Thanks a lot. This is actually quite simple and I've overcomplicated things for no reason. Also fully tested and working as I just got a kernel update.
I've understood your fist comment as if I needed two separate scripts files and one calls upon the other...
I wouldn't call this a specialized setup. VRR has been there for almost 15years. I've dealt with VRR issues on Windows and they are still preset in some instances with mixed non-VRR and VRR monitor setups they just manifest differently on Linux due to different compositor. My experience last year on KDE 5 was fine in games and it was on desktop where VRR was causing me strange issues. Now I don't have any issues on GNOME despite it being just and experimental feature still.
OC wise, yes. This is kinda niche and I'm glad that it at least works to some extent. I can squeeze more performance out of my GPU on Windows but even the SW that allows me to do it is not well known and very niche and finicky on Windows and for typical OC everything works fine on Linux except VRAM OC.
Weird mice... yes. After setting up my mouse on Windows I've saved my profile to the on-board memory and uninstalled that crappy SW so it's not required for me to have my mouse usable.
HDR... I don't really care about it right now. I've tried it and I still find SDR to look "better" in my subjective opinion.
I really have to disagree with your take that I would have to limit myself to "keep it simple" to use Linux since nothing is guaranteed and you will sooner or later run into some weird issue because of your setup despite thinking it's "common enough". Most of these requirements are not even weird in the slightest. And yes, I do appreciate the work that has been and is being done.
I haven't and this goes over my head honestly. I've tried replicate what you said but I'm getting a "bash level too high" and it keeps repeating. I'm quite lost when it comes to programming and scripting so I've probably did something wrong.
But if you can be bothered to help me I'm all ears. These are the 2 commands I''d like to run in script:
sudo grubby --default-kernel
output
sudo grubby --args=amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff --update-kernel output
You're probably just lucky or you just don't run any weird HW combination that may cause issues. For me Fedora is the best and most stable distro with least issues. I never used any distro on which I had no issues and I don't believe there is such a distro anywhere. The issues usually just change to different ones when I switch.
While I never had issues with dual booting in the past, I've just found it to be annoying in general and even thinking about having to switch to the other OS because of X for few minutes made me not want to deal with it.
I also use Blender. It's amazing. For my occasional office work OnlyOffice more than suffices. Photopea in browser as a Photoshop replacement or Krita in a pinch. OnShape for CAD for personal use. FreeCAD is nice too but has some severe limitations.
Will give it a shot
"Remember the nutella" - random Malian villager
It's enabled in the Steam settings but whether it actually works I have no idea It's possible it's the root of the issue though.
I won't say no to an invitation but I will say thank you very much instead
To stream piss from you into the devive
Tech people are niche but over time we will pre-install what we consider "good" on our grandmas, dads, moms, friends, etc... PCs
I've got a 2nd hand RX 6800 XT about 3 months ago and immediately had to repaste it as the thermals went well above 100C even at 255W. I used a new tube of MX4 which I kept as a backup and the temp went down significantly for about 2 weeks but then hot spot started to creep up until the difference between GPU Temp and TJ Max was 30C+ at times and with my OC at 300W it was often hitting 105C-109C on TJ Max in Time Spy (but even in games the hotspot would sometimes randomly jump to over 100C even if the game was using 200W).
So my theory was that there is a thermal paste pump-out due to thermal cycling which would explain why the temp was going up so fast after repaste but it took me until now to try the Carbonaut pad which I assumed could fix the issue.
I've used Time Spy GPU Test2 on 5 loops to get these results for comparison. GPU was set to 300W and 2600MHz at stock 1150mV. GPU fan speed fixed with side panel on the case as well.
I've started in the morning so room temp went only up until I've got all my results which means that the pad results are slightly better than what I've measured.
After replacing the paste with a pad the TJ Max did go down by about 6C-9C and I was only hitting about 100C at most BUT the core went up significantly by almost 20C from around 78C to 95C.
This was definitely disappointing as this affected the GPU clocks quite significantly and resulted in around 250MHz drop.
But because the hotspot went down this made me think that there just must be insufficient contact or cooler pressure so I was able to find some rubber washers or O-rings or whatever those are in a garage and I took off the retention plate and installed them. I tried to screw the plate back on as evenly as possible with just a normal screw driver and I hoped I wont crack the die by using too much pressure.
Results are absolutely stellar as I've got almost 20C drop on hot spot vs paste (around 9C improvement vs pad without washers) which makes my Time Spy max out at 91C on hot spot. Also the GPU temp went down by more than 20C vs pad without washers and around 5C lower than vs paste to around 73C in Time Spy.
So all in all I'm quite happy with the results. Washers probably did the most as I think doing washers + paste would get me similar results or maybe even better but I'm not going to try.
If you decide to go for the pad I recommend to get larger than 32x32mm one as I did as it's just big enough with almost no room for error if it moves during installation.
I've got the Samsung Odyssey G65B 32". Upgraded from a 165Hz IPS AOC AG271QG. So far so good. It's definitely much faster response time and it's so smooth as long as I can maintain the FPS high. Though mainly the colors and contrast stand out the most. I was worried about QC issues but did not notice anything out of whack yet. The only annoying thing which I'll probably never use is the built in Tizen OS to make it work more like a TV. I think that's just unnecessary. I did not even bother to connect it to network.
RX 6800 XT
1.) I don't think it's a driver issue. For some reason the display just does not get picked up during boot. The system still behaves like there are 2 monitors connected though.
2.) Tried disabling HW acceleration in Steam, so far so good but haven't used it for long enough to see if it's completely fine.
3.) AMD changes VRAM timings with clock, it's not just simple clock change, thats why also negative offset affects VRAM stability. I don't think that CoreCTRL compensates for this with it's VRAM tune.