I’m mainly playing Battlefield 4 and Rocket League. And in both games I noticed the following scenario: When I’m only using Wi fi, both games will freeze for around 3 to 5 seconds quite often, although otherwise they perform seamlessly. The strange bit here is that this does not happen when using a cabled connection. Native games don’t seem affected by any of this
My first thought was, since I’d expect some lag spikes when playing though wi-fi, that for some reason wine/proton isn’t handling lag spikes quite well and freezes the system. I’ve then tried to use other proton versions (ge and vanilla), graphics drivers, and even installed the current lts kernel. None of these made a difference
Is there anything I’m missing here? Other distros I’ve tried didn’t had this problem (when a lag spike occured, the game lagged as it should, didn’t drag the system along), though I am yet to understand if this is problem is distro specific or not. If anybody had an issue similar to this please let me know. Thanks in advance
Here is my system info (inxi -Fxznc0) , in case it helps:
System:
Kernel: 5.4.64-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X541UV v: 1.0 serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X541UV v: 1.0 serial:
UEFI: American Megatrends v: X541UV.305 date: 10/16/2017
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 26.9 Wh condition: 28.7/34.6 Wh (83%)
model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery status: Charging
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-6500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake rev: 3 L2 cache: 4096 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 20810
Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 400/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 500 2: 500
3: 500 4: 500
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915
v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 920MX] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
v: 450.66 bus ID: 01:00.0
Device-3: Chicony USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-6:2
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting,nvidia
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce 920MX/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 450.66
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.64-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 02:00.2
IF: enp2s0f2 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Device-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On
driver: rtl8723be v: kernel port: c000 bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 170.82 GiB (73.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 211.61 GiB used: 170.82 GiB (80.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.58 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 36 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2200
Info:
Processes: 204 Uptime: 29m Memory: 15.08 GiB used: 2.06 GiB (13.7%)
Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1350 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18
inxi: 3.1.05