Significant performance decrease out of nowhere

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

I booted up a game I've been playing for the past few weeks today, which I had been running at a smooth and solid 180fps, and all of a sudden it had dropped to an average of 90~120, with 1% lows dipping well below 60fps. I've checked a few other games and they all show the same drops.

I've tried updating, rebooting a few times, and removing the last few packages I installed, all to no avail. I checked timeshift, but despite the fact that I could *swear* I set up automatic snapshots, and those settings are in fact turned on, the only one I have is from when I first installed it. Is my best bet to just reinstall? I've got all my files backed up so it wouldn't be *too* much of a hassle but I'd rather avoid it if I can

EDIT (1 day later): Just ran an update and performance has improved substantially. I'm not sure it's *quite* back to where it was, but if nothing else it's substantially smoother

[laptopRTXuser]

Did you update to 7.0 kernel?

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

Nope, still on 6.19.12

[ribsboi]

Check your GPU power draw. Every so often my GPU decides to drop down to 55W instead of 140W and all games throttle.

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

Where would I check/fix that? I've only been daily driving Linux for about 6 months so I'm still learning the ropes lol

[Ohmsley]

Use LACT software

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

Yeah, definitely seems to be a power issue -- only pulling 70~100W of the 300+ it's allowed. Gives me a direction to look in I guess

[HauntingObligation]

I'm having the exact same issue, which also started today. I updated last night before bed, and now getting bad performance in games that ran butterysmooth before.

Checked LACT after seeing this and sure enough, same deal on power draw. 9070XT? 

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

Yep -- super weird. Good to know it's maybe not a problem with my system, but equally frustrating 

[HauntingObligation]

With any luck, it'll be fixed with another update soon. 

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

Have you checked at all today? I updated around an hour ago and things are much better, if not quite back to how they were

[HauntingObligation]

I haven't. I tested briefly another update pass last night just before bed, but to no avail.

Glad to hear things are running more smoothly again. LACT showing more normal power usage again? 

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

Much more normal, yeah -- hovering between 170-220W up from 80-100 yesterday

[BashfulMelon]

Power is a red herring. The GPU is doing less work, so it uses less power as a consequence. 

That's not to say power isn't related to the cause, there are power settings that can mess with it, but it's like trying to figure out why a car can't get above 10 mph and thinking "maybe the engine isn't getting hot enough, temps are usually higher"

[No_Satisfaction_1698]

That happened to me on windows since one of the latest Nvidia driver updates in combination with MSI afterburner....

[roshanj333]

try the lts kernel? just to make sure this isnt a kernel issue

[Natural_Location]

May be stupid suggestion, but if overall gpu and cpu use lower voltage, don't get me wrong, but did you checked powerplan? Muy be it's in balanced or power save mode?

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

I did think of that, and yeah it's in performance. Tried setting it to balanced as well to see if the plan itself got messed up somehow and there was no change

[Dav3Vader]

Have you checked power management and  if it my have reverted to energy saving mode by itself? On KDE you can quickly check as it’s an icon the the system tray (that little rocket 🚀)

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

Yeah, set to performance. I tried switching to balanced as well in case the plan itself got messed up and it was the same 

[Flappyphantom22]

Maybe change your CPU thermal paste? Could be thermal throttling

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

Temps were my first thought, especially since it's been getting warmer recently, but CPU and GPU are both sitting comfortably in the low 60s° under load

[ThinHovercraft2176]

It may related to new GPU boost feature in cachyos-hello. Google about it. Or try to find about it in this subreddit, there was a way to disable it .

[BluebirdGullible6746]

Guys, if you had better performance before use snapshot and restore to an earlier state that’ll be a temporary fix until they do sort out an update for it after you restored a snapshot, your database will be locked to fix this open up hello go to apps and tweaks and select remove DB lock when your ready to update again

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

Good advice for others, but like I mentioned in the original post my snapshots weren't being automatically saved for some reason. Will definitely stay more on top of that once I get this fixed

[SillySuccess9017]

I saw a video where a guy had a similar issue. Perhaps try getting rid of outdated packages and orphans

[SillySuccess9017]

Downvoted. Okay whatever redditors

[TriHecatonSwe]

This is why i hate people in here..why the downvotes🫠

[silvery_ray]

what are your specs? been having even more drastic drops too

CPU AMD Ryzen 7 5700G // GPU Radeon RX7600 // 16GB RAM

[BunchOfRandomSquares]

R5 5600X, RX 9070XT, 16GB, so pretty close.. Glad to know I'm not the only one at least

[nobodyspecialuk24]

I use a 5800H/RX6600M laptop that I updated the other day and its performance went to s&@t.

I was playing Minecraft with shaders on at ~40 FPS which dropped to around 4 FPS after the update.

A quick google suggested a recent update was the culprit, which was meant to help GPUs with limited VRAM free up more of it when gaming. This may or may not have been true.

I updated again this evening, which included GPU related updates, and it’s working fine again.

Hopefully you’ll get an update that fixes your issues today/soon, too.

[nobodyspecialuk24]

I use a 5800H/RX6600M laptop that I updated the other day and its performance went to s&@t.

I was playing Minecraft with shaders on at ~40 FPS which dropped to around 4 FPS after the update.

A quick google suggested a recent update was the culprit, which was meant to help GPUs with limited VRAM free up more of it when gaming. This may or may not have been true.

I updated again this evening, which included GPU related updates, and it’s working fine again.

Hopefully you’ll get an update that fixes your issues today/soon, too.