Hi all, I have recently installed Bazzite, after previously being on Nobara.
I have been playing Dave the Diver and DOOM (2016), both through Steam, and I get pretty serious input lag. A second or more delay at times, generally when FPS is struggling.
I’m running on a laptop with integrated graphics, so the struggling integrated GPU is not a surprise, but I didn’t have this input lag issue with the same games on Nobara.
Any tips on a setting or something to help this?
I have lowered graphics settings to help with FPS, but ultimately I am not going to be able to avoid occasional FPS dips. The mouse input is instant, it’s just an issue with the keyboard.
Any help appreciated!
Edit with solution: it seems the problem is IBus, see this comment: https://lemmy.nz/post/23401044/15684126
Basically the solution is to add IBUS_ENABLE_SYNC_MODE=2 to /etc/environment and restart.
Yes, as close as I could. I had the game open and while using it the keyboard actions were delayed. Then I switched to the terminal to run the commands. So I guess not while I was pressing keys in the game, but I did it at a time when the keyboard controls were lagging.
Edit: One thing I noticed is that it appears to happen only when holding down a key. So for example, if I tap left then tap right, the character reacts instantly. But if I hold down left and the character is going left, then I switch to pressing right instead, it can take over a second to react. Like it’s not able to process the key presses as fast as they are being generated.
So this is a bit of a dumb solution, but I went to the accessibility settings in the OS and dropped the repeat frequency a bit. Now it seems to work fine!
It did seem like the events were triggering faster than the games could process them, so dropping the repeat speed a little stopped the events queueing up.