I had some weird issues with my 3080 Ti on Fedora 41 and 42 and have recently switched to a 9070 XT.

Most games ran fine, but other programs acted strange while games were open. Space Engineers, Escape from Tarkov, and a couple other titles wouldn’t allow me to use other programs. The cursor would stay the same as in-game, even when alt-tabbed, and the Discord UI would become unresponsive.

I had several strange issues with my monitor flickering that didn’t resolve until I uninstalled and reinstalled my drivers.

I had a horrible issue with Minecraft and other OpenGL games that caused a strobing white screen while playing. I forgot how I resolved that one.

I had to reinstall drivers several times. I don’t know how much of it was self-inflicted or just how it goes on Linux.

None of these issues have come up while on my 9070 XT.

If you’re not opposed to doing it yourself, you can sign up for a free trial to Tidal and rip it.

https://github.com/exislow/tidal-dl-ng

I’ve never heard of xpipe until now - I just set it up and this is amazing

Well, considering I could no longer boot into my system, I’d say it was not fine.

I had started with a full disk clone which is why I was careless with the restoration

To actually answer, I fucked up by running sudo rclone first to copy everything and it messed with permissions, so I nuked it and copied with dolphin.

I was just being lazy.

thinking process

what is that?

Well god damn, that fixed it. What an odd issue.

Thanks a ton.

I have only the discrete GPU - no integrated GPU or anything. Wouldn’t any process with a GUI need to utilize the GPU?

I’ll give the discord a try

Is that not normal?

But that’s the thing - it’s been a persistent issue over the past 4 drivers. Just a permanent stutter no matter what I’m doing.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.124.04             Driver Version: 570.124.04     CUDA Version: 12.8     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti     Off |   00000000:07:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   59C    P0            116W /  350W |    1160MiB /  12288MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A            2966      G   /usr/bin/kwalletd6                        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3065      G   /usr/bin/kwin_wayland                    55MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3180      G   /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard                102MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3198      G   /usr/bin/Xwayland                         4MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3303      G   /usr/bin/ksmserver                        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3309      G   /usr/bin/kded6                            3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3353      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell                    198MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3438      G   /usr/bin/kaccess                          3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3439      G   ...it-kde-authentication-agent-1          3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3441      G   ...ibexec/xdg-desktop-portal-kde          3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3637      G   /usr/bin/kdeconnectd                      3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4108      G   /usr/bin/xwaylandvideobridge              3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4158      G   /usr/libexec/DiscoverNotifier             3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4292      G   keepassxc                                 3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4515    C+G   /usr/bin/sunshine                       253MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5924      G   /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox              172MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           56842      G   /usr/bin/konsole                          3MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Does it happen with all games or GL engagement, or just the heavier ones?

It’s just constant - the video I provided shows the UFO test. The stuttering is on the desktop.

What’s your memory util?

I don’t know what that is

Does your machine use swap when gaming?

No, 32 GB RAM. I rarely go above 40%.

Are you overclocking your memory or CPU freq?

No, using XMP settings

https://www.protondb.com/

I haven’t had any issues with any of my games.

For anything not on steam, there’s bottles or lutris, both of which work amazingly well.

Sorry - I wasn’t clear. I can’t seem to join any servers. Some comments mention changing the default server to “hex41.de” so I changed that but I can’t connect.

Maybe it’s since been taken down or something.

I tried looking into this and I’m having trouble setting it up, although I’m on linux so that might be my doing.

I followed the guide on Darkmatters

I loved Sacred 2! I remember save scumming to preserve my 0 deaths streak. I’d hit the power button on the Xbox before it could save, risking corrupting my character every time.

I did something similar recently and found it was an easy drop-in situation… so you’ll likely be okay.

I upgraded my CPU on my debian server. Went from i5-4690K and RX 480 to just an i5-12600K.

I could see a potential issue if the WiFi card is different and you’re not hard wired.

I tried like three times to daily drive linux before it finally stuck.