Thanks! I appreciate the update, will have to give it a try myself after work.

So I am enabling HDR and Wayland (because I need it for HDR). Out of curiosity what are your other commands doing there and how are they working for you in Hunt?

Yeah also rollbacked to 10-12. Haven’t had a chance to test 10-14.

I am skeptical due to the change log. It seems he is applying game specific fixes on top of 10-13. I imagine what was making Hunt slow was in a downstream project.

There were major performance regressions for Hunt Showdown in 10-13. I wonder if that is fixed in this release.

I don’t know for sure but I run Mangohud with a wine version display and I know the version string for 10-13 was messed up. It was something along the lines of 10-12-gitsha. So maybe he was fixing that?

I am kind of shocked about the 7900 xtx. I have the same GPU and I am getting good performance under Linux.

I did some just for fun benchmarking on Doom The Dark Ages last night and I expected Linux to be slightly slower due to the built in ray tracing but I actually got better avgs under Linux. The max frame rate was slightly higher under Windows but the lows were way better under Linux. Overall fairly close performance with a slight edge to Linux.

Maybe Bazzite is doing some magic here. What distro was he using?

Edit: I watched a bit of it, he is running Bazzite, no idea why he is seeing such crazy different numbers. I typically run Proton GE, and I assume he is running Proton Stable, so that would make a dent. People are mentioning low power mode in the comments, but I never have had any issue with that and my 7900 xtx. I haven’t had to do anything weird or out of the ordinary.

I think it’s most likely due to me not playing the same games he is, Stalker 2 is basically the only he is playing that I have played in the past and I’ve haven’t done a comparison of that game on Linux vs Windows.

For posterity’s sake here is what I ended doing.

• I reinstalled Bazzite and switched over to KDE variant
• Flicker seems a lot better then Gnome under KDE, especially at the desktop level
• In the games I have tested, flicker still feels more prominent then Windows 11 - mostly noticeable in HDR games with fluctuating framerates and in menus (even if that menu has stable frame rate)
• Flicker patterns are different under KDE then Gnome, some games has less flicker, some more, overall an improvement

HDR is working well under KDE, the Wayland mode in GE Proton introduces a big performance hit in some games unfortunately.

Yeah I was exploring KDE on a Fedora live disc and I guessed that is what automatic vrr was doing. Turning it to always introduced more flicker but still seemed less then gnome.

It’s way worse if I run games under the experimental Wayland mode that you enable with GE.

What distro are you using? I am on Bazzite

https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/t3fn6l/can_someone_explain_vrr_like_im_5_what_it_does/

Ok, so let’s say your tv is a typical 60hz TV, that means it updates 60 times a second, regardless of the games frame rate. A 60fps game will be in perfect sync with your TV, as will 30fps because each frame will just be displayed twice. When your game is running at a frame rate in between it’s not in sync with the display any more and you end up with screen tearing, as the image being sent to the TV changes part way through the image being displayed.

VRR stands for Variable a refresh Rate. It basically means the displays refresh rate can vary to match the source of the image, so that it always stays in sync.

This a pretty good explanation of what VRR is doing. Basically makes it so you can drop frames and it still feels smooth.

Kind of a bummer to hear - I was hoping KDE’s VRR implementation might avoid the issue. It may be a Wayland problem so that would be unavoidable.

Edit: did some testing with a live image tonight - at least on my machine KDE seems much better when it comes to flicker

I had the name wrong initially - I just edited it to correct it, but under Windows “dynamic refresh rate” - is distinct then VRR. Settings reads “To help save power, Windows adjusts the refresh rate up the selected rate above”. See https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22555295/microsoft-windows-11-dynamic-refresh-rate-laptops.

I can turn it off and still have VRR enabled.

Trust me when I say the amount of OLED flicker is much much higher in Gnome then under Windows for the exact same games. Like give you eye strain and a headache super fast. I still see a little flicker under Windows but it’s not comparable.

I am a little disappointed to find out it was just the Mike Tyson fight and not the entire game. Or I was curious to see what ridiculous glitches they needed to use to get to the end in 2 minutes.

It’s weird because there is a thumbnail with pictures but no pictures in the actual article

Blocking Linux probably didn’t help those numbers

Actually on Tumbleweed right now. I’ve been generally impressed but my suspend broke out of no where and it’s the latest in a long line of (mostly) minor things breaking with updates. The upside with how fast the updates are is that usually things are fixed as quickly as they break but suspend has been broken for me for about 3 weeks now.

I honestly just don’t think rolling distros are for me. Or at least, not for my use case of chill out during my downtime and play a game PC.

Right now I am pretty frustrated with HDR under Linux. Well frustrated may be the wrong word, but it is the thing right now that gets me to boot into Windows to play games that have HDR.

I am wondering if I would have more luck using the deck variant for HDR because apparently Valve has this figured out before everyone else.

Kind of the boat I am in.

Just want my gaming desktop to work and be stable. Or at least more stable then my current rolling release, Tumbleweed.

I do have an AMD GPU, so that sounds like it will make things easier.

Are you running the -deck variant that gives you a Steam deck experience that has a DE for “desktop mode” or just the version with a more traditional DE?

I had a pretty bad experience with Nobara where KDE was super unstable. Probably hardware specific, but when I switched off it everything was stable.

GPU is Radeon 7900xtx, so pretty new.

I may switch back to distro Steam. I was trying to get as much Flatpaked as possible but getting HDR working is more important to me.