CS:GO Low performance

[wlw Lilith - 地獄少女]

Hello!

I have Pop OS! 21.10 Nvidia installed and I can play Steam Play(Proton) games with decent performance, like Cyberpunk 2077: 60fps, GTA V 100+ fps, and almost any other games like Leauge of Legends.

Notebook: ASUS ROG Strix G531GW

However CS:GO -which is a native game on Linux- has like 60-120 fps, when my Windows installation on the same machine runs between 300 and 400 fps.

That's a same because I use a 240hz display for gaming.


I also installed asusctl and set my fans to turbo, profiles to boost, and disabled system76-power. Sightly better performance on already good Proton games but CS: GO still low performance.

I've posted some information about my computer here. Please help me to solve this problem.


Also, I've noticed that the CPU utilization is 10-20%/core. Some of the cores(one at a time) go up to 70% utilization but after a second or two goes back to 20% while playing CS:GO.

System report: https://pastebin.com/XJnJ9W80
Steam System information: https://controlc.com/e9f5d74c
Mat_info: https://pastebin.com/sLtFGqQh

[Marlock]

if the issue is due to CPU governor defaulting to a balanced or powersave mode instead of performance, you could try Feral's GameMode to automatically change it only while gaming...

some games also default to the iGPU in hybrid graphics setups (common in Intel+Nvidia laptops) despite the dGPU being used for everything else

does the high single-core activity coincide whith when you get a performance drop? is it a constant thing just changing which core, or is it a short spike from time to time?

[wlw Lilith - 地獄少女]

I'm pretty sure that game is using the nvidia gpu because I play on an hdmi 2.1 display with 240hz and also nvidia-smi brings info about the counter strike linux process also it's utilizing more hardware.

Gamemode brings no performance improvement, I already tried it.

Single core activity is do nothing with game performance it's not an fps drop, if I look into the sky I get 130 fps at top while on Windows 10 I get 400 when I do this. 200-300 fps would great but 80-130 is useless in my case.

Also I noticed the same problems with Portal 2. I also tried to run CS:GO with proton(Windows version) but it's not starting. I don't know, I thought native games are better than Windows games trough proton but... they're not?

[wlw Lilith - 地獄少女]

+ cpu freq is 4.05 ghz which is the turbo freq on Windows as well so that part is good I guess. Multi core rendering is on in-game.

[Marlock]

ok, most obvious cases taken out of the way then...

did you try fiddling with the distro's settings for enabling/disabling window decoration for fullscreen apps?

if enabled then fullscreen apps behave better while alt+tabbing but may have a performance hit

also toggling v-sync (and that special vrrsion of it by nvidia which I always forget the name...) may have a significant effect for some users

[wlw Lilith - 地獄少女]

Okay. I installed KDE and disabled GNOME with the all other system76 things in gnome and... I've more than 400 fps... game is literally runs faster than on Windows :D

[Marlock]

wow!

that's one way of doing it...

and what a result!!!

funny thing though, KDE used to be considered a heavy DE

[wlw Lilith - 地獄少女]

I think the problem is not "gnome" just some system process from Pop! OS integrated to GNOME.

[Zyro]

Originally posted by Lilith:

I think the problem is not "gnome" just some system process from Pop! OS integrated to GNOME.

Maybe Gnome had compositing by default while KDE didn't?

[wlw Lilith - 地獄少女]

Originally posted by Zyro:

Originally posted by Lilith:

I think the problem is not "gnome" just some system process from Pop! OS integrated to GNOME.

Maybe Gnome had compositing by default while KDE didn't?

I think that's different. Like I said, while I used gnome, my cpu utilization was around 20% and fps capped at 130 max. Now the system utilizing my cpu very well and my fps is very decent.

[radupopa2010]

Hey, thank you very much for sharing the solution. You inspired me and I switched from gnome-sessions to kde-plasma-full and I confirm I have 300 fps also.Amazing from 60 or 70