Help request: Updates wrecked performance

WarMarshalEmu, 6 months ago

Update: I found the issue.

This was actually a Steam issue. Unfortunately the steam libraries that associate with the nvidia drivers never got updated (or showed an available update). So the libraries were still for 535.113. I had to uninstall and reinstall steam to get the correct libraries. I’m running the flatpak version of steam too if that makes a difference.

Moral of the story: Take your damn snapshots before updating.

ProtonBadger, 6 months ago

Yeah I had a similar issue, my Nvidia driver got updated to 545 and suddenly PRIME offload did not work for Steam games. After a little while Flatpak update pulled the nvidia 545 flatpak stuff and it started working again.

taaz, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

So, I would watch ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/xorg.0.log for any warning and/or errors and try googling them.
Also Arch wiki is often great “checklist” even for different distros.

nvtop for monitoring the nvidia card memory and “cpu”, also glxgears for basic benchmarking.

I am guessing you are playing Peglin thru steam (so proton), you might want to try changing to proton experimental, see if it’s not just when playing thru proton.

Hubi, 6 months ago

Have you tried downgrading your drivers to the previous version?

WarMarshalEmu, 6 months ago

Yeah, I’ve tried drivers 525 as well. Same sort of performance issue.

velox_vulnus, 6 months ago

Much of this comment is speculation, but I’m sharing my experience. I have a MX 250, and I also noticed this after updating to Fedora 37. Most probably this must be a Vulkan issue, which fails working for drivers in a particular 535.xx patch.

Veloren did not work on my device for almost a year or two. Not just that, retro console emulators used either software rendering or integrated graphics. It was fixed recently, but I’m not aware of the particular version, as I’ve recently tried out Veloren on NixOS. Also, the game was lagging on my device, so I cannot confirm if things have improved.