They are the minority, but have large player bases. Eliminating that barrier would mean that Linux devices (not just desktops) would be a one-shot win for most consumers.

Well…it has the opportunity to be. More native integration and/or wine fixes for certain issues, and anti-cheat being allowed would definitely put it on track to be there.

No reason to switch if everything works as expected.

Likely not. I’d start digging in logs. Maybe think about a full reinstall of the Nvidia drivers. Disable VRR and any compositing effects while testing…etc.

Do you have any system meetings from while the game is running? Maybe give MangoHUD a try.

What’s your swap situation?

As a diagnostic, have you tried running it on reduced settings and see if it still does the same thing?

I can’t imagine it’s the Steam client, but might be worth just installed the regularly distributed version and see if there’s anything different there.

Always check ProtonDB for tweaks first: https://www.protondb.com/app/1091500

You mention, but what version of the Nvidia drivers for you have installed?

Get the output of nvidia-smi

What version of Fedora is this?

Now Bazzite is a SteamOS alternative?

On a good day it’s a bootable emulation distro. 🤣

There is official kernel support for the controllers as of 5.12, but I don’t know about the audio. Maybe have a look at this: https://github.com/nowrep/dualsensectl

Is there a question in there somewhere?