Greetings guys. I run fedora 41, and I upgraded from 40 a couple of months ago. For what seems to be close to a couple of months now, I’ve had issues with the nvidia drivers, specifically versions 565 and 570 (both 570.124 and 570.133, which are the latest as of now). I’m able to run games (either from steam or from wine itself) just fine, with the performance I expect, but after about an hour into a game the pc will stutter quite a lot, to the point said game becomes unplayable, specifically when I move my mouse. This happens only inside the game however, doesn’t happen in the desktop. The issue doesn’t seem to be game-specific, since it happens on a few games I play nowadays (namely marvel rivals, elder scrolls online, and borderlands 3). A short list of things I’ve tried are:
- Re-installing the nvidia drivers and waiting for the kernel modules to be built before rebooting
- Downgrading to an older version of the nvidia driver (the current version of my distribution can only go down to version 565, which like I mentioned above, has the exact same issue; in fact, it’s the first driver version I’ve had this issue pop up)
- Playing the same game(s) on windows - they run just fine, no issues
- Tried playing the same games on a different system with the same versions of drivers and the same linux distribution - same issues appear in the exact same fashion
I think I want to try a wayland window manager, just in case I’m able to solve this stuttering mess (I’ve been running openbox for a few years with no problems), but I’m starting to believe it’s not a display server/window manager thing, since the same exact issue appears on 2 different systems. I also doubt it’s the graphics card, since it’s a gtx 1660, which can handle the games I brought as an example just fine.
With that said, I have no idea what should I try next? Could it be x11? Is it indeed an issue with the actual driver which means I have to sit back and wait until it’s fixed? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.