I got this Beelink mini pc from Amazon planning to hook it up to my living room TV and play movies and stream TV with. And I was shocked and amazed to discover that this little thing could run games like Hi-Fi Rush and MGSV:PP on max settings! Sure the fans made it sound like a small jet engine, but it never skipped frames or lagged on me even once! I know it’s not a power house: it couldn’t run Yakuza Zero or Neir Automata very well. But I was still thrilled with what it could do!

Well it shipped with Windows 11, and I finally decided to fix that. A couple days ago I switched over to Mint, tho I’m running Kubuntu now. The switch was quick and painless, and honestly getting used to Linux has been pretty fun! But now it runs a lot of my games like a slide show. I’ve been digging at this for a few days now, updating drivers and setting up Proton. I’ve found a lot of helpful guides and stuff on line, but very little about the hardware I have in this situation. Apparently AMD processors are great for Linux, but I feel like it’s not working with the integrated graphics card. Tried to find the right driver on their website, but I haven’t had much luck. So, here’s hoping the community can help. Any tips for a newbie?

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U (16) @ 4.37 GHz | GPU: AMD Lucienne [Integrated]

UPDATE:

Thanks again to everyone so far that’s offered advice, but it hasn’t seemed to have helped much…

I made sure the power mode is set to Performance, and turned the settings all the way to their lowest at 1080p. Someone had suggested using Flatseal to check permissions, but steam did not show up there, so it was seemingly a dead end. I even switched to Bazzite.

But I’m still only getting 10fps at most, regardless of graphic settings. I’m not really sure what else to do at this point.

2nd UPDATE:

Potential success! BananaTrifleViolin asked if the games were running in 4k, which I made sure they weren’t. But then I got to thinking about my main desktop display. It defaulted to my TV’s 4k size, and the game was running in full screen…

So I fixed that and launched Hi-Fi again to test, and managed to get a stable 30fps! Now to figure out how to make this better, lol

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Just to narrow it down further, were you getting bad performance on Linux Mint too, or did you only install games on Kubuntu?

    Another user mentioned that the power settings can have a huge effect, which also seems like a good lead to look into. You should be able to check it by opening your settings panel and going to the Power Management section. In there should be a Power Profile setting. If it’s set to power save mode, it’ll limit your performance quite a bit.

    • Psycho84@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      Yes, I was having these same issues on mint. Literally everything else has worked fine, the most trouble I had was fixing the audio output, and that just took a few minutes.

      I saw the power settings comment, when I get home I’m gonna test that and the graphics settings, just tinker with things to see if the suggestions I’ve gotten so far work. Switching distros will be my hail mary if all else fails.