For me, picom has caused a ton of issues in games, it’s always causing stuttering and the like. It also is causing ghosting on windows for me. Messed around with a few settings but the only one I noticed to be any effect was setting the backend to xrender
I’m no longer on Nvidia but was until a couple of months ago. I had no issues with picom at all during that time. I did always kill picom before playing games (so as to remove transparency).
I am on Nvidia but don’t play games. Never had an issue with Picom.
Also you might have better luck with steamos-compositor-plus
given how it’s made for a “gaming OS”.
I’m having to do that as well, guess it’s good to hear its not just me
Have you tried it at all?
I did and it ended in disaster.
A vertically elongated black rectangle appeared from which the mouse cannot escape. But then again I have a very old system. Try it out for yourself.
Same exact result
I don’t have nvidia, but I play games sometimes on my xfce install with picom. To me the best solution is to toggle on/off picom when I play. This bash script is perfect for me:
#!/bin/bash
if [ `pgrep -x picom` ]; then
notify-send -t 1600 'Disabled picom' --icon=video-display
killall picom;
else
notify-send -t 1600 'Enabled picom' --icon=video-display
picom -b &
fi
exit
I think most people just disable compositing when gaming. But, you could try enabling full composition pipeline in your nvidia settings
I am on Nvidia drivers and I use backend = "glx"
and unredir-if-possible = true
. Disable blur for games if the performance is not improving.
Edit: forget to mention that force full composition pipeline is on and games runs pretty smooth
sadly im on an optimus laptop so nvidia-settings cant manage my laptop screen. xcompmgr seems to work a lot better than picom for me