#Low performance while gaming?

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next root
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I feel like my computer isn't performing as well as it did when I was playing on Windows. For example: I've been playing ARC Raiders lately, and when I was playing on Windows (before I completely ditched Windows to switch to Linux), I was getting around 70-80 FPS in 4K with the default graphics settings (all options including ray tracing set to epic). Obviously, I had drops to 60 FPS, especially when there were fights or many elements in the area, but it usually stayed within the aforementioned range.
Now I barely reach 60 FPS. I've tried lowering everything to the minimum, and even then, the game struggles to reach 80 FPS. Does anyone know why this might be?

next root
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Also Big Picture mode is so laggy when making it fullscreen. Anyone know a solution to this?

livid crescent
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Have you tried gaming on other Linux distros? There's a chance it's more an issue of fan speeds or drivers, rather than Omarchy itself. It would be worth it to look into if you have the best drivers for your GPU, your wattage is what it should be, and your fans are running at the right speeds.

What kind of rig are you running?

dusty tusk
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Well, Omarchy aint focused on gaming is it? You should use a gaming focused distro instead like bazzite or cachyos

livid crescent
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It isn't focused on gaming, but it should still be able to perform reasonably well. Given that it's built on arch, it should just come down to installing/configuring the right packages, right? Isn't that all that Cachy is doing for you anyways?

dusty tusk
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No, it has a optimized kernel and it uses scx schedulers to improve your perfomance

livid crescent
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Oh, that makes sense. Well, @next root, there's one option for you. You could swap over to another distro and bring your hyprland config with you (shoot, you could probably bring a lot of omarchy with you; you might even be able to install it on top of Cachy), or you can try and figure out what your bottleneck is.

When I switched my laptop over to linux, I realized that the current linux kernel doesn't actually support my fans, meaning I couldn't get them above 50%. That will probably get updated in future kernel releases, but for now I'm just kinda stuck on half power due to thermal throttling on linux

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# livid crescent Have you tried gaming on other Linux distros? There's a chance it's more an issu...

Maybe drivers but definetly not fan speed, my CPU doesn't go more than 50-50º while being on 60-70% and my GPU barely reaches 74º while on 100%. New build with new case, AIO and new fans so that's not it. I don't know about drivers since I though Omarchy downloaded them automatically.
And no, I haven't tried any other gaming distros but I prefer not to since I like Omarchy and has been my go to distro since this summer.

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vestal spire
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Did you maybe have frame gen or something along those lines on windows that you don't have on here?

next root
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Nope.

void surge
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@next root did you solve it?

next root
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Nope

void surge
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🙁

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its seem something is forcing to run up to 60 fps

drowsy knoll
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You are on Nvidia, you are going to take a performance hit no matter what on linux, compared to windows. but you will need to go to arch & hyprland wiki and look up possible optimizations for your set up. Omarchy isn't gaming focused, otherwise a more gaming focused distros as others have mentioned will be better. DHH himself has expressed you need to take time looking things up for YOUR use case. Hyprland itself states Nivida hradware is not officially supported. It works for many people but it may take tweaking

void surge
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Do you have any distro recommendation? i love omarchy, I used to use i3 with debian before

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cachy?

drowsy knoll
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It is possible to layer omarchy on top of Cachy OS, possible their kernel tweaks might fair better OOB

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DHH has made mention of that as well, he personally didnt see a bump in his use case but stated maybe for others it could

void surge
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I see, i will do some research for the next week, right now i dont have time to move to another distro. thanks avi

drowsy knoll
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Anytime options exist! Might just take a little reading.

small sky
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i also have a nvidia gpu and havent had a issue with omarchy

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so idk what your issue is

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the only issue I have had with hyperland is that sometimes when moving a window it gets supper laggy(like 0.5fps) but i havent had that issue since the last update

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next root
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Someone knows why Big Picture mode could be so laggy on full screen?

fickle mist
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make sure your power profile is not balanced or something

next root
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Yep, already checked that.

steel nymph
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@dusty tusk Omarchy is not a distro. It’s just dotfiles on Arch linux, which is a phenomenal gaming distro! It’s just as performant as Cachy (also arch) and better than bazzite. OP, do you have gamemode installed?

next root
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gamemode? i don't know what that is so I guess I don't. could you help me understand what this is and how could it help me?

dusty tusk
steel nymph
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drowsy knoll
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It's Arch, so I mean you make it do whatever, it just might take some reading and commitment

tawny pasture
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Hello, I have the same issue as you, did gamemode really change something or have you find a fix, I would like to install the same config on my working computer (omarchy) than my personnal (windows), but i tried to play clair obscur, but the frame were low and input lag high. I tried before switching up to omarchy, and it was working pretty fine. It makes me question if i'm really gonna swap up to omarchy to my personnal setup