I’ve used to be able to play this game just fine at around medium graphic settings through Proton (GE), but today when I launched it again after a while the performance was just really poor.

Like mouse-moves-at-30fps-in-the-menu-poor.

There have been plenty of package upgrades since my last launch including plasma 6, proton and the game itself. So I don’t really have any particular suspects here.

Running Arch with AMD GPU. Wayland/Xorg didn’t seem to make a difference.

Has anyone else experienced similar performance degrading in this or another game lately?

    • Tiuku@sopuli.xyzOP
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      1 year ago

      Stupid as it sounds, this seems to be the case. It works great now (+ extra smooth because of all the settings lowering :D ). I even rebooted yesterday to no avail. Today I haven’t done anything special with the machine.

      How often has this happened to you?

  • JovialSodium
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    1 year ago

    I had the same problem with enshrouded, including desktop sluggishness. I “fixed” it by fiddling with detail settings until I found one thing that had a significant performance impact. I want to say it was something to do with shadows? I’ll try to remember to look when I’m at my desk. Hopefully someone has a better answer/suggestion, but something to try.

    Also, did vulkan shaders run and complete? Mine don’t on Enshrouded, get stuck at 99%. I know that can have a performance impact.

    • Tiuku@sopuli.xyzOP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the hint, though I didn’t manage to find a magic setting yet at least.

      Also, did vulkan shaders run and complete? Mine don’t on Enshrouded, get stuck at 99%. I know that can have a performance impact.

      I should think so. The dialogue doesn’t seem to appear anymore but on the first launch of today it did, and I don’t remember anything special about it.

  • Tiuku@sopuli.xyzOP
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    1 year ago

    Mildly interesting observation: Having the game open in the background made browser scrolling very sluggish.

      • Tiuku@sopuli.xyzOP
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        1 year ago

        Is your system then actually low on memory then? This doesn’t seem to work for me, but then again even javascript sites aren’t going to eat 32gigs just like that.

        One theory that I tested, was that whether it was a scheduled BTRFS scrub in the background (basically reading all the data and checking for errors), but it doesn’t seem to have an effect when manually started.

        Another observation now that it’s running fine: At the time my fans never revved up to speed like they do now. Just stayed mostly silent. It really felt like it was accidentally using an integrated GPU, which I don’t have…

  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Probably not your issue, but high dpi mice and some wine games don’t mix well. I bought a cheap low dpi usb mouse after discovering this.