r/TrackMania • u/nearly_alive • 1d ago

Stutters on Linux

Hi,

Has anyone else here experienced stuttering (like the stutters you get when playing windowed borderless), who is also playing on linux? I cant seem to find anything and tried a lot of fixes that i could find.

Also i have severe laggs on specifically penalty grass.

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u/Soulcloset 1d ago

I'm on Windows for my gaming machine, but I did recently run into persistent microstutter that settings couldn't fix. The actual solution ended up being to lower the speed of my ram - it was advertised as 5600MT/s but running at 5400 removed that stuttering entirely in TM. Might work for you if your ram is running at an XMP speed?

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u/Level_Mousse_9242 1d ago

Yo wait I've been having similar issues. I have vengeance 6000mhz, do you know if that could be xmp or something similar?

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u/Soulcloset 1d ago

All DDR5 that runs above 4800 is technically being overclocked - XMP just defaults the overclock to a setting determined by the manufacturer. If you've got a bad kit, turning off XMP and manually setting the speed to a lower setting in your BIOS can help with stability! This will be different between every motherboard manufacturer but on my MSI board it was pretty easy.

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u/Level_Mousse_9242 1d ago

Ok good to know, I've been looking to sell my ram anyways so I think I'll test if buying 4800mhz is better whenever I find it.

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u/Soulcloset 1d ago

I don't recommend buying 4800mhz ram unless you have to. Higher speeds generally perform better and are stable on kits designed to run at those higher advertised speeds. 4800 is the spec, so it's a lowest common denominator that all kits should be able to run stably, but you should aim for as high as you can up to the advertised speed of your kit. That's why I dropped my 5600 kit down to 5400, for example.

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u/Level_Mousse_9242 1d ago

That makes sense, thank you again! I guess the search for replacement ram will still be a difficult one, but I will still try improving my current performance using your suggestion.

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u/nearly_alive 1d ago

Ill try that, will report if it worked

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u/dShado 1d ago

I play on linux (steamdeck) and not encountered this

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u/loczek531 20h ago

Even without Vsync?

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u/BugslideEnjoyer 1d ago

Make sure your game didn't automatically switch back to something other than fullscreen as that does happen sometimes. There is an openplanet plugin that forces it back as well. I've had luck forcing Wayland with a steam launch option. Unfortunately I'm on mobile and can't give you what it is D: 

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u/GiantRabbit 1d ago

On a laptop? With a integrated and discrete GPU?

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u/nearly_alive 1d ago

No, on pc with a 3060. Also that 3060 is on 70% ussage from trackmania, so its neither not using the gpu nor too much ussage

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u/dragoneye 1d ago

I've definitely had random times where that has happened. Not sure if it was the track or rebooting fixed the issue but it's always been temporary. 

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u/vyxnz 1d ago

Linux works even better for me than Windows did. Are you playing via steam? On https://www.protondb.com/app/2225070 someone mentions they had perf issues until they switched to native wayland instead of XWayland - you could try that.

I'm running it on KDE atm and it works great, I originally was using hyprland and had some issues with input problems due to multiple screens and the fact that in wayland you cant set a primary display

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u/MundaneWizzy 2h ago

Nope. I actually got worse stutters on Windows with the same hardware.
You’re having microstutters? Or large, intermittent freezes?
Would recommend gathering some info from the built-in profiler.