Framerate slowdowns only on Lenovo Legion y700?

[what9000]

I'm really liking the simplicity and functionality of virtual displays in Apollo and Artemis together, this feels like what streaming should be. Great work on the features and enhancements to both.

I am trying to get all of my devices working well on Apollo, but my y700 seems to be behaving oddly. No matter the game, I can get 120fps at native resolution, but it will occasionally crash to ~80fps across the board on incoming stream fps, decoding frame rate and rendering frame rate. After 10 to 20 seconds, it will climb back to 120fps. I show zero lost frames during the stream.

Reboots don't seem to fix it, nor do changing frame pacing settings or performance modes. The stream is stable when tried on a Samsung galaxy fold. When reverting to sunshine and moonlight with a dummy plug, the stream is once again stable on all devices.

Is there anything unique about the y700 and background tasks or settings that I may be missing?

[ClassicOldSong]

Try the pre-release version of Artemis and enable Warp Drive in Frame Pacing options. Also remove Artemis out from game booster(as described in the release note), you can get 144hz on Y700 2nd gen(iirc) and 165hz on Y700 2025.

I'm not sure if your problem is the same I'm facing as well on multiple devices(I have a Y700 2025, but also on other devices). Currently known effective fix is disconnect your physical monitor physically (pull the cable off), but that's obviously not ideal.

[ClassicOldSong]

I also got decoder crashes (only) on Y700, rebooting the tablet is the only way to fix it. So there might be issues with previous generations of Y700 also.

[what9000]

I gave the pre-release a shot and tried the warp speed frame pacing, but only seemed to get good results on "balanced". Warp speed feels a bit juddery and prefer smoothest video had occasional hitches.

I haven't removed Artemis from game booster, but I did try to remove game booster permissions to appear over other applications. It did not have an option to disable game booster itself though, so it was likely still running in the background (just without an interface). When I get a chance I will try to disable Artemis from its permissions, and reinstall Apollo. I also tried the "force highest settings" toggle, but didn't see any changes.

I wonder if that would make the 144hz option more viable as well. According to the game booster overlay it is at 144hz, but 120hz is always a smoother option.

[ClassicOldSong]

Y700 2025 did very much verbose logging in the background when there're input events, IDK what they're doing or they just left debug log on in production...

Actually I'm a little regret buying the Y700, there're more hidden issues with it(like sometimes vibrating the tablet itself instead of the controller, sudden crash of streaming surface due to its built-in browser can't be opened(wtf)), but the form factor is one of the kind so there's no choice...