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Todaug

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Registered: 2018-10-01

Posts: 15

Nvidia low fps is some games

I just bought my new Nvidia card "ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 Mini" and I have low FPS in some games.

I just finished playing Outlast 2 with steam proton at 60 FPS without any problems. Now, I started playing my old games such as Lord of the Rings Online, Guild Wars 2 and I also tried "Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty", (a native Linux game) and my FPS are very low. What I suspect is that those games are running in 32-bit. I believe I need to install the lib32-nvidia-utils to make those games work, which I have done.

My installed packages are

nvidia-lts 1: 415.18-1
nvidia-utils 415.18-1
lib32-nvidia-utils 415.18-1
nvidia-settings 415.18-1

What could cause low FPS in these games but not in Outlast 2?

Last edited by Todaug (2018-11-26 03:53:25)

sincomil

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Registered: 2018-02-13

Posts: 118

Re: Nvidia low fps is some games

Old games that are using DX9 will not get a performance boost from Proton, because Proton is based on DXVK, and it is translating DX10/11 calls to Vulkan API calls but not DX9

Last edited by sincomil (2018-11-26 06:29:44)

Todaug

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Registered: 2018-10-01

Posts: 15

Re: Nvidia low fps is some games

Guild wars 2 and Lord of the Rings Online are working perfectly under wine + I played those game with my integrated graphic card with better performance than right now with my 1070. Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty is a native Linux game so it does not use proton. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something, a package or something else.

Last edited by Todaug (2018-11-26 13:38:02)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,432

Re: Nvidia low fps is some games

What's the output of

glxinfo32 | grep OpenGL #Needs lib32-mesa-demos

also terminal output of an affected game?

Todaug

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Registered: 2018-10-01

Posts: 15

Re: Nvidia low fps is some games

The problem seems to be random. I just played for 3 days without any problem and this morning, the problem was again raised. I restarted my device and the problem was gone. I'm still not sure if it's a driver problem or the card itself.

Note: I have not yet encountered this problem on Windows.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,705

Re: Nvidia low fps is some games

"dmesg" after this happened; also ensure it's really the GPU and not eg. some indexer sucking away your CPU or IO etc.

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