SOLVED - “Allow screen tearing” was ON and caused this issue.

I have some constant stuttering on my current setup. Every 4-5 seconds, almost like a hiccup, I drop about 100 ms worth of frames.

Video:
https://picoshare.jau.nz/-VnpPP8z6xR

Full specs:

5600X

3080 Ti on 570.124.04

Nobara with KDE

Wayland

This has been persistent through several GPU driver updates and I’m tired of trying to troubleshoot it. I don’t know what the exact cause is. Any ideas?

Also, related note, how easy is it to migrate from one distro to another? I am thinking about trying something else - maybe base Fedora or Arch - to hopefully have better performance.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 days ago

    Does it happen with all games or GL engagement, or just the heavier ones?

    What’s your memory util?

    Does your machine use swap when gaming?

    Are you overclocking your memory or CPU freq?

    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Does it happen with all games or GL engagement, or just the heavier ones?

      It’s just constant - the video I provided shows the UFO test. The stuttering is on the desktop.

      What’s your memory util?

      I don’t know what that is

      Does your machine use swap when gaming?

      No, 32 GB RAM. I rarely go above 40%.

      Are you overclocking your memory or CPU freq?

      No, using XMP settings

        • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago
          +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.124.04             Driver Version: 570.124.04     CUDA Version: 12.8     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti     Off |   00000000:07:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   59C    P0            116W /  350W |    1160MiB /  12288MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A            2966      G   /usr/bin/kwalletd6                        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3065      G   /usr/bin/kwin_wayland                    55MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3180      G   /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard                102MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3198      G   /usr/bin/Xwayland                         4MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3303      G   /usr/bin/ksmserver                        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3309      G   /usr/bin/kded6                            3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3353      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell                    198MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3438      G   /usr/bin/kaccess                          3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3439      G   ...it-kde-authentication-agent-1          3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3441      G   ...ibexec/xdg-desktop-portal-kde          3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3637      G   /usr/bin/kdeconnectd                      3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4108      G   /usr/bin/xwaylandvideobridge              3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4158      G   /usr/libexec/DiscoverNotifier             3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4292      G   keepassxc                                 3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4515    C+G   /usr/bin/sunshine                       253MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5924      G   /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox              172MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           56842      G   /usr/bin/konsole                          3MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+