How To Fix Stuttering Or Poor Performance When Playing EA Origin Games On Linux - Steam & Lutris
154This video covers a method of fixing stuttering or poor performance when playing games that require the EA Origin client such as Star Wars Jedi Fallen And Dragon Age Inquisition on Linux.
STUTTERING CAUSE
By default EA Origin will periodically write information to files in the Origin folder which causes stuttering in game but this can be easily fixed.
FIX - APPLY READ ONLY PERMISSIONS TO THE ORIGIN FOLDER
For example, for my installation of Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, the Origin folder is located at:
/home/ryanj/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1172380/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application Data/
So in the Application Data folder, open up a Terminal and type the following command:
sudo chmod -R 555 Origin
This command will change the permissions of this folder to read only and now Origin will be prevented from writing to that folder, and thus stop the stuttering.
This method should work for all games that use the EA Origin client.
If you need to revert permissions running:
sudo chmod -R 777 Origin
Will give back write permissions again which unfortunately is what is needed to be done once there is an update to Origin.
An alternative to the above, and the one that I now use is:
chmod -R -w Origin
And to enable write again:
chmod -R +w Origin
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