If you installed it from flatpak theres probably some permissions you need to set. Otherwise I dunno.

Yea I have done that, but logging into the launcher (and it apparently keeps it logged in as well) unlocks in-game items - they are entirely non-essential, but… you know, hoarding.

I haven’t tested yet if that’s even the thing which is showing me in-game to my friends. I was kinda amazed to hear they saw me playing cyberpunk to the early morning hours :D

heroic overall seems to work better for installing games from gog, but the odd issue I have is that I seem to be always online on gog’s service when I’m playing games. Do you happen to know if there’s any way to set myself invisible? I don’t want everyone to know how often or late I play games :P

I guess technically signing out of the storefront would do that, but then I’d have to re-login to install/update games, eh

edit: oh derr, it dawned on me that it might be the Cyberpunk launcher which I had to login as well, which shows me online

make sure first that it isn’t issue with specific games, some may require some proton flags to be set for them to behave properly. Or just newer/older proton/wine.

in general worth a try to switch the compatibility thingy (technical term),

steam, in game’s properties:

but similar option is in lutris/heroic too.

Everything this.

Personally nonissue since I don’t play any of those online/pvp games

IMO, basically any distro with fairly modern (fairly often updated) packages should do. Apart from some build/packaging differences it’s all same software anyway. The gaming side of software gets updated fairly often, so that’s why you’d probably want frequently updated packages.

“Gaming” distros are basically just selection of gaming specific packages installed as default, instead of lets say productivity apps. You can run VM’s in gaming/studio/whatever distros

FWIW, I got 5800x3D, RTX3090 - so, “close enough” same system as you. At least same series cpu/gpu. Running Arch, and gaming has been pretty easy, haven’t yet found a game which didn’t work - that said, some occasional game has had odd stutters (Darktide, for one. But I haven’t tested in months).

Getting things to run did get a bit more involved than “just click it”. Some extra compatibility stuff (proton-ge-custom), launchers (lutris, heroic, because GoG Galaxy just refuses to work). Steam & steam-games tend to “just work”, although actual native-linux games seem to have issues while running the windows-version of the same game on proton just work - WEIRD.

But overall, stuff works, and in case of issues it now just seems to be either disabling ntsync and/or wayland for specific games and gaming away.

heh, I was just watching it, saw your post about it. Thanks for making this!

The differences seem pretty minimal, although occasionally the frametime graph looks a bit less bumpy on ntsync side, but that’s about it. Even if the avg, 1% and so framerates are tad lower.

AFAIK the hype went overdrive because some performance numbers showed like 200-700 % higher framerates (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-NTSYNC-Driver-Ready) - which were apparently comparisons to running games without e/f-sync vs ntsync.

maybe perhaps related to this: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots/

the affected addons list only mentions jiffyreader for chrome (or some addon masquerading as actual jiffy reader). Could be Mozilla found the addon doing something it shouldn’t?

edit: in jiffy reader’s github: https://github.com/ansh/jiffyreader.com/issues/342

Eeeeyyyyyyy, the wow64 option was the ticket. I was bypassing the redlauncher, but entirely possible either redext or cybertweak’s is 32bit dll and broke without the flag. Though performance of the game not really affected, probably entirely because I run it with RT enabled.

Yet again bitten in the ass by skipping a paragraph x)

Thanks!

hmhm, seems like some games don’t even start with NTSYNC on. I had heard that Cyberpunk specifically gets pretty nice performance boost, but I can’t even get it to start. Oh well.

ooh, nice. finally some ntsync support starts showing up. I’m not expecting miracles, but in general it still should (?) be better than existing e/f-sync thingies in general?

edit: probably depending on the application/game, but still. Nice to see things moving forwards.

well, they probably didn’t back when 510 drivers were a thing (as the link you provided links to 510.xx driver documentation), but later on they were enabled.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#GSP_firmware

The use of the GSP firmware, enabled by default since version 555 of the NVIDIA driver released in June 2024, is known to cause a range of issues including Vulkan failures and system crashes.

and https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/575.64/README/gsp.html

The GSP firmware will be used by default for all Turing and later GPUs

Which nvidia driver you’re using? If you’re using the regular old nvidia blob, you might want to try disabling the gsp firmware. But note that this can’t be done with nvidia-open, only on nvidia.

Previously the gsp firmware was a bit problematic on some systems and wayland, disabling it solved some issues. But it has been fine since the 575 drivers, at least for me (rtx3090)

While I do agree, I dunno how meaningful or realistic data it would offer when some users switch between platforms.

winevdm as in this https://github.com/otya128/winevdm ? I have used that on Windows before, and if I’m not entirely mistaken, isn’t it a part of wine anyway? At least winevdm.exe exists in my wineprefix.

IIRC I have tried the game with proton(and/or -ge), it never worked on those.

I’m probably just going to accept dosbox for the game (it also fixes some minor graphics issues with it). I’m mostly concerned about old game installers - but then again, gog/steam don’t have those installers anyway, so it’s only an issue if the user is adamant on using original install media or so.

This update broke a game for me, namely “Castle of the Winds”, it’s a 16-bit windows 3.1 game. Not really a huge loss as I can just run it in win3.1 I have in dosbox - but it was pretty nice to have in modern resolution :D

Haven’t done much searching for remedies, but kinda looks like 16-bit support is gone https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306297

Gotta wonder what’s the workaround, as many older games have 16-bit installers, even if the game was for eg. winxp or so.

I guess I could always just have an older wine on the side, but… I dunno. I’d like to keep it simple. :/

We heard you like AI

…did you? Did you really?

Haven’t been following discord development, but I did test the screen sharing some days ago on linux - just for laughs - and to my surprise it didn’t CTD the app, and it actually streamed the thingy I wanted. Great!