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#1 2019-06-25 11:29:52
- Shrek
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Arch linux freezing when playing games on chrome/opera/chromium....
So i play an online game called surviv.io.
Except I freeze every couple of minutes into the game for around 5 secs each time.
It's not lag because when I ping server I get 50ms of response time which is good for an online game.
BTW i have an intel n3710 and 4GB of ram and I'm currently on xorg
Xfce desktop and using compton as wm
Ram is fine I did a memtest x86 test and passed all 4/4 tests
I've installed x86-video-intel mesa and other related intel packages.
I can't seem to figure out what causes this and i hope I will
Please help.
Thanks
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#2 2019-06-25 12:31:06
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Re: Arch linux freezing when playing games on chrome/opera/chromium....
I'd start by dropping compton (it's not a WM but a compositor, you can just kill it) and see whether the issue remains.
The next thing to drop would be x86-video-intel (and implcitly use the modesetting X11 driver, ensure there's no intel config file lingering in /{etc,usr/share}/X11/xorg.conf.d - it could prevent the X11 server from starting)
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#3 2019-06-25 12:33:24
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Re: Arch linux freezing when playing games on chrome/opera/chromium....
I'd start by dropping compton (it's not a WM but a compositor, you can just kill it) and see whether the issue remains.
The next thing to drop would be x86-video-intel (and implcitly use the modesetting X11 driver, ensure there's no intel config file lingering in /{etc,usr/share}/X11/xorg.conf.d - it could prevent the X11 server from starting)
I'm afraid i'll have tearing if I remove my conf file from /usr/share/X11/corg.conf.
I'm fine with dropping compton however if I remove the xorg config file I'll have tearing
Is there another way to stop tearing ?
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#4 2019-06-25 12:34:59
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Re: Arch linux freezing when playing games on chrome/opera/chromium....
The point of the exercise is to isolate the cause.
Also the config file won't do anything sane to the modesetting driver anyway - just impede its invocation.
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#5 2019-06-25 12:36:20
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Re: Arch linux freezing when playing games on chrome/opera/chromium....
The point of the exercise is to isolate the cause.
Also the config file won't do anything sane to the modesetting driver anyway - just impede its invocation.
UPDATE: i've already tried without compton and seems like the issue persists
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#6 2019-06-25 12:43:49
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Re: Arch linux freezing when playing games on chrome/opera/chromium....
Possibly related and directly before your thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=247308
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#7 2019-06-25 12:46:43
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Re: Arch linux freezing when playing games on chrome/opera/chromium....
Possibly related and directly before your thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=247308
Hmmm...
Sound like the issue was in the xf86-video-intel (not sure, still testing)
And maybe compton would do the job of the config file.
I'll test and update this post.
[UPDATE] the issue still persists.
What are my options?
[EDIT] do I have to remove all 86 like drivers like mesa and such ?
[EDIT] I found out it"s a network problem.
I have like 50ms when I play but randomly it looses connection to the server.
I know its not from my end because I've never has such problem with other distros and I don't know how to troubleshoot a networking problem.
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