found a pretty reliable way to make it perform shitty - alt-tab out of the game, do something memory-hoggy, like firefox with plenty of tabs and alt-tab back. it’s often (but not always) super shitty then.
I’m on F40 Plasma, didn’t have that degradation on F39 Gnome when alt-tabbing; but then I had Gnome session crashes frequently, which never happen with Plasma 6.
it’s completely random and incongruent with anything that is or isn’t happening. same game (Starcraft 2 and Far Cry 5 are currently in rotation) runs fine and then it just doesn’t. yesterday launched SC2, played it for a while, everything is butter smooth. left it open to go make dinner. started a new game after like 15 mins - choppy, drops to 15 fps, horrible. played a couple rounds this morning - everything back to normal. and so on.
no huge temp spikes, no huge CPU loads, nothing I can pin down as correlated. both games are well within the capabilities of both CPU and GPU. I have C-states and Cool & Quiet disabled, so it’s nothing power-throttling related.
I don’t like rebooting, got way too much stuff open all the time, I do that maybe once a month; the rest is just suspend in the evening and wake in the morning.
no experience with this game but performance drops happen frequently and randomly for me, Fedora, Lutris, AMD GPU. like, I play a game that I have 100+ hours played on the same hardware and software and everything is dandy - 60 FPS, butter smooth mouse and game play. next day, same game, same settings, no updates in the meantime, absolutely nothing changed - 25 FPS, mouse stutters, horror. next day everything is fine, and so on.
tried it, that’s the opposite of what I need. that app guesses what’s going on with the battery, based on prolonged usage patterns. I need something that talks to the battery controller and gives me numbers I can use.
right, forgot about deduping, that is a huge factor!
thanks! just ran Rise of the Tomb Raider benchmark, desktop is 2160p, game is set to 1080p, DX11, runner is lutris-GE-Proton8-7-x86_64.
FSR on:
FSR off:
so it’s doing something but I guess I don’t know what to look for. thanks again!
thanks for the quick reply! curse my quick fingers, didn’t type it out correctly… I turn on FSR in the game’s settings in Lutris, it’s a switch. then I launch the game, it defaults to 3840x2160. I go “nuh-huh” and switch it in-game to 1920x1080. it switches over and mango says I’m still in 4K, so that should do it?
still, I don’t perceive any difference, does the game have to support FSR in order to work? Elden Ring is way newer than my old games, most are from 8 years ago…?
I have an RX 570 and run a couple of older games through lutris (FC3/4/5, tombraiders). I select FSR in the game’s settings and set the game’s resolution to 1080p (desktop is in 4K/wayland). is that all there is to it?
because I’ve launched it with and without FSR and I can’t tell any difference, looks similar, framerate is similar… how do I know if it works?
I do without.
no way am I bothering with installing windows, in a VM or elsewhere.