Performance issues even with DXVK

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I have a AMD Ryzen 7 2700x with a RTX 3060 Ti. Its a Debian with the latest Lutris installation. Games are starting without errors using Vulkan. But the Perfomance seems to be half of the Performance with Windows.
Here is a example log with Word of Warcraft. Resolution 2560x1440 with 4xMSAA and good settings. While the framerate in Oribos is 90 FPS using Windows the framerate. With Linux the framerate is dropping to 44 at the same position. Also in raids during bossfights the performance is remarkably lower.

The userlimits are set to maximum.
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 63725
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited

Started initial process 13331 from xxxx Wow.exe
Start monitoring process.
esync: up and running.
warn:  DXGIDeclareAdapterRemovalSupport: Stub
warn:  CreateDXGIFactory2: Ignoring flags
info:  Game: Wow.exe
info:  DXVK: v1.9.2-21-g2e66f45a
info:  Built-in extension providers:
info:    Win32 WSI
info:    OpenVR
info:    OpenXR
info:  OpenVR: could not open registry key, status 2
info:  OpenVR: Failed to locate module
info:  Enabled instance extensions:
info:    VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2
info:    VK_KHR_surface
info:    VK_KHR_win32_surface
info:  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti:
info:    Driver: 470.57.2
info:    Vulkan: 1.2.175
info:    Memory Heap[0]: 
info:      Size: 8192 MiB
info:      Flags: 0x1
info:      Memory Type[7]: Property Flags = 0x1
info:    Memory Heap[1]: 
info:      Size: 12011 MiB
info:      Flags: 0x0
info:      Memory Type[0]: Property Flags = 0x0
info:      Memory Type[1]: Property Flags = 0x0
info:      Memory Type[2]: Property Flags = 0x0
info:      Memory Type[3]: Property Flags = 0x0
info:      Memory Type[4]: Property Flags = 0x0
info:      Memory Type[5]: Property Flags = 0x0
info:      Memory Type[6]: Property Flags = 0x0
info:      Memory Type[8]: Property Flags = 0x6
info:      Memory Type[9]: Property Flags = 0xe
info:    Memory Heap[2]: 
info:      Size: 246 MiB
info:      Flags: 0x1
info:      Memory Type[10]: Property Flags = 0x7
info:  D3D11CoreCreateDevice: Probing D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_1
info:  D3D11CoreCreateDevice: Using feature level D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_1
info:  Device properties:
info:    Device name:     : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
info:    Driver version   : 470.57.2
info:  Enabled device extensions:
info:    VK_EXT_4444_formats
info:    VK_EXT_conservative_rasterization
info:    VK_EXT_custom_border_color
info:    VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable
info:    VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state
info:    VK_EXT_full_screen_exclusive
info:    VK_EXT_host_query_reset
info:    VK_EXT_robustness2
info:    VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation
info:    VK_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer
info:    VK_EXT_transform_feedback
info:    VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor
info:    VK_KHR_buffer_device_address
info:    VK_KHR_create_renderpass2
info:    VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve
info:    VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count
info:    VK_KHR_driver_properties
info:    VK_KHR_image_format_list
info:    VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge
info:    VK_KHR_shader_float_controls
info:    VK_KHR_swapchain
info:    VK_NVX_binary_import
info:    VK_NVX_image_view_handle
info:  Device features:
info:    robustBufferAccess                     : 1
info:    fullDrawIndexUint32                    : 1
info:    imageCubeArray                         : 1
info:    independentBlend                       : 1
info:    geometryShader                         : 1
info:    tessellationShader                     : 1
info:    sampleRateShading                      : 1
info:    dualSrcBlend                           : 1
info:    logicOp                                : 1
info:    multiDrawIndirect                      : 1
info:    drawIndirectFirstInstance              : 1
info:    depthClamp                             : 1
info:    depthBiasClamp                         : 1
info:    fillModeNonSolid                       : 1
info:    depthBounds                            : 1
info:    multiViewport                          : 1
info:    samplerAnisotropy                      : 1
info:    textureCompressionBC                   : 1
info:    occlusionQueryPrecise                  : 1
info:    pipelineStatisticsQuery                : 1
