Stuttering on NVIDIA gpu

taukeys · 2026-04-10 12:02:57

I am using the latest Flatpak Steam to play games, and all games seem to be stuttering constantly.
Mangohud shows my FPS to be 240, but the avg is 150, and lower 1% is 40 fps.
I am using nvidia-open-dkms 595.58.03-1

seth · 2026-04-10 15:39:40

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate related?
Is this a hybrid-graphics system?
Does the repo-version of steam exhibit the same behavior?

taukeys · 2026-04-11 12:11:23

VRR is not relevant here, I use a fixed 60 fps monitor.
This is not a hybrid-graphics system, I use a dedicated RTX 5060.
The game does not work at all on the repo-version of steam, though I suspect that the stuttering issue is global, just more noticeable while playing games.
This is primarily because I also see stuttering on a standalone, non-steam game. (osu!)

seth · 2026-04-11 12:38:47

What DE/display server do you use?
No such problems w/ glxgears?
w/ top and nvidia-smi, is this CPU or GPU limited?
If this happens on an uncomposited X11 session (steam runs through xwayland anyway, try openbox or icewm) does it help to

export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0

?

taukeys · 2026-04-11 14:42:53

I use hyprland as my display server.
No problems with glxgears.
cpu + gpu both have plenty of room to spare, neither is limited.
setting __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 doesn't help.

seth · 2026-04-11 14:46:01

I use hyprland as my display server … setting __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 doesn't help.

seth wrote:

If this happens on an uncomposited X11 session (steam runs through xwayland anyway, try openbox or icewm)

Is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=unigine affected?
Does osu use proton?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/ … ith_Vulkan
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/ … _emulation

taukeys · 2026-04-11 15:04:21

unigine is affected by the issue.
Osu is a standalone game that does not use steam, it runs natively on linux through .NET and renders with OpenGL.

seth · 2026-04-11 18:42:35

Ok, does it happen on openbox as well then?

taukeys · 2026-04-11 19:14:51

I would rather not install openbox, as I am afraid it/I will break things.

seth · 2026-04-11 19:28:05

How should?
Even if, you just remove the installed packages again.

taukeys · Yesterday 01:06:05

I tested it with openbox, and the issue is still present, but with the addition of severe screen tearing.

seth · Yesterday 07:12:30

X11 doesn't sync the output, the client would have to provide that itself (nvidia actually can enforce that for GLX clients via environment variable)
However it's apparently not the display server, nor the client.
Do you get this w/ the proprietary module?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=580xx
It will allow you (and you probably need to test) to disable the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … P_firmware

taukeys · Today 00:45:09

I was unable to test with proprietary drivers due to incompatability with my newer 50 series card, it would require 590xx drivers.

seth · Today 07:36:07

I use a dedicated RTX 5060.

You actually said that, sorry.

You could try one of the older https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/ … open-dkms/
nb. that you'll need the matching https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/n/nvidia-utils/ version

There's probably not much point going too far back, the early open drivers will have increasingly more issues but testing 590xx would be worth a shot and then there's https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-beta-dkms

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