Random stutter/short system freezes on new install
Specs:
Asus ROG Strix G17 Laptop
nvidia GTX 4070
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX
Dual boot, separate drive install
Hi Bazzite team,
I'm still very new to Linux in general, the last time I used it was trying to configure an install of Mint on an old win10 tablet PC and sorting out a multitude of issues to get it running decently.
I just installed Bazzite onto a new laptop on a separate drive, so dual booting is working fine. The OS works fine for the most part after the post-install setup, but there seems to be constant and randomly occurring stutters or short system freezes/hanging. There are no specifics on what I think seems to be causing it, from just moving the mouse around to browsing Steam to navigating the PC to a short test in random video games, it just sometimes pauses the entire system between a couple of seconds to a minute. I have updated after the initial install through the terminal and the ujust command.
The only thing I can assume is that its the nvidia graphics card and its drivers as I am aware of the whole Linux and nvidia drivers situation.
I appreciate any sort of support on this issue.
By this point in time, I am also rather curious as to what could be causing it.
As a sidenote, the brightness control for the display does not seem to be working, but I read that it is a known issue.
Asus ROG Strix G17 Laptop
nvidia GTX 4070
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX
Dual boot, separate drive install
Hi Bazzite team,
I'm still very new to Linux in general, the last time I used it was trying to configure an install of Mint on an old win10 tablet PC and sorting out a multitude of issues to get it running decently.
I just installed Bazzite onto a new laptop on a separate drive, so dual booting is working fine. The OS works fine for the most part after the post-install setup, but there seems to be constant and randomly occurring stutters or short system freezes/hanging. There are no specifics on what I think seems to be causing it, from just moving the mouse around to browsing Steam to navigating the PC to a short test in random video games, it just sometimes pauses the entire system between a couple of seconds to a minute. I have updated after the initial install through the terminal and the ujust command.
The only thing I can assume is that its the nvidia graphics card and its drivers as I am aware of the whole Linux and nvidia drivers situation.
I appreciate any sort of support on this issue.
By this point in time, I am also rather curious as to what could be causing it.
As a sidenote, the brightness control for the display does not seem to be working, but I read that it is a known issue.
Solution
Update: Fixed stutter possibly due to nvidia driver/image not installing/being based at install, possibly due to incorrectly doing the Secure Boot step.
- Initially was forcing applications to run off the gpu through setting launch variables in the appplications manager (right click the start icon), worked for most 3D gaming applications (Half Life 2 ran fine, seemed to run off GPU; WH40k Mechanicus through Heroic launcher did not).
- Noticed that nvidia-smi command in terminal did not work and there were no GPU stats in the resource monitor despite using the above method.
- Looked into rebasing images and the Secure Boot part of installation. Discovered running games with Secure Boot off seemed to be using the GPU properly. Followed the steps in the Secure Boot page, installed/rebased the nvidia image with the bazzite rollback helper in terminal, re-enabled Secure Boot after rebasing the nvidia image and everything seems to be running nominally. Even discovered and fixed why there was no laptop display brightness control.
