Hello I updated my Fedora 43 after 1 year of using and now when I try to switch desktops it lags. Also window overview seems to make the situation even worse. After spamm-switching desktops when I press win+w the overview thing doesn’t appear I need to tap it a fwe times after that the animation lag gets even worse. I’m sure that I have enough power for this (see image). Even updating to Fedora 44 didn’t help.
Yes I do have the driver for my GPU it’s: NVIDIA-SMI 610.43.03 KMD Version: 610.43.03 CUDA UMD Version: 13.3.
Heres the video: https://youtu.be/cGwwotjBJd8
Where you fully up top date on f43 before you did the update?
If so you should be running the same kernel, plasma and nvidia driver version in f44 as you where in f43.
One issue we have seen is that on a system upgrade the nvidia drivers where not rebuilt. It is worth you checking that the nvidia drivers where built and are loaded.
What does lsmod | grep nvidia report?
I think RPMFusion never released Nvidia drivers beyond 580 for F43, so the driver would have been upgraded to 610 on version upgrade.
That’s probably not the root cause though, or we would have many more reports like this.
Oh shoot I didn’t know how to see my own thread just found out how.
Anyway heres the report
tim@fedora:~$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_uvm 2650112 0
nvidia_drm 176128 48
nvidia_modeset 1925120 18 nvidia_drm
nvidia 17956864 456 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
drm_ttm_helper 20480 1 nvidia_drm
video 81920 1 nvidia_modeset
tim@fedora:~$
Also I noticed that the whole system looses frame time including in games not just the animation.
And another thing is that I updated to F44 and it didn’t fix it
Okay you have an nvidia driver installed.
With a rtx4080 and nvidia drivers I would expect you to have few graphical issues.
can you confirm which version of nvidia drivers you have installed and where they where installed from please?
Hello I’m an absolute noob with linux but ama try to answer.
I installed my drivers with RPM Fussion (If I remember correctly).
The only versions of drivers that I found in my system are: NVIDIA-SMI 610.43.03 KMD Version: 610.43.03 CUDA UMD Version: 13.3 by using “nvidia-smi” command.
I want to notice that I was running F41-F42 (before my drive died) and installed early F43 and had 0 issues with grafics or any major issues in general.
Honestly I know 1 thing I could do right now. I’m gonna load into my F44 instalation media and check is it gonna do the same thing or not.
Here I am wanna hear a funny thing?
The installation environment is buttery smooth.
Ok so the problem is with my system.
I heard that fedora is using btrfs file system and while I was in the installation media I noticed that my home and root directories sit individually like both are in /. Does it mean that I can reinstall the system without killing my data and apps?
You can reinstall, if you have to, and keep the /home untouched.
If the apps are installed from RPM packages then they will go away along with the rest of the system in /usr /etc.
