Hi all
I’m hoping someone can help me here. I have been using Plasma (Wayland) on Tumbleweed and thought I would try CachyOS for a change. There is a massive improvement on CachyOS with the same game. The results are as follows:
CachyOS: Minimum - 119 fps, Maximum - Vsync
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: Minimum - 60 fps, Maximum - Vsync
Can someone help me to fix this, nearly 50% performance difference in Tumbleweed?
You need to provide hardware and software data. Compare software and driver versions. Where and how did you measure the FPS. There is no information to start working with.
CachyOS is specially optimized for gaming. TW is a multipurpose distribution (server, programming, coding, multimedia,…)
Both are out-of-the-box installs, I install Steam and try Batman Arkham Origins to get that benchmark info. Same hardware, same setup, same partitions. What info should I include? I ran hwinfo but it was huge
I don’t know if this helps:
OS: CachyOS x86_64
:*++====+++++=============- .==: Host: Custom PC (1.0)
-*+++=====+***++==========: Kernel: Linux 6.18.0-5-cachyos
=*++++========------------: Uptime: 21 mins
=*+++++=====- ... Packages: 1994 (pacman)
.+*+++++=-===: .=+++=: Shell: bash 5.3.8
:++++=====-==: -*****+ Display (LG ULTRAGEAR): 1920x1080 in 24", 120 Hz [External]
:++========-=. .=+**+. DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.3
.+==========-. . WM: KWin (Wayland)
:+++++++====- .--==-. WM Theme: Breeze
:++==========. :+++++++: Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
.-===========. =*****+*+ Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
.-===========: .+*****+: Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
-=======++++:::::::::::::::::::::::::-: .---: Cursor: Breeze_Light (24px)
:======++++====+++******************=. Terminal: yakuake 25.8.3
:=====+++==========++++++++++++++*- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (16) @ 5.58 GHz
.====++==============++++++++++*- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT [Discrete]
.===+==================+++++++: Memory: 7.96 GiB / 93.90 GiB (8%)
.-=======================+++: Swap: 936.00 KiB / 93.90 GiB (0%)
.......................... Disk (/): 25.96 GiB / 300.00 GiB (9%) - btrfs
Disk (/DATA): 3.42 TiB / 7.28 TiB (47%) - xfs
Disk (/STEAM): 1.05 TiB / 1.83 TiB (58%) - ext4
Disk (/STEAM-HDD): 49.33 GiB / 3.58 TiB (1%) - ext4
Disk (/home): 523.62 GiB / 1.50 TiB (34%) - ext4
Local IP (enp14s0): 192.168.1.110/24
Locale: en_GB.UTF-8
As already hinted at, CachyOS is highly optimized for gaming. You may read through why_cachyos to understand more.
If you like to go technical, you may like the kernel page, where you can read that CachyOS provides several optimized variants of the kernel, some possibly specifically tuned to your Ryzen 7 HW.
Then please note that CachyOS also provides optimized package repositories tuned to specific micro architectures: optimized_repos
So, again, chances are that you installed package variants tuned to your HW (look for the Zen 4/5 variant).
There is nothing to “fix” in Tumbleweed, as a general purpose distribution it uses configuration options that suit the average user, including users of DB servers, web servers and general purpose desktops.
If gaming performance is all you are about, stay with CachyOS.
I doubt that you will find anybody here willing to help mimicking the whole CachyOS infrastructure with Tumbleweed, or even only building your own kernel mimicking CachyOS configuration and including their special patches not even available upstream.
I saw an article on Phoronix that directly compares CachyOS with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and seems the optimizations just gives marginal advantages over OpenSUSE in several benchmarks:
But it might not be enough because they don’t put the latest AAA games on the test, but what i do know?.
I’m happy with TW anyway, the heaviest game i play on it is mostly Warframe and that’s it.
This is mainly marketing. There are not any significant differences in the so called gaming distros from any other distro. If you’re seeing significant differences, you have done something wrong.
Of course, OP has given no real information, my guess is that the difference is not the distro at all, but the version of Proton. But again, guessing.
read this and report back. cachyos is heavily optimised for gaming, while opensuse is also competitive for the benchmark. they both make ubuntu and fedora seem obsolete for graphic rendering.
I have seen that, the differences were not significant. You are seriously overstating the results.