info:    vertexPipelineStoresAndAtomics         : 1
info:    fragmentStoresAndAtomics               : 1
info:    shaderImageGatherExtended              : 1
info:    shaderStorageImageExtendedFormats      : 0
info:    shaderStorageImageReadWithoutFormat    : 1
info:    shaderStorageImageWriteWithoutFormat   : 1
info:    shaderClipDistance                     : 1
info:    shaderCullDistance                     : 1
info:    shaderFloat64                          : 1
info:    shaderInt64                            : 1
info:    variableMultisampleRate                : 1
info:  VK_EXT_4444_formats
info:    formatA4R4G4B4                         : 1
info:    formatA4B4G4R4                         : 1
info:  VK_EXT_custom_border_color
info:    customBorderColors                     : 1
info:    customBorderColorWithoutFormat         : 1
info:  VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable
info:    depthClipEnable                        : 1
info:  VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state
info:    extendedDynamicState                   : 1
info:  VK_EXT_host_query_reset
info:    hostQueryReset                         : 1
info:  VK_EXT_memory_priority
info:    memoryPriority                         : 0
info:  VK_EXT_robustness2
info:    robustBufferAccess2                    : 1
info:    robustImageAccess2                     : 1
info:    nullDescriptor                         : 1
info:  VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation
info:    shaderDemoteToHelperInvocation         : 1
info:  VK_EXT_transform_feedback
info:    transformFeedback                      : 1
info:    geometryStreams                        : 1
info:  VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor
info:    vertexAttributeInstanceRateDivisor     : 1
info:    vertexAttributeInstanceRateZeroDivisor : 1
info:  VK_KHR_buffer_device_address
info:    bufferDeviceAddress                    : 1
info:  Queue families:
info:    Graphics : 0
info:    Transfer : 1
err:   DxvkAdapter: Failed to create device, retrying without CUDA interop extensions
info:  DXVK: Read 4972 valid state cache entries
info:  DXVK: Using 10 compiler threads
00fc:info:vkd3d_get_vk_version: vkd3d-proton - applicationVersion: 2.4.0.
00fc:info:vkd3d_instance_init: vkd3d-proton - build: a19619ccbf9831f.
00fc:err:vkd3d_create_vk_device: Failed to create Vulkan device, vr -3.
00fc:fixme:hresult_from_vk_result: Unhandled VkResult -3.
info:  D3D11CoreCreateDevice: Probing D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_1
info:  D3D11CoreCreateDevice: Using feature level D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_1
info:  Device properties:
info:    Device name:     : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
info:    Driver version   : 470.57.2
info:  Enabled device extensions:
info:    VK_EXT_4444_formats
info:    VK_EXT_conservative_rasterization
info:    VK_EXT_custom_border_color
info:    VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable
info:    VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state
info:    VK_EXT_full_screen_exclusive
info:    VK_EXT_host_query_reset
info:    VK_EXT_robustness2
info:    VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation
info:    VK_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer
info:    VK_EXT_transform_feedback
info:    VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor
info:    VK_KHR_buffer_device_address
info:    VK_KHR_create_renderpass2
info:    VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve
info:    VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count
info:    VK_KHR_driver_properties
info:    VK_KHR_image_format_list
info:    VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge
info:    VK_KHR_shader_float_controls
info:    VK_KHR_swapchain
info:    VK_NVX_binary_import
info:    VK_NVX_image_view_handle
info:  Device features:
info:    robustBufferAccess                     : 1
info:    fullDrawIndexUint32                    : 1
info:    imageCubeArray                         : 1
info:    independentBlend                       : 1
info:    geometryShader                         : 1
info:    tessellationShader                     : 1
info:    sampleRateShading                      : 1
info:    dualSrcBlend                           : 1
info:    logicOp                                : 1
info:    multiDrawIndirect                      : 1
info:    drawIndirectFirstInstance              : 1
info:    depthClamp                             : 1
info:    depthBiasClamp                         : 1
info:    fillModeNonSolid                       : 1
info:    depthBounds                            : 1
