Videos and games are choppy with low FPS?

[bam]

I installed steam and tried to play a couple of games they are choppy with screen tearing and low FPS i have a MSI RTX 3070 so there is no excuse for it run slow. Maybe i don't have the right drivers the proprietary drivers don't work neither. As far as videos go they are choppy but the audio is perfectly fine maybe it's a driver thing or something else thanks for the help in advance

[waeking]

search in the forums... This has been answered lots. Hint: prime-run

[bam]

ik it has but this is as close as i can get to my problem when i search

Low FPS on essentially any game

Hi, so I am running into an issue when trying to play a game, more notably through steam. They work just fine on my Windows installation; I have a 1660 super w/ an r5 3600 and am using foss drivers <- could that be the issue perhaps? i ran into these issues w/ the KDE gaming flavor and decided to give gnome a try -- same issue. any suggestions? thanks. for reference, i use vsync w/ windows so my fps is stable at 60 during gameplay with any game i play, however on linux w the same game and same s…

[waeking]

are you using prime-run?

[bam]

idk what i'm using? how can tell what i'm using? I never have used linux before so this is all new to me. I have used windows my entire life and wanted to try something new and privacy oriented

[waeking]

basically whatever game you are playing. put "prime-run" in front of the command. you can easily try from konsole or alacritty.

Prime-run forces the game to use your Nvidia card.

I was just like you. Windows user since 3.11... This distro is the first time that I haven't booted windows in a month. There is a little bit of a learning curve to linux in general.

[bam]

so i do sudo pacman prime-run Left 4 Dead 2? (just using that as a example)

yeah i'm loving the OS so far and learning it too is fun youtube only goes so far for this OS before i have to ask

[waeking]

don't sudo anything unless you absolutley need to. Sudo give root privileges. Pacman is another program for installing/removing/updating software.

use:

prime-run /gamesfolder/left4dead2

[bam]

and this won't conflict with steam or anything? is there anything i can do of that nature for videos on youtube too? or do need to create a different topic for that?

[waeking]

Try it see if it makes a difference to you either way.

[bam]

thanks for the help man i won't be able to try it until the morning anyways about to go to work. I'm gonna leave this open for anybody else who wants to put their 2 cents in

[waeking]

Cheers. here is a link with another trick to try for steam.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=254545

[bam]

thanks I'm just used to windows and clicking things and just expecting it to just work without issues I already solved a number of problems myself on here but on YouTube its nothing but people rating how great the OS is instead of how to use it.

[SGS]

@bam

I already solved a number of problems myself on here

Which?

@bam

how great the OS is instead of how to use it.

You can’t learn linux on youtube, start reading.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/

or use the simple bad M$ OS.

[bam]

bad choice of words but still chill you always this hostile?

[bam]

it says after i tried it

╭─bam2126@bam2126 in ~
╰─λ prime-run /gamesfolder/left4dead2
prime-run may be found in the following packages:
extra/nvidia-prime 1.0-4      /usr/bin/prime-run

do i have it install that?

[Sunda-Spirit]

/usr/bin/prime-run is the contents of the nvidia-prime package.

[bam]

so just have to put that in front of the command and then specify game file and (game)

[Sunda-Spirit]

I do not know. I am not yet licensed.

[bam]

licensed? i didn't even know you could be licensed for Linux but hey you learn something new everyday! In my opinion and view on life if you ain't learning you ain't living