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Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
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Low GPU usage + consistently poor performance with all Proton titles #5231

Closed avalonv closed 3 years ago

avalonv commented 3 years ago

Games on proton infrequently hit 60 fps, and there are frequent dips below 30fps, despite GPU utilization never going above 50%. Tested with Nier Automata, MGSV, and Ultrakill. With Ultrakill in particular, it usually runs well, but it randomly drops to 30fps when standing still, and moving again causes a lag spike which lasts a few seconds. I've recorded footage of this, and can post it if requested. This struck me as unusual as this doesn't happen on another system without a dedicated GPU. Native games run flawlessly, Dusk, CSGO, and Devil Daggers all rarely drop below 200 fps.

avalonv commented 3 years ago

Here's a proton log of Nier Automata: https://gist.github.com/avalonv/7b251a65a038dc6b1cedafaf7a3c42f5

popsUlfr commented 3 years ago

I see that fsync is not enabled but I'm not sure it would really make that much of a difference compared to esync. linux-zen has fsync enabled so you can check if that helps. Another thing which I'm not sure is still a problem but it seems to fit your description of dropping fps when moving, a mouse with a polling rate of 1000Hz displayed some high dips in performance in the past in certain games (I've mine at 500Hz). Set your cpu governor to performance.

avalonv commented 3 years ago

@popsUlfr I see, thanks for the reply, I'll test that and report back here.

Set your cpu governor to performance.

I've seen several examples of how to do that, any you would recommend in particular? Is echo "performance" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor enough?

popsUlfr commented 3 years ago

Sure that works :)

If you install cpupower you can also simply do

sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance
avalonv commented 3 years ago

@popsUlfr Sorry for the delay, a bios update overwrote my bootloader, took a while to fix >_>

Anyway, you were right, my cpu governor was set to powersaving for whatever reason, setting it to performance fixed everything! The games I tested run smoothly now, night and day difference. Thank you SO much, this was really ticking me off and it would've taken me a lot longer to figure it out by myself.

popsUlfr commented 3 years ago

That's great! I'm glad you're finally enjoying a better gaming experience. Also check out if a fsync enabled kernel gives you an even smoother experience. Happy gaming!