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weirddan455

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Registered: 2012-04-15

Posts: 213

[SOLVED] Dota 2 Feels Laggy/Jumpy in KDE

I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem playing games in KDE.  I noticed it just didn't feel smooth even though the frames per second was reporting as 90-100fps.  I could particularly tell when scrolling through the map, it kept "jumping" not a smooth scroll at all.  I confirmed it was a KDE problem by installing Openbox, reloading into a blank session and launching Dota 2 from there.  The fps stayed about the same but all the "jumpiness" went away and it was very smooth like it should be.

I'm using the Nvidia 337.19 proprietary drivers from the [extra] repo and my specs are:

Intel i2500K
Geforce GTX 770
16 GB RAM

Last edited by weirddan455 (2014-05-28 16:49:56)

thatsallyourspaceships

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Registered: 2012-06-03

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Dota 2 Feels Laggy/Jumpy in KDE

what excactly are you trying to achieve to tell us
with that system you shouldnt have problems with d0ta, even when run with wine, like above

Last edited by thatsallyourspaceships (2014-05-21 10:16:17)

weirddan455

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Registered: 2012-04-15

Posts: 213

Re: [SOLVED] Dota 2 Feels Laggy/Jumpy in KDE

Yea I know I *shouldn't* have problems but I am (and only with KDE.)  I'm not using Wine.  I'm using the native Steam client.  I was just wondering if any other KDE users ran into this problem and know of a possible fix.  At the moment I'm having to close out of KDE completely and start an empty Openbox session just to play.  I played a couple full games to confirm and the difference is night and day in terms of smoothness... definitely not a placebo effect.  It's like the frames aren't syncing up right in KDE or something.  I have a quad core processor and plenty of RAM so I would think that would be enough resources to handle KDE in the background but it looks like something else is at play here.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: [SOLVED] Dota 2 Feels Laggy/Jumpy in KDE

You can try to disable fullscreen compositing (its in the desktop effect settings) I can't confirm anything but it may be worth a try

weirddan455

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Registered: 2012-04-15

Posts: 213

Re: [SOLVED] Dota 2 Feels Laggy/Jumpy in KDE

Yea disabling compositioning seems to fix the lag.  Openbox may be a tiny bit smoother still but that made it a whole lot better in KDE, thanks.