Hello together,
I've bought a new GPU (RX 6700xt) recently and installed Garuda OS for the first time.
I was very happy until a few weeks ago the game performance in multiple games dropped heavily, and I couldn't understand why.
For example:
- CS:GO: 30-60 FPS (low settings, full resolution)
- Cyberpunk 2077: ~10 FPS (GPU is at 99%, CPU at 10-20%, ultra settings, full resolution)
These games were running very smooth before.
Before what? I don't know.
I've installed and tested a lot of software, made updates and changed settings since my last game session.
The other day, I found out that it's not the hardware that's causing the problems, since I was able to play at full performance again via a fresh Garuda booted from a USB stick. So it really seems to be the software.
I tried many things to fix it myself, due to the lack of knowledge / experience I may make it worse.
Funny thing: yesterday it worked magically - I had full performance in both games again.
Today it is back to the old.
I have not done much since yesterday.
Basically, I just made Backups via Vorta/Borg & Timeshift, did the updates via KDE Discover (offline updates) and mounted my NAS via etc/fstab.
What I tried so far:
- searched for related topics
- boot other kernels
- updating UEFI & resetting / changing the config
- different Wine / Proton versions
- enabling "Disable CPU vulnerability mitigations" with "Garuda Boot Options" (seems not to be saved, other options like the kernel to boot are saved tho)
- enabling performance mode via "CoreCtrl" for the GPU
- setting performance profile via "cpupower"
- disabling Compositing globally
- closing unnecessary programms running in the background for testing (screenshot tool, opensnitch)
- wiping ~/.wine & ~/.cache
garuda-inxi:
System:
Kernel: 6.4.11-zen2-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=2ce349af-6b19-4133-ab62-561b95300acb rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet quiet rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=3
ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.7 tk: Qt v: 5.15.10 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: X470 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7B78)
v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 2.J1
date: 05/04/2023
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen+ gen: 2
level: v3 note: check built: 2018-21 process: GF 12nm family: 0x17 (23)
model-id: 8 stepping: 2 microcode: 0x800820D
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 768 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x64 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB
L3: 16 MiB desc: 2x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4001 high: 4150 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 4150 2: 4150
3: 4150 4: 4150 5: 4150 6: 4150 7: 4022 8: 4150 9: 3334 10: 3327 11: 3538
12: 4150 13: 4150 14: 4150 15: 4150 16: 4150 bogomips: 132790
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M XT]
vendor: Sapphire driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-3 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 28:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:73df class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.0
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00")
s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
Monitor-1: DP-3 mapped: DisplayPort-2 model: HP OMEN 27q serial: <filter>
built: 2023 res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23")
diag: 685mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.6 renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (navi22
LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.52 6.4.11-zen2-1-zen) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Creative Labs EMU20k2 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Series]
driver: snd_ctxfi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 24:00.0 chip-ID: 1102:000b class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 28:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.4.11-zen2-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.77 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: igb
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 22:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp34s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 7.28 TiB used: 5.79 TiB (79.5%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 2TB
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 5B2QGXA7 temp: 50.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1B6Q scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HDN724040ALE640
size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: A5E0 scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 500GB
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 2048 B logical: 512 B type: USB
rev: 3.2 spd: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 tech: SSD
serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
ID-5: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Samsung model: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: USB
rev: 2.1 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 tech: HDD rpm: 5400
serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3203 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%) used: 1.77 TiB (97.4%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 576 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%)
used: 1.77 TiB (97.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%)
used: 1.77 TiB (97.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%)
used: 1.77 TiB (97.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.27 GiB used: 532.8 MiB (1.7%)
priority: 100 comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 16
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 57.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 46.0 C
mem: 50.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 434 Uptime: 22m wakeups: 0 Memory: total: 32 GiB
available: 31.27 GiB used: 6.73 GiB (21.5%) Init: systemd v: 254
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 15.0.7
Packages: 2490 pm: pacman pkgs: 2468 libs: 608 tools: octopi,pamac,paru
pm: flatpak pkgs: 22 Shell: fish v: 3.6.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.29
Garuda (2.6.16-1):
System install date: 2023-08-01
Last full system update: 2023-08-23
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: timeshift NetworkManager dracut
Windows dual boot: No/Undetected
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