Wanted to share a tip that gave me a bit of a boost when using KWin (KDE). -- You are. The only processes that seem to use CPU are the game, Steam and plasmashell. When I play a game (with “Wine”) with KWIN effects activated, does not play (Black screen), but if I then turn off KWIN effects, so if I can. So, I tested a few games recently, and on Arch with KDE Plasma Desktop. (The You may need to modify these rules to affect more games if you so desire. Every time a game uses % of the GPU, Kwin starts to offer less FPS, so the game is running at FPS but we play it at 15 FPS. kwin runs on the intel chip. baloo is disabled. [HOST] › solved-gaming-on-kwin-kde-plasma-fedoraw. There's are two caveats however, one, you have to launch the game, go into it's graphical settings and set it to window mode to show the. All games crash after a few seconds of a completely black screen with a console like "_" in the top left corner. performance back. The whole session is lost as. [HOST] › app › discussions. Kwin compositor. Running dual monitors with. . Hi. [SOLVED] Poor game performance with KDE/Kwin, GNOME shell works fine. I play several games (Neverball, several MAME games and even ZSNES and others) and it seems that if I have desktop effects turned on, KWIN will. Xaver Hugl who has been leading much of the KDE KWin feature development in recent years has opened up a preliminary merge request for allowing. It even feels like gaming performance improved, for DX12 games in Steam/Proton at least.