I'm having a frustrating issue on my Linux systems (I've tried Fedora, Debian, and now CachyOS) where everything feels slow, sluggish, and laggy. On top of that, there are strange line artifacts appearing on my screen frequently. For example, games that run smoothly for others, like Hytale, perform terribly on my setup—I'm getting about 70 FPS on Linux versus over 200 FPS on Windows. I've been using Linux for a while without problems but recently switched back after a stint on Windows for work. Now I'm running into all these issues. Can anyone suggest what might be going on or how I can fix it? My system specs are 32GB of RAM, an i7 13700k processor, and an RTX 5070 graphics card.
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It might be a hardware or driver issue. With your specs, you generally shouldn't experience this kind of lag. NVIDIA support tends to be less reliable than AMD, which could be part of the problem.
Are you running your Linux OS on a virtual machine, or is it installed directly on your SSD? I've seen sluggishness and those artifacts in VMs. If you're not virtualizing, maybe try booting up without your NVIDIA GPU, using the integrated graphics if your CPU has one. When you install most of these Linux distributions, they sometimes offer secondary installation modes without the GPU driver. I'm theorizing that the NVIDIA drivers might be causing these issues.
It's a bare metal install. I'll switch over to the integrated GPU and keep you updated on how it goes.
If the integrated GPU doesn't help, it could still be driver-related. Let me know what happens!
I totally agree! I'm not heavily into tech but I've done a ton of digging this past week. I really don't want to switch back to Windows since I prefer Linux, but this situation is becoming unbearable.