I recently upgraded from an RX 580 to an RTX 3060 Ti, but The Finals now runs significantly worse than before. I’m getting around 40 FPS with frequent micro-stutters, making it nearly unplayable for competitive play.
This issue only occurs with The Finals, all other games, including other Steam titles, run fine.
It also doesn’t matter what settings I use. The game runs at 40 FPS whether I set everything to Ultra or drop to Low with DLSS on Ultra Performance.
The best performance I’ve managed (around 40–50 FPS) is using the following launch flags:
mangohud gamemoderun %command%
Here’s what I’ve tried so far (without success):
- Tested Proton Hotfix, Experimental, Proton GE, and Proton EM (both Flatpak and native).
- Ran the game with and without GameMode, MangoHUD, and Gamescope.
- Updated drivers and system packages to the latest versions.
None of these made any improvement. Some configurations even caused the game not to launch at all.
FYI, nvidia driver will remove shader cache that bigger than 1024MB. That make the game run without shader cache and has poor performance. Set environment variable
__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1to prevent this behavior.https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/2506
Tips: Don’t forget to search in issues of dxvk and vkd3d-proton when you meet game performance issue.
Which nvidia driver you’re using? If you’re using the regular old nvidia blob, you might want to try disabling the gsp firmware. But note that this can’t be done with nvidia-open, only on nvidia.
Previously the gsp firmware was a bit problematic on some systems and wayland, disabling it solved some issues. But it has been fine since the 575 drivers, at least for me (rtx3090)
More info here
Note that consumer GeForce cards are not said to have GSP on by default
well, they probably didn’t back when 510 drivers were a thing (as the link you provided links to 510.xx driver documentation), but later on they were enabled.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#GSP_firmware
The use of the GSP firmware, enabled by default since version 555 of the NVIDIA driver released in June 2024, is known to cause a range of issues including Vulkan failures and system crashes.
and https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/575.64/README/gsp.html
The GSP firmware will be used by default for all Turing and later GPUs
Are you running Steam big picture by any chance ? For some reason without hardware acceleration (off by default !) it has terrible performances on my RTX 3080 Ti (pop!_os, drivers 575) and affects the whole system.
Knowing what operating system, desktop environment and drivers will be helpful for troubleshooting.
Also to my knowledge Gamescope doesn’t work with Nvidia cards. Unless something changed recently.
