SD card reader (LeGo)

Hey all, having some stutters, and whenever my game stutters, my cpu and GPU wattage go way down. I don't think it's thermal throttling, as my temps are ok and it only happens for a moment. This is only happening in a few games so far, specifically Palworld, witcher 3, and TF2. Both games are on my SD card. I'm playing on a Legion Go, if that helps.
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Also, I haven't tried my entire installed library yet, just a few games. The only one it doesn't do this in is Tekken 8. Tekken runs perfectly. Update, it's doing it in the fricking home menu lol Update 2: I tried the same game (TF2) on the same sd card on my steam deck, which runs bazzite-deck 41 as well, no issues with it. It's something specific to my legion go. Update 3: It was the hyuckin Decky FSR3 plugin, once I removed the mods and uninstalled it, Witcher 3 and Palworld work fine. TF2 still stutters tho. Not sure what that's about Installing on my windows partition cause no one seems to know what's wrong with my tf2
TiagoGusmΓ£o
TiagoGusmΓ£oβ€’2mo ago
Guys, I need help! I've always used Bizzite on my Legion Go, but recently I had to format it, and after downloading the new ISO, the games have been performing poorly! The TDP doesn't seem to work properly β€” even setting it to 30, it seems stuck at 20-25. When I adjust it quickly, it goes back to normal, but after a few seconds, the performance drops again. Any tips? About 3 days ago, I formatted my Legion Go! Bizzite was working perfectly. The last version I used was before the release of the Legion Go S and before the website updated the ROM to the new one, which made everything worse! I even stopped using it. Is anyone else facing this problem? On Windows, everything is perfect, working beautifully with normal TDP! But on Bizzite, it's completely messed up!
antheas
antheasβ€’2mo ago
put a bug report from handheld daemon here after you tweak the tdp are you sure its not 30W?
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Antheas do you have any idea about my tf2 stutter issue? I would much prefer to play it on bazzite, if possible
antheas
antheasβ€’2mo ago
No
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Oof. Alright, thank you
antheas
antheasβ€’2mo ago
Disable decky first for food measure Clean your fan Did you clean the fan?
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This unit is pretty new, just over a month old. But I'll do so. Though, my temps are fine, and I'm on the powersave tdp preset
paladinivy
paladinivyβ€’2mo ago
tf2 is notorious for being finicky on different hardware and systems going to be honest, have you tried using mastercomfig for tf2
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I'll disable Decky and try it on my lunch break. What's masterconfig? Comfig*
antheas
antheasβ€’2mo ago
Temps are fine when it overheats Don't know why
paladinivy
paladinivyβ€’2mo ago
basically necessary tf2 mod that fixes many performance options and settings, just look it up, try medium low settings, you just drag a vpk into your tf2 mods folder would try that before anything else
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I'll give that a shot. Thanks for the help guys! I just hope I can get the files transferred back over from windows to bazzite all in my lunch. Update, this didn't help. Gonna try disabling Decky
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Disabling Decky also didn't help. This is what my frame time graph does when it lags. It's fine, then it lags, and it's back to fine, all within like a second or two
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antheas
antheasβ€’2mo ago
Oh Very little clue then
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Oh well. I'll just play on windows, ig. Thanks for your help
antheas
antheasβ€’2mo ago
Could be a frame timings issue Happens sometimes Maybe, especially at 60hz I mostly test vrr screens now
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Hmm. Any way I could fix that? Maybe turn off frame limit and gamescope vsync, and let TF2 handle vsync?
antheas
antheasβ€’2mo ago
Use 72hz
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So another update on this, crash bandicoot 4 now does this Is there any other way? A lot of the time I play docked, and my tv runs 60hz I think I'm done, I'm giving up lol. Just refuses to work for almost any game. Thanks for your help guys, sorry it went nowhere
antheas
antheasβ€’2mo ago
I was testing portal 2 and got some stutters like you said
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Weird. Does it happen to any other games for you?
antheas
antheasβ€’2mo ago
No and it stopped now
paladinivy
paladinivyβ€’2mo ago
does this only happen while docked at 60hz? try forcing max gpu clocks while doing so if you still have your bazzite install oh i also didnt realize you were playing of an sdcard. try playing them off the main storage instead
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Well that's gonna be difficult due to the way I set up my dual boot. I only allocated enough SSD storage to install bazzite and have some spare space, all my games were going to SD card. And I don't think it's the sd card, cause I tried the same games, on the same sd card, formatted the same, just on my Steam Deck (which also runs bazzite)
antheas
antheasβ€’2mo ago
This is not confidence inspiring
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Yeah, really confusing to me
TecN01R
TecN01Rβ€’2mo ago
When in doubt, cap your GPU at 2200 is what I say
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Hm. Well, if I decide to give bazzite another try I'll try that. screw it. Reinstalling lol. aye uh small problem my max is 1600mhz?? Oh nvm I'm slow, the setting is different in hhd Sorry for the ping Nope, that didn't seem to help unfortunately IM SO MAD Its my SD card reader. Moved the files over to my SSD because I partitioned a little more for bazzite And uh Problem solved. Now the question is, what's the best way to get acceptable performance from my SD card I'm so sorry for wasting y'all's time, I really didn't think it could be the reader, I thought it could only be the card itself I'm gonna try switching to ext4 see if that helps It's... Working I can't believe it It's running, and it's running almost perfectly It also seemed to solve my issue with downloading games, though I didn't mention that here.
JC
JCβ€’2mo ago
Haha, yeah. I was also shocked wtf was going on with the default btrfs file system. I don't understand why Bazzite doesn't default to ext4 for SD cards.
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Yeah. All it took was 1 command, and then formatted from game mode and it just... Works

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