I’ve used to be able to play this game just fine at around medium graphic settings through Proton (GE), but today when I launched it again after a while the performance was just really poor.
Like mouse-moves-at-30fps-in-the-menu-poor.
There have been plenty of package upgrades since my last launch including plasma 6, proton and the game itself. So I don’t really have any particular suspects here.
Running Arch with AMD GPU. Wayland/Xorg didn’t seem to make a difference.
Has anyone else experienced similar performance degrading in this or another game lately?
found a pretty reliable way to make it perform shitty - alt-tab out of the game, do something memory-hoggy, like firefox with plenty of tabs and alt-tab back. it’s often (but not always) super shitty then.
I’m on F40 Plasma, didn’t have that degradation on F39 Gnome when alt-tabbing; but then I had Gnome session crashes frequently, which never happen with Plasma 6.
Is your system then actually low on memory then? This doesn’t seem to work for me, but then again even javascript sites aren’t going to eat 32gigs just like that.
One theory that I tested, was that whether it was a scheduled BTRFS scrub in the background (basically reading all the data and checking for errors), but it doesn’t seem to have an effect when manually started.
Another observation now that it’s running fine: At the time my fans never revved up to speed like they do now. Just stayed mostly silent. It really felt like it was accidentally using an integrated GPU, which I don’t have…