Problem with performance nvidia 1050m

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hi friend’s, i’m new user of this laptop with a video nvidia.

My problem is this:

When i use my laptop with the AC power my performance is very low on my games.If unplug the AC power have a best performance.

I do test with diferent distributions of Linux, for example Arch Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu.

Actually i have Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, driver version nvidia 390.48 and my game for test is DOTA 2 and Tomb Raider.

please help me,i did not found the solution for this problem
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (107 KB)

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That’s odd, should be the other way around. Please put the gpu under load, run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root and attach the resulting .gz file to your post. Hovering the mouse over an existing post will reveal a paperclip icon.
One thing to check in advance is whether you have the acpi daemon (acpid) installed, if not, install it.

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Thank’s a lot for your answer, is very odd, how i can set the GPU under load?
the bug report result is attached in my first post now. ACPID is correctly installed.

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Simply run a game or an Unigine demo in windowed mode while running nvidia-bug-report.sh.
There’s nothing unusual visible in the logs, besides you’re running an older driver. Can you use the ubuntu graphics ppa https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/%2Barchive/ubuntu/ppa, install nvidia-396 and the create the log while having load on the gpu?

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OK, in this post i do attach the log, first open my game “DOTA 2”, next run the nvidia bug report with the power pluged.

EDIT:
My drivers is update with the PPA comment.
nvidia-bug-report.log (752 KB)

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In this secound post i do a equal operation but without power connected.
nvidia-bug-report.log (757 KB)

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Ok, now the bug surfaced. While on AC, the gpu simply refuses to take more than 50% load while on battery, it takes 100% load. I’ve seen that before but don’t think that has ever been resolved.
Two things you could try, use
nvidia-drm.modeset=1
as kernel paramter, if it doesn’t work, it should at least get rid of tearing. Second, see if disabling acpid is somehow helping.

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Yes, your first idea is for resolve the tearing issue but no the performance problem, i do test now and does not work.

The secound solution does not work, i do stop and disable with:
systemctl disable acpid
systemctl stop acpid

after of that reboot and the service reborn. XD
Now go to uninstall the service.

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Well, i tried the las resource without solución. :(

Then my out is go to windows?

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You can only test any new driver that gets released and report in this thread until nvidia picks this up and fixes it.

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Well, i do test with 410.57 drivers and equal error.

Thank’s for the help friend.

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Might help to send a bug description with a reference to this thread and the both logs to linux-bugs@nvidia.com

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Ok, now send a new mail with one explication and attach the LOG.

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well the mail is sended now. @generix, one question:

Can you show me where see you the performance on the files attached?

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It’s in the output of nvidia-smi -q
On battery:

Utilization
        Gpu                         : 100 %
        Memory                      : 66 %

On AC:

Utilization
        Gpu                         : 51 %
        Memory                      : 26 %
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Today Nvidia team answer me the email, they are saying first show the problem to the manufacturer “Dell”.

Dell say me the support is only for Windows product, now i am waiting the next answer of Nvidia respect to the problem.

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Just out of curiosity, can you check if using the kernel parameter

acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2009"

somehow changes the situation?

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Hi generix, yes, in the past i did the test with that tweaks but without change.

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BTW, does your system properly suspend and resume without the acpi_osi parameters and does that have an effect?

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Hi generix, i did a test with the configuración sugested but with " and ’ and the error is equal.

The suspend and resume is equal.