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Fall

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Registered: 2012-10-05

Posts: 4

[Solved] All Steam games have low FPS

Hello Archers!

I have recently switched back to Arch a few weeks ago and did not have these issues. However, I did a reinstall due to my own f**kup (it was faster to reinstall) a couple days ago and since then I have had terrible performance with Steam games no matter if I set them to low settings and low resolution or in windowed mode. The only thing I have done different from that install versus this one is I installed KDE instead of Gnome. This issue happens with all games I have and a list of most played are below. I am using the Open ATI driver due to the FGLRX driver not wanting to use both of my monitors at once. Has anyone had this issue before? I am going to look through the Gnome packages and see if there are any graphics related packages that I may try to install.

System:
Core i7-2600k
12GB of RAM
2x AMD Radeon 6950's
256GB Crucial SSD
1TB HDD
2TB HDD
1000W PSU

Games:
Half-Life Series
Dota2
Portal
Bastion
X3 Series

Last edited by Fall (2013-08-18 22:33:20)

Fall

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Registered: 2012-10-05

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] All Steam games have low FPS

Figured it out... I forgot Steam and games are 32bit applications and all I needed lib32-ati-dri

Last edited by Fall (2013-08-18 22:34:19)