[SOLVED]Terrible Chromium performance under intel's modesetting driver

Faalagorn · 2016-12-16 22:40:51

Let me start that I get a perfectly fine performance under xf86-video-intel and I will go back to them if I won't solve my problem. However, I wanted to know what is the cause of my problem and maybe some else encountered it too.

Basically, I tried switching to modesetting drivers following the loose advice on the wiki and the reddit post linked in there (also taking note of the debian's switch). It worked fine for the most part. My default multi-monitor configuration was handled better out of the box (no overlapping screens) and the performance in games doesn't seem to change at all, or maybe even improved (haven't done any testing yet, just played Terraria for a while). I didn't experience any negative performance change by running my other applications, but I did noticed a terribly slowdown in performance in Chromium. Scrolling, switching tabs and most notably watching videos on YouTube feels really sluggish and is really tiring for my eyes. I compared that with watching YouTube via mpv and saw a huge difference there.

The most information on the matter I found was on the Ubuntu's launchpad, but all the comments on the linked bugs are only up to October 2016, and I found no real solution to the problem. I am currently compling Chromium-dev from AUR to see if it solves the problem, but since I don't think it will (but sorry if it indeed solves it!) and it takes a while so I may as well call it a day and go to sleep in the meantime...

So again, is this a common problem? Has anyone else experienced the problem? I don't experience it on either DDX xf86-video-intel driver nor proprietary nvidia drivers using my dedicated GTX 960 GPU. Thank you very much for any help on the matter!

I am using i5-4690k integrated graphics at the moment (Intel HD 4600 series).

Last edited by Faalagorn (2016-12-17 12:46:08)

graysky · 2016-12-16 22:54:01

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … stallation

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Faalagorn · 2016-12-17 11:44:55

graysky wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … stallation
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Yup, that was what suggested even trying to uninstall xorg's intel DDX drivers in the first place The bug linked there was not what I experienced though, just a general performance issue.

However, it turns I do not have this problem using chromium-dev (regular one is Version 55.0.2883.87 (64-bit) and the dev version is Version 56.0.2924.14 (64-bit) at the time of writing) I built from AUR package here (It surely took a while to complie over night).

Now either it's a problem with the regular Chromium or my specific Chromium configuration that's making problems (since dev version comes freshly installed). I'll do some testing and see if I can fix the issue on regular Chromium and report back, but if not I guess I'll have to stick with the dev version until the regular one get updated to see if it changes. I'll mark the thread as SOLVED after I'll update with report for future reference, unless someone have something to add

R00KIE · 2016-12-17 12:01:41

I have an Intel iGPU and I'm using the modesetting driver and I don't see any problems with chromium, at least not like what you describe.

Faalagorn · 2016-12-17 12:45:30

Turned out I had to (re)move the ~/.config/chromium folder, that's why chromium-dev worked and regular one did not. Logging out my account and removing all setting from chromium did not helped, nor did

pacman -Rssn chromium

nor any reboots in the meantime, I had to manually remove and let chromium recreate the folder.

So now I am back to using regular Chrome 55, no need for AUR package, but it did helped me troubleshoot the issue. Thank you very much for the replies; marking the thread as SOLVED now

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[SOLVED]Terrible Chromium performance under intel's modesetting driver

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