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pyrogaming09

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Registered: 2023-05-11

Posts: 7

Extremely low FPS in Steam games (and Steam)

I installed steam from pacman (and flatpak but it didn't really work) and it runs at around 12fps. I installed a game (SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE) and it ran about as well. FPS doesn't really matter in that game, but I'm worried that this will get worse in other games.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: Extremely low FPS in Steam games (and Steam)

What hardware? Post

glxinfo -B #mesa-utils
glxinfo32 -B #lib32-mesa-utils
vulkaninfo --summary

as well as your xorg log: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

pyrogaming09

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Registered: 2023-05-11

Posts: 7

Re: Extremely low FPS in Steam games (and Steam)

GLXInfo begins here. Stand by.

name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Mesa (0x10de)
    Device: NV136 (0x1c02)
    Version: 23.0.3
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 3059MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.3
    Max compat profile version: 4.3
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
    VBO free memory - total: 2447 MB, largest block: 2447 MB
    VBO free aux. memory - total: 1677720 MB, largest block: 1677720 MB
    Texture free memory - total: 2447 MB, largest block: 2447 MB
    Texture free aux. memory - total: 1677720 MB, largest block: 1677720 MB
    Renderbuffer free memory - total: 2447 MB, largest block: 2447 MB
    Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 1677720 MB, largest block: 1677720 MB
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
    Dedicated video memory: 3059 MB
    Total available memory: 3059 MB
    Currently available dedicated video memory: 2447 MB
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa
OpenGL renderer string: NV136
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.0.3
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.3 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.0.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 23.0.3
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

GLXInfo ends here.

Xorg log here

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: Extremely low FPS in Steam games (and Steam)

Your hardware is relatively low level and nouveau in general not suited for gaming. Remove all xf86-video-* packages and install the proprietary nvidia driver if you want any semblance of performance, but don't expect much for somewhat newer stuff: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation