I want to make the Linux switch without losing performance on my 7900xt/7800x3d. From my research it sounds like cachy and Nobara are both highly recommended, though Iv made this attempt before with nobara and had a few small issues that I’m hoping are solved now on cachy. The biggest one being vrr flicker on my lg OLED. On windows I don’t notice it. On my last attempt with Nobara it was very distracting and not just loading screens. Regular gameplay in stalker 2 which I was testing and not getting the best performance with. In Nobara it was not so straightforward to unlock my 7900xr for any kind of tuning within core Ctrl or lact. I could eventually get it for core Ctrl by manually doing it but the Nobara tweak tool did not work. Is this easier on cachy? Has there been updates to mesa and the kernal in the last few months that would have fixed these issues?
Hi Cody,
I have a 5800x and a 4090 together with the aw3225qf OLED and experience VRR flicker in games especially in dark scenes. The problem I have is described in this YT video and is a typical OLED problem and not Linux. Disabling Vsync makes it a little better but it is still distracting.
Maybe your experience is different, you can always give it a go, see how it works out for your specific hardware.
I believe this is a persistent problem with amdgpu on Linux. You can check if its fixed in the live environment.