info:    multiViewport                          : 1
info:    samplerAnisotropy                      : 1
info:    textureCompressionBC                   : 1
info:    occlusionQueryPrecise                  : 1
info:    pipelineStatisticsQuery                : 1
info:    vertexPipelineStoresAndAtomics         : 1
info:    fragmentStoresAndAtomics               : 1
info:    shaderImageGatherExtended              : 1
info:    shaderStorageImageExtendedFormats      : 0
info:    shaderStorageImageReadWithoutFormat    : 1
info:    shaderStorageImageWriteWithoutFormat   : 1
info:    shaderClipDistance                     : 1
info:    shaderCullDistance                     : 1
info:    shaderFloat64                          : 1
info:    shaderInt64                            : 1
info:    variableMultisampleRate                : 1
info:  VK_EXT_4444_formats
info:    formatA4R4G4B4                         : 1
info:    formatA4B4G4R4                         : 1
info:  VK_EXT_custom_border_color
info:    customBorderColors                     : 1
info:    customBorderColorWithoutFormat         : 1
info:  VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable
info:    depthClipEnable                        : 1
info:  VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state
info:    extendedDynamicState                   : 1
info:  VK_EXT_host_query_reset
info:    hostQueryReset                         : 1
info:  VK_EXT_memory_priority
info:    memoryPriority                         : 0
info:  VK_EXT_robustness2
info:    robustBufferAccess2                    : 1
info:    robustImageAccess2                     : 1
info:    nullDescriptor                         : 1
info:  VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation
info:    shaderDemoteToHelperInvocation         : 1
info:  VK_EXT_transform_feedback
info:    transformFeedback                      : 1
info:    geometryStreams                        : 1
info:  VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor
info:    vertexAttributeInstanceRateDivisor     : 1
info:    vertexAttributeInstanceRateZeroDivisor : 1
info:  VK_KHR_buffer_device_address
info:    bufferDeviceAddress                    : 1
info:  Queue families:
info:    Graphics : 0
info:    Transfer : 1
err:   DxvkAdapter: Failed to create device, retrying without CUDA interop extensions
info:  DXVK: Read 4972 valid state cache entries
info:  DXVK: Using 10 compiler threads
warn:  winevulkan detected, disabling exclusive fullscreen support
info:  Presenter: Actual swap chain properties:
info:    Format:       VK_FORMAT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM
info:    Present mode: VK_PRESENT_MODE_IMMEDIATE_KHR
info:    Buffer size:  2560x1440
info:    Image count:  4
info:    Exclusive FS: 2
warn:  DXGI: MakeWindowAssociation: Ignoring flags
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
info:  Presenter: Actual swap chain properties:
info:    Format:       VK_FORMAT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM
info:    Present mode: VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_KHR
info:    Buffer size:  2560x1440
info:    Image count:  4
info:    Exclusive FS: 2
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Maybe you should update your drivers, the newer ones should work better. I installed the 495.44 driver and my games are running great so far. I am using Pop! OS 21.04 with a GTX 1070M

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Thank you. I will try. But the drivers coming with Debian are up to date, 470.x is the latest stable Version. The 495.x Driver is still experimental.

I need my PC for mostly for work and I am a bit afraid. Also I doubt that the performance difference is remarkable.

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Have you tried disabling DXVK via the slider in the game’s runner options?

I ask because I have a similar setup (a 2560x1440 display with a Ryzen 3700x & RTX 2070 Super) and a while back I had horrible performance (FPS in single digits to the teens) in Sins of a Solar Empire with DXVK enabled. It ran fine after I disabled DXVK. While it seems most games run fine with it, apparently some games have problems with it.

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WOW won’t start without DXVK. And it seems that the graphic is not the bottleneck. I can change the quality from low to high without any difference. So i guess it`s the cpu. But wow seems to use all cores, I disabled per user process limitation. But the performance seems to be significantly lower. (about 50%)
If I enable esync the fps are lower and the game seems to be laggy .

In oribos fps rate drop to 48-54 while the cpu load is about 40%.