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abrahamlnx

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Registered: 2024-02-11

Posts: 11

[KDE Plasma] Software Render in Use

so today I turned on my pc and saw this icon on my desktop saying Software Render in use,

I immediately ran glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"

 

OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2

 

and also qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation

 
Compositing
===========
Compositing is active
Compositing Type: OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.1.0 NVIDIA 570.133.07
OpenGL platform interface: EGL
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
Driver: NVIDIA
Driver version: 570.133.7
GPU class: Unknown
OpenGL version: 3.1
GLSL version: 1.40
X server version: 1.24.1
Linux kernel version: 6.13.8
Direct rendering: Requires strict binding: no
Virtual Machine:  no
OpenGL 2 Shaders are used

what can be the issue here for software render to be in use or did my kde plasma bugged or something, this is what the window displays Imgur

Last edited by abrahamlnx (2025-04-04 01:49:36)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,228

Re: [KDE Plasma] Software Render in Use

Switch that toggle from software to GL/Accelerated.d Sometimes on KDE updates it's possible that initial shader generation gets delayed and thus some timer surmising that GL is broken. That should eventually fix itself and it should be safe to switch the corresponding toggle over to GL again.