It even feels like gaming performance improved, for DX12 games in Steam/Proton at least. Every time a game uses % of the GPU, Kwin starts to offer less FPS, so the game is running at FPS but we play it at 15 FPS. kwin runs on the intel chip. Kwin compositor. [HOST] › app › discussions. So, I tested a few games recently, and on Arch with KDE Plasma Desktop. Wanted to share a tip that gave me a bit of a boost when using KWin (KDE). All games crash after a few seconds of a completely black screen with a console like "_" in the top left corner. performance back. [SOLVED] Poor game performance with KDE/Kwin, GNOME shell works fine. (The You may need to modify these rules to affect more games if you so desire. I play several games (Neverball, several MAME games and even ZSNES and others) and it seems that if I have desktop effects turned on, KWIN will. The only processes that seem to use CPU are the game, Steam and plasmashell. baloo is disabled. Hi. -- You are. . The whole session is lost as. When I play a game (with “Wine”) with KWIN effects activated, does not play (Black screen), but if I then turn off KWIN effects, so if I can. Running dual monitors with. There's are two caveats however, one, you have to launch the game, go into it's graphical settings and set it to window mode to show the. [HOST] › solved-gaming-on-kwin-kde-plasma-fedoraw. Xaver Hugl who has been leading much of the KDE KWin feature development in recent years has opened up a preliminary merge request for allowing.