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Halo MCC mulitplayer stutter on Mint

maxred24 Apr 12, 2023

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I play a bit of Halo MCC online and want to try the game out on Linux, as I've been wanting to move away from Windows and only really use my PC for playing that game, but I'm not sure where to start as I'm new to Linux. I got the game installed on Linux Mint but it has a stuttering problem and I'm not sure if Mint is the best version of Linux to use. I originally tried installing Drauger but was a little confused during the part where you set up partitions (I'm dualbooting w Windows).

I've since read that Mint isnt the best for low latency gaming due to it having a compositor(?).

So I'm wondering if anyone could help me decide what distro would be best for playing MCC specifically on, or possibly solutions to fix the stuttering on Mint. The only fixes I've tried are disabling a setting related to the compositor, I think under multitasking or desktop settings, I turned it off. I also tried switching the version of proton to proton GE and neither of these helped. BTW this is a fresh copy of Mint. All I installed was my 3070ti drivers (proprietary) and everything else that Mint wanted to me to update. Do I still need to install drivers for my chipset etc on Linux? I sometimes play competitively so I dont want to use Mint if it has latency issues.

Also, MCC is a directX game. I'm not sure if that matters, but I know game optimizations are finnicky and can either help or hurt depending on the type of game. I wasnt sure if the optimizations that DraugerOS comes with would even be beneficial for DirectX titles, for example.

Additional information:
I play on a 240hz benq monitor on a good pc and play uncapped fps as opposed to using GSYNC or VSYNC, so using GSYNC to mitigate stuttering is out of the question. My pc has a 3070ti, 5600X, 3600MHZ DDR4, and an NVME SSD.

So yeah, I'd be up for tinkering some settings or changing my OS and detailing all my steps here in case anyone else has stuttering problems in this game now that it's finally playable online on Linux.

BTW the stuttering normally happens during an action such as shooting, an explosion, but also happens just while walking as well. It happens once every couple of moments and lasts a fraction of a second.

Thanks for any advice.

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