Performance

[NotReallyRx]

Recently Arch did something or rather and now i am using nouveau and i am getting ~25 percent performance of what i used to get going from 1600 fps to 400 fps and i would like to know how to make the gap smaller between the proprietary and open source driver.

[Binary-Eater]

For clarification, nouveau and the open kernel modules in this repository are different. I recommend switching to some form of official NVIDIA production drivers for performance.

[Binary-Eater]

For 32-bit games, you will want to enable multilib and install lib32-nvidia-utils as well.

[NotReallyRx]

local/egl-gbm 1.1.2.1-1
The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.21-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-wayland2 1.0.0.rc.r51.gada1c37-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform (2)
local/egl-x11 1.0.4-1
NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils 580.119.02-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit) (580xx)
local/lib32-opencl-nvidia-580xx 580.119.02-1
OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA (32-bit) (580xx)
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl-580xx 580.119.02-2
NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension (580xx)
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20251125-2
Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for NVIDIA GPUs and SoCs
local/nvidia-580xx-dkms 580.119.02-2
NVIDIA kernel modules - module sources (580xx)
local/nvidia-580xx-settings 580.119.02-2
Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver (580xx)
local/nvidia-580xx-settings-debug 580.119.02-2
Detached debugging symbols for nvidia-580xx-settings
local/nvidia-580xx-utils 580.119.02-2
NVIDIA drivers utilities (580xx)
local/opencl-nvidia-580xx 580.119.02-2
OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA (580xx)
local/vulkan-nouveau 1:25.3.2-1
Open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.18-1 (xorg-drivers)
Open Source 3D acceleration driver for nVidia cards

[NotReallyRx]

i switched over to 580 thinking that was the soluton

[Binary-Eater]

For the 3060Ti, you don't need to stay on 580. nvidia-open and nvidia-utils should give you similar performance.

[Binary-Eater]

Since the nouveau kernel module will be blacklisted, this should not be an issue but you may want to consider removing xf86-video-nouveau.