I just wrote a message here, but in a notification of another message a user told me that for Linux drivers, this was the right place. I copy and paste the message:
Hello. With the last two 460 Linux driver versions, me and more users have a problem playing with rFactor 2 using Steam Play/Proton. When we try to play on a race, the FPS are too low (20-30). With previous versions of the driver (450-455) everything is normal, and we can reach much more high fps rates (In my case between 80-100 fps). We report this problem on a Proton’s Github Issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/245#issuecomment-757020531
Can someone at nvidia take a look at this problem?
New driver version (460.56), and this regression is still uncorrected. No one has replied to this message either. Let Nvidia know that I am not the only penitent who is affected.
Hi, I just wanted to say that these sudden slowdowns in RDR2 are still present too. I still haven’t managed to fix them in any way. Changing driver versions seems to be the only thing that can help. I’ll see how 460.56 performs and report back once it reaches the stable branch on Manjaro.
Also, what GPU do you have? Is it an RTX 2070S by any chance?
I own an old Nvidia GTX-1060-6GB. I was thinking on change it but with the current market situation is not possible for me at this moment. I was thinking on a 3060, or the AMD equivalent. If this problem with rFactor2 continues, is possible that I choose the second one, becouse this game is very important for me (I spend a lot of hours on it) and I don’t want to be stucked on a old version driver.
Unfortunately I am not able to repro on driver 460.39 on below configuration setup -
Precision T7600 + Ubuntu 19.10 + 5.3.0-64-generic + Driver 460.39 + TITAN Xp + rFactor 2 Game
Played game for 15-20 mins and observed FPS more around 60 for most of the time.
Later I installed driver 460.67 and observed fps around 80-90 on my setup.
Requested you to share bug report and any additional game/system settings done on your end.
Once I will have above information, I will try to match hardware and retry for repro again.
I will copy/paste to share the content of the mail that I sent you some minutes ago. I do so because that is what I want to answer here, not because I want to show our conversation:
The problem is between 450 and 460 driver. You are comparing two 460 drivers (.39 and . 67). Using a Titan XP you must have a much higher fps. I’m using an old computer with 1060-6GB and play the game runs between 80-100 fps. Take a look to the video I shared.:
You can see in the first half (450) that I have about 60fps (obs takes a lot fps), an then, on the second half (minute 2:56) of the video, with 460, only 20-25 fps.
You must know that this problem not only affects me. My rFactor2 friends use Opensuse, Debian, Ubuntu, KDE Neon… and have the same problem, as you can see in this issue on Proton’s github:
I’m one of the users affected by this issue. I have a RTX2070 SUPER and a Ryzen 5 3600 with 16GB RAM. With driver 450.80 I get around 90-100 fps after tunning down some game settings to improve the framerate. With version 460.39 the framerate falls at around 25 fps. Tried with Proton Experimental and Proton 5.13.
With your hardware you should be getting around 150-200 fps even at the highest game settings, with the 450.XX drivers most probably.
I use Debian Buster (version 10) with kernel 5.7.0. The problem has been observed by several users and the only thing in common seems to be the driver version (hardware and software are different).
I use standard settings in the Nvidia settings panel, I don’t remember having changed anything except maybe enabling flipping and sometimes using the OSD info.
