r/voidlinux • u/Cautious-Painter9165 • 6d ago

Issue while playing media and performance on games.

So im running into an issue where when im running youtube on my internal monitor on my laptop and minecraft on my main monitor, the game drops fps 3x while the video is playing but as soon as i pause it, it jumps right back up. My specs are a intel i7 10750h and a nvidia gtx 1650ti, i have the latest proprietary drivers installed. This void install is only 1 day old. Im using i3wm + xfce + xorg. Another issue i would to address is when i had this laptop running arch + hyprland i would get almost double the performance i get without playing media on my void install which is about the same as my windows install, the reason i switched to void was performance. any help would be appreciated.

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u/MinguaDinja 6d ago

Did you downloaded the intel package?

Sometimes, you must need to reconfigure everything

sudo xbps-reconfigure -fa

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u/Aggravating_Exit8678 6d ago

Have you tried Nvidia-open? It's more recomended than Propietary Nvidia Drivers.

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u/Cautious-Painter9165 6d ago

ive tried those before and it was worse.

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u/Aggravating_Exit8678 6d ago

What kernel are you using?

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u/pantokratorthegreat 6d ago

Can you try stable kernel which is now 7.1.10?

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u/Cautious-Painter9165 5d ago

im already on the latest build

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u/zlice0 5d ago

is hardware accel on in your browser playing youtube?

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u/Cautious-Painter9165 5d ago

yes

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u/zlice0 5d ago

could try to turn it off? sounds like its taxing the gpu

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u/Simple_Hamster_4096 6d ago

Windows will give you a better experience, in general, with gaming.

Also, systemd-free systems can present challenges for gamers.

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u/r0man1a 5d ago

idk where you have this from but claim 1 is right in some cases and wrong in others and claim 2 is just wrong

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u/Cautious-Painter9165 5d ago

ive always use linux when possible but i do have windows duel booted, and i can say linux is 10x better.