After a couple of years I went back to play GW2 just recently.
And I'm really glad to see so much love for linux support from the community. Last I checked it was in a very rough state but I somehow managed to install it. But now, especially thanks to @ArmoredVehicle.2849 install script, it was a blast installing and running GW2 (except the slooow download but I remember that always being the case on first install).
But anyways so much for the pleasantries now for my actual issue:
The perfomance of GW2 for me is reeaaally slow.
It IS playable and on character select, I'm getting about 140FPS but eg in The Grove, frames drop to around 40FPS max. This is on "Best appearance" menu-setting. When using "Best Performance" setting, I indeed get about 90-100 FPS but ... well, I want to have at least a bit of eye-candy.
Yes, I could play the game like that and I will since I enjoy it. But my hardware specs should be able to run the game MUCH faster.
Here's my specs:
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 1.5 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4814 min/max: 800/5000 cores: 1: 4800 2: 4788 3: 4801
4: 4839 5: 4800 6: 4793 7: 4800 8: 4801 9: 4956 10: 4799 11: 4800 12: 4800
Memory:
RAM: total: 31.28 GiB used: 7.44 GiB (23.8%)
Report: arrays: 1 slots: 4 modules: 2 type: DDR4
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] driver: amdgpu
v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: modesetting,radeon gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1: 2560x1440
2: 2560x1440
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (SIENNA_CICHLID DRM 3.44.0
5.17.1-3-MANJARO LLVM 13.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.8
I set CPU-Governor to "performance" (0) since I experienced a lot of frame-drops when using default "balance-power" (8).
However, the FPS are still way below what I would have expected from this machine with current mesa drivers.
I also tried Lutris installation running with `lutris-GE-Proton7-11` but nope - same bad FPS.
Now, is this because of my old(er) CPU bottlenecking? When running the game it settles at around 30-40% usage on all cores. But I heard GW2 is pretty CPU heavy (I guess especially so in areas like The Grove).
Or did I miss something essential here?
I went back a few pages here but haven't found anything related to that on first glance ( going through 53 pages is not fun ). Did I overlook something and if so can someone point me to it?
I'm happy to provide any infos or logs if required - just tell me what to do (if it's not something unreasonable).
Cheers.
Edit: it looks like it's connected to shadow- and character model limit settings. After setting both to "Medium", performance went up from around 30-40FPS to 50-60FPS ... better but still not what I expected. Every other setting did not (or only very little) improve performance. So if anyone knows of some workaround/tweak, please let me know.
After a couple of years I went back to play GW2 just recently. And I'm really glad to see so much love for linux support from the community. Last I checked it was in a very rough state but I somehow managed to install it. But now, especially thanks to @ArmoredVehicle.2849 install script, it was a blast installing and running GW2 (except the slooow download but I remember that always being the case on first install). But anyways so much for the pleasantries now for my actual issue: The perfomance of GW2 for me is reeaaally slow. It IS playable and on character select, I'm getting about 140FPS but eg in The Grove, frames drop to around 40FPS max. This is on "Best appearance" menu-setting. When using "Best Performance" setting, I indeed get about 90-100 FPS but ... well, I want to have at least a bit of eye-candy. Yes, I could play the game like that and I will since I enjoy it. But my hardware specs should be able to run the game MUCH faster. Here's my specs: CPU: Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 1.5 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 4814 min/max: 800/5000 cores: 1: 4800 2: 4788 3: 4801 4: 4839 5: 4800 6: 4793 7: 4800 8: 4801 9: 4956 10: 4799 11: 4800 12: 4800 Memory: RAM: total: 31.28 GiB used: 7.44 GiB (23.8%) Report: arrays: 1 slots: 4 modules: 2 type: DDR4 Graphics: Device-1: AMD Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] driver: amdgpu v: kernel Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1: 2560x1440 2: 2560x1440 OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (SIENNA_CICHLID DRM 3.44.0 5.17.1-3-MANJARO LLVM 13.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.8 I set CPU-Governor to "performance" (0) since I experienced a lot of frame-drops when using default "balance-power" (8). However, the FPS are still way below what I would have expected from this machine with current mesa drivers. I also tried Lutris installation running with `lutris-GE-Proton7-11` but nope - same bad FPS. Now, is this because of my old(er) CPU bottlenecking? When running the game it settles at around 30-40% usage on all cores. But I heard GW2 is pretty CPU heavy (I guess especially so in areas like The Grove). Or did I miss something essential here? I went back a few pages here but haven't found anything related to that on first glance ( going through 53 pages is not fun ). Did I overlook something and if so can someone point me to it? I'm happy to provide any infos or logs if required - just tell me what to do (if it's not something unreasonable). Cheers. Edit: it looks like it's connected to shadow- and character model limit settings. After setting both to "Medium", performance went up from around 30-40FPS to 50-60FPS ... better but still not what I expected. Every other setting did not (or only very little) improve performance. So if anyone knows of some workaround/tweak, please let me know.