Plague Tale: Requiem, performance degradation (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by Tiuku@sopuli.xyz to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I've used to be able to play this game just fine at around medium graphic settings through Proton (GE), but today when I launched it again after a while the performance was just really poor.

Like mouse-moves-at-30fps-in-the-menu-poor.

There have been plenty of package upgrades since my last launch including plasma 6, proton and the game itself. So I don't really have any particular suspects here.

Running Arch with AMD GPU. Wayland/Xorg didn't seem to make a difference.

Has anyone else experienced similar performance degrading in this or another game lately?

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[-] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

no experience with this game but performance drops happen frequently and randomly for me, Fedora, Lutris, AMD GPU. like, I play a game that I have 100+ hours played on the same hardware and software and everything is dandy - 60 FPS, butter smooth mouse and game play. next day, same game, same settings, no updates in the meantime, absolutely nothing changed - 25 FPS, mouse stutters, horror. next day everything is fine, and so on.

[-] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Stupid as it sounds, this seems to be the case. It works great now (+ extra smooth because of all the settings lowering :D ). I even rebooted yesterday to no avail. Today I haven't done anything special with the machine.

How often has this happened to you?

[-] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

it's completely random and incongruent with anything that is or isn't happening. same game (Starcraft 2 and Far Cry 5 are currently in rotation) runs fine and then it just doesn't. yesterday launched SC2, played it for a while, everything is butter smooth. left it open to go make dinner. started a new game after like 15 mins - choppy, drops to 15 fps, horrible. played a couple rounds this morning - everything back to normal. and so on.

no huge temp spikes, no huge CPU loads, nothing I can pin down as correlated. both games are well within the capabilities of both CPU and GPU. I have C-states and Cool & Quiet disabled, so it's nothing power-throttling related.

I don't like rebooting, got way too much stuff open all the time, I do that maybe once a month; the rest is just suspend in the evening and wake in the morning.

[-] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

I had the same problem with enshrouded, including desktop sluggishness. I "fixed" it by fiddling with detail settings until I found one thing that had a significant performance impact. I want to say it was something to do with shadows? I'll try to remember to look when I'm at my desk. Hopefully someone has a better answer/suggestion, but something to try.

Also, did vulkan shaders run and complete? Mine don't on Enshrouded, get stuck at 99%. I know that can have a performance impact.

[-] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the hint, though I didn't manage to find a magic setting yet at least.

Also, did vulkan shaders run and complete? Mine don’t on Enshrouded, get stuck at 99%. I know that can have a performance impact.

I should think so. The dialogue doesn't seem to appear anymore but on the first launch of today it did, and I don't remember anything special about it.

[-] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

Probably not your issue, but high dpi mice and some wine games don't mix well. I bought a cheap low dpi usb mouse after discovering this.

[-] Longplay_Games@mstdn.games 1 points 7 months ago

@jbloggs777 @Tiuku I found the best trick is to use a mouse that lets you click a button to switch on the fly. Logitech and Corsair for example

[-] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Ohh yeah I have a mouse like that. The reason being just that I don't want to deal with mouse control software ^^

I'll try to fiddle around a bit.

[-] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Mildly interesting observation: Having the game open in the background made browser scrolling very sluggish.

[-] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

found a pretty reliable way to make it perform shitty - alt-tab out of the game, do something memory-hoggy, like firefox with plenty of tabs and alt-tab back. it's often (but not always) super shitty then.

I'm on F40 Plasma, didn't have that degradation on F39 Gnome when alt-tabbing; but then I had Gnome session crashes frequently, which never happen with Plasma 6.

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