Frame rate drops drastically during regular use

RELPLT · 2024-10-18 10:49:50

Hello everyone,

I am using a ThinkPad T16 Gen 2 (AMD). Full specs here.

I can use the laptop regularly but after a few hours, its frame rate drops severely. The mouse cursor stutters along with everything else. If I have a video playing, the audio from the video is continuing as normal but the video itself and the entire system stutters. Logging off and logging back in does not solve the problem, I must restart the computer but then the problem returns.

If it's relevant, I am using the standard video drivers from the mesa package. My DE is GNOME.

Anyone knows what might cause this?
Thank you.

Lone_Wolf · 2024-10-19 11:51:50

Does this happen while on wall power or on battery (maybe both) ?

What are you using to play the video ?

RELPLT · 2024-10-19 12:54:09

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Does this happen while on wall power or on battery (maybe both) ?
What are you using to play the video ?

Either YouTube or Celluloid but not necessarily when I watch a video. I do not see any spike in CPU, RAM usage, or temperature when it happens. It happens both on battery and on AC power.

Lone_Wolf · 2024-10-20 11:14:32

Celluloid uses mpv, youtube probably runs in a browser.

Gnome defaults to wayland on amd gpus, try running gnome on X to see if that also has the issue.

(Check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME#Starting in case you need info on changing the session type used by gnome)

seth · 2024-10-20 11:51:37

Logging off and logging back in does not solve the problem, I must restart the computer but then the problem returns.

Also check the system journal of an affected boot for amdgpu or drm related errors, might be down to power saving or psr, though the latter typically related to FS windows, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p2171821

modinfo amdgpu | grep pm

amdgpu.dpm=0 will likely result in a complete boot failure.

RELPLT · 2024-10-20 12:02:13

seth wrote:

Logging off and logging back in does not solve the problem, I must restart the computer but then the problem returns.
Also check the system journal of an affected boot for amdgpu or drm related errors, might be down to power saving or psr, though the latter typically related to FS windows, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p2171821
modinfo amdgpu | grep pm
amdgpu.dpm=0 will likely result in a complete boot failure.

Doesn't seem to be the problem

$ modinfo amdgpu | grep pm
parm:           dpm:DPM support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto) (int)
parm:           aspm:ASPM support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto) (int)
parm:           runpm:PX runtime pm (2 = force enable with BAMACO, 1 = force enable with BACO, 0 = disable, -1 = auto, -2 = auto with displays) (int)
parm:           bapm:BAPM support (1 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto) (int)

seth · 2024-10-20 12:42:31

What *exactly* doesn't seem to help?
I know what the modinfo prints, sorry - the idea was to try "amdgpu.aspm=0 amdgpu.runpm=0 amdgpu.bapm=0" - did you check the journal for errors?

RELPLT · 2024-10-20 13:12:58

seth wrote:

What *exactly* doesn't seem to help?
I know what the modinfo prints, sorry - the idea was to try "amdgpu.aspm=0 amdgpu.runpm=0 amdgpu.bapm=0" - did you check the journal for errors?

Is this what you meant?

$ journalctl | grep amdgpu.aspm=0
$ journalctl | grep amdgpu.runpm=0
$ journalctl | grep amdgpu.bapm=0
$

Doesn't return anything.

seth · 2024-10-20 13:22:39

No, the plan wa to apply those kernel parameters - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters
What exactly did you do before that "didn't work"?
Also please post your complete system journal for an affected boot, eg.

sudo journalctl -b -1 | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

for the previous (-1) one.

RELPLT · 2024-10-20 13:47:48

seth wrote:

No, the plan wa to apply those kernel parameters - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters
What exactly did you do before that "didn't work"?
Also please post your complete system journal for an affected boot, eg.
sudo journalctl -b -1 | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st
for the previous (-1) one.

I am not sure since I rebooted the laptop not only when it happened but if I remember correctly, it happened on this boot: https://0x0.st/XlpE.txt

Last edited by RELPLT (2024-10-20 13:49:19)

seth · 2024-10-20 14:09:36

There's a lot of

Oct 19 13:22:13 Tymoshenko gnome-shell[2161]: JS ERROR: Gio.IOErrorEnum: Socket I/O timed out
                                              getLeagueScoreboard/</<@file:///home/latnook/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/colosseum@sereneblue/client.js:172:40
                                              @resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/init.js:21:20

so maybe the kernel/amdgpu is irrelevant and it's more a gnome bug.
Try to run gnome w/o any 3rd party extensions and see whether the issue returns.

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