Hi everyone! I’m currently investigating some pretty strong framedrops in X4 Foundations on my Linux daily driver. The framerate is usually in the 50s and I’m wondering if something isn’t working right since I’m experiencing some massive frame drops. Here’s some data I have accumulated from my latest gaming session:

As you can see from the image, there are multiple colors in the GPU related graphs. Those are changing powerstates. It changes from P0 (fastest) to P3 and even P5 which is very low. I only tabbed out later to check the stats since the framedrops were beginning to get annoying. Not sure what causes the P-State change.

Btw. it does look like something around this game (steam, proton) has a memory leak as my ram seems to be filling up gradually. Also, I’m using no startup flags and proton is set to nothing in particular.

The game is in high all over since I can’t stand to look at the cockpits without shadows.

Here’s some system info:

Does anyone have an idea how to find the culprit? It could be a hundred things I guess. Some log I should post?

    • hauiOPA
      1·
      7 months ago

      I can try! Have never heard of it though. Do you have some info?

      • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I already laid out 90% of what I know ;p

        It’s in apt, it’s also available as a checkbox in Lutris & Heroic. I suppose it could also be squirted into the launch %command% of a linux-native Steam game? If the game is running in Steam, in Proton, then I don’t see how gamemode could sneak in there.

        • hauiOPA
          2·
          7 months ago

          Nice. I‘ll check it out. Thanks for taking the time.