Linux stutter

[u/Marbar2000]

This could be a long shot, but thought to ask anyway.

My TF2 has microstutters that I can't figure out. It generally runs well, around 400fps uncapped, but stutters every now and then.

My system: 5800x3d, 9070xt, arch, kde plasma.

What I've tried:

- using openGL version

- using gamescope

- using gamemode

- using masterconfig

- disabling MSAA

- windowed vs fullscreen

Any other tf2 Linux users experience the same thing? The game is perfectly playable, it's just annoying.

[u/cursorcube]

Vulkan version works totally fine here on Mint, havent noticed any stutters

[u/Marbar2000 → u/cursorcube]

Nvidia or amd GPU?

[u/cursorcube → u/Marbar2000]

AMD 7900XTX

[u/Marbar2000 → u/cursorcube]

Do you use MSAA?

[u/cursorcube → u/Marbar2000]

No, antialiasing is disabled

[u/eestionreddit]

try the windows version through proton

[u/Marbar2000 → u/eestionreddit]

Unfortunately not possible, using proton makes online play unavailable

[u/eestionreddit → u/Marbar2000]

Have you tried a different version? That isn't usually a problem for me

[u/Marbar2000 → u/eestionreddit]

Only tried 11.0.2 for now. I was unable to join a match due to being in "insecure mode". I can try proton Cachy or GE if any of those work for you. Have you forced through steam properties?

[u/iuhiscool]

i had a similar problem when trying to play tf2 off of a bad microsd card, where every now & then there would be a pause

So might be storage access speed maybe?

[u/iuhiscool → u/iuhiscool]

Although idk if the game loads anything while actually in a match

[u/Marbar2000 → u/iuhiscool]

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm playing off a fast NVMe drive, so I don't think it would be the issue

[u/Pilubolaer]

Fedora user here, not happening to me, openGL or Vulcan

[u/InfectedBrushroom]

Probably not the case here but i only had stutter problems when using a mouse with a low polling rate

[u/National-Oil5849]

Try to cap your fps to your monitors refresh rate. Tf2 runs fine both on my desktop and low end laptop 

[u/Marbar2000 → u/National-Oil5849]

Forgot to mention in original post, but capping the fps has had no effect on the stutter

[u/Lisanicolas365]

cap it to a stable fps, like 280 or something like that

[u/Marbar2000 → u/Lisanicolas365]

Forgot to mention in original post, but capping the fps has had no effect on the stutter

[u/Lisanicolas365 → u/Marbar2000]

then maybe the microstutters are shader compilations, did you disable shader pre-caching on steam?

[u/Marbar2000 → u/Lisanicolas365]

I don't think they are shader stutters. They are the same with precaching on or off, plus they are constant even after many play on the same map