My system: Manjaro Stable/Cinnamon/X11/AMD Ryzen 5 2600/Radeon HD 7790
As I already mentioned in this thread Hellpoint (v366) has very bad framerates I suffered from unplayable FPS in the game Hellpoint for years.
Finally after switching to kernel 6.12 some month ago I was able to get playable FPS
But after the recent kernel update from 6.12.21 => 6.12.25 the stuttering is back again.
So I am asking myself, has it something to do how the Manjaro kernel was build or is it a problem with the kernel itself and I should report it to kernel.org ?
I am happy with the 6.12 LTS kernel and it worked with v21.
So something must had happened to v25 (i would wait for another 6.12 release).
If someone who is responsible for building the kernel could answer, if there where changes in the build config.
Otherwise there must be changes made by the kernel team itself, which disimproved 3D acceleration performance. Maybe it has something to do with amdgpu.
I was happy with an old van some years ago, until one day it lost an argument with a cup of sugar in the fuel tank (a very long story).
That you’re happy with any particular kernel is irrelevant, when the suggestion was to test others, which might have helped ascertain whether or not your issue is limited to kernel 6.12 on your hardware.
However, if you’re unwilling to investigate further, I’ll simply wish you luck and leave you with the following information, plus the usual request to provide system information as described (below).
Regards.
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I came a long road of kernels. I had many versions of 5.4, 5.10, 5.15, 6.1 and 6.6
It never worked, till on 2025-03-29 when I installed 6.12 (6.12.19-1) for the first time and it worked.
For testing I installed 6.14.4-1 now with the same result. It doesn’t work.
It only worked with 6.12.19, 6.12.20 and 6.12.21
I also compared file /proc/config.gz of both kernels (6.12.21-4 <> 6.14.4-1), but can’t seem to see drastic changes to the graphical part.
For me it seems a problem with the kernel itself. I will try my luck there.
