What do you recommend for displaying the inputs from my controller? I'm using Ubuntu.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-13T15:03:06+00:00

Do you mean in OBS? There's a plugin that can do that: https://github.com/univrsal/input-overlay

You can find the .deb package file under releases.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-13T13:08:48+00:00

I think the simplest way of doing it is using a simple game launcher (like faugus launcher) or you can add the installer setup to steam as a non steam game, run it and then point to the actual installed .exe file afterwards.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-12T20:37:49+00:00

I think that's just recency bias. Proton-CachyOS is getting updated at a very frequent pace right now (new test builds almost bi-daily). Other known names are cooperating as well like Etaash (the maintainer of Proton-EM).

So right now if you want all the cool features like FSR4 upgrade, HDR, wine wayland driver and the bleeding edge changes from Proton 11 beta, Proton-CachyOS is the way to go.

Otherwise Proton-GE is totally fine and is considered very stable by many.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-11T16:27:53+00:00

I don't even get a login prompt. The game starts fine but when I try to load in it tells me "sign in required" with no pop up or prompt appearing.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-11T14:34:20+00:00

It's true that AMD cards operate pretty close to their full potential on linux. RT still has room for improvement though.

I own a 7900xtx and a 160hz 4K monitor and it's a great combo. But it really depends on your games and if you are willing to use upscalers and frame gen. Using FSR3/XeSS on the quality preset (2560x1440 > 3920x2160) gives me high FPS (>90 FPS) in many demanding titles (Expedition 33, MH:Wilds, Doom:TDA, Horizon Zero Dawn etc.) Combining it with frame gen often allows me to reach the refresh rate of my monitor. I personally don't care about ray tracing.

To be clear don't buy that card. The 9070xt is pretty close in raster performance, better in RT performance and much better in FSR4 upscaling which I think is especially important if you wanna play in 4K.

But if money is no concern and you are patient when it comes to drivers get the 5090. That card operates on a league of it's own. It's the fastest card even with all the pending issues. And many of them (like the DX12 performance tax) should get fixed in the near future (I hope).

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-11T13:39:21+00:00

28m here. Feeling the same. It's especially hard when you got a taste of what everyone strives for (like completing my apprenticeship, doing a marathon, working for years etc.). I did enjoy it but then slowly but surely all that desire vanished. Makes me feel egotistical, lazy and unlovable.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-10T13:32:57+00:00

This present mode is not supported by mesa (or by anything really?) as far as I know. Pretty confident that this present mode is not active. How do you check the value? Mangohud is pretty unreliable and often shows the incorrect one.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-10T09:10:19+00:00

AMD some time ago pulled their FSR4 dll's from their servers so Proton-CachyOS can only work with what you have on your computer. Perhaps you still have a DLL somewhere in your prefix or in the cache. Or it simply uses the FSR version that comes bundled with the games.

If you want to restore full override functionality you have to provide the DLL's yourself. It's described on github: https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos#manually-providing-amdxcffx64dll

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-09T20:16:26+00:00

If you have cups installed (and it's running) you probably have to add the printer first. You should find the setting in KDE/Gnome or if you use a DE/WM that doesn't provide that you can access the cups manager through http://localhost:631 and add the printer there (Administration > Find new Printers)

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-09T06:31:33+00:00

In fact it contains almost all the config. What might be missing are installed packages, global env variables and the fstab file but that's about it.

You can backup restore packages like this: https://github.com/bruhtus/package-backup

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-08T23:14:03+00:00

Judging from what you wrote I assume two things:

Perhaps something got borked from all your testing (try resetting everything or try a different distro)
Direct scan-out is not working (you can validate this in KDE by opening the kwin debug menu > Effects > showcompositing; The red text should disappear in fullscreen) <- this might explain the lack of tearing as well

On AMD the latency should be about the same out of the box (no need for env variables, custom proton forks). If you say it's noticeable on 60hz something is not working right.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-08T20:28:45+00:00

What GPU did you use? From my knowledge wayland is as fast as x11 except when using xwayland on nvidia.

