8800GT problems with CS:GO on Linux

[Bananasplit_00]

Ok FPS problems are back again in CS:GO with the LAN PC... this is getting really annoying because its NOT thermal throttling which i guessed was the problem last time, which was probably wrong but hey now the card NEVER goes above 40C no matter what  so now that i have installed a temperature monitor i can see that my CPU never goes above 60C when playing CS and the GPU never above 40C so there is no thermal throttling as far as i know. the problem just returned after having been gone for a looong time, well 4 or so games with both bots and people(seeing as i only play on it to make sure it works at the moment thats like 6 days lol) and it only crashing(admittedly worse) but now with the recent Gamma update to CS:GO the crashing seems to be gone and everything was working untill after 2 bot matches and around 8 rounds of full 10 on 10 casual on office it just decided to drop from 45-100 fps to 15-20 fps and now when i hopped in a casual match on Inferno it was fine whilst spectating the first round but the instant the second round started i was down at 10-20 fps from around 50-70 fps. im thinking VRAM or something right now but im not sure what to do about that or how to monitor that on Linux seeing as it was hard enough to find something that nicely monitored my GPU temperature. i am running medium settings with shaders at lowest and no FXAA and that + the extra cooling from the fan i strapped to it seemed to fix problems the last time but now i have been gone for a week and havent been able to tinker with it and i updated the game and it was great until it dropped the FPS like that. i really have no idea what the problem is this time so if anyone has ANY idea or potential fix i will try it becasue this is honestly becoming a really annoying problem to try to fix every other time i start the game... anyway here are the specs of the PC and a link to the build log and update thred for it:

 

 

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

GPU: NVIDIA Geforce 8800GT(custom passive cooler(now with 140mm fan))

RAM: 2x2GB Corsair DDR2 800MHz

Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI

PSU: Dell 300W

Case: Cardboard box

HDD: WD2500YS 250GB 7200rpm

OS: Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3

 

Thanks for any replies and any help here, i really have no idea what it is  

[Nena Trinity]

Ya sure you use the proprietary driver and not the crappy one?

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, Nena360 said:

Ya sure you use the proprietary driver and not the crappy one?

i will go check once more but it should be on the proprietary driver seeing as i changed that in the driver manager before i even got CS:GO to start lol

[Nena Trinity]

2 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

i will go check once more but it should be on the proprietary driver seeing as i changed that in the driver manager before i even got CS:GO to start lol

What version of Linux are you running?

[LabRat]

I don't have an answer for you, but a power hungry card and a power hungry cpu........ on a dell proprietary ps...???  ouch.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, Nena360 said:

What version of Linux are you running?

its in the post if i didnt forget but anyway its Linux Mint 17.3 with the Cinnamon desktop, im not super good with Linux but i want to get better and mint seems nice

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, LabRat said:

I don't have an answer for you, but a power hungry card and a power hungry cpu........ on a dell proprietary ps...???  ouch.

yes, it was the best i had around  it seems to work fine tbh

[Nena Trinity]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

its in the post if i didnt forget but anyway its Linux Mint 17.3 with the Cinnamon desktop, im not super good with Linux but i want to get better and mint seems nice

That should work if it is based on Ubuntu 12 or newer!

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, Nena360 said:

That should work if it is based on Ubuntu 12 or newer!

im pretty sure it is seeing as Mint 18 will be based in Ubuntu 16  still the problems are really strange...

[Nena Trinity]

3 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

im pretty sure it is seeing as Mint 18 will be based in Ubuntu 16  still the problems are really strange...

I use elementary OS it is based on 14... o3o

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, Nena360 said:

I use elementary OS it is based on 14... o3o

and im guessing you have no problems with CS:GO? lol

[manikyath]

7 minutes ago, LabRat said:

I don't have an answer for you, but a power hungry card and a power hungry cpu........ on a dell proprietary ps...???  ouch.

they're not as bad as people make them out to be.

 

they just look like absolute shit because it's a very easy buck to save.

[Nena Trinity]

2 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

and im guessing you have no problems with CS:GO? lol

None but my specs are FX-8370+GTX 970 & Athlon X4 880K+GTX 960...  

[manikyath]

how important is that linux install to you?

 

nothing like some good old distro-hopping to see which one performs best or appeals to you the most.

[Bananasplit_00]

3 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

None but my specs are FX-8370+GTX 970 & Athlon X4 880K+GTX 960...  

well thats closer to what my main rig is  well il update if i can find some fix for this. i might even try a diffirent version of Linux, tho i dont want too because i really like Mint this far

[Bananasplit_00]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

how important is that linux install to you?

 

nothing like some good old distro-hopping to see which one performs best or appeals to you the most.

not very but i like the UI of cinnamon, its quite windowsy and runs nice, anyway any suggestions for what to swap over to if i dont find a fix?

[Nena Trinity]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

not very but i like the UI of cinnamon, its quite windowsy and runs nice, anyway any suggestions for what to swap over to if i dont find a fix?

How much RAM do you have again?

[Bananasplit_00]

3 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

How much RAM do you have again?

4GB of 800MHz DDR2

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

not very but i like the UI of cinnamon, its quite windowsy and runs nice, anyway any suggestions for what to swap over to if i dont find a fix?

eh, i have my list.

- fedora

- the entire ubuntu tree

- for as much as i hate debian, try debian and some derivatives

- some arch derivatives

or just pick one fresh off the linux tree:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

[Nena Trinity]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

4GB of 800MHz DDR2

Hmmm did the game ever work before or is this the first time you have ever tried it on this machine?  

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

eh, i have my list.

- fedora

- the entire ubuntu tree

- for as much as i hate debian, try debian and some derivatives

- some arch derivatives

or just pick one fresh off the linux tree:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

thanks, il look for a fix some more but then il probably hop around seeing as i have loads of free time this summer  hope i can find something i like that CS:GO runs nicely on

[Bananasplit_00]

2 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

Hmmm did the game ever work before or is this the first time you have ever tried it on this machine?  

well it has been running without problems, like between problems. it was fine earlier today, the first about one and a half hours or so but then it went to shit.... previusly its crashed when the bomb got planted and someone got shot at the same time but that seems gone now atleast, also yes that extremly rare thing happaned like 4 times and it crashed for froze but now it seems to be fine with that atleast

[Nena Trinity]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

well it has been running without problems, like between problems. it was fine earlier today, the first about one and a half hours or so but then it went to shit.... previusly its crashed when the bomb got planted and someone got shot at the same time but that seems gone now atleast, also yes that extremly rare thing happaned like 4 times and it crashed for froze but now it seems to be fine with that atleast

I suspect something could be dying, my advice is memtest86 the RAM, check the GPU and then the CPU and motherboard...

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

thanks, il look for a fix some more but then il probably hop around seeing as i have loads of free time this summer  hope i can find something i like that CS:GO runs nicely on

from my guesses your best bet would be something in the debian/ubuntu tree, preferably with low performance overhead (something LXDE perhaps?), and not *too* cutting edge. (mind you, we're talking pretty ancient hardware here )

[Nena Trinity]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

from my guesses your best bet would be something in the debian/ubuntu tree, preferably with low performance overhead (something LXDE perhaps?), and not *too* cutting edge. (mind you, we're talking pretty ancient hardware here )

Q6600 strong! If anything I blame GPU!