Wanted to share a tip that gave me a bit of a boost when using KWin (KDE). (The You may need to modify these rules to affect more games if you so desire. All games crash after a few seconds of a completely black screen with a console like "_" in the top left corner. 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. performance back. The only processes that seem to use CPU are the game, Steam and plasmashell. baloo is disabled. Kwin compositor. -- You are. 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. Running dual monitors with. 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. . 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. kwin runs on the intel chip. Hi. 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. The whole session is lost as. [SOLVED] Poor game performance with KDE/Kwin, GNOME shell works fine. [HOST] › solved-gaming-on-kwin-kde-plasma-fedoraw. So, I tested a few games recently, and on Arch with KDE Plasma Desktop. It even feels like gaming performance improved, for DX12 games in Steam/Proton at least. [HOST] › app › discussions.