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Gaming ​

Video driver ​

If you followed Installation/Useful packages/Graphics Driver your graphics driver & Vulkan should be already set-up correctly

Graphics card configuration tool ​

AMD ​

bash
paru -S radeon-profile-git radeon-profile-daemon-git
bash
yay -S radeon-profile-git radeon-profile-daemon-git
bash
systemctl enable --now radeon-profile-daemon

NVIDIA ​

bash
paru -S nvidia-settings
bash
yay -S nvidia-settings

Wine ​

Libraries ​

Recommended by Lutris

bash
paru -S --needed wine-staging giflib lib32-giflib libpng lib32-libpng libldap lib32-libldap gnutls lib32-gnutls mpg123 lib32-mpg123 openal lib32-openal v4l-utils lib32-v4l-utils libpulse lib32-libpulse libgpg-error lib32-libgpg-error alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib libjpeg-turbo lib32-libjpeg-turbo sqlite lib32-sqlite libxcomposite lib32-libxcomposite libxinerama lib32-libxinerama libgcrypt lib32-libgcrypt libxslt lib32-libxslt libva lib32-libva gtk3 lib32-gtk3 gst-plugins-base-libs lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
bash
yay -S --needed wine-staging giflib lib32-giflib libpng lib32-libpng libldap lib32-libldap gnutls lib32-gnutls mpg123 lib32-mpg123 openal lib32-openal v4l-utils lib32-v4l-utils libpulse lib32-libpulse libgpg-error lib32-libgpg-error alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib libjpeg-turbo lib32-libjpeg-turbo sqlite lib32-sqlite libxcomposite lib32-libxcomposite libxinerama lib32-libxinerama libgcrypt lib32-libgcrypt libxslt lib32-libxslt libva lib32-libva gtk3 lib32-gtk3 gst-plugins-base-libs lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
bash
paru -S vkd3d lib32-vkd3d faudio lib32-faudio
bash
yay -S vkd3d lib32-vkd3d faudio lib32-faudio

Custom Wine/Proton ​

For custom Proton, I recommend GloriousEgroll's builds. For Steam and Lutris. These can be installed using ProtonUp-Qt

bash
paru -S protonup-qt
bash
yay -S protonup-qt

For custom Wine, I recommend Tk-Glitch which can be downloaded from here and installed with:

bash
unzip wine-tkg-build.zip && paru -U wine-tkg-*.pkg.tar.zst
bash
unzip wine-tkg-build.zip && yay -U wine-tkg-*.pkg.tar.zst

Programs ​

Install basic gaming tools

bash
paru -S lutris steam gamemode lib32-gamemode
bash
yay -S lutris steam gamemode lib32-gamemode

Custom kernel ​

WARNING

If you are using NVIDIA and want to use a custom kernel you need to use nvidia-dkms since nvidia is just for the mainline linux kernel and nvidia-lts for linux-lts

bash
paru -Rdd nvidia
paru -S nvidia-dkms
bash
yay -Rdd nvidia
yay -S nvidia-dkms

Alternatively you can use nvidia-all to get the latest NVIDIA driver for all kernels ::::

Zen ​

bash
paru -S linux-zen linux-zen-headers
bash
yay -S linux-zen linux-zen-headers

Tk-Glitch ​

See linux-tkg

After installing ​

You need to re-generate your grub config

bash
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Tweak Esync ​

If this command prints out a value which is equal or greater to 524288 you're all set

bash
ulimit -Hn

However, if it doesn't, or you want to further improve it:

bash
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system.conf
sudo nano /etc/systemd/user.conf

append this in both files

ini
DefaultLimitNOFILE=1024:1048576

Source: https://github.com/zfigura/wine/blob/master/README.esync

Other tweaks ​

The Arch wiki has a page dedicated to Gaming with a few other tweaks you might want to look into.

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