AMD GPU: Massive hitching after about 20 minutes of gameplay

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After a recent update (Fedora 41) games start massively hitching after about 20 minutes of gameplay. The only thing that stops it is to restart the game. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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  • Date generated: 2024-12-25 18:15:52

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS
  • Memory: 32.0 GiB
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 9 3900X × 12
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 7800 XT
  • Disk Capacity: 2.0 TB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: 3405
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 47
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.12.6-200.fc41.x86_64
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Welcome to Fedora @barugon

Please boot into an older kernel and test if you have the same issues?

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I tried 6.12.2, same issue, and then installed 6.11.4, also same issue.

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Look in the system journal for logs leading up to the time you start getting problems. Do you any reports of error?

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It may be specific to the game you are playing.
Which game is it?
Are playing using steam or something else?

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I don’t see anything in the system logs. This happens with multiple games through Steam. I thought that perhaps it was something to do with Proton Experimental so I set it to Proton 9.0-4. Same issue.

Also, I’m not sure if “hitching” is the best way to describe it. The screen isn’t updating correctly even though the reported frame-rate is still high. It looks almost like “warping” as I move around. I’ll try to capture a video of it.

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I have the same class of GPU as you have and I have not seen any issues playing metaphor refantazio on Stream from RPMfusion.

There are games that I have to boot into Windows 11 to play that will not play under steam on Fedora.

Does Steam claim the games you are playing are compatible with the Steam Deck?

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Here’s a couple videos using Shroud of the Avatar. Other recent games that I have played, like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, also exhibit the same behavior.

Here’s what the issue looks like:

And here’s how it looks after I restart the game:

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Note that all of those game worked just fine up until about a few weeks ago.

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It looks like the frame rate dropped a lot.
I would do two things.
From a terminal run sudo dmesg and see if the gpu reported errors.
Also from a terminal run top and check if you have run low on memory.

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It looks like the frame rate dropped a lot.

The reported frame-rate remained the same.

sudo dmesg shows no new messages since starting the game.
Memory usage was 27.8%.

Is it possible to downgrade amd-gpu-firmware? Does that only get applied once or every time the PC boots?

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Every time you boot the system. You can try using a older kernel as well as downgrading the firmware.

I have been playing Metaphor: ReFantazio in Steam for the last 2 hours without a graphics glitch.

FYI I have this setup:

ystem:
  Host: worthy.internal Kernel: 6.12.4-200.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Console: pty pts/1 Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (KDE Plasma)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME Z690-P WIFI v: Rev 1.xx serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: 3401 date: 06/28/2024
CPU:
  Info: 12-core (8-mt/4-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700K bits: 64 type: MST AMCP cache:
    L2: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4900:5000:3800 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800
    6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800 14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 17: 800
    18: 800 19: 800 20: 800
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT / 7800 XT] driver: amdgpu
    v: kernel
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.14 GiB used: 4.76 GiB (15.3%)
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Are you playing from the steam client, and if yes did you disable the steam overlay?

If yes (this happens across most games for me too if its disabled):

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I do have the steam overlay disabled. I’ll give this a try and thanks for the info.

[edit] After re-enabling the Steam overlay, I played for multiple hours today with no issue. Thanks for the solution.

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Okay, this worked for most games but I still get the same issue with Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Anyone have any more suggestions?

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Its a new game, maybe lack of optimisation?