SUMMARY i have amd gpu using wayland kde plasma de when i play game like hytale at first it runs fine then i restarted it and now 3x less fps and i have to manully adjust some settings like colour accuracy to trigger plasma monitor settings to reload the display manager and then the fps goes back to normal it happened on bazzite too same on cachy os is this some type of kde plasma bug or what am i missing? STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. log in 2. play hytale or alvr 3. it will stutter for no reason OBSERVED RESULT when i toggle settings in video settings of kde plasma it will trigger de to reload it will go back to normal performance and then it will lag again after restarting the game EXPECTED RESULT it should have 250 fps instead of 80 in hytale SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.18.10-2-cachyos-lts (64-bit) KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0 Qt Version: 6.10.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION System info from steam: Computer Information: Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Model: ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING Form Factor: Desktop No Touch Input Detected Processor Information: CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics CPU Family: 0x19 CPU Model: 0x50 CPU Stepping: 0x0 CPU Type: 0x0 Speed: 4465 MHz 12 logical processors 6 physical processors Hyper-threading: Supported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Supported SSE4a: Supported SSE41: Supported SSE42: Supported AES: Supported AVX: Supported AVX2: Supported AVX512F: Unsupported AVX512PF: Unsupported AVX512ER: Unsupported AVX512CD: Unsupported AVX512VNNI: Unsupported SHA: Supported CMPXCHG16B: Supported LAHF/SAHF: Supported PrefetchW: Unsupported BMI1: Supported BMI2: Supported F16C: Supported FMA: Supported Operating System: "CachyOS" (64 bit) Kernel Name: Linux Kernel Version: 6.18.10-2-cachyos-lts X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Server Release: 12401009 X Window Manager: KWin Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_1.0.20251202.187498 Client Information: Version: 1769025840 Browser GPU Acceleration Status: Enabled Browser Canvas: Enabled Browser Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled Browser Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled Browser Compositing: Enabled Browser Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled Browser OpenGL: Enabled Browser Rasterization: Enabled Browser Raw Draw: Disabled Browser Skia Graphite: Disabled Browser Video Decode: Enabled Browser Video Encode: Disabled Browser Vulkan: Disabled Browser WebGL: Enabled Browser WebGL2: Enabled Browser WebGPU: Disabled Browser WebNN: Disabled Video Card: Driver: AMD AMD Radeon RX 6600 (radeonsi, navi23, LLVM 21.1.6, DRM 3.64, 6.18.10-2-cachyos-lts) Driver Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.3.5-arch1.2 Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel Monitor Refresh Rate: 164 Hz VendorID: 0x1002 DeviceID: 0x73ff Revision Not Detected Number of Monitors: 1 Number of Logical Video Cards: 1 Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Primary Display Size: 20.75" x 11.65" (23.78" diag), 52.7cm x 29.6cm (60.4cm diag) Primary VRAM: 8192 MB Sound card: Audio device: ATI R6xx HDMI Memory: RAM: 15779 Mb VR Hardware: Headset: Oculus Miramar (alvr_server) Controller: Oculus Miramar (Left Controller) (alvr_server) Controller: Oculus Miramar (Right Controller) (alvr_server) No VR configuration with trackers detected Most number of trackers in a session: 0 Miscellaneous: UI Language: English LANG: sk_SK.UTF-8 Total Hard Disk Space Available: 472745 MB Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 383120 MB Storage: Number of SSDs: 2 SSD sizes: 500G,500G Number of HDDs: 0 Number of removable drives: 0
Created attachment 189647 [details] this bug so annoying like why it does that
Does it matter which setting you change? Does just changing the brightness setting also help?
Also, does it happen in other games as well?