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

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

NVIDIA

yay -S nvidia-settings

Wine

Libraries

Recommended by Lutris

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-libgcrypt libgcrypt lib32-libxinerama ncurses lib32-ncurses ocl-icd lib32-ocl-icd 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

Other packages not listed by Lutris

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

yay -S protonup-qt

For custom Wine, I recommend Tk-Glitch which can be downloaded from here and installed with unzip wine-tkg-build.zip && yay -U wine-tkg-*.pkg.tar.zst

Programs

Install basic gaming tools

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

yay -Rdd nvidia
yay -S nvidia-dkms

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

Zen

yay -S linux-zen linux-zen-headers

Tk-Glitch

See linux-tkg

After installing

You need to re-generate your grub config

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

ulimit -Hn

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

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

append this in both files

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.