I just got this laptop (Asus TUF A15 2021) today and it surprised me that everything works just fine out of the box on Vanilla Arch, except NVIDIA gpu I had to install it manually on battery power that’s why I enable powersaving mode. As for games performance it’s basically the same as windows no more no less.
I had recently same issue, but with a different game. Out of nowhere the performance was bad. And it took me even a day to resolve this. My PC does not need power profiles actually, its not a laptop at all. Not sure why or how the profile changed, but it got me from say 100 fps to stutter-fest 17 or something like that. I think that there was a key combination in KDE I hit by accident maybe.
I have the same laptop, running Garuda. As someone else said, definitely watch the temps. Mine can hit 90 degrees easily. It seriously is worth looking into undervolting the GPU. I haven’t done it yet because I’m the odd one out and am very hesitant to mess with something that is working at all.
My CPU got up to 93C and GPU got to 85C when use ultra settings and unlock framerate, I’m might look into undervolting in the future but I might have some problems because I never done that in Linux.
Been there done that 🥲
Yeah, took me some time to figure out too
This is also my first time using a screen above 60hz, and I gotta say it’s pretty smooth to move around the desktop.
And how much fps youve got afterwards?
90-100 on ultra
Careful with those laptops though, they run really hot. I have the same one and my dedicated GPU is broken, possibly from overheating but I will admit I can’t know for sure.
Undervolting is great on gaming laptops. Usually nets you a performance boost simply by reducing thermal throttling.
Even just a few mV has made a difference for me.
How’d ya do that?
In college I had an aluminum body laptop that mostly sat in its dock. I cut a sheet of thermal gap fill to the size of two heatsinks and put one over the cpu and one over the gpu. It shaved off a few degrees
Ha, recently I was unable to play some of my games in my new full-AMD system because I forgot to install amdvlk, and I was thinking that it was the game’s fault.
amdvlk, any reason you’re not using the Mesa driver, RADV?
Might be worth checking out, not positive it supports your laptop but if it does it might give you control over some bells and whistles like fan curves and lighting.
Doesn’t work for kernels newer than 6.13 if I recall correctly. Tried to install it last month. I’m running Garuda Arch, and kernel 6.15, even having the repository active completely borks pacman.
Edit: it’s an active project, so keep an eye on it. Or install CatchyOS as it’s now standard there.
Follow up that you can also just install the cachy-os kernel which has it baked in.
Running arch as well and have it installed. Works just fine with
linux-g14kernel and headers. I use the zen kernel mostly so i don’t have the armory settings most of the time because I use zen but everything else works.Just did a
pacman -Q | grep linuxand mylinux-g14is on 6.15.2 and zen is on 6.15.3.Did you add the keys?
I just did that on my own laptop, trying to figure out why it was running like crap. Turns out I set it to quiet mode instead of cool, so it underclocked instead of running the fan
