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y4my4my4m / kde-shader-wallpaper

KDE / Plasma - Shader Wallpaper plugin
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useing it with the dedicated gpu #33

Closed Waa11a closed 2 years ago

Waa11a commented 2 years ago

can i do that? my iGPU is slow and most shaders are lagy

OS: archlinux

iGPU:

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
        DeviceName:  Onboard IGD
        Subsystem: Dell Device 05be
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

dGPU:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mars XTX [Radeon HD 8790M]
        Subsystem: Dell Device 05be
        Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
        Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
y4my4my4m commented 2 years ago

@Waa11a this is more of a KDE issue than the plugin. You would need to find a way to run plasmashell with your dGPU.

Perhaps something like this? https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Tips#launch-app-with-discrete-gpu or https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME#PRIME_GPU_offloading