Performance Issues - Ryzen 5700X3D, 32GB RAM, RX 6800XT

[GrovesK]

Hello,

does anyone have some tips how to fix stutters and drops? I believe that my rig is quite alright for the game, but the game drops from 200 to 40 on multiple ocassions and it is very noticable.

I tried decreasing resolution scale to 75 (1440 monitor), everything turned off and sliders to medium and still.

Also tried the mesa_glthread fix, but still.

Thank you very much

[Krougal]

Uhhh...I'm not an AMD guy, but a quick lookup of your parts and those would seem to be top end parts, although since I am seeing the card used and cheap, I assume they aren't latest gen.

It should be more than adequate. Drivers up to date?

What is your view distance at? Shadows settings?

Did you turn vsync off?

Also frames over your refresh rate are a waste, 1440 monitors usually are around 140-165 Hz, I'd cap my framerate no higher than that, although I actually cap mine much lower at 75.

I really only ever care about the lowest and average FPS, not the highest.

As long as the game runs smooth I am happy, and I'd rather set my video settings to look decent and still have a smooth framerate than an excessively high one.

Although all bets are off in a competetive online shooter, where FPS is all that matters.

 

[GrovesK]

Drivers baked into linux, but never had an issue with bazzite.

View distance 352, shadow/Particle med

turned off vsync

monitor 240hz, tried capping the framerate on 144FPS but it doesnt bother locking them. Tried turning on vsync to see if it works, nah.

The Lows are the main problem, I drop down to 40FPS - which from 200 is painfully visible.

[Krougal]

Oh, I didn't know they started making 240hz monitors past 1080P.

Awesome, something else for me to go drop money on.

Yeah, Linux I can't help you.

I use RHEL servers for LoB apps, but I always work from the CLI, never the desktop, and I certainly don't game on it.

Hopefully one of the other Linux users around here can offer you some useful advice.

I really don't think it is a hardware issue, and I play at 512 distance, medium-high settings, and I've got an I9 that was top of the line but it's a few generations behind now, 32GB RAM and a GeForce 4060, which is decent, but not great by any means.

[GrovesK]

Will see if someone will know, I am still unsure if it is Linux based problem, or something else.

Still thank you for stoping by.

[hstone32]

are you certain that when launching the game, it is being launched using your graphics hardware instead of cpu graphics? My distro came with graphics driver switching and hybrid gpu\cpu graphics. Usually it's pretty good at detecting what is or is not a game, but it's been getting confused by VS as of late.

[GrovesK]

Ryzen 5700X3D doesnt have integrated GPU

[hstone32]

Are you running vs natively or as a flatpak? If flatpak, are the flatpak versions of amd drivers installed also?

I prefer not to touch flatpaks myself, so I'm not really sure on this, but I think flatpak games must have flatpak versions of gpu drivers installed, possibly as system wide.

[GrovesK]

Flatpak version, I wasnt able to install native without issues. But never heard of the fact that I need those drivers. Will check into that aswell

[hstone32]

3 minutes ago, GrovesK said:

But never heard of the fact that I need those drivers.

Yeah, don't quote me on that. I just have noticed differences in performance between native and flatpak games when on different gpu driver versions between the two.

[GrovesK]

Would you be willing to give me a hand with the native install? What distro u use?

[hstone32]

34 minutes ago, GrovesK said:

Would you be willing to give me a hand with the native install? What distro u use

I'm afraid I don't have much time to help you out, my day is just ending. I'll just tell you that I am using pop!_OS. It pretty much set up everything for me. Pretty much any instruction meant for Ubuntu also apply to Pop!_OS. To install natively, I just carefully followed the instructions on the wiki, taking particular care with following the section on .NET: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Installing_the_game_on_Linux

edit: I also didn't bother with most of the lines in the "Launching the game" section, because there's an install script that does all that for you. Once you have all the per-requisites taken care of, simply extracting the archive to anywhere and running the install.sh script will take care of everything. Remember that you need to set a script as executable first as follows: 

chmod +x install.sh

After that, the game should be visible to your distro's application launcher.

Edited August 10, 2025 by hstone32