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Stayfun

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Registered: 2022-04-18

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Can't play games correctly on Arch

Hello there,

I have installed Arch Linux and I have played some Cyberpunk 2077 on it. I found that it sometimes runs perfectly and other times it doesn't. I have gotten some ideas like using a program called gamemode and the first time I tried that it worked, and then I tried again the next day and it ran poorly again. My gpu usage is very low my, basically all my 32GB of RAM is being used when I play Cyberpunk so the other RAM that it needs goes to SWAP.
Also it is not only the game that I noticed having a problem. It is also when I use plasma wayland I have to wait like 15 seconds after entering the password and when I try it with X11 it takes 2-5 seconds.
Also in Cyberpunk when I start it stays on a black screen for like 10 seconds and then the boot intro shows.

Things I've tried
- gamemode
- Using LTS kernel
- Changing CPU to not underclock
        - It is the same thing as when I tried gamemode. First time it works but then when trying again it doesn't

seth

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Re: Can't play games correctly on Arch

It is also when I use plasma wayland I have to wait like 15 seconds after entering the password and when I try it with X11 it takes 2-5 seconds.

So is the geme issue on wayland, x11 or both?
If it affects X11, post your xorg log and the output of "glxinfo -B" when the game doesn't run "perfectly", https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

Possibly cause/mitigation: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start

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Stayfun

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Registered: 2022-04-18

Posts: 2

Re: Can't play games correctly on Arch

It is also when I use plasma wayland I have to wait like 15 seconds after entering the password and when I try it with X11 it takes 2-5 seconds.

So is the geme issue on wayland, x11 or both?
If it affects X11, post your xorg log and the output of "glxinfo -B" when the game doesn't run "perfectly", https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

Possibly cause/mitigation: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start

Well the issue is on both. But it wasn't an issue the first time I tried it on wayland but when I restarted the game it was. I was getting like 10 fps with 20% gpu usage. Besides that the game takes long to load.
I am guessing that the long load time on any wayland DE has something to do with it. Also I think the long load time on the game has something to do with it. I have the game on an nvme SSD and trying it on a manjaro install makes the game load in 5 seconds when on Arch it takes like 1 minute.

I also tried a clean Arch install on a different disk and I have the same issues.