Graphical anomalies

[waxen shale]

Hi yall, here I am again, hopefully this time I can provide better context and I can figure out what’s happening. So, I am running an arch distro, EndeavorOS, and my hardware is a Ryzen 5600x, Evga 3080ti, and 64gb ram.

I am seeing graphical anomalies, idk if this is a driver error, or my gpu is dying, or it’s something else. But halo infinite just kinda starts entering a new dimension, in Minecraft frames are whole colors leading to the screen flashing, mostly black, in stalker gamma when I enter fire fights my frames drop to shit and I can’t play reliably. Other games like armored core, halo mcc and helldivers 2 run fine.

here are some halo infinite vids I took to show whats happening there

[waxen shale]

Please?

[sweet hawk]

could you install windows on a spare ssd

to rule out driver problems

[waxen shale]

I have the live iso of the os install, but idk what program to use to benchmark it

[waxen shale]

But no, I can’t install windows as the latest win10 iso defaults to win11, and my system isn’t compatible with windows 11

[hushed lodge]

did this just start happening?
have you been running endeavourOS for a long time or just installed it?

[waxen shale]

It just started happening, I was using x11 for a bit then I got these anomalies, switched to Wayland when kde 6 came out

[waxen shale]

But it’s still happening, so it consistent

[hushed lodge]

I do not use linux, so if ya want to game go windows.

Pro tip if you also want to use linx you can instal a new drive and dual boot

[slow kite]

Have you tried updating your system? Did it start happening after KDE6 release? Historically I have also seen less issues reported for games with GNOME compared to KDE.

Also Nvidia's drivers haven't been as good on Wayland as they should be, so make sure that they are up to date. Can you run a pacman -Syu in terminal?

[slow kite]

If ya want to be Micro$oft's b... sure that's a good idea, but if you want to use a OS that doesn't suck, use Linux. It gives you the freedom to do WHATEVER you want HOWEVER you want to. Get an issue with something? Just switch to something else.

[waxen shale]

No, I was on budgie x11 when all of the anomalies started happening, I was hoping that switching to Wayland and kde 6 would help a little, but no

Also, budgie is gnome based

[slow kite]

ik

[waxen shale]

K bet

[slow kite]

Ahh. Alright, then seems to be an Nvidia driver issue to me. How long ago have they started happening?

[waxen shale]

Over a month ago, l missed a couple of events in halo infinite.

[slow kite]

Did you update your system beforehands?

Or do you have auto-updates on for some reason (also does Endeavour even have those for system components?)

Also..

[waxen shale]

I update with either my distros update system or I just do pacman -Syu, I updated it last night

[waxen shale]

Running Minecraft

[waxen shale]

So, with discord, when I get pop ups and what not, like when trying to view an image, it’ll flicker in and out of existence like Minecraft, and Steam would kinda get torn apart? It also flickers, but it’s random. Sometimes it won’t, sometimes it will, but it’s also a part of the window

I’ll get a video later, as I’m at work rn

[vast igloo]

Honestly sounds like either drivers or bad hardware considering it's also happening across multiple DE's

Personally I'd suggest setting up a minimal windows install + latest drivers to rule out it just being hardware (due to Linux Nvidia drivers being absolutely fuckin horrid) and then go from there

Just get like a small ssd or smth, doesn't need to be huge.. just make sure that before you install windows, that you disconnect all of your other drives or it may decide to throw it's efi partition literally anywhere except for the drive windows is getting installed to

[vale girder]

Also, if you stream the game do other people see these anomalies? If they don't, then it's hardware side.

[waxen shale]

That part is going to be difficult. As my boot nvme is behind my gpu, which is hardline water cooled

Also I’m tight on money, what I was goi to do is try to get steam running on the installation iso since it boots into a live environment and try to run halo infinite from that to try and see if it’s hardware or drivers. I hope it’s not hardware….

[waxen shale]

Steam link to my phone would work?

[vast igloo]

The "live" environment for the installation ISO is extremely limited and lacks most core system features, wouldn't work

[waxen shale]

I was told to do that by the devs of my distro

Since it comes pre installed with clean nvidia drivers

[vast igloo]

you'd need to use something like wintousb to make a liveboot drive (effectively installs windows onto the usb drive)

[vast igloo]

You do mean the windows installation iso directly from microsoft right?

