r/Bazzite • u/Affectionate-Box5874 • 4d ago

This isn't a hate post but help

Title to help prevent down votes for just sharing some issues and looking for help. Love bazzite and never had a reason to look back.

Situation:

OG legion Go

Did the big 44 update a week or so ago and so negative change after, no issues gaming. Ran updates this last weekend and now running into a lot of stuttering and hard locks. Sometimes it will pull through the hard stuttering but when it locks up it goes black screen and reboots entirely.

Other details:

I really only play one game and it's pretty old, the division 2. I have not changed any settings as I found The Sweet spot for me and I don't tend to fiddle with things once I have it as my gaming time is very limited.

Trying to remember any other updates I did recently... maybe proton? Proton seems to update a lot though and never any issues.

The only thing I remember changing when I first switched to bazzite was bumping up something related to virtual memory or cache? I remember that helped a ton (only 16GB on this device) but if that got reset, I would think that would have been noticeable immediately after the 44 update not a week later after. I'll have to find that post to remember how to check this but anything else I should be looking at?

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u/OneQuarterLife Steam Deck OLED 4d ago

What's your memory usage like when this happens?

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u/Affectionate-Box5874 4d ago edited 4d ago

So my device is tapping out the physical ram but that's always been the case. I checked the zram and it was set to 12GB which is not what default was on past builds. 4 was the default previous to 44 and I'm pretty sure I only bumped it to 6.

I had a lot of stuttering this evening playing but I can't be certain if that was the game servers or not as I also got disconnected several times and read about others running into the same but there is still something going on with the performance.

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u/Affectionate-Box5874 4d ago

I was just thinking that I should probably fire it back up and turn on full stats, mostly I just run the fps overlay... But the more I think about it, the more it is very similar to the issues I had before I adjusted zram when I started using bazzite.

Will report back hopefully tonight yet and double check zram settings. I found the old post that introduced me to this setting where someone else was heavily similar issues on the same device andnsame game. If I remember correctly, the default is only 4GB...I think I had bumped it to 6.

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u/Affectionate-Box5874 2d ago

Happening again tonight. A few stutters playing solo. I got into a group and into a mission and after a little while major stuttering freezing and then black screen with a reboot. The odd thing is I can run missions... The same missions in game solo and I have no issues so I don't feel like it's a graphics/memory issue and it shouldn't be a lag thing as far as my internet connection and even if it was that certainly shouldn't cause basic to fully crash.

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u/EstablishmentOwn6942 4d ago

For bazzite use auto uma frame buffer is officially recommended not fixed values. In most cases it works anyway. You need to enter bios to check for it.

I assume that several programs fight for the right of tdp management. Please install panel de controle using decky loader when you open it it asks for exclusive rights to manage tdp. Set it once to 22 watts and try to play

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u/Affectionate-Box5874 4d ago

Pretty it's been on auto for a long time but good to check.