Windows needs a change in priorities

Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by nwallin on Sunday March 20, 2022 @10:54PM (#30749609)

> All my games may randomly freeze for no discernible reason,

All?

My experience is that 90% work fine, 9% have weirdness, (for instance, voices in Skyrim are out of sync with mouth movements) and 1% of them have game breaking bugs.

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Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by dimgl on Sunday March 20, 2022 @11:07PM (#30749753)

Yeah, I have the experience as OP. Every single game I play on Linux has random hitches for seconds at a time.

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Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by freedomben on Monday March 21, 2022 @12:02AM (#30750102)

Can you keep an htop running by chance? It would be very helpful to see if CPU is maxxing out when the hitches happen, or if the swap file is growing, etc.

Any time it happens to me, it's usually low resources because of something. Most often some chrome tab (or 3) that are going crazy. I also discovered that one of the apps that I thought was using hardware acceleration actually wasn't. The CPU usage made it pretty clear that the CPU was doing a ton of work.

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Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by fsflover on Monday March 21, 2022 @05:33AM (#30752033)

Sounds like a typical problem with an Nvidia GPU.

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Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by dagw on Monday March 21, 2022 @09:21AM (#30753810)

I've found that AMD APUs are by far the worst supported GPUs on Linux. Nvidia gives me far less problems.

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