So I tried to use proton-tricks in among us and it gave me thing I don't know how to fix (because wine-tricks is updated) I'm using Nombat Ubuntu

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I've been running Iris Xe on Linux for a while, while running into performance loss around 60-80% compared to Windows sometimes. Aside from two or three native games, I'm experiencing artifacts, unholy low FPS or... crashes on startup, like with Siberian Mayhem. what can I do to fix this entire situation? ready even to change distro or driver, if that's possible

So I've been having some performance issues. I've been distrohopping a lot. I've been using Ghost of Tsushima as a benchmark of a sort for the purposes of this port, although I've had the feeling for a while that other games had similar issues. On Kubuntu 22.04 and 23.10, if I use gamemoderun, performance is smooth and exactly what I expected. But I don't particularly like Ubuntu or apt, so I don't want to use this Kubuntu+gamemoderun combo. It should also be noted that the game became choppy again on Ubuntu 24.04.

If I'm on Kubuntu 22/23 but don't use gamemoderun, performance is fairly choppy. It feels like 30fps although my monitor reports a higher framerate. Maybe microstuttering? On any other distro, whether or not I use gamemoderun, performance is also choppy. About a similar choppiness. I'm not sure if it's exactly the same, it definitely similar. I've even tried the Ubuntu-based Tuxedo OS, and it also had choppiness. I've also tried Bazzite, Manjaro, and Garuda.

So yeah, somehow Kubuntu 22.04 and 23.10 seem to have some sort of magic that makes performance good when combined with gamemoderun. All other distros seem to have poor performance. Including Kubuntu 24. 04. It's almost like gamemoderun is refusing to work?

I have tried using my old kernel (6.5) which came installed with 23.10 before I upgraded to 24.04. Even then, there is that choppiness, so it doesn't seem like te kernel version I'm using is causing this. It also doesn't seem to be a KDE 6 thing, since with Ubuntu 24.04 I'm still on 5.27.11. I have a 13600KF, AMD 6900XT (stock AMD), 32GB RAM. On all of my tests, I've been using KDE Wayland.

So... anyone got an idea what it might be?

Edit: I've just set GPU and CPU manually to performance mode via CoreCTRL. That makes it smooth again. Now that I'm messing with this, I think it's actually something to do with my CPU frequency governor rather than my GPU.

Edit2: it seems that I don't even have to use gamemoderun as long as I set my CPU frequency governor to performance. I don't manage my GPU at all, I just let my OS handle that. I only set the CPU to performance. And voila, perfectly smooth frames. This is still a bandaid solution and I would rather depend on gamemoderun or on nothing at all than to manually fix it in CoreCTRL. So I still need a solution. But at least we can hone in on my CPU.

I got Xdefiant working by using the Ubisoft Connect launcher through Bottles, and the game launches but crashes every time I try to enter a match. Am I the only person experiencing this?