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el_octogono
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Fantasy Grounds App creates weird glitches

#1 Post by el_octogono »

Hi! I use the Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop app to play with friends.

Whenever I start the app, the KDE desktop starts showing glitches: the taskbar becomes solid and unrounded, windows start to have screen tearing when moved around, Firefox browser creates a thick black border around its window, and overall glitchiness, specially inside the app itself.

I know it might be a bad programming issue but I didn't have the issue when using other distros: Pop_Os 22, Linux Mint 22, Manjaro wich KDE 6 using X or Wayland. I currently use the Liquorix kernel but it also happened with the stock kernel.

Anyone knows what might be happening? and maybe have a solution?

My specs.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.12.13-2-liquorix-amd64 [6.12-18~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable amd_pstate=disable BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12.13-2-liquorix-amd64
    root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-23.5_KDE_x64 Libretto Jan
    12 2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: A320M-S2H V2 v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: A320M-S2H V2-CF serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends
    LLC. v: F57d date: 09/02/2024
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen/Zen+
    note: check gen: 1 level: v3 note: check built: 2019 process: GF 12nm family: 0x17 (23)
    model-id: 0x18 (24) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x8108109
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 4x512 KiB L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1533 high: 2304 min/max: 1400/3700 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1256 2: 2304 3: 1254 4: 1230 5: 1249 6: 1400
    7: 2174 8: 1400 bogomips: 59196
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT vulnerable
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series] vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 09:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:15d8 class-ID: 0300 temp: 38.0 C
  Device-2: Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:2
    chip-ID: 046d:085e class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22") s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 model: Philips PHL 243V5 serial: <filter> built: 2020
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2 size: 521x293mm (20.51x11.54") diag: 598mm (23.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 24.2.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics (radeonsi raven
    LLVM 15.0.6 DRM 3.59 6.12.13-2-liquorix-amd64) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    bus-ID: 1-5:2 gen: 3 chip-ID: 046d:085e speed: 8 GT/s class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  Device-3: iCON iKey Board 4 V1.03 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 1-6:3
    chip-ID: 1d03:0066 class-ID: 0103 serial: <filter>
  Device-4: M-Audio M-Track Plus type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 0763:4009
    class-ID: fe01
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.13-2-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.02 TiB used: 26.48 GiB (1.3%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD Green 2.5 480GB size: 447.13 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 8100
    scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKS-00V1A0 size: 465.76 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1D05
    scheme: MBR
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-21WN4A0 size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: 1A01 scheme: MBR
  ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS240G2G0A-00JH30 size: 223.58 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0000
    scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 223.33 GiB size: 218.76 GiB (97.96%) used: 26.48 GiB (12.1%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sdd2 maj-min: 8:50
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sdd1 maj-min: 8:49
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.4 C mobo: 34.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 38.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2556 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2516 libs: 1341 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala pm: rpm pkgs: 0
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 40
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://mirror.netlinux.cl/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://mirror.netlinux.cl/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
Info:
  Processes: 273 Uptime: 25m wakeups: 1 Memory: 13.58 GiB used: 2.38 GiB (17.5%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI
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Re: Fantasy Grounds App creates weird glitches

#2 Post by j2mcgreg »

Fantasy Grounds isn't in our repositories, so where did you get it?
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Re: Fantasy Grounds App creates weird glitches

#3 Post by el_octogono »

From the official site: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/

It has a native linux version... a bin file. There's a free demo version which is what I use currently.
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Re: Fantasy Grounds App creates weird glitches

#4 Post by j2mcgreg »

el_octogono wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:28 pm From the official site: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/

It has a native linux version... a bin file. There's a free demo version which is what I use currently.
The reason I asked is that those other distros you mentioned are all SystemD based, so you might need to use Boot Options in MX Tools to enable a SystemD kernel and then reboot.
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Re: Fantasy Grounds App creates weird glitches

#5 Post by Stevo »

There's also the good old "launch the binary in the terminal" method to see if any interesting messages show up there, or try to see if the application creates a log file.
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Re: Fantasy Grounds App creates weird glitches

#6 Post by el_octogono »

j2mcgreg wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:46 pm The reason I asked is that those other distros you mentioned are all SystemD based, so you might need to use Boot Options in MX Tools to enable a SystemD kernel and then reboot.
I tried booting with SystemD enabled but the symptoms remain!

Stevo wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:13 pm There's also the good old "launch the binary in the terminal" method to see if any interesting messages show up there, or try to see if the application creates a log file.
No Log, but the Terminal output is this: (maybe some parameter is messing around?)

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[UnityMemory] Configuration Parameters - Can be set up in boot.config
    "memorysetup-bucket-allocator-granularity=16"
    "memorysetup-bucket-allocator-bucket-count=8"
    "memorysetup-bucket-allocator-block-size=4194304"
    "memorysetup-bucket-allocator-block-count=1"
    "memorysetup-main-allocator-block-size=16777216"
    "memorysetup-thread-allocator-block-size=16777216"
    "memorysetup-gfx-main-allocator-block-size=16777216"
    "memorysetup-gfx-thread-allocator-block-size=16777216"
    "memorysetup-cache-allocator-block-size=4194304"
    "memorysetup-typetree-allocator-block-size=2097152"
    "memorysetup-profiler-bucket-allocator-granularity=16"
    "memorysetup-profiler-bucket-allocator-bucket-count=8"
    "memorysetup-profiler-bucket-allocator-block-size=4194304"
    "memorysetup-profiler-bucket-allocator-block-count=1"
    "memorysetup-profiler-allocator-block-size=16777216"
    "memorysetup-profiler-editor-allocator-block-size=1048576"
    "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-main=4194304"
    "memorysetup-job-temp-allocator-block-size=2097152"
    "memorysetup-job-temp-allocator-block-size-background=1048576"
    "memorysetup-job-temp-allocator-reduction-small-platforms=262144"
    "memorysetup-allocator-temp-initial-block-size-main=262144"
    "memorysetup-allocator-temp-initial-block-size-worker=262144"
    "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-background-worker=32768"
    "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-job-worker=262144"
    "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-preload-manager=262144"
    "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-nav-mesh-worker=65536"
    "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-audio-worker=65536"
    "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-cloud-worker=32768"
    "memorysetup-temp-allocator-size-gfx=262144"
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