I got this Beelink mini pc from Amazon planning to hook it up to my living room TV and play movies and stream TV with. And I was shocked and amazed to discover that this little thing could run games like Hi-Fi Rush and MGSV:PP on max settings! Sure the fans made it sound like a small jet engine, but it never skipped frames or lagged on me even once! I know it’s not a power house: it couldn’t run Yakuza Zero or Neir Automata very well. But I was still thrilled with what it could do!
Well it shipped with Windows 11, and I finally decided to fix that. A couple days ago I switched over to Mint, tho I’m running Kubuntu now. The switch was quick and painless, and honestly getting used to Linux has been pretty fun! But now it runs a lot of my games like a slide show. I’ve been digging at this for a few days now, updating drivers and setting up Proton. I’ve found a lot of helpful guides and stuff on line, but very little about the hardware I have in this situation. Apparently AMD processors are great for Linux, but I feel like it’s not working with the integrated graphics card. Tried to find the right driver on their website, but I haven’t had much luck. So, here’s hoping the community can help. Any tips for a newbie?
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U (16) @ 4.37 GHz | GPU: AMD Lucienne [Integrated]
Yup, it lists AMD radeon graphics as what’s in use. The visuals all look fine, no glitching or artifacting, but even with the tuning I’ve done so far I can barely get the frame rate above 20fps.
Framerate above 20 in what with what settings? That’s kinda key information :P
Hi-Fi Rush at max settings is my benchmark for this. It ran flawlessly when this was a windows 11 machine, so I’m trying to get it to hit that mark again.
How much fps is “flawlessly” ?
A fair question, I don’t honestly know. 😅 I hadn’t thought to pull up in-game stats to check fps, but I’ve been gaming most of my life. What I called “flawless” was running a smooth 50-60 fps with no frame skipping or input lagging, no hiccups or issues. Now it feels like it’s getting about 5-10 fps at best, it looks like a slide show, and input lag is at least a second.