Linux New Linux install. Framerate is awful!

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captainslack

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Ditched Windows 11 on my laptop today and replaced it with Linux Mint. Installed 7DTD from Steam and the game runs terribly. It's fine if I'm standing still, but when I start moving the FPS drops and everything gets sluggish and blurry. What can I do to improve this? I've attached some images showing my graphics and driver settings and system info. My laptop is a Lenovo and it ran the game fine in Windows.
 

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Turned off Dynamic Mesh and changed the renderer from Open GL to Vulkan. Massive improvement! FPS went from 15-20 to 35-50. Still think there’a room for improvement, though. Would appreciate any tips on how to tweak it further.
 
captainslack said:
Ditched Windows 11 on my laptop today and replaced it with Linux Mint. Installed 7DTD from Steam and the game runs terribly. It's fine if I'm standing still, but when I start moving the FPS drops and everything gets sluggish and blurry. What can I do to improve this? I've attached some images showing my graphics and driver settings and system info. My laptop is a Lenovo and it ran the game fine in Windows.
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Providing an output log may reveal somthing we can help with. Press F1/Open logs folder in game to find them.
 
7 Days to Die usually has more problems on Linux; bugs eventually get fixed, but it's a known thing. There's usually more problems in Linux when you have an Nvidia GPU (poor support from Nvidia).

I noticed that you have 3050 (Laptop) GPU, which is the lowest of the Nvidia 3000 series GPUs.
I think you might have set your video settings too high in game. My suggestion is to lower your video settings (which you should post an image of for more help).
You also have the lowest CPU of the Intel i5 13 series. The game is very CPU bound so again, lower settings might help.

Have you tried Bazzite instead of Linux Mint? Read and watch videos about Bazzite; it might be better for you, if you're mostly gaming.

Not trying to bash your laptop here; just trying to help you get a better gaming experience.
 
I have 2 test machines running Linux mint. One is an old i5 3550 4 core with a 1060 6Gb gpu. It gets >60 FPS @1080p. Something else is going wrong, or settings are too high. Again, an output log would help solve this. I guess cpu/gpu throttling from overheating might be a possibility as well.
 
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