Hi all, I've been trying to track down why games on my laptop have become unplayable in the last few months and it seems to be an issue with Gnome. In older versions of Gnome I was able to play games no problem but now the load in gnome-shell just shoots up. Switching to a simpler DM (I use blackbox) and the problem will go away.
For a simple example if I run glxgears in Gnome I see gnome-shell switch from using <1% CPU in top to around 7-8% CPU (worse if I move the window around). If I do the same thing with a game running the same thing happens only much worse. I've tried the normal google searches but nothing useful has come up, although I did read about unredirecting which I don't know how to tell is happening or not. Here's some info on my laptop if it's useful: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] (it's worth noting the issue happens regardless of which graphics card I use) Any pointers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Michael Graham <ooberm...@gmail.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cac2svhwous+qt0abtjrz49svjdod9vqfdtkdediv8goutxa...@mail.gmail.com