Installation went well enough, though I am unsure of the exact specifics as it was mostly handled by a local technician. Post-install setup was handled by me. I believe the only changes they made post-install were installing Steam through steam_latest.deb, but I ended up uninstalling it in a bit of confusion and re-installing through the official Software Manager. That also has me concerned for other reasons, though hopefully it isn't relevant to this particular issue.
I have a dual boot setup with Windows running on my old storage device; Mint has an entire SSD to itself, and the Windows partition seemingly does not recognize the drive. The issue arises when trying to run Baldur's Gate 3 through Steam. When running the game on Vulkan, performance is quite poor, hanging around ~20 FPS during normal gameplay. It's not a stuttering issue, but a consistent performance one. Thankfully, running the game instead on DX11 provides a much better experience, but it has me concerned that there may be a driver-related problem in play. On Windows, Vulkan was by far the preferred option, as it provided a notable performance boost over DX11; due to this, I'm fairly sure that it isn't a hardware issue. It's quite an old computer, but it works well enough. Checking on Windows again post-install confirms that this is still the case.
Things I've tried:
- Running BG3 through Proton Experimental, Proton 8.0-5, and ProtonGE 8-32
- Updating from the proprietary Nvidia 535 drivers to the 545 drivers
- Ensuring the game is using my dedicated GPU and disabling vsync
- Lowering the graphics preset. This does help, but it's a bit shaky on Low while DX11 is fine on Ultra, which seems to imply the GPU is not being fully utilized.
Apologies if this is the improper sub-board for this topic. I thought it might be too technical to place into Beginner Questions.
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System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-97-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4
tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Alienware product: Alienware Aurora R7 v: 1.0.25
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Alienware model: 0VDT73 v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Alienware v: 1.0.25
date: 09/06/2021
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Coffee Lake
rev: A cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4469 high: 4598 min/max: 800/4700 cores: 1: 4408 2: 4353 3: 4589 4: 4527
5: 4367 6: 4514 7: 4412 8: 4416 9: 4598 10: 4533 11: 4459 12: 4457 bogomips: 88796
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell CometLake-S driver: i915
v: kernel ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e92
class-ID: 0380
Device-2: NVIDIA GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06 pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none off: DP-2 empty: DP-3,DP-4,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1b06 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa gpu: i915,nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 108 s-size: 602x342mm (23.7x13.5") s-diag: 692mm (27.3")
Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 686mm (27")
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 545.29.06
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP102 HDMI Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10ef class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-97-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Rivet Networks Killer Wireless-n/a/ac 1535 driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:003e class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: alx v: kernel
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e0b1 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-8:4 chip-ID: 0cf3:e301
class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2
sub-v: 25a hci-v: 4.2
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: f060 bus-ID: 00:17.0
chip-ID: 8086:2822 rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.68 TiB used: 1.86 TiB (50.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC M.2 PCIe SSD size: 1.86 TiB
speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: VF001C2B temp: 29.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164 size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC27 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.83 TiB used: 200.66 GiB (10.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Logitech G203 LIGHTSYNC Gaming Mouse type: Mouse,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 300mA chip-ID: 046d:c092
class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Lite-On USB Multimedia Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 04ca:0027 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: 1-8:4 info: Qualcomm Atheros type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0cf3:e301 class-ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-1:2 info: Texas Instruments TUSB8041 4-Port Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 0451:8142 class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 4-1:2 info: Texas Instruments TUSB8041 4-Port Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 0451:8140 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 28 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 23%
Repos:
Packages: 2492 apt: 2482 flatpak: 10
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com virginia main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-beta.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-stable.list
1: deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https: //repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
2: deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https: //repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
Info:
Processes: 348 Uptime: 2h 19m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.33 GiB used: 2.62 GiB (17.1%) Init: systemd
v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Unknown python3.10 client
inxi: 3.3.13