Hi, am I the only one experiencing performance variability in games from install to install?
I periodically install other distros to see if the green is grassier on the other side and I decided to do a cleanup, migrate to lvm for my arch install while I'm at it.
I have gone through 5-6 installs in the last 3 weeks, several iterations of arch as well. I always play the same 3-4 games and I know how they should perform already and I am experiencing some weird performance variability, what do I mean by this?
- Some installs have lower fps but stable 1% lows
- Sometimes if feels stuttery, even though the frametimes are stable
- Other times its just perfect
I am not doing anything out of the ordinary, archinstall with my setup, install steam, start my games.
- All AMD system
- single NVME
- Plasma with wayland
I'm stumped, I feel like an idiot looking at this issue because it makes no sense whatsoever. I finally nailed the setup after figuring out how to get LVM running, got everything going and now, it's a stuttery mess.
Edit:
Things eliminated or fixed:
- stutters removed by lowering mouse polling rate to 1000hz
- wayland as a possible overhead by launching my games from the tty with gamescope
To that end, I decided to test out this exact premise, its been years since I had a windows installed natively.
I was compqring the numbers with those from memory. Well... My memory has mislead me. The performance gap is 2x for the lows in my favorite game.
So as you said, the windows partition stays for some of the games. I dont care what it is, Ill use the right system for the right usecase.
I'm still digging through the issues though, I remember clearly I reached parity once, I just dont remember how or what was it that I did.