I’ve noticed that as well, it seems title dependent but some games are a trash fire with vsync and are butter smooth with no other changes but vsync disabled. I guess with the ridiculous amount of translation going on (proton, dxvk, etc) it makes sense that something would end up titanically borked here and there.

I changed it from Optimus to dkms and that helped a ton, seems there might still be a microlag I can see every 3-5 seconds but it’s barely noticable. For most of the games I play I can deal with this for now.

Trying that now

Performance on almost any OS comes down to 2 things: driver support, and OS optimization. Windows uses a shitload of resources at idle and it just gets worse from there, but it’s the first stop for driver support.

Linux has been getting vastly better with driver support and third party translation layers, a lot of this being driven by Valve and various efforts related to valve (proton for instance) but it’s also much more optimized. The places where Linux folks will say it’s unoptimized is still much more clean and fast than windows, and as such you get a weird seesaw of “this” not working or working worse, and “that” working better that averages out to “same or better, when it works”.

Steam Deck is getting VRR