Hey guys, what's up?

When i first got to Linux i thought D.E had no difference in gaming when we were talking about powerful computers, but getting involved with gaming Linux communities, i discovered that many people said: hey, best D.E are the ones you can deactivate the window compositor, which i tested, and it felt better.

Despite fps don't seem to change too much must of the time, i really feel like GNOME or Budgie is not so smooth as a no compositor gaming experience... i had this sensation in GTA V trough Steam Play.

Best option here on Nvidia seems to be: Force Composition Pipeline enable + No window compositor + Not any other kind of vsync activated.

Generally, i try to run out of KDE, because it's just buggy... i hope in Solus KDE it will be different.

Also had a problem in Budgie, i was like taking some time to go to the bathroom, when i camed back to GTA V, i had a huge performance drop. A guy who knows stuff about game told me it was probably a compositor problem, probably the desktop tried to rest, and did some bad thing in the GTA V.

It's a complicated stuff, i mean, in my normal PC Budgie would really feel better as desktop experience. I just want to discuss about it, trade some experiences. Some videos i saw:

I would probably guess that Solus Plasma will be the best gaming district since QT seems to be much lower in regards to memory consumption these days. At least when compared to GTK3 on Mate/Gnome.

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Solus i3, the best gaming Solus flavor

2 years later

@RLFontan My GPU is GTX 960 4GB 128Bits.

"Full Force Composition Pipeline" works for me, but I lose about 30% in game performance.
"Force Composition Pipeline" partially removes tearing, and I lose about 12% in game performance.
With Xfce, I need to install Compton, and add this command at system startup:

"compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc"

My best solution is to use KDE Plasma, open the composer and disable "Allow applications to block compositing".
Since plasma 5.18, I keep "VSync OFF" on games and nvidia-settings, because with KWin always running, there is no tearing here.

Have you tried this with KDE Plasma >= 5.18?