Ubuntu not optimized for gaming – Support and Assist

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Ubuntu Version:
Example: 26.04 LTS x86_64

Desktop Environment: Gnome Wayland

Problem Description:
I can run video video games on home windows at 165fps simply tremendous, however once I strive on Ubuntu, I get round 110-120fps after which lag spikes each second after a couple of minutes.

Relevant System Information:

Kernel: 7.0.0-15-generic

Shell: bash 5.3.9

CPU: Intel i7-14700HX (28) @ 5.300GH
GPU: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphic (iGPU)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Max-Q (dGPU)

Memory: 4653MiB / 15192MiB

I additionally put in Steam as a .deb package deal as an alternative of flatpak.
What I’ve Tried:
”PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1” in steam launch choices

Using Proton Hotfix as an alternative of Proton Experimental

I made positive I had the most recent nvidia driver on Ubuntu: sudo apt set up nvidia-driver-595-open

Added a graphics driver ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

Made positive my dGPU was prioritized: sudo prime-select nvidia

Added kisak-mesa ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa

And after all, I’ve been rebooting after every of those and utilizing sudo apt replace && sudo apt improve alot.

Any assistance is appreciated, I simply need to have the ability to have a clean Ubuntu expertise ^^

You can provide sudo apt set up gamescope a strive, and run your video games like gamescope -w 1920 -h 1080 -f -- . It’s a “microcompositor” which ought to take away GNOME from the graphics aspect of issues.

This is from the Arch Wiki however ought to provide you with an thought of what it does:

Disclaimer: I don’t do gaming anymore, so I haven’t examined any of this, however Gamescope got here up on one among my searches for a considerably associated matter and it appears to be “the right thing to do” when one desires to dedicate all the {hardware} to sport FPS; except one goes a number of steps additional and makes use of the Cage kiosk compositor to launch video games as sole Wayland apps in their very own consumer session.

Do I’ve to place within the listing for the sport, or simply the title of it?

I’ve additionally seen steam is a bit of uneven once I’m scrolling by way of it, additionally one thing that doesn’t occur on Windows.

Essentially you run it simply the identical as you’d with out gamescope, so if this system executable will be present in your system’s PATH you’ll be able to omit the complete path, e.g. to run doom would now be gamescope -w 1920 -h 1080 -f -- doom