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Hello, I'll be stuck with this igpu for the next few months but I quite appreciate how fast it is for 2D. I've even seen phoronix article here showing that intel is able to compete with nvidia/amd on 2D performance: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= … x_2d&num=1
Background, is I have a i3-3850K, i3-wm, firefox and the only games I play are mostly Civ5 (prob won't work on my 4K display though!), dosbox, SC2 in Wine, and retroarch/mamesdl.
I first noticed huge slowdowns even just moving firefox in i3 with xf86-video-intel so I switched to modesetting:
Section "Device"
Identifier "igpu"
#Driver "intel"
Driver "modesetting"
# Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
It was much smoother after that. I also have i915.enable_rc6=0 enabled but nothing else.
Are people finding the modesetting driver to be better for X? Also, should I be running compton? I had tearing without it but unsure if things are slower now with compositing - I've always disabled it as I thought it would slow down gaming. Any other kernel options or settings I should be aware of?
Last edited by irondawn (2019-04-29 01:28:08)
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Also, fwiw, I have a ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero mobo, I may look into checking on tweaks there for more igpu performance as well.
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