linux VS LatencyFleX

Interesting! I've used Linux Mint for the last 5+ years (and am using the Xanmod kernel, which is on 6.6), but have always been Pop OS curious. This increases my curiosity, I may have to give it a go on my laptop.

https://xanmod.org/

For those on Linux mint you can install the xanmod kernel for improved performance, specifically tailored for gaming on Debian based distros.

Generally, Arch is the better platform for getting various kernel versions, but there's always stuff like Xanmod which is easy to do in any distro. Worst case, could always use linux-tkg script to build your own kernel - with that kind of hardware it shouldn't take long for the kernel to be built.

Still a bit of a noob. I haven't heard of that one. Do you mean this: https://xanmod.org/? Is there any stability or compatibility issues that come with it?

The ArchWiki has some tips that can help tuning your system to squeeze more performance: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/gaming

This launcher does help too: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode

On top of that, you can use a patched kernel like: https://xanmod.org/

You can check support status for games here: https://www.protondb.com/

If you run games via Proton with DXVK, you can use the environment variable DXVK_HUD=1 to show a HUD with an FPS meter. Some others prefer mangohud.

Setting your CPU frequency scaling governor and GPU to performance mode also helps.

Xanmod Kernel

There are different drivers available but the best way is to install linux kernel 6.3 which has built in support for rtl wifi. I also have similar adapter and had the problem. I recommend xanmod kernel because it is newer and has the needed driver and it is focussed on desktop performance.

For Debian : https://xanmod.org

Alternatively, try the xanmod kernel https://xanmod.org/

Installing LatencyFleX on multiple different games and Proton versions was cumbersome to me. I created an install script to do that for you. Tested on Arch Linux, should work on any distribution, provided LatencyFleX is installed on the system beforehand.

Find liblatencyflex_layer.so, latencyflex_layer.dll, latencyflex_wine.dll from extracted https://github.com/ishitatsuyuki/LatencyFleX files

No and it has a vendor agnostic alternative that works better: \ https://github.com/ishitatsuyuki/LatencyFleX

Strangely, a reflex alternative is available on Linux for AMD cards (third party, open) https://github.com/ishitatsuyuki/LatencyFleX Nvidia and AMD could both implement that as a standard, but NVidia is not keen on standards, and AMD is oblivious.

If you're on linux there's LatencyFleX: https://github.com/ishitatsuyuki/LatencyFleX

https://github.com/ishitatsuyuki/LatencyFleX here you go

And this depends on what actually reflex is and doing - Nvidia love to take a standard api and giving it a brand name and strut around like they invented something new. For example, https://github.com/ishitatsuyuki/LatencyFleX seems to suggest they get similar advantages "just" using the submission timing interfaces already available in the standard graphics APIs, I wouldn't be surprised if reflex is "just" an implementation of that, possibly with an API designed to be a bit easier to integrate in game engines than the gamedev doing it themselves.

As long as you have the most recent driver version and are on Proton Experimental, you shouldn't really have to do anything. You are on a VERY old Proton-GE build, which does not include DXVK 2.0, so that's probably why you're having issues. Maybe look into LatencyFlex, but again, with these bans going around, use at your own risk.

Use LatencyFlex instead. However it might be a bit tricky to get it working. I've not yet had success using it in Overwatch 2.