Hello, I’m returning to Linux after not using it for quite a while (previous distribution was normal Arch Linux) so sorry for doing and/or saying something dumb!!!
Anyway, I’m using Garuda now and it seems like video games stutter when not meeting my monitor’s refresh rate of 165 Hz. I noticed this in Doom 2016, whenever the framerate drops to 164 fps a noticeable change in smooth-ness occurred, which never happens in Windows 10 operating system, and I cannot recall this being a problem in my old Arch Linux installation. I thought maybe the issue was because the freesync wasn’t enabled so I created a file in the x-org configuration and confirmed that it is now enabled, same issue.
I also tested a game that is locked at 60 FPS (Wolfenstein: The Old Blood) and the game just looks TERRIBLE!!! And again, this wasn’t present in Windows 10 or Arch Linux.
I could not find a solution on this forum, other forums or on the arch wiki.
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System:
Kernel: 6.6.6-zen1-1-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=4d61f724-ea9d-46c2-b593-347d9cdbb8f7 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.0.0 tk: GTK v: 3.24.38 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM
v: 1.32.0 Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI (MS-7C91)
v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 1.80
date: 12/15/2021
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ gen: 4
level: v3 note: check built: 2022 process: TSMC n6 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25)
model-id: 0x21 (33) stepping: 0 microcode: 0xA201016
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB
L3: 32 MiB desc: 1x32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2370 high: 3700 min/max: 2200/4650 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2747 2: 2200
3: 2200 4: 2198 5: 2200 6: 2200 7: 2200 8: 3700 9: 2200 10: 2200 11: 2200
12: 2200 bogomips: 88802
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: Tul / PowerColor 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-2 empty: DP-1,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 2d:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:73df class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu 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-2 mapped: DisplayPort-1 model: ASUS VG32VQR serial: <filter>
built: 2021 res: 2560x1440 hz: 165 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2
size: 697x393mm (27.44x15.47") diag: 800mm (31.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.269 layers: 7 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: AMD
Radeon RX 6700 XT (RADV NAVI22) driver: mesa radv v: 23.2.1-arch1.2
device-ID: 1002:73df surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 16.0.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 23.2.1-arch1.2 (LLVM
16.0.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 2d:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 2f:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.6.6-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 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 Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 29:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2725
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 2a:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp42s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-9:6 chip-ID: 8087:0032
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
lmp-v: 12 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 7c0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 14.81 TiB used: 141.22 GiB (0.9%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530
SDBPNPZ-256G-1006 size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: HPS2 temp: 30.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST14000NM001G-2KJ103
size: 12.73 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: SN02 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 2TB
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra size: 28.64 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 3.0 spd: 5 Gb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.00
scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%) used: 128.89 GiB (6.9%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
used: 71.5 MiB (14.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
ID-3: /home raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%)
used: 128.89 GiB (6.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%)
used: 128.89 GiB (6.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%)
used: 128.89 GiB (6.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.54 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 12 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 35.0 C
mem: 34.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Processes: 379 Uptime: 1h 44m wakeups: 0 Memory: total: 16 GiB
available: 15.54 GiB used: 5.49 GiB (35.4%) Init: systemd v: 255
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 Packages:
pm: pacman pkgs: 1219 libs: 373 tools: pamac,paru Shell: fish v: 3.6.4
running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.31
Garuda (2.6.19-2):
System install date: 2023-12-11
Last full system update: 2023-12-14
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut
Windows dual boot: Probably (Run as root to verify)
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