I was attempting to add to/build on the joke. Apologies if I came off as doing anything else.

An incredibly convenient property of small numbers is that if you add a small number to a very small number, the % increase is orders of magnitude larger than both numbers combined and that looks very impressive when you are pretending to do statistics.

It’s “Limited Time”?

The limited-time rebrand to Maxwell Apartment delivers the same delicious taste, aroma, quality and ingredients – in fact it’s all the same except the name. An extension of the brand’s “Good to the Last Drop” platform, Maxwell Apartment is one of two campaigns debuting from the coffee brand this fall as it continues to emphasize its dedication to rich, consistent flavor people can count on while doubling down on offering the best value in coffee.

Thanks. I just tried adjusting a few gamescope settings but the utilization still goes down over time. Seems to give me a virtual sandboxed display? I’m honestly not sure how I can use it to troubleshoot more than I can by adjusting the settings in game. Any recommendations on options that might reveal more information?

Thanks again.

I updated my post with graphs from a DLSS Performance + Low Graphics Preset run. Didn’t seem to have any impact, beyond lower initial GPU Load (low 70’s vs high 90s).

Tried as few things from your suggestion:

• Running vulkaninfo or switching to the desktop have no performance “reset” type effect.
• Prefer Maximum Performance didn’t seem to make a difference.

I might try to run a few other games to see if anything else triggers it. I haven’t noticed any other games with the FPS drop over time but I don’t play many other demanding games.

With my motherboard’s “Expo I” setting (uses timing from RAM rather than system default), I do get occasional core errors in Windows and Linux on hour combined runs, and sometimes just with the CPU/Memory hour run, though its inconsistent - sometimes just one or a few errors, another time a slew of them. I figured my “Expo I” setting might have something to do with it so I turned it off.

With it off I ran it for a full hour, once in Windows and once in Linux, and now receive no errors. Played for about 2 hours tonight on Linux and the issue still occurs without using the “Expo I” setting.

Got about ~110 minutes on Windows 10 tonight. FPS was stable. Graphs posted.

I actually originally started SM2 on Windows 10 last fall playing single player, and I did play a few nights this summer on Windows 10 while troubleshooting to test. I was unable to reproduce the issue on Windows - played 2+ hours without it happening.

I think I did it a few weeks ago actually, when my discord client wouldn’t connect and I figured I’d test it again to see.

If I have time with all my other testing I’ll give it another shot tonight or tomorrow night.

Definitely on Bazzite. I tried lowering the DLSS render scale to performance and also dropping the graphics quality preset.

I’ll double check that it still happens on Tumbleweed though and log it later today.

I don’t click Google Drive links.
Fair enough. I’ve since posted images of several graphs.

I initially assumed thermal throttling or resource exhaustion. I just can’t find any evidence to support either cause.

Heat: No temperatures I can measure are anywhere near the limits that cause throttling. GPU, CPU, SSD are all relatively cool. I can’t measure VRAM temp (because NVIDIA) but it’s also important to note zero issues in Windows.

Resources: Neither RAM or VRAM appear to be exhausted. My idle tests show 5.5/16GB VRAM and 16/64GB System RAM used. Other system-wide monitors confirm that VRAM/RAM and GPU/CPU usage (overall) matches the games usage so nothing external seems to be hogging the resources. I have plenty of space left in my partitions so I’m not running out of disk space.

I ran the game for a while, idling. GPU load is down to 70%. I ran the process. Also tried looping nvidia-smi in the background with the game as the focus for a while.
> nvidia-smi -q -l 1 -f smi.log -d PERFORMANCE

All of the records look like this:

> nvidia-smi -q -d PERFORMANCE

==============NVSMI LOG==============

Timestamp                                 : Tue Sep 23 07:06:07 2025
Driver Version                            : 580.82.07
CUDA Version                              : 13.0

Attached GPUs                             : 1
GPU 00000000:01:00.0
    Performance State                     : P0
    Clocks Event Reasons
        Idle                              : Not Active
        Applications Clocks Setting       : Not Active
        SW Power Cap                      : Not Active
        HW Slowdown                       : Not Active
            HW Thermal Slowdown           : Not Active
            HW Power Brake Slowdown       : Not Active
        Sync Boost                        : Not Active
        SW Thermal Slowdown               : Not Active
        Display Clock Setting             : Not Active
    Clocks Event Reasons Counters
        SW Power Capping                  : 1160456 us
        Sync Boost                        : 0 us
        SW Thermal Slowdown               : 0 us
        HW Thermal Slowdown               : 0 us
        HW Power Braking                  : 0 us
    Sparse Operation Mode                 : N/A

Since I’ve been checking, my kernel has been 6.14 to 6.16+, whatever Bazzite and now openSUSE Tumbleweed defaults to. Currently - Kernel Version: 6.16.7-1-default (64-bit). I’m not familiar with the xanmod kernel or running custom kernels at all.

I believe that I’ve ruled that out. See the blue line in the fourth fifth graph in each set. When idling VRAM is steady at ~5.5GB, but performance degrades. I’ve also checked VRAM availability outside of mangohud while the game is running and my total VRAM usage/availability aligns with the game’s VRAM usage reported by mangohud.

It seems I get stuck once a benchmark is finished. I downloaded what appears to be an appimage from their website. Ex.

