Why KDE Is Great For Gaming On The Linux Desktop

[gcala]

LOL. ... the non-compositoring days are over.

Have you read the source? The problem is that current implementation of unity/gnome force you to maintain compositor ON, and this causes overhead when playing games. With KWin you can manually/automatically disable composition and gain more fps from a game.

[funkSTAR]

So, let me know which incredible DE/compositor are you using...

One sane enough to avoid keeping shitty code paths belonging to the last millenium on life support. How about you?

[funkSTAR]

The problem is that current implementation of unity/gnome force you to maintain compositor ON, and this causes overhead when playing games.

Thanks for the LOLs. Are the coffee free as well?

[BoTuLoX]

Guys, if you're not gamers, don't take offense, but really, this is no place for you.

Having ANY KIND of compositing running fucks up game performance, and when using windowed games, you NEED to use 2D compositing.

I've tried e17, KDE, Unity, cinnamon, XFCE and LXDE, and I achieve optimal stutterless performance only in e17 and KDE with compositing disabled.

Really, try it out yourself.

Also, Unity with disable compositing on fullscreen, does something, but still is behind all other desktops.

[gcala]

One sane enough to avoid keeping shitty code paths belonging to the last millenium on life support. How about you?

Why don't you have the courage to tell its name?

[johnc]

One sane enough to avoid keeping shitty code paths belonging to the last millenium on life support. How about you?

Ohh you mean the one that created entirely new shitty code paths to make a tear-free experience absolutely impossible for all downstream shells?

[D0pamine]

how is this news? how would using kde affect gaming? if the claim is that compositing affects game performance then duh yeh - use lxde or something that doesn't rely on compositing

[funkSTAR]

how is this news?

Well it is not. It is just a blog post stating some unsubstantiated s***. Then it happens to be what "1337 power users" on phoronix likes. Then we get a BREAKING NEWS within minutes and start clicking the forum. That is how it works. Bonus point; Everything gets stirred up when talking about leaving non-compositing in the dark. The power users go mad and everybody else dont care.

[D0pamine]

i dont even know what a power user is...

EDIT: wouldn't xinit /path/to/bin give the best performance?

[Hamish Wilson]

Have you read the source? The problem is that current implementation of unity/gnome force you to maintain compositor ON, and this causes overhead when playing games.

To an extent - assuming the redirecting works for fullscreen games you should be fine. I mean, that is how Windows does it. It is not like anyone games on that...

With KWin you can manually/automatically disable composition and gain more fps from a game.

I can do the same with the Xfce compositor. Or I could use something like LXDE and not worry about composting. This blog post still has a lot of ego to it, especially after his responses to Ryan Gordon and Sam Latinga about their desire to improve game resolution support.