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.

 

[Shmee]

Just a side anecdotal confirmation here, that yes, Linux updates can break things just like Windows updates can. For instance, for whatever reason, I have had an issue on my NAS server where the NVMe pool would disappear and not be recognized. This happened in both Ubuntu server and TrueNAS scale (Debian based), after some kind of update. Luckily I am on a stable version of TrueNAS scale atm, so no issues with that currently.

But yeah, be careful of updates.

 

[Indus]

Just a side anecdotal confirmation here, that yes, Linux updates can break things just like Windows updates can. For instance, for whatever reason, I have had an issue on my NAS server where the NVMe pool would disappear and not be recognized. This happened in both Ubuntu server and TrueNAS scale (Debian based), after some kind of update. Luckily I am on a stable version of TrueNAS scale atm, so no issues with that currently.

But yeah, be careful of updates.

I did a reformat and clean installed Ultramarine Linux again.

And after a week.. I'm running good and stable and I've paused the auto updates and set it to manual.

Maybe a reformat and clean install was needed since I went from Nvidia to AMD drivers.. but it did work fine for a few days at first even with a few reboots.. so I'm definitely on the side of some random update broke it.