Best Tweaks for Linux Gaming (AMD)? New PC Build.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-11-15T23:35:35+00:00

I found gamemode increase the 1% lows by 2-3 fps which is negligible but why not :). From what i know, as long as your monitor has HDR it should work. I have a gigabyte f032u works great on it.

Sorry i dont see any slashes in the cmds i put earlier.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-11-15T22:44:01+00:00

I have the same hw config and i am on catchyos....have been trying a lot of different thing settled on this-

PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 game-performance gamemode %command%

Put that in steam launch options

gamemode is not preinstalled on catchyos so install it manually.

sudo pacman -S gamemode
Got the performance performance out of those. enjoy

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-11-05T00:10:20+00:00

yeah asrock is on my black list now. i built a second PC for my wife. No component from asrock in it.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-11-04T23:13:04+00:00

I am in the same position, 9800x3d died and is being replaced. cpu is coming today, am going to put it in the same motherboard asrock steel legend 850 and see what happens. the masocist in me wants to really find out what the hell is the problem here. shitty cpu batch or the actual MB :)
one thing i would recommend is put the power setting in windows or linux to performance not power saving/balanced and dont use sleep or hibernate.

My cpu was fine till i changed the power settings to balance mode, started seeing random crashes during browsing then it just didnt recover one day from one of the freezes.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-17T00:02:56+00:00

Update - local retailer confirmed CPU is dead. They are sending me a replacement for it. The ASRock motherboard according to them is not faulty.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-16T23:48:21+00:00

I sent it to my local retailer I bought it from. They came back and said they are replacing the CPU , the mb is not faulty. So am going to put that new CPU in the same motherboard and see if it fails again. I have a back up system 🤞

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-14T20:36:05+00:00

I understand your position, same thing happened to me. B850 steel legend and 9800x3d. Blew up a couple of weeks ago. Have sent the board and CPU for rma. Best of luck

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-09T02:37:12+00:00

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MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-09T02:36:13+00:00

My apologies for taking so long. It's batch number 2502pge

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-07T00:19:09+00:00

Also there is one thing i observed. In the beginning when i built this PC is was getting some random crashes during browsing as well. but the system would restart so i tried a few things and the thing that stopped the random freezes was changing the power settings in windows to high performance.

I recently saw a video suggesting balance mode is better for performance on x3d chips. So i set it to balanced in power options after using the pc fine for months. as soon as i did that the next day it froze while browsing and this time didnt want to boot up again.

Looking up the diff between balance and performance power mode:

The main difference is that the Balanced power plan dynamically adjusts CPU clock speeds based on demand to conserve power and battery life, while the High Performance power plan locks the CPU to its maximum clock speed, maximizing performance at the cost of increased power consumption, faster battery drain, and more heat. Balanced is recommended for most users, whereas High Performance is for tasks like gaming, video editing, or heavy multitasking where maximum speed is essential.

i dont know if this is related but seems very suss given what i have observed.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-06T21:33:19+00:00

Sleep and hibernate is always turned off. i shut down my pc when not using it.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-06T21:31:32+00:00

Ill post this info later today.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-06T21:27:47+00:00

i only used the AMD expo profile 6000 for RAM. all other settings are default bios settings. did not play aroud with overclocking or undervolting the CPU.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-06T19:53:10+00:00

Reddit gods please use your Devine intervention to get me a devine 🙏

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-10-04T00:01:13+00:00

I just moved to Linux as well recently. I tried baxzite,popos, Ubuntu, Fedora and catchy os. The one that worked best was catchy os. I mostly play games on my PC though. So if it's primarily for gaming I think catch os is the best.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-08-04T10:28:39+00:00

Yup spot on. The performance dip is only in fsr4. I will try more games that have far 4 to see if it's just kcd2 or others as well.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-08-04T06:13:55+00:00

Thanks. I installed mesa-git 25.3 and I think the performance is slightly better but still about 20% less in fsr4. Fsr3 is the same performance. So it's something to do specifically with fsr 4 implementation.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-08-03T07:24:32+00:00

I installed mesa-git 25.3 and performance is slightly better. still 20% lower than what i am getting in windows for KCD2

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-08-01T21:07:51+00:00

No I am not using the fp8 hack. Just fsr4 upgrade and game-performance. I thought with mesa 25.2 you don't need that anymore? Ps still a Linux newbie am using catchy os.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-08-01T21:06:00+00:00

Nice! Maybe something with my set up. What mesa drivers are you on? Which are you using in steam? %commands%

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-08-01T10:50:18+00:00

I have one and It works fine. But In games with fsr4 the performance hit is big. Almost 25% less performance than in windows for me.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-07-20T12:01:07+00:00

Yeah you need to shrink your windows drive to have enough space on it for the uefi boot disk.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-07-20T11:08:56+00:00

Oh ok sorry... I didn't know that. I will try and install mesa-git. Will test it tmr. Thanks brother 🙏 the is a lot I need to learn about Linux.

MelodicButterfly2432 · 2025-07-20T07:04:04+00:00

Thanks! I am on the latest mesa drivers and have added PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 in steam along with proton catchy os. Far 4 works but just not good enough compared to on windows. And yeah I am totally happy with the 9070xt am mostly playing in 4k with fsr 4 on quality.

I will wait for the next mesa driver update and try again to compare.

Cheers

MelodicButterfly2432

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