Micro-Stuttering Issue on Fedora with HP Envy (AMD)

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Hi everyone, Im new to this forum and have a question about my Fedora installation.

I’ve been using Fedora for about two years without issues, but since switching to my new laptop (HP Envy with AMD), I’ve been experiencing micro-stuttering. When I don’t move my mouse, the screen doesn’t update properly, but as soon as I touch the mouse, everything momentarily returns to normal.

I suspect this might be related to some kind of power-saving setting. I’ve also noticed that when I plug in the power adapter, the micro-stuttering gets less severe but doesn’t disappear completely.

If anyone has suggestions on how to fix this, I’d really appreciate it. I’ll try any suggested solutions and report back as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance :duck:

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Have you tried changing the power mode from balanced to performance?

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I have already tried that, even changing the ‘logind.conf’ didn’t really help. :fedora:

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Hi, I had exactly the same problem on a Lenovo laptop with AMD and changing screen refresh from 120 to 60 hz fized it.

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Oh, interesting. I haven’t really thought about it. I’ll reply ASAP if it works out.

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Okay, kind of weird. I’ll try both 120Hz and the 48Hz.

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Mine started happening again. Also getting some tearing when watching youtube videos. Ever distro I’ve tried has problems with this laptop. On Linux Mint it was the touchpad, every touchpad driver I tried would have choppy mouse movement and jumping cursor. In Fedora it’s been constant screen problems: videos stutter (but audio OK) screen tearing during videos, random wifi drop after resuming a session, (that happened on Mint too), random little freezes/slowness.

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  • Date generated: 2025-02-23 22:28:48

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Lenovo IdeaPad 5 2-in-1 16AHP9
  • Memory: 16.0 GiB
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 7 8845HS w/ Radeon™ 780M Graphics × 16
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon™ Graphics
  • Disk Capacity: (null)

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: P1CN17WW
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 47
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.12.13-200.fc41.x86_64
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This really pinpointed my exact experience ‘YouTube playback is the worst.’. I’ve got a nearly identical HP laptop also with the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS and 780M Graphics, but I haven’t had any touchpad problems so far. The only other distro I’ve tried was Rescuezilla, and I haven’t noticed any issues there.

Update: Changing the refresh rate to 48 Hz helped a little, but it’s not really worth the trade-off.

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Found a “solution” that doesn’t require lowering refresh. I updated it and did a simple test - youtube video played without stuttering at 120hz.

This amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 is all over the place on forums with people having the same problem.

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I’m 10 seconds in, and I can already tell that this one worked. There’s no stuttering at all, I’m almost shocked at how fluid everything is. Thank you very much!