Hi everyone.
I use laptop with 16gb ram, 5500u 25W and ryzen 7(full specs from inxi -Fza below) and I have a weird problem where my performance in benchmarks is higher than expected, but in games it’s awful.
Main problem is constant small stutter in all games. I can have 80 or even 120fps with no drops and I’ll have constant micro suttering. Can be not that “micro”. Well, also framerate is ~20% lower than it’s should be in games(those that aren’t famous for the fps lower than on windows), but it’s just a minor inconvinience compare to stutter.
I reinstalled system, checked CPU governor(I know in my specs “ondemand” is selected, but it’s cause it works better than “performance” for me, same for GPU - I use auto) and played with it through CoreCtrl(also other stuff, but on a current manjaro install it’s just CoreCtrl), tried different protons and protons settings, etc - nothing.
I’m noticing that in games my CPU is rarely loaded to the same %(or at least close) as in tests from youtube and that CPU power consomption(TDP) can’t go higher than 15-17W in the real gameplay(can in the menu though sometimes), but my limit is 25W(I used ryzenadj to set that) and performance in geekbench shows that it works, but games can’t use it.
Also mangohud is constantly shows “Throttling power” or “Throttling power current”(not thermal throttling, temps are fine).
plus If I disconnect AC on the middle of the game and will stay on battery - performance and stutter level is the same, no changes at all. Like game is always assuming that I’m on buttery(but mangohud and system can see when I use AC).
I also should note 2 small things:
memory detected incorrectly - I have 16GB and in windows it’ll show 15.6, here it’s shows 14.98GB, as you can see(I ran memtest86+ though, got “pass” 3 times").
I use acer-wmi-battery from github. It helps to set charge limit of 80% on my laptop. Might be important… But I tried to turn if off, charge battery to 100% and play - same story.
I hope someone had this problem before and knows a solution.
Thanks in advance.
System:
Kernel: 5.15.57-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=3b24eaa3-20f4-4163-8828-353ccc9dba82 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.6 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 info: latte-dock
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Swift SF314-43 v: V1.04
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LN model: Sake_CA v: V1.04 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Insyde v: 1.04 date: 07/28/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 43.0 Wh (81.6%) condition: 52.7/53.2 Wh (99.0%)
volts: 12.5 min: 11.6 model: COSMX AP20CBL type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: N/A
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Zen 2 gen: 3 built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23)
model-id: 0x68 (104) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x8608102
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB
L3: 8 MiB desc: 2x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1490 high: 2360 min/max: 1400/4056 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1397 2: 1397
3: 2360 4: 1553 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1397 8: 1397 9: 1397 10: 1397 11: 1397
12: 1397 bogomips: 50328
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP
protection
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: always-on, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu
v: kernel arch: GCN-5.1 code: Vega-2 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2018-21
pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Quanta HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3:2
chip-ID: 0408:a094 class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: AU Optronics 0x683d built: 2019
res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158 gamma: 1.2 size: 309x174mm (12.17x6.85")
diag: 355mm (14") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (LLVM 14.0.6 DRM 3.42 5.15.57-2-MANJARO)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated
ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Acer Incorporated
ALI driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel
alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 03:00.5
chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.57-2-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Lite-On driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: tap-easytether state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Lite-On Wireless_Device type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 04ca:3802 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 200.08 GiB (42.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Kingston model: OM8PDP3512B-AA1
size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: EDFK0S03
temp: 42.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%) used: 200.08 GiB
(42.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 608 KiB
(0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%) used: 200.08
GiB (42.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 476.64 GiB size: 476.64 GiB (100.00%) used: 200.08
GiB (42.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 359 Uptime: 9h 28m wakeups: 62531 Memory: 14.98 GiB used: 7.74
GiB (51.6%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 14.0.6 Packages: apk: 0 pacman: 1338 lib: 403
Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.20