Dota 2 running extremely slow

myessail · 2014-07-21 23:13:50

I am able to start Dota 2 without a hitch, but when I get into menus and games everything is so slow it renders the game unplayable. I have a Radeon HD 7870 for a graphics card, and it was able to handle Dota 2 on Xubuntu with the same graphics driver (open source). Does anyone else experience this, or know how to fix it?

Pse · 2014-07-23 02:08:44

Are you using Xfce on Arch as well or is it another DE? If it's another DE, try to switch off compositing before starting the game.

myessail · 2014-07-23 14:06:35

I'm using Xfce on Arch as well, and compositing is already switched off.

KlavKalashj · 2014-07-24 09:19:42

Did you try the good old this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St … crash_Xorg

myessail · 2014-07-24 15:28:14

Yeah, I had to do that to get steam started.

KlavKalashj · 2014-07-26 17:15:51

Do you also have all the needed 32-bit packages? Mesa, DDX etc.

myessail · 2014-07-27 16:59:47

Yup, all the needed 32-bit packages are installed.

thiagowfx · 2014-07-27 17:59:35

Once I wrote a blog post about configuring dota 2, however I didn't add it to the wiki because I can't be sure if my suggestions really work. But here is a quick grasp of them:

1 - Launch the game with these flags, rather within a tiling/dynamic window manager -- don't use heavy desktop environments for that, ya know, gnome3, KDE, etc:

-console -novid -noborder -high -autoconfig -nomousegrab

2 - Also, go to your video configs and set everything to the lowest quality (= more performance). You can change this bit by bit later.

3 - I also recommended this setting for Intel Graphics HD cards (not yours, I know, but you could try it if you want. Maybe there is something similar for Radeon ones. This is related with vsync.):

<driconf>
  <device screen="0" driver="dri2">
    <application name="Default">
      <option name="vblank_mode" value="0"/>
    </application>
  </device>
</driconf>

Original post (in portuguese). Feel free to add those points to the wiki if they work for you -- or to ignore them if they don't.

myessail · 2014-07-27 21:53:06

Unfortunately this didn't work for me.

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#1 2014-07-21 23:13:50

Dota 2 running extremely slow

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