You are not logged in.
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
#1 2018-03-17 22:18:32
- koreankiwitea
- Banned
- Registered: 2018-02-12
- Posts: 49
is there a way to increase fps of chromium?
Hello there!
I'm currently on:
Freshly installed Arch (as of this morning)
KDE + sddm
nVidia proprietary drivers and other related libraries (gtx1070)
nvidia conf vsync is on + KDE systems settings global vsync is also on. These two together got rid of the tearing as suggested by the incredible wiki.
KDE opengl is on 2.1 (although I don't notice any difference between 2.1 and 3.0 and the other option. I don't understand them so I just left it as is)
Chromium is the issue.
Although firefox also doesn't have buttery smooth scrolling and ux that i get on windows, at least youtube and other meager things like 'opening a new tab' doesn't cause systemwide stutter.
Chromium's scrolling is stuck at 15-18fps, worse if youtube is playing at a separate tab, opening a new tab introduces stutter on the whole DE (mouse and input lag) for a few seconds.
browsing element heavy websites such as Amazon or LinkedIn is an absolute nightmare that it causes dizziness.
I did tweaks following the wiki, and the speed has somewhat increased, but it did not help with the issues.
Can you suggest me ways to improve the experience?
Thank you!
ps: maybe unrelated, but chrome's UI element (tabs, bookmarks) fonts are weirdly big and wide for some reason. not really an issue, but it looks... comical. Apparently it has something to do with the highDPI scaling, but all the suggestion was to increase the dpi. i have a 32' monitor that is native 1080p. if i increase the dpi any further i suspect i'd be browsing individual letters at incredible detail. Any way to reduce the font size?
Edit for system spec for it might be related:
i5-6600k
16gb
gtx1070
512gb samsung 8?? pro
Last edited by koreankiwitea (2018-03-17 22:19:47)
very n00b.
Offline
#2 2018-03-17 23:01:31
- seth
- Member
- From: Won't reply 2 private help req
- Registered: 2012-09-03
- Posts: 78,857
Re: is there a way to increase fps of chromium?
Offline
#3 2018-03-17 23:10:12
- koreankiwitea
- Banned
- Registered: 2018-02-12
- Posts: 49
Re: is there a way to increase fps of chromium?
Thank you for the link.
I actually heard of this before from a different issue that i was having. I also managed to destroy the system trying to downgrade the kernel 
I'm currently on 390.42, but I guess they didn't fix the issue.
I'm not entirely sure about the update release cycle, but i think i'll just wait for the next update rather than take a chance. I have built a really stable system at the moment and I don't really want to risk it (I'm on btrfs, but I'm still very uneducated with the snapshot and restore feature. I'm going to read up on the documents tomorrow.)
Thanks!
very n00b.
Offline