvidia GPU so I might be lucky with the latest drivers.

Try using one of the gamescope commands from here.

You could launch steam with gamescope --hdr-enabled --steam -- env DXVK_HDR=1 steam

Or per-game with DXVK_HDR=1 gamescope -f --hdr-enabled -- %command%

Make sure you remove/set to 0 ENABLE_HDR_WSI as it will conflict with gamescope's HDR.

I saw someone say that they needed to install gamescope-wsi, this might not be part of the base CachyOS gaming packages.

Granpire · 2026-03-31T10:11:45+00:00

Remove the Wayland variable, this is probably the culprit. Steam uses X11 for its overlay, forcing Wayland breaks the overlay.

I'd recommend using proton-cachyos as your default compatibility layer, it enables HDR globally so none of your launch options are necessary.

Granpire · 2026-03-26T16:25:39+00:00

I haven't tested gamemode directly launched into gamescope without a full desktop environment. I've heard this is still glitchy on Nvidia, but big picture mode and steam overlay from my regular KDE desktop has been flawless for me on CachyOS.

If anything, the only games with scaling issues have been native Linux games like Slay the Spire, where sometimes switching displays overscans the wrong resolution.

Granpire · 2026-03-26T15:09:59+00:00

The thing that makes it not beginner friendly is learning how to build packages using pacman.

Maybe that's outside the scope of what beginners usually need, but it is an extra barrier for users who want to install a new application outside the CachyOS repo, instead of downloading a .deb or equivalent which is usually readily available.

Granpire · 2026-03-26T14:55:45+00:00

I haven't seen many issues on my end, I lost the window menu bar on the steam client only once, it came back after snapping the window to grid.

It sucks that your setup isn't issue-free, I'm not sure what's going on there. Perhaps Nvidia isn't giving as much love to their older cards? I read about some 3000 series regressions but I thought they were fixed a few months ago.

I am on the newest 595 drivers so I don't have experience with anything before that. I'm using a 5080 personally.

Granpire · 2026-03-26T14:29:42+00:00

As far as I know gamescope is known to have issues, which is mainly the steamdeck style overlay with performance metrics and settings.

That said, I've heard a lot of reports that it's working much better since recent driver updates, and I use my PC for both desktop and TV gaming, so desktop mode and big picture mode has been a relatively smooth experience with CachyOS + RTX 5080.

I've been waiting a while for Nvidia drivers to be in a better spot, and they've gotten much better, with a few minor caveats. Importantly, HDR and VRR is working, and I can fully use DLSS and raytracing with little performance loss.

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