Major performance problems in video games

Julien68

Hello,
I just installed Solus OS KDE a week ago.
On the whole it works well, and the system is fluid.
However, I'm having major performance problems with video games.
Attached are comparisons between Manjaro and Solus.
My CPU is an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and my graphics card an AMD RX 7900 XTX.

Staudey

Julien68 Hmm, that's weird. And you're using the exact same Proton version on both?

SethStorm666

Are you using xorg or Wayland? Try switch and see if the performance improve.

Julien68

Hello SethStorm666 , I'm on Wayland, I just did the test on X11 but no change.

SethStorm666

Julien68

It could be a kernel regression regarding AMD driver. Try out the LTS kernel and see if it improve the performance.

MikeK61

SethStorm666

I don`t think so.
I tried it just a few minutes ago and got this

KDE Plasma wayland
Ryzen 1800X
GPU AMD 6600XT
16GB RAM

Solus fully updated.

Julien68

I just did the test.

pomon

If it's steam, you have Linux Steam Integration. Try to change the settings there, e.g. disable/enable the native environment or other functions.

Julien68

pomon Black Myth Wukong is with Steam, Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is with Heroic Game Launcher.

Julien68

Hello Staudey , I think I've found the problem, a friend who has a similar configuration to mine has no performance problems.
The difference is that he installed Solus KDE with the latest ISO, I installed it a little over a week ago, I had the previous version with 850 update to do.
I'm making a backup of my data and then I'm going to install Solus KDE with the latest ISO.

Staudey

Julien68 The difference is that he installed Solus KDE with the latest ISO, I installed it a little over a week ago, I had the previous version with 850 update to do.

So you didn't perform the updates? Or you did and it still didn't work right? In the latter case I don't think installing from a new ISO will make much of a difference, but if it does that would be worth investigating.

Julien68

I've just finished the reinstallation, problem solved, the ISO was probably too old.

Julien68

Harvey

It should not have anything to do with the ISOs age so long as you updated your system via the software center or via the command line sudo eopkg up -y and you rebooted.

I instead suspect there could have been a broken package (like mesalib) which could have been resolved as explained here or some other issue that may not have required a reinstall. Just mentioning for future reference to save you time.

But I am glad you have it working properly now. Marking as solved.

Julien68

Hello Harvey , my system was up to date, as shown in the screenshot of this post
It's also true that I hadn't done a checksum of the previous ISO, but with the last one the checksum was good.