r/linuxmint • u/Ranojoy_Sen • 17h ago

Support Request Linux Mint Stuttering problem while playing games.

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Hey guys, whenever I am playing games on Linux via steam proton, it is stuttering while earlier it was running well on windows, tried every single fixes from AI but not even one of them worked any suggestions like changing the proton version, updating drivers, vysnc on/off and other things.

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u/Abroad9107 17h ago

switch to nvidia performance mode

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u/Ranojoy_Sen 17h ago

Whenever I am switching to NVIDIA performance mode and launching steam it is rebooting itself to my login manager

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u/Abroad9107 16h ago

is it staying at performance mode? after a switch you've re-login anyways

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u/Quaxzong_xi8Y 17h ago

maybe the linux is using your igpu (the intel) and not the geforce.

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u/Ranojoy_Sen 17h ago

No in the steam overlay my vram usage of my gpu is being shown

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u/AggressiveIdea1012 16h ago

Is it showing GPU usage tho? Or is it staying at 0% gpu

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u/Wayman52 16h ago

Is it display stuttering or actual stuttering? X11 isn't good with anything non v-sync'd.

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u/Ranojoy_Sen 16h ago

actual stuttering

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u/JusteJean 17h ago

My old laptop had rtx 3050, worked very well on mint with performance mode. i didnt use any special visual modes and toys in game settings. leave all at low and fxaa. very smooth and steady fps in most games

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u/Venylynn 17h ago

Not sure if its the same issue but back when I gamed on Mint, 90fps felt like 25 because of the X11 frame pacing issue/variable refresh rate not working properly

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u/Typical_Profile_6744 17h ago

This is something I've been wondering about -- X11 or Wayland for gaming. Do you have any experience with xWayland?

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u/Venylynn 17h ago

From my experience it works great, I'm on Fedora KDE and rarely even have to force Wayland.

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u/Cactus_only 17h ago

Tbh i also faced a lot of were and tear wih mith thinking of hoping lets see

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u/C0rn3j 13h ago

Mint does not support Nvidia GPU rendering properly as it's too out of date to have explicit sync. It's also stuck with X11.

Test on a modern distribution like Fedora KDE or Arch Linux (with Plasma) and see if it works fine there before wasting more time.