MentalEdge comments on Gamescope/Game Mode broken on my hardware :(

Gamescope/Game Mode broken on my hardware :( (piefed.social)

submitted 2 months ago by artyom@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi all. For the last several years I've been using Bazzite/Gamescope on my desktop, and even before that I was using it with ChimeraOS. It's been really great and I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Unfortunately I've begun to experience issues with games freezing. Within an hour of firing up a game, the image freezes. Audio continues playing on a loop. I'm able to pull up the menu and exit out of the game no problem. But then I fire it up and the same thing happens again.

I don't really know how to diagnose this issue but I reinstalled Bazzite fresh, same issue. Installed CachyOS-Handheld, same issue. However I tried launching games from the desktop mode and I've now spent ~20 hours gaming with no issue, but this is certainly not ideal. Any ideas on potential fixes?

E: AMD 5700x + 6800XT 16GB

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

By going back in time to a version that you know worked.

If that doesn't fix it, then you can be sure the problem is hardware related, because it still happens on the exact same software that used to work.

And if it does work on older software, then you can go forward one update/snapshot at a time, until you find the change that causes the problem.

What you need to do is compare different points in TIME (older versions), not the same software just installed differently.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social [S] 0 points 2 months ago (10 children)

because it still happens on the exact same software that used to work.

It also doesn't happen on different software, which suggests it's not a hardware issue.

I don't have the slightest clue how to do anything with snapshots and it's been months since it began anyway so I wouldn't even know where to start. And even if I did know which version caused the problem, I wouldn't know where to go from there.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't have the slightest clue how to do anything with snapshots and it's been months since it began anyway so I wouldn't even know where to start

Well, if you didn't create any, you can't go back to them.

My suggestion is to find the archival ISOs of older versions and try them WITHOUT updating after installing them offline.

Though, if you end up having to install gamescope from the internet, then you're likely getting the exact same latest version no matter what distro you use.

Hence, maybe just easier to learn how to install older versions of packages on cachy. The Arch archive repo makes that quite doable.

And even if I did know which version caused the problem, I wouldn't know where to go from there.

You pin the package/system and prevent it from updating so it keeps working for you. And report the bug so it can be fixed.

All of this stuff is a community effort. You can wait for someone else to figure out the problem of course, but the fastest solution is usually to volunteer yourself.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

A different distro is not different software. Distros are really just different ways to install the same exact software.

Gamescope on Bazzite is the same as Gamescope on Cachy. Same for Plasma/KDE.

Why would they be different?

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[–] artyom@piefed.social [S] -3 points 2 months ago (7 children)

A different distro is not different software.

...what!? LOL

Gamescope on Bazzite is the same as Gamescope on Cachy. Same for Plasma/KDE.

Gamescope on either is also not the same as Plasma.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 months ago* (6 children)

Yes.

A distro or distribution is just a collection of software packages, and usually a package manager.

The actual software itself is the same. The list can be different, but where the items overlap, they are the same. How up to date they are can vary, but Plasma 6 on Bazzite is the exact same as Plasma 6 on Cachy.

Systemd is the same systemd across arch, ubuntu, mint, endeavour, fedora, and any others that use it.

Is this not obvius?

Changing the distro does not tell you much. Especially as you're running the exact same program in the exact same DE, you should absolutely expect the same result.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social [S] -3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Is this not obvius?

Not only is it not obvious, it's not accurate.

A distro or distribution is just a collection of software packages

Software packages that are different . That's what makes one distro different from another. Is that not obvious?

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

Software packages that are different.

No? The same software is the same software, regardless what distro you install it on.

Gamescope running on top of KDE/Plasma in one distro will not be different from Gamescope running on top of KDE/Plasma in another distro.

Distros are just presets. The vast majority have far more similarities than differences.

What makes one distro different from another, is that it might come with gnome instead of KDE, pacman instead of apt, initd instead of systemd, systemd-boot instead of grub.

Or any other litany of alternative packages that do the same things.

But if you use the same software, then there is little difference between one distro and the next. The main difference is going to be that you installed the same code from a different distributor.

That's literally where the name "distro" comes from.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social [S] -3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Software packages that are different

No?

What makes one distro different from another, is that it might come with gnome instead of KDE, pacman instead of apt, initd instead of systemd, systemd-boot instead of grub.

So...different software? Those are all software.

That’s literally where the name of “distro” comes from.

The name comes from different distributions of Linux that come packaged with different software .

I don't know what semantics game you're trying to play here or how it's supposed to help me fix my machine but I'm out.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

No.

We use the word distro because they're not really a fully separate OS. Just a different preset with either a lot or almost nothing swapped out as compared to the next.

You are so hung up being correct here you're missing what I'm actually trying to teach you.

You need to be comparing different versions, not distros. Because the same version of the same software is going to have the same problem, no matter what distro you use.

You don't even know how to access system logs, and you expect to understand enough about this stuff to successfully correct me on why trying a different distro isn't that helpful for troubleshooting?

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[–] artyom@piefed.social [S] -3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I'm not missing anything. What you're missing is that there are 2 different graphical compositors (AKA software). One works, and one doesn't. On the same hardware. So it's not a hardware issue.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

AND I AM TELLING YOU TO DOWNGRADE THEM SO YOU CAN SEE IF AN EARLIER VERSION WORKS CORRECTLY, INSTEAD OF SWAPPING OUT THE ENTIRE DISTRO

ONLY TO TRY THE EXACT SAME COMPOSITOR AS IF THAT WOULD FIX IT

So instead of that, try earlier versions! Different distros from the same date are obviously likely to be running similar versions of Gamescope or whatever else might be the cause.

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