Consistent Micro-Stutters Solution (#19)

In my testing while using Bazzite, I always had consistent micro-stutters (every couple of seconds) while playing the least demanding of 2D games.

Disabling the governor had no impact, stuttering continued. Later in my testing, I identified Bazzite's Handheld Daemon as the root cause of this stuttering. The journalctl revealed that the process kept failing and restarting. Disabling it fixed the micro-stuttering completely. This proposed solution informs users to disable this software to fix the micro-stutters.
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@@ -302,6 +302,21 @@ systemctl reboot
- Confirm it worked by verifying that the time/clock in the BIOS was reset and shows the wrong value
- Reapply the BIOS settings changes, such as the VRAM allocation
### Consistent Micro-stuttering during Gameplay
**Symptom:** Consistent micro-stutters every couple of seconds even for the least demanding 2D games.
**Cause:** The built-in Bazzite Handheld Daemon fails to load required functionality (not present on BC-250), and inevitably fails and restarts continually.
**Solution:** Disable the Handheld Daemon (HHD).
```bash
sudo systemctl disable --now hhd
# Prevent from being re-enabled in future update
sudo systemctl mask hhd
```
### Governor Voltage Instability
**Symptom:** Graphics artifacts, crashes, black screens