I’m on wayland, kde plasma, and I’ve been trying to play games like rocket league and fall guys through proton-ge-latest (but i’ve also tried wine-ge-latest, and other wine versions), and the performance is terrible. I’m talking, like, 2 fps in the main menu, 0.5 fps in a match, while on windows i’d get hundreds of fps. Even when playing way simpler games through steam, with the experimental proton or proton 9.x-x, the performance was bad (but, not unplayable, usually just a delay, probably due to the fact that the games i tried weren’t as heavy).
Initially i had broken nvidia drivers and such, it complained about drivers and packages that didn’t actually exist, so i ran these commands
sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader --overwrite "*"
sudo pacman -Syu garuda-hardware-profile-nvidia garuda-hardware-profile-standard-x11 nvidia-open-dkms --overwrite "*"
And that fixed them. However it still didnt fix performance. I tried switching from linux zen to cachyos, but the performance still didnt get fixed.
I tested with feral gamemode, on both wayland and x11, and performance stayed the same.
This here is the output of garuda-inxi
System:
Kernel: 6.18.2-1-cachyos arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: clang v: 21.1.6
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-cachyos
root=UUID=73d79b49-00a5-4148-b4be-a8d134a87a31 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.21.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: BIOSTAR model: H510MHP 2.0 serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC.
v: 5.19 date: 07/20/2022
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400F bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Rocket Lake gen: core 11 level: v4 note: check built: 2021+
process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0xA7 (167) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x64
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 6 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 480 KiB desc: d-6x48 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB
desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4200 min/max: 800/4400 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 4200 2: 4200 3: 4200 4: 4200 5: 4200 6: 4200
7: 4200 8: 4200 9: 4200 10: 4200 11: 4200 12: 4200 bogomips: 62208
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: ZOTAC
driver: nvidia v: 590.48.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-11; EOL~2026-12-xx)
arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1
empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2504 class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: LG (GoldStar) M2380D serial: <filter>
built: 2010 res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 96 gamma: 1.2
size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26") diag: 584mm (23") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia
x11: drv: nvidia inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 25.3.2-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 11.72 GiB display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.335 layers: 14 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 driver: nvidia v: 590.48.01
device-ID: 10de:2504 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 21.1.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.3.2-arch1.1 (LLVM
21.1.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: Biostar Microtech Intl Corp
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:43c8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: ZOTAC
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.18.2-1-cachyos status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 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 Ethernet I219-V vendor: Biostar Microtech Intl Corp
driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15fa
class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: br-0faef5e051e0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.35 TiB used: 610.09 GiB (44.3%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: MSI model: M371 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: EHFME0.0 temp: 50.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G
size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0000 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 610.09 GiB (65.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:1
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 299 MiB size: 298.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 700 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:2
ID-3: /home raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 610.09 GiB (65.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:1
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 610.09 GiB (65.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:1
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%)
used: 610.09 GiB (65.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.19 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 91.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.19 GiB used: 7.18 GiB (23.0%)
Processes: 414 Power: uptime: 10m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 12.43 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 259 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: 1763 pm: pacman pkgs: 1738 libs: 411 tools: octopi,paru
pm: flatpak pkgs: 25 Compilers: clang: 21.1.6 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash
v: 5.3.9 default: fish v: 4.3.2 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.40
Garuda (2.11.1-1):
System install date: 2025-10-28
Garuda release: 251002
Last full system update: 2026-01-01
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-utils nvidia-open-dkms garuda-hardware-profile-nvidia garuda-hardware-profile-standard garuda-hardware-profile-standard-x11
Windows dual boot: Probably (Run as root to verify)
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