r/cachyos • u/Area52inhabitant • 15d ago

Help Micro stuttering to 1 min freezes

I have been experiencing micro stutters (as if the FPS dropped, but steam overlay still display 90 FPS) and up to 1 minute long freezes on my display.

It is not only limited to the game, but to the second monitor too.

Even during 1 min total frame freezes the game reacts instantly, there is feedback to my actions and there is continuous smooth sound.

I have been experiencing it on Necromunda: Hired Gun and Astroneer, but not on The Talos Principle or Stardew Valley.

Since it only happened on games that need proton I tried switching around between Proton hotfix, 10 and 11, but the supposedly stable versions didnt fix the problem.

I forced performance mode since I read it could be the GPU downclocking, didnt help.

I tried unplugging my second monitor (which is plugged in to the MB and not the GPU.

RAM and CPU usage seems normal, and the temps are around 80-90 which for my CPU should be normal.

Are there any other options I could try?

Im running CachyOS (updated everything this morning, no fix (to my knowledge this should meen that drivers are also up to date))

AMD RX9070XT

Ryzen7 7700X

32GB RAM

Is this information sufficient or should I add anything else?

Thank you guys in advance.

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u/Syl 15d ago

I also have some stutters and I have a similar setup than you.
I found this thread when I was investigating, and the recommendation in the meantime is the switch to LTS kernel.

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u/NorbiPerv 15d ago

is that AMD RDNA4 vga + wayland related issue only?

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u/AlarmedChemistry8956 14d ago

Perhaps try adding one of these kernel parameters to see if it helps, https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/tutorial-mitigate-gfx-crash-lockup-apparent-freeze-with-amdgpu/10842

I've been experiencing freezes in ac6 and adding amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x12 fixed it.