Microfreezing and Mouse Hanging in Some Games

[scatherinch]

I frequently play the following: FFXIV, World of Warcraft and a few other steam titles.

The two I care about the most are FF14 and WoW.

MOUSE ISSUE: To start things off, while running around in FF14 or WoW and using my mouse, sometimes, it sticks. This means that the mouse disappears when I'm moving, as if the app thinks I'm moving the camera, but I'm not, thus resulting in the mouse not returning to the UI correctly. I usually have to right click out of it.

MICROSTUTTERING: Secondly, there is another annoying issue I have observed in FF14, but it exists in running many other games through WINE. It's a 2-5 second micro stutter that happens at random and I'm not sure what causes it. The games can run perfectly, but this stutter where the game freezes for this period of time is frustrating and hard to debug.

Would anyone be so kind as to assist?
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OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: MS-7A40 2.0
Kernel: 6.4.12-zen1-1-zen
Shell: fish 3.6.1
Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080
WM: awesome
Terminal: alacritty
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (16) @ 3.900GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 550 640SP / RX 560/560X
Memory: 4196MiB / 32041MiB

protontricks 1.10.3-1
wine 8.14-1
wine-gecko 2.47.4-1
wine-mono 8.0.0-1
winetricks 20220411-1

[scatherinch]

I suppose I should instead say, that what I am trying to find is a way to debug this while it happens in action so that I can get some logs to be checked out and here and we can figure out how to make these stutters disappear. Does WINE have logs? How do I get a game from a terminal using steam so I can watch the output if one of these happens?

[invisible kid]

I have a similar issue. If you are running via steam you can right-click on the game and select settings then compatibility, then in launch options you can put "PROTON_LOG=1 %command%". Then, after you play the game, a file will be created in your home directory called steam-<game id number>.log.