Budget Cuts (400940)

[The1AndMany]

Describe the bug
Any time I enter the Showroom level of Budget Cuts, the performance grinds to an unplayable level. (>150ms frame timing) The previous levels and arcade mode have not shown this issue.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Play Budget Cuts
2. Reach the Showroom level (or start a new game from there)

Expected behavior
Game performs as it has up to this point.

System Information (please complete the following information):

• Distribution: Ubuntu
• SteamVR version: beta 1.10.3
• Steam client version: Build date Dec 16 2019
• Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
• Graphics driver version: 440.48.02
• Gist for SteamVR System Information: https://gist.github.com/The1AndMany/acb10f384f28fa86ca1d9cc2d80fa1ff

Screenshots
Main menu, no lag detectable.

Loading, level start, quit to main menu, main menu loaded, quit game. (Issue persists until game is closed)

Note: Commenters who are also experiencing this issue are encouraged to include the "System Information" and "Perf Data" sections in their replies.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @The1AndMany, this reads like a game-specific performance issue instead of a general SteamVR performance issue, so I've transferred this issue report to the Proton issue tracker.

[Evernow]

This game runs flawlessly... did you try using another more modern distro like Manjaro?

[The1AndMany]

I'm not well-versed in technical Linux stuff, and I don't want to lose my data or have to back it up and replace it, so I haven't switched distros before.

I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 with KDE Plasma, if that makes a difference.

[Evernow]

I'm not well-versed in technical Linux stuff, and I don't want to lose my data or have to back it up and replace it, so I haven't switched distros before.

I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 with KDE Plasma, if that makes a difference.

You should switch. You're on an version which hasn't effectively received an update in almost 2 years. A LOT of fixes have happened since then. I recommend you to backup your data onto another drive, disconnect the other drives and install Manjaro.

https://www.balena.io/etcher/

https://osdn.net/dl/manjaro/manjaro-kde-18.1.5-191229-linux54.iso

Save both on your desktop or somewhere you can easily access, just not in the usb you are going to use to make manjaro bootable

Run etcher and select the USB(MAKE SURE IT IS EMPTY, EVERYTHING ON IT WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE) and the ISO. And simply make it bootable, pretty straight forward. Then boot in

[kisak-valve]

Budget Cuts Audio Issues

Issue transferred from #4432.
@zefrof posted on 2020-12-03T21:53:13:

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Budget Cuts
• Steam AppID of the game: 400940

System Information

• GPU: RX 5700XT
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 20.0.8/LLVM 10.0.0
• Kernel version: 5.8.0-7630-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 5.13-2

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Issue Report

steam-400940.log

Symptoms

When playing Budget Cuts (tried The Lab as well) there's a constant crackling sound coming from both speakers. The crackling goes away when using an older version of Proton (5.0-10 doesn't have audio issues). Native games also don't have any audio crackling. Leading me to believe it's an issue with Proton 5.13-2.

Of note, the audio works fine until step 3 below. Once the audio starts crackling though it doesn't stop until I reboot SteamVR.

Reproduction

1. Launch SteamVR.
2. Swap audio output source to VR headset.
3. Launch Budget Cuts from SteamVR home.