| 18 Jan 2024 |
 K900 | So it's failing to probe something, but it's also successfully probing both GPUs | 08:38:12 |
 l0b0 | I tried rebooting again, but I'm not having any more luck. | 08:42:03 |
| l0b0 | This is my base config, in case there's anything interesting. The machine-specific settings are all in a separate repo. | 08:44:22 |
 @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Well, I decided to hop into windows to see how bg3 performs by comparison. It needs a 35G update, and says I don't have the space for it. And "steam -> settings -> storage" says 149G is used by games, 120G by "updates", 103G by "other", and 92G free. | 08:52:14 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | And of course once I say that, now it's happy to try to do the update | 08:52:44 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | l0b0: FWIW, GN's testing for BG3 only gets a bit over 50fps with the 7700XT at 4K: https://youtu.be/AAjQXdwkgEE?t=464&si=iXrn_FEdIf6_F1-2 | 08:57:10 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | And of course they're on windows | 08:57:18 |
| l0b0 | It seems the problem is it's not using the GPU at all, which makes 40 FPS pretty damn good. I assume fixing the GPU initialisation will result in 100+ FPS at this point. | 09:00:14 |
| K900 | It won't | 09:00:42 |
| K900 | If you're getting 40FPS at 4K on BG3, it's definitely rendering in hardware | 09:01:03 |
| K900 | And your GPU just can't push that many pixels | 09:01:09 |
| K900 | The benchmarks @ElvishJerricco linked show the same GPU getting 50 FPS on Windows | 09:01:24 |
| K900 | So it's honestly pretty close | 09:01:33 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Yea BG3 on anything other than the big GPU would just die at 4K | 09:02:36 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | I get like 30fps on the steam deck's iGPU and that's at like 720p or whatever its native resolution is | 09:03:21 |
| l0b0 | Huh. I thought modern GPUs were much more powerful than that. | 09:05:07 |
| l0b0 | In any case, reducing the graphics settings in BG3 doesn't seem to have much of any effect on the FPS. | 09:05:28 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | The better GPUs get, the more demanding games become. BG3 is no exception | 09:05:44 |
 @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 |
