Agent X506
Published
ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON
Poor and stuttery performance makes this unenjoyable, despite powerful hardware. Both CPU and GPU seemed to sit around only 50% utilisation.
Tinker Steps:Switch to experimental
Performance:Significant Performance Problems
Averaged 40-50fps compared to 110-120fps on Windows
Proton Experimental
Distro:EndeavourOS Linux
Kernel:6.0.2-arch1-1
RAM:32 GB
GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.2.1
GPU:AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (navi21, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.48, 6.0.2-arch1-1)
CPU:AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
Proton Experimental
Distro:EndeavourOS Linux
Kernel:6.0.2-arch1-1
RAM:32 GB
GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.2.1
GPU:AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (navi21, LLVM 14.0.6, DRM 3.48, 6.0.2-arch1-1)
CPU:AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON
Using gamemoderun adds 20+% performance. Equivalent performance to Windows (well, both hit the 120 fps cap at max settings anyway).
Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: GE-Proton8-14, Set launch options
eval $(echo "VKD3D_FEATURE_LEVEL=12_1 VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr11 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 gamemoderun %command%" | sed "s/start_protected_game.exe/armoredcore6.exe/")
Update since last report: A BIOS update (which also reset BIOS settings to defaults) scored a huge performance uplift (only in Linux). Not sure whether it was some option I had configured previously or something new in the BIOS update, but the difference is night and day, from a microstuttery ~40 fps to smooth 120+. How strange...
The 'eval' and 'sed' part of the launch options is to launch without anticheat so you can use the steam overlay, mangohud, etc.
Custom Proton: GE-Proton8-14
Distro:EndeavourOS Linux
Kernel:6.4.12-arch1-1
RAM:32 GB
GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 23.1.6-arch1.4
GPU:AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (navi21, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.52, 6.4.12-arch1-1)
CPU:AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
Custom Proton: GE-Proton8-14
Distro:EndeavourOS Linux
Kernel:6.4.12-arch1-1
RAM:32 GB
GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 23.1.6-arch1.4
GPU:AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (navi21, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.52, 6.4.12-arch1-1)
CPU:AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
RUINER
No noticeable glitches or errors.
Performs better than the native Linux release. The native version failed to play some FMV cutscenes. Switching to Proton 4.11-11 solved this issue.
Proton 4.11-11
Distro:Manjaro Linux
Kernel:5.4.2-1-MANJARO
RAM:32 GB
GPU Driver:NVIDIA 435.21
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
CPU:AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
Proton 4.11-11
Distro:Manjaro Linux
Kernel:5.4.2-1-MANJARO
RAM:32 GB
GPU Driver:NVIDIA 435.21
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
CPU:AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core
