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Hi,
since a few days, I have the problem that games run flawlessly for around 10 minutes, and then start lagging extremely. Basically a sudden move from smooth 60 FPS to 1 FPS.
I did some research, and there are similar cases with video cards, always VRAM caused. But I didn't changed anything, and all games worked flawless before. This issue is only visible in games, not in other programs like the browser or in Gnome. Doing high load to the cpu by compiling big project doesn't expose any problems as well. Closing the game and opening it up again causes it to work again, for about 10 minutes.
The laptop has dual-graphic. Issue is present both when running on nvidia and intel graphic. I thought the problem is temperature induced, but GPU always stays cool at <50°C, CPU can spike up to 90°C, but the lag can start with 70°C as well. I opened the laptop, and there was not any mentionable dust to remove.
$ nvidia-smi
Sun Nov 17 19:48:25 2019
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 440.31 Driver Version: 440.31 CUDA Version: 10.2 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 105... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 40C P5 N/A / N/A | 616MiB / 4040MiB | 23% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 238677 G /usr/lib/Xorg 36MiB |
| 0 238860 G ...ine-launcher-bin/game_x64/Albion-Online 575MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I somehow think the problem was caused due to recent updates. But not sure.
$ uname -a
Linux ********* 4.19.84-1-lts #1 SMP Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:19:52 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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..ine-launcher-bin/game_x64/Albion-Online
Are you using the linux or windows version of albion ?
Does a native linux game like xonotic have the same problem ?
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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Ok, after some testing I think the cultprint should be nvidia. I was wrong thinking that Don't Starve Together was running on Intel.
* Albion Online (native) - nvidia -> PROBLEM
* Don't Starve Together (steam) - nvidia-> PROBLEM
* CS:GO (steam) - nvidia -> PROBLEM
* Hedgewards (native) - intel -> OK
* 0AD (native) - intel -> OK
* 0AD (native) - nvidia -> PROBLEM
I suspect the 440.31 version, because Albion distributed a patch at the same date, and originally I thought they broke the game. My old version was 435.21 from nvidia-dkms. I'm running on the LTS kernel.
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Other threads with similar problems :
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=250858
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=250660
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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