Arch Linux Gaming Setup

Important

Run These When Booting Into Desktop Environment (i.e. KDE)

(I Don't Include Feral Gamemode Because Of Performance Related Issues. i.e. Stutters & FPS Loss In Some Games)

Enabling use of AUR:

Install These (Enables CachyOS Kernel and Mesa Layers):

CachyOS Kernel Setup Guide:

Go to /boot/loader/entries/ and find the default linux.conf, not the fallback one.
Copy that file and paste it on your desktop
Now edit the name to arch-cachyos.conf
Edit it to look like this (KEEP EVERYTHING THE SAME AFTER "initrd" SECTION!):

title   Arch Linux (CachyOS)
linux   /vmlinuz-linux-cachyos
initrd  /initramfs-linux-cachyos.img

Set CachyOS Kernel As Default:

Go to /boot/loader/ and open loader.conf then edit timeout 3 to this (waits 5 seconds before booting kernel):

timeout 5

default arch-cachyos.conf

For when you have multiple game drives or other drives

Run this in your ternminal: lsblk -f
open fstab file located in etc folder
Look at UUID of your drive in "UUID" section, where your drives are mounted "MOUNTPOINTS" section, Format type in "FSTYPE"
As for # add it and you can name it to whatever you want to indentify the drive
See example bellow to see what it will look like

Example:

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

(Optional Section)

[Enables Color and Pacman Video Game Loading/Downloading Bar In Terminal]

Gaming Packages

Official Arch Repo (Pacman)

sudo pacman -S zlib-ng zlib-ng-compat amd-ucode steam wine-staging winetricks wine-mono wine-gecko wine-nine goverlay gamescope mangohud lib32-mangohud inputplumber tk libdecor lib32-libdecor scx-scheds python-pip python-pipx
sudo pacman -S jre-openjdk gstreamer lib32-gstreamer gst-plugin-va gst-plugins-base lib32-gst-plugins-base ffmpeg
sudo pacman -S gst-plugins-good lib32-gst-plugins-good gst-plugin-pipewire fontconfig lib32-fontconfig mpg123 lib32-mpg123 ttf-liberation vulkan-tools libva lib32-libva
sudo pacman -S libxslt lib32-libxslt lib32-gtk3 ocl-icd lib32-ocl-icd openal lib32-openal libjpeg-turbo lib32-libjpeg-turbo alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins giflib lib32-giflib glfw lib32-pipewire
sudo pacman -S gst-plugins-base-libs lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs python-setuptools python-virtualenv lib32-mesa dosfstools dolphin-plugins unrar 7zip gst-plugins-bad adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-hk-fonts
sudo pacman -S adobe-source-han-sans-kr-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-otc-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-tw-fonts adobe-source-sans-fonts ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-common ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono ffmpegthumbs kdegraphics-thumbnailers

Install and Enable Bluetooth:

AUR (Yay)

yay -S heroic-games-launcher-bin protonplus xpadneo-dkms vkbasalt lib32-vkbasalt faudio python-glfw ttf-ms-fonts

Fixes Section

Dualsense Controller Acting as a mouse (In KDE, but might work with other Desktop Enivronments):

Go to “Input & Output” in settings then clicked the tab “Mouse & Touchpad”. Select “Touchpad” and uncheck the box beside “Device enabled” at the top.

Optional Section (Mostly Packages I Use)

sudo pacman -S android-tools mpv vlc phonon-qt5-vlc phonon-qt6-vlc corectrl mission-center fastfetch kio-admin prismlauncher gwenview partitionmanager qbittorrent

Enabling Arch Update addon:

sudo pacman -S --needed pacman-contrib archlinux-contrib curl fakeroot htmlq diffutils hicolor-icon-theme python python-pyqt6 qt6-svg glib2
yay -S arch-update
arch-update --tray --enable