Can I have a faulty video card?

[Indus]

4 day old XFX 16GB 9060Xt

So all of a sudden in the middle of gaming on linux.. where I was constantly getting 144fps in Overwatch.. I start noticing choppiness, lag.

And I restart game.. it continues.
I reboot.. it continues.
I try loading other games.. they're choppy and laggy too.

I revert back to windows and it seems to not exist there.. I wouldn't say it runs smooth but it does give me 144 or higher.

So is it a video card problem or likely a driver or something?? Just seemed very strange it happened mid game and still continues to be so.

 

[coercitiv]

I would start by monitoring both CPU and GPU utilization.

 

[Indus]

I would start by monitoring both CPU and GPU utilization.

How much should they both be used? it was at 80-85% before and then 20-35% now. But let me set it up to watch it in windows.

 

[Bigos]

What Linux distro are you using? Have you updated any component in the meantime? The most important would be the kernel and Mesa, probably also wine/proton/etc

 

[Indus]

What Linux distro are you using? Have you updated any component in the meantime? The most important would be the kernel and Mesa, probably also wine/proton/etc

Ultramarine KDE

Only component I upgraded recently was 4 days ago.. going from an EVGA GTX 1080 to the new XFX 9060XT 16GB.

And I didn't intentionally update anything.. just the standard update..

I did mess with libstrange a while ago on the first day to try and cap things at 144fps but I uninstalled it when I couldn't get it to work right.

Also here's a windows screenshot:



The FPS looks right in windows but I don't know about the GPU/ CPU usage.

However in the middle of a linux game.. that 144 went to 35-57 and it was really choppy.. very strange and even happens now.

I'm really debating clean installing it but holding off till I can possibly eliminate any chance of an easy fix.. I mean I don't want to have to reinstall all my programs and redownload all my games again.

 

[Iron Woode]

Ultramarine KDE

Only component I upgraded recently was 4 days ago.. going from an EVGA GTX 1080 to the new XFX 9060XT 16GB.

And I didn't intentionally update anything.. just the standard update..

I did mess with libstrange a while ago on the first day to try and cap things at 144fps but I uninstalled it when I couldn't get it to work right.

Also here's a windows screenshot:

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The FPS looks right in windows but I don't know about the GPU/ CPU usage.

However in the middle of a linux game.. that 144 went to 35-57 and it was really choppy.. very strange and even happens now.

I'm really debating clean installing it but holding off till I can possibly eliminate any chance of an easy fix.. I mean I don't want to have to reinstall all my programs and redownload all my games again.

sounds more like a Vsync issue.

 

[Indus]

sounds more like a Vsync issue.

Will Vsync also affect game loading as well?

I mean I also play Elder Scrolls Online and it has a launcher that patches the game and I have to click Play again.

Even that is super laggy now.. just the graphics on it it seems to be choppy

For reference.. see the choppiness/ laggyness.. it wasn't there before yesterday evening at all.. things were smooth.

Now it's happening everytime I try to load a game or am in the game. But windows is fine (I'm trying to ditch windows but left it as a fall back option..)

 

[Iron Woode]

Will Vsync also affect game loading as well?

I mean I also play Elder Scrolls Online and it has a launcher that patches the game and I have to click Play again.

Even that is super laggy now.. just the graphics on it it seems to be choppy

For reference.. see the choppiness/ laggyness.. it wasn't there before yesterday evening at all.. things were smooth.

Now it's happening everytime I try to load a game or am in the game. But windows is fine (I'm trying to ditch windows but left it as a fall back option..)

also maybe a driver broke? I don't know enough about linux to be of much help.

 

[Bigos]

I would search Linux specific forums for issues like that. Maybe they affect specific games only?

 

[bba_tcg]

4 day old XFX 16GB 9060Xt

So all of a sudden in the middle of gaming on linux.. where I was constantly getting 144fps in Overwatch.. I start noticing choppiness, lag.

And I restart game.. it continues.
I reboot.. it continues.
I try loading other games.. they're choppy and laggy too.

I revert back to windows and it seems to not exist there.. I wouldn't say it runs smooth but it does give me 144 or higher.

So is it a video card problem or likely a driver or something?? Just seemed very strange it happened mid game and still continues to be so.

From what you describe, I'd say it's a driver / software problem and probably not a defective card.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I've seen a fair number of complaints about RDNA4 on Linux. Appears to be more a matter of immature drivers than anything else. My experience is AM4+RDNA2 is a good time in Bazzite.

 

[Indus]

I've seen a fair number of complaints about RDNA4 on Linux. Appears to be more a matter of immature drivers than anything else. My experience is AM4+RDNA2 is a good time in Bazzite.

Maybe fedora/ ultramarine pushed something in updates.. but I can't seem to undo it.

The only thing left to do is either wait for new drivers or clean install Ultramarine again or go with a clean install of debian where I know they don't push unproven stuff.

Their discord still doesn't have an idea of what happened or how to fix it.