Hello everyone,
I wasn’t sure where to post this issue and I apologise for throwing it at the feet of the fedora devs, but I have to start somewhere..
I started experiencing severe, regular stuttering in Arc Raiders (the only game I play right now when I can) immediately after running a system update (yesterday). I thought to myself that I hadn’t run a sudo dnf update thingy for a while and said ‘why not?’ and went for it..
Every few minutes GPU usage drops to sub 50%, the CPU spikes to near 100% and FPS plummets to 30 for about 5 seconds before recovering to a stable 120 again. This happens irrespective of in-game action and did not occur before the update.
Specs:
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- AMD RX 7700XT
- Gigabyte B650
- 34gb RAM
Troubleshooting steps I’ve taken:
- Switched between proton experimental, proton 10, hotfix, and Proton GE.
- Booted into an older kernel
- Reinstalled mesa drivers
- Cleared steam cache
- Ran
rpm -Va - Set SELinux to permissive (temporarily)
- Used various Steam launch options (
MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=1 %command% - Attempted to roll back the DNF transaction ID which failed due to missing older packages and repos
- Played around with various in-game setting configurations and also reinstalled the game and verified integrity a few times too.
I am not highly technical but I suspect the issue lies in the updated mesa drivers or Wayland.
Does anyone have a similar experience or debugging suggestions? I can provide more information. Kindly be specific in your requests as I am still relatively new to linux.
Thank you very much.
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UPDATE: I set steam launch options with this command - PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command%. Apparently it tells proton to bypass the XWayland compatibility layer and to connect directly to the KDE Wayland compositor. So far so good. No intermittent stuttering. Will update if it was just a fluke or a solution!
UPDATE: Problem solved with the above cmd. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.