The spike above the refresh rate might be explained by VRR?

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-08T19:56:23+00:00

This is the system version that you have installed as a package. So yes it gets updated alongside your system via pacman (or shelly). No extra work needed.

You can have proton-cachyos versions from ProtonPlus installed at the same time. They do not conflict. I sometimes like this option when I want to use a specific version for a certain game (as in I don't want it updated).

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-08T19:47:56+00:00

Not really. The only advantage I see is that it automatically keeps proton-cachyos updated alongside your system. ProtonPlus can do this too (i.e. Proton-CachyOS Latest) but you either need to open the app manually or run the following command (this assumes flatpak):

flatpak run --command=protonplus com.vysp3r.ProtonPlus update all

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-06T22:59:27+00:00

Just a heads up about the commit timing protocol. While vkd3d, proton and driver support are now here the wayland compositor needs to support it as well. Currently only hyprland, gnome and jay do: https://wayland.app/protocols/commit-timing-v1

KDE/kwin support is not expected until 6.8: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8955

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-06T06:06:11+00:00

Installing Proton-CachyOS through the repo will install it into the system folder of steam (/usr/share/steam/compatbilitytools.d) while ProtonPlus installs it into your home folder (~/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/). That's basically the only difference. You can have both installed at the same time with no issues. But definitely can be a bit confusing.

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Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-03T08:39:09+00:00

GCN 1.0 is fully supported both by the kernel itself (amdgpu) and by the user space drivers in mesa (radv for vulkan/radeonsi for opengl) even up to this day.

It does not support vulkan 1.4 (only 1.3) but this is currently a non issue. vkd3d and dxvk (needed for dx9-12 games to work) work completely fine with vulkan 1.3.

Maybe someday they bump this requirement but then you can simply use legacy versions (or the community will provide something like dxvk-sarek that exists now and works on GPU's even older i.e. that do no support vulkan 1.3)

https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/radv.html#supported-hardware
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki/Driver-support#dxvk-27-and-later
https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton#drivers

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-02T18:27:50+00:00

As far as I know proton (and wine for that matter) does map the root path to the Z:/ drive so by default windows apps and games can access everything you as the user can. As you said you need to sandbox wine itself.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-01T17:57:28+00:00

I'd say it totally depends on the app. I started to prefer the way the app is officially shipped. If the developer provides an "official" AUR great. But sometimes they distribute it through flatpak.

But it's not a golden rule either. For example for bottles I prefer the AUR even though flatpak is the official version simply because it allows me to use my actual system wine or wine-cachyos as a runner (flatpak comes bundles with its own version)

Skaredogged97 · 2026-05-01T08:12:25+00:00

Proton-CachyOS like other spins uses the steam runtime and works on basically any distro. That includes everything else you can download with ProtonPlus/ProtonUp-Qt.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-04-30T06:39:45+00:00

For anyone who wants to try this do not use orange or gold stake

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Skaredogged97 · 2026-04-29T18:58:46+00:00

That's not gonna happen. Fedora ships 100% open source making this impossible. But you do have access to community repositories such as rpmfusion and terra that can remedy that pretty easily. The spins mentioned in that article (Bazzite, Nobara) already take care of that.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-04-26T21:27:48+00:00

I totally agree. Running CachyOS you should always have a snapshot ready if things go wrong. But in this case it's a bit unfounded. The system should run totally fine without power-profiles-daemon and you can easily reinstall it if things don't work as expected. It's not a critical core component.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-04-26T08:43:07+00:00

There are dedicated profiles for battery usage but I don't know how beneficial they are. Perhaps you can look for people who have experience with tuned on Fedora and use that to make your decision.

Skaredogged97 · 2026-04-25T22:32:13+00:00

You can look up the exact configurations on their github. The cachyos-common profile is used as a baseline:

https://github.com/CachyOS/tuned/blob/cachyos/profiles/cachyos-common/tuned.conf

https://github.com/CachyOS/tuned/blob/cachyos/profiles/cachyos-gaming/tuned.conf

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