"Allow tearing in fullscreen windows" makes every game feel extremely choppy.

Contrary to how I've used this setting before on other distros, on bazzite it seems to make every game feel horribly choppy despite FPS remaining the same. I'm on all AMD hardware, using Bazzite 42 KDE (The non-steam-gaming-mode version)

SSX̌N Contrary to how I've used this setting before on other distros, on bazzite it se...

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⚧ Xenia Demonheart ☭•7/10/25, 6:02 AM

Most likely it's not that option causing the choppiness. I use that option just fine.

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⚧ Xenia Demonheart ☭•7/10/25, 6:02 AM

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:02 AM

Well I say that because disabling it seems to fix the choppiness, while introducing more input lag

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:04 AM

Which obviously I'd prefer it to work as intended

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:04 AM

Admittedly I dont truly know the root cause, only what happens with it enabled/disabled

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:05 AM

It may also be a VRR issue, uncapping my FPS seems to fix it(?)

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:05 AM

but I'd prefer using VRR as well

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⚧ Xenia Demonheart ☭•7/10/25, 6:10 AM

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/scopebuddy/
You can also experiment with gamescope and related options mayhap, if you have not already.

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:10 AM

I'll give it a try

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:11 AM

I wish I knew how to explain the issue better, I love bazzite but i've never had this problem on other distros

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⚧ Xenia Demonheart ☭•7/10/25, 6:13 AM

What games tested so far?

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:16 AM

Deadlock, CS2, both with and without mangohud

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:16 AM

I'm gonna try a few more

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:17 AM

Oddly enough Insurgency Sandstorm seems to run fine

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:18 AM

actually, its not as bad as the others, but still noticable choppiness in motion

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⚧ Xenia Demonheart ☭•7/10/25, 6:18 AM

Some weirdness with Source 2(1?) engine mayhap.

And CS2 has been troublesome on linux in general.

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⚧ Xenia Demonheart ☭•7/10/25, 6:18 AM

HDR could also be a problematic setting, potentially.

⚧⚧ Xenia Demonheart ☭Some weirdness with Source 2(1?) engine mayhap. And CS2 has been troublesome on...

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:20 AM

From what I'm seeing probably it

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:20 AM

I'm not sure my display even supports HDR, is there a specific way to see if its being enabled somehow?

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:21 AM

Once shaders loaded in sandstorm, 120 fps was still WAY smoother than my 141 I use in other games

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:22 AM

Where bazzite systems are immutable, you'd think this issue would be replicable on other systems- at least ones using AMD

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:24 AM

okay so.... it just fixed itself??

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:25 AM

im sorry i have no idea what tf happened, i think it was maybe shader issues

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:26 AM

either shader issues or vrr or both

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:30 AM

leaning towards shader issues because enabling this seemed to have it resolve itself after a moment

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:31 AM

CS2 also runs as normal again

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:31 AM

So im considering this issue fixed

⚧⚧ Xenia Demonheart ☭Some weirdness with Source 2(1?) engine mayhap. And CS2 has been troublesome on...

SX̌NOP•7/10/25, 6:34 AM

i appreciate the pointers btw!

SSX̌N i appreciate the pointers btw!

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⚧ Xenia Demonheart ☭•7/10/25, 6:36 AM

https://discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1087140957096517672/1391516199828983928

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⚧ Xenia Demonheart ☭•7/10/25, 6:37 AM

fwiw official dev word is to have both pre-caching and background processing off, as Most of the time games on modern hardware compile shaders on the fly just fine.