Hello community. I’m new to cachyos and I’m experiencing a rather strange problem. It turns out that my games run at a very good frame rate, but it doesn’t feel like that. It’s like it’s not picking up the refresh rate my monitor offers, but when I turn on vertical sync I realize it’s reading it correctly. So what could be happening? These are my specifications:
Ryzen 5 5500
mother b450m
nvidia gtx 1660 super
If anyone had something similar happen to them, I would appreciate the help. Thank you so much!
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H80z
February 2, 2025, 12:30pm
2
I don’t know the answer to this but yeah I have this issue as well. On Warframe on Windows, vsync on and off, had the same frames and looked exactly the same. On CachyOS I have to play Warframe with vsync on because there is a difference without it. Its not like laggy or anything but it is noticeable when you are used to higher frames.
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naim
February 2, 2025, 12:45pm
3
Try using NVIDIA closed modules.
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Could you give me a hand with that? I tried but cachyos always installs the open source ones automatically.
naim
February 2, 2025, 1:21pm
5
sudo pacman -S linux-cachyos-nvidia
After that command, the drivers are applied automatically? or do I have to use another one to apply them?
naim
February 2, 2025, 2:21pm
7
Yes, just reboot and it will use the closed modules.
Any command to verify it? because the problem seems to continue
Kernel: 6.12.10-2-cachyos-lts arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux-cachyos-lts
root=UUID=8800d80e-3cb2-4628-b2cf-f4affb37d209 rw nowatchdog
nvme_load=YES zswap.enabled=0 splash loglevel=3
Desktop: GNOME v: 47.3 tk: GTK v: 3.24.48 wm: gnome-shell
tools: gsd-screensaver-proxy dm: GDM v: 47.0 Distro: CachyOS
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450M S2H serial:
uuid: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F66
date: 03/22/2024
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 gen: 3
level: v3 note: check built: 2021-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x50 (80) stepping: 0 microcode: 0xA500011
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB
desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 16 MiB desc: 1x16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3981 min/max: 400/4267 boost: enabled scaling:
driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: performance cores: 1: 3981 2: 3981 3: 3981
4: 3981 5: 3981 6: 3981 7: 3981 8: 3981 9: 3981 10: 3981 11: 3981 12: 3981
bogomips: 86243
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW;
STIBP: always-on; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not
affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] vendor: ZOTAC driver: nvidia
v: 570.86.16 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550/565.xx+
status: current (as of 2025-01; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Turing code: TUxxx
process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-2022 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:21c4 class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: Samsung LF24T35 serial: built: 2021
res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92 gamma: 1.2 size: 528x297mm (20.79x11.69")
diag: 606mm (23.9") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia gbm:
drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 570.86.16 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 5.86 GiB display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 layers: 10 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:21c4
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo gpu: corectrl,
nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: ZOTAC
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition
Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 0b:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 0b:00.6
chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Device-4: Huawei KT USB Audio driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-6:4
chip-ID: 12d1:0010 class-ID: 0300 serial:
API: ALSA v: k6.12.10-2-cachyos-lts status: kernel-api
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp9s0 state: down mac:
Device-2: TP-Link AC600 wireless Realtek RTL8811AU [Archer T2U Nano]
driver: rtl8821au type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
bus-ID: 7-1:2 chip-ID: 2357:011e class-ID: 0000 serial:
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: TP-Link UB500 Adapter driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-4:2 chip-ID: 2357:0604
class-ID: e001 serial:
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: disabled
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.27 TiB used: 294.03 GiB (12.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Kingston model: SNVS500G
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: S8542105 temp: 61.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: fw-rev: CC46 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD10EZEX-75WN4A0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial:
fw-rev: 1A02 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 249.33 GiB size: 244.36 GiB (98.01%)
used: 28.39 GiB (11.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 600.5 MiB size: 599.3 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 150 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100)
zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.48 GiB used: 5.49 GiB (35.5%)
priority: 100 comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842
max-streams: 12 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 73.4 C mobo: 55.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.48 GiB used: 8.19 GiB (52.9%)
Processes: 373 Power: uptime: 4h 59m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.14 GiB services: gsd-power,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: 1329 pm: pacman pkgs: 1315 libs: 474
tools: gnome-software,octopi,paru pm: flatpak pkgs: 14 Compilers:
clang: 19.1.7 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: fish v: 3.7.1 running-in: gnome-terminal
inxi: 3.3.37
naim
February 3, 2025, 10:54am
11
modinfo -l nvidia
. If it’s DUAL MIT/GPL
then you’re using open, if not then you’re using closed. It looks like you’re using the lts kernel, so you need linux-cachyos-lts-nvidia
.
A few days ago I did a clean installation again and now everything works fine. Too many things happened in between to know what solved it: like they updated the ISO, they updated the nvidia drivers, and also after the installation I used the package reinstallation tool in case something was installing wrong. I don’t know, everything just works fine now. Thanks for the help too, I’m going to save your commands because I couldn’t find how to change to the closed Nvidia drivers.
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XsJg4p
February 12, 2025, 9:46pm
13
I believe you did not have nvidia iso from download page.
I too downloaded the normal one thinking it has handheld edition toggle in install process.
naim
February 13, 2025, 1:28am
14
There is no NVIDIA ISO. It’s an online install so whatever is in the ISO doesn’t matter.