00:00:00 - Info - Benchmark schedule started at 2025-09-22 23:46:03
00:00:00 - Info - CPU - Benchmark initializing
00:00:00 - Info - CPU - Benchmark started
00:00:10 - Info - CPU - 1 threads, SSE : 108.47
00:00:10 - Info - CPU - Benchmark stopped
00:00:10 - Info - CPU - Benchmark initializing
00:00:10 - Info - CPU - Benchmark started
00:00:20 - Info - CPU - 16 threads, SSE : 954.19
00:00:20 - Info - CPU - Benchmark stopped
00:00:21 - Info - CPU - Benchmark initializing
00:00:21 - Info - CPU - Benchmark started
00:00:31 - Info - CPU - 1 threads, AVX : 229.73
00:00:31 - Info - CPU - Benchmark stopped
00:00:31 - Info - CPU - Benchmark initializing
00:00:31 - Info - CPU - Benchmark started
00:00:42 - Info - CPU - 16 threads, AVX : 1 935.24
00:00:42 - Info - CPU - Benchmark stopped
00:00:42 - Info - Uploading the results to Ocbase
00:00:42 - Info - Schedule Completed  
~~~~~  
00:00:00 - Info - Benchmark schedule started at 2025-09-22 23:52:29
00:00:00 - Info - Memory - Benchmark initializing
00:00:00 - Info - Memory - Benchmark started
00:00:10 - Info - Memory - Read : 2 034.06
00:00:10 - Info - Memory - Benchmark stopped
00:00:10 - Info - Memory - Benchmark initializing
00:00:10 - Info - Memory - Benchmark started
00:00:20 - Info - Memory - Write : 780.88
00:00:20 - Info - Memory - Benchmark stopped
00:00:21 - Info - Memory - Benchmark initializing
00:00:21 - Info - Memory - Benchmark started
00:00:31 - Info - Memory - Combined : 1 317.76
00:00:31 - Info - Memory - Benchmark stopped
00:00:31 - Info - Uploading the results to Ocbase
00:00:31 - Info - Schedule Completed  
~~~~~  
00:00:00 - Info - Benchmark schedule started at 2025-09-22 23:56:51
00:00:00 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark initializing
00:00:00 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark started
00:00:21 - Info - Storage benchmark - Sequential Read : 7 360.58 MB/s
00:00:21 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark stopped
00:00:22 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark initializing
00:00:22 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark started
00:00:43 - Info - Storage benchmark - Sequential Write : 6 246.57 MB/s
00:00:43 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark stopped
00:00:44 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark initializing
00:00:44 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark started
00:01:06 - Info - Storage benchmark - Random Read : 1 651.07 MB/s
00:01:06 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark stopped
00:01:07 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark initializing
00:01:07 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark started
00:01:28 - Info - Storage benchmark - Random Write : 1 870.32 MB/s
00:01:28 - Info - Storage benchmark - Benchmark stopped
00:01:29 - Info - Schedule Completed
00:01:29 - Info - Uploading the results to Ocbase

After the CPU, Memory, and Storage benchmarks it consistently just… sits. No errors, nothing of note. I have a big stop button and the green animation continues at the top left. However nothing else happens after this point if I wait/leave it for a while. The “Stop” button is unresponsive. I have to close and reopen. Am I doing something wrong? I tried Memory and CPU multiple times, same behavior. Tried the “Test” version 15, same.

I did have some success with the latency test. Only tried it once though.

00:00:00 - Info - Benchmark schedule started at 2025-09-22 23:54:02
00:00:00 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - Benchmark initializing
00:00:00 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - Pausing monitoring to ensure accurate readings through the benchmark
00:00:00 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - Benchmark started
00:00:03 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - L1 Latency : 2.89 ns
00:00:10 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - L1 Read Bandwidth : 2 557.30 GiB/s
00:00:17 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - L1 Write Bandwidth : 2 550.08 GiB/s
00:00:20 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - L2 Latency : 6.72 ns
00:00:27 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - L2 Read Bandwidth : 1 785.33 GiB/s
00:00:34 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - L2 Write Bandwidth : 1 745.18 GiB/s
00:00:40 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - L3 Latency : 51.07 ns
00:00:46 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - L3 Read Bandwidth : 593.72 GiB/s
00:00:53 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - L3 Write Bandwidth : 356.05 GiB/s
00:01:01 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - Memory Latency : 73.82 ns
00:01:13 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - Memory Read Bandwidth : 82.86 GiB/s
00:01:24 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - Memory Write Bandwidth : 30.44 GiB/s
00:01:24 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - Benchmark stopped
00:01:24 - Info - Latency / bandwidth - Resuming Monitoring
00:01:24 - Info - Uploading the results to Ocbase
00:01:24 - Info - Schedule Completed
00:01:24 - Info - Upload successful

Running the stability now and going to sleep.

I’m in IT and I was a computer Tech. I enjoy building gaming PCs and I know a good bit but this is really frustrating me. As I said, I’m currently driven by spite and hatred of Windows, especially 11.

I’ll play a bit and keep an eye on my SSD temp and I’ll run OCCT later. Thanks!

Mission Control? Do you mean Mission Center?

Sorry, wasn’t sure which SSD I had the Windows Partition on and needed to look up commands to check. Looks like I’m using the newer Sandisk WD Black SN850X for Linux.

Yes. I can’t find anything beyond my own post complaining of my specific issue. I’ve also added more hardware detail and images of a few of my graphs since my link seemed to be ignored.