Yes, I was having these same issues on mint. Literally everything else has worked fine, the most trouble I had was fixing the audio output, and that just took a few minutes.
I saw the power settings comment, when I get home I’m gonna test that and the graphics settings, just tinker with things to see if the suggestions I’ve gotten so far work. Switching distros will be my hail mary if all else fails.
I did actually go to AMD’s website, and debated which of those drivers might help if at all! Instead of messing with those, I decided to ask for help. Glad I did! Lol
I’m positive about the graphics settings on windows 11: when I got the game I cranked everything to max just to see how the machine would handle it, and it went perfectly! I’ve read that windows apparently uses some kind of AI or something to optimize games as someone plays them, so that may be it. I’ll double check with various setting when I get home today.
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.
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.
I don’t actually know what flatpaks are, honestly… 😅
Games are downloaded and run from Steam, but I have no clue about the GPU acceleration. I’ll have to check when I get home from work later.
Most of the updates I did were managed with the auto updater, but I did mess around with Proton for a few hours, making sure it was up to date and running properly. There was also some kind of kernel plug in or something someone suggested: Xander, Xanathar? Don’t really remember, but it didn’t seem to work and I wiped it when I switched to kubuntu anyway.
I’m very new to Linux, and adhd is a bitch lol
I want to make this into an all purpose media machine: TV, movies, games, and internet/youtube. I know this thing isn’t a power house, but I’m kind of annoyed that my games just worked better on windows. I mean come on, MGS5 on max settings?! On this teeny thing?!??! T.T
I’m not against distro hopping. If Bazzite turns out to be my fix, then I’ll be thrilled for it!
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.
Sorry, I should have been clearer on that I guess. I’d kept reading that AMD drivers were already pretty much included with all distros, but the issue has been performance. At first Hi-Fi (my benchmark for this test) would run at a cool 5-6 fps, and after my tuning it’s gone up to around 15-20 fps, but no better. I know this hardware can run this game, so I’ve been pretty confused.
I have read up on Bazzite, and I’m actually considering the KDE version for my main gaming computer. But I was still hoping to keep a desktop environment on this machine. Do you think KDE Bazzite would fix the issue?
I see, then yes: I installed steam with the built-in software manager. Thanks for the tip about Flatseal, I’ll be sure to look into it after work!