#horrible lag on steam games

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young plover
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Okay so I'm completely new to Linux, downloaded it a few weeks back. I'm almost completely unable to play my games on steam because they are so laggy, I've tried diffrent versions of proton and that didn't help it's not a spec issue because almost any device out there can run clicker heros and my desktop won't, I'm thinking it's a driver issue and so does my girlfriend but may as well ask here too. If it's a driver issue does anyone care to walk me through how to fix it/have any good youtube videos showing how, much thanks.

calm loom
young plover
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It happens on all games except source games I guess? I can play gmod perfect and I can play tf2 if I use the legacy boot thing. I'll check my graphics card now

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Actually I think I have inbuilt graphics

calm loom
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well, did the games run fine with windows?

young plover
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Yeah they ran flawlessly

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That's what's got me confused

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Becayse theoraticly I should be getting a drastic upgrade in performance

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that command wont work for me but heres this in case it may be of use

📎 message.txt
calm loom
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I don't have an ideas shruggie

young plover
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yeah, im honestly thinking about switching to arch and seeing if i have any luck on there

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or possibly steam os but i havent found much info on it

pastel oyster
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uname -r ; inxi -G
general btop
amd radeontop
nvidia nvtop

if drivers work glxgears | vkcube
more info
glxinfo -B
vulkaninfo | grep 'Vulkan Instance Version'
you need vulkan v1.3 and you can use anything recent with experimental
if you have vulkan v1.2. you need to revert back to like proton 6 maybe 7
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/
install another desktop environment that has a toggleable compositor button if xorg/x11
turn off vsync
try sticking games on 120fps cap than 60fps cap
turn off ambient occlusion/screenspace in games
make sure shaders gets compiled. you'll notice this pop up in recent games like cod/throne and liberty/the first descendant. its how games functions