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dwmhklm

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[SOLVED] Low FPS

I have installed Arch, I'm using bspwm right now with compton, my pc is i5-3330, 8 GiB RAM and a Intel HD 2500, and i have very low FPS compared to Windows even in a native game like Minecraft. And it's not only on Arch, I'm using arch now because i like it's lightweight, if someone can help me, i will be happy.

Last edited by dwmhklm (2021-10-02 12:49:12)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS

How low?  How do you measure or determine the FPS?  Have you installed xf86-video-intel (you probably shouldn't)?

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dwmhklm

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS

Low like 200-300 FPS low, to measure i just stand still in the same settigns, same world, same place, etc, and yes i installed xf86-video-intel

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS

200-300 FPS sound wrong because the intel driver vsyncs by default. And anything > your output frequency in a non synthetic test isn't "low" either.
And it could be limited by the mouse polling frequency or an internal cap.
Also "native game like Minecraft" is not a thing. There's ton of different client implementations and most use java, so the JDK matters as well.

=> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Benchmarking#Graphics

Do you run compton on glx or xrender? Does its existence matter?
What's the output of "glxinfo -B"?

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dwmhklm

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS

About glx or xrender i don't know

Outputo f glxinfo -B

display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center (0x8086)
    Device: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 2500 (IVB GT1) (0x152)
    Version: 21.2.3
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 1536MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.2
    Max compat profile version: 3.0
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 2500 (IVB GT1)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.2 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.2.3
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 21.2.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 21.2.3
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00

I'm sorry if I am being a dumb guy

Last edited by dwmhklm (2021-09-30 17:45:23)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS

Please use code tags for shell IO and file contents, https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

You're rendering on the intel chip. Compton defaults to xrender if you didn't configure anything.

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dwmhklm

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS

What should i do now

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS

Describe a real issue.
"I only get 5 times the output refresh rate instead of 50 times in <similar to windows game>" is no indication for anything let alone a problem.

There're too many variables that impact this and there's no benefit in discarding 2400 frames instead of 240 either.

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