Consistent stuttering on any game

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When I play any game via Steam, Lutris and Wine itself there is always a consistent stuttering on the video and audio like every 3 seconds. It's not anything that completly ruins the game experience, but it's surely annoying and make it hard to focus, specially on ryhthm games.

I have wine-staging and a shit ton of dependencies I downloaded following this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/User:Katoumegumi#Nothing_works! For Steam games I'm always using the proton version recommended by the people at protondb

Here is an example of me just hearing the song from a game and the audio stuttering. It sounds way worse live than in the recording tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrA1LUXRJmk You can see some frametime spikes when the audio stutters.

My hardware should be good enough to play those light games with no problem, I have an Intel Core i5 7th gen with Intel HD Graphics 620 and 16gb of RAM.

Things I've tried, with no success:

  • Enable VSync;
  • Disable Fastboot on my dual booted Windows 10 (didn't actually have an option to even enable it);
  • Disable compositor (picom), which only created screen tearing for some reason;
  • Try both the normal and LTS kernel;

This happens only to games. Firefox, mpd and mpv play medias with no problem, even if the cpu is at 100%.

I'm using Arch with bspwm, pipewire and xorg.

Posted May 4, 2022, 1:55 AM UTC

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