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When did you start working around with Linux? (lemmy.ml)
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Yes, im doing le funy Meme. And yes, I am an autist, with some signs towards something adhd adjacent

I first tried Linux Mint when I was 12, eventually changed to Ubuntu when I was 13 or 14 because I saw the Windows 11 copilot button, installed arch at late 14, and got to gentoo when I was 15.

Can anyone beat me to it?

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[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I have a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (Ryzen 7 5800H + RTX 3060). This happens across EVERY distro I've tried (Debian 12, Fedora 42, Mint Cinnamon, EndeavourOS, Nobara, PopOS) and EVERY browser (Firefox, Brave, Chromium).

Key symptoms:

  • 2D browser games stutter badly with low framerate
  • 3D WebGL browser games actually run fine (???)
  • Native games run perfectly (Captain Claw via Lutris works great)
  • Same exact game runs perfectly on Windows 10 on the same laptop

Someone else with an RTX 3060 tested the exact same game, seeing the same ~20W power draw, but has zero stutter issues.

Here's everything I've tried so far:

  • Graphics drivers: Both nouveau and NVIDIA proprietary drivers (570.133.07), both with open and proprietary kernels
  • Display settings: Tested at both 60Hz and 160Hz refresh rates
  • Hardware acceleration: Enabled and disabled in all browsers
  • Power modes: BIOS set to both Dynamic and Discrete graphics
  • BIOS tweaks: Disabled virtualization, no power management features available in BIOS apart from that
  • Performance forcing: Locked GPU clocks manually (nvidia-smi -lgc 1200,2100 and -lmc 7000,7000). Enabled persistence mode
  • Added kernel parameters for power management (pcie_aspm=off acpi_osi=Linux)
  • Lenovo-specific: Installed the Lenovo Legion Linux drivers from johnfanv2/LenovoLegionLinux
  • NVIDIA power management: Tried enabling Nvidia dynamic boost with nvidia-powerd.service

I've monitored GPU power draw during gameplay and it hovers at 20-25W even when the light is red (performance mode) and the card is locked at P0 performance state. This is considerably lower than the ~80W it should be able to draw under load. It might not need to draw much more, but right now it's not drawing any more.

When I run the Firefox profiler to see what's happening, I can see the frame drops but there's no clear cause. And the fact that 3D browser games work fine but 2D ones stutter makes no sense to me.

If you have any idea at all I'm listening, I'm all out of ideas :(

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That's odd. I've been running OpensSUSE Tumbleweed with a Ryzen 9 5950X and RTX 3080 with no issues. I don't know what would be making yours, with similar hardware, function differently unless it's the laptop stuff for dynamically switching between onboard graphics and the GPU.

[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 2 points 15 hours ago

Even when I use the MUX switch and use only the dedicated card it stills stutters badly on 2d graphics only. It's really strange.