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