[waxen shale]

My distro iso is a live boot environment when you install the os

[vast igloo]

Ye windows isn't like linux, at all

I suggest doing the testing with windows because it actually guarentees you're in a functional state software-wise (fuck nvidia)

[waxen shale]

It’s already ready to go in a usb, since I needed to make it for the is install. The devs of my os said that I can use the iso live boot to see if it’s drivers or hardware

See, I would, but the current windows 10 iso defaults to win 11, and my system isn’t compatible with it.

And I don’t feel like dual booting.

[vast igloo]

it shouldn't be

How are you trying to download it?

[waxen shale]

When I dropped it into my vm a while ago it defaulted to windows 11

[vast igloo]

You definitely downloaded the win11 iso then xd

[waxen shale]

And from Microsoft

Nah

[vast igloo]

an win10 iso doesn't just magically become win11, you downloaded the wrong one

[waxen shale]

Says win10 rite dere

And it defaults to win11, unless Microsoft mislabeled this iso on their website and file

[vast igloo]

boutta find out xd

[waxen shale]

But my gf win10 magically updated to win11 unexpectedly…..

I was trying to find an older iso tho

[vast igloo]

that one you can blame microsoft for, i love winupdate so much

[waxen shale]

Yee

[vast igloo]

chances are they started updates and didn't realize that win11 was in that bunch

[waxen shale]

But it makes one think, since they’re pushing ai

They’re gonna cut win10 support soon

[vast igloo]

ye 2025 is official end of support for win10 iirc

pain

[waxen shale]

That’s why the win10 iso defaults to 11 since they’re prepping for that

[vast igloo]

might be the day that i actually swap back to Arch on my main rig, as long as VR shit is actually more stable i have a crippling vrchat addiction ok

[waxen shale]

Idk what you got tho on your end with that iso

I wanna get into vr

[vast igloo]

boutta find out in like 2 mins

[vast igloo]

honestly its worth it

as long as you have the money

[waxen shale]

You couldn’t drop it into a vm?

[waxen shale]

And space

Can’t really do vr in a college dorm

[vast igloo]

Damn

[vast igloo]

Whachu mean?

[waxen shale]

But vr in Minecraft with the valkiren skies mod? Chefs kiss

[waxen shale]

Instead of installing it on your system, why not install it in a virtual machine?

[vast igloo]

it is a vm :3

[waxen shale]

Ah

I’m dumb

[vast igloo]

the amount of capture card and 2 pc fuckery i'd need to be doing to get a screenshot like that on raw hardware xD

ion got that money sad

[waxen shale]

I could never get it working, always booted into the interactive shell.

Bruh

[vast igloo]

ye i can now confirm that iso is actually win10

[waxen shale]

But as you can see here in my virtman, it installs as win11

[vast igloo]

i got no clue what in the heck you did for it to be win11, but ye

[waxen shale]

Hmm

So at least that’s ok, but I can’t take out my current drive, and dual booting gon be a bitch, but at least it’s not win 11, cuz apparently win11 doesn’t like dual booting

[vast igloo]

Honestly windows overall doesn't like dual booting, due to the efi partition fuckery i mentioned before

[waxen shale]

I see

[vast igloo]

winupdate has a tendency to just overwrite efi/grub and leave your linux install fucked

so you then have to use a live linux usb to restore efi/grub for dual boot

shits a pain

fuck windows

[vast igloo]

it's even worse when you have secureboot enabled 🗿

[waxen shale]

Welp

What would be a way to test whether it’s drivers or hardware?

Without windows

[vast igloo]

deadass don't know any benchmarking software for linux, i always default to windows for it because it's the main platform that hardware companies actually develop their shit for

If your os's liveboot iso does have (functional) nvidia drivers, it won't hurt to try it, but it isn't a guarentee

[waxen shale]

I’ve found benchmarking apps, installed them, but they don’t show up in my apps

They’re installed, but unreachable

Need Luke or Emily for sum help

[slow kite]

They are most likely terminal only. What did you install?