Hi there,

I've been trying to replay Brütal Legend for a while now, but I can't seem to get it to run smoothly on my current system :( ->

i5 3570
GTX 1070 390.25
16GB DDR3 1600
Linux Mint 18.3

This rig manages to run a lot of way more demanding games on 1080p High (for example Everspace, The Talos Principle, Shadow of Mordor, Layers of Fear or more recently The Signal from Tölva) at or around 60fps.

The game looks like it could run smoothly, but every half second or so, there's an unfortunately very noticeable "hiccup" that makes it unplayable. It's like some frames are being dropped at a regular fixed interval. I could bet that this has something to do with how the game is built and most of the animation being hard-coded to a 30Hz update cycle (because consoles), but I've run out of options in trying to tweak this thing.

Everything that works with other games that display some sort of issue in this ballpark (Compositing on/off, VSync, frame capping with libstrangle...) had no effect. All in-game options also didn't do shit :(. There are apparently also windows users with these kinds of problems, and there are solutions, but these don't apply because it's all about tweaking some nvidia driver options (pre-rendered frames for example) that just aren't present in Linux :\.

What's weird is that it used to work - I had no problems when I played the game the first time a few years ago - system being the same except for the GPU (GTX 660) and the OS version (Linux Mint 17.x).

I'm not really expecting answers to be honest - it's a game from 2009, even if the Linux port is more recent. But maybe there's super smart person around in these forums that can tell me "Well that's easy, you just need to add the option "No fucking stutter bro" to your xorg.conf and it'll work!"

Any hints appreciated :).