| 18 Jan 2024 |
 @atemu12:matrix.org | In reply to @vengmark2:matrix.org
In any case, reducing the graphics settings in BG3 doesn't seem to have much of any effect on the FPS. What's your CPU? | 09:06:49 |
 l0b0 | On a related note, any idea why the audio part of the HDMI signal might drop out randomly. | 09:06:53 |
| @atemu12:matrix.org | Is GPU usage at 100%? | 09:06:55 |
| l0b0 | In reply to @atemu12:matrix.org
Is GPU usage at 100%? Do you know any good tools to check this? | 09:07:13 |
 K900 | nvtop | 09:07:32 |
| K900 | (misleadingly named as it can now do more than Nvidia) | 09:08:09 |
 @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Yea, looks like windows can do 10-15 fps better than Linux for me | 09:09:05 |
| l0b0 | Let's give it a try… | 09:09:20 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | So 40fps is probably about right for 7700 XT when windows does 50 | 09:09:32 |
| l0b0 | OK, so it does just under 40 FPS at both 4K and 1920x1080 resolutions. | 09:12:04 |
| K900 | You could be CPU limited | 09:12:16 |
| l0b0 | ~65% GPU use according, ~160% CPU use, nowhere near pegged on either. | 09:13:28 |
| K900 | You should be looking at per-core utilization | 09:13:37 |
| K900 | It's possible you're maxing out one core | 09:13:44 |
| l0b0 | 
Download Screenshot from 2024-01-18 22-14-43.png | 09:15:07 |
| l0b0 | Doesn't look like it… | 09:15:10 |
| l0b0 | It's using ~50% of the GPU RAM | 09:16:40 |
| l0b0 | 11/30 G RAM | 09:17:07 |
| K900 | RAM (or VRAM for that matter) utilization isn't really indicative of performance | 09:17:51 |
| K900 | Unless you run out of it, but then your game will just crash | 09:18:02 |
| l0b0 | This is using DX11, by the way. | 09:18:10 |
| l0b0 | Launching the game with gamemoderun %command%. | 09:18:33 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | l0b0: fyi, if you tab away from the game, it uses way less GPU | 09:18:51 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | If I monitor nvtop from an ssh session on another machine, it's 100% | 09:19:17 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | If I tab out of the game and look in a terminal on the desktop, it's more like 55% | 09:19:33 |
| l0b0 | In reply to @elvishjerricco:matrix.org
If I tab out of the game and look in a terminal on the desktop, it's more like 55% I set the update interval to 6 seconds, tabbed into the game, waited, tabbed out. Still the same result. | 09:20:14 |
| l0b0 | Same for htop above | 09:21:02 |
| l0b0 | I'm running in borderless window mode; maybe it's different in fullscreen. | 09:22:40 |
| l0b0 | What bugs me is that lowering the settings and even the resolution doesn't seem to have much effect on FPS. | 09:27:06 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | some games honestly barely change their performance with different quality settings; dunno if that includes BG3. But resolution really ought to make a big difference... | 09:28:15 |
