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Besides that, I have tried multiple distros a past few days and surprisingly some games very smooth and some are very choppy/stuttery. Pop and Manjaro although highly regarded as smooth, surprisingly are the worst to me, especially Manjaro where even in desktop it's choppy once every 5 secs, and I have tried both Xfce and KDE too. Pop in the other hand get a very smooth desktop experience but in game it is very choppy, more than Mint or Zorin Lite and even Manjaro. The one seems to work best for me atm is Zorin OS Lite, but the problem with GG Strive remains. I've tried different protons and kernels too but still Pop is very smooth in desktop but super choppy in games where Manjaro is kinda the opposite, both are unusable nonetheless.
So, what distro is ACTUALLY best for gaming now? And what's the problem with GG Strive? Would love to hear your shares.
If nothing works out I will stick with Zorin for the moment, and I also want to hear some thoughts on Solus.
My specs:
NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB
Intel Core i3 10105F
16GB of ram
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So far have found the arch build of the zen kernel to run best with the most current dxvk with the 470 driver and strangly a custom muqss kernel that seem to work a lot better with vkd3d but not so great with dxvk.
Then there was the ck kernel that was for some bizzar reason using double the cpu workload doing the same tasks with no visible improvement. Gonna take a stab in the dark and assume it's going to be like that everywhere at the moment.
Oh the 470 driver even though its beta ran better with dxvk, had some problems with vkd3d with it when it first released but the packager has recently made some changes and it seems to work properly now.
The steep fps drops in character select sounds a bit odd though, if the combat works fine, does it have an animated or maybe a video for the background for the character select screen ?
Last edited by RossBC on 27 June 2021 at 2:53 am UTC
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