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Gamescope/Game Mode broken on my hardware :( (piefed.social)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by artyom@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi all. For the last several years I've been using Bazzite/Gamescope on my desktop, and even before that I was using it with ChimeraOS. It's been really great and I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Unfortunately I've begun to experience issues with games freezing. Within an hour of firing up a game, the image freezes. Audio continues playing on a loop. I'm able to pull up the menu and exit out of the game no problem. But then I fire it up and the same thing happens again.

I don't really know how to diagnose this issue but I reinstalled Bazzite fresh, same issue. Installed CachyOS-Handheld, same issue. However I tried launching games from the desktop mode and I've now spent ~20 hours gaming with no issue, but this is certainly not ideal. Any ideas on potential fixes?

E: AMD 5700x + 6800XT 16GB

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yes.

A distro or distribution is just a collection of software packages, and usually a package manager.

The actual software itself is the same. The list can be different, but where the items overlap, they are the same. How up to date they are can vary, but Plasma 6 on Bazzite is the exact same as Plasma 6 on Cachy.

Systemd is the same systemd across arch, ubuntu, mint, endeavour, fedora, and any others that use it.

Is this not obvius?

Changing the distro does not tell you much. Especially as you're running the exact same program in the exact same DE, you should absolutely expect the same result.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is this not obvius?

Not only is it not obvious, it's not accurate.

A distro or distribution is just a collection of software packages

Software packages that are different . That's what makes one distro different from another. Is that not obvious?

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Software packages that are different.

No? The same software is the same software, regardless what distro you install it on.

Gamescope running on top of KDE/Plasma in one distro will not be different from Gamescope running on top of KDE/Plasma in another distro.

Distros are just presets. They have far more similarities than differences.

What makes one distro different from another, is that it might come with gnome instead of KDE, pacman instead of apt, initd instead of systemd, systemd-boot instead of grub.

Or any other litany of alternative packages that do the same thing.

But you use the same spftware, the there is little difference between one distro and the next. The main difference is going to be that you installed the same code from a different distributor.

That's literally where the name "distro" comes from.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Software packages that are different

No?

What makes one distro different from another, is that it might come with gnome instead of KDE, pacman instead of apt, initd instead of systemd, systemd-boot instead of grub.

So...different software? Those are all software.

That’s literally where the name of “distro” comes from.

The name comes from different distributions of Linux that come packaged with different software .

I don't know what semantics game you're trying to play here or how it's supposed to help me fix my machine but I'm out.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

No.

We use the word distro because they're not really a fully separate OS. Just a different preset with either a lot or almost nothing swapped out as compared to the next.

You are so hung up being correct here you're missing what I'm actually trying to teach you.

You need to be comparing different versions, not distros. Because the same version of the same software is going to have the same problem, no matter what distro you use.

You don't even know how to access system logs, and you expect to understand enough about this stuff to successfully correct me on why trying a different distro isn't that helpful for troubleshooting?

[–] artyom@piefed.social -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm not missing anything. What you're missing is that there are 2 different graphical compositors (AKA software). One works, and one doesn't. On the same hardware. So it's not a hardware issue.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

AND I AM TELLING YOU TO DOWNGRADE THEM SO YOU CAN SEE IF AN EARLIER VERSION WORKS CORRECTLY, INSTEAD OF SWAPPING OUT THE ENTIRE DISTRO

ONLY TO TRY THE EXACT SAME COMPOSITOR AS IF THAT WOULD FIX IT

So instead of that, try earlier versions! Different distros from the same date are obviously likely to be running similar versions of Gamescope or whatever else might be the cause.