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A test for xfwm compositing still being enabled is playing a video with mpv, that will stutter, crash and burn.
It could be. I'm considering also this for the comparison.
I will try the possible combinations as soon as I get back from my business trip. So far the one giving me the best throughput has been the selection of cores 8-15.
Cheers,
Dave
Cheers,
Dave
After the news of the recent controversies between Valve and Canonical, and because a different distribution such as SteamOS actually gave the expected performance, I would probably spend the day testing and getting along with a new distribution which will replace my Ubuntu 1904.
I'll update the thread with the test results.
Cheers,
Dave
After trying several solutions, I have been distro-hopping for the last week, in a way to check if it might be an issue with the software architecture. The only ones where the actual performances were exactly as desired have been the following:
Manjaro (which has quite a number of followers in the Linux Gaming Communities) gave me exactly the same performance as Ubuntu, and I ditched it immediately I found Debian was the best solution for the mentioned HW. Contextually, I'm not experiencing anymore any stuttering issue when moving the mouse in either the Debian or SteamOS environment.
The reason is still not 100% clear for me, though. The fact that Debian comes shipped with a Kernel which can better support my CPU (and provide a better scheduling for it) might be a hypothesis.
Please let me know if I can provide any other clarification for the matter. In the meantime, I'll put this thread as Solved, and of course try to gitgud, as I have no frame rate excuses now :)
All the best,
Dave
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Seriously, I'd probably prefer to keep the software environment on the stable branch, and check out any newer release of some specific software from the original source or repository, if and when required: for instance, I downloaded and compiled the GPU driver on the last release from the Nvidia .run archive. Other software such as Wine comes already with its own repository, then no need for moving from the Stable branch for now.
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Stable works really well if you don't need the newest of some software (a lot you can still get by installing manually/building), and you're playing native games. I used it for years and have only now switched to Sid to try to keep up with everything that's happening in the realm of Vulkan, DXVK, Proton and such.