Hi all,

I recently installed Debian 12 on my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro, and am using the GNOME desktop (x11). From time to time I play a game called survev.io . It’s a browser battle royale game, not hard on graphics.

I have an Nvidia rtx3060 and have the proper drivers installed. I checked using nvidia-smi and Firefox is using the Nvidia gpu.

The issue is that the game runs smoothly until I press a button or move the mouse. Then the framerate decreases significantly and it becomes unplayable.

I already tweaked the following settings in Firefox to no avail:

  • gfx.webrender.all = True
  • enabled hardware acceleration
  • layers.acceleration.force-enabled = TRUE
  • gfx.x11-egl.force-enabled = true

And now I’m out of ideas. The game itself isn’t too important to me, but other browser games do the same, so it’s a wider issue I want to solve.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

  • sykaster@feddit.nlOPEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    I don’t have experience with wayland yet, so I’ll need to check if it’s available on my installation. Do you now how I can run Firefox in wayland?

    The drivers are the latest officially supported Debian ones, they should not be the main issue here. But I can give it a look, thanks!

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
      2·
      1 day ago

      As of version 121, Firefox defaults to Wayland if your session is running Wayland.

      Might want to try in a fresh profile since you made config changes.

      • sykaster@feddit.nlOPEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I checked in about:support and Firefox is using x11, so maybe wayland isn’t installed

        • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
          1·
          1 day ago

          Your entire session has to run in Wayland, you can’t only run Firefox in Wayland.

          Can you run echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE in your terminal? Does it say x11 or wayland?

          • sykaster@feddit.nlOPEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            It’s x11, when I check my desktop environments I only have gnome and gnome classic

              • sykaster@feddit.nlOPEnglish
                1·
                1 day ago

                It seems indeed the nvidia drivers disable wayland. I played around in Firefox settings a bit more and a setting around input delay seems to have fixed it for now. I hope it stays that way. If not, I’ll migrate to chromium