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 = Trueenabled hardware accelerationlayers.acceleration.force-enabled = TRUEgfx.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?
The version of Firefox that ships with Debian is quite old if I recall. You might want to try installing it either as a flatpak or as a separate apt repo from Mozilla directly to see if that solves it.
Have you tried running in a Wayland session if you have the same issue ? I am not so sure, but I think GPU acceleration is only really working with Firefox in Wayland. Also, check which version of the Nvidia driver you have, maybe there is something newer you can use from the backports repository.
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!
That is interesting. Tried on my Samsung S21 on Firefox mobile, and it’s butter smooth.
Is it like that on other browsers?
Smooth as butter on a chromium browser, which is nice but also annoying haha
Xiaomi 9pro smooth too
