Getting around 130fps avg frames, sometime dipping down into the 80’s, when playing CS2. Did a recent system upgrade and presumed performance would be better than this for the build?
Gear:
- Ryzen 7 5700x 3.4ghz
- 6750XT 12gb ddr6
- 16gb 3600mhz ddr4
- m.2 SSD
- 144hz , 1440 screen with freesync
- Running Mint latest version
Have tried in-game settings at lowest, still not managing to get a stable FPS above 144. Mucking with settings doesn’t seem to change performance much. Have set game to run with ‘-vulkan’ which helped reduce some stuttering issues, but not much performance gain.
I also only get <100fps with other games like BG3. Figured this kit would be able to handle modern games a bit better. Any ideas what’s going on?
EDIT: For future reference, the following changes were made and am now getting ~200fps
- Enabled asus EZ Tune in BIOS (rather than manually muck with each setting)
- Updated gpu drivers via ‘amdgpu -install’
- Enable gamemode
I’ve heard people say that the linux/proton performance of CS2 is shockingly bad but I haven’t really investigated yet. BG3 is more shocking but that is also a CRPG which is a genre known for engine jank.
Aside from what others have mentioned: Getting more data on what is falling over helps a lot. Watch your favorite computer/tech youtuber and look at the kind of info they have in their benchmarks (frame time, etc). Personally? I am too lazy to look at systematic ways to collect this on linux but I do like to use mangohud. Set it up to show me some useful metrics and toggle it on for games that are performing unsatisfactorily. Generally lets me narrow down if it is CPU, Memory, or GPU limited and even what might be misbehaving.