SUMMARY I've been using KDE Plasma for the past six months. Overall, the animations look good, but every time I use the overview effect, I experience laggy animations and FPS drops. I've updated to KDE 6, and even with the new overview design, the issue persists. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Login 2. Trigger overview effect using screen edge or META+W shortcut 3. lower FPS than normal and feeling laggy OBSERVED RESULT FPS drops notably than normal usage of plasma EXPECTED RESULT Overview desktop effect 144/60 fps and no fps drop/"feeling laggy" SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux (available in About System) Kernel Version: 6.7.8-zen1-1-zen (64-bit) KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION using both 60hz and 144hz issue persist. in 60hz FPS drops to 38 and in 144hz FPS drops to 117.
Hardware AMD Ryzen 5 5600H 16 GB AMD Radeon RX 6600M Graphics
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/5390
Git commit d59451adcf8f7a4d90659a60bfbe73230091b0e3 by Xaver Hugl. Committed on 26/03/2024 at 16:06. Pushed by zamundaaa into branch 'master'. effects/quickeffect: render qtquick scenes in the normal render pass If they're rendered in prePaintScreen, the time needed to render them is not accounted for in compositing scheduling, which may make KWin miss vblank Related: bug 452119, bug 482034 M +5 -0 src/effect/offscreenquickview.cpp M +9 -10 src/effect/quickeffect.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/d59451adcf8f7a4d90659a60bfbe73230091b0e3