Low frame rate or stuttering window animations on Manjaro KDE (beginner user)

Hello everyone

I’m a complete beginner with Linux and I recently installed Manjaro KDE.

However, I’m experiencing a problem with low frame rate or stuttering animations when opening, closing, or minimizing windows.

The animations don’t look smooth — it feels like they’re being “cut off” or running at a much lower FPS than normal.

Here are my system specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7530U

GPU: Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics

RAM: 16 GB

Storage: 512 GB SSD

Display: 1920×1080

Environment: KDE Plasma (latest Manjaro stable release)

I don’t think it’s a hardware issue, because I tested Linux Mint on the same machine and its animations were perfectly smooth.

Thank you in advance for your help — and sorry if this is a basic question, I’m still learning how Linux works.

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I’d say this is unexpected and not something I’ve seen before…

First, make sure you’re properly synchronised/updated (pacman -Syu) and after that, create a new USER and verify it’s working with a fresh $HOME (defaults).

Integrated graphics (iGPU) can sometimes not be as performant as one might expect.

Whether that is the case here, I can’t say – with more information about your system, and how it is configured, perhaps someone will have a better chance of taking an educated guess.

Please provide your system information as described (above) by @Mirdarthos and be prepared to give additional detail, as needed.

Creating a new User account as @Ben suggests is a valid troubleshooting step to help rule out local (mis)configuration as the culprit.

One of the first things we’d obviously need to know is whether or not the issue you describe persists in the fresh environment.

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This is often caused by a driver conflict.

Check if you have the package xf86-video-amdgpu on the system. Output will be empty you the package is not present.

pamac search xf86-video-amdgpu -i

Only a few days ago - another user had some display degradation caused by conflicting drivers. Removing the mentioned package solved the issue.

It may not be the solution - but certainly worth a try.

sudo pacman -Rns xf86-video-amdgpu

Also worth mentioning the above package is related to older AMD cards and is not necessary on modern systems where AMD drivers are provided by the kernel.

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On a similar theme, please also check that the AMD firmware is installed

The AMD firmware should arguably be already installed, but on the chance that it isn’t, please confirm with:

pacman -Ss linux-firmware-amdgpu

(paste the output into your next post)

If it isn’t installed, this command will install it:

sudo pacman -Syu linux-firmware-amdgpu

Reboot.

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