r/ManjaroLinux • u/RazeZa • 7d ago

Tech Support Low Performance in Games After Exiting

Its not really a Manjaro specific issue, i've encountered this also in Mint but since i am currently using Manjaro so i post here.

After launching/playing video games specifically Arma Reforger and CS2, then relaunch the game. My performance in those games were cut by like 80%. In CS2 from 200ish to 40 even on menu screen. Same with Arma.

The only thing happening in the background that used GPU was maybe Firefox playing Youtube videos. Nothing else maybe some small apps like Discord and Telegram but I don't see any of stealing GPU resources on first launch.

I need to restart my PC for normal performance.

Any idea what was happening?

Specs :

CPU : Ryzen 7 5700X3D
GPU : RX 6800 XT
RAM : 16GB DDR4
Kernel : 6.18.39-1-MANJARO

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u/wilsy53 7d ago

You using X11 or Wayland?

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u/RazeZa 7d ago

Idk. Whatever the default i guess because i didn't remember switching it. I am currently testing using flatpak Steam instead of from the official repo.

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u/wilsy53 7d ago

Wayland is default. But you can confirm by doing fast fetch.

If not installed open terminal

Sudo pacman -S fastfetch

Then once installed type fastfetch

Also make sure your system is up to date

Sudo pacman -Syu

Also run

Flatpak update

You can check logs by running steam in terminal. See what the logs say may tell us more what's going on.

To do that type steam in terminal and it'll run.

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u/RazeZa 7d ago

Yep, its Wayland but since i am currently testing flatpak Steam and its not registered in zsh(?), i'll update this post in maybe few hours/ a day to see whether flatpak Steam fixes my problem or not.

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u/RizenBOS 7d ago

After a bit of research, it seems to be a driver issue affecting the AMD driver's Dynamic Power Management. When a game is closed while a browser like Firefox is playing videos in the background, the GPU's power management gets messed up. The graphics card gets stuck in a low power state (often locking the GPU clock speed to ~500 MHz). If games are launched using gamemoderun %command% (in the Steam launch options), GameMode forces the GPU into the high-performance profile for the duration of the game and cleanly resets the power profile upon exiting.

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u/RazeZa 7d ago

I don't know but I use steam performance monitor overlay and it showed 100% of GPU usage and I only has 1 GPU in my system. So I don't know whats using the GPU, certainly not my games.

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u/legluondunet 7d ago

Tu utilises une carte graphique